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Cherry Creek School District’s 2022 standardized test scores outstripped the statewide performance but didn’t escape the troubling trend of test scores falling below 2019 numbers. State officials celebrated student scores faring better in most cases than they did in 2021, the Colorado Department of Education said in a news release.

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“We will be serving the Centennial community with wound care needs, and that can range from anything from traumatic to chronic diseases, creating breaks in the skin or creating wounds,” said Marissa Baird, the outpatient wound care and hyperbarics manager. According to the hospital, the wound care center evaluates and treats both acute and chronic wounds such as ulcers, non-healing surgical incisions and radiation therapy burns. The center also offers care for ostomy, which Cleveland Clinic’s website deﬁnes as a Centennial Hospital opens wound care center

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Biden’s student debt relief plan met with mixed reactions

Numbers still behind 2019

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Statewide, across all grades that took the Colorado Measures of Academic Success test, 43% of students met or exceeded expectations for English. That’s about a 3 percentage-point decrease from 2019.

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About a year after its opening, Centennial Hospital welcomed a new addition — a wound care center aimed at offering coordinated treatment to heal wounds and address any potential underlying medical conditions.

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Marissa Baird, left, and Sara Pierce, right, stand in the Centennial Hospital Wound Care Center.

Following the Biden administration’s Aug. 24 announcement of a sweeping plan to reform the student loan process for millions of federal borrowers, local educators said they see both benefits and challenges lyingTheahead.proposal, one of Joe Biden’s chief promises during his 2020 presidential election campaign, could eliminate student debt entirely for nearly half of all borrowers, according to an analysis by the education department, which estimates 43 million Americans have federal student It seeks to do this by forgiving $10,000 of federal debt for all borrowers making no more than $75,000 per year — and no more than $250,000 for married couples — and up to $20,000 for borrowers who receive Pell Grants. It will also cap monthly payments at 5% of a borrower’s income and eliminate accrued interest for borrowers making monthly payments, even when that payment isTaken$0. together, these reforms could make it easier and faster for the bulk of students to pay off their debt, educators said. “This is going to make that burden less severe,” said Ariel Mendez, director of financial aid at Arapahoe Community College. “This is a step, it’s not everything, but it’s definitely a step.”Since Biden unveiled the plan, Mendez has been fielding calls from DEBT, P6

In Cherry Creek School District, across all grades that took the test, 49% of students met or exceeded expectations for English — about a 1 percentagepoint decrease from 2019.

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“But we continue to face the challenge of fully bringing kids back to the levels they were before the disruptions of the pandemic as well as closing the historic opportunity and achievement gaps,” Katy Anthes, Colorado’s education commissioner, said in the news release. She added: “With support from the COVID relief funds targeted at addressing lost learning opportunities, I’m confident we will continue our rebound.”

For math, across all grades that took the test, 32% met or exceeded expectations, representing a 3 percentage-point drop from 2019.

“I want to thank the members of our Charities and Community Involvement Committee, our members, and valued affiliates for another remarkable effort on behalf of A Precious Child, one of the many charitable organizations that we support every year,” said Barb Riley, SMDRA’s Board Chair. “I also want to thank the volunteers with A Precious Child for their dedication to helping underprivileged children. We always strive diligently to give back to the communities that have fueled our success in the real estate industry.”

New climbing gym planned for Centennial Movement, the largest nationwide community of indoor climbing gyms, recently announced plans for their latest facility: Movement Centennial at 9657 County Line Rd. Movement Centennial is set to open in 2024 and will offer 41,000 square feet of climbing, yoga, and fi tness including a boutique-style yoga studio, weight areas featuring Olympic lifting platforms, fully stocked functional fi tness zones, locker rooms, and a gear shop for all your climbingThoseneeds.Coloradans looking for a new adventure will be able to climb and explore the 28,000 square feet of climbing terrain and walls up to 55 feet tall. All guests will enjoy a diversity of bouldering, top rope, and lead climbing routes crafted for allMovementabilities. Centennial plans to offer a full lineup of classes perfect for those looking to start climbing or hone their existing skillset. In addition, guests can expect an array of youth offerings from after school programs to camps and competitive teams lead by passionate and knowledgeable employees. Rounding out the experience, the class schedule will also include high-quality yoga and group fi tness classes. “We’re excited to build on our Colorado footprint and call Centennial home,” said Jeremy Levitt, Movement CEO. “We have an amazing team of climbing coaches, yoga teachers, fi tness instructors, and front desk team members who are eager to share climbing, adventure, and a ton of fun with the Centennial community.”

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• Conduct community education Arapahoe County Sheriff celebrates promotionsArapahoe County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ryan Dasso, Sgt. Brady Wood, Sgt. Michael Condon and Communications Supervisor Jennifer Marquez were recently promoted to new positions.

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Meet the Racial Equity Subcommittee Come meet the Racial Equity Subcommittee and share your thoughts about racial equity in the justice system. Monday, Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. at Read to Work Aurora, located at 3176 S. Peoria Court, Aurora, 3rdTheFloorRacial Equity Subcommittee serves as an advisory group and resource through the following:•Identify inequities in the local justice system

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Colorado schools, child care centers must test water for lead

Je erson County’s school district must test the water at its facilities for lead under a new state law.

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The law, which comes with $21 million for testing and repairs, represents the ﬁrst time Colorado has established regulations governing lead levels in school and child care drinking water. It comes as a growing number of states have passed laws to address childhood lead exposure following the 2014 water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Lead is a harmful neurotoxin that can cause learning disabilities and behavior problems, with even low levels of exposure impacting a child’s IQ. Lead levels in American children have decreased dramatically since the 1970s, but studies show many children still have detectable levels. A 2021 study published in the peer-reviewed journal JAMA Pediatrics found that 72% of Colorado children under 6 who were tested had detectable levels of lead in their blood — though many young children in the state are never tested at all. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat Colorado. More at chalkbeat.org.

Deadline is May 31

A new state law will require about 5,800 Colorado elementary schools and child care centers to test their drinking water for lead and install filters or do repairs if they find elevated levels. Schools and child care facilities will have until May 31 to test their water and will have to make fixes if lead levels are 5 parts per billion or higher. That threshold is the same as the limit set by the federal government for bottled water but lower than what most Colorado school districts previously used.

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IF YOU GO Brad B Jammin’ and The Hungry Gene Cafe are at 6518 South Broadway in the shopping center behind McDonald Hyundai in Littleton. The cafe is currently open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. New hours will be posted @ hungrygene on Facebook and at hungrygene.com.

“I’ve got energy,” Hill said. “I’ve got great ideas.”

Currently a lunch spot, Hill’s next project is extending the cafe’s hours and offering jam-and-ice-cream sundaes in the evening. With the business serving more than PB&Js, Hill’s decided a new name — The Hungry Gene Cafe — is ﬁtting. He has a banner with the moniker on order. It will hang next to the store’s front door while Brown’s sign for Brad B Jammin’ will continue to stay above it. “I’m going to have, for a time, a little identity issue because of that,” Hill said. “But we’ll get past that. We are already doing it.”

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Tucked behind a car dealership on South Broadway, first-time restaurateur Gene Hill is ushering a Littleton cafe through an “identity crisis.”Originally billed as Brad B Jammin’ PB&J Cafe, the sandwich shop and retail space is expanding its menu, extending its hours and changing its name. “We are doing a lot, but growth has got to happen here,” said Hill, who hopes the eatery will, in time, become an important part of theBesidescommunity.classic peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, the cafe now offers an Elvis-inspired peanut butter and bacon sandwich, a Hot Pocket-style Nutella “squishwich” and two different chicken, nut-butter and jam sandwiches. “I became committed to elevating the PB&J,” Hill said. “And so I started creating a menu that incorporates jam. I’m committed to using jam in everything we do.” The focus on jam is not surprising. The cafe resides at the front of the production facility of Brad B Jammin’, a local producer of low-sugar, high-flavor jams. Owned by Brad Brown, the 5-year-old company makes jam for farmers markets and specialty stores around Colorado and beyond. When Brown moved his business into the 2,000-square-foot space in April 2021, he was most interested in the full kitchen and walk-in fridge in the back. But the retail space up front was a nice bonus. He used it to display his product and to create The PB&J Cafe.“The cafe had always kind of been in the back of my mind in terms of an opportunity for PB&J sandwiches,” Brown said. But operating a sandwich shop — building up that side of the business — while producing jam for over a dozen farmers markets a week plus additional wholesale orders proved difficult until Brown brought in Hill. Hill and Brown met while working the farmers market circuit where they are both vendors. Hill has been making seasoning blends for his own company, Hungry Gene, sinceLast2020.year, Brown suggested the pair team up. Hill could use Brown’s kitchen to mix his spices and the storefront to sell his blends. Hill could also run the retail side of Brad B Jammin’ and, if he was willing, take on theIncafe.January, Hill moved into Brown’s facility. By April, he had warmed up to running the cafe.

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Having two businesses share one space can be tricky. Both proprietors note that it can get crowded at times. But sharing expenses, sharing responsibilities and sharing knowledge make it rewarding, they said. It also makes collaboration easier.While the cafe uses Brad B Jammin’ products in many of its dishes, some of the jams use Hungry Gene spices as well. There’s an onion jam, for example, that uses rosemary, parsley and bay leaves from Hungry Gene, Hill said. “Now the joy becomes in how we can work together synergistically,” Hill said. “How we can play off of each other to expand each other’s businesses.” its footing

The cafe o ers an elevated take on PB&J sandwiches. The Banana Fo’fana is stu ed with bananas Foster jam, fresh sliced bananas, crisp bacon and creamy peanut butter.

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Additionally, Initiative 108 qualiﬁed for the ballot last week. It would divert 0.1% of taxable income from the general fund to the state affordable housing fund, which would represent about $270 million in its ﬁrst year. While taxes wouldn’t be raised under the proposal, the amount of money available for Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights refunds would be reduced by whatever is set aside for the housing fund.

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BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO voters will have a chance in November to weigh in on the state’s longrunning alcohol-policy war. The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office announced Friday that three ballot measures that would change booze policy in the state — including one that would let grocery stores sell wine — have qualified for the November ballot after their supporters collected a sufficient number of voter signatures.Thefollowing measures qualified:•Initiative 96, which would open the door for liquor retailers to be able to open an unlimited number of stores in Colorado starting in 2037.

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• Initiative 121, which would let retailers who have a license to sell beer, such as grocery stores, also sell wine.•Initiative 122, which would let third-party services deliver alcohol. A fourth alcohol-policy measure, Initiative 135, which would have required local approval for liquor license changes in an effort to slow down grocery stores’ ability to begin selling wine in addition to beer, failed to make the ballot after its supporters didn’t turn in the signatures they had collected.Millions of dollars are already being spent in support of initiatives 96, 121 and 122, including nearly $2 million from U.S. Rep. David Trone and his brother, Robert, who own the national Total Wine & More chain. The Trones are supporting Initiative 96, which would let Total Wine open more stores in Colorado.Right now, liquor retailers are allowed to open only three stores in Colorado. Total Wine has two Colorado stores and will soon open a third. Small retail liquor stores are ﬁercely opposed to the Alreadymeasure.onthe ballot was Initiative 58, a measure to decriminalize and regulate the use of “magic” mushrooms, and Initiative 31, a measure asking voters to reduce the state income tax rate to 4.4% from 4.55%.

The legislature referred two statutory measures to the ballot this year, including one that would reduce state income tax deductions for people with higher incomes and use the savings to provide free K-12 school meals for all students. The other would require detailed information about how ballot measures changing the income tax rate would impact various income brackets to be more prominently displayed to voters. This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalistowned 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.

“This is students being able to finish degrees,” Mendez said, adding the cap on monthly payments and elimination of interest rates “is a pretty big deal” for financiallystressed students. But borrowers, whether they’re in school or not, still have several hoops to jump through before they see loan relief. The education department is preparing to launch an online application in early October that could get borrowers relief within four to six weeks of applying.That application must be filed before Nov. 15 and will only apply to loans borrowed before June 30. Mendez said part of her job is now making ACC students aware of the timeline and process to ensure they receiveBiden’srelief.plan has been met with ire from those who feel it will alienate taxpayers — the vast majority of whom do not hold federal student debt— as well as borrowers who feel it does not go far enough, with some calling for up to $50,000 in debt cancellation.Andconcerns over its impact on inflation and whether it’s fair for borrowers who already paid off their debt have risen to the forefront of the loan forgiveness debate.

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ACC students eager to know if and how the relief may affect them. Mendez said last year about 1,600 of the college’s roughly 12,000 enrolled students took out loans and she believes most, if not all, could be eligible for forgiveness.

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Students listen in during an English class at Arapahoe Community College.

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The relief could be huge for students teetering on the edge of ﬁnishing a degree. Facing a rising cost of living from housing to food, making monthly loan payments can spur some students to drop out of their education, Mendez said.

Joe Garcia, president of the Community College System — which encompasses 13 colleges with 35 locations across the state — said he opposed broad debt cancellation, especially for higher income earners, but became supportive of Biden’s plan.“Ithink it’s well-tailored, but not perfect,” Garcia said. According to the Biden administration, nearly 90% of the debt cancellation will go to low and middle-income borrowers making less than $75,000 a year. Most of those borrowers owe between $8,000 to $10,000, Garcia said, a demographic that will more often default on payments and who Garcia said need relief most. He believes the plan will have a minimal impact on inﬂation. Loan payments have been paused since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the pause has been extended to Dec. 31 under Biden’s plan.

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Garcia said the moratorium demonstrates that not repaying loans has had little correlation to inflation. And since the loans were already paid out by the government, it has been debated if taxpayers will really foot the bill for the cancellation, or if Congress will simply lose those repayments as a source of revenue. “I think it will have a significant impact on the ability of individuals to improve their credit ratings, return to school and I hope that those things will ultimately benefit the economy,” Garcia said. Going beyond the $20,000 maximum for debt cancellation would have been a “bridge too far for most taxpayers,” Garcia said, adding Biden’s plan is a “reasonable compromise.”Forborrowers owing well above $20,000, the impacts of Biden’s plan could provide piecemeal progress.

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Rachel Newlon, a full-time English teacher at ACC, holds $150,000 in student debt. Newlon said she had little-to-no ﬁnancial aid when she pursued her undergraduate and graduate degrees. Debt, she said, was the price for an education. “It just seemed like the easiest way to go,” she said. “I made the choice to go to school because I wanted to go into an employment that was more rewarding … but we shouldn’t be penalized for that.” Newlon believes she will qualify fo $10,000 off her loans. But what excites her more is the reduction in monthly payments and cancellation of“Havinginterest.a little bit of help is nice because I don’t make enough money to throw large sums at bringing it down,” she said, adding she makes about $75,000 yearly. And the cost of loans is more than just monthly payments, Newlon said. It has affected her otherwise healthy credit score, hampering her prospects of owning a home.While she said Biden’s plan provides welcomed relief, it falls short of addressing the greater need to bring down the cost of college, she said.“There’s clearly acknowledgment that there’s an issue,” Newlon said. According to a report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, between 1980 and 2019, the average price for college increased 169%. Yet wages have lagged far behind. Garcia said what little federal aid there is for college, such as Pell Grants, has also failed to meet today’s tuition costs. According to the Biden administration, those grants used to cover nearly 80% of tuition and now only covers a third. Biden had tried to boost Pell Grants through sweeping social policy legislation last year but those efforts died in Congress after failing to gain enough support in the“ASenate.hard-working student simply cannot go to school and pay their own way even at a state school,” Garcia said. “I think that’s what critics of my age tend to forget when we pat ourselves on the back saying ‘we paid our own way.’”

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In Cherry Creek district, 68% met or exceeded expectations in reading and writing, a 0.2 percentagepoint increase from 2019. On the math section, 46% met or exceeded expectations, a 7 percentage-point decrease from 2019.

In Colorado, 11th grade students attending public schools took the SAT, according to the state Education Department’s website. Students’ participation in state assessments varies across schools, grade levels and student groups, according to the department.

In math, across all grades that took the test in Cherry Creek, 40% met or exceeded expectations. That’s about a 3 percentage-point decrease from 2019. The Colorado Measures of Academic Success is the state’s standardized test of students’ progress at the end of the school year. Students in grades three through eight take the CMAS tests in math and English language arts. Cherry Creek generally outperformed several other Denver metro area school districts but wasn’t at the front of the pack. For comparison, some other metro Denver districts fared as follows:

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Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village.

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Cherry Creek district had “signiﬁcantly lower participation” in the 2022 CMAS testing, according to “We are looking into the possible reasons for this decline in participation,” Smith said. “The low participation rate also means that caution must be used in interpreting these results. We will be analyzing our CMAS results alongside our internal assessments, such as Fastbridge, which occur throughout the year to measure how well students are learning. These ongoing measurements help our educators to be responsive to student needs in a timely manner.”

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• In Littleton Public Schools, 62% met or exceeded expectations in English and 48% did in math; • In Jeffco Public Schools, 50% met or exceeded expectations in English and 37% in math;

• And in Aurora Public Schools, 24% met or exceeded expectations in English and 14% in math.

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Dear Davis Schilken, I just married the man of my dreams. However, I am worried how it will impact our Estate Plans. We have both been married once before, and we both have 2 beautiful children from our prior marriage, bringing our new family to 6 (My husband, his two kids, my two kids, and myself). How can we improve and prepare our Estate Plans to care for everyone?

• In Denver Public Schools, 39% met or exceeded expectations in English and 29% in math;

“While Cherry Creek Schools continued to outperform state and national averages, we look at these results and know we have to continue focusing on the academic and social-emotional needs of students as we come out of the pandemic,” said Abbe Smith, spokesperson for Cherry Creek district. The state Education Department emphasized that students may have experienced ongoing learning disruptions in the 2021-22 school year as the coronavirus pandemic continued.“Whileschools continued to transition to increased normalcy throughout the 2021-22 school year, the pandemic’s sustained impact on learning experiences for some students should be taken into consideration when interpreting spring 2022 results,” the department said in the news release. Along with CMAS scores, the state also released SAT scores in mid-August. Statewide on the SAT, 58% met or exceeded expectations on the reading and writing section, a 1 percentage-point drop from 2019. On the math section, 35% met or age-point decrease from 2019.

To see all the results and participation rates, including at the district level and school level, visit sults2022.tinyurl.com/ColoradoTestRe-

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At work, if a co-worker needs a hand, even though it’s not in our job description, do we offer to help in some way to help lighten the load? Or do we avoid making eye contact and leave the area and let them struggle or again, hope someone else might be more willing to help? If we have taken the last cup of coffee, do we reﬁll the pot? If the printer is out of paper, do we load more paper or wait for someone else to do it when they come to pick up the print job and realize there was no paper? We can “Be that person.”

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LOCAL e recently celebrated, or rested, on Labor Day. When the topic of labor comes up, it’s been an interesting few years as employees and employers work to find some sort of of Labor website, it says, “work is changing, but America has always been a country filled with hard workers.” I agree — America does work hard. However, what that looks like has steadily changed since the pandemic sent everyone home and likely had many rethinking their lives. For employers and employees — the debate and negotiations over several issues are moving into view. One of those being the concept of working from home permanently. Now that COVID is seemingly here to stay and Americans are being told to get back to normal, some employers want staff to return to in-office work.

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The other fascinating part of the workforce changes is the term, “The Great Resignation.” During the pandemic, people left their jobs for something better or for nothing. Some of this had to do with low pay, but a lot of stories and reports on the “Great Resignation” comes down to people wanting to experience a true work-life balance.

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One of my closest friends is Brian, and he stands out to me for many reasons. He is a strong man of faith, a true prayer warrior, a loving and devoted father and husband, a gift to the community we live in, and really to anyone who has the privilege of meeting Brian. Many people speak of their philosophy of hoping to leave every person they meet better off than when they had met them, and if you spend time with Brian, even if it is for five minutes, you will know what I am talking about.Weshare insights about life and business, and we definitely enjoy getting together over a beer or three to let our creativity take over and speak about what else we can do to serve others. Brian and I had a chance to play golf last week and he started our conversation in the cart by telling me, “You are that person.” And he said it with such conviction, I was curious to know what heHemeant.saidit again, but this time he wasn’t just referring to me, he was referring to all of us. Whether at work, at home, in the community, or anywhere else, if something needs to be done, we all have the opportunity to step up and “Be that person.” He was not speaking about specific skills we would need to take care of a complex task, but more of the dayto-day things that so many take for granted or simply walk away assuming someone else would take care of it, and maybe even think it’s not our responsibility. If there is a piece of trash on the ground, do we walk by it or do we pick it up and throw it away? Or are we hoping someone else will come by and clean it up? If an elderly person who needs help with a shopping cart and maybe getting across the street, do we stop what we are doing to assist them, or walk away and hope that some other nice person might come by to help? If we see someone who needs an ear to listen or the need to be consoled, do we avoid them or sit and listen or offer a hug? We can “Be that person.”

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This leads to how, by generation, the workforce has changed. My dad, the baby boomer generation, worked hard. His skin is stained from decades in plumbing, running his own business and working hard. I respect a lot about my dad when it comes to his work ethic. I have his work ethic. But, I also look at how much he gave to companies before he had his own business. I look at all he gave after his business failed during the recession and he moved to a company. Could he have given less and enjoyed a better worklife balance? A term describing today’s younger workforce is “quiet quitting.” While I am not fond of the term, I am intrigued by the meaning. The main meaning for “quiet quitting” is an employee setting boundaries and not taking additional work. That means doing exactly what the job description says.

In February, pewresearch.org came out with a study on how COVID reshaped work in America. According to the research, nearly six in 10 workers who say they can work from home are staying home. Many say they are doing this by choice rather than necessity.

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With this child in particular, I have spent most parent/teacher conferences discussing his behavior issues. I could barely get him to do reading and writing assignments. During these tough years, the teachers he had were patient and kind but diligent in trying to address the problem … stil, the problems persisted.Thenwe got the “strict” teacher. Despite not being worried, I was curious to discover what was causing so much gossip among parents about her. I sent my boy to school and paid attention each day when he got home.

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obituaries@coloradocommunitymedia.com303-566-4100SelfplacementavailableonlineatCentennialCitizen.net tion and a box is dropped off on their porch, do we secure it and hold it for them, or do we let it sit there and watch as other boxes may show up? If they left their garbage cans out and were gone for a day, do we at least move them into their driveway or maybe take them to where they belong, or do we allow them to stay out there all day signaling to anyone that the homeowner may not be at home? We can “Be thatThinkperson.”about any one of these examples and hundreds more like them where a simple task that we are easily capable of doing but don’t because we don’t have time, we see it as it being below ourselves, or we just simply expect or hope that someone else will do it. I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@ gmail.com, and when we can do as Brian says and “Be that person,” it really will be a better than good life.

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How was your day? “Great” How’s your teacher? “Cool” Was anyone mean to you today? “No”Did you get in trouble? “No” And on and on this went, the same questions with the same answers throughout the year. Then came homework assignments. He really struggled with these. She’d send a check-off sheet home for his reading and a few math sheets every week. I’ve seen these before. We do our best and the teachers usually seemed pleased with whatever effort we gave. This time, the difference was that she circled the reading days we missed every time and wrote a note for the need to improve. I’d never seen a teacher be this diligent about homework at home.Ithought: “Could this be what is causing all of this commotion? Making sure my kid reads?” When parent/teacher conferences came around, she was delightful but also firm in pressing the need to keep up his reading at home. It was different but I appreciated the push and encouragement she gave us. At the end of the year, I mentioned to her the trouble he gave to previous teachers. With a knowing glimmer in her eye she said, “I can see how that could happen.” And then continued with something to the effect of, “It’s tough to balance boundaries with love. But once he knew what was expected of him and that I wouldn’t budge, he really shined.” That seemed like an excellent year to me. The validating moment at the start of the new school year was seeing him run up and give her a big hug before running off to his new classroom.Nowmyfriend’s son has the same teacher and she’s terrified because of what she’s heard. I don’t know which parents are spreading these rumors, but I wish they would simply stop. Sure, bad teachers exist. But they’re rare. The only teachers that I’ve been less than impressed with are the ones not given the resources to do a good job.Teachers are people, people paid much less than the value they bring to our communities. Learning to get along with different types of people is part of the educational package of going to school, though parents could learn a thing or two in this area as Teacherswell.are also professionals. They earned a degree in education and are continually learning best practices from shared knowledge and researchers all over the country. They deserve our respect. My teachers have taught me more about how to be a good mom than most parenting books. During the school year, they see my kids more than I see them! So not only do they get to know my kid, but they can take that knowledge and apply it in the context of their educational degree.Mykids’ teachers have also helped me discover talents in myself that I didn’t know I had. They taught me to trust my instincts. They taught me to love my kid when I was too depleted to do so. They showed me things in my kids that I didn’t know existed. They’ve carried them through hard times when I couldn’t. My teachers are my village. I hope this Colorado community of parents have their teacher’s backs. Let’s not spread unnecessary gossip about teachers and, instead, find what makes them great. While we’re at it, let’s jump in and help them to do the amazing job that they already know how to do.

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• Do not use all caps, italics or bold text.•Keep it polite: No name calling or “mudslinging.” ’ve heard so many bad things I got this a lot with my kid’s When I tried to press the parents for aboutinformationher,Igot the words “mean” and “strict” over and over with little But this wasn’t my ﬁrst rodeo. Having gone through well over 10 teachers over the past few years and this being my third child, I knew enough

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Currently, it is home to five small food stalls: Urban Burma, known for its rice noodle bowls, curry and samosas; Jasmine Syrian Food, with cumin and lemon flavored hummus and chicken; Odaa Ethiopian Restaurant, providing an abundance of flavorful meats and vegetables; Nepali Mountain Kitchen, serving up warm curry and momo; and Golden Sky Sushi, which offers a fusion of Japenese and other Asian cuisines. “All my tenants are my patients,” Parmar said. “I like to think what we do is unique.” Siri Tan, who began serving Burmese cuisine from his stall — Urban P

He said he sees people from a broad swath of countries and regions, including Nepal, Burma, Somalia, Iraq, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Ethiopia.Somewho come to Mango House do so for space to start their business.

For many, mangoes are deﬁned by bright colors, aromatic ﬂavor and embodiment of the sun-soaked tropics.Butfor some Denver-area business owners, the fruit is also a sense of identity, cultural connection and one’s openness to the new. From a refugee resource center offering an array of dine-in cuisines to a dessert bar fusing traditional Hong Kong sweets with Western styles, the mango serves as a token of the wider world for a land-locked metropolitan area. At Mango House in Aurora, such sentiment could not better describe the mission of P.J. Parmar, who began the organization in 2014 to provide resources — primarily low-cost health care — to refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants.Italsoserves as a marketplace, with a grocery store and several vendors preparing and selling freshmade food from their home countries.“Mangoes are from everywhere our patients come from, but they are not from the U.S.,” said Parmar, whose family immigrated from India, where mangoes are cherished andParmarabundant.said he chose the name Mango House because he wanted something “tasty and fun” that paid homage to his patients and patrons.

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Mango Tree partners with area churches and other organizations to provide packed lunches to Englewood Schools students, a complement to the district’s free and reduced lunch program.“We want to be an asset to the community,” Corona said, adding that the coffee shop also serves as a gathering space, much as its namesake mango tree did 20 years ago. “It’s cool to see the community have the same mindset as we do of ‘hey, we like to do things together.’”

Others, such as bright green durian pancake rolls and purple-powdered taro cakes, present a unique and inviting option for customers — though these desserts are more subtle and savory compared with the reliable sweetness of the mango counterparts.

Corona said the coffee shop’s name harkens to a MANNA trip in 2002 when community members gathered under a mango tree in Kenya to discuss anti-poverty programs for the area.“As we’ve built Mango Tree, that’s the mindset that we have, creating a space where everybody feels welcome and can be a part of something bigger than themselves,” Corona said. Opened in June 2021, Mango Tree roasts its coffee in-house and offers a reliable cafe menu complete with espresso-based drinks, chai and teas.But one standout item is the mango shot, a blend of mango chunks, keﬁr — a fermented dairy product — and spices. “I think one of the main aspects that drives what we do is this sort of passion and drive to have fun,” Corona said. “Having a mango shot was just another way to create that experience forPeoplepeople.”are at the heart of Mango Tree’s ethos, Corona said, and outside of providing assistance to global poverty-ﬁghting efforts, the business also strives to be an advocate locally.

Some of these come in the form of warm dishes, popular during the winter, Kao said.

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For business owner Robert Kuo, who co-owns Mango Mango Desserts in Denver, bringing customers the tastes of Asia drove him to open his“Ishop.think people like to come to try new things,” said Kuo, who opened the store in 2019 alongside his business partner, Emma Mo. Founded in Flushing, New York, Mango Mango has since been franchised to several locations across the U.S. Kuo, who immigrated from Taiwan at age 5, said he fell in love with the business after first trying it in Flushing and sought to open one in Denver because, at the time, he saw no “truly Asian dessert places.” The dessert bar, offering roughly 30 meals and 20 drinks, imbues the sweet and citrus-like flavors of mango into nearly all its cuisine. The signature dessert is modeled after a traditional Hong Kong favorite and consists of mango ice cream, fresh fruit, juice and soba — edible starch pearls that Kuo said have been eaten “way, way, way before boba.” Mangoes, Kuo said, are “in every corner of Hong Kong,” and that dessert, in particular, is a beloved treat. “A lot of people like mango and I think it’s a perfect fit (for our shop),” Kuo said. Mango Mango offers a pallet of other sweet treats, some of which are inspired by more Western foods such as a layered crepe cake

with mango cream ﬁlling or fresh-baked wafﬂes drizzled with chocolate and cold mango chunks. And it’s not just mango that’s on the menu.

Burma — in 2019, said without Mango House “we wouldn’t exist.” Tan said he “wanted to introduce Burmese cuisine into the Denver area” and, through a patchwork of cooking education that included recipe books, online videos and tips from the Burmese community, he made that dream a reality. “I love Asian food, all kinds of Asian food,” Tan said. “When I hear that people like our food, that’s what makes me happy.” For Parmar, he hopes the food of Mango House can offer an invitation for Coloradans to explore something new and build relations with their immigrant neighbors.

“I’d like to think we aren’t just preaching to the choir, with our restaurant-goers already loving refugees,” Parmar said. “I do think, occasionally, someone — adult or even a child — who has doubts towards foreigners is brought as part of a group, and their eyes are opened a bit when they are here. At least their mouths, or palates, are opened.”

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The shop also serves ﬂavors for other desserts that include matcha, durian and taro.

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Mango Mango Location: 1144 S Colorado Blvd, Denver Hours: noon to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, noon to 11 p.m. Friday through Sunday

Mango Tree Co ee Location: 3498 S Broadway, Englewood Hours: 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, closed Sunday

Mango House Location: 10180 E Colfax Ave, Aurora Hours: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, closed Sunday

Symbol for a mission For Marc Corona, who runs Mango Tree Coffee in Englewood, mangoes serve as a form of expression for the business’ larger mission.Abranch of MANNA Worldwide — a global nonproﬁt network that works with organizations in 50 countries — all proceeds from Mango Tree go back into MANNA’s efforts to ﬁght global poverty, which include building schools and food centers and expanding access to water, education and job opportunities.

Emma Mo, a co-owner of Mango Mango in Denver, presents a plate of sticky rice and fresh mango at the store Aug. 23.

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A vegetable plate — served at Odaa Ethiopian Restaurant — consisting of lentils curry, carrots, cabbage, potatoes, beets and salad served with injera bread.

H ell and Back” is the newest installment in Wyomingbased writer Craig Johnson’s entertaining novels about Walt Longmire, basis for the popular television series. Johnson will appear at 7 p.m. on Sept. 16 at Highlands Ranch Library, a$32ward.newsignwritingtoRidgeline9292Blvd.,talkabouthis—andtocopiesofthebookafter-Ticketscostandincludehardcovercopy of “Hell and Back,” dessert bites and a place in the book signing line. DCL.org/featured-events or Eventbrite. Brew Tour Douglas County Libraries have partnered with local craft brewers and coffee houses for a Brew Tour again through Sept. 30. Register at DCL.org/brew-tour.

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The Legendary Ladies will present “Extraordinary Women of the West” at 2-3 p.m. Sept. 10 at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. Six women who challenged conventions, interpreted by costumed performers. Note that all events in the Pam Houston One Book One Littleton program are sold out. Good idea... Doors Open Denver The popular “Doors Open Denver” programming, presented by the Denver Architectural Foundation, runs Sept. 26 to Oct. 16, featuring in-person and virtual tours, including first-time tours at the Denver Zoo. Also: DCPA, Elitch Theatre, Nordlund House, Red Rocks, U.S Air Force Academy. See denverarchitecture.org for ticket and time information. Depot Art Gallery “Side By Side” is the new exhibit by the Littleton Fine Arts Guild at the Depot Art Gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave. Open Tuesday-Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission.

St. Andrew “All St. Andrew Art Show” will be Sept. 16 to Nov. 2 at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch. An opening reception will be Sept. 18 from 10 a.m. to noon. There will be 2D and 3D art by members, family and friends. Exhibit hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday. The community is welcome. Craft fair The 2022 Littleton Craft Fair, hosted by the Friends of the Littleton Library/Museum, will be Oct. 1, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., just north of the museum in Ketring Park, 6028 S. Gallup St. Last we heard, there were some booth spaces remaining (10’x-10’ space costs $185; corner space is $200, plus a $5 non-refundable application fee). All items shown must be original and handcrafted by the crafter or artisan. No resale items, commercial products or services. Buntport “Coyote, Badger, Rattlesnake” is written by the Buntport actors in collaboration with playwright Ellen K. Graham and will return to the stage at 717 Lipan St., Denver, Sept. 30-Oct. 15. Buntport is entering its 22nd season, which will continue with two new works written by the company members, as is their custom. Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. One Monday performance on Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: name your own price. See: buntport.com. 720-946-1388.

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NUTRITION: Feeding the mind and body nutritionally is one more critical piece to the health and wellness puzzle. At Elk Run, our Director of Culinary Services not only addresses nutrition for our resident’s daily, but he also brings creativity and variety to the menu. The kitchen considers fiber, protein and fruits and vegetables as well as making sure everything is pleasing the palate. Meals can be as simple as bacon and eggs and they can get as interesting and sophisticated as beef tips with chimichurri and tri-colored cauliflower or roasted tenderloin with truffle, garlic mashed potatoes. Our culinary team specializes in scratch-made ethnic dishes ranging from Greek, Chinese, Italian, Classic American and more.

September 8, 202216 Centennial Citizen September 8, 20222 Health & Wellness Publisher LINDA SHAPLEY Editorial THELMA GRIMES Advertising Director ERIN ADDENBROOKE Advertising Sales TERESA ALEXIS RUTH DONNAMINDYDANIELSNELONREARDON Production Manager ERIN FRANKS Production Design BEN WIEBESIEK Advertising Design TOM FILDEY TINA MELTZER of 24 weekly & 3 monthly community papers and reaching over 350,000 readers. To advertise call: 303-566-4100 HEALTH Guide FALL 2022 PhotoShutterstock Elk Run Assisted Living oﬀers: Apartments RehabRespiteSuites Physical OccupationalTherapyTherapySpeechTherapy Independent living with services The location you love. The lifestyle you’re looking for Call or emailto learn more: 303 679-8777 ElkRunAssistedLiving.com31383Monica.Carruth@cassialife.orgFrostWay,Evergreena ministry of Newly Remodeled Apartments

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CAREGIVING: Making sure all resident’s health and medical needs are met is our number one priority. Our caregivers genuinely care for our residents and this is demonstrated in the attentive and professional way they go about each day tending to our resident’s needs. This can be as simple as reminding residents it’s meal time or making them aware of activities taking place. Or, it can be as involved as medication management, helping some residents dress for the day or transfer from beds to chairs, etc.

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ACTIVITIES: We are extremely proud of our robust and creative activities program at Elk Run. Each day includes opportunities for exercise for both the body and mind. Morning exercise classes like cardio drumming and tai chi are very popular among residents. Other activities promote conversation and comradery among residents such as our men’s and women’s groups. A favorite among our residents is our weekly pet therapy. From dogs, to goats, to horse, we have had lots of four legged visitors come to enrich the lives of residents. Some of the beneﬁts of pet therapy include: increased self-esteem and conﬁdence, improved social skills, reduced risk of depression, lessened levels of anxiety and reduced feelings of loneliness. Other popular activities that are good for mind, body and spirit include: bingo, jeopardy, happy hour and live music.

Health & Wellness in Senior Living and at Elk Run

At Elk Run, Health and Wellness are at the forefront of what we do every day. Our mission each day is to provide services that enhance the quality of life for residents. We accomplish this through many facets of daily life including: caregiving, activities and nutrition.

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7. MANAGE BLOOD SUGAR – Most of the food American eat turns into glucose, which is the sugar that the body uses as energy.

The Essential 8 list includes:

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2. BE MORE ACTIVE – Adults should get 2.5 hours of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week. Kids should have 60 minutes every day, including play and structured activities.

3. QUIT TOBACCO –Use of inhaled nicotine delivery products, which includes traditional cigarettes, e-cigarettes and vaping, is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., according to AHA. This includes about a third of all death from heart disease. It is estimated that a third of all children between ages 3 and 11 in the U.S. are exposed to secondhand smoke or vaping.

4. GET HEALTHY SLEEP – Sleep is a new addition to the Essential 8 list in 2022. It is estimated that adults need 7-9 hours of sleep each night. Children require more through nighttime rest and naps.

8. MANAGE BLOOD PRESSURE – Keeping blood pressure within acceptable ranges can keep a person healthier longer. Levels less than 120/80 are optimal. High blood pressure is deﬁned as 130-139 for the top number and 80-89 for the bottom number. To learn more about the American Heart Association’s recommendations for maintaining a healthy heart and lifestyle, visit the website at heart.org.Toﬁndout what your heart score is currently, visit mlc.heart.org. 6.8% of haveAmericansoptimalhearthealthExercise,dietandsleepcausingproblemsformany

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A chieving optimal heart health in the U.S. is not looking promising as Americans continue to lose ground. According to a recent study published by the American College of Cardiology, or ACC, only 6.8% of American adults have achieved optimal heart health. It breaks down ﬁ ve key areas that affect heart health:• sugar pressure disease

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1. EAT BETTER – According to the AHA, Americans should aim for an overall healthy eating pattern that includes whole foods, lots of fruits and vegetables, lean protein, nuts, seeds and cooking non-tropical oils such as olive and canola.

6. CONTROL CHOLESTEROL – High levels of non-HDL, or bad cholesterol, can lead to heart disease.

Each year, the American Heart Association, or AHA, releases a checklist known as Life’s Essential 8. The list provides key measures for improving and maintaining cardiovascular health, which helps lower risk of heart diseases, stroke and other major health problems. In unveiling the 2022 list, the AHA had some new items and guidance for others, including new suggestions for diet and adding sleep. The Life’s Essential 8 list if comprised of two major areas –Health behaviors and health factors.

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5. MANAGE WEIGHT – Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight has many beneﬁts. Body mass index, a numerical value of weight in relation to height, is a useful gauge, according to the AHA. An optimal BMI is 25.

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Nutrition Examination Survey of more than 55,000 U.S. adults over the age of 20 from 1999 to 2018. The data revealed that many Americans meet at least one of the ﬁ ve identiﬁ ed risk factors, leading to potential risk for heart attack or heart failure, stroke or other associated complications such as Type 2 diabetes.Dr. Jeffrey Park, a cardiologist with Aurora Denver Cardiology at The Medical Center of Aurora, said the study results are eye-opening.“Americain general has been experiencing a decline in optimal heart health for some time,” Park said. “It may be surprising but it is also a matter of what we know now compared to what we knew from the past. We learn more as these risk factors are included in the equation.”

Instead, Park said people should listen to their doctors and start implementing the recommendations slowly.

“It is hard to just tell someone to stop doing something they have formed a habit to,” he said. “Instead of just stopping, I encourage people to just start cutting back, taking less.”

• Having a stronger immune system•Improving mood and energy

When it comes to eating, Park said this is one of the biggest struggles in making lifestyle changes. When a person is used to the fast-food line every day, taking small steps to realign habits is important.

Diet and exercise A constant on the heart health lists from multiple organizations is healthy eating and exercise.The AHA stresses that developing a healthy eating pattern can increase heart health. Besides eating smaller portions in general, the AHA recommends a heavy dose of vegetables and fruits every day, along with limiting sweetened drinks, alcohol and sodium.Avoiding trans-fat is also recommended.When it comes to his patients, Park said diet is a constant discussion for patients suffering from heart disease and having other issues.The second continuous discussion is exercise. According to the AHA, adults should get a weekly total of at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity.

Park said this mentality leads to failure because a person cannot make lifestyle changes in only a day.

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According to a recent study released by countingsheep.net, Colorado is one of the states struggling to get enough sleep, ranking 23rd. The study was created through analyzing county health rankings and Google search data. Some of the data to rank each state is based on how many people attempt to treat insomnia with medications.Accordingto the study, overall, in the past year, 30% of Coloradans have not got sufﬁ cient sleep each night, which is over 1.7 million adults. Based on Google search data, it was found that these insufﬁ cient sleepers have searched for sleep medication online 203,760 times over the past year. This indicated 11% of Coloradans who suffer from insomnia treat the condition with sleep medication, ranking the state’s residents as the 23rd unhealthiest sleepers in America.

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When it comes to exercise, Park says it is important to take small steps towards achieving big goals. A person can take short walks and runs that will help lead up to exercise and ﬁ tness goals over a short period of time. Park said people often say they do not have time for exercise, which he stresses cannot be completely true.

A marathon, not a sprint Park said a common disconnect between doctor and patient is people thinking they have to change lifestyle and everything they are eating and doing all at once.

To get what is considered by medical professionals as a “healthy” night’s sleep, it is recommended that adults get between seven and nine hours. Children require more at 10 to 16 hours per day with night and naptime.

Vermont was ranked as the nation’s unhealthiest sleep state. Pennsylvania was ranked on the opposite end of the list as the nation’s healthiest sleep state.

Park said one of the common struggles between patient and doctor is getting on a realistic plan both can live“Aswith.aphysician, in general, you can tell your patients to do something but it comes down to if they will listen.”

“Sleep is highly important, but I have to admit, even doctors have a lack of sleep,” Park said. “Being well rested makes a huge difference. It is associated with sleep apnea and obesity. Everything, when it comes to the heart, is really interconnected. It also just allows the body to reset.”

• Cognitive decline and dementia

“Everyone has some time somewhere,” he said. “I waste plenty of time when I think about it.”

The result of a lack of sleep is not just tired people, it is now being associated with poor hearth health. According to AHA, poor sleep can put a person at higher risk for:

• Health and repairing skin cells, tissues and blood vessels

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Even as more information and education is coming along to redevelop guidelines to achieve optimal heart health, Park said busy people are struggling to meet all ﬁ ve key areas. When it comes to diet, Park said Americans are busy and constantly on the go. That means more fast, easy food. “We are on the go and eating out a lot more,” he said. “That also translates to not having enough time for exercise and we are not getting enough sleep.” Sleep a newer key factor Every year, the AHA updates what is known as Life’s Essential 8, which are key measures for improving and maintaining heart health. Making the 2022 list for the ﬁ rst time is sleep, which Park said should be considered as Americans grow more tired.

• Depression • Elevated blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels • Obesity On the other hand, putting a priority on getting enough rest, according to the AHA, can help with:

• Better brain function

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By nature, Geva said girls are encouraged and naturally tend to express themselves and show emotion. “Boys are a little more tricky,” she said. “It is really a societal thing, and every age is different. It is always important to check in and ask questions regularly.”Forany child, Geva said parents should grow concerned if a child is suddenly displaying different character traits or having abrupt changes in mood.Having an established relationship will help parents identify and react when children are struggling.

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Geva said as students are getting more adjusted to the school year, parents can help stave off some anxiety by talking things out, stressing that something that happened during fall or winter break last year may not happen again this year. A bad grade from a class last year doesn’t mean it will happen again this year.

A child’s gender is also a factor in how much parents should be checking in with their children.

“When you hear news, confront (your child),” Geva said. “Tell them the news you have heard from other parents.”

When it comes to grades and expectations, Geva said parents should keep up with children and have set standards and expectations. However, she recommended only checking grades sporadically to keep tabs on a student rather than“Childrendaily. really do want independence,” Geva said. “But for parents, checking grades sporadically, doing routine check-ins with teachers and keeping in touch with other parents can keep you informed about your child.”

Having relationships with other parents is beneﬁcial, Geva said, because children often leave out details about the day. Having other parents talking and telling each other what is going on can help in keeping tabs on the daily activities of the class.

It is common when a new school year rolls around for students to be anxious and nervous, but experts agree that stress and worry can continue as the ﬁrst days turn into weeks andDr.months.AnatGeva, a clinical psychologist with the HealthONE Behavioral Health & Wellness Center, said the beginning of a school year can come with a variety of nerves.Some students may be worried that bad things from the previous year will happen again this year.

Geva said other students worry differently. These are the students who may not have had a bad year last year but worry about the unknown, stressing about what could happen and thinking the“Itworst.isnot uncommon to have a student have more anxiety by creating things that could go wrong and really thinking the worst in their minds,” Geva said. For these students, Geva said it’s important to communicate with children and talk them through the created anxiety. Emphasize that the horrible things they are imagining in their minds are likely never going to become reality. These days, students are worried about grades and meeting expectations. They worry about doing well in athletics and participating in various programs. As pressures mount, Geva said a student can stay stressed out and anxious throughout the school year.

Geva said throughout the year, parents should often work toward doing mental health check-ins with both elementary and high-school level children. Working on time management skills and helping to manage required down time can also help relieve pressure and anxiety students feel today.

Geva said parents can create down time by encouraging a child to just go to the grocery store for a bit, go for a calm, relaxing walk or even stress the importance of play time. “It’s important to do activities that have no real objectives,” Geva said. “Helping to give the child a connection and letting them know they are OK.” While managing activities and time for elementary students is easier, Geva said overseeing how much high schoolers are relaxing and destressing can be more of a challenge.Gevasaid regular communication and encouragement is important for teenagers. For parents, cutting a child a break is also important, Geva said. “If a child is really wanting to shift, change or quit an activity – listen to them,” Geva said. “Allow them to adjust to do what is really best for them.”

“It is important in that child/parent relationship to establish a routine,” she said. “Make it a habit to keep hanging out and doing things together. Do not get into a habit of only talking to them when there is a problem.”

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As the school year continues, Geva said parents should also promote structured schedules, regular bedtimes and push for good hygiene and eating habits.Through communication, reasonable expectations and check-ins, Geva said stress and anxiety cannot be completely eliminated for students, but it can be dealt with regularly. Parents can be proactiveallyear

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• Face drooping – Does one side of the face droop or is it numb? Ask the person to smile. Is the person’s smile uneven?

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• Arm weakness – Is one arm weak or numb? Ask the person to raise both arms. Does one arm drift downward?

• Speech difﬁculty – Is speech slurred? Is the person unable to speak or hard to understand? Ask the person to repeat a simple sentence like “The sky is blue.”

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The ﬁrst step you can take in reducing your risk for stroke is knowing your blood pressure and keeping it in a healthy range. High blood pressure is the No. 1 preventable cause of stroke, according to the American Heart Association.

Learn the Warning Signs A stroke can happen to anyone at any point in life. Immediate treatment may help minimize the long-term effects of a stroke and even prevent death. Learn how to spot a stroke F.A.S.T:

• Time to call 911 – If someone shows any of these symptoms, even if the symptoms go away, call 911 and get to a hospital immediately. Check the time so you’ll know when the ﬁrst symptoms appeared. Talk to your doctor about ways to improve your well-being and help prevent stroke. Find more wellness tips at stroke.org.

It may not be widely known that women face unique risk factors for stroke throughout their lifetime. Things like pregnancy, preeclampsia and chronic stress can increase the risk for high blood pressure, a leading cause of Cardiovascularstroke.disease, including stroke, is the leading cause of death among women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and 1 in 5 women will have a stroke. However, a large majority of strokes can be prevented.Caringfor yourself by understanding your risk factors can help reduce your risk for stroke and provide a better quality of life. Start managing your stroke risk with these tips from the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association: Monitor Your Blood Pressure

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In the United States, high blood pressure during pregnancy is becoming more common, according to the CDC, and medical conditions including preeclampsia, gestational diabetes and blood clots during pregnancy all increase stroke risk during and immediately following a pregnancy.Managing conditions like high blood pressure before getting pregnant helps keep you and your baby healthy during pregnancy and beyond. In addition, your health during and immediately after a pregnancy can shape the lifelong health of you and your child. If you’re planning to become pregnant or are currently pregnant, it’s important to regularly monitor your blood pressure.

Take Care of Your Mental Health Some stress is unavoidable but constant stress is not healthy. Chronic or constant stress may lead to high blood pressure and other unhealthy behavior choices, which can increase risk for stroke. Based on ﬁndings in a Stress in America 2020 survey conducted by the American Psychological Association, the top sources of stress are money, work, family responsibilities and health concerns. Managing your stress and blood pressure can improve your overall health and well-being. Reclaim control of your schedule and build in time to invest in your health. Find 10 minutes every day to do something for you, like listening to music, meditating or going for a walk Plan for Pregnancy

The best way to know your blood pressure is to have it measured at least once per year by a health care professional and regularly monitor it at home then discuss the numbers with a doctor. For most people, a normal blood pressure should be 120/80 mm HG or less. In addition to properly monitoring blood pressure, maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active, eating healthfully and reducing or eliminating alcohol and tobacco usage can help control blood pressure. If you do develop high blood pressure, work with a health care professional on a plan to help manage it.

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Abramczyk-Thill explained that if a child is not big enough to be sitting in a seat with just a seatbelt, their knees do not quite reach properly over the edge of the seat. In the event of a crash, their bodies tend to slip under the seatbelt restraints and serious injuries can happen.

“You have cases where a child may be using equipment that is not quite for their age or size,” she said. “Or, you have cases where the children are using the equipment improperly and that leads to injury.”With playground equipment, besides the traditional scrapes and bruises, Abramczyk-Thill said hospitals see more arm and leg injuries. In sports, Abramczyk-Thill said there are a variety of injuries from everything from football and cheerleading to soccer. In recent years, hockey has also grown in Inpopularity.sports,Abramczyk-Thill said it might be surprising to learn that besides concussions, a common injury doctors see is to the Abramczyk-Thilleye. said in any sport, parents might consider getting protective eye gear for athletes in all sports. This should become as common as the helmet and mouth guards, she added. Learn the signs Because concussions receive the most media attention and are one of the injuries coaches and parents are more vigilant about, it is important to understand the signs and symptoms, especially the subtle ones no one expects.

hether they are in elementary, high school or college, children and teenagers are always susceptible to getting hurt, so much so that injury designations are split by season in many hospitals.

• Booster seat should be used once a child outgrows a forward-facing car seat and kept until a child ﬁts safely on a seat with knees over the edge.

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Abramczyk-Thill said a statistic that may surprise parents is the head injuries associated with sledding. Whether it’s a small hill in the neighborhood or a day trip to the mountains, she said sleds move at a quick speed and crashes often cause head injuries. Because of how hard a person can hit the ground in a crash, Abramczyk-Thill recommends requiring children to wear helmets while sledding. It has become more common in riding bikes, scooters and other equipment, and AbramczykThill said sledding should be added to the“Alist.lot of us grew up without wearing a helmet and, especially for something like sledding, we may not even think about it,” Abramczyk-Thill said. “It’s just important to protect your brain because you only have one.” Arm, leg and head injuries are often associated with the ice. Abramczyk-Thill said whether it is a child, teenager or adult, during the winter ice causes a wide variety of Abramczyk-Thillinjuries. said it is important to clear driveways, sidewalks and areas where children are most active during the winter. It is also important to teach safety to children when ice is present, meaning not walking and playing on it. Spring and summer In school, spring sports brings baseball, track and ﬁeld and softball, which comes with more head injuries, especially when an athlete is hit by a line drive.The warmer months also bring more outdoor activities, including riding ATVs, Abramczyk-ThillAbramczyk-Thillsaid.said a variety of ages ride ATVs and there are usually lax rules with wearing helmets and rules for passengers.Seeing ATV injuries from a passenger falling without a helmet is common, Abramczyk-Thill.

Abramczyk-Thill said all of these signs can come over days, not immediately after a head injury. According to the Centers for Disease Control, other symptoms of a concussion include:

• Inability to recall events prior to or after a hit or fall

Amanda Abramczyk-Thill, the injury prevention education outreach coordinator at Children’s Hospital Colorado, said children and teens are always active and injuries come with the territory. From bumps and bruises from a simple bicycle crash to the more serious injuries related to a head bump –Abramczyk-Thill said parents should be constantly in tune with how their children are feeling and acting. Fall injuries In the fall, Abramczyk-Thill said it’s the start of the new school year and sports programs are getting back on track. Kids are playing at recess and the weather is still good enough for bike, scooter and evening activities. “In the fall, (hospitals/doctors) see an uptick in a variety of falls,” she said. “More kids are playing on the playgrounds at recess and sports gets going.”When it comes to elementary-school children, Abramczyk-Thill said the falls on the playground are not usually due to the equipment itself. Instead, it usually comes down to how it is being used.

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• Appears dazed and stunned • Moves clumsily • Answers questions slowly • Loses consciousness • Nausea or vomiting • Bothered by light or noise

Winter injuries

• Rear-facing seats from birth until ages 2 to 4, depending on weight and state law.

Abramczyk-Thill said concussions are a common theme throughout the year, and doctors see a lot during the winter months.While they see some sports injuries with falls and hits for indoor sports such as basketball and wrestling, the bulk of injuries can come form outside play.

Year-round injuries In what is a year-round struggle for doctors, Abramczyk-Thill said hospitals often see children who were in the wrong car seat or not in one at all.

• Forward-facing car seat is not to be used for children until age 5, depending on weight and state law.

CHILDREN AND TEENS ARE ALWAYS SUSCEPTIBLE TO GETTING HURT TIS THE SEASON FOR INJURIES:

• Are they getting confused easily and showing cognitive issues?

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Because of the variety of symptoms someone with a concussion might show, Abramczyk-Thill said it is important to know the child well and be weary of any sudden changes in the following:

• Mood – Are they more irritable and irrational?

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“There are some common myths out there,” she said. “One of those being that they will show symptoms right away. Signs and symptoms can be delayed.”

Abramczyk-Thill said which seat a child is sitting in should never about their age. It should always be about their size.

The CDC reported that when it comes to car crashes, a large number of child deaths and injuries are due to improper restraints. In 2019, more than 600 children 12 and younger died in motor vehicle crashes, and more than 91,000 were injured. Of the children 12 and younger who died in a crash (for whom restraint use was known), 38% were not buckled up. Parents and caregivers can make a lifesaving difference by checking whether their children are properly buckled on every trip.

• Are they sad or depressed suddenly?

• Are they complaining of headaches?

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Whether you’re rarely sick or have conditions that require frequent visits to the doctor, having a trusted and skilled health care provider is an important step in protecting your health. Any number of reasons can result in needing to ﬁnd a new doctor, such as moving to a new community, changes to your insurance, your old doctor retiring or needing a specialist.These suggestions from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) can help you be more efﬁcient and thorough as you look for a doctor who is right for you.

Some of the providers you consider may not be viable options for simple reasons, like their practice isn’t currently taking new patients or they don’t have ofﬁce hours matching your schedule. You can also consider questions such as hospital afﬁliations and whether other providers can help if you need emergency care and your doctor isn’t available.

If you have health insurance, you may need to choose from a list of doctors in your plan’s network. Some insurance plans may let you choose a doctor outside your network if you pay more of the cost.

Narrow Your Options

Talk to people you know about whether they have a provider they like. If you’re looking for a new provider because of a move or retirement, ask your current doctor for a recommendation. If you need to make a change with your primary care doctor but see specialists or other medical professionals you like and trust, you can also request referrals from them.

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Listen to Your Gut If you’re undecided, request an introductory appointment with a provider you’re considering. Look for a clinic where you are treated with respect and the medical team listens to your opinions and concerns. You should feel comfortable asking questions, and the doctor needs to be able to explain things in ways you understand. Find more resources for your health care needs at cms.gov.

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To find a doctor who takes your insurance, call your insurance company and ask for a list of doctors near you who are in-network or use the insurance company’s website to search for a doctor. It’s also a good idea to call the doctor’s office and ask for confirmation they take your plan. You should have your insurance, Medicare or Medicaid card handy in case the office needs your plan details.

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Take a Deeper Look Online research can tell you a great deal about potential doctors, from biographical information and credentials to ratings by former patients.When searching for a new provider, another important area to consider is financial relationships. One resource patients can consider is Open Payments, a national disclosure program within CMS that provides visibility into financial relationships between drug and medical device companies and physicians, and teaching hospitals. The government requires pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers and group purchasing organizations to report funds they give health care providers in the form of meals, entertainment, travel, gifts, consulting fees, research payments and more, promoting transparency and helping uncover potential conflicts of interest. It’s important to know most health care providers receive payments. Just because financial ties are reported does not mean anyone has done anything wrong. However, patients can use the information to talk with their provider about why they recommend certain medications or treatments, including asking about generic options, which are equally as effective as name brands but typically less expensive. It’s also an opportunity to start a discussion with a provider about areas of professional interest and expertise based on research or consulting.

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Chickpeas and Couscous with Grapes and Arugula

PREP TIME: 10 minutes

Using mandolin, peeler or large, sharp knife and cutting board, thinly slice carrots, fennel, bell pepper and onion. Transfer to mixing bowl and add grapes and 1/2 cup chickpeas. Add parsley, pesto and 1 tablespoon olive oil; toss well. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.

Using fork, coarsely mash remaining chickpeas and remaining oil; spread among pieces of crust. Mound grape-vegetable mixture on top. Dot with goat cheese and serve. Nutritional information per serving: 490 calories; 9 g protein; 66 g carbohydrates; 22 g fat (40% calories from fat); 4 g saturated fat (7% calories from saturated fat); 30 mg cholesterol; 380 mg sodium; 4 g ﬁber.

PREP TIME: 15 minutes COOK TIME: 7-8 minutes

1/4 cup shelled, unsalted pistachios, coarsely chopped 2 tablespoons ﬁnely chopped Italian parsley 5 ounces baby spinach 1/4 red onion, thinly sliced 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar Heat oven to 400 F. Lightly oil shallow, 9-by-13inch baking dish.

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In large bowl, toss spinach, onion, remaining oil and vinegar. Season with salt and pepper, to taste; toss again and divide among four plates. Place ﬁsh on top of greens. Spoon roasted grapes around ﬁsh.

PREP TIME: 20 minutes COOK TIME: 10 minutes SERVINGS: 4 1 frozen cauliﬂower pizza crust (11 ounces) 1 tablespoon, plus 4 teaspoons, extra-virgin olive oil, divided 2 medium carrots, peeled and trimmed 1 medium fennel bulb, quartered and trimmed 1 medium yellow bell pepper, halved and 1/2trimmedmedium red onion 16 black California grapes, halved 1 cup canned or cooked chickpeas, drained and rinsed, divided 2 tablespoons ﬁnely chopped fresh parsley 2 tablespoons pesto salt, to taste freshly ground black pepper, to taste 1 ounce fresh goat cheese, crumbled Heat oven to 400 F. Place frozen crust on large, parchment-lined baking sheet and brush top lightly with 2 teaspoons olive oil. Bake until crust is lightly golden, about 10 minutes. Transfer to cutting board and cut into quarters.

Nutritional information per serving: 360 calories; 31 g protein; 12 g carbohydrates; 19 g fat (48% calories from fat); 3 g saturated fat (8% calories from saturated fat); 65 mg cholesterol; 105 mg sodium; 2 g ﬁber.

As an easy, versatile ingredient that can be used in a wide variety of recipes, grapes offer delicious taste, texture and color – plus a healthy boost – that make them an appealing addition to snacks and meals. An added bonus: Grapes help support heart, brain, colon and skin health.

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SERVINGS: 4 4 wild sockeye or coho salmon ﬁllets (about 5 ounces each) 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided salt, to taste freshly ground black pepper, to taste 1/3 cup dry white wine 1 cup green California grapes

Pat ﬁsh dry and place skin side down in pan.

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If you’re like many Americans who put a priority on well-being, choosing simple yet healthy snacks and ingredients is an easy first step. For example, grapes are a popular and convenient fruit that can also be an ally in wellness, offering an abundance of health benefits that can help you get (and stay) on the right track.The next time you enjoy an outdoor adventure, pack along a healthy snack such as California grapes. They can go with you on hikes and bike rides or to the gym as a healthy and hydrating source of energy. Heart-healthy grapes also deliver beneficial antioxidants and other polyphenols and are a good source of vitamin K, which supports bone and heart health. With no need to peel, cut, core or slice, grapes are perfectly portable when you’re on the go.

Grapes and Your Skin While naturally hydrating and delivering beneﬁcial antioxidants and other polyphenols, grapes also offer more: they may help support healthy skin even when exposed to UV light. In a study conducted by the University of Alabama, subjects consuming 2 1/4 cups of grapes every day for two weeks showed increased resistance to sunburn and reduced markers of UV damage in skin cells.

COOK TIME: 20 minutes

Crunchy Salad Pizza on Cauliflower Crust is a simple way to get your fruits and veggies in a fun, tasty recipe. When it’s time for a filling yet nutritional dinner, Warm-Spiced Chickpeas and Couscous with Grapes and Arugula makes for an ideal vegetarian meal. Plus, this easy-to-make dish includes 8 grams of fiber to help support colon health. Grapes and seafood are a classic combination, and this Roasted Salmon and Grapes with Pistachios Over Fresh Greens is no exception. A perfect dish for family dinners or inviting guests for a meal, it offers antioxidants and other polyphenols from grapes along with healthy omega-3 fats from fish. Whatever your path to health, eating well and encouraging healthy habits can be deliciously easy with the benefits of grapes. Find more health benefits and good-for-you recipe ideas at GrapesFromCalifornia. com.

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• The top sources of stress are money, work, family responsibilities and health concerns.

• Work-related stress is associated with a 40% increased risk of cardiovascular disease like heart attack and stroke

Stay Active Exercise is one of the easiest ways to keep your body healthy and release stress. Physical activity is linked to lower risk of diseases, stronger bones and muscles, improved mental health and cognitive function and lower risk of depression. It can also help increase energy and improve quality of sleep. The American Heart Association recommends adults get at least 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity activity, 75 minutes of vigorous activity or a combination. Meditate Incorporate meditation and mation.abilityandtheimprovereduceshowstress.distanceminutestopracticesmindfulnessintoyourdaygiveyourselfafewtocreatesomefromdailySomestudiesmeditationcanbloodpressure,sleep,supportimmunesystemincreaseyourtoprocessinfor-

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Gratitude – or thankfulness – is a powerful tool that can reduce levels of depression and anxiety and improve sleep. Start by simply writing down three things you’re grateful for each day.

B etween work, family obligations and a constantly changing world, people in the United States are stressed. In fact, U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world, according to a State of the Global Workplace study. While some stress is unavoidable and can be good for you, constant or chronic stress can have real consequences for your mental and physical health. Chronic stress can increase your lifetime risk of heart disease and stroke. It can also lead to unhealthy habits like overeating, physical inactivity and smoking while also increasing risk factors, including high blood pressure, depression and anxiety. However, a scientiﬁc statement from the American Heart Association shows reducing stress and cultivating a positive mindset can improve health and well-being.

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A positive mindset can improve overall health. Studies show a positive mindset can help you live longer, and happy individuals tend to sleep better, exercise more, eat better and not smoke. Practice positive self-talk to help you stay calm. Instead of saying, “everything is going wrong,” re-frame the situation and remind yourself “I can handle this if I take it one step at a time.”

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In Samet’s view, that level of community immunity should be able to stave off the fall surge that Colorado saw in 2020 and 2021 — at least for a couple more months, if not longer.

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“Where the prediction becomes uncertain is when we look out beyond early to mid-October and the what-if a new variant arrives, which is always a concern,” Samet said.

The state has conﬁrmed a smattering of infections from the BA.4.6 variant, and the BA.2.75 variant has been detected in wastewater samples, indicating it may be spreading, as well. Samet said those variants bear watching. But, so far, they haven’t shown signs of being monsters, he said. “There’s not a delta-type situation on the horizon right now,” he said, referencing the delta variant, which gained steam at this time last year. And Samet said there’s another reason for optimism this fall: Just because cases have surged the previous two years doesn’t mean they’re destined to again this year. Yes, as kids go back to school and cooler weather means people begin to move indoors more, opportunities for transmission increase. But there’s also a lot we don’t know about how and when COVID spreads. After all, while the pandemic seems interminable, our studying of COVID has been relatively brief. “We really only have two falls under our belt,” Samet said. “I would be careful about generalizing.”

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“Everything is going in the right direction,” he said. “Hospitalizations are down. Wastewater levels are down. Percent positivity (of COVID tests) is down. So as we head into the fall, we are in good shape.”

The reason Samet feels reasonably conﬁdent that these positive trends will continue is that the state has been taking a beating from the omicron gang of coronavirus variants for the past nine months and, before that, dealt with a punishing wave of infections caused by the delta variant.Those successive waves mean a lot of folks in Colorado have been exposed or been infected in the past year, giving the state a level of immunity that is also bolstered by new vaccinations for young kids and booster shots for older adults.

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“We keep generating them.” Colorado reported about 6,200 new coronavirus infections last week, a decline of more than 1,000 cases from the week prior. There were 464 patients admitted to the hospital with coronavirus infections last week, down by about 4% from the weekAccordingbefore. to state data, 53% of those hospitalized with the virus are unvaccinated — though that number doesn’t tell the full story because only about 63% of the people currently in the hospital with COVID are there because of their COVID symptoms. The state does not provide a breakdown of the vaccination status of those in the hospital speciﬁcally due to COVID. Dr. Rachel Herlihy, the state epidemiologist, said last week the state is seeing “a sustained decline in cases.” The infections that are occurring are largely due to the omicron BA.5 variant, she said. But Colorado has seen newer variants pop up, as well.

BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN Little has been consistent during the coronavirus pandemic in Colorado, but this has: Fall is COVID season.Inboth 2020 and 2021, as kids returned to classes and pumpkinspiced lattes emerged from their caffeinated hidey-holes, COVID cases began to rise in the state. By this time last year, reports of new coronavirus infections had already been climbing for more than a month. In 2020, infections began rising in the ﬁrst week of September. In both years, the trends peaked in November in Colorado, part of a mysterious seasonality to the rhythm of the virus.Butit’s possible that this year, just maybe, will defy the trend, said Dr. Jonathan Samet, the dean of the Colorado School of Public Health. Samet, who is part of a team that tracks data to create projections about the pandemic’s course, said he isn’t seeing any worrisome signs in the numbers he’s following.

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tient scheduled for Aug. 17, has three examination rooms and one larger procedure room, Baird said. It also has a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber, which is a treatment designed to help a person’s lungs collect more oxygen by laying inside the chamber and breathing in 100% pure oxygen, according to the hospital.“What that does is it helps with angiogenesis, which is the creation of blood vessels which allow areas that have bad blood ﬂow to get nutrients and oxygen,” Baird said, explaining a small group of diagnoses qualify for the treatment, such as diabetic foot ulcers or bone infections.

Robinson said the company takes great pride in the fact that it pays taxes. According to HealthONE’s website, about $195.8 million in state, local and federal taxes were paid in 2021.“We’re here to serve our community. That’s kind of the resounding message, and we want to be supportive of any of our community members,” Pierce said. “Keeping them local here, that’s really our mission for this hospital, is just to have a place to receive care close to home.”

“And a lot of times, it’s a disease or a process that needs to be dealt with in order for that wound to heal,” she continued. “If you don’t ﬁx the underlying problem, it’s never going to go anywhere. So we are really big on multidisciplinary and making sure that we create those great relationships within the community.”

The wound care center, ofﬁcially opened Aug. 15 and had its ﬁrst pa-

The hospital, which has 20 inpatient beds, is a campus of the Medical Center of Aurora, which Pierce called the ﬂagship facility of HealthONE. “A big reason for the development of this hospital was just that our primary care base, which is very robust here in our medical ofﬁce buildings, have been looking for a way for their patients to kind of stay locally,” PierceBeforesaid.the hospital existed, patients in the Centennial emergency room often had to get transferred to the Medical Center of Aurora, said Rachel Robinson, a director of marketing and public relations with HealthONE.“Ifpeopleneeded to have inpatient care, that’s where they had to go. So now, it’s so nice because people don’t have to leave the community to receive that additional healthcare,” Robinson said.

The cost of coming to the center depends on a person’s insurance, Baird said, as the center is a hospital-based fee since it is an outpatient facility of the hospital. A physician referral is not required to receive services, but typically patients at the wound care center will have been referred, Baird said.As of Aug. 17, there were three physicians working at the facility, and the center is open two days a week, Baird said. The goal is to get to a point where the center is treating patients between four and ﬁve days per week.

Centennial Hospital’s system is for-proﬁt, Pierce said. In a written statement, Robinson said since the hospital is part of a national, publicly traded system, the individual hospital revenue numbers are not shared.

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The hospital’s emergency room has only gotten busier, as Centennial Hospital has become a spot where several Emergency Medical Services agencies frequent and drop patients off, Pierce said. Luckily, the turnover rate at Centennial Hospital has been very minimal, Pierce said. Centennial Hospital has about 150 consistent staff

Overall, Baird said she wants people to know that no wound is too small to get checked out. “We can get them all of the care that they need and all the ancillary services, and get them healed up,” she said.

Althoughmembers.amajority of the hospital’s patients are Centennial residents, people throughout the south region and elsewhere come to the hospital, Pierce said.

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The evolution of Centennial Hospital Opening an outpatient wound care center was always part of the business plan, said Sara Pierce, HealthONE’s director of business development.HealthONE is a healthcare system in the metro Denver area that has nine hospitals in Colorado, including Centennial Hospital, according to its website. Its parent company is HCA Healthcare.Originally, the property, located at 14200 E. Arapahoe Road, was a freestanding emergency room with two medical ofﬁce buildings attached that opened in 1986 under the ownership of another company, Pierce said. A few years later, it was acquired by HealthONE.Overtime, as new facilities opened, the freestanding emergency room evolved into the Centennial Medical Plaza, which included HealthONE’s breast care center, its outpatient pharmacy, a small day surgery unit and radiology department, in addition to the emergency room and medical ofﬁce buildings, Pierce explained.Themedical plaza was then replaced in March 2021 with the opening of Centennial Hospital, as the hospital now includes all of those different entities the plaza had, she said.

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type of surgery that creates an opening in the abdomen and changes the way waste exits the body. Baird said the center is an outpatient facility, meaning patients receive medical treatment without being admitted to the hospital.

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Marissa Baird poses in front of the hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber located in the Centennial Hospital Wound Care Center.

“If you’re on inpatient (care) and need something, you have to go to a different facility that has those services inpatient, and that would be Swedish or PSL (Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center), which is our sister hospitals,” Baird said. Baird hopes the center will eventually serve between 23 and 28 patients a day, and she thinks a partnership with the hospital’s emergency room will blossom naturally over time, as the wound care center provides a resource to send patients to for followup“Wecare.base our practice on the multidisciplinary model. We can’t do what we do if we don’t get help from others,” she said. “The big thing with our patient population is you can come in with a wound, but it’s not the wound that created the wound — it’s typically something else.

Grandview tops Chaparral in girls volleyball

Lucas Montero scored late in the second half to give Legacy a 1-0, nonleague soccer win over Arapahoe at District 12 Stadium Aug. 30. The Lightning took 14 shots during the contests. Cooper Stephens was responsible for four of them. Goalkeeper abletheedeightHempelmannWesleyhadsavesandrecord-theshutoutwinforLightning.Nostatswereavail-fortheWarriors.

Legacy’s Tate Hansen, left, and Arapahoe’s Andrew Chalmers chase after the ball.

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Chaparral sophomore Kai Kofoed (21) had 10 kills to lead the Wolverines in a 3-2 loss to top-ranked Grandview on Aug. 30. PHOTO BY JIM BENTON Wolverines nearly take win against No. 1 team VOLLEYBALL, P31

Chaparral, the thirdranked Colorado Class 5A girls volleyball team, faced its biggest test of the young season on Aug. 30. The Wolverines almost passed the test but topranked Grandview captured the decisive fifth set to collect a 3-2 Grandview,victory.coached by former Ponderosa mentor Rob Graham, won the first two sets against Chap, 25-18 andThe25-15.young Chap team, with Makenzie Branden and Kailea Trinque the only two seniors on the team, came back to take the third and fourth sets, 25-20 and 25-16. In the fifth set, Grandview finished strong and won 15-8.Grandview, paced by the play of Emerson Deferme and Gabriella Placide, led all the way in the initial set and won six of the final seven points. The Wolves came on late in the second set to pull out another win but Chap dominated in the third set and finished strong in the fourth to force the fifth set. In the fifth set Chap could not get close toward the end of the 15-point set and the Wolves stretched their winning streak over Chaparral to five games. Chap, however,holds a 14-12 edge in the matches between the two perennial strong volleyballDeferme,schools.a junior, had 17 kills and eight blocks for Grandview in the match. Senior Placide had 12 kills, Brenna Kelly was credited with 17 digs, Keona Bui had nine total blocks and Evelyn Klumker finished with 36 assists.

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50% Chaparral senior Kailea Trinque (18) returns a serve during the match against topranked Grandview on Aug. 30. Grandview won, 3-2.

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Sophomore Kai Kofoed played well on the front line for the Wolverines and wound up with 10 kills. Junior Aliah Snider had 13 digs, 15 assists and two aces in an all-around performance while junior Ella Vogel had 23 digs for Chap and Brandon was in on seven blocks.Grandview, last season’s 5A state runners-up, defeated Chap 3-2 in the third round of the 2021 state tournament and improved its record to 2-0 this season.

PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON Junior Ella Vogel (8) talks with Chaparral coach Amanda West during a break in the action of the Grandview-Chaparral match on Aug. 30. Top-seeded Grandview edged No. 3 Chap, 3-2.

Coach Amanda West’s Wolverines were 3-1 heading into the 16team Chaparral Showcase tournament, which will be held Sept. 2-3 at the Gold Crown Foundation in Lakewood.Chapwill play Cherokee Trail in its ﬁrst tourney match while Grandview is also in the tournament and will play Denver South in the ﬁrst round.

Michael Moss is the owner and lead farmer for Kilt Farm. Through a new partnership, his organic produce can reach consumers across the Denver metro area.

Denver startup provides opportunity for organic farmers

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“They don’t become farmers so they can spend time in an ofﬁce and spend a ton of time packaging and spend a ton of time marketing, you know? All of that taking away from the actual work that needs done in the ﬁeld,” Mihon said.

But farmers’ markets come with challenges, too. For one, the time and energy to travel and set up at the market is time and energy spent away from the farm. Secondly, hours and location are most often controlled by the market, not the individual vendors.

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A new start-up called Pinemelon, launched in April of this year, offers a chance for participating farmers to extend their reach to customers by cutting out the middlemen.

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Local farmers can have many different revenue streams, but they’re not all created equal. Some farmers may wholesale their produce to grocery stores or, perhaps they’ll sell directly to restaurants. But according to two local farmers who recently spoke with Rocky Mountain PBS, the real money is in farmers’ markets. Some studies show that farmers make “40%-70% more for their products at the market than selling them through wholesale outlets.”

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Pinemelon is the sister company to the online grocery store Arbuz, based in Kazakhstan. Currently, the only location in the United States is in Denver. Its 30,000-square-foot warehouse contains pantry staples and local produce and meat that it can deliver to anyone in a half-anhourChristinradius.Mihon, co-owner of Tasty Acres Colorado, said that before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, her family’s farm made the biggest profit by selling to restaurants. But when the pandemic hit and restaurants shut down, Mihon was in a difficult spot financially. Now in partnership with Pinemelon, Mihon said she could sell her produce directly to them without having to take on administrative“Thatduties.really frees us up to work on growing the food and build our food systems without getting lost in the administration,” Mihon said. She also explained the real reason why she and her husband became farmers was to focus on the food.

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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.

Also known by street and number as: 15700 E Jamison Dr Unit 1-305, Centennial, CO 80112.

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.

D. Transfer $51,376 from the unappropriated balance of the General Fund, County Attorney and increase the authorized staffing by 1.0 FTE for an additional attorney to assist with additional workload including the formation of the health department, potential additional work regarding collective bargaining, and the ability to work on zoning issues.

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, 10/26/2022, 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.

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) rep resenting the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alexis R. Abercrombie #56722 David W Drake #43315 Scott D. Toebben #19011 Randall S. Miller & Associates PC 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710 Attorney File # 22CO00156-1

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

LOT 9, SECOND RESUBDIVISION OF BLOCKS 12, 13, 14 AND 15, SHERIDAN HILLS, SECOND FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF AlsoCOLORADO.knownby street and number as: 3876 S Green Ct, Englewood, CO 80110-3245.

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) rep resenting the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306 Holly Shilliday #24423 Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-22-937866-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

1. Increase the authorized staffing by 0.25 FTE in the Community Development Fund, Com munity Resources, for the reallocation of the new Division Manager of Community Development and Homeless Services and Senior and Veteran Services. 2. Reduce the authorized staffing by 0.50 FTE in the Grant Fund, Community Resources as a result of the reallocation.

NOTICE OF SALE

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

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

B. Transfer $3,500,000 from the Social Services Fund, Human Services to the General Fund, Administrative Services, and recognize the same amount from the reallocation of excess fund bal C.ance.Transfer $73,500 from the unappropriated balance of the General Fund, Commissioner’s Office and increase the authorized staffing by 2.0 FTE for an additional Communications Business Partner and Content Specialist for work related to the new county health department.

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On June 28, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relat ing to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records. Original Grantor(s) Gerald W. Burke and Mayonie M. Johnson Original Beneficiary(ies) Wells Fargo Financial Colorado, Inc. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wells Fargo USA Holdings, Inc. Date of Deed of Trust March 28, 2003 County of Recording RecordingArapahoe Date of Deed of Trust April 07, (ReceptionRecording2003InformationNo.and/or Book/Page No.) OriginalB3071901Principal Amount Outstanding$170,626.48 Principal Balance Pursuant$131,403.25toCRS §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.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County to amend the adopted 2022 Annual Budget as follows:

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES EN TITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 06/24/2022 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

M. Transfer $58,983 from the General Fund, Sheriff’s Office to the Central Services Fund, Sheriff’s Office and recognize and appropriate the same amount for use of the Cherry Creek Schools funds for outstanding intragovernmental rents to replace two drones, to purchase a new drone, and to purchase a new SWAT pole camera and assign new fixed asset numbers for each.

September 8, 202238 Centennial Citizen Centennial Legals September 8, 2022 * 1 www.ColoradoCommunityMedia.com/Notices Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 legals@coloradocommunitymedia.com PUBLIC NOTICES

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. See Attached Legal Description

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Re vised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO. 0339-2022 First Publication: 9/1/2022 Last Publication: 9/29/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS FORECLOSURE§38-38-103SALENO. 0335-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On June 28, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relat ing to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records. Original Grantor(s) Anita Allen Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust April 06, 2012 County of Recording RecordingArapahoe Date of Deed of Trust April 13, (ReceptionRecording2012InformationNo.and/or Book/Page No.) OriginalD2040512Principal Amount Outstanding$78,275.00 Principal Balance Pursuant$63,158.45to 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.

Last Publication: 10/6/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS FORECLOSURE§38-38-103SALENO. 0339-2022

First Publication: 9/8/2022 Last Publication: 10/6/2022 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 EN TITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 07/01/2022 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) rep resenting 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 # 00000009533043 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.

O. Transfer $475,000 from the Grant Fund, Ad ministrative Services to the Capital Expenditure

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

NOTICEPROPOSEDNOTICEARAPAHOENoticeCOUNTYOFPUBLICHEARINGBUDGETAMENDMENTSISHEREBYGIVEN that on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at 9:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the calendar of the Board of County Commissioners permits, in the East Hearing Room of the County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County will meet to consider the following proposed budget resolutions (NOTE: Due to the ongoing COVID19 emergency the hearing may be conducted through remote access – please check the September 13, 2022 public meeting agenda at https://arapahoe. legistar.com/Calendar.aspx for specific informa tion on how to attend and participate. The agenda will typically be posted by the Friday afternoon preceding the hearing): RESOLUTION: WHEREAS, the Board of County Commission ers adopted the 2022 Annual Budget pursuant to Statute; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners will consider the following budget amendments to the 2022 Annual Budget; and WHEREAS, this matter has been published pursuant to Section 29-1-109, C.R.S., as re quired by law.

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.

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, 10/26/2022, 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.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/02/2022, 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.

H. Transfer $44,600 from the unappropriated balance of the General Fund, Coroner’s Office to address salary adjustments and compression I.issues.Transfer $8,802 from the General Fund, Facili ties & Fleet Management to the Central Services Fund and recognize and appropriate that same amount in the Central Services Fund for the increased price of a Ford F-350 Transit Van.

J. Transfer $293,143 from the Grant Fund, Administrative Services to the General Fund, Information Technology, and recognize and ap propriate the same for the implementation of the environmental health software and the electronic health records software for the Health Department.

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.

A. Appropriate $510,000 from the unappropriated fund balance of the General Fund, Administrative Services, for the additional cost of tax incentive agreement reimbursements during 2022.

First Publication: 9/1/2022 Last Publication: 9/29/2022

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 23 AND 24, BLOCK 33, SOUTH BROAD WAY HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 4394 S WASHINGTON ST, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80113.

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) rep resenting 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 # 22-027718

L. Transfer $30,232 from the General Fund, Sheriff’s Office to the Central Services Fund, Sheriff’s Office and recognize and appropriate the same amount for the additional upfitting cost of five public safety vehicles.

FORECLOSURECOMBINEDPublicLegalsTrusteesNOTICE-PUBLICATIONCRS§38-38-103SALENO.0320-2022

Dylan Dick Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., as nominee for Fairway Independent Mortgage CurrentCorporationHolder of Evidence of Debt Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC Date of Deed of Trust October 19, 2020 County of Recording RecordingArapahoe Date of Deed of Trust October 22, 2020 Recording (ReceptionInformationNo.and/or Book/Page No.) E0144226 Book: N/A Page: Original Principal Amount Outstanding$242,250.00 Principal Balance Pursuant$236,978.25toCRS §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.

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Re vised 1/2015 LEGAL DESCRIPTION 0320-2022 CONDOMINIUM UNIT 305, BUILDING 1, SAVAN NAH, A CONDOMINIUM, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO, IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO THE DECLARATION OF COV ENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF SAVANNAH, RECORDED ON JULY 27, 2004, AS RECEPTION NO. B4133216, AND THE MAP RECORDED ON JULY 27, 2004, AS RECEP TION NO. B4133217, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO RECORDS.

N. Transfer $1,611,898 from the unappropriated fund balance of the Building Finance Corporation Fund for payment to the Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority.

NOTICE OF SALE

First Publication: 9/1/2022 Last Publication: 9/29/2022 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 EN TITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 06/28/2022 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On June 24, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relat ing to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

E. Transfer $32,000 from the unappropriated balance of the General Fund, Human Resources Department and increase the authorized staffing by 1.0 FTE for an additional recruitment position to assist with the new health department.

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Re vised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO. 0335-2022 First Publication: 9/1/2022 Last Publication: 9/29/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent City and County Public

F. Recognize and appropriate $4,500 in the General Fund, Commissioners’ Office, for reim bursements from various counties for the MACC retreat facilitator.

G. Transfer $10,861 from the unappropriated bal ance of the General Fund, Community Resources Department and increase the authorized staffing by 0.25 FTE for the reallocation of the position for the new Division Manager of Senior Resources and Veteran Services and Manager of Community Development and Homeless Services across 3 dif ferent funds with the following other adjustments:

Original Grantor(s)

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

TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE PARKING SPACE NO. 14 AND GARAGE NO. E, IN GARAGE BUILDING 19, AS DELIN EATED ON THE MAP RECORDED ON OCTO BER 14, 2004, AS RECEPTION NO. B4181225, AS A LIMITED COMMON ELEMENT, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Legal Notice NO. 0320-2022 First Publication: 9/1/2022 Last Publication: 9/29/2022 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS FORECLOSURE§38-38-103SALENO. 0343-2022 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On July 1, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records. Original CHRISTOPHERGrantor(s)D. WIETRICK AND CARA A. WIETRICK Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST OPTION MORTGAGE, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Date of Deed of Trust September 06, 2016 County of Recording RecordingArapahoe Date of Deed of Trust September 14, 2016 Recording (ReceptionInformationNo.and/or Book/Page No.) OriginalD6103352Principal Amount Outstanding$198,800.00 Principal Balance Pursuant$190,464.60toCRS §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 of the terms thereof.

K. Transfer $5,800 from the General Fund, Sheriff’s Office, to the General Fund, Information Technology, for the annual maintenance of their IA Pro software.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 145, BLOCK 1, HIGHLAND VIEW II SUB DIVISION, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF AlsoAPN#:COLORADO.2077-36-3-20-145knownbystreetand number as: 8109 S Fillmore Way, Centennial, CO 80122.

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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Budget Officer shall file a certified copy of this Resolution with the Division of Local Government and with the affected spending agencies.

Legal Notice No. Arap 1104 First Publication: September 8, 2022 Last Publication: September 8, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Centennial, Colorado will conduct a public hearing on Monday, September 19, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. regarding Resolution 2022-R-46 A

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO REZONING CERTAIN PROPERTY LOCATED SOUTH OF EAST EASTER AVENUE AND EAST OF SOUTH FULTON STREET FROM OPEN SPACE AND RECREATION (OSR) TO BUSINESS PARK (BP100) UNDER THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, AND AMENDING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP (CASE NO. RZONE-22-00001)

2. To attend via telephone, dial 1-720-547-5281 and enter the following Conferenceinformation: ID: 758 819 CAB No. organic-practicing, regenerative farm, which grows an assortment of lettuces, baby root veggies, radishes and tomatoes. They are also a no-till farm, meaning they do not plow their ﬁelds with power tools. This method can increase the nutrients in the farm’s soil. Mihon described her farm as being cared for on a “human-scale,” meaning there is no mass production done that she and her husband can’t complete by hand.

Q. Transfer $59,754 from the unappropriated balance of the Central Services Fund, Sheriff’s Office, to replace a patrol vehicle that was totaled in an accident earlier in 2022.

BB. Recognize and appropriate $107,377 in the Infrastructure Fund, Public Works & Develop ment, for unallocated transportation fees and rural impact fees.

CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, September 6, the Centennial City Council passed on first reading:

P. Transfer $45,458 from the Grant Fund to the Capital Expenditure Fund, Facilities and Fleet Management, and recognize the same in the from a transfer from the Grant Fund for ARPA related facility improvements.

DD. Recognize and appropriate $2,000,000 in the Open Space Sales Tax Fund, Open Space, for money received from various entities for the High Plains Trail Bridge project.

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Centennial Citizen 39September 8, 2022 Fund, Coroner’s Office, and recognize and ap propriate the same amount for ARPA funds and assign an asset number for the purchase of a forensic body scanner.

Public Notice

JONES DISTRICT COMMUNITY AUTHORITY BOARD ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Sec tions 29-1-108 and 109, C.R.S., that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Direc tors of the Jones District Community Authority Board (the “CAB”) for the ensuing year of 2023. The necessity may also arise for the amendment of the 2022 budget of the CAB. Copies of the proposed 2023 budget and 2022 amended bud get (if appropriate) are on file in the office of the CAB’s Accountant, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 E. Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, CO 80111, where same are available for public inspection. Such proposed 2023 budget and 2022 amended budget will be considered at a regular meeting to be held on a First Reading at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 22, 2022 via video/teleconference and at a regular meet ing of the CAB for a Second and Final Reading and public hearing at 11:00 a.m. on October 27, 2022 via video/teleconference. Any interested elector within the CAB may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2023 budget or the 2022 amended budget, inspect the 2023 budget and the 2022 amended budget and file or register any objections thereto. You can attend the meetings in any of the fol lowing ways:

CC. Recognize and appropriate $1,197,534 in the Infrastructure Fund, Public Works & Develop ment, for various transportation infrastructure project reimbursements.

X. Recognize and appropriate $30,904 in the Forfeiture Fund, Sheriff’s Office, for forfeiture funds that were received from four cases.

530625-60625 First Publication: September 8, 2022 Last Publication: September 8, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen ### Public Notices Centennial Legals September 8, 2022 * 2 Greenwood Village To advertise your place of worship in this section, call Erin at 303-566-4074 or eaddenbrooke@ColoradoCommunityMedia.comemail Serving the Southeast Denver area Call or check our website for information on services and social events! www.cbsdenver.org 303-505-9236 Congregation Beth Shalom Serving the southeast Denver area Castle Rock/Franktown WORLD MISSION CHURCH (KOREAN CHURCH) 7249 E. Park Dr. Franktown, CO TIME: 10:30 PM PHONE: 303-688-1004 TRANSLATIONENGLISH ISEVERYONEWELCOME! Sunday Services - 10:00 a.m. Meditation before service - 9:30 a.m. Cimarron Middle School 12130 Canterberry Pkwy, Parker, CO 80138 www.CSLParker.org • (303) 805-9890 Parker Advertise Here! Advertise Your Place of Worship HERE Advertise Here! Advertise Your Place of Worship HERE

Moss said for a long time, people asked to have his produce brought to locations like Aurora, Denver and Englewood, which he had to decline due to distance. But now, this partnership allows him to extend his impact. “You know I have a 19-month-old son, and he’s eating my food,” said Moss. “And I’m seeing kids grow up eating my food, and that really gives me a lot of hope.”

NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET AND AMENDMENT OF 2022 BUDGET

R. Transfer $1,364,884 from the Grant Fund, Ad ministrative Services to the Road & Bridge Fund, Public Works & Development, and recognize and appropriate the same amount for ARPA funds to be used for inlet/culvert replacement projects.

Y. Recognize and appropriate $4,136,236 in the Grant Fund, Administrative Services, for the last tranche of ERA funding from Treasury expected later this fall.

“We feel it is our duty to help these farmers get this food into the mouths of people,” Gengel said.

A RESOLUTION DECLARING THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL’S DECISION TO DECLINE PAR TICIPATION IN AND OPT OUT OF THE COLORADO PAID FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE INSURANCE PROGRAM (FAMLI). The public hearing will be held virtually, via the City’s website at: www.centennialco.gov. Copies of Resolution No. 2022-R-46 are available for inspection by the public on the City’s website: www.centennialco. gov. Interested parties may file written comments with the City Clerk, www.cityclerks@centennialco.govat: or via mail at: 13133 E. Arapahoe Road, Centennial, Colorado 80112, received by 1pm on September 19, 2022. Any written comments received will be read into the record during the Public Hearing. Citizens wishing to speak during the Public Hearing, may access the virtual meeting via instructions published on the September 19, 2022 Agenda andPublisher:LastFirstLegal/s/754-3324MinutesMayor-Council/City-Council-Meetings/Agendas-https://www.centennialco.gov/Government/at:orbycontactingtheCityClerkat303-priortothemeeting.BarbaraSetterlind,MMC,CityClerkNoticeNo.530627-60627Publication:September8,2022Publication:September8,2022LittletonIndependenttheCentennialCitizen

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The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. The full text of the ordinance is also available on the City’s web site, andPublisher:LastFirstLegalCityBy:Barbarawww.centennialcolorado.com.Setterlind,MMCClerkNoticeNo.530626-60626Publication:September8,2022Publication:September8,2022LittletonIndependenttheCentennialCitizen

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S. Recognize $88,369 and appropriate $110,462 and increase the authorized staffing by 2.0 FTE in the Social Services Fund, Human Services, as sociated with information technology and software T.support.Recognize $370,118 and appropriate $462,647 in the Social Services Fund, Human Services, for social services contract amendments.

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Z. Recognize and appropriate $412,929 in the Grant Fund, Clerk & Recorder’s Office, for a grant awarded by the Electronic Recording Technology Board for the digitization project.

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U. Recognize and appropriate $2,839 in the General Fund, Coroner’s Office, for toxicology reimbursements from CDPHE related to HB21V.1317.Recognize and appropriate $20,930 in the General Fund, Public Works & Development Department from a reimbursement from Open Space for project management services provided.

1. To attend via video conference, email cindy. jenkins@claconnect.com to obtain a link to the video conference or go to the Authority’s website at www.JonesMetroDistricts.com and obtain the link from the Notice of Regular Meeting & Agenda.

W. Recognize and appropriate $200,000 in the Arapahoe County Fair Fund, Open Space, for anticipated increased revenue and expenditures associated with the annual Fair.

FARMERS

John Gengel, the director of merchandising at Pinemelon, said their priority is to work with smaller farmers that are passionate about regenerative or organic farming practices.

AA. Recognize and appropriate $138,203 in the Grant Fund, Facilities and Fleet Management, for the Colorado Water Board Conservation grant awarded for turf conversion and conservation.

EE. Recognize and appropriate $14,409 in the Road & Bridge Fund, Public Works & Develop ment, for reimbursement from the Sheriff's Office for winter ice removal materials 2021-2022.

FROM PAGE 32 Tasty Acres is a no-till farm in Lakewood. COURTESY OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Michael Moss is the owner and lead farmer for Kilt Farm, another farm that works with Pinemelon. Located in Longmont, Kilt Farm is an 80-acre regenerative, organic farm that supports a 250-family CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program.

September 8, 202240 Centennial Citizen 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 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 Admission is free to the public PRESENTS 2022 Holiday Craft Show& Mini-Market 10amSaturdayNov.26-6pm 10amSundayNov.27-2pm Douglas 500FairgroundsCountyFairgroundsDv.CastleRock,CO.

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