Commerce City Sentinel Express October 5, 2023

Adams County sets Operation Freebird for Nov. 18

e Adams County Sheri ’s O ce and Human Services Department are teaming up for the annual Operation Freebird event. is event provides Adams County families in need with everything to prepare a anksgiving meal.

Operation Freebird will be from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Nov. 18 at Mountain States Toyota, 201 W. 70th Ave. Community organizations are welcome to participate to provide resources or information for residents. If interested, reach out to Karla Ojeda.

Rocky Mountain Human Services wins Adams, Denver counties contract

e Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing is redesigning its case management process, naming a Colorado rm to manage responses for Adams and Denver counties beginning Nov. 1.

Colorado non-pro t group Rocky Mountain Human Services will provide streamlined case management services to individuals with disabilities or other complex needs that require long-term, home and community-based services and support.

e new contract is part of Colorado’s redesigned case management system intended to make it easier for people needing services to navigate the system and get the care they need. It is designed to make sure that people have one place to go for questions and support, and to improve the quality of care they receive.

“We are proud and honored to be selected as the Case Management Agency for Denver and

Adams Counties,” said RMHS executive director Shari Repinski.

“It’s essential to reduce the burden of a complex and siloed system of care by creating a more inclusive and streamlined Long Term Care system in Colorado that recognizes and caters to the diverse needs of individuals, regardless of their disability. RMHS looks forward to making it easier for people to access care and to know that they have a trusted partner they can count on to treat them with the utmost respect and compassion.”

Corn maze returns through Halloween

Maize in the City, the corn maze and fall celebration is open now through Halloween, o ering a convenient and fun corn maze and pumpkin eld the whole family can enjoy.

Admission to the Maize in the City site is free with attraction prices varying from free to $20. Maize in the city is located at 10451 McKay Road in ornton.

Families can get lost as they navigate through the 20-acre Crazed Corn Field Maze. Let the little ones take the lead as you make your way through the Mini Maze – a maze cut into a shorter corn stalk eld.

Little ones can also ride through the eld on the barrel train, race through the hay bale maze and visit and feed animals in the petting zoo. Bounce above the corn stalks on our pumpkin bounce pillow and then test your aim as you launch ears of corn 100+ feet across the eld.

e facility also o ers the opportunity to swim through the free corn kernel box or have your kiddos take a turn conquering the playground or racing rubber

ducks. en, stop for the perfect fall photo at one of the many photo ops throughout the site.

Internships available with Adams County

Interested in learning more about working for local government? Adams County currently has paid internships available.

Opportunities include a cook ($16.48/hour) and classroom aide ($15.62/hour) for Head Start, IT intern ($17/hour) for the Sheri ’s O ce and a Healthy Farmers Market intern ($17/hour).

ese opportunities are available through the Workforce & Business Center. ose interested should work with their Business Center case manager or call 720.523.6898 to get established with a case manager.

Work Options FREE Culinary Training Program

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

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

In addition to the training program, Work Options provides the Human Services Center 11860 Pecos St., Westminster, with a full menu of breakfast and lunch options including breakfast burritos, pastries, burgers, pizza, daily specials, and more in the Mountain

View Café. e café is located on the third oor of HSC. Learn more about the program at workoptions.org.

CCPD Introduces Online Crime Reporting Form

e Commerce City Police Department has a new online reporting tool allowing the public to report some non-emergency crimes and receive a police report immediately without having to speak to a police o cer.

Community members can now conveniently report incidents that do not require immediate ofcer intervention, such as fraud, identity theft, lost property, theft/ shoplifting (less than $2,000), and vandalism.

e new form is online now in English and Spanish at c3gov.com/ ReportACrime. Residents should always call 911 for emergencies.

Walk with a doc

Platte Valley Medical Center’s cardiac rehab team and Walk With A Doc will host monthly walks with Dr. Christopher Cannon, an interventional cardiologist at Brighton Heart and Vascular Institute.

is is a walking program for everyone interested in taking steps for a healthier lifestyle. After a few minutes to learn about a current health topic from the doctor, spend the rest of the hour enjoying a healthy walk and fun conversation. It’s a great way to get out, get active and enjoy all the bene ts that come from walking.

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A Colorado museum exhibit explores cowboy culture, the archetypal and the authentic

ing exhibition, “Cowboy,” where “We Are Coming” will be displayed alongside the work of 25 other artists. Together, the works examine the cultural gure of the cowboy — including the negative space around him. Some artworks deconstruct the myth of the character, while others pay homage to the cowboy’s

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In 2019, Emmanuel David, a gender and sexuality researcher at CU Boulder, and Yumi Roth, a sculpture professor at CU Boulder, were searching the archives for a Filipino presence in Colorado. Nestled into an 1899 routebook of Bu alo Bill’s Wild West, the world-famous travel-

ing show, David found the names of three Filipino Rough Riders: Ysidora Alcantara, Felix Alcantara, and Geronimo Ynosincio.

From this discovery, David and Roth developed a traveling art project called “We Are Coming,” a nod to Bu alo Bill’s promotional poster from the time that declared “I am coming,” which displays the three names on vintage

theater marquis in towns where the show historically stopped.

“When we think about Bu alo Bill’s Wild West, we think about the personage of Bu alo Bill. e guy in the Stetson, with the white hair and the lovely deerskin jacket,” Roth said.

“What we’re interested in doing is (looking at) what happens when you invert that relationship, so that

Bu alo Bill is not the central character anymore,” Roth said.

“Part of it is like: What can you excavate from a partial archive that is designed around someone?” David added. “We can nd the fragments of their lives and create something out of that.”

at is largely the goal of the Museum of Contemporary Art’s upcom-

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enduring livelihood and culture. e exhibition opened Sept. 29.

Even with cattle ranchlands across the West shrinking overall, Colorado still has about 2.6 million heads of cattle, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the labor that comes with tending those cattle is the everyday reality for many in Colorado.

“How do we acknowledge both the fantasy and the seduction of the cowboy gure as depicted in popular culture in Hollywood?”

Nora Abrams, the show’s co-curator asked. “And yet, also acknowledge that for many people this is a real, lived experience that is a daily part of life, it’s real work, it’s real labor, it’s real livelihood.”

In other words, the curators wanted to lean into the myth, while keeping their feet planted in the reality. But what even is that reality?

“I think our idea of a cowboy is largely in uenced by books and tall tales from that time. And I know they weren’t really interested in accuracy on any level,” artist R. Alan Brooks, who writes a comic for e Colorado Sun, said. Last year Brooks created a comic book about Black cowboy Nat Love for Denver Art Museum’s Western

galleries.  Brooks pored over Nat Love’s biography to pull out the key moments to excerpt in the comic.

“ ere’s a story in Nat Love’s book where he lassos a train, and his horse gets dragged into a ditch, then he walks into a bar and shoots it up and forces the bartender to serve his horse a drink. Is that true?” Brooks asked. “I don’t know. But what’s more interesting to me is nding the humanity beyond the gure.”

Nat Love was 11 when slavery ended, Brooks said. But throughout his life, both before and after slavery, he writes in his autobiography about the freedom he feels when he’s riding his horse. “ e horse represented freedom for him throughout his whole life. To me, that was the human connection,” Brooks said.

For the MCA show, Brooks created a new comic book, this one about the historic town of Dear eld, the largest Black homesteading settlement in Colorado.  While Brooks addresses the historical record, other works add the contemporary one. Juan Fuentes, a Chicano artist based in San Francisco, will show a series of photographs of the immigrant community in Bennett, roughly 30 miles east of Denver, which focuses on the workers whose lives are intertwined with their animals and the changing landscape. e

show will also include New Orleans-based photographer Akasha Rabut’s series “Southern Riderz,” a collection of photos about urban rider clubs. Kahlil Joseph, a lmmaker who has directed music videos for Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar, among others, will show a three-screen projection of his short lm “Wildcat (Aunt Janet),” what co-curator Miranda Lash described as an “evocative love letter to the rodeo history of Grayson, Oklahoma.”

“ ere are some artworks in the show that fall along the lines of the deconstructive impulse, like ‘you think the cowboy is this, it’s not that,’” Miranda Lash, the other cocurator, said.“But we also have a lot of works in the show that feel like love letters and homages. e show really toggles between the two impulses, you know, pulling apart, but also lifting up.”

In the 19th century, one-third of all cowboys were Mexican or Black, an aspect that has not been fully recognized over the last 150 years, Abrams said. It was important to the curators to honor that history. “Of course, in doing that it does unsettle the icon,” Abrams said. “An icon inevitably is something that’s pretty at, that is larger than life, that is more idea-based rather than concrete, and that really is what the cowboy has become in many ways.”

Like Roth and David’s piece,

many of the artists took the opportunity to crack that de nition of what a cowboy is. Nathan Young, a Native American artist who comes from a long line of cowboys, borrowed artifacts from his family to create his MCA installation, which pays homage to famous Pawnee bull riders and rodeo stars. Karl Haendel sketched deeply detailed drawings of female barrel racers that he encountered at a Denver rodeo. And Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, an artist who grew up in Ghana thinking that “cowboy” meant “American,” created a series of paintings full of Black cowboys and ordinary Black people in cowboy attire.

“ e West, it’s always been this ‘thing’ in our culture, in our American psyche,” Nikki Todd, founder of Visions West Contemporary Gallery said. Todd was enamored by the images in traditional Western Art — the plains, the bu alo, of course, the cowboy — but understood the limitations of those images. She started Visions West in Montana in 2000 to show Western art that wasn’t stereotypically “Western.”

“ e cowboy has just saturated the imagination of Americans for decades — through lm, books, even marketing.” Todd said. “I think everybody knows what a cowboy is.”

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Denver’s mayor makes progress on homelessness

But advocates call for more state leadership

BY LUCAS BRADY WOODS KUNC

On a late August morning in downtown Denver, cleanup crews and police moved along a treelined street, shoving tents, furniture, bedding and other household items into garbage trucks as they cleared out an encampment of unhoused people.

“I’m trying to help people salvage things,” Sarah Glade, one of the people living in the encampment, said.

Glade has learned from experience to keep everything in a suitcase, ready to move. But that’s not the case for everyone.

“A lot of people are just ditching things that they need just because they can’t carry it or don’t have a place for it right away,” Glade said. “ ey’re putting the pressure on us right now, so I’m just trying to help everybody get their stu out.”

e cleanup was scheduled to start at 10 a.m., but police and city workers showed up two hours early. e people living there scrambled to collect their belongings while cleanup crews moved through the camp and ended up leaving a lot behind.

O cers on the scene said the downtown Denver encampment had become a safety issue for the surrounding community as well as for the people living in the camp.

“Anytime there’s a safety concern, or health concern, we’re conducting a cleanup,” Denver Police Department homelessness outreach team lead Sgt. Jaime Lucero said. “ e safety concern here was, a couple of days ago there was a

shooting. So the mayor’s o ce decided we conduct the cleanup.”

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston declared a city-wide state of emergency over homelessness last summer, the day after he was elected. at state of emergency was extended this week by the City Council.

Johnston’s senior advisor around homelessness, Cole Chandler, said part of the administration’s strategy involves relocating people instead

of clearing them out.

“Our strategies for doing so involve a new approach to encampment outreach and encampment resolution,” Chandler said. “We’re focused on surrounding a whole encampment and helping a whole encampment move indoors.”

ere are about 1,400 unhoused individuals in Denver who lack consistent access to shelter. e Johnston administration’s goal is to

shelter 1,000 of them by the end of this year. So far, they’ve successfully sheltered 101.

To provide shelter, the administration’s plan is to create almost a dozen micro-communities across the city. Most will be made up of so-called tiny homes that can be constructed quickly and cheaply, while other shelters will consist of

City workers cleared out an encampment of unhoused people in downtown Denver last month. Mayor Mike Johnston’s administration plans to change how encampments are cleared to prioritize getting entire camps into shelters. LUCAS BRADY WOODS KUNC

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converted hotels. e strategy relies on state funding for homelessness programs that was set aside by a voter-approved ballot measure last year.

e administration is using other U.S. cities that have had success addressing homelessness as models — especially Houston, Texas. Chandler’s team is also collaborating with six neighboring counties through the Metro Denver Homelessness Initiative.

“We recognize that we can’t do that all alone as a local govern-

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His image comes forth repeatedly in times of crisis and ux. “Cold War America: e heyday of Western lm. Turn of the millennium: “Wild Wild West,” Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears and their all-denim out ts, and Paris Hilton’s ‘ e Sim-

ment,” Chandler said. “So we have to push on regional solutions, we have to push on state solutions, and we also have to push on real federal solutions and federal investment as well.”

Local collaborations to address homelessness also exist in other parts of the state, like the Northern Colorado Continuum of Care that covers Larimer and Weld counties. But while homelessness advocates say these collaborations are a good start, they’re not the regional or statewide approach that’s needed. Cathy Alderman with the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless said the onus can’t fall on local initiatives alone.

“For far too long, we have assumed that homelessness is a

ple Life,’” Lash said, a bit jokingly. Now we’ve got “Yellowstone.”

“As we emerge from a global pandemic, we’re questioning our relationship to the environment, to climate change, to global politics, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that we’re into the idea of the gure that lives close to the land, that embodies freedom, a sense of liberation of movement — to me it tracks,” Lash said.

local issue only,” Alderman said. “We’ve just expected local governments to come up with the resources, the strategies to address it.”

Some places, including Weld and Douglas counties, have resisted implementing homelessness services out of a concern that doing so will attract unhoused people to their communities.

Alderman said the state needs to step in with more leadership towns and cities can rely on.

“If the state could help devise a strategy that then local governments could plug into, we’d have a much more cohesive and comprehensive approach,” Alderman said. “And it has to come with resources.”

Both Abrams and Todd speculated — maybe the pandemic did give people a chance to leave their urban centers, to seek solitude and learn to live o the land.

“It’s just something that has captured the imaginations of everyone,” Todd said. “ ere’s something about freedom, and just being tough, and the rugged individual, that we’re all drawn to. No matter what culture we’re from. You know, don’t we all

Alderman said advocates like her remain anxious to see if the administration will be able to execute the lofty goals set out at the beginning.

Still, Alderman is encouraged by Mayor Johnston’s attention to homelessness and acknowledges he inherited an incredibly challenging situation.

“It speaks volumes to the community that on day two, he declared an emergency declaration,” she said, “And that he’s devoted a lot of sta ng resources to guring out some of these solutions.”

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that there has been filed with the Board of Directors of Velocity Metropolitan District No. 8 (the “District”) in the City of Aurora, County of Adams, State of Colorado, a petition praying for the inclusion of certain real property into the boundaries of the District. Notice is hereby given to all interested persons that they shall appear at a public meeting

of the District, on October 9, 2023 at 5:00 p.m., and show cause in writing why approval of the stated inclusion should not be granted. All protests and objections must be submitted in writing to the District’s Board of Directors at or prior to the public hearing (to spacheco@isp-law.com or Icenogle Seaver Pogue, P.C., 4725 S. Monaco Street, Suite 360, Denver, Colorado 80237) in order to be considered, or shall thereafter be waived. The meeting is being held in person at 9155 E. Nichols Avenue, Suite 360, Centennial, Colorado or by video conference via MS Teams at: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetupjoin/19%3ameeting_ZGRmNDMzZjMtZ TQzNi00Mzg4LTlmODYtMGQ0OGQ1ZjI

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF AREA PROPOSED FOR INCLUSION: A parcel of land generally located in part of the southwest quarter of Section 8, Township 3 South, Range 65 West of the 6th Principal Meridian in the City of Aurora, Adams County, Colorado containing 3.975 acres more or less.

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NOTICE is hereby given that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of North Range Metropolitan

District No. 2 for the ensuing year of 2024; that a copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of Wolfersberger, LLC, 8354 Northfield Blvd, Building G, Suite 3700, Denver, Colorado 80238, where the same is open for public inspection; and that such proposed budget will be considered at a public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be on Wednesday, November 08, 2023. at 6:00 p.m. at the Reunion Recreation Center (located at 17910 East Parkside Dr. North Commerce City, CO 80022). Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget, inspect the budget and file or register any objections thereto.

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NOTICE is hereby given that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of Buffalo Highlands Metropolitan District for the ensuing year of 2024; that a copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of Wolfersberger, LLC, 8354 Northfield Blvd, Building G, Suite 3700, Denver, Colorado 80238, where the same is open for public inspection; and that such proposed budget will be considered at a public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held on Wednesday November 1, 2023. at 6:00 p.m. South Adams County Fire Station #8 (10326 Waldon Street Commerce City, CO 80022). Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget, inspect the budget and file or register any objections thereto.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all interested parties that the necessity has arisen to amend the BNC Metropolitan District No. 3 (the “District”) 2023 Budget and that a proposed 2024 Budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the District; and that copies of the proposed Amended 2023 Budget and 2024 Budget have been filed at the District’s offices, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado, where the same is open for public inspection; and that adoption of Resolutions Amending the 2023 Budget and Adopting the 2024 Budget will be considered at a public meeting of the Board of Directors of the District to be held on Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 2:30 p.m. his District Board meeting will be held by Zoom Meeting and can be joined through the directions below:

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NOTICE is hereby given that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of Aberdeen Metropolitan District No. 2 for the ensuing year of 2024; that a copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of Wolfersberger, LLC, 8354 Northfield Blvd, Building G, Suite 3700, Denver, Colorado 80238, where the same is open for public inspection; and that such proposed budget will be considered at a public hearing of the

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THIRD CREEK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2

ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Sections 29-1-108 and 109, C.R.S., that a proposed budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Third Creek Metropolitan District No. 2 (the “District”) for the ensuing year of 2024. The necessity may also arise for the amendment of the 2023 budget of the District. Copies of the proposed 2024 budget and 2023 amended budget (if appropriate) are on file in the office of the District’s Accountant, CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP 8390 Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 where same are available for public inspection. Such proposed 2024 budget and 2023 amended budget will be considered at a regular meeting to be held on October 18, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. via video-teleconference at https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetupjoin/19%3ameeting_ZTYwNTI2ZWEtYjk 2Ny00ZTJlLWIyZDUtZWU4ODAyZWRl YmNm%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%2 2Tid%22%3a%224aaa468e-93ba-4ee3ab9f-6a247aa3ade0%22%2c%22Oid% 22%3a%225b9f6fa2-e9dd-42cc-bfd8f7dd2ed196a6%22%7d or call 720-5475281 and enter conference ID 249 774 239#. Any interested elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2024 budget or the 2023 amended budget, inspect the 2024 budget and the 2023 amended budget and file or register any objections thereto.

THIRD CREEK METROPOLITAN

DISTRICT NO. 2

McGEADY BECHER P.C.

Attorneys for the District

Legal Notice No. CCX1166

First Publication: October 5, 2023

Last Publication: October 5, 2023

Publisher: Commerce City Sentinel

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Bids and Settlements

Public Notice

FINAL SETTLEMENT

Project Title:Box Elder Infrastructure Development – Phase 1 – Harvest Concrete Box Culvert

Project Owners: HM Metropolitan District No. 1

Project Location: City of Aurora, Colorado

The HM Metropolitan District No. 1 plans to accept the above titled project as substantially complete and for Final Settlement to Hudick Excavating Inc. after November 6, 2023. In accordance with the Contract Documents, the HM Metropolitan District No. 1 may withhold a portion of the remaining payment to be made to Hudick Excavating Inc. for the Harvest Concrete Box Culvert, as necessary, to protect the HM Metropolitan District No. 1 from loss on account of claims filed and failure of Hudick Excavating inc. to make payments properly to subcontractors or suppliers. Project suppliers and subcontractors of Hudick Excavating Inc. are hereby notified that unresolved outstanding claims must be certified and forwarded to:

Contact Person: BarneyFix, P.E.

Address: 5970 Greenwood Plaza Blvd. Greenwood Village, CO 80111 as soon as possible, but no later than October 30, 2023.

Legal Notice No. CCX1175

First Publication: October 5, 2023

Last Publication: October 19, 2023

Publisher: Commerce City Sentinel Express

Non-consecutive publications

Public Notice

PAINTED PRAIRIE

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITY

Painted Prairie Town Center

Residential Infrastructure

Sealed Bids will be received by Painted Prairie Public Improvement Authority, hereinafter referred to as OWNER, at the office of the Authority Engineer, Merrick & Company, 5970 Greenwood Plaza Boulevard, Greenwood Village, CO 80111, until 10:00 a.m. local time on October 19, 2023. for:

Painted Prairie Town Center

Residential Infrastructure

This Contract provides for the construction of the following: Grading and Concrete paving. Furnish and install over 1,200 LF of 8-inch water line with appurtenances, over 1,400 LF of 8-inch sanitary sewer line with appurtenances and approximately 30 services of water and 100 services of sanitary sewer. Also, furnish and install over 2,600 LF of concrete alley construction.

Copies of the Bidding Documents may be requested from the Painted Prairie Public Improvement Authority, at the email of the Authority Engineer, barney.

fix@merrick.com, beginning September 21, 2023. NO PAYMENT REQURIED.

Bidders must be licensed Contractors in the State of Colorado.

Bids will be received providing unit price for items; however, the price given will be on a maximum not-to-exceed amount, as described in the Bidding Documents.

The Work is expected to be commenced within thirty (30) days after the Date of Contract.

Bid Security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total Bid Price must accompany each Bid in the form specified in the Instructions to Bidders.

The Successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond, Labor and Material Payment Bond guaranteeing faithful performance and warranty bond for two-years after Substantial Completion, and the payment of all bills and obligations arising from the performance of the Contract.

The OWNER reserves the right to award the contract by sections, to reject any or all Bids, and to waive any informalities and irregularities therein.

For further information, please contact Barney Fix at Merrick & Company at 303-751-0741.

Legal Notice No. CCX1154

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: October 5, 2023

Publisher: Commerce City Sentinel Express Non-Consecutive Publications

Public Notice

WINDLER PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITY

WINDLER Tibet – 48th Ave to South Property Line Roadway Improvements

Sealed Bids will be received by Windler Public Improvement Authority, hereinafter referred to as OWNER, at the office of the Authority Engineer, Merrick & Company, 5970 Greenwood Plaza Boulevard, Greenwood Village, CO 80111, until 10:30 a.m. local time on October 19, 2023. for:

WINDLER Tibet – 48th Ave to South Property Line Roadway Improvements

This Contract provides for the construction of the following: Approximately 2,600 LF of roadway along Tibet Road from 48th Ave to the project boundary to the south. The project includes some sanitary sewer and storm sewer installation.

Copies of the Bidding Documents may be requested from the Windler Public Improvement Authority, at the email of the Authority Engineer, barney.fix@ merrick.com, beginning September 21, 2023. NO PAYMENT REQURIED.

Bidders must be licensed Contractors in

the State of Colorado.

Bids will be received providing unit price for items; however, the price given will be on a maximum not-to-exceed amount, as described in the Bidding Documents.

The Work is expected to be commenced within thirty (30) days after the Date of Contract.

Bid Security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total Bid Price must accompany each Bid in the form specified in the Instructions to Bidders.

The Successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond, Labor and Material Payment Bond guaranteeing faithful performance and warranty bond for two-years after Substantial Completion, and the payment of all bills and obligations arising from the performance of the Contract.

The OWNER reserves the right to award the contract by sections, to reject any or all Bids, and to waive any informalities and irregularities therein.

For further information, please contact Barney Fix at Merrick & Company at 303-751-0741.

Legal Notice No. CCX1158

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: October 5, 2023

Publisher: Commerce City Sentinel Express Non-consecutive Publications

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‘Big Mo’ excited to host bare-knuckle brawlers in Denver

Superior native turned ring announcer to call Rocky Mountain Brawl

BY JOHN RENFROW JRENFROW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Blood is certain to spill as barested ghters seek glory in December at Denver’s Stockyards Event Center.

e bludgeoning known as the BYB Extreme Fighting Series will make its Colorado debut in what is dubbed the Rocky Mountain Brawl for two headline title ghts.

And, Colorado native Kody “Big Mo” Mommaerts will return home to bring energy to it all as ring announcer for the event on Dec. 2.

From a childhood in Superior to becoming a football player for the University of Northern Colorado, Mommaerts, now 27, has emerged as one of the fastest-rising ring announcers in combat sports.

He splits his time between the United States — including his current home in Denver — where he calls bare-knuckle ghts, and England, where he calls boxing matches and championship bouts forBOXXERthat air on Sky Sports, one of the largest boxing platforms in Europe.

“I’m super, super excited,” Mommaerts said of the upcoming Denver matchups in a call to Colorado Community Media from London. “I started my announcing career in Colorado doing some regional stu and some more local shows … then, my career grew rather quickly. So, I haven’t announced in Colorado in probably a year and a half now. I’m excited to get back and announce

in my home state, have some of my friends there and stu like that as well.”

After being crowned back-to-back

“Ring Announcer on the Rise” in 2019 and 2020, Mommaerts was recently named the “Bareknuckle Hall of Fame 2023 Announcer of the Year.”

While bare-knuckle ghting might be new to some, Mommaerts said the sport has enjoyed a wave of popularity in recent years.

He’s con dent it will be well-received here as Denver is a town that simply loves its sports.

“I think, like the rest of the country and the world, you’ve seen a rise in bare-knuckle ( ghting) in the last few years,” Mommaerts said.

“I don’t think that there was a big market for bare-knuckle in Colorado even a few years ago, but the sport has grown a lot. More states are starting to legalize it. It just got uni ed rules under the American Boxing Commission. So yeah, it’s

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just growing, and it’s exciting.”  e upcoming BYB bout is being promoted as a co-main event.

Mark “ e Shark” Irwin is set to defend his BYB lightweight title against Julio Tanori. And, champion Monica Medina will collide with Paty Juarez for BYB Women’s lightweight and Police Gazette World Diamond Belt trilogy. Each ghter has one win already, making their Denver clash the trilogy tiebreaker.

“I couldn’t think of a better way to cap o a historic 2023 than to give Denver ght fans a taste of what real bare-knuckle ghting is all about,” BYB CEO Greg Bloom said in a release.

“In the smallest ring in combat sports, with the tightest corners, and with nowhere to run. Denver fans will experience a night of straight-up st ghts rather than the cardio clinics that have been masquerading as bare-knuckle brawls in their state. ere’s nothing like a BYB event.”

BYB, around since 2015, was founded by Dada 500, once the bodyguard of esteemed ghter Kimbo Slice, and the star of Net ix’s “Dawg Fight.”

Dada 500’s unique backyard-style, bare-knuckle ghts gained internet popularity, and the sport has become a cult favorite since. is is the 22nd brawl event in BYB series history.

e BYB’s small and unique triangular ring results in a 90% knockout rate for its ghts, making for fastpaced, action-packed ghts.

e league also features high-prole personalities from other combat sports on its broadcasts, including the UFC’s Mike Goldberg, former boxing champ Paulie Malignaggi and Claudia Trejos from sports streaming service DAZN.

Medina is ready for payback after a controversial split decision in her last bout against Juarez.

“ ree strikes and she’s out,” Medina said in a statement. “I’m wrapping this trilogy up in spectacular fashion in her own backyard and leaving no doubt.”

Irwin is also ready to bring the electricity this December.

“Being the biggest star in BYB, I think it’s only tting that I’m headlining the end of year event and I’m excited to go out there and remind everyone why I’m in this position,” Irwin said.

e bill is “probably the most exciting ght we can bring,” Mommaerts said.

“It’s de nitely an exciting sport, de nitely fast-paced, and I think Denver is going to enjoy it a lot,” he added.

Tickets for the event go on sale soon. Visit www.bybextreme.com for more information. For more on Denver’s Mommaerts and his work, visit www.thisisbigmo.com

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Kody “Big Mo” Mommaerts is an rising star in ring announcing across combat sports. The Superior native played football at Monarch High School before playing at the University at Northern Colorado. He currently lives in Denver. COURTESY PHOTO

Our reporters and editors won 29 awards

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Colorado Community Media, a digital and print news operation with 23 newspapers along the Front Range, won 29 awards during the annual Colorado Press Association Better Newspaper Contest.

In the awards presentation at Denver’s Curtis Hotel on Sept. 23, CCM won awards in editorial, advertising and special sections across its regions in the north, east, west and south.

e CCM team won 19 rst-place honors altogether, and the Editorial “sweepstakes” award in its classication among similar-sized newsrooms across the state.

In her third year as publisher of CCM, Linda Shapley said: “Our journalists work hard to make sure they are doing right by their communities, holding o cials accountable and telling the stories of their neighbors. ese awards serve as a little bit of proof that we are doing that job, and we’ll continue to do what’s best for our communities.”

In the North Metro region, which includes coverage in Adams and Weld counties, Belen Ward and Luke Zarzecki won a total of three awards.

Ward took second place for a photo slide show at a Professional Bull Riders event in Adams County. Former CCM reporter Zarzecki, who now works for Inside Health Policy in Washington, won two second-place awards. One was for environmental news about keeping a lush lawn amid drought conditions, and the other was for public

safety reporting and looking at the roots of motor vehicle thefts.

CCM swept the special sections category, winning rst and second place for the company’s annual health and wellness guide and spring home and garden section. e sections combine editorial, advertising and design. Advertising director Erin Addenbrooke, Grimes, the south metro editor, and designer Ben Wiebesiek managed the award-winning sections. In advertising, Tina Meltzer took rst place for best digital ad.