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County to oversee Rueter-Hess Reservoir recreation

County leaders, residents worry about property taxes

Many wait for Polis’ plan

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Some Colorado homeowners reaped the bene ts of skyrocketing home prices in recent years, selling homes for much more than they paid to buy them. But for those who stay put, there’s a drawback: When home prices rise, so do families’ property tax bills.

Will boost access

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Douglas County is poised to take charge of recreation at a major body of water in the county in an arrangement that will allow for more access, county o cials say.

at means more time for paddle-

ation season at

voir near Parker and Castle Pines. O cials also plan to eventually o er recreational shing.

Opportunities to enjoy the reservoir area will expand based on an agreement by the county and the municipalities that sit near the water, providing more sta and a streamlined nancial structure for

into one budget makes sense, and it maxes our potential,” said Amy Knopp, a county recreation ocial, speaking to Douglas County’s elected leaders about the changes to the partnership among the county and municipalities.

e reservoir is a drinking-water

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South metro leaders oppose Polis’, Democrats’ housing bill

Would strip local control

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As Gov. Jared Polis works to nd a solution to the lack of a ordable and attainable housing in Colorado, local leaders are voicing concerns over the sweeping legislation proposed through the state Legislature known as SB23-213.

e bill would preempt a great deal of local control over land use by setting state mandates for greater housing density and reduced parking requirements.

Nearly a week after Polis and Democratic lawmakers unveiled the land use bill to address the growing housing crisis, Arapahoe County

Commissioner Carrie Warren-Gully said the biggest issue is taking away local power.

“Arapahoe County is a re ection

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of the good that is happening in our state,” she said. “We have come together to look at our successes and take on our challenges. I have some concerns on how this one-size- tsall approach is going to work.”

Warren-Gully said with 13 cities and towns in Arapahoe County, many of them are already working together to address the housing issues and what can be done at the

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And this May, property owners in Douglas County could be in for a shock. Property values — as determined for tax purposes — could rise by around 40% to 50% on average, one of the county’s elected leaders says.

“If you had a tax bill last year that was $6,000, next year in 2024 you’ll pay $9,000 unless the legislature does something to control the increase,” said Douglas County Commissioner Lora omas. Property taxes partly fund county governments, but they also fund

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Rueter-Hess Reser-

Scenery at Rueter-Hess Reservoir, o Hess Road just west of Heirloom Parkway near the Town of Parker.

PHOTO BY JOHN OTT

Castle Rock seeks volunteers for boards and commissions

Residents who are passionate about Castle Rock, can consider applying to serve on one of the town’s 11 advisory boards and commissions.

Board and commission volunteers have an active role in town government and make a difference within the community. They study information within the board’s area of expertise —such as local development, water, public safety, transportation or park and recreation issues — and provide recommendations to the town council and staff. The groups take public comments and help reflect the community’s voice.

The annual board and commission recruitment period is underway, and those interested in serving are encouraged to apply. Applications are available at CRgov.com/Boards. Submit applications to the town manager’s Office, 100 N. Wilcox St., or by email to seklund@CRgov.com. Applications must be received by 5 p.m. on Monday, April 24.

The boards and commissions with vacancies are:

• Board of Adjustment (three vacancies)

• Board of Building Appeals (two vacancies)

• Castle Rock Water Commission (four vacancies)

Briefly In Douglas County

• Design Review Board (one vacancy, and must be a downtown property owner)

• Election Commission (one vacancy)

• Historic Preservation Board (four vacancies)

• Parks and Recreation Commission (three vacancies)

• Planning Commission (four vacancies)

• Public Art Commission (five vacancies)

• Public Safety Commission (three vacancies)

• Public Works Commission (four vacancies)

Candidates will be interviewed on or about May 9 by a team that includes the councilmember who is the liaison to the board or commission, town staff and a current member of the board or commission. Recommendations for appointments are made to town council for formal approval, and terms begin June 1.

Preference is first given to persons who reside in the town, and second to persons who reside outside of town but within Douglas County. Applicants can apply for more than one board or commission; however, they can only be appointed to serve on one.

More information on current vacancies and the overview, purpose and responsibilities of each board and commission is available at CRgov.com/Boards

Are you looking to become involved in your local government? Do you want to have a voice in the public policy and decisions that affect Castle Rock? If so, apply now for open positions on our Town Boards and Commissions during our annual volunteer recruitment.

