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County homeless numbers drop in annual count

Data skewed due to cold

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Douglas County saw a drop in the number of people experiencing homelessness who were counted as part of the Denver metro area’s annual snapshot of the unhoused this

year compared to last, according to early data.

And while it’s di cult to pinpoint what causes unhoused people to be located in or outside of Douglas County on one night per year, county o cials attribute the decrease to the work of a new team that helps connect the unhoused in Douglas with services.

“Having a (resource) navigator

paired with law enforcement seems to be the secret sauce,” county Commissioner Abe Laydon said during a Feb. 9 news conference announcing the preliminary numbers.

Dangerously cold weather rolled into Douglas County and around the Denver area at the end of January, potentially a ecting the metro area’s annual Point in Time count.

When outdoor conditions are

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so harsh, unhoused people might “scrape together enough resources” to pay for a motel room — thus ying under the radar of the annual tally, said Jamie Rife, director of the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative.

“We don’t have the data yet, but we (may see) that more people stayed inside or found a couch to stay on,”

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School district gets creative to keep teachers

A ordable housing considered

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

While the Cherry Creek School District approved salary increases to recruit and retain teachers, the Douglas County School District is forced to be more creative in addressing the ongoing issue.

During the Feb. 7 meeting, school board members considered the option to partner with developers to create housing options for teachers who cannot currently a ord to live in Douglas County.

Laydon opposed measure

BY ELLIS ARNOLD AND HALEY LENA EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In Douglas County, three people make the decisions that a ect roughly 370,000 residents. Often, those choices come from the major-

ity of two commissioners.

Now, a bill in the state legislature could change that, expanding the number of members on a county’s board of elected leaders to ve. e bill would a ect several Front Range counties with large enough populations, including Douglas County, where the board has become known for its bitter con icts.

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“To me, it is a simple good governance issue, but there is pretty much united bipartisan opposition from county commissioners who would be impacted,” said state Rep. Bob Marshall, a Highlands Ranch Democrat and one of the bill’s top supporters.

Despite being one of the state’s largest school districts, Douglas County has struggled to compete with other districts in teachers’ salaries, and the results of the November election did not help.

Voters rejected a mill levy measure, which was slated to go directly

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A bill introduced in the state legislature would require larger counties to expand to five-member commissions. There are currently three commission members in Douglas County.

Farmhouse style in Castle Rock

Life at Home opened in November

BY RACHEL LORENZ SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Heidi Mossman loves the little building that houses her new business in Castle Rock.

“It has so much charm and character to it,” the owner of Life at Home, a home decor and gift boutique, told Colorado Community Media.

Mossman opened the store in a small two-story white barn with red trim o of Fourth Street in November, just days before anksgiving, after being on the hunt for the perfect place since July. e structure’s hardwood oors and rafters, built-in shelves and natural light provide a tting backdrop for the Colorado farmhouse style of goods Mossman curates. Cozy throw blankets, decorative pillows, inspirational plaques, candles, wall art and knickknacks galore ll the 720-square-foot space.

While the building has the personality Mossman was hoping for, it’s not without its challenges. Set back from the road and nestled behind another business, Life at Home is easy for passersby to miss. Plus, its diminutive size and minimal wall space limit the amount of accent furniture and large pieces of art that Mossman can carry. But overall, she’s thrilled with the property and its reception in Castle Rock.

Life at Home was in uenced in part by Mossman’s special times shopping with family. Originally from Minnesota and North Dakota, Mossman moved to Colorado after getting her accounting degree in the ‘90s. Visits back to the Midwest often included trips with her mom and grandma to antique stores situated in buildings that had previously been schoolhouses or private homes.

“We just created amazing memories,” Mossman said.

While it doesn’t carry antiques, Life at Home may still evoke sentimental feelings akin to nostalgia for shoppers. Mossman said she likes it when items in her store “tug at people’s heartstrings” or spark their imagination.

An entrepreneur with a strong creative streak, Mossman discovered her passion for home decor several years ago while pursuing photography. e Colorado Springs resident takes photographs professionally and has been in that business for over a decade. Six years ago, she started selling her landscape photographs at a furniture store in Chapel Hills Mall. Surrounded by decorators and designers, Mossman said she

a family to care for, Mossman is well-acquainted with how busy life can feel. But, for her, making time to connect with people remains as valuable as ever.

“It’s so important for our souls and for our well-being to be surrounded by people,” Mossman said.

With that in mind, Mossman and her employees at Life at Home strive to create an uplifting experience not only through the items they sell but also by greeting and conversing with

their face, bring connection, re ection of relationships, and just make them feel good about themselves.”

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Life at Home is at 109 Fourth St. in Castle Rock. It’s open from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

Heidi Mossman, second from right, and her Life at Home team pose for a group photo.

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Before the new year, Life at Home’s second floor was filled with holiday decorations.

Life at Home carries seasonal home accessories.

Suspect accused of stealing catalytic converters

Thefts dramatically increase

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A man suspected of stealing catalytic converters last October in Centennial has been arrested, the Arapahoe County Sheri ’s O ce said in a Feb. 7 news release.

ree catalytic converters were stolen Oct. 7 from Toyota Tacoma trucks at EcoShield Pest Solutions, located at 7275 S. Revere Parkway in Centennial, the sheri ’s o ce said in the release.

After an initial investigation, Arapahoe County Sheri ’s O ce

investigators found the stolen parts at a local scrap yard in Denver, but the suspect was still at large, according to the sheri ’s o ce.

On Nov. 30, investigators sought an arrest warrant for Jeremiah Jansen, 47, on three felony charges: identity theft, criminal mischief and theft.  Douglas County Sheri ’s O ce deputies arrested Jansen Jan. 3 on an unrelated charge of motor vehicle theft, according to the release.

As of Feb. 7, Jansen was in custody at the Douglas County Detention Facility. He was being held in lieu of $10,000 bond on the Arapahoe County charges, and he also faces additional criminal charges in Douglas County, per the release.

“ e investigator assigned to this case did an excellent job not only

tracking down the stolen catalytic converters, which is extremely tough to do, but also remaining diligent in identifying and tracking down the suspect,” Arapahoe County Sheri ’s O ce Sgt. Matt Davis said in the release.

Arrests are rarely made in catalytic converter theft cases, and stolen catalytic converters are typically not recovered, the sheri ’s o ce said in the release.

“Catalytic converters are stolen primarily for their valuable metals,” the sheri ’s o ce said in the release. “ ieves steal them from unattended vehicles and since they’re not easily traceable, there’s a lucrative market for the stolen parts.”

According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, catalytic

converter thefts increased 1,215% between 2019 and 2022.

One method of preventing such thefts is catalytic converter etching, in which an identi cation label is placed on the catalytic converter.

e Englewood Police Department will host catalytic converter anti-theft events Feb. 24 and Feb. 25 in which people can sign up to get a free, do-it-yourself etching kit. ose interested in learning more about the events can visit: lockdownyourcar.org/events.

Additional measures residents can take to protect against thefts involving vehicles include locking their car, parking in secure areas and removing any valuables from their car, according to the Colorado Auto eft Prevention Authority.

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toward teacher salaries.

Superintendent Erin Kane has raised concerns with the salaries teachers are receiving, stressing the current starting salary for a teacher in the district is $43,680, which is out of touch with the cost of living in the county.

According to the U.S. Census, the median household income in Douglas County is $127,443. e average monthly cost of living is over $4,000.

While school board members are considering returning to voters again next year to ask for more funds to pay teachers, they are currently looking at the a ordable housing options.

Shea Properties, a local housing developer that built out Highlands Ranch, has proposed building on 10 acres of land owned by the school district in Meridian Village near Parker. e land was originally set aside for a new school but is too small.

Shea would then develop the property with low-income apartments.

Board members seemed receptive to the proposal.

In neighboring Arapahoe County, Cherry Creek’s school board approved salary increases to start in the 2024-25 school year. According to the Feb. 8 news release, new Cherry Creek teachers will start at $57,000 per year, around $14,000 more than Douglas County.

Cherry Creek teachers “across the spectrum of classroom experience” will also get salary increases, and additional compensation will be available for teachers and certi ed sta who further their education, according to the release. is new salary schedule was part of a compensation package approved Feb. 6 by members of the Cherry Creek Education Association, an organization that

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represents the teachers, education professionals, counselors, nurses and mental health professionals in the Cherry Creek School District.

“ is salary update is designed to provide competitive compensation for all of our teachers and certied sta , and is aligned to our core values as a district,” Superintendent Christopher Smith said in the release. “ is week’s announcement is part of our ongoing e orts to

ensure that all of our sta earn fair and competitive wages for the work they do in service of students.”

Cherry Creek School District said it hopes the salary increase will attract new teachers to work for the district, which is hiring for many positions across schools and departments, according to the release.

Reporter Tayler Shaw contributed to this story.

Christa Gilstrap, a Highlands Ranch parent, stands on Oct. 17 next to her minivan’s back window, painted with messages of support for a property tax increase in Douglas County School District. The e orts were rejected in the November election.

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Commissioners serve as a county’s elected leaders, somewhat similar to city councils. They make policy decisions that largely affect parts of the county that are “unincorporated” — areas that sit outside of municipalities.

In Douglas County, that includes Highlands Ranch and many other areas, such as Franktown and Roxborough.

The idea to add two more commissioners in Douglas County came up in discussion in a county meeting in August. Commissioner Abe Laydon remains opposed.

“The last thing counties need are more politicians,” Laydon said in a statement about the state legislature’s bill. “Whether you have three or 30 commissioners, there will still be a majority and a minority vote unless it’s unanimous.”

Other counties already have five

Some Colorado counties already operate with five commissioners.

Under current rules, once a county has more than 70,000 residents, a citizen’s group or the county commissioners can put a question on the ballot asking residents if they wish to add two more.

Of the 12 counties who are eligible through their population size, several have moved to five commissioners, including Adams, El Paso and Arapahoe counties. Weld County and Pitkin County have moved to five commissioners as part of their home-rule charters — essentially the counties’ own constitutions.

Denver and Broomfield have city council structures with about a dozen members each.

Boulder County has attempted to approve the expansion at least four times, according to Douglas County staff.

The counties that would be affected by the bill are Jefferson, Larimer, Douglas, Boulder, Pueblo and Mesa, all of which have three commissioners.

The proposal, state House Bill 23-1180, was introduced on Feb. 8. Another of its top supporters is state Sen. Kevin Priola, a Democrat who represents parts of Adams and Weld counties.

“While counties with populations of less than seventy thousand may be adequately represented by three commissioners, counties with populations of seventy thousand or more require

greater and more diverse representation,” the introductory part of the bill reads.

Douglas leaders have long clashed

Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas, at the losing end of many 2-1 votes, has said she requested the information about possibly expanding the Douglas board after several residents asked her about the possibility.

“I’ve always been opposed to it because it would grow government,” she has said. “But I don’t know how to break this logjam with George (Teal) and Abe.”

The relationship among Douglas County’s commissioners began to fray in April 2021 when Teal and Laydon voted to remove Thomas from her position as chair following a national media request gone awry. The two accused Thomas of using her role as chair of the board to lie to residents and “attempt to influence the board” after she wasn’t selected to speak with the media outlet.

Also part of the conflict among the commissioners are multiple layers of legal wrangling that stem from an investigation Teal and Laydon initiated after accusing Thomas of circulating an anonymous letter that criticized specific employees in the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, allegedly creating a hostile work environment. They also accused her of emailing county legal representation with a request not authorized by the full board.

The $17,000 investigation into Thomas by outside legal counsel found that while Thomas had distributed the letter, doing so did not create a hostile work environment. It also found she did direct legal representation to provide her with information the board had determined to keep secret.

Thomas appeared in a CBS Colorado news story in July discussing the confidential report that showed the results of the investigation, prompting the Douglas County government’s attorney to find that Thomas could have broken the law by doing so.

A second investigation ordered by Laydon and Teal — this time conducted by the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office — did not find probable cause to believe that Thomas committed the crime of first-degree official misconduct.

Thomas held a news conference in November and called the probe “yet another bogus investigation.”

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Highlands Ranch High School makes wish come true

Students raise more than $25,000

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

During Highlands Ranch High School’s sixth annual Wish Week, students and faculty were able to make 9-year-old Beckett’s wish of going to Lake Powell come true.  rough the Make A Wish Foundation, Beckett, his siblings Aidan and Vera, and parents Catarina and Ross experienced a week full of fun, emotion and support.

“Just the rst day when we came in and all the kids stood up and were cheering for him, that was huge and super emotional,” said Catarina.  roughout the week, Highlands Ranch High School raised more than $25,000 for Beckett and his family.  Beckett was diagnosed with leukemia in December 2020. In addition to COVID-19 adding more challenges, the family had to adapt to a new normal. Beckett is expected to be done with treatment in April.

“To have this experience at the tail end of that, it’s so awesome,” said Catarina. “You had the really hard and sad stu and now we’re ending it with a positive and magical experience.”

After watching a Youtube video of people getting launched o a blast bag into a lake, Beckett’s wish is to go to Lake Powell and do water activi-

rival, with a pool noodle and saved Princess Peach.

In one last e ort to raise money, for one minute, students passed around buckets for spare change.  e rest of the assembly included a poms performance with a special appearance by the athletic director. e students played nish the lyrics, played a life-size game of Hungry Hungry Hippos with Beckett and after growing his hair out for four years, one senior cut his hair o during the assembly.

Before Beckett joined Principal Dr. Christopher Page Jr. and the students in the Highlands Ranch High School chant, Principal Page addressed the students. Page said that he was proud of the community coming together to do something special.  “ e thing that we appreciate more than anything else is a number of you did a great job this last week of silencing the noise, competitions and all of the other crazy things in our world and instead you came together and worked together to provide at least one magic wish,” said Page.

Beckett’s dad also addressed the high school with an emotional thank you.

“I just want to say how much we appreciate being with all of you,” said Ross. “You’ve really restored our faith in the future of America and the future of young people and you’ve been so inclusive and it’s been really really fun for us to spend this week with all of you.”

Beckett holds the hand of his dad, Ross, as the father addresses the students of Highlands Ranch High School at the closing ceremony.

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Age is not a factor in heart disease risk

Heart issues can attack all ages

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It is a common myth that heart disease does not a ect the younger population. However, Dr. Je Park, a cardiologist with Aurora Denver Cardiology Associates at e Medical Center of Aurora says that is a common myth.

“High long standing blood pressure issues with long standing cholesterol issues, long standing diabetes, yeah, that puts you at higher risk for sure,” said Park. “But there’s de nitely a genetic component.”  Heart disease can present itself in many ways to di erent people and may not always be obvious.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, obesity, diabetes and unhealthy eating patterns are appearing among younger people and placing them at a higher risk for heart disease.

“ e patients are getting younger, we’ve had heart attacks in patients who are in their twenties,” said Park.  ere are certain genetic conditions where individuals are at increased risk of having a heart attack, Park said. Cholesterol issues is a primary indicator.

One example given by Park is a condition called familial hypercholesterolemia, or FH. is is a genetic disorder where people have high low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels. People have a predisposition for heart disease at that point as the body cannot recycle bad lipids, Park said.

“You’re like ‘I’m too young to see a doctor’ and I’m guilty of that same concept, you know, but it’s a matter of if you get identi ed early on, it’s a matter of your treatment starts earlier and you’re protected early,” said Park.

Park says it’s never too soon to check one’s heart health. e American Heart Association has ways to help prevent heart disease throughout each stage of life, starting when at 20 years and older.

Heart disease is a man’s disease

“ at’s a false, false, false statement,” said Park. “I think I’ve treated more women than I have treated men, or at least equally, and I guess it’s a matter of what’s the cause of the heart disease that you’re talking about.”

According to Park, heart disease and heart attacks in women present themselves di erently from men.

It might notbe the typical chest pain and it might not be the typical exertional component that people tend to think about, said Park.

Women can feel some indigestion but end up having a heart attack.

A map presented by the CDC shows heart disease death rates among women 35 and older across the U.S.

According to the CDC, between 2018 and 2020, the Colorado average estimated heart disease death rate for all races and ethnicities in women 35 and older was 195 per 100,000 people. e average estimated number for Douglas County was 154.

Symptoms do not always occur while the body is doing physical activity, Park said, symptoms can arise while the body is resting.

“Even if you’re feeling great, you never know,” said Park.

Dr. Je Park with a model heart in support of Heart Month. CREDIT: RACHEL ROBINSON

said Rife, whose organization oversees the count.

January’s numbers may not ocially come out for months, but data from recent years paint a picture of increasing homelessness in the Denver metro area. e newest o cial numbers, based on 2022’s count, suggest any potential rise in homelessness last year wasn’t as drastic as earlier in the coronavirus pandemic. Still, last year’s count showed nearly 1,600 people in the metro area newly became homeless, and that’s just among those who stayed in shelters.

In Douglas County — where homelessness is typically rarer and less visible than in areas closer to Denver — o cials continue new e orts to try to address the problem.

at includes Douglas County’s Homeless Engagement, Assistance and Resource Team of “navigators” who respond to homelessness, working with law enforcement when safety is a concern.

“Overall, our numbers are decreasing each month, and the HEART team is out there taking proactive steps,” said Ti any Marsitto, a supervisor with HEART.

Numbers a mixed bag

Data from recent years suggest homelessness has increased in the Denver metro area — a trend that predates the pandemic but was likely worsened by it, as the coronavirus crisis disrupted people’s housing and employment.

In 2021, compared to 2020, the metro region saw a 99% increase in the number of people new to experiencing homelessness in shelters, according to the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative.

For 2022, the 1,600 people counted as newly homeless in shelters represented a drop from the previous year — but still a 22% increase over 2020.

In Douglas County, o cials quickly presented early data from this year’s count. ey highlighted that the overall number of homeless

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dropped to 57, down from 78 last year, with the count of unsheltered homeless dropping to 27, down from 50.

In 2020, Douglas County’s overall count — sheltered and unsheltered — was 53. In 2019, that number was 14, and in 2018, it was 34. ( e metro area did not count unsheltered homeless in 2021 due to COVID-19 safety concerns.)

Because the Point in Time count generally takes place on a single night and can be a ected by weather or other variables, the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative does not recommend looking at data trends year over year, although the count remains an often-cited statistic.

A more representative count across the metro area involves data from homeless-service providers year round. Between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, more than 32,000 people accessed services or housing support related to homelessness in the metro region, according to the initiative.

Each year, typically in January, volunteers and sta from sources such as nonprofits and local governments team up in communities across the Denver metro area, and areas around the nation, to conduct the Point in Time count of their region’s homeless population.

This year’s count started the evening of Jan. 30 and ran into the next morning, accord-

at number sat at about 28,000 people between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022, based on data from agencies that partner in what’s called the Homeless Management Information System.

Meanwhile, the one-night count marked 6,884 people overall in the metro area in 2022. at compares to 6,104 in 2020.

Rife, the initiative’s director, said COVID was “a big part” of recent data. She noted that more people staying in congregate shelters or participating in certain programs set up in response to COVID might no longer show up in the Homeless Management Information System due to the programs winding down. Some people might be staying outdoors, she said.

“I would not draw the conclusion that homelessness is decreasing,” Rife said.

Homeless trends complicated

During the Feb. 9 news conference, county o cials in Castle Rock directly tied the decrease in Douglas’ one-night homelessness count to the work of the HEART program in recent months.

“Today, there are fewer people living on the streets of Douglas County than there were in 2022. Why? Because every morning three expert resource navigators and three law

enforcement o cers wake up on a mission,” the county wrote in a news release.

But large percentage shifts are more likely in Douglas County, where the annual count tends to be in double digits. By contrast, Jefferson and Arapahoe counties’ 2022 tallies each sat at about 500. In Denver, the number was about 4,800.

Also complicating the picture: People without homes don’t always stay in the same area. Many unhoused people say they are not from Douglas County but were there because of a lack of transportation or sweeps pushing them out of other cities. Per Douglas County Sheri ’s O ce data collected on 152 contacts from January to June 2022, only 6% of them were from the Douglas County area, with the remaining either coming from the Denver area or out of state. Resources for the unhoused tend to be concentrated closer to, and within, Denver.

e Point in Time count itself is subject to some variations year to year, Rife noted.

“I would say the PIT as a count is di cult simply because there’s a lot of variances every year because weather contributes to that, di erent volunteers (participate),” Rife said.

ing to the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative, the organization that oversees the tally. The process takes place in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Je erson counties.

The count does not include people sleeping on couches at friends’ or families’ homes, or people who are staying in hotels or motels paid for by themselves.

An example of a roadway sign in Douglas County sits at a Feb. 9 news conference that discussed homelessness, displaying a phone number for the county’s homelessness response team: 303-660-7301. Douglas County’s Homeless Engagement, Assistance and Resource Team helps connect the unhoused in Douglas with services. PHOTOS BY ELLIS ARNOLD

Sheri Darren Weekly speaks during a Feb. 9 news conference alongside Ti any Marsitto, right, a supervisor with Douglas County’s HEART program.

Fears of more homeless shelter continue in Castle Rock

Zoning rules

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Plans for more shelter for people experiencing homelessness in Douglas County have run into opposition from residents in recent months and concerns about Gov. Jared Polis’ comments about local housing rules seem to have spilled into the debate.

A post on the social media platform Nextdoor, written by a user who identi ed himself as a former town councilmember, discussed a recent meeting held at e Rock church in Castle Rock.

e post in early February expressed worry about whether the church would add housing or shelter to its property.

“I stated the homeowners in the Meadows (area) bought their homes knowing the Rock church was not zoned for any such activity, such as Homeless Shelter/PODS/Apartments and/or Low Income Housing,” the post read. “Such an implementation would greatly decrease the value of their homes.”

e term “pods” appears to refer to a type of small homeless shelter placed outside, as opposed to a large building.

Castle Rock Mayor Jason Gray said the town’s rules for where types of buildings can be located would not allow adding shelter at the church, whether that’s pods or low-income housing.

“ e Rock church has expressed interest in doing low-income housing. Unfortunately, or fortunately,

it’s not zoned for that,” Gray said, noting the opposition he has heard to the idea.

e appetite for Castle Rock’s town council is not to focus on housing for the homeless, according to Gray.

e area recently saw a separate plan to place temporary, collapsible “Pallet” shelters near the county jail in the Castle Rock area. e town council opposed that plan, and audience members at a June 22 Douglas County town hall meeting frequently shouted out, interrupting speakers and expressing frustration with the plan.

Douglas County’s commissioners indicated they would change their approach, and a county spokesperson said a nal vote to approve the purchase of the Pallet shelters was removed from the following week’s agenda.

Shelters factor into enforcement, o cials say

County Commissioner Abe Laydon, who had voted in favor of the Pallet shelters, has said he did so because a shelter is needed for law enforcement to enforce homeless camping restrictions.

Laydon and others have referenced People v. Wiemold, a district court case out of Fort Collins where a judge ruled a man couldn’t be cited for violating a camping ban because there was no shelter available to him.

“It’s a legal trend, essentially you can’t criminalize homelessness,”

Amy Edwards, senior assistant county attorney, has said. “It’s not a choice unless there is a bed available and they choose not to go to the bed

In Douglas County, the HEART program launched in 2022 and served as a new tool in this January’s count.

“ is is the rst year we had the HEART and leaned on their knowledge and experience to guide our unsheltered count e orts,” Rand Clark, the county’s community services manager, said in a statement.

Laydon, one of the county’s elected leaders, said his expectation was that the count would have been higher this year in Douglas County in light of HEART’s involvement in the process, so he was glad to see it was lower.

Celebrating success

Regardless of the broad trends, it’s clear that programs like HEART can make a di erence in individuals’ lives.

Marsitto, the supervisor with HEART, shared one success story at the news conference.

In October, the team contacted a 73-year-old woman who had been living in her vehicle for the past year, Marsitto said. After assessing her needs, HEART secured a hotel space for her for two weeks and found a

shelter for elderly women that took her in. She has since moved into transitional housing, where she pays monthly rent for her own unit based on her income.

Marsitto said it’s important to hear the stories of unhoused people and understand their needs and the barriers they face.

“ at’s what our team is doing — we’re hearing their story,” Marsitto said.

Ti any Marsitto, a supervisor with Douglas County’s Homeless Engagement, Assistance and Resource Team that responds to homelessness, speaks during a Feb. 9 news conference in Castle Rock alongside county Commissioner Abe Laydon, in background.

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Sterling Ranch advances internet speed

8 gigs coming

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After nearly eight years of investing in ber technologies, Sterling Ranch is expanding a partnership with Lumen Technologies as they plan to be the rst community to roll out up to 8-gig internet.

President of Sterling Ranch Development Company Brock Smethills said in 2014, the community elected to do a ber to the home community when it was not commonplace. Since then, millions of dollars has been invested into Sterling Ranch’s ber network.

“We see that as really an amenity,” said Smethills. “Just like homeowners expect pools and schools - we believe that they have come to expect really good broadband service and that’s something we hope to deliver on now, and continue to deliver in the future.”

In the existing relationship with Lumen, the base service was one gig service to each residential unit for $89 a month. According to Smethills, the dollar amount was reduced to $75 a month and will be e ective this year.

“So the standard service will still be one gig, or $75 a month and customers will be able to opt into if they want three gig or eight gig service for a premium,” said Smethills.

e new technology, XGS-PON, is expected to be available across all of Sterling Ranch by the end of 2024. According to the press re-

lease, the technology will enable internet speeds of up to 8 gigabits per second. at is 40 times faster than the average advertised down-

“It’s the next generation of residential ber telecommunication services that CentryLink is rolling out,” said Smethills.

While most internet networks start with ber to hubs in neighborhoods like Highlands Ranch and Roxborough, they need to be converted to coaxial cable for the nal distance to each home.

According to Smethills, the last mile of coaxial cable has been a limiting factor in internet speeds.

“Now we have glass from a point of presence all the way to a residential unit,” said Smethills. “ at gets rid of that bottleneck of that piece of coaxial copper that has physical constraints and how fast you can literally send electrons back and forth on copper.”

e technology is being made available by Lumen Technologies through its premier ber internet service, Quantum Fiber.

By investing in this technology early on, Smethills said that the community was well prepared for COVID-19 as they had work from home capability before it was necessary. is new technology will allow residents to have stronger internet connection and better manage their home utilities.

“ ere’s something to be said about having good broadband that enables our residents to fully utilize technology to help their lives,” said Smethills.

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Recently, State Rep. Bob Marshall did exactly what he said he was going to do when he ran for o ce — he introduced a bill that would require large counties to expand from three- to ve-member boards of commissioners. If the bill is approved, that would mean Douglas County will go from three to ve commissioners.

Arapahoe County already has ve commissioners, which means they would not be impacted by the bill. However, Arapahoe County operates without a lot of incommission ghting, has good discussion and debate and is a great example of why a ve-member board can be a lot more functional.

When it comes to party lines, I would like a better balance of Republicans and Democrats on the Arapahoe board, given there is currently only one Republican, but that’s not a huge complaint.

In Douglas County, the current commissioners are great evidence of why a three-member boards is not good in representing a county with 360,000 people and growing. e argument against the bill is that it “creates more government,” not less. I get not wanting more government, but is having two more commissioners added to a currently dysfunctional board a bad thing?

I have never been a fan of the all-yes boards. I like my elected boards to have a balance of voices and opinions. If all members of a council, commission or school board have the same thoughts, beliefs and ideals — you will get a lot of rubber-stamp voting without thoughtful discussion and debate.

Local city and town councils, with fewer residents than all of Douglas County, currently have more elected o cials looking out for their best interests.

In Douglas County, residents currently have George Teal and Abe Laydon deciding where and how money is spent. ey are making decisions on zoning, land use and water. If Commissioner Lora omas does have an opposing view or opinion — it doesn’t seem to matter as the two men on the board have clearly formed an alliance. is alliance means if one supports a project — the other will get in line to do the same. ese are schoolyard games that should never been the norm on a local, elected board. is alliance has cost taxpayers plenty of money in approving investigations against omas that have yielded nothing more than tens of thousands of dollars in wasted taxpayer dollars.

At the very least, two more commissioners being asked to approve another frivolous investigation might ask questions and vote against it.

With two more commissioners, decisions might still end the same way, but I bet there is more discussion, fewer alliances and probably a healthier representation of what residents in Douglas County deserve.

What I love about Rep. Marshall introducing the bill, House Bill 23-1180, is that he can’t be bullied. He is at the state level and the two-member majority can’t just quash it. Do I think the bill will pass? It’s early and hard to say. e argument of having more government oversight could win out in halting it in its tracks. However, I do hope our elected o cials at the state level give it true thought and consideration.

If it is passed in the 2023 session, counties that would be a ected by the bill are Je erson, Larimer, Douglas, Boulder, Pueblo and Mesa, all of which are counties with three commissioners.

elma Grimes is the south metro editor for Colorado Community Media.

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As a partner and potential sales channel to the enterprise selling team, they were faced with a decision to make about an interaction they had with a new account executive they had just started working with. ere was a lack of follow-up on the account executive’s part and the partner was torn between letting the young account executive’s boss know, or not.

Ultimately, he decided to call their boss because they wanted to provide a coaching opportunity for the young new hire. e leader was grateful and said, “ ank you as I cannot x something that I do not know is broken, and I cannot manage what I do not know.”

ere is so much sensitivity around what we can say and what we cannot or should not say. We fear that it may not be our place to say anything at all, after all we may become the one where others choose to point the nger of blame. We would rather keep our mouth shut and let the next person who receives bad service or experiences a problem be the one to share their concerns. Maybe they are braver than we are in those moments.

e question becomes this, wouldn’t we want to know if something that we, or someone in our family, circle of friends, or company was doing something, or had done something, that wasn’t right and could potentially be harmful to others or to our family or business? Most of us would answer the same way, of course we would.

In the case above, the leader did use it as a coaching moment and the young account executive embraced the feedback and became determined to make a change in his response times and doing what they said they would do

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when they said they would do it.

Another friend I know stopped going to the same co ee shop they had been stopping by every morning for years. When I asked them why, they said that the shop had started serving co ee that wasn’t as hot as it should be. I asked them if they let the manager know. ey shook their head and said, “No.” is was a simple or minor issue that, if the manager had known or been told, could have been easily resolved.

We know parents who have approached the o cials of the school where their child was being bullied. e o cials were given the opportunity to x what was broken. ey now knew what they had to manage, yet they refused to take action. e nal outcome was that the child was transferred to another school and thankfully, was met with a new set of friends who they became very close with, enjoying a wonderful and safe high school experience.

It’s no di erent at home or in any relationship. If we do not know what is broken, we cannot manage or x what we do not know. We have to provide others a safe environment to share what they see as a problem or an area that can be improved, and then be vulnerable enough to acknowledge that it can be better and then take the steps necessary to x the problem.

Two of the most important ingredients to any

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

`Arrested Development’ at county

We read with befuddlement, and more than a thimbleful of bemusement, CCM’s article covering the “hissy- t de jour” emanating from that local Center of Arrested Development — our County Commission.

At the center of this Vast Confabulation of Conspiracy is the county’s underwriting of metal detectors at STEM School. Apparently, Chairman Laydon’s Department of TOP SECRECY deemed disclosure of this milliondollar purchase too sensitive for the eyes and ears of parents, students and simpletons like taxpayers.

In the nest traditions of innuendo and disinformation, Laydon implicated not only DougCo’s Resident Punching Bag, Lora omas … he felt compelled to pull the Local Free Press into his dark and stormy story. Like many DougCo politicians, Laydon believes the First Amendment applies only to his allies … and the Free Press better watch it.

Never mind information on these metal detectors had been publicly released days before. To Laydon, reality spins around him, as the center of all, something adjustable for political convenience … reminiscent of his infamous declaration, “let me be the rst to state that the COVID pandemic is over” at the time when it wasn’t.

One of these days, DougCo’s conservative voters will determine that, perhaps, the Arrested Development series has been on for one season too many, and it’s about time to nd higher quality programming.

Lloyd Guthrie Roxborough Park

Support Democrats

Joe Biden was not my choice for the Democratic nominee. I voted for Bernie Sanders. I am willing to admit now that Joe is probably the only Democrat who could have beaten Donald Trump. It had to be a moderate. I am also willing to concede that Joe has been a very e ective president, especially given the small Democratic majorities in Congress in the rst two years of his term.

In less than two years, the Democrats passed a sizable COVID relief package, brought our troops home from Afghanistan, and also added a signicant infrastructure bill, green energy incentives, more taxes on wealthy corporations, allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, allowing hearing aids to be sold over the counter, at least modest student debt relief, and the president has been integral in holding the western alliance together in assisting Ukraine in their war e ort against Russia.

No one likes high gas prices or in ation, but those are worldwide prob-

lems. No one wanted to see those 13 Marines killed by a suicide bomber at the airport in Kabul, but the American casualties would likely have been far worse if we had stayed. Lastly, lawlessness in Central America, Haiti and elsewhere has people walking hundreds of miles at great peril to get away from it. Add refugees from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Africa, and the Middle East, and there are no easy answers. Overall, the present Democratic coalition has the country moving in the right direction against great odds, and we need to get behind them.

Marcus Pohlmann Highlands Ranch

Unhappy about story

is letter will be worth writing if it can convert just one of your liberal journalists away from their woke ideology as expressed in your second of a four-part series, e Long Way Home by Nina Joss and Haley Lena Jan. 26, reporting on the housing crisis. e article is the epitome of woke ideology because of the accusations made from beginning to end that essentially accuse the U.S. for systemic injustice in housing.

Instead of any consideration of our American ideals around equal opportunity this article focuses on a socialist Utopian ideal with many examples of unequal outcomes. Not surprisingly this very lengthy article ends advocating mandatory liberal training to combat discrimination for real estate licenses.

First, don’t ask about the facts in this article, ask why the Colorado Community Media (CCM) is editorializing about identity politics and race baiting. No mention is made of the problem put on hardships cases which are the outcome of living in a free society, also known as an imperfect world, which is the history of our country. e Long Way Home series is being published in all the 24 metro Denver newspapers, and for a good reason none of the testimonials in this week’s article relate to any of our Douglas County jurisdictions.

Nobody will disagree that it’s easy to nd biased journalists these days, they’re everywhere, so the fault of biased reporting lies with the editors and a biased sta . e paper identi es 25 people contributing to this series. I can’t help but wonder where people like these journalists come from. For me, I don’t personally know anyone whose as severely handicapped with racial prejudice about identity politics as the publishers of this article.

Smith Young Parker

Housing and diversity

Kudos to Colorado Community

Media for a piece of ne local journalism with “ e Long Way Home” series examining Colorado’s housing crisis.

e January 26 articles detailing racial inequities in Denver’s suburban communities like the Littleton area, where I live, provide important insight — and highlight the need for all of us to redouble e orts for social change.

As the series illustrates, Littleton and surrounding towns didn’t become lily-white by accident. Government policies assured racial and economic segregation via redlining, racially restrictive covenants, and large-lot zoning. Today, Denver metro is highly racially segregated, ranks 13th among the most highly economically segregated urban areas, and 40th among U.S. large metro areas for upward mobility of below-median-income families.

Today’s a ordable housing emergency is compounded for our Black, Latinx, and Native American neighbors who face historical barriers designed to exclude them from generational wealth-building as well as present-day ingrained prejudices. is is not a healthy situation for our community or our nation.

Visionary racial justice leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. fought to pass the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA), enacted 55 years ago this April. anks to the FHA, local groups like the Denver

Metro Fair Housing Center (funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — HUD, help persons facing discrimination to le complaints with Colorado’s Civil Rights Division or in federal court. And the framers of the federal law had the wisdom to include a provision for “Afrmatively Furthering Fair Housing” which requires local governments to take steps to reverse historic segregation via a renewing ve-year action plan they submit to HUD.

Still, many folks in white skin identity today do not realize the extensive bene ts of living, working, and learning in diverse communities for all racial and ethnic groups. Major employers are realizing the bene ts, but the embrace of diversity lags in our suburbs.

As we work together locally to cope with the a ordable housing crisis, we need to use all the tools provided by federal and state law to increase local diversity. Let’s move toward a Denver metropolitan area where every individual, group, and community enjoys equal housing opportunity and access in a bias-free and open housing market, where integrated neighborhoods are the norm, and the private and public sector guarantee civil rights.

John Paul Marosy, outreach and education coordinator, Denver Metro Fair Housing Center Je erson County

OBITUARIES

Robert “Bert” Kennish, 79, of Castle Rock, CO passed away February 5, 2023. He was born in Cookeville, Tennessee on June 6, 1943 to Eugene and Hazel Kennish. Bert graduated from Fort Morgan High School and received his Bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University. After college, Bert worked for DuPont in Victoria, TX as a personnel manager and that is where he met the love of his life, Faye Dreier from Meyersville, TX. She worked with Bert at DuPont and they dated for 1 year before getting married on May 26, 1968.

Bert was called to serve in the US Army in 1968 and commissioned from O cer Candidate School in Ft. Benning, Georgia. He served in Vietnam as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Infantry. He was proud that he never lost any soldiers of his platoon. Bert and Faye moved to Oklahoma to complete his 2 year and 9 month commitment in the military as a 1st Lieutenant.

ran an extremely successful company for over 35 years.

Bert enjoyed spending time with family and friends, traveling and many adventures. He was an “idea” man, which included raising ostriches, inventions, Nikken, NuSkin, day trading, etc., etc. Bert was always very goal driven, patriotic and extremely faithful. He loved being a part of a men’s Bible study. Anyone who knew him, knows how important his faith was and that he touched so many lives with his wisdom.

Bert is survived by his wife of 54 years, Faye; children: Will Kennish and his wife Tonya, Kendra Bowman and her husband Jason; grandchildren: Liam, Bryce, Taylor Faye, Luke and sister Verna Jean LePore.

“Well done good and faithful servant. You have been faithful in a few things and I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness.”

Matthew 25:23

successful relationship, husband-wife, parent-child, teacher-student, employer-employee, company-customer, or any other relationship are communication and trust. And when we can honestly and openly share with others what needs to change or be managed better, most times we will be seen as being helpful as again, none of us can x or manage what we do not know is broken or a problem in the rst place. How about you? Do you feel safe and comfortable sharing with your

boss, partner, co-worker or the manager of a store where you frequently shop what is broken or needs to be managed better or di erently? Or would you rather someone else take that responsibility? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail. com, and when we can be open to managing and xing what we know to be broken, it really will be a better than good life.

Michael Norton is an author, a personal and professional coach, consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator of individuals and businesses, working with organizations and associations across multiple industries.

In 1970 they moved to Denver, CO where Bert worked for Crown Hill Cemetery. ey moved to Castle Rock, CO in 1971 and bought a home on Ridge Road where they started their family. Bert sold Franklin Life Insurance and then real estate at Van Schaack. In 1984, Bert became the Broker/ Owner of Re/Max Town and Country. He

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A celebration of life will be held on Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 2:00pm at the Willoughby’s Barn, 3160 Via Margarita, Castle Rock, CO 80109. Feel free to dress casual and warm.

In lieu of owers please make a donation in Bert’s name to Wounded Warriors.

Patricia “Patty” (Blaise) Grabowski

August 14, 1947 - December 19, 2022

Patricia Grabowski passed away the evening of December 19th, 2022. A loving and devoted mother and wife, Patty had a passion for gardening, visits to the beach, and hosting family

get togethers. She is survived by her husband Bob, and sons Gene and Chris. A service will be held for her at St Francis of Assisi Church in Castle Rock on February 10th at 10am.

KENNISH

Robert “Bert” Kennish June 6, 1943 - February 5, 2023

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While working out at a gym in Golden recently, someone approached Ty Scrable and asked if he was associated with Colorado School of Mines. Scrable had to explain that, no, he’s just a Golden resident.

Unfortunately, Scrable said, this isn’t the rst time it’s happened.

“I get that a lot,” he said. “People think I’m a student, professor or tourist because I’m Black.”

Systemic racism stubbornly remains in Golden. But, as Scrable said, it has morphed from Ku Klux Klan demonstrations in the 1920s and racist housing policies in the 1940s to something less overt but still widespread and endlessly frustrating.

Because White people make up the overwhelming majority in the city and, thus, are seen as the norm, Scrable said, “many people don’t view me as part of my own community.”

In the wake of Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the summer of 2020, many cities and newspapers across the United States have started reckoning with their pasts, examining how they’ve contributed to systemic racism, learning what they can do to be more inclusive and fair. e Golden community has started the process, and now it’s the Golden Transcript’s turn.

e newspaper, which now is part of Colorado Community Media, isn’t immune to biased coverage. is report is the product of its journalists attempting to examine the paper’s coverage of the Black community since the Civil Rights era and own up to its mistakes.

Since 1866, the Golden Transcript — known as the Colorado Transcript for its rst 103 years — has been a record keeper for Je erson County. While its stories are extensive and valuable, the paper contains original and reprinted content that was harmful to the Black community and other marginalized groups.

Just one example is its coverage of the Black Panther Party, a group that gained national attention in the late 1960s for its response to policing in Black communities across the country.

Between 1969-1971, the newspaper published approximately 170 articles that referenced the Black Panther Party. Nearly all of these articles

BEYOND THE GOLDEN TRANSCRIPT: Our efforts to reconcile racial mistrust begins with this story

In our newspaper this week, you’ll see an article about the Golden Transcript. It’s one of two dozen newspapers owned by Colorado Community Media, which also owns this paper. The article tackles the issue of systemic racism in the Transcript’s pages.

The idea for the project started in 2020, when the Colorado News Collaborative, Colorado Media Project and Free Press convened the Black Voices Working Group, which was made up of Black leaders, community members and journalists. The group addressed media coverage and focused on how to improve trust in mainstream media among the Black community. Acknowledging past harm was the No. 1 recommendation made by the group.

A few months later, I attended a Denver Press Club event where Jameka Lewis, a senior librarian at the BlairCaldwell African American Research Library, illustrated biases in mainstream local media coverage of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and ’70s while exhibiting rare prints of the Black Panther Press. Many of Lewis’ examples came from the Transcript. Most articles were wire stories from

other cities, but editors still chose to run them, affecting perceptions of the party in Golden.

We pursued and were awarded a grant from the nonpartisan Colorado Media Project to explore, uncover and analyze this issue in the form of the special report that is in this edition of your newspaper.

Our newsroom, which is predominantly White, also participated in the Maynard Institute’s diversity, equity and inclusion Fault Lines training along the way. West metro editor Kristen Fiore was a speaker at the Advancing Equity in Local News convening with journalists from publications like the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington Post to talk about this project.

We believe this story is important beyond Golden — and we hope to spark conversations in our communities across the Denver area about race and inclusion and how our news coverage impacts those issues.

Linda Carpio Shapley is publisher of Colorado Community Media, which runs two dozen weekly and monthly publications in eight counties. She can be reached at lshapley@coloradocommunitymedia.com

Linda Shapley

presented the group in a negative light, with words such as “fugitive,” “thugs” and “militants.” And, the Transcript appeared to rarely cover the Black community in the city and wider region. Because of this, their voices are missing in archives, now online as an important chronicling of Colorado’s history.

By not including these voices in an accurate light, and by publishing stories that reinforced harmful stereotypes and/or recorded Black people’s traumatic experiences in an apathetic or ippant way, the Golden Transcript’s coverage contributed to systemic racism, according to researchers and Black community leaders.

Jameka Lewis, senior librarian at the Denver Public Library’s Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library and a freelance researcher on this report, said Transcript readers may have had their beliefs about the Black Panther Party, and the Black community in general, shaped by the Transcript’s negative portrayals.

“ ere is harm when it comes to media and the Black community in Denver and Colorado,” Lewis said. “If we want to repair the harms, we have to acknowledge that (they are) factual.”

Alfonzo Porter, editor-in-chief at Denver Urban Spectrum and a journalism professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver, said mass media has been at the epicenter of “propagating negative images and re ections of the AfricanAmerican community.”

“It really stems out of our country’s background, and we’re still dealing with those biases,” he said.

While almost all of the Transcript’s stories about the Black Panther Party were from wire services like United Press International, Porter said the Transcript and other newspapers are accountable for reprinting those stories.

“It’s exactly like original reporting, because … the editorial sta sat in a room, looked at this piece, determined that it was appropriate and ran with it in the paper,” he said.

The Black Panther Party

e Black Panther Party for Self Defense started in 1966 in Oakland, California. Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale started the organization as a response to police brutality there and in other Black communities, according to Lewis’ research.

e party had a 10-point program that included demands for Black liberation and societal

THE COVERAGE

How national, Denver-area papers covered the party Sisters Ida Daniel, Pat Rogers and JoEllen Greenwood grew up in Denver and graduated from East High School in the ’60s and early ’70s. ey recalled reading e Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News and watching the nightly news on TV. ey also listened to the city’s Black radio station, KDKO, and read Black-oriented magazines like Ebony and Jet.

Overall, the three didn’t recall a lot of news stories about Black people in the mainstream press, unless it was negative. e news covered Black people who were arrested for murder, robbery, rioting and other crimes. Rogers summarized the coverage as: “Be afraid of Black people.” at kind of coverage played out with the Black Panthers. In 2016, e New York Times analyzed stories about the Panthers, noting “journalists were at once fascinated and frightened by them” and their activities in the 1960s and ‘70s.  Coverage about the Denver Panthers in Black newspapers in the area at the time was scant. Of those Lewis researched, the Black-owned publication e Denver Blade published the most articles on the group’s activities, both locally and nationally, in 1969.

Its coverage appears to be fairly balanced, Lewis said.

One Blade article discussed the Panthers’ orga-

improvement. Eventually, the Black Panthers led more than 35 community programs across the country, like the Free Breakfast for School Children Program — also known as e Free People’s Food Program, which helped feed Black children from economically disadvantaged families.

In Denver, a chapter gained recognition in 1967. Led by Lauren Watson, the chapter’s history was largely erased or ignored, Lewis said, adding that the Denver Panthers were instrumental in the ght for civil rights in Colorado.

It’s important to note that many Black community members both then and now have mixed feelings about the Panthers and their work, Lewis stressed.

Longtime Denver residents she interviewed formed their opinions largely based on what they read about the Black Panthers in newspapers and saw on TV. Yet that coverage contrasts with what many in the community saw the Denver Black Panthers doing. ey were involved in school board and City Council meetings, provided free meals for children, and worked to

nizing a meeting to discuss policing and police presence at Cole Jr. High School in Denver’s diverse Whittier neighborhood. It chronicled the Black community’s e orts to address a racial gap between teachers and Black students. One possible solution, and likely at the suggestion of the Denver Black Panthers, was to establish Cole as a Freedom School, a concept that focused on Black pride and Black liberation in academics.

In contrast, the Denver Post also covered the meeting but didn’t mention the Panthers’ involvement in organizing the event or the Freedom School proposal. In a review of Post archives, the story focused on arrests. e Denver Blade coverage did not mention any Black Panther arrests.

“Oftentimes, it was up to Black news media to cover this group in a more comprehensive way, which I believe e Denver Blade did,” Lewis said. “It covered all aspects of the local and national Panthers, and o ered readers a more balanced view of the members of this group.”

e Denver Blade stopped operating in 1970.

How Golden’s newspapers covered the Panthers

e Transcript published approximately 170 articles that used the terms “Black Panther” or “Black Panthers” between 1969-1971. Almost all of these were reprinted stories from wire services, which seldom described anything positive about the party or its members.

improve the welfare of their neighborhoods and its residents.

“Many Black people believed what the media said about the Panthers,” said Terry Nelson, a lifelong member of the Denver community. “ … It depended on the source. We recognized that the newspapers weren’t telling the truth about the members. … We knew that the Denver members were active in schools, speaking with teachers and parents. We never saw that in the major newspapers.”

Tracie Keesee, a former Denver police captain and co-founder of the Center for Policing Equity, described how during this tumultuous period, the press played into the hands of government o cials.

Newsrooms considered police as trustworthy and well-respected sources, so it was easy for them to hand reporters a story and have it taken at face value, Keesee said.

Keesee added: “We see it now, right? at divisiveness in the media, the stories that are being told — or not being told.”

e only article referencing the party’s free breakfast program was published April 30, 1970, about Baltimore police rounding up Black Panthers suspected of killing a patrolman. After searching party headquarters, police searched a school where it conducted its breakfast program, among other locations.

In contrast, the Colorado School of Mines student paper, e Oredigger, published at least two stories about the Black Panther Party. Both were straightforward accounts of Lauren Watson, the head of the Denver chapter, visiting Golden.

Ultimately, while coverage of the Black Panthers varied by publication, the Golden Transcript failed to cover the party’s community initiatives or involvement. It did, however, print dozens of wire stories about the party’s supposed criminal activity and police raids associated with the group.

e coverage used negative language to describe the Panthers, their neighborhoods and any activities they were involved in. Because of this, Golden-area residents absorbed and believed what they heard and saw in the news coverage, Lewis stated.

e role of the press in forwarding racial inequality really shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, Keesee said, especially to communities of color.

“It’s not just that person that wrote the story,

Jameka Lewis is a senior librarian at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library and a researcher on this project. COURTESY PHOTO

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that person had an editor, right?

ere wasn’t anything in that editor’s mind that said, ‘Yeah…this seems a little biased. Did you even go into the community, or did you just take that o the wire and repeat it?’”

ere’s no excuse for sloppy journalism, as it is harmful and contributes directly to a larger narrative, Keesee said.

“When you talk about media coverage, there were only three channels on the television, back then; there was no social media,” she said, adding, “the newspapers were cranking out those stories overnight and you were waiting for your morning paper. Nobody was up waiting for breaking news. So, the news that was coming out, it was more focused and easier to control.”

And when news was breaking, “it

THE COMMUNITY

Golden in the 1960s and ’70s

Built on lands traditionally inhabited by the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute and other tribes, Golden City was founded in 1859. According to Allan Tellis, a doctoral student of political science at the University of Colorado-Boulder and freelance researcher on this report, Golden has never had a signi cant Black population.

Census data from 1960 shows that the Golden division of Je erson County had 28 Black residents. By 1970, that number had increased to 86. Overall, those numbers represent 0.15% and 0.27% of the total population, respectively, according to Tellis.

As of 2020, Golden had 388 Black residents, representing 1.9% of the city’s population.

Longtime Golden residents recalled how many of the city’s Black residents in the late 1960s and early ’70s were associated with Colorado School of Mines as students, professors or their family members. As far as discussions about the Black Panther Party speci cally or race relations in general, longtime White residents said the topic didn’t come up much because there wasn’t a large Black population in the area.

Rick Gardner, a resident who has studied Golden’s history extensively, said the community had “other preoccupations at the time,” such as labor clashes at the Coors brewery and the Vietnam War.

John Akal, a longtime Goldenite and current columnist for the Transcript, described how he spent his summers in Chicago, where it was “a whole di erent situation.” Because of the 1968 Chicago riots, which were sparked by the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Akal remembered a lot of racial tension in the city at the time.

But that was Chicago.

Golden was di erent, but not necessarily better.

The KKK in Golden Overt discrimination in Golden against Black people and other

was breaking only one way, and those narratives were pretty narrow,” she added.

The newsroom

During this timeframe, the Transcript was a daily paper with a small sta of six and a wire service that provided regional and national news.

Neil Paulson, who was managing editor from 1970-75, said the paper relied on United Press International reports to cover many issues, including the Black Panthers.

“It was a terrible service, especially for a small paper,” he said. “It cost us a little more, but eventually we went to e Associated Press.”

e only dictate from the paper’s owners, e Kansas City Star and the Great (Kansas) Tribune, was to run a local story on the front page, Paulson said. National and regional stories ran inside.

Paulson noted that Golden’s population at the time, as it is today, was

communities peaked with the Ku Klux Klan, which had a strong presence in the city and throughout Colorado, particularly in the 1920s.

e Klan began in Denver in 1921 and eventually “all but took possession of the state of Colorado,” according to a report in the Steamboat Pilot. Klan members throughout Denver gathered on Golden’s South Table Mountain for cross-burnings and other rituals. According to Golden History, the mountain could attract up to 10,000 members.

Overall, the Klan helped prevent or deter unknown numbers of Black people from carving out lives in the area. History Colorado recently released ledgers of KKK membership that show seven members of the terrorist organization resided in the Golden area, Tellis added.

Racist housing policies, practices

While the Klan’s activities are certainly one reason Golden has a small Black population, it’s not the only reason. Discriminatory housing practices also contributed.

Don Cameron, a former Jefferson County teacher and current Golden city councilor, has researched zoning history and discriminatory housing policies and practices, including some accounts recorded in the Transcript.

While many Black residents in Denver were constricted by redlining, their counterparts in Golden faced other challenges.

“Starting in the ’20s and into the ’40s, it was common for people to say that they would only sell their individual property to those of the Caucasian race, or non-Negro race individuals,” Cameron stated in a self-published article about Golden’s zoning history.

“ e courts backed up this right because they were protecting the homeowners’ use of their land and had no civic duty to prevent this discrimination,” the article continues. “Blacks were excluded from being shown properties in these restrictive neighborhoods, and if they tried to purchase them, (they) might have it taken away soon

predominantly White.

He knew two Black Goldenites during his years as editor. One was Monroe Jordan, an assistant chef at downtown Golden’s historic Holland House, who later worked at the nearby Ace-Hi Tavern.

When Jordan died, Paulson ran a story on the front page that brie y memorialized him but mostly discussed an attempt to nd his relatives, as no one had come forward to claim Jordan’s body nearly two weeks after his death.

Readers didn’t react positively to the front-page piece.

“I got a couple of nasty phone calls, but no one admitted to their bias,” Paulson said. “ ey refused to apologize, of course. ey said I shouldn’t have put that on the front page. In typical Golden fashion, there was nothing speci c, other than to say, ‘You shouldn’t have done that.’ e thought of another race didn’t exist.”

For the Transcript’s newsroom, Paulson said there was no “codi ed

policy on racism” during his time there.

“We condemned it, but we made little e ort to actively attack it,” he said. “( e) Black Panthers seem remote from Golden, where there were few Black families.”

One place where Paulson thought racism showed up was on the editorial page. e paper had four syndicated columnists every day who lived outside the community. ey were selected by the publisher because “they were cheap and not already being published by the two Denver dailies,” he stated.

Paulson said he had no doubt the paper could be accused of racism for its coverage in those days.

“But I’d like to think it was by omission rather than intent,” he said. “We rarely spoke of racism and did little to come out against its pernicious e ects. I don’t remember anyone on the sta making racist remarks, and I think I would have remembered that.”

after.”

Perhaps the most evident example of this was in 1942, when Logus Butler and Susie A. Allison paid $1,500 for 30 acres near present-day Boyd Street in north Golden. ey planned to build on it, but they were forced to sell a few months later after Golden residents drove them out.

“A large number of citizens appeared before the City Council

Wednesday evening,” the Transcript reported Oct. 22, 1942, “and stated that a group of colored people had taken possession of the land recently purchased by them east of the Clark’s Garden addition, within the city limits of Golden, and were apparently staking out some building sites.”

After Butler and Allison were

A photo circa late 1960s or early 1970s shows the Seymour family gathered for a portrait in their family home in Denver. In this photo, the siblings — Ida Daniel, Pat Rogers, JoEllen Greenwood and Winfred Semour Jr. — were teens. COURTESY PHOTO

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forced to sell the land, plots on the same land were listed for sale two

THE IMPACT

In the community

While growing up in Denver in the ’60s and ’70s, Daniel and her sisters used their education and life experiences to help them decipher which news stories were biased and which were reputable. They also relied on family and friends’ advice.

“I don’t think news at the time covered Blacks in the world that they lived in,” Daniel said. “To me, the general stories about how Blacks lived, what they did, what their concerns were and some of their needs, were not covered.”

The sisters felt this trend in coverage didn’t change until the ’80s, when news about Black people and Black communities became more prominent.

As an example, Daniel described how The Denver Post did a feature article on her late husband, Wiley Y. Daniel, who was a prominent attorney and

THE FUTURE

For Goldenites

In more recent years, especially in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter rallies in the summer of 2020, the Golden community has started examining the long reach of systemic racism in and around the city. The City of Golden started work on its Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, and groups like Golden United and Golden Anti-Racism Collective formed.

While these are good first steps, real change has to start with people’s attitudes, GAC members Scrable and Michele Minihane said.

Although many Goldenites are open-minded and inclusive, Minihane personally believed there are still some residents who “do not value an integrated community and don’t feel like it’s important to make people of color feel welcome.”

She added: “I don’t get the sense that (attitudes) have changed a lot in 40 or 50 years.”

Scrable agreed that tangible changes, whether in attitudes or policies, have been slow. He said it’s going to take time and everyone working together to make Golden a more welcoming and inclusive place.

The two described how the Golden Anti-Racism Collective has become a place where people can share their experiences, examine systemic racism’s impact on the community, and find ways to improve Golden for current and future generations.

As of last month, GAC has about

years later. Ownership was restricted to “members of the Caucasian race.”

These accounts are just glimpses of Golden’s treatment of people of color, but Tellis emphasized how they demonstrate “institutionalized

the state’s first Black U.S. district court judge. She also recalled how The Post’s society section ran pictures of positive stories happening in the Black community.

“I do think it began to change in the ’80s,” Daniel continued. “There were positive stories (but) … the stereotypes were still going on.”

Diversity in the newsroom also seemed to improve during this timeframe, the sisters said. They recalled Reynelda Muse, the first Black person to anchor a newscast in Colorado, and Bertha Lynn, who started in Denver television in 1976.

While a lot has changed in how traditional outlets cover Black people and Black communities, the sisters believe there’s still plenty of bias. Rogers admitted that she avoids local news because there are still more negative stories about Black people than positive ones.

“I think there absolutely still is biased coverage,” she said. “I don’t want, every day, to hear

400 members on an email list and a few dozen who come to its regular meetings. There are several subgroups within the Golden Anti-Racism Collective that tackle different topics such as policy and policing, education, and books and media.

While the bulk of the members are White, any Goldenites of color are welcome to join and participate as they’re able, the members said.

The group has established a unique partnership with the Golden Police Department, as some of its members sit on the department’s community engagement group, GAC member Sandra Knecht explained. GAC and other community members have given feedback on various department policies, particularly around use of force.

GAC members also try to comment on City Council discussions and participate in other local matters, including education, youth outreach and affordable housing. In doing so, the group has developed partnerships with Shelton Elementary, the Golden Library, Colorado School of Mines student groups, Golden United and other groups that share GAC’s goals.

Similar to GAC, Golden United formed after the 2016 election as “there was a fair amount of division, nationally and locally,” Ronnie Rosenbaum said. The group sought to bring people together and encourage respect for those who have different ideas and opinions.

Rosenbaum, who’s vice president on Golden United’s board of directors, described the partnership between Golden United and

anti-Black behaviors and norms” in the area. So, he said, it’s no surprise that the Black Panther Party, an organization that “unapologetically called for Black liberation and the dismantling of White supremacist power structures, would catch the

about, ‘there’s another Black person who got in trouble.’”

In the country

Going back through American history, the Urban Spectrum’s Porter described other incidents where media outlets didn’t give Black people the benefit of the doubt. He listed the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the Emmett Till lynching as examples of the media portraying those involved as “guilty until proven innocent,” adding how the trend has persisted into today’s coverage of police shootings and similar incidents.

“And it seems as though that mentality continues to manifest in those organizations in their treatment of our community,” he said. “And so, it’s always the bad news. There’s really never any positive reflections.”

Regarding news coverage of the Black Panther Party, the journalism professor described it as a peaceful organization that was responding to violence “against

GAC, saying the two groups and others joined forces for a rally in summer 2020 and pushed City Council to approve the “Golden Stands with Black Lives” banner on Washington Avenue.

Minihane stressed how the GAC believes systemic racism impacts all Golden residents, regardless of race, and recommended locals read “The Sum of Us” by Heather McGhee to learn more about that impact.

For the City of Golden

In summer 2020, the Golden City Council produced a series of resolutions meant to address its history of racial exclusion and racist domination of non-White groups, Tellis stated.

These resolutions included:

Resolution 2736 – Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis

Resolution 2747 - Declaring Support for Black Lives and Racial Equity Through a Public Display, and

Resolution 2748 - Declaring A Commitment to Anti-Racism Actions

Resolution 2736 states, “the Golden City Council recognizes that racial inequities have become institutionalized in the policies and practices of many agencies, governmental and otherwise. Council recognizes the need to examine seemingly neutral policies and practices to determine whether they are contributing to inequity and, where needed, change or eliminate the policy or practice as cities have a long history of decision and policy making that have resulted in classist and racist outcomes.”

ire of local reporting.”

Tellis added: “Golden has displayed a deep commitment to the marginalization of Black people. To reflect on this legacy is pivotal if we desire to not replicate the racial strife and injustice of our past.”

African-American people in an attempt to say, ‘We will protect our community.’”

“The idea was that Black folks with guns clearly scared the hell out of people,” Porter continued. “Because obviously, if you’ve got a gun, then you’re going to be violent. And it’s only that mentality because of our profession (as journalists). Our profession has continued to promote that reflection — still does, to this day.”

As for Golden and the Transcript’s coverage of the Black community, Porter believed it likely made Black residents feel unsafe and unwelcome, saying, “They know that any coverage of them will not be balanced and fair.” Fairness and racial equity are concepts Golden, Denver, the United States and journalism as a profession need to work on, he stated.

“I don’t see our profession doing enough work in that area,” Porter said. “I hear the talk. But I’m not seeing anything to back it up.”

Building on that, the city hired a consultant in June 2021 to develop a Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan based on community input. After developing it for more than a year, the plan outlined four goals:

Create a culture of inclusion and belonging throughout the community of Golden;

Increase access to services and resources for diverse community members;

Foster an organizational culture and environment within the City of Golden that’s committed to racial equity, diversity and inclusion; and Expand economic opportunities for diverse businesses.

Along with the REDI Action Plan, the consultants also recommended dozens of strategies toward these goals and an implementation plan.

For instance, public documents and other information should be available to those who don’t speak English or have different abilities. City boards and commissions should have a more inclusive recruiting process to ensure diversity among their members. The city also should host training about Golden’s history, structural racism and implicit bias.

The City Council adopted the REDI Action Plan in December 2022 and called on the community to ensure Golden achieves the four goals in a timely, effective way.

The plan was developed with race as the leading element because of how widespread and

damaging racial inequalities are in the United States, according to city consultants. However, the REDI Action Plan is overall intersectional, examining how to make Golden a better place for people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, socioeconomic backgrounds, religions and other demographics.

O cials said the next step is to assemble an implementation team of community members and city sta ers to make recommendations to City Council on how to achieve goals. Golden expects to assemble the team this spring.

In a Feb. 10 email, Mayor Laura Weinberg highlighted city o cials and community members’ ongoing work to “live up to our value as a welcoming and inclusive city.”

“I applaud the Golden Transcript’s work to identify its role in racial inequities in the past and its role in systemic racism,” she stated. “ e City of Golden has undertaken similar work … (and) I look forward to this year’s actions to take the information from our new REDI plan and put community-driven solutions into practice.”

For the Golden Transcript

While the Transcript’s ownership and newsroom has changed greatly since the late 1960s and early ’70s, it’s not immune from the biases and attitudes that riddled its past coverage and contributed to systemic racism in and around Golden.

Scrable said reading the Transcript’s past coverage of the Black community can be “demoralizing,” but even recent stories have failed to represent Black voices.

He pointed to an Aug. 31, 2020 Transcript story about City Council’s decision to display a “Golden Stands With Black Lives” banner over Washington Avenue. e story said the banner would be displayed for 60 days, “an amount of time intended to symbolize how long it took for slave ships to cross the Atlantic.”

Scrable and his GAC co-chairs did advocate for 60 days, but they never assigned any symbolism or signicance to the number.

“It might’ve been said (in the meeting), but it wasn’t us,” Scrable said of

GAC. “It was a misquote.”

After the Aug. 31, 2020 story, Scrable received about 20 phone calls from people upset about the supposed symbolism. He felt the Transcript hadn’t done enough research and ultimately misrepresented the facts, and that insensitivity created a very frustrating experience.

He wanted the Transcript to ensure there are positive stories about people from historically marginalized groups, and do better educating Goldenites about their neighbors’ achievements and experiences.

Scrable added: “I’m looking to the Transcript to paint a positive picture for all people of color … and representing ‘all’ versus ‘a few.’” e Colorado Community Media newsroom acknowledges it has work to do, and this February 2023 report is only the rst step in what the team hopes will open a wider conversation about systemic racism and media coverage for years to come. Working on this report brought CCM sta

members face-to-face with outdated practices and implicit biases.

Going forward, CCM’s goal is to include more voices of color in the newsroom and on the pages of its two dozen publications, Publisher Linda Shapley said. CCM wants to ensure all local voices are heard and included, while also re ecting on racial equity, diversity and inclusion. CCM will strive to consider the lenses through which the sta decides to cover stories in the rst place. Appreciating di erences in CCM’s coverage areas, like history and culture, will guide the newsroom in its e orts.

Other newspapers such as e New York Times, the Washington Post, e Kansas City Star, Philadelphia Inquirer and more have done similar analyses of their past coverage, and the Transcript encourages other newspapers in the region and across the country to do so as well, Shapley said, adding that it wouldn’t have been possible without a Colorado Media Project grant.

For all journalists, Porter stressed the importance of continuing to diversify newsrooms and ensuring fair, balanced and objective coverage and “stop convicting people without evidence.”

He called on more publications to review their past coverage and acknowledge its harmful impacts, saying it’s important to shine a light on the truth, to be honest and to be transparent.

“If we’re ever going to get past this, it’s going to take some truthtelling,” he said. “It will be hard. It will be di cult. But it really is one of the last vestiges to make this country what it said it was in the beginning — freedom and liberty for all. Which has not been the case for us.”

include:

Jameka Lewis, Allan Tellis, Kristen Fiore, Rylee Dunn, Christy Steadman, Steve Smith and Deborah Grigsby contributed to this report. Greg Moore contributed as an editor.

A banner reading “Golden Stands with Black Lives” hangs from the iconic “Welcome to Golden” sign over Washington Avenue in September 2020. After declaring racism as a public health crisis in 2020, among other e orts, Golden recently adopted a Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan. COURTESY OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN

Natural world shows the way

‘Biomimicry’ exhibition traces design evolution

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

“Nature’s Blueprint: Biomimicry in Art and Design” is geared to make us really look hard at what we nd around us, with a sensitivity to what design ideas may have followed an initial look by someone out there ...

At the entry we nd a group of bronze forms, including one at the right height and location for a small visitor to touch — a really welcoming way to open an exhibit geared to stretching the visitor’s imagination — no matter what the size and age.

Photos illustrate how trees inspired Gaudi’s sculptured columns in the beautiful Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona and motion-related art inspired by trout and mushrooms, mountain goats, fruit bats, peregrine falcons, owing water and more ...

A robot that climbs trees was in-

spired by the motion of an inchworm and another display addresses the question: “Can animals make art?”

A prosthetic arm adapted to mountain climbing is inspired by a bird’s claw.

Here the huge nest of a bower bird is decorated with a collection of blue objects the bird had gathered over time.

And a cockatoo is singing in a highlystyled manner: apping its wings and turning its head just so ... is intriguing exhibit is loaned by the Mid America Arts Alliance, from the Innovation Lab at the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon, and will stretch the imagination of visitors of all ages. (Families on cross-country treks may want to include this well-recognized museum in travel plans ...)

One will undoubtedly be more aware of what’s nearby on the next walk — be it around a city block or in the woods — in the foothills or on a mountain trail.

Even very young children can learn to slow down and search for what’s near their feet as they walk, resulting in some peculiar treasures carried home

at times ... Hopefully, there’s a small shelf at home where they can exhibit the latest nd. Or in some cases, a special cage may be needed, as well as the correct food for a nd ... We found some great books at the library about what to feed whatever it is ... an essential part of a young naturalist’s library.

From Feb. 17 to May 14, Colorado artist Christopher Warren will exhibit “REinterpreting REcreating Nature,” a body of work that includes sculptures from throughout Warren’s career and his Beatnik Prints, showing his exploration of nature and art via topographic maps ... His exhibit opens with a Feb. 17 talk at 4 p.m. and reception at the museum. See beatnikprints.com for more information.

IF YOU GO

The Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton, is open Tuesday through Sunday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, with the last entry at 4:30 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. littletongov. org/museum or 303-795-3950.

Arts events start year going strong

Rebekah Durham is the Arapahoe Philharmonic’s new concertmaster as the orchestra continues its 70-year history with conductor Devin Patrick Hughes. In addition to classical music, she performs indie rock and bluegrass in the area. e rst concert, “Rhythm and Blue,” will be at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at Lone Tree Arts Center., 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Box o ce: 303781-1892, arapahoe-phil.org.

Douglas County Libraries

Douglas County Libraries presents area authors and more ... CJ Box, bestselling Western author, will appear at 7 p.m. March 1 at Lone Tree Library with KOA Colorado talk host Ross Kaminsky to talk about his new Joe Pickett novel, “Storm Watch.” Sandra Dallas will appear at 6 p.m. April 22 to talk about her new novel, “Where Coyotes Howl.” Books will be sold at these events. Parker Library will host its Local Authors Showcase on March 11 at 1 p.m., where a panel will talk about their new books and then sell them. Also, Douglas County Libraries will host a traveling photography show — “ e Sammy Project Photography Show” — giving personal stories of people dealing with mental health issues, at Castle Rock Library, through Feb. 28 and at Highlands Ranch in March; Parker in April and Lone Tree in May. See dcl.org.

Arapahoe Libraries

Arapahoe Libraries present graphic novelist R. Alan Brooks, who will spend an evening via Zoom with adults and teens on Feb. 23 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. His graphic hovels include “ e Burning Metronome and Anguish Garden” and he writes the weekly comic “What’d I Miss” for the Colorado Sun. Register and get Zoom information at 303-542-7279.

Lakewood Cultural Center

e Takacs Quartet will appear at 7:30 p.m. March 4 at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Pkwy.,

Lakewood, with music by Haydn, Britten, Schubert. Tickets start at $25, 303-9877845, lakewood.org/ LCCPresents.

Big dogs

e Dumb Friends League says adoption fees for big dogs (40 pounds and over) will be reduced by 40% through February. Both the Denver and Castle Rock DFL Centers have more large dogs than they can easily manage this winter.

Cly ord Still Museum

e Cly ord Still Museum in Denver will exhibit “AWful Bigness,” a collection of the artist’s biggest paintings, beginning this week, through Sept. 10. 2023. e museum is at 1250 Bannock St., Denver. 720-354-4875, cly ordstillmuseum.org.

Kirkland Museum

”Vance Kirkland’s Cosmos” is open at the Kirkland Museum, 1201 Bannock St., Denver, with a changed display of Kirkland’s art selected by curator Hugh Grant and deputy curator Christopher Herron. 303-832-8576, kirklandmuseum.org.

Soprano performance

Soprano Michelle DeYoung will perform at 7:30 p.m. March 30 at the Newman Center, 2344 E. Ili Ave., Denver. Tickets start at $34. 303-8717720, newmancenterpresents.com. She appears regularly with national and international symphony orchestras and opera companies.

Bird count

e Great Backyard Bird Count, conducted nationally by the Audubon Society, is this week. Take 30 minutes to count birds at your back yard feeder and report to the national organization.

e local Audubon Center is looking for new members, including members of the Young Birders Club. See their website at denveraudubon.org for information — and pay a visit if you are not yet acquainted. Potential Master

Birders Program members, who train for a year, will begin in July 2023. Check the website for young birder’s outings, Nature walks for adults and more... Urban Interns train March to May. 303979-2473.

A BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY OF IRISH DANCE FOR ALL AGES!

“Progeny Fig. 2,” photographic transparencies and insect pins by Alan Bur Johnson, is on display as part of the “Nature’s Blueprint: Biomimicry in Art and Design” exhibit at Littleton Museum. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND LISA SETTE GALLERY

SONYA’S SAMPLER

Creek is 5A state swim champ

Bruins take title for third year in a row

BY JIM BENTON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Cherry Creek’s Lawson Ficken won two events, Charlotte Wilson captured a third individual title and the Bruins’ three relay teams were also rst.

at all added up to Cherry Creek winning its third straight Class 5A state swimming championship on Feb. 10 at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in ornton.

It was the 29th overall state title for the Bruins since the sport was rst sanctioned in 1972.

“It’s always fun to win,” said Cherry Creek coach Karin Olmstead Dinsdale. “ is is an amazing group of kids. We have seven that have carried on the last four years and they have become part of my family and in many ways they are a special group.

“ e leadership we have on this team has been really good. When these seniors lost four years ago and were runners-up, they came back with vengeance and said never again. ey love to win and I love that.

ey’ve got that taste of winning.

Cherry Creek’s dominance can put a lot of pressure on Bruins swimmers to keep being one of the top state contending teams each season, but it seems like nobody feels any undue pressure.

“Pressure is a privilege,” added Dinsdale, who is a former Cherry Creek swimmer.

“I agree pressure is a privilege and I’m really lucky to be in a scenario to feel that. I put it on myself because I don’t want to let my team down but it’s fun. It’s de nitely scary. I was really nervous and I just tried to channel mine into being excited.”

Cherry Creek amassed 448 points in the title victory while Regis Jesuit was the runner-up with 367.5 points.

Two-time Class 4A state champion Heritage, which this season moved up to 5A, was third with 321 points. e Eagles’ Mary Macauley, a two-time state champ last season, added the Class 5A 200 IM individual championship with a winning time of 2:00.67.

Ficken, a senior who will continue her education and swimming at Auburn next season, won the 50 freestyle in 22.64 and the 100 freestyle with a time of 48.77.

“It feels so good,” she said. “I’m just so lucky to swim with these girls and I’m just so honored to be able to pick it up and compete.”

Wilson, a junior, captured the 100 backstroke in 52.95.

Both Ficken and Wilson were on the 200 freestyle relay team along with Alexis Greenhawt and Ana Loveridge that set a state record in the preliminaries and then broke it in the nals.

e Creek foursome turned in a 1:30.81 clocking in the nals which was 11 hundredths of a second o the national record.

In the 200 medley relay, Wilson, Katie Cohen, Maren McDonald and Alana Maxey won in 1:47.81 while Creek’s 400 relay team of Greenhawt, Ficken, Loveridge and Teagan Steinmetz won with a time of 3:23.66.

Cherry Creek’s girls swimming team won its third straight state championship and 29th overall on Feb. 10.

PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON

Cherry Creek’s girls swimming team celebrates winning the 5A state swimming championship in Thornton.

Falcons girls getting tougher

Highlands Ranch hoops team is young but playing hard

BY JIM BENTON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Hard work is starting to pay dividends for Highlands Ranch basketball player Ezra Simonich.

Simonich, a 5-foot-10 sophomore, scored 23 points on Feb. 7 in a Continental League showdown against Regis Jesuit which matched two top ten teams in the CHSAANow state rankings.

“I’ve been working real hard to get my shot going and I felt like the habit paid o ,” said Simonich.

She made ve 3-point baskets to lead the way for the fth-ranked Falcons, who used a strong second and third periods in which they outscored the Raiders 38-19 to pull away from the Raiders, who came into the game ranked sixth.

“We passed really well and we came out a lot faster and harder than we have this season,” added Simonich. “ at’s why we got up and then we were able to keep that throughout the game. We’ve grown a lot. We all know where each other is at and we’re really playing well as a team.”

“ e kids played great as a team,” said Falcons coach Caryn Jarocki. “ ey actually executed the game plan better than we have in the past. ey are learning to take what we learn in practice and executing that in the game.”

Highlands Ranch’s varsity roster is young with ve freshman, three sophomores and two seniors.

“We are a very young team and they are growing by leaps and bounds,” Jarocki said. “ ey are getting tougher every day. ey have been thrusted into roles that they shouldn’t have to play but they are. ey are young and they are doing it. I’m proud of them.

“Now the sky is the limit. I think they are feeling the fever of it. ey are gaining con dence every day.”

e Falcons’ two seniors, Maddie Groth and Bailey Williamson, had 12 and 10 points respectively against Regis.

In the game against Legend on Feb. 7, the Falcons rolled to a 50-39 victory.

Highlands Ranch faced piggyback league rst place games against both Regis and Legend and won both contests.

With two games remaining in the regular season, the Falcons are 8-0 in the league and 18-3 overall. Legend is 7-1 and 14-7 while underRidge is 7-2 in the league and Regis 6-2.

Jarocki swelled her Colorado all-best winning mark to 716-186 in 34 years of coaching, including the rst 11 seasons at Colorado Academy. She has helped Highlands Ranch win seven state championships.

Isabella Shumpert (22) of Highlands Ranch gets a rebound slapped away by a Regis Jesuit player during the Feb. 7 game in which the Falcons won, 65-43.

Tori Baker (1) of Highlands Ranch drives around Lexi Meyer of Regis Jesuit during the Feb. 7 game. The Falcons won, 65-43, to remain unbeaten in the league.

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when they’re asked to move along.”

Polis’ words draw worries

Douglas County has no large-scale homeless shelter, but the Winter Shelter Network — an organization of churches — serves Douglas County women and children experiencing homelessness.

e network provides shelter from Jan. 2 through March 31, its website says. Guests stay at local churches that open their facilities on a rotating basis. In 2022, the network sheltered ve households, according to Laydon.

Pastor Mike Polhemus of e Rock church has said he hopes to get help, outlining the details of expanding the program into a year-round shelter network.

He said he envisions multiple churches making up the network with one or two families or individuals housed at each location to avoid having a large homeless community.

e Nextdoor posted earlier this month, which garnered dozens of reactions and comments, also expressed concern about the idea of “potential plans to circumvent the Town Council and change the Rock’s zoning.”

“As you may know, on January 17, 2023, during Governor Polis’ State of the State address, Governor Polis stipulated he is contemplating the possibility of preempting local government land use zoning with new potential land use and zoning legislation,” the post read. “ us, potentially, allowing accessory dwelling units (“ADU’s”) and similar, be permitted with landowners on

their properties - without any local government approval.”

Accessory dwelling units — small residential spaces located behind a house or attached to a garage — are already allowed in several metroarea cities.

In his annual State of the State speech, Polis seemed to tease at the possibility of state intervention in how local communities govern housing.

“Since issues like transportation, water, energy and more inherently cross jurisdictional boundaries, it becomes a statewide problem that truly impacts all of us,” Polis said. He spoke of the need for more exible zoning to allow more housing and “streamlined regulations that cut through red tape.”

In an interview with Colorado Public Radio, Polis spoke in favor of seeing more accessory dwelling units — among other types of housing — but the governor has avoided providing speci cs on what actions he favors.

Gray, Castle Rock’s mayor, said “there’s been talk of pushing for ADUs” or other housing.

“Our fear is it’ll take away local rule,” Gray said.

In response to questions from Colorado Community Media in January, the governor and his ofce didn’t specify what changes to zoning policy he would support or oppose. Polis had not said that he wants the state to require zoning changes in cities.

After his State of the State address, the governor was focused on gathering input to work with state lawmakers and develop a proposal on landuse policy. As of early February, the governor’s spokesperson con rmed to CCM there was still no bill introduced for such a proposal.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Castle Rock NOTICE OF SALE

Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0198

To Whom It May Concern: On 12/23/2022 10:44:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: Kelsey A Alden and Brett C Alden

Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Guild Mortgage Company, a California Corporation, Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Guild Mortgage Company LLC

Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/6/2018

Recording Date of DOT: 3/7/2018

Reception No. of DOT: 2018013537

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt:

$296,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $307,252.19

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property:

LOT 1, BLOCK 3, FOUNDERS VILLAGE FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of:

4152 Heritage Way , Castle Rock, CO 80104

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 2/16/2023

Last Publication: 3/16/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 12/23/2022

DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

HOLLY SHILLIDAY

Colorado Registration #: 24423 7700 E. ARAPAHOE ROAD, SUITE 230, CENTENNIAL, COLORADO 80112

Phone #: (877) 369-6122

Fax #: Attorney File #: CO-22-947580-LL

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: https:// www.douglas.co.us/public-trustee/

Legal Notice No. 2022-0198

First Publication: 2/16/2023

Last Publication: 3/16/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Unclaimed Property, Douglas County Public Trustee

To Whom It May Concern: On November 9, 2022, the real property owned by REXFORD D. EVANS located at 8404 PIONEER TRAIL, PARKER, CO 80134, was sold at the foreclosure sale conducted by the Douglas County Public Trustee. The sale number is 2022-0113. The amount the property sold for exceeded the total amount owed to the lender, MIDFIRST BANK, by $341,918.33. This amount is now owed to REXFORD D. EVANS less the cost of this publication notice.

The legal description of the property is THE SOUTH 1/2 OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 6 SOUTH RANGE 65 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

To claim the funds, contact the Douglas County Public Trustee, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Co 80104, 303-660-7417. If the funds are not claimed by the owner entitled thereto before June 23, 2023, the funds will be transferred to the Colorado State Treasurer as part of the “Unclaimed Property Act”.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 2/20/2013

Recording Date of DOT: 2/28/2013 Reception No. of DOT: 2013016964

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $390,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $310,949.83

Pursuant to C.R.S. §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.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property:

LOT 6, BLOCK 1, PERRY PARK FILING NO. 6, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of: 4258 Mohawk Drive, Larkspur, CO 80118

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 2/16/2023

Last Publication: 3/16/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 12/16/2022

DAVID GILL

DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

RYAN BOURGEOIS

Whom It May Concern: On 12/15/2022 4:31:00

the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

DAVID WYLIE

Colorado Registration #: 51088 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700 , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 350-3711 Fax #:

File #: 00000009655739

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: https:// www.douglas.co.us/public-trustee/

Douglas County Salaries

Trustee for CWHEQ Home Equity Loan Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2006-S4 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 5/18/2006

Recording Date of DOT: 8/28/2006 Reception No. of DOT: 2006073965 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $95,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $72,619.75

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 49, STONEGATE FILING NO. 14B, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9847 Centre Cir, Parker, CO 80134-3313

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 15, 2023, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

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workers’ compensation; flexible spending program administration fees (if applicable); and an employee assistance program. Some employees may also be offered auto benefit, uniform, phone, and / or tool allowances, as well as recognition awards. The County wide average percentage of salaries paid for the aforementioned benefits is 37.61%. This notice is published under the direction of the

PUBLIC NOTICE

Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE

Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0197

To Whom It May Concern: On 12/21/2022

11:49:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: MATTHEW J. ROUSE

Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST COMMUNITY MORTGAGE, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 7/31/2018

Recording Date of DOT: 8/3/2018

Reception No. of DOT: 2018047124

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt:

$201,973.00

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $173,438.19

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower's failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: CONDOMINIUM UNIT 17D, SUGARMILL CONDOMINIUMS, PHASE 3, IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO THE SUBASSOCIATION DECLARATION FOR SUGARMILL CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. OF HIGHLANDS RANCH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC. RECORDED ON AUGUST 1, 1984 IN BOOK 532 AT PAGE 354 AND SUPPLEMENTAL RECORDED JUNE 17, 1985 IN BOOK 579 AT PAGE 642, AND THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED ON JUNE 17, 1985 AT RECEPTION NO. 355445, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of: 908 Summer Dr, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at

the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $280,992.06

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower's failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property:

LOT 3, PARCEL 2, HIGHLANDS RANCH - FIL-

ING NO. 109-D, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

22-029049

MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: https:// www.douglas.co.us/public-trustee/

Which has the address of: 8618 Canongate Lane , Highlands Ranch, CO 80130

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 11/29/2022

DAVID GILL

DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

ALISON L. BERRY Colorado Registration #: 34531 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994

Attorney File #: 22-026260

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: https:// www.douglas.co.us/public-trustee/

Legal Notice No.2022-0182

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE

Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0188

To Whom It May Concern: On 12/7/2022 9:58:00

AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: WILLIAM J ROGERS AND PAIGE P ROGERS

Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR UNIVERSAL LENDING CORPORATION

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Universal Lending Corporation

Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/16/2022

Recording Date of DOT: 3/23/2022

Reception No. of DOT: 2022020901 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $651,973.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $651,973.00

Pursuant to C.R.S. §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.

Said Deed of Trust was rerecorded on 4/5/2022, under Reception No. 2022024250.THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 10, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 70-C, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of:

2162 Biscayne Court, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126-4019

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as

provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

County News Press

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

BOURGEOIS Colorado Registration #: 51088 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 350-3711

#: Attorney File #: 00000009672429 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: https:// www.douglas.co.us/public-trustee/

Public Notices

Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 12/26/2018

Recording Date of DOT: 1/2/2019

Reception No. of DOT: 2019000162

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt:

$442,612.00

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $431,045.81

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower's failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property:

LOT 6, BLOCK 3, CASTLE PINES NORTH FILING NO. 12, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of: 740 Deer Clover Cir, Castle Pines, CO 80108

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 2/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/2/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 12/8/2022

DAVID GILL

DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

N. APRIL WINECKI

Colorado Registration #: 34861 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990

Fax #: (303) 706-9994

Attorney File #: 22-028910

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE

DATES on the Public Trustee website: https:// www.douglas.co.us/public-trustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0189

First Publication: 2/2/2023 Last Publication: 3/2/2023 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE

Castle Rock

NOTICE OF SALE

Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0193

To Whom It May Concern: On 12/15/2022 10:00:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: Curtis C Reid and Janine M Reid

Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: M & T Bank

Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 1/23/2016

Recording Date of DOT: 2/2/2016

Reception No. of DOT: 2016006133

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt:

$394,124.00

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $340,286.31

Pursuant to C.R.S. §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/or other violations of the terms thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property:

LOT 1, BLOCK 13, HECKENDORF RANCH FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of: 209 Portmeirion Lane, Castle Rock, CO 80104

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m.

Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Bank of England, its successors and assigns

Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Principal Amount as of the date

$414,344.41 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: FAILURE TO MAKE TIMELY PAYMENTS AS REQUIRED UNDER THE EVIDENCE OF DEBT AND DEED OF TRUST. **This loan has been modified through a Loan Modification Agreement recorded 1/27/2022 at Reception No. 2022006459 in the records of the Douglas county clerk and recorder, Colorado.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property:

LOT 3, BLOCK 3, METZLER RANCH FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of: 1008 Purple Sage Loop, Castle Rock, CO 80104

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

(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.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 25, TOWNSHIP 7 SOUTH, RANGE 69 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. EXCEPTING THEREFROM PROPERTY CONVEYED IN DEED RECORDED JULY 29, 1987 IN BOOK 737 AT PAGE 596 OF THE DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO RECORDS

Which has the address of: 3755 North Rampart Range Road Two ParcelsR0477486 And R0481068 , Littleton, CO 80125

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

FIRST LIEN.

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 120, COTTONWOOD SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 8476 Wheatgrass Cir, Parker, CO 80134

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 2/9/2023

Last Publication: 3/9/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 12/14/2022

DAVID GILL

DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

RYAN BOURGEOIS

Colorado Registration #: 51088 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700 , DENVER, COLORADO 80204

Phone #: (303) 350-3711

Fax #:

Attorney File #: 00000009587684

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: https:// www.douglas.co.us/public-trustee/

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 5, 2023, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 2/9/2023

Last Publication: 3/9/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 12/15/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: AMANDA FERGUSON

on the Public Trustee website: https:// www.douglas.co.us/public-trustee/

Legal Notice No. 2022-0191

First Publication: 2/9/2023

Last Publication: 3/9/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

Franktown NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0180

To Whom It May Concern: On 11/23/2022 1:03:00

PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: CLAY S ALLEN AND LISA M ALLEN

Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION

SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR AIR ACADEMY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Truman 2021 SC9 Title Trust Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 7/26/2007

Recording Date of DOT: 8/2/2007 Reception No. of DOT: 2007061706

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt:

$327,400.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $278,145.17

Pursuant to C.R.S. §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.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 22, FLINTWOOD HILLS, 3RD ADDITION, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of: 11842 East Crabapple Dr, Franktown, CO 80116

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 15, 2023, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 11/23/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

ANNA JOHNSTON Colorado Registration #: 51978 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303)

undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County. Original Grantor: OVIDIO ENRIQUE PEREZ II AND SARAH A PEREZ Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR FFC MORTGAGE CORP.

Date of DOT: 5/17/2016 Reception No. of DOT: 2016030880 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $255,852.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $288,318.12

Pursuant to C.R.S. §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.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 69, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 122L, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of:

10647 Cherrybrook Cir, Littleton, CO 80126

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, March 15, 2023, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of 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 deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 11/23/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

RYAN BOURGEOIS Colorado Registration #: 51088 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700 , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 350-3711 Fax #: Attorney File #: 00000009654658

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: https:// www.douglas.co.us/public-trustee/

Legal Notice No. 2022-0177

First Publication: 1/19/2023

Last Publication: 2/16/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Castle Rock NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0181

To Whom It May Concern: On 11/29/2022 11:26:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

ARTICLE 13 - EFFECTIVE DATE

This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days following publication after the first reading if no changes are made on second reading, or twenty (20) days after publication following second reading if changes are made upon second reading.

INTRODUCED, READ AND ORDERED PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 7, 2023.

Legal Notice No. 944649

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

The following ordinance was introduced on first reading, where it was read and ordered published by the Lone Tree City Council on January 17, 2023, and published on February 2, 2023, legal notice No. 944558.

The ordinance was then presented on second reading for final adoption by the Lone Tree City Council at a public hearing on February 7, 2023, where the ordinance was approved and adopted with changes.

Therefore, the amended ordinance must be republished according to Article V, Section 7(D) of the City of Lone Tree Home Rule Charter.

ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LONE TREE

Series of 2023

Ordinance No. 23-02

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 6 OF THE LONE TREE MUNICIPAL CODE, TITLED BUSINESS LICENSES AND REGULATIONS, TO ADD A NEW ARTICLE VI RELATING TO SHORT TERM RENTALS

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LONE TREE, COLORADO:

ARTICLE 1 – AUTHORITY

The City of Lone Tree (the "City") is a home rule municipality operating under the Lone Tree Home Rule Charter (the "Charter") adopted on May 5, 1998, and a Municipal Code (the "Code"), codified and adopted on December 7, 2004. Pursuant to its constitutional home rule authority, the City may adopt and amend ordinances. Further, under C.R.S. § 31-15-501(1)(c), municipal governments have the power to regulate and license any lawful occupation or business.

ARTICLE 2 – DECLARATIONS OF POLICY AND FINDINGS

A. Currently, the City has several short-term rentals operating within its jurisdiction.

B. The City desires to allow those short-term rentals that were legally existing and had a valid city business license as of the Effective Date of this Ordinance to continue to operate subject to the regulations imposed herein.

C. The City desires to impose such regulations in order to:

1. Ensure compatibility with the residential character of neighborhoods;

2. Impose license fees to offset the costs of regulating short-term rentals and the increase in city services that result from short-term rentals; and

3. Minimize the impact of short-term rentals on other residents (e.g., noise, traffic, etc.).

D. The City will continue to evaluate the desirability to allow for additional short-term rentals in the City.

ARTICLE 3 – SAFETY CLAUSE

The City Council hereby finds, determines, and declares that this Ordinance is promulgated under the general police power of the City and C.R.S. § 31-15-501(1)(c), that it is promulgated for the health, safety, and welfare of the public, and that this Ordinance is necessary for the preservation of health and safety and for the protection of public convenience and welfare.

ARTICLE 4- AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 6 BY

AN ADDITION OF A NEW ARTICLE VI

Chapter 6 of the Lone Tree Municipal Code is hereby amended with the addition of a new Article VI entitled, “Short-Term Rentals,” to read as follows:

ARTICLE VI – SHORT-TERM RENTALS

Sec. 6-6-10. Purpose and Intent.

(a) This Article shall be known and cited as the Short- Term Rental Ordinance. This Article shall apply to all persons who operate a short-term rental within the City.

(b) The City wishes to only allow short-term rentals that were legally existing and had a valid city business license for the short-term rental as of the Effective Date to operate within the City.

(c) Short-term rental operators shall be required to obtain and maintain both a short-term rental license as provided in this Article and a business license in accordance with Section 6-3-20 of the Lone Tree Municipal Code.

(d) Short-term rentals that had legally existed and had a valid city business license as of the Effective Date must apply to obtain a short-term rental license within sixty (60) days of the Effective Date.

(e) The intent of the regulations in this Article is to:

(1) Ensure compatibility with the residential character of neighborhoods;

(2) Impose license fees to offset the costs of regulating short-term rentals and the increase in city services that result from short-term rentals;

and

(3) Minimize the impact of short-term rentals on other residents (e.g., noise, traffic, parking, and

other public health, safety and welfare impacts).

Sec. 6-6-20. Definitions.

The following definitions shall apply throughout this Article:

Advertise means any act, method, or means of drawing attention to a short-term rental for purpose of promoting the same for rent or occupancy.

Applicant means a person who has submitted an application for a short-term rental license.

City Manager means the City Manager of the City of Lone Tree or his or her designee.

Effective Date means March 8, 2023.

Imminent Danger means a condition that could cause serious or life-threatening injury or death at any time.

License means a short-term rental license.

Licensee means the owner or holder of a shortterm rental license.

Licensed Premises means the premises specified in an approved application for a license under this Article which are owned or in the possession of the licensee and within which such licensee is authorized to provide short-term rental accommodations in accordance with this Article.

Primary Residence means a dwelling which is the usual place of return for housing as documented by the occupant’s: (1) driver’s license OR Colorado state identification card; AND (2) voter registration; motor vehicle registration OR designated residence for tax purposes. An applicant for a license under this Article may only have one (1) primary residence.

Residential Character means and includes characteristics of appearance and use that is similar to residential use including without limitation traffic, and impact on services such as water, fire, and sanitation.

Short-Term Rental means a primary residence or portion thereof used for lodging accommodations for a period of less than thirty (30) consecutive days.

Sec. 6-6-30. License Application; Term; Renewal; Non-Transferable

(a) License Application. Applications for a license shall be submitted to the City Clerk on a form approved by the City. The City Clerk shall only accept complete applications. Applications shall, at minimum, contain the following information:

(1) Applicant Information. The applicant’s full name, the address of the licensed premises, email address, and the applicant’s telephone number.

(2) Authorized Agent Information. The full name, address (either residential or business), email address, and telephone number of the authorized agent of the applicant. The address provided must be within fifty (50) miles of the City.

(3) Authorized Agent Declaration. A written declaration that the authorized agent is entitled to act in the applicant’s absence for issues related to the short-term rental and is able to be physically onsite of the licensed premises within two (2) hours of contact by the City.

(4) Applicant Affidavit. A sworn affidavit from the applicant attesting that:

(A) The applicant will follow all license requirements under this Article;

(B) There are no private rules or covenants affecting the licensed premises that prohibit the use of such premises as a short-term rental;

(C) The application is complete and contains no false, misleading, or fraudulent information; and

(D) The applicant agrees to accept service of notice of violation at such address either personally or upon posting of notice upon the property.

(5) Licensed Premises Description/Illustration. A description or illustration of the area(s) of the proposed licensed premises that will be used for short-term rental purposes.

(6) Proof of Lawful Possession. Proof of lawful possession of the licensed premises by the applicant, either by deed or lease. If the applicant is not the owner, the applicant must include written authorization, signed and notarized, from the tenant and owner for use of the licensed premises for short-term rental purposes.

(7) Application Fee. An application fee in the amount set forth in the City’s Fee Schedule.

(8) Liability Insurance. Proof of a liability insurance policy to cover the use of the licensed premises as a short-term rental in an amount determined to be appropriate by the insurance company issuing the policy. Such coverage must be maintained in full force and effect for the term on the license.

(9) Proof of Operation prior to the Effective Date The applicant must submit sufficient evidence that the proposed licensed premises had operated as a short-term rental prior to the date of application. This information must include, at minimum:

(A) A copy of the city business license for the short-term rental indicating such business license was valid as of the Effective Date; and

(B) Information showing the total number of nights, specific dates preferable, in the past three (3) years for which the proposed licensed premises was used as a short-term rental.

(10) Remittance of Past Due Lodging and Sales Taxes. The applicant must submit evidence that

with the requirements of this Code.

(b) Duty to Update. It is the duty of each licensee to ensure that the information provided in the application is kept up to date at all times. A licensee is required to provide updated information to the City within ten (10) days after the date upon which any information provided is no longer accurate.

(c) License Term. Each license issued under this Article shall expire on January 15, unless canceled, suspended, or revoked, and shall be renewed annually.

(d) Renewal. Application for a renewal of a shortterm rental license shall be made at least ninety (90) days before the expiration date of the current license on a form provided by the City Clerk. In the event an application for a renewal is made less than ninety (90) days before the expiration date, the current license shall expire on its expiration date. After the expiration date, the licensee shall cease operation of the short-term rental until the licensee possesses a valid license.

(e) Non-Transferable. No license issued under this Article shall be transferable and no license is valid as to any person or entity other than the person or entity named thereon, excepting spouses and partners in a civil union.

Sec. 6-6-40. Short-Term Rental of Non-Primary Residences and Accessory Dwelling Units Prohibited.

(a) The short-term rental of a residence which is not the primary residence of the licensee is prohibited.

(b) The short-term rental of an accessory dwelling unit is prohibited.

(c) The short-term rental of a recreational vehicle or outdoor camping space that is parked or located on the short-term rental is prohibited.

Sec. 6-6-50. Minimum Health and Safety Standards; Inspections.

(a) Building, Housing, and Health Codes. Each licensed premises shall comply with all building, electrical, fire, and health codes which, if violated, would constitute an imminent danger.

(b) Fire/Carbon Monoxide Safety. Each licensed premises shall contain working smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors and fire extinguishers as required by Chapter 18 of the Lone Tree Municipal Code.

(c) City’s Right to Inspect. The City retains the right to inspect any licensed premises, or any premises where an applicant has applied for such premises to be licensed under this Article, at reasonable times in accordance with law.

Sec. 6-6-60. Limitations; Requirements.

(a) Occupants. The occupancy of a short-term rental shall not exceed two (2) adults per bedroom, up to a maximum of eight (8) persons, except for children under the age of five (5) years; per licensed premises.

(b) Parking. The short-term rental shall not produce excess vehicles. Excess vehicles means any vehicle or vehicles owned or operated by renters of the short-term rental or their guests that cannot be accommodated on the dwelling unit’s driveway or parked in a common lot.

(c) Advertisement. In any advertisement for a short-term rental, the licensee must list the shortterm rental license number issued by the City under this Article.

(d) Availability of Licensee or Authorized Agent. During the term that a short-term rental is occupied by a short-term tenant, the licensee and/or the authorized agent designated by the licensee shall be available twenty-four (24) hours per day, seven (7) days per week, for the purpose of responding within two (2) hours to complaints regarding the condition or operation of the short-term rental or the conduct of short-term tenants.

(e) Compliance with the Municipal Code. All shortterm renters shall comply with all applicable provisions of the Lone Tree Municipal Code, including but not limited to Section 10-4-10 (Disturbing the Peace) and Section 10-4-80 (Noise). If a short-term renter is served with a complaint for a violation of the municipal code, the Police Department shall notify the City Clerk that a violation has occurred at the short-term rental. Such complaint shall constitute evidence that the Licensee is not operating the short-term rental in compliance with this Article.

(f) Residential Character. All dwellings in which short term rentals are operated shall be compatible with the residential character of the neighborhood.

(g) Notice to Renters. Each licensee shall post a notice inside the licensed premises containing the information as determined by the City Manager as posted on the City’s website.

(h) Annual Affidavit. Each licensee shall submit to the City, on an annual basis, an affidavit signed and notarized, attesting to the duration and frequency of the prior year’s short-term rental history, as well as confirmation of payment of all applicable sales and/or lodging taxes, and compliance with minimum health and safety standards set forth in Section 6-6-50.

(i) Reservations. Only one short-term rental reservation to one party at a time is permitted.

Sec 6-6-70. Unlawful Acts.

It is unlawful for any person to:

(a) Operate a short-term rental in violation of any provision of this Article.

(b) Operate a short-term rental, or rent the shortterm rental to person(s) that act(s), in a manner that does not comply with all applicable federal, state and City laws.

(c) Fail to collect or remit City lodging and sales taxes due on the sale of short-term rentals as required by Article V and Article III, respectively, of Chapter 4.

(d) Operate a short-term rental or permit the use or occupancy of the same in violation of any the requirements of Chapter 16, concerning zoning, including but not limited to occupancy limitations, if any.

(e) Construct or modify a licensed premises for short-term rental purposes in violation of Chapter 18, concerning building regulations, including any code adopted by reference therein.

Sec. 6-6-80. City to Maintain Records.

(a) The City Clerk shall maintain a list of currently licensed short-term rental properties in the City.

Sec. 6-6-90. Penalties, Suspension, and Revocation; Appeal.

(a) Upon complaint or upon reason to believe a licensee is not operating a short-term rental in compliance with the standards and requirements of this Article, the City Manager may investigate such circumstance and render an administrative determination whether the licensee is in compliance. Such investigation may include an informal meeting with the licensee to discuss concerns and voluntary compliance. Upon a finding of non-compliance, the City Manager shall notify the licensee of such determination and may:

(1) Assess an administrative penalty. The City Manager may impose an administrative penalty in an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each finding of non-compliance. The City Manager may impose an administrative penalty in an amount of seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) for a second finding of non-compliance and one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for a third finding of non-compliance within a twelve-month period. Administrative penalty assessments shall be customarily imposed upon the licensee when failing to promptly bring the operation of the shortterm rental into compliance with the standards and requirements upon notice by the City. Interest at five percent (5%) each full calendar month (prorated for any partial month) shall accrue upon any outstanding and unpaid administrative penalty assessment amount owed until the assessment is paid in full. Interest accrual shall not be stayed or suspended during any period of administrative or judicial challenge or appeal.

(a) The City Manager shall serve a notice of an administrative penalty assessment by first class and certified mail to the address of the licensee. The Director may also, as a courtesy, send notice to the licensee through electronic mail to any address of the licensee provided to the City.

(1) The notice shall identify:

(A) The name of the licensee and the license number;

(B) The applicable Code section(s) alleged to have been violated together with a description of the violation;

(C) The effective date of the administrative penalty assessment which shall commence, or be due and owing, no earlier than fifteen (15) days after the date of the notice; and

(D) Information on the right to appeal the decision as set forth in Sections 6-3-70 and 6-3-80.

(2) The City Manager may provide information on action necessary to correct the violation.

(3) Provided that the mailed notice is properly addressed to the licensee's last known registered address with the City, failure of the licensee to receive such mailing or to accept the certified mailing shall not preclude or prevent the imposition of revocation, suspension, or administrative penalty assessment, including any interest owed on penalty assessment.

(2) Suspend the licensee's license. The City Manager may suspend a license in the same manner as for business licenses as set forth in Sections 6-3-70 and 6-3-80.

(3) Revoke the licensee's license. The City Manager may revoke a license in the same manner as for business licenses as set forth in Sections 6-3-70 and 6-3-80.

(4) Administrative penalty assessments, suspensions, and revocations may be appealed in the same manner as for business licenses under Section 6-3-70 and 6-3-80.

(5) In addition to the suspension, revocation, administrative penalty or refusal to renew any license as set forth herein, the City may take any other legal action available to address violations of the provisions of this Article.

(b) A person who violates any provision of this Article shall be subject to a minimum mandatory fine in the amount of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) which minimum fine shall not be suspended by the court. Nothing in this subparagraph (b) shall be construed to prevent the court from imposing a fine greater than the minimum mandatory fine.

ARTICLE 5 – SEVERABILITY

If any part or provision of this Ordinance, or its application to any person or circumstance, is adjudged to be invalid or unenforceable, the invalidity or unenforceability of such part, provision, or application shall not affect any of the remaining parts, provisions or applications of this Ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision, part or application, and to this end the provisions and parts of this Ordinance are declared to be severable.

ARTICLE 6 – CAUSES OF ACTION RETAINED

Nothing in this Ordinance hereby adopted shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding pending in any court, or any rights acquired, or liability incurred, or any cause or causes of action acquired or existing, under any act or ordinance hereby repealed; nor shall any just or legal right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired or affected by this Ordinance.

ARTICLE 7 - EFFECTIVE DATE This Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days

following publication after the first reading if no changes are made on second reading, or twenty (20) days after publication following second reading if changes are made upon second reading.

INTRODUCED, READ AND ORDERED PUBLISHED ON JANUARY 17, 2023.

APPROVED AND ADOPTED WITH CHANGES ON SECOND READING ON FEBRUARY 7, 2023, TO BECOME EFFECTIVE MARCH 8, 2023.

Legal Notice No. 944645

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

The following ordinance was introduced on first reading, where it was read and ordered published by the Lone Tree City Council on January 17, 2023, and published on February 2, 2023, legal notice No. 944557.

The ordinance was then presented on second reading, for final adoption by the Lone Tree City Council at a public hearing on February 7, 2023, where the ordinance was approved and adopted with changes.

Therefore, the amended ordinance must be republished according to Article V, Section 7(D) of the City of Lone Tree Home Rule Charter. ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LONE TREE Series of 2023 Ordinance No. 23-01 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE CITY OF LONE TREE MUNICIPAL CODE, TITLED ZONING, TO ADDRESS SHORT-TERM RENTALS BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LONE TREE, COLORADO:

ARTICLE 1 – AUTHORITY

The City of Lone Tree (the "City") is a home rule municipality operating under the Lone Tree Home Rule Charter (the "Charter") adopted on May 5, 1998, and a Municipal Code (the "Code"), codified and adopted on December 7, 2004. Pursuant to its constitutional home rule authority, the City may adopt and amend ordinances.

ARTICLE 2 – DECLARATIONS OF POLICY AND FINDINGS

A. The City has adopted zoning regulations codified in Chapter 16 of the Municipal Code, as amended by Ordinance 22-02 adopted on March 15, 2022 (“Zoning Regulations”).

B. City Council desires to implement a licensing program for short-term rentals and wishes to amend the Zoning Regulations to specifically allow for certain short-term rentals of residentially zoned properties that meet certain requirements of the City (“Zoning Text Amendments”).

C. The Zoning Text Amendments have been published on the City’s website for public comment in advance of the scheduled public hearings before Planning Commission and City Council.

D. The Planning Commission and the City Council conducted duly noticed public hearings on the proposed Zoning Text Amendments in accordance with Section 16-1-110 of the Municipal Code.

E. City Council finds that it is in the best interest of the City to amend the following Section of Chapter 16 of the Municipal Code, Titled Zoning.

ARTICLE 3 – SAFETY CLAUSE

The City Council hereby finds, determines, and declares that this Ordinance is promulgated under the general police power of the City, that it is promulgated for the health, safety, and welfare of the public, and that this Ordinance is necessary for the preservation of health and safety and for the protection of public convenience and welfare.

ARTICLE 4 - CHAPTER 16 OF THE LONE TREE MUNICIPAL CODE, TITLED ZONING, SHALL BE AMENDED AS FOLLOWS:

Section 16-2-60 of the Lone Tree Municipal Code titled “Permitted Uses in All Residential Zoning Districts” is hereby amended to add a new subsection (c) as follows:

Sec. 16-2-60. – Permitted Uses in All Residential Zoning Districts. * * *

(c) Short-term rentals, as defined in Chapter 6, Article 6, are permitted in all zoning districts where residential uses are permitted by right, provided that such short-term rental:

(1) Legally existed and had a valid city business license as of March 8, 2023; and

(2) Is operated in conformance with all federal, state, and City rules and regulations applicable to short-term rentals.

ARTICLE 5 – SEVERABILITY

If any part or provision of this Ordinance, or its application to any person or circumstance, is adjudged to be invalid or unenforceable, the invalidity or unenforceability of such part, provision, or application shall not affect any of the remaining parts, provisions or applications of this Ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision, part or application, and to this end the provisions and parts of this Ordinance are declared to be severable.

ARTICLE 6 – CAUSES OF ACTION RETAINED

Nothing in this Ordinance hereby adopted shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding pending in any court, or any rights acquired, or liability incurred, or any cause or causes of action acquired or existing, under any act or ordinance hereby repealed; nor shall any just or legal right or remedy of any character be lost, impaired or affected by this Ordinance.

ARTICLE 7 - EFFECTIVE DATE

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Bids and Settlements

Public Notice

Notice of Final Payment/Final Settlement

Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board

Notice is hereby given that at 9:00 am on Monday, February 27, the STERLING RANCH COMMUNITY AUTHORITY BOARD shall make final payment and settlement to the following contractors in connection with all services rendered, materials furnished and for all labor performed in and for the referenced project:

1. Apex Pavement Solutions LLC in the amount of $1,143.90, pursuant to the contract dated July 27, 2022 for work performed in Sterling Ranch Filing 1.

Any person, individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust estate, trust, limited liability company, partnership, association or other legal entity that has furnished labor, materials, sustenance, or other supplies used or consumed by a contractor or his or her subcontractor in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies laborers, rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractor or the subcontractor may, at any lime and up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted ID be done, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of the claim.

All such claims shall be filed with the Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board, 9350 Roxborough Park Road, Littleton, CO 80125 on or before the above-mentioned dale and time of final settlement.

Failure on the part at a claimant to timely file a verified statement of the amount due shall relieve the Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board from any and all liability for making payment to the claimant.

BY ORDER OF THE STERLING RANCH COM-

MUNITY AUTHORITY BOARD

Legal Notice No. 944581

First Publication: Thursday, February 9, 2023

Last Publication: Thursday, February 16, 2023

Published in: The Douglas County News Press

Public Notice

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Highlands Ranch Metropolitan District Owner 62 Plaza Drive Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80129

Sealed BIDS for the Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Service Center Landscape Renovation project consisting of: removal of existing site features, soil amendment, site grading, installation of boulders and dry creek bed, new plantings, installation of mulch, traffic control, and miscellaneous construction items in Highlands Ranch will be received by:

Highlands Ranch Metropolitan District

62 Plaza Drive Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80129

Until 10:00 a.m., (Local Time), February 28, 2023, and will be publicly opened and read aloud at 62 Plaza Drive, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129.

A Pre-Bid Meeting is scheduled for 10:00 a.m., (Local Time) on February 21, 2023 at 62 Plaza Drive, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129. Electronic copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be obtained after 10:00 a.m. on February 16, 2023 by contacting Emmalyn White at ewhite@highlandsranch.org.

For questions regarding this project, please contact the Project Manager, Lance Larios at llarios@ highlandsranch.org

Highlands Ranch Metropolitan District Tammy Tucker, Director February 16, 2023

Legal Notice No. 944634

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice 2023 SEAL COAT TAXIWAY A AND REMARK AIRFIELD CENTENNIAL AIRPORT ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO

Sealed bids for 2023 Seal Coat Taxiway A and Remark Airfield, at Centennial Airport, Englewood, Colorado, will be received by the Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority, 7565 South Peoria Street, Englewood, Colorado 80112, until 10:00 a.m., local time, on March 1, 2023, and then opened, read aloud and canvassed.

The work involved includes seal coat Taxiway A asphalt pavements with sand and remark the airfield. Work is anticipated to be completed in August 2023, as coordinated with the airport.

A complete set of Plans and Bidding Requirements and Contract Documents may be obtained on or after February 15, 2023 via email to Molly. McGuire@jacobs.com.

Each bid must be accompanied by a Certified Check or Cashier’s Check in the amount of not less than five percent (5%) of the total bid, made payable to the Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority, or by Bid Bond in like amount executed by a Surety Company.

All bidders are advised that the right is reserved by the Sponsor to waive any informality in, or to reject any or all bids.

Any questions must be submitted to Molly McGuire, JACOBS, via email to molly.mcguire@ jacobs.com. Questions are due by 10:00 a.m.,

February 22, 2023. Questions received after this time will not be accepted.

Legal Notice No. 944625

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Lone Tree of Douglas County, Colorado will make final payment at the offices of City of Lone Tree at or after four-o’clock (4:00) p.m. on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, to JBS Pipeline, LLC, for all work done by said CONTRACTOR for the 2022 City of Lone Yosemite Street Storm Pipe Replacement Project. The project provided for the removal of existing 100 linear feet of 60“ corrugated metal pipe and replacement with approximately 100 linear feet of 60” reinforced concrete pipe under Yosemite Street, including associated excavation, backfilling and roadway paving. All of said construction being within or near the boundaries of the City of Lone Tree, in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, provisions, or other supplies used or consumed by such CONTRACTOR or his Subcontractor(s), in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done and whose claim, therefore, has not been paid by the CONTRACTOR or his Subcontractor(s) at any time, up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim to the City of Lone Tree, 9220 Kimmer Drive, Colorado 80124 at or before the time and date hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release said City of Lone Tree, its City Council Members, officers, agents, consultants, and employees of and from any and all liability for such claim.

BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL CITY OF LONE TREE, COLORADO

By: Justin Schmitz, Director

of Public Works & Mobility

Legal Notice No. 944616

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., that on the 27th day of February, 2023 final settlement with Hydro Resources – Rocky Mountain, Inc., will be made by the Centennial Water and Sanitation District for construction of the 2022 Well Replacement – Well A-1R project, subject to prior satisfactory final inspection and acceptance of said facilities by the Centennial Water and Sanitation District.

Any person, copartnership, association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or his subcontractor in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefore has not been paid by the contractor or the subcontractor, may file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim.

All such claims shall be filed with Centennial Water and Sanitation District, 62 Plaza Drive, Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80129, with a copy forwarded to Tim Flynn, Attorney at Law, Collins Cole Flynn Winn &Ulmer, PLLC, 165 S. Union Boulevard, Suite 785, Lakewood, Colorado 80228. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such a verified statement or claim prior to such final settlement will release said Centennial Water and Sanitation District, it's officers, agents and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim and for making payment for the said Contractor.

CENTENNIAL WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

Legal Notice No. 944590

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Published in the Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Separate sealed bids for the Rowley Downs Trail (CIP 22-037-CI) as described in the Rowley Downs Trail Improvement Plans, Specifications, and Drainage Report, will be received by electronic bid through Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System: www.bidnetdirect.com//town-of-parker until 11:00 AM local time, March 8, 2023 and then publicly opened and read aloud via an online Zoom conference. The Zoom conference information will be added to BidNet Direct via a Communication prior to the bid date.

Electronic construction plans, specifications and forms for preparing bids may be obtained on Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System: www. bidnetdirect.com//town-of-parker on February 8, 2023.

All bids must be accompanied by a Bid Bond in an amount of at least five percent (5%) of the Bid. The vendors can upload their bid bond when responding online. The bond will be retained by the Town as liquidated damages if the successful bidder refuses or fails to enter into a Contract and Performance, Payment and Maintenance bond in accordance with his bid when notified of the award.

The Town shall issue a written addendum if substantial changes which impact the technical submission of Bids are required. Addenda will be posted on the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System: www.bidnetdirect.com//town-of-parker.

Holders are responsible for either revisiting website prior to the due date to ensure that they have any addenda which may have been issued

after the initial download.

The Plan Holder shall certify its acknowledgment of the addendum by signing the addendum and returning it with its Bid. In the event of conflict with the original contract documents, addenda shall govern all other contract documents to the extent specified. Subsequent addenda shall govern over prior addenda only to the extent specified.

The extent of the work is approximately as follows:

The Rowley Downs Trail Improvement project connects Tallman Gulch Trail to Seibert Circle as well as Seibert Circle to Omaha Avenue. The trail construction will be approximately 2,430 SY of 6” concrete sidewalk with street tie ins. Tie ins will require lane closures for curb and asphalt cutting, ADA ramp install, and striping at Seibert Circle and Omaha Avenue. Trail signage will be required along the trail and at intersections. BMPs and erosion control measures will also be required throughout the duration of the project.

Bids may not be withdrawn for a period of forty-five (45) days after the time fixed for closing them. The Owner reserves the right to waive irregularities, to waive technical defects accordingly as the best interest of the Town may be served, may reject any and all bids, and shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder as determined by the Owner.

All bidders questions and inquires shall be directed to the Town of Parker’s Project Manager, Nathan Klass at 720-910-9436 nklass@parkeronline. org. Last day for questions is March 1, 2023

Tom Williams, PE, Engineering/Public Works Director

This Notice to Bidders is not valid without the above signature.

NOTICE TO NONRESIDENT BIDDERS

The purpose of this notice is to comply with C.R.S. § 8-19-104(3). If a nonresident bidder is from a state that provides a bidding preference to bidders from that state, then a comparable percentage disadvantage will be applied to the bid of that nonresident bidder. Nonresident bidders may obtain additional information from the Web site for the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.

Legal Notice No. 944624

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., that on the 28th day of February, 2023 final settlement with PlayCore Wisconsin, Inc. dba Game Time/Altitude Recreation will be made by the HIGHLANDS RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT for construction of the Spring Gulch Park Playground Renovation Project, subject to prior satisfactory final inspection and acceptance of said facilities by the HIGHLANDS RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT. Any person, copartnership, association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or his subcontractor in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefore has not been paid by the contractor or the subcontractor, may file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim.

All such claims shall be filed with HIGHLANDS

RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, 62 Plaza Drive, Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80129, with a copy forwarded to Tim Flynn, Attorney at Law, Collins Cockrel & Cole, 390 Union Boulevard, Suite 400, Denver, Colorado 80228-1556.

Failure on the part of any claimant to file such a verified statement or claim prior to such final settlement will release said HIGHLANDS RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, it's officers, agents and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim and for making payment for the said Contractor.

HIGHLANDS RANCH

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

Legal No. 944580

First Published: February 9, 2023

Last Published: February 16, 2023

Published in the Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Separate sealed bids for the 2023 Stormwater

Utility Routine Maintenance Program (CIP 23-006) as described in the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS, will be received by electronic bid through Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System: www.bidnetdirect.com//town-of-parker until 12:30 p.m. local time, March 2, 2023, and then publicly opened and read aloud via an online Zoom conference.

The Zoom conference information will be added to BidNet via a Communication prior to the bid date. Electronic construction plans, specifications and forms for preparing bids may be obtained on Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System: www. bidnetdirect.com//town-of-parker on or after 9:00 a.m. on February 6, 2023.

All bids must be accompanied by a Bid Bond in an amount of at least five percent (5%) of the Bid. The vendors can upload their bid bond when responding online. The bond will be retained by the Town as liquidated damages if the successful bidder refuses or fails to enter into a Contract and Performance, Payment and Maintenance bond in accordance with his bid when notified of the award.

The Town shall issue a written addendum if substantial changes which impact the technical submission of Bids are required. Addenda will be posted on the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System: www.bidnetdirect.com//town-of-parker. Plan Holders are responsible for either revisiting website prior to the due date to ensure that they

have any addenda which may have been issued after the initial download.

The Plan Holder shall certify its acknowledgment of the addendum by signing the addendum and returning it with its Bid. In the event of conflict with the original contract documents, addenda shall govern all other contract documents to the extent specified. Subsequent addenda shall govern over prior addenda only to the extent specified.

The extent of the work is approximately as follows:

Mowing and Trimming

Trash & Debris Removal

For approximately 102 Drainage Facilities located within the Town of Parker Bids may not be withdrawn for a period of forty-five (45) days after the time fixed for closing them. The Owner reserves the right to waive irregularities, to waive technical defects accordingly as the best interest of the Town may be served, may reject any and all bids, and shall award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder as determined by the Owner.

All bidders questions and inquires shall be directed to the Town of Parker’s Project Manager, Rick Dennett (303) 961-1384 or rdennett@ parkeronline.org. The last day for inquiries will be February 20,2023.

Tom Williams, PE, Engineering/Public Works Director

This Notice to Bidders is not valid without the above signature.

NOTICE TO NONRESIDENT BIDDERS

The purpose of this notice is to comply with C.R.S. § 8-19-104(3). If a nonresident bidder is from a state that provides a bidding preference to bidders from that state, then a comparable percentage disadvantage will be applied to the bid of that nonresident bidder. Nonresident bidders may obtain additional information from the Web site for the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.

Legal Notice No. 944623

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Misc. Private Legals

Public Notice District Court County, Colorado 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2009 Castle Rock, Colorado 80109

In re the Marriage of:

Petitioner: Joshua Michael Raynor Turman and Respondent: Julie Anne Turman

Party): Joshua Michael Raynor Turman 2258 S. Platte Road, Sedalia, Colorado 80135

Phone Number: 720-656-6711

E-mail: jmturman@msn.com

Case Number: 2022DR716 Division: 7

DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

To the Respondent named above, this Summons serves as a notice to appear in this case.

If you were served in the State of Colorado, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 21 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

If you were served outside of the State of Colorado or you were served by publication, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 35 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

You may be required to pay a filing fee with your Response. The Response form (JDF 1103) can be found at www.courts.state.co.us by clicking on the “Self Help/Forms” tab.

After 91 days from the date of service or publication, the Court may enter a Decree affecting your marital status, distribution of property and debts, issues involving children such as child support, allocation of parental responsibilities (decisionmaking and parenting time), maintenance (spousal support), attorney fees, and costs to the extent the Court has jurisdiction.

If you fail to file a Response in this case, any or all of the matters above, or any related matters which come before this Court, may be decided without further notice to you.

This is an action to obtain a Decree of: Dissolution of Marriage or Legal Separation as more fully described in the attached Petition, and if you have children, for orders regarding the children of the marriage.

Notice: §14-10-107, C.R.S. provides that upon the filing of a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage or Legal Separation by the Petitioner and CoPetitioner, or upon personal service of the Petition and Summons on the Respondent, or upon waiver and acceptance of service by the Respondent, an automatic temporary injunction shall be in effect against both parties until the Final Decree is entered, or the Petition is dismissed, or until further Order of the Court. Either party may apply to the Court for further temporary orders, an expanded temporary injunction, or modification or revocation under §14-10-108, C.R.S.

A request for genetic tests shall not prejudice the requesting party in matters concerning allocation of parental responsibilities pursuant to §14-10124(1.5), C.R.S. If genetic tests are not obtained prior to a legal establishment of paternity and submitted into evidence prior to the entry of the final decree of dissolution or legal separation, the genetic tests may not be allowed into evidence at a later date.

Automatic Temporary Injunction – By Order of Colorado Law, You and Your Spouse are:

1. Restrained from transferring, encumbering, concealing or in any way disposing of, without the consent of the other party or an Order of the Court, any marital property, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life. Each party is

required to notify the other party of any proposed extraordinary expenditures and to account to the Court for all extraordinary expenditures made after the injunction is in effect;

2. Enjoined from molesting or disturbing the peace of the other party;

3. Restrained from removing the minor children of the parties, if any, from the State without the consent of the other party or an Order of the Court; and

4. Restrained without at least 14 days advance notification and the written consent of the other party or an Order of the Court, from canceling, modifying, terminating, or allowing to lapse for nonpayment of premiums, any policy of health insurance, homeowner’s or renter’s insurance, or automobile insurance that provides coverage to either of the parties or the minor children or any policy of life insurance that names either of the parties or the minor children as a beneficiary.

[x] By checking this box, I am acknowledging I am filling in the blanks and not changing anything else on the form.

Date: December 7 and 8, 2022

/s/ Signature of the Clerk of Court/Deputy

/s/ Signature of the Attorney for the Petitioner (if any)

Legal Notice No. 944619

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 16, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Water Court

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO JANUARY 2023 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION

TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1

Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications, and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of JANUARY 2023 for each County affected.

2023CW3002 (16CW3102; 04CW251; 97CW207; 89CW169) TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK, Attn: Mark Marlowe, Director of Castle Rock Water, 175 Kellogg Court, Castle Rock, CO 80109, (720) 733-6000, mmarlowe@crgov.com.. Serve all pleadings on: Madoline Wallace-Gross, Anthony J. Basile, Lyons Gaddis, P.C., P.O. Box 978, Longmont, CO 80502-0978, (303)776-9900, mwg@lyonsgaddis.com; abasile@lyonsgaddis.com.

APPLICATION FOR FINDING OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE IN DOUGLAS AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. 2. Name of structure: Chatfield Reservoir 3. Describe the conditional water right including the following from the previous decrees: 3.1. Date of original decree, case no. and court: Case No. 89CW169, District Court, Water Division No. 1, entered on July 25, 1991. 3.2. Subsequent decrees awarding findings of diligence: Case No. 97CW207, District Court, Water Division No. 1, entered on January 7, 1998; Case No. 04CW251, District Court, Water Division No. 1, entered on August 3, 2010, and Case No. 16CW3102, entered on January 20, 2017. 3.3. Legal description of point of diversion: The reservoir formed by the Chatfield Dam, an existing structure located in Sections 6 and 7, Township 6 South, Range 68 West, of the 6th P.M., and in Section 1, Township 6 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M. The right abutment of Chatfield Dam is located in Sections 6 and 7, Township 6 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, Colorado. The left abutment of the dam is located in Section 1, Township 6 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M. in Jefferson County, Colorado. The point of diversion is depicted on the map attached hereto as EXHIBIT A. 3.4. Source of water: South Platte River and its tributaries 3.5. Appropriation date: November 6, 1989 3.6. Amount: 2,000 acre-feet, conditional 3.7. Uses: All municipal purposes 4. Integrated Water Supply System: Pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4)(B), the conditional storage water right is part of a single integrated water system owned and developed by Applicant. Applicant’s integrated water supply system consists of augmentation plans, appropriative rights of exchange, conditional and absolute water rights and non-tributary groundwater rights. 5. Provide a detailed outline of what has been done toward completion or for completion of the appropriation and application of water to a beneficial use as conditionally decreed, including expenditures: During the relevant diligence period, from January 2017 to January 2023, Applicant has incurred more than $86 million to conduct the following work specific to these conditional water rights, which are portions of Applicant’s integrated system, as that term is used in C.R.S. § 37-92-301(4)(b): 5.1. Purchased additional storage capacity in Chatfield Reservoir and paid assessments to the Chatfield Reservoir Mitigation Company, Inc. at a cost of approximately $4,136,850. 5.1.1. Associated legal and administrative costs totaled approximately $5,965. 5.1.2. As of 2023, Applicant owns 719 acre-feet of capacity in Chatfield Reservoir, with plans to exercise the option to acquire additional capacity up to 2,000 acre-feet of conditional storage. 5.2. Completed the following work related to the Plum Creek Water Purification Facility: 5.2.1. Designed and constructed the Plum Creek Water Purification Facility with a treatment capacity of 4 MGD at a cost of approximately $17,600,000. 5.2.2. Purchased and installed an additional Pall membrane equipment rack with a treatment capacity of 2 MGD at a cost of approximately $1,006,000. 5.2.3. Conducted a Plum Creek Water Purification Facility Planning Study with Jar testing at a cost of approximately $20,000. 5.2.4. Created a Basis of Design Report for the Plum Creek Water Purification Facility advanced treatment project (including biologically active carbon (BAC) filtration system) at a cost of approximately $87,000. 5.2.5. Hired consultants for negotiating and implementing contracts related to the advanced treatment project at a cost of approximately $25,000. 5.2.6. Completed pilot testing related to the advanced treatment project, including BAC filtration, as required by Colorado Department of Health and the Environment at a cost of approximately $200,000. 5.2.7. Began

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design of the Plum Creek Water Purification Facility’s advanced treatment at a cost of approximately $1,300,000. 5.2.8. Began construction of the Plum Creek Water Purification Facility’s advanced treatment at a cost of approximately $30,000,000.

5.2.9. Relocated generator from PS Miller Water Treatment Plant to Plum Creek Water Purification Facility at a cost of approximately $120,000.

5.2.10. Conducted an aquifer storage and recovery pilot study associated with Plum Creek Water Purification Facility at a cost of approximately $500,000. 5.3. Conducted studies, designed and constructed the expansion to Plum Creek Water Reclamation Authority’s Wastewater Treatment Plant at a cost of approximately $31,000,000. 5.4. Conducted legal and engineering work to determine whether to acquire certain senior water rights for use in Applicant’s municipal water system. 5.5. Began and/or continued to oppose applications that could injure Applicant’s water rights, including these water rights, in Case Nos. 16CW3138, 17CW3122, 17CW3176, 18CW3038, 18CW3039, 18CW3056, 18CW3066, 18CW3206, 18CW3232, 19CW3211, 19CW3253, 20CW3005, 20CW3031, 20CW3214, 21CW3022, 21CW3091, 21CW3193, 22CW3032, 22CW3103, and 22CW3111.

5.6. Filed applications in Case Nos. 17CW3044, 17CW3128, 17CW3161, 17CW3211, 19CW3030, 19CW3039, 19CW3042, 19CW3078, 19CW3229, 19CW3231, 19CW3232, 20CW3175, 21CW3046, 21CW3047, 21CW3109, 21CW3142, 21CW3185, 22CW3064, 22CW3145, 22CW3150 and 22CW3155.

6.Owners of Land upon which Structures are Located: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 9307 South Wadsworth Blvd., Littleton, CO 80128.

WHEREFORE, Applicant respectfully requests the Court enter a decree finding that Applicant has exercised reasonable diligence during the diligence period and extending the conditional water right for an additional six-year period. The application is 5 pages, excluding the exhibit.

THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY

ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of MARCH 2023 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

Legal Notice No.944639

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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3GNFK16ZX5G163278 Villalobos Towing LLC 5161 York Street, Denver, CO 80216 720-299-3456

Harvey J. Williamson, Esq. 4450 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 100 Boulder, Colorado 80303 303-716-9666

Legal Notice No. 944574 First Publication: February 9, 2023 Last Publication: February 23, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

TO CREDITORS

of JAMES A. FROHNE, a/k/a JAMES FROHNE, a/k/a JAMES ALAN FROHNE, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30060

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado or on or before June 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Alex Frohne, Personal Representative 7100 S. Coolidge Court Aurora CO 80016 Legal Notice No. 944632 First Publication: February 16, 2023 Last Publication: March 2, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

TO CREDITORS Estate of KENNETH A. NOE, A/K/A KENNETH ALLEN NOE, Deceased Case Number: 23PR30061

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Joseph M. Noe, Co-Personal Representative 525 Noe Rd. Larkspur, CO 80118

Bethany L. Milan, Co-Personal Representative 6204 West County Rd. 4 Berthoud, CO 80513

Legal Notice No. 944630

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Lee Roy Tautz, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR030057

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred

Steven C. Taut, Personal Representative 4505 W. Wagon Trail Rd. Littleton CO 80123

Legal Notice No. 944621

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of PATRICK NOLAN CUSSANS, a/k/a PATRICK N. CUSSANS, and PATRICK CUSSANS, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30051

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kevin M. Cussans, Personal Representative c/o David P. Reiter, Esq., 1660 S. Albion St., Suite 343, Denver, CO 80222

Legal Notice No. 944626

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of F W. OZOG, aka AGNES OZOG, Deceased Case No. 2023PR30021

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before June 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kathleen Ozog Heymans 590 Prairie Ridge Road Highlands Ranch, CO 80126

Christina Callanan, Personal Representative c/o 3i Law, LLC 2000 S. Colorado Blvd. Tower 1, Suite 10000 Denver, CO 80222

Legal Notice No. 944650

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Pres Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Betty D. Thomas, Deceased Case Number 2023PR5

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado or on or before June 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Susan Refner, Personal Representative 4822 Snowdrift Circle Fort Collins, CO 80528

Legal Notice No. 944586

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Estate of JAMES L. FINEGAN, a/k/a James Lovett Finegan, a/k/a James Finegan, a/k/a Jim L. Finegan, a/k/a Jim Finegan, , Deceased Case Number 2023PR030066

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Samuel J. Owen, P.C. Attorneys for Personal Representative 216 Eldridge Court Golden, CO 80401

Legal Notice No. 944653

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Estate of Wade H. Macklem, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR030608

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before Friday, June 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael J. Matukewicz Attorney for Personal Representative Liakos & Matukewicz LLC, 8701 W. Dodge Rd, Ste. 408 Omaha Nebraska 68114

Legal Notice No. 944514

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Estate of Yvonne Marie Delp, a/k/a Yvonne M. Delp, a/k/a Yvonne Delp, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30035

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado, located at 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2009, Castle Rock, Colorado 80109, on or before June 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeremy Lynn Delp, Personal Representative

c/o Kathryn T. James, Esq.

Folkestad Fazekas Barrick & Patoile, P.C. 18 South Wilcox Street, Suite 200 Castle Rock, Colorado 80104

Legal Notice No. 944564

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Estate of BARBARA ANN SMITH, aka BARBARA A. SMITH, aka BARBARA SMITH, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30037

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Daniel J. Smith, Personal Representative 79560 Wendrill Rd. Portola, CA 96122

Legal Notice No. 944637

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Estate of Charles Henri Rosmorduc, aka Charles H. Rosmorduc, aka Charles Rosmorduc, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30026

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado, on or June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ryan B. Scott, Atty. Reg.#36741

The Law Office of Ryan B. Scott, LLC 8089 S. Lincoln Street, Suite 201 Littleton, CO 80122 Attorney for the Personal Representative

Legal Notice No. 944528

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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SANDRA EPSTEIN KEBRE, aka SANDRA E. KEBRE, aka SANDRA KEBRE, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30064

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert Kebre, Personal Representative c/o 3i Law, LLC 2000 S. Colorado Blvd. Tower 1, Suite 10000 Denver, CO 80222

Legal Notice No. 944651

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Pres

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Estate of Margaret Sutherland Shafron, a/k/a Margaret S. Shafron, a/k/a Margaret Shafron, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30042

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Frederick J. Shafron, Personal Representative c/o SGR, LLC 326 Main Street Sterling, CO 80751

Legal Notice No. 944648

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Estate of Donald Joe Newsom, a/k/a Donald J. Newsom, a/k/a Donald Newsom, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30010

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado, located at 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2009, Castle Rock, Colorado 80109, on or before June 5, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Julie Marie Newsom Personal Representative c/o Kathryn T. James, Esq. Folkestad Fazekas Barrick & Patoile, P.C. 18 South Wilcox Street, Suite 200 Castle Rock, Colorado 80104

Legal Notice No. 944520

First Publication: February 2, 2023 Last Publication: February 16, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Thomas Jefferson Kilgore, III, Deceased Case Number: 22PR201

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before June 09, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kyler Evan Kilgore Personal Representative 17499 W 94th Dr Arvada, Colorado 80007

Legal Notice No. 944578

First publication: February 09, 2023 Last publication: February 23, 2023

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Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on January 30, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Andrew Kit Cloninger be changed to Kit Andrew Thomas. Case No.: 23C47

By: Andi Truitt Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 944628

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on January 13, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Minor Child has been filed with the Douglas County Court. The Petition requests that the name of Binuwara Senhus Yakandawala be changed to Senhus Yakandawala Case No.: 23 C 23

By: Stephanie K Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 944524

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on January 10 , 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Allison Marie Timm be changed to Allison Morgan Jankowski Case No.: 23C16

By: Blake Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 944523

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on January 30, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Tina Walpurga Lindquist be changed to Tina Walburga Lindquist Case No.: 23 C 52

By: K.A.P Cone, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 944654

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on January 13, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Kaley McKenzie Hill be changed to Kaley McKenzie Martz Case No.: 23C24

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 944531

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on January 27, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Stephanie Mediavilla Marrero be changed to Eddie Munson Case No.: 2023C43

By: Blake Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 944618

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on January 30, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Ulziiuchral Annabel Sangajav

The Petition requests that the name of Jordan Thomas McLaughlin be changed to Jordan Andrew Thomas Case No.: 23C46

By: Andi Truitt Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 944627

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Report on long COVID sees big numbers

I am 100 percent a di erent person

BY JOHN DALEY COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

State o cials have released their rst estimate of how many people in Colorado have been hit by long COVID-19. e gure is staggering: Data suggest that between 230,000 and 650,000 Coloradans may have been a ected.

With a state population of nearly 6 million, the data suggest as many as one in 10 Coloradans have experienced long COVID, according to the report from e O ce of Saving People Money on Healthcare in the lieutenant governor’s o ce. And many of them have struggled to nd treatments and answers about what can be a life-altering illness.

People with post-COVID conditions can have a wide range of symptoms, including fatigue, brain fog and headaches, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ose may be prolonged, lasting weeks, months, or even years after infection.

Some patients described their challenges in a January segment on CPR’s Colorado Matters.

“I think that’s what’s so unclear about long COVID and potentially concerning about those numbers is that we certainly know some people recover,” but most haven’t, said Dr. Sarah Jolley, a researcher with CU Anshutz. Jolley is also the medical director of the UCHealth Post-COVID Clinic, one site of a national study looking at recovery after COVID.

Jolley said only 30 to 40 percent of long COVID patients have returned to their individual health baseline so far, based on what she’s observed and seen in research.

“ ere are a number of folks where symptoms persist much longer and so it’s hard to estimate what proportion of that 600,000 will have longerterm symptoms versus shorter-term long COVID symptoms,” she said. “I would say the minority of individuals that we’ve seen have had complete recovery.”

e implications of that are enormous, Jolley said, both in terms of so-called long-haulers’ quality of life as well as Colorado’s workforce, education, health care and other systems.

Jolley said the best protection and prevention against long COVID is

getting fully vaccinated, including the latest booster. “We know that vaccination lessens the risk of long COVID, lessens the severity of initial disease,” she said, noting the lagging number of people getting the omicron booster in Colorado. Currently, only about a quarter of eligible people in the state have received the omicron booster, according to the state’s vaccine dashboard, far below the uptake for the initial series of vaccines.

e report includes testimonials from Coloradans that provide a window into what its authors described as the “immense human costs” of the illness:

Chelsey B., 49

“I went from being a t, active, successful and nancially secure professional in the prime of life to a broken — and broke — person,” Chelsey reported. “COVID kills some people outright; many of us with long COVID are dying, too — just very slowly and painfully.”

Melissa, 54

“Four months after my initial

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symptoms in March 2020, my heart still raced even though I was resting,” Melissa reported. “I could not stay in the sun for long periods; it zapped all of my energy. I had gastrointestinal problems, brain fog, extreme fatigue, ringing in my ears and chest pain.”

Melissa said her condition improved but reported that she was still feeling symptoms nearly three years after her initial COVID infection.

Amanda, 35

Amanda reported testing positive for the coronavirus in November 2020. “COVID has wrecked the person I thought I was before. I now have been forced to go back to full time work against my cardiologist recommendations,” she said.

“ is was in fear of losing my job I’ve had for 7 years! I am 35 years old and have heart problems I’ve never had before,” including a racing heart rate that becomes elevated from a laying down position to standing.

“I am newly engaged and scared to think about having children due to what COVID has done to my body.

e report also notes there’s a signi cant overlap between long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. One resident named Jane described suffering from that condition.

“ e illness severely limits my participation in my grandchildren’s lives, and my own daily life. I can only be vertical for one to one and a half hours at a time, and then I have to rest for an extended period,” she said. “I miss out on so much, and activities of daily living such as housekeeping, exercising, and socializing are severely limited.”

e long COVID report is the rst such annual summary authored by e O ce of Saving People Money on Healthcare for the governor and

e state aims to develop baseline data and monitor the e ects of COVID-19 on Colorado’s economy, workforce, medical and long-term care needs, health care a ordability and educational attainment.

e report notes the illness is uncharted territory, both for medicine and government policy. It recommends better data collection and disease surveillance, collaboration between various institutions and improved care access for patients facing challenges at home, work or school.

Another data point about the impact of long COVID comes from insurance claims. e Center for Improving Value in Health Care provided the state with a dataset of claims from a database of state insurance carriers, including Medicaid and Medicare.

It found around 16,000 Coloradans had gotten a long COVID diagnosis between Oct. 1, 2021, and Aug. 31, 2022. e report’s authors said that was likely an undercount based on several factors.

e o ce has also hired a senior policy advisor on long COVID, Dr. Mirwais Baheej, who was unavailable for an interview.

“As far as we know, there are no other states undertaking similar work at this time although the White House has published two reports on long COVID,” said Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera in an introductory letter to lawmakers and the governor. “We do hope to partner with the federal government as we move forward.”

is story is from CPR News, a nonpro t news source. Used by permission. For more, and to support Colorado Public Radio, visit cpr.org.

Health o cials recommend Colorado residents stay up to date on COVID-19 boosters.

FILE PHOTO BY ANDY COLWELL

As many as 1 in 10 Coloradans could have been a ected