Visit CRgov.com/Boards to view positions and submit an application.

Douglas County is Colorado’s healthiest, again

According to the annual County Health Rankings & Roadmaps ranking released in March, Douglas County has again received recognition for being one of the healthiest in the nation.

Each year, the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute produces the CHR&R analysis with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The annual Rankings measure health outcomes — the current health of a county and health factors — those changes that could be made to improve lifespan and quality of life for residents. The rankings are a snapshot of how health is influenced by where we live, learn, work, and play.

“It is a professional privilege to serve on the board of health for a county whose residents so consistently demonstrate the state’s top rankings in overall health outcomes and behaviors,” said Doug Benevento, who is chair of the Douglas County Board of Health.

The findings specific to Douglas County, are based on data collected between 2018 and 2021. Douglas County residents rank highest in length of life and have the highest quality of life. The county has been ranked as one of the top two healthiest Colorado counties since 2011 and has held the No. 1 ranking consistently since 2019.

The health factors ranking looks at a variety of factors including

education and wealth, availability of health care, and health behaviors such as smoking and excessive drinking. As a top-ranking county, Douglas County is invested in additional health and wellness priorities that were identified by residents in Douglas County Health Department’s 2022 – 2026 Public Health Improvement Plan (PHIP). Through an extensive community and data assessment, the PHIP supports a focus on three priority areas:

Injury Prevention — to include motor vehicle safety, fall prevention, poisoning due to drugs, and suicide related injury and death Disease Management and Prevention — with priorities on heart disease, diabetes, and skin cancer

Behavioral Health — screening, detection, and early intervention of depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders for residents

“The notoriety of Healthiest Community in Colorado is first a tribute to the residents of all the cities, towns and unincorporated areas of the county who choose a lifestyle that so consistently contributes to this outcome,” said Michael Hill, executive director of the Douglas County Health Department. “Through our Community Health Promotion efforts, the Health Department will continue to focus on the county’s top public health priorities — Injury Prevention, Behavioral Health, and Disease Management and Prevention — that can help contribute to heathier communities.”

Community baby shower celebrates Castle Rock moms

Families shop for free

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Castle Rock mom Holly Gregory held up a pair of Minnie Mouse pajamas to her 2-year-old daughter Callie and asked if she likes them. When Callie nodded, Gregory put the onesie in the collection of other children’s clothing she picked up at the town’s rst community baby shower.

Gregory was one of more than 60 mothers and mothers-to-be who shopped at the free event held on March 24 at the Castle Rock Adventist Hospital.

Gregory said she appreciated the opportunity to grab necessities at no cost.

“It’s really great to have this help during times like these,” she said.

A partnership between Castle Rock Adventist Hospital and the local stake of e Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the community baby shower provided a plethora of free infant and child care items, inlcuding diapers, clothing, shoes, toys, strollers and baby carriers.

e community baby shower builds on a monthly event the hospital hosts, the Mommy and Me Market, which o ers donated gentlyused infant and children’s items at no cost. Jordan Vogel, a spokesperson for the hospital, said the market has been running the fourth Friday monthly for the last decade.

While planning volunteer projects for the church’s women’s organization, Kristy Clason, the group’s leader, said she came up with the idea to partner with the market and turn the March event into a community baby shower as a way to celebrate motherhood.

To bring the party element, the church’s volunteers donated choco-

late cake, wrapped diaper towers and goody bags with new baby blankets, and decorated with balloons and streamers.

“We just wanted the moms to feel loved and celebrated,” Clason said.

“We wanted to celebrate the joy of moms and families.”

e event also included resources on signing up for the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program for food assistance. Clason said the goal of the event was to strengthen and support families.

“I think moms need all the help they can get, whether emotional, physical or spiritual, and I think this event tries to meet so many of those needs,” she said.

Clason said she’s hoping to make next year’s community baby shower even bigger.

Vogel said the hospital was glad to partner on the baby shower to bring more bene ts to local moms and children. She added that donations for the Mommy and Me Market can be dropped o at the hospital’s information desk 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.

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Ti any Sullivan, a Castle Rock mom, grabs shoes for her 4-month-old son Henry at the community baby shower on March 24 at Castle Rock Adventist Hospital. The hospital and the local stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hosted a free market of infant and child care items.

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More than 60 moms and mothers-to-be shopped at the community baby shower on March 24 at the Castle Rock Adventist Hospital. PHOTOS BY MCKENNA HARFORD

School board rejects GOP idea to arm teachers

Following

Hansen calls it political stunt

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e Douglas County School Board rmly rejected a request from the chair of the Douglas County GOP to allow teachers to carry rearms in schools.

Steve Peck, the Douglas County GOP chair and a former school board member, sent a letter on March 27 in the aftermath of the Nashville shooting, asking the district to let trained sta be armed at schools without school resource o cers. Peck did not respond to an interview request from Colorado Community Media.

“We cannot a ord to wait any longer or play political games with the lives of our nearly 63,000 students in the district, especially elementary and rural schools who have no SROs and are sitting today without any armed security,” Peck wrote in the letter.

Board members responded to the letter during the March 28 meeting by reiterating the district has no plans to allow sta to be armed in schools with the exception of school resource o cers, or SRO, who are trained law enforcement. e district currently has an SRO at every middle and high school.

Board President Mike Peterson said a sta member with a concealed carry permit would not rise to the standard of training the district has for school resource o cers, so he would not support them being armed in schools.

“I’ve had three criteria for our folks who are armed in schools,”

Peterson said. “ e rst one is that they are competent, trained to a ridiculously high standard. Two, that they are pro cient, so they maintain that competency and skill for not just physical, but mental decision making. And third, that they are an integrated part of our planning and response.”

Board member Elizabeth Hanson said the letter created unnecessary chaos in the community because the elected panel has no intentions of arming teachers, which she adamantly opposes.

“I want to call it what it is, it was a political stunt, it was reckless, and I think it was very purposefully sent to create division,” Hanson said.

A statement from Lucy Squire, a third-grade teacher and the president of the local teachers’ union, Douglas County Federation, noted that allowing teachers to be armed would potentially pit them against their students.

“We know that often the perpetrator in a school shooting is a current or former student,” Squire said.

“Why would the Douglas County GOP want us to be confronted with the possibility of having to shoot our own current or former students?” ough the board doesn’t support arming teachers, it is looking at ways to fund 10 more school resource ofcers, which would help ll coverage gaps. e district estimates it would cost $5-6 million.

One possibility is that the district asks voters for the money as part of a mill levy override.

“We all respect our SROs,” Hanson said. “We mutually understand that what they bring to our district is absolutely invaluable and we want to continue to elevate that relationship and nothing else.”

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the mass shooting in Tennessee where six people were killed, the Douglas County GOP group wrote a letter to the school board calling for arming teachers. The idea was rejected by the board. SHUTTERSTOCK IMAGE

Wellspring celebrates deal for a ordable housing for people with disabilities

County donates building

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Damon Bunch remembers hearing people at his schools say: “ ere isn’t going to be a place for him.”

“I never thought I would be able to be independent, to really be able to understand that life,” said Bunch, who is excited about an upcoming apartment complex for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. “My family, we didn’t have a lot of money growing up.”

He thinks of Wellspring Community, the nonpro t that helped him nd his place, as a second family that has supported him.

Bunch, 23, wants to “show the world that we may have IDD,” but “God put us on this earth for a purpose.”

Bunch spoke to Douglas County’s elected leaders as a crowd of other folks with disabilities sat behind him, gathered in Castle Rock for the meeting where the county transferred ownership of a former hotel property to Wellspring to serve as an a ordable housing complex for people with IDD, along with other residents.

It’s about more than a building — it’s about “reclaiming hope,” said Nicole DeVries, executive director of

Wellspring.

“Just like most of us, many adults with IDD grow up and think, ‘I don’t want to live with my parents anymore.’ ey watch their friends, they watch their siblings move out and reach a level of independence that (for them) seems out of reach,” DeVries said.

But now, folks with IDD are dreaming of what they want their

rooms to look like if they move into Wellspring’s upcoming housing, she said.

“Our community is now seeing people with IDD are not people to be served — they are people to live with,” DeVries said.

e county purchased a former La Quinta hotel on Park Street in Castle Rock for $6.4 million in October using funding from the federal

American Rescue Plan Act and had planned to transfer the property to Wellspring, which intends to remodel it into 42 income-restricted apartments.

Wellspring’s mission is to provide “educational, enrichment and business enterprise opportunities” to adults with IDD and empower them to live “full, productive and satisfying lives,” the nonpro t’s website says.

Wellspring began in 2008 with four young women with developmental disabilities learning how to bake cookies in a private kitchen. Soon, their cookies were selling at local churches and Wellspring’s rst business enterprise, Wellspring Bakery, the website says.

e nonpro t also has o ered other programs, like Wellspring Wonders Choir. In 2013, thanks to a partnership with Castle Oaks Covenant Church, Wellspring moved into a new facility with o ce space, classroom space, a 900-square-foot commercial kitchen and the opportunity to operate all of its programs under one roof, the website says. Wellspring’s housing will include 24/7 on-site sta to o er residents assistance, though they will not be medical providers. After the remodeling, the property will o er integrated housing, meaning both residents

A crowd poses for a photo at the March 28 meeting where Douglas County transferred ownership of a former hotel property to serve as an a ordable housing complex for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. County leaders and folks with disabilities stood in the crowd.

PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD

Douglas County Republicans oppose limiting debate on bills

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Democrats invoke Rule 14

Colorado state Rep. Brandi Bradley had strong feelings about recent actions taken by Democrats to limit debate and discussion over controversial gun bills in the 2023 legislative session.

During a town hall in Castle Rock on March 29, Bradley, a Republican from the area south of Highlands Ranch who represents House District 39, joined fellow Douglas County state Reps. Lisa Frizell, RCastle Rock, and Anthony Hartsook, R-Parker, to talk about the current session and issues they have with how Democrats, who hold the supermajority in the House, are silencing their voices.

After hours of debate had arleady taken place, on March 24, House Majority Leader Monica Duran, DWheat Ridge, moved to limit debate to one more hour for Senate Bill 169, which, if approved, will make it easier to sue gun manufacturers and sellers, and Senate Bill 170, which would expand the controversial red ag law. e vote, which falls under Colorado House Rule 14, passed 39-19, with all Republicans voting against it.

According to the Colorado General Assembly, the legislature’s rules allow the majority party to limit discussion whenever they want. In this case, Democrats hold a supermajority in the House with 46 Democrats vs. 19 total Republicans.

Bradley told several dozen Douglas County residents that when Republicans have been in power, they have not invoked Rule 14. “ is is a problem. is should not be a party issue,” Bradley said. “And I appeal to the Democrats. What if Republicans got up there and stripped abortion rights. eir precious abortion rights. Do you think that they would say, ‘Yeah, we are only going to take 10 hours’? ey would not do it. is is not a party issue. is is wrong to limit our ability to speak for all of you.”

Frizell said despite losing the ability to debate and ght a bill, Republicans have not quit. Delay tactics

now include requiring the bill to be read multiple times.

“Our strategy at this point is to drag this out as long as possible,” Frizell said. “ ey are going to keep invoking (Rule 14) and our response to that is to keep reading the bill out loud and sometimes twice. at will back the calendar up. We are up libustering on every bill. We are going to go after them. at is why we are there so much. We are slowing things down.”

Reading an entire bill at length multiple times is not considered debate, which means the amount of time to read the bill in its entirety does not count.

Frizell, in her rst term, said Democrats had to take the extreme action to limit discussion because Democrats have more than 600 bills on deck this year and only 120 days to push them through. Halting opposing voices allows Democrats to continue to push through bills aimed at limiting parental rights, property rights and other rights, Frizell said.

Bradley said at the current rate, Democrats are trying to push through one bill per hour, every day.

“ ey are angry that we are holding things up to speak our truth,” she said.

In a statement from state Rep. Robert Marshall, D-Highlands Ranch, Rule 14 was only invoked after the GOP broke two agreements to limit debate. Marshall is the only elected Democrat from Douglas County.

“ e GOP was using debate simply to kill time in a legislature, that, by law, can only sit for 120 days,” he said in the March 25 statement.

“ is was not legitimate debate to convince the majority that a bill should be amended, changed or rejected. After 18 wasted work hours and multiple broken agreements, this was a legitimate invocation for Rule 14.”

Even with the Democrats’ motion to limit discussion, according to a Colorado Sun report, total debate for Senate Bill 170 lasted about nine hours, and Senate Bill 168 continued for about 10 hours.

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Full property tax payments due

Payments must be received by the Treasurer’s office by April 30, 2023. Payments received after the due date must include applicable interest. To obtain the amounts due or to pay online, please visit douglascotax.com and search for your account.

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Do you have hazardous waste from a painting project, old oil from your car’s maintenance, or other waste from your recent DIY project? This curbside service is available to Douglas County residents for $30. For details call 1-800-4497587 or visit douglas.co.us and search Household Waste Management

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Our commitment to open and transparent government includes online posting of information about public meetings at which the business of government is conducted. To view public meeting agendas, participate in-person or remotely, or watch select meetings via live stream, visit douglas.co.us and search for Business Meetings / Public Hearings.

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Douglas County Republicans Lisa Frizell and Brandi Bradley object to the Democrats’ use of Rule 14 in recent debate over gun legislation in the state House. PHOTO BY THELMA GRIMES

school districts, re and library districts, and other local entities. Property taxes pay for Douglas County sheri ’s deputies, omas noted.

Even when tax rates themselves aren’t increasing, the amount that homeowners owe increases as the value of homes rises. e state legislature could intervene to cap the increase, but Colorado lawmakers face a delicate balancing act: A cap that’s too high could squeeze families’ nances in a tough economic time. But a cap set too low could force local governments to make cuts to services.

Douglas County o cials want to be reasonable and not see citizens “overtaxed,” omas said.

But “I don’t want to have to lay people o because we can’t pay them,” she added.

State in the mix

Rising property values are a problem statewide, not just in the Denver metro area, said omas, who has heard input from other counties.

To address the issue, state Rep. Lisa Frizell, R-Castle Roack, pushed a bill in the legislature that initially proposed a 5% cap on increasing residential property values between 2022 and 2025. Frizell later amended that to a proposed 10% cap after hearing feedback from rural counties.

Her bill met defeat in a committee — before reaching a full vote in the state House — in early March.

One Democrat voted for her bill, which failed 6-5, Frizell said, but that doesn’t mean the conversation is over.

“Uno cially, I was told that (lawmakers) were discouraged by leadership to vote for it,” said Frizell, adding that Democrats are anticipating a plan from the governor’s o ce

and “didn’t want the distraction.”

Local o cials as of late March were waiting to hear what Democrats may propose, and a percentage for a possible cap isn’t clear yet, according to omas and Frizell.

A cap as low as 3%, for example, would pose problems for Douglas County’s budget, county o cials said.

“Local government revenues need to keep up with, at minimum, in ation in order to keep the lights on,” Frizell noted.

Local action in Douglas

If the state doesn’t take action, Douglas County may reduce residents’ tax bills on its own.

If property values increase around 50%, “we will do a temporary mill levy credit like we have done ve of the last seven years that I’ve been a commissioner,” omas said.

e county has authorized such credits in 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, e ectively lowering county revenue by $30 million.

But omas hopes the state will step in. e budget that Douglas County o cials wrote for 2024 was based on expecting a 9% residential property value increase, she said.

“I would like to see us be able to in uence (a legislature) bill to cap that property tax increase 7% to 10%, somewhere in there,” omas said.

(For example, if a home was valued at $500,000, with a 10% increase, its value would rise to $550,000 for 2024 tax purposes.)

If Colorado lawmakers pass a cap lower than that, the county services that could be a ected aren’t yet clear.

omas and her fellow commissioners haven’t had a conversation about that, so “I can’t even begin to guess what we would do,” omas said.

How property value assessments work

It’s the job of county assessors’ o ces to establish accurate values of homes and other properties to determine how much property own-

ers will owe government entities in taxes — a process meant to ensure that the amount of taxes people pay is fair and equitable.

( e assessor doesn’t set the tax rate but determines the value of the property that the tax rate then gets e law requires the assessor to value properties every two years in June, so the property valuation homeowners will soon receive is based on June 2022 data, near the recent peak in the real estate market, omas said. So even though home prices have declined since then, property values determined by the assessor’s o ce re ect last year’s exceptional highs.

Since the start of 2010 — when the median single-family home price in metro Denver was about $200,000 — the median price had roughly tripled, according to a report by the Colorado Association of Realtors based on data as of August. Statewide, it had tripled as well, according to the association.

Homeowners can see the breakdown of the property taxes they owe by typing in their address in a large search bar near the top of the Douglas County assessor’s webpage at douglas.co.us/assessor.

at search function shows how the taxes are divided among each government entity based on the “mills” charged. Property tax rates are o cially called “mill levies.”

One “mill” is equal to one thousandth of a dollar. Generally, property taxes are calculated using a formula that involves mills — the tax rate — and the property value.

Living within a metropolitan district, such as Highlands Ranch, can make a big di erence in a home’s total property taxes, omas said. Metro districts are a type of government entity that can o er some government services.

A complex background

Part of why property taxes can rise so relatively high is that Colorado voters recently repealed the Gallagher Amendment, omas noted.

A state constitutional amendment, Gallagher prevented residential property tax bills from quickly rising by shifting the tax burden to commercial property owners through assessment rates, which help determine how much property owners pay in taxes, the Colorado Sun reported.

But Gallagher collided with another constitutional amendment, the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, in a way that had hamstrung government entities that rely on property tax revenue, the Sun reported.

See more on that at tinyurl.com/ SunGallagherExplain.

Nationally, Colorado has relatively low residential property taxes, according to an analysis by the conservative Tax Foundation. Colorado ranked 47th in property taxes paid as a percentage of owner-occupied housing value in 2020, according to the foundation.

And while businesses pay more, their taxes still appear to be lower than the national average, according to the Colorado Sun. Colorado had the 17th best “State Business Tax Climate” for 2020, according to the Tax Foundation. Colorado had the 14th best “property tax rank” for businesses in 2020, according to the foundation.

The view of Lone Tree homes from Blu s Regional Park and Trail on Oct. 21, 2022.

PHOTO BY TAYLER SHAW

storage facility owned and operated by the Parker Water and Sanitation District, the entity that provides drinking water to much of Parker and some nearby areas. But Rueter-Hess also serves as a recreation spot for residents in a part of the Denver metro area where the terrain starts to become more rural.

The county describes the reservoir as a place for “history buffs, day hikers, dog walkers, water-sport enthusiasts, and local anthropologists alike,” the county website says.

Long time in the making The reservoir stands as a relatively new feature of the area. From the 1990s through 2012, the planning and construction of the reservoir occurred, according to Knopp.

And in 2015, partners formed the Rueter-Hess Recreation Authority and began planning for recreation at the reservoir, Knopp said.

The partners — Parker Water, the Cities of Castle Pines and Lone Tree, the Towns of Castle Rock and Parker, and the county — later started working on a new agreement in 2022 to name the county as the managing jurisdiction for recreation at the reservoir.

With Douglas County at the helm, the new structure is expected to fill a need for staff to oversee recreation.

“The absence of dedicated staff made it difficult to move forward on program implementation,” county staff said in a statement through a spokesperson.

After approving the new agreement, “we will hire the necessary staff to deliver recreation and maintenance” for the reservoir area, Knopp told county commissioners at their March 28 meeting. Staff will be funded with money the partners contribute, Knopp said.

County commissioners voted to approve the new agreement at the meeting.

Recent additions

The partner local governments share the goal of expanding access to recreation at the reservoir while not harming the water quality, Knopp said.

“This summer, the county is increasing access to paddleboarding, canoeing, kayaking to four days per week,” Knopp said. “In the coming years, the county and its partners look forward to providing even more access.”

Recreation at the reservoir has been steadily expanding. In 2017, public access began with guided hikes and paddle days on the reservoir, a county staff report says. The incline and Newlin Gulch Trail opened in 2020. The trail system expanded to 6 1/2 miles of natural surface trails in 2022 with the completion of the Coyote Loop Trail. The incline features 132 steps,

and the Rosie Rueter Trail loop that leads to and from the parking lot is just over a mile long, the Rueter-Hess recreation website says.

Last year, 64,000 people used the trail system, and about 1,500 people participated in paddle days, the county staff report says.

The county and its partners are working on a plan to include fishing once they clear procedural hurdles.

“Parker Water and Sanitation — as the owner of the water — must first authorize fishing, and they are currently working with the state on licensing,” county staff said in the statement.

Along the way to building the reservoir, the land was the site of archaeological intrigue. Artifacts uncovered at the reservoir site within the last couple decades provided insight into civilizations of paleo-Indians and hunter-gatherers who lived in the area thousands of years ago, Colorado Community Media reported previously.

How funding works

The partner governments have been funding and will continue to fund recreation at the reservoir area, Knopp said at the meeting.

Annually, the partners contribute $870,000 toward recreation, the county staff report says.

Under the new agreement, the Rueter-Hess Recreation Authority — the body that includes Parker Water, Castle Rock, Parker, Castle Pines, Lone Tree and Douglas County — gets restructured into an advisory board rather than a managing entity.

Moving forward, the advisory board will make recommendations to the Douglas County commissioners about recreation planning and budgeting, and the county will carry out the plans and manage the budget. Designating the county as the managing jurisdiction for recreation at the reservoir allows for a “streamlined process” for decision making, county staff said in the statement.

“Under an ‘authority’ structure, associated accounting and legal overhead was required,” the statement said. The new structure allows the partners’ investment to go directly into operations and recreational access, the statement adds.

“The funding is $870,000 annually from the partners (and) remains the same” as part of the agreement, the statement said.

The payment amounts are $250,000 from Douglas County, $210,000 from Castle Rock, $210,000 from Parker, $100,000 from Castle Pines and $100,000 from Lone Tree.

In addition to the annual funding, the recreation authority will transfer about a $2 million recreation fund to the county, Knopp said. Those funds will support major maintenance and improvement projects. The county will also receive “fixed assets” that are valued at about $2 million, she said.

Students to take computer-based SAT next year

BY JASON GONZALES CHALKBEAT COLORADO

Colorado high school students will continue to take the SAT and PSAT as the state’s way of measuring school and district academic performance, but they’ll switch to the computerized version in spring 2024.

A committee of teachers and school administrators recommended the College Board’s online suite of tests to replace its paper version, according to the Colorado Department of Education. e new computerized test was piloted by the College Board in 2021, and the organization said in a news release last year that it’s “easier to give, and more relevant.”

State law requires the state education department to take competitive bids every ve years for a statewide assessment. e selection, however, was delayed a year because of the pandemic. e state must wait 10 days before the contract becomes o cial, according to

a news release.

Colorado public colleges and universities no longer require a college-level exam like the SAT or ACT for acceptance, part of a growing “test optional” movement na-

tionwide. However, many colleges and universities still ask for test scores as part of their application, and even students applying to testoptional schools can submit their scores to show their quali cations.

Colorado began using the PSAT and SAT to measure students’ math and English abilities in 2017, part of a compromise to reduce the overall number of tests students take in school. At the time, Colorado was the epicenter of an opt-out movement protesting a heavy testing burden, and many parents excused their students from taking standardized tests.

e idea was to use a test high school students would want to take anyway because it would help with their college and scholarship applications. Ninth and 10th graders take the PSAT and high school juniors take the SAT in the spring. Colorado uses the test results along with graduation rates and other factors to rate the performance of schools and districts. SAT scores also are one way students can show they meet graduation requirements for basic competency in math and language arts. While Colorado high school students use the college readiness exams, K-8 students use the Colorado Measure of Academic Success, or CMAS, to test math, English, and science understanding.

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Board directs Kane to move forward with equity policy

Survey results discusses

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

With community survey results on Douglas County School District’s equity policy showing support for the current guidelines, the school board directed Superintendent Erin Kane to move forward with creating an implementation plan.

During the March 28 meeting, Kane told the board she plans to bring forth an implementation plan, also called a regulation, for the equity policy on April 25 that will be informed by feedback from the survey. Kane added that she doesn’t expect to recommend changes to the policy.

“We will be producing a regulation around (the equity policy) and (the regulation) will cover the following areas: academics, student wellness, human resources, resource allocation and parent engagement,” she said.

e district has been discussing

potential changes to its equity policy since the board voted 4-3 in January 2022 to direct the superintendent to make recommendations on the policy. e policy states the district will work to provide an inclusive culture and equitable educational opportunities for all students.

In February, the district contracted with Hanover for $75,000 to conduct the survey with the goal of gathering feedback to inform the recommendations.

During the meeting the board also got a presentation from Hanover Research, which conducted the survey and focus groups. Findings were based on responses from 3,970 parents, sta , students and community members, which Hanover determined to be valid participants and not spam respondents. A majority of the participants were parents.

More than half of respondents believe the implementation of the current equity policy would have positive impacts on the district, with 52% saying the policy might contribute to decreased bullying and greater respect among stu-

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dents. Another 49% said the policy could better academic growth and achievement.

When it comes to hopes for policy implementation, 68% of respondents want curriculum that promotes critical thinking and problem-solving, and 62% want historically-accurate and comprehensive social studies. e third most popular response was the hope that implementation would increase student growth and achievement.

e top concerns with the policy implementation were politicization of school curriculum and the school environment, as well as a loss of focus on core curriculum.

Suggested metrics for policy implementation included student growth and achievement data, student perception data and sta retention and recruitment data.

Focus group participants shared that the policy is a good starting place and praised its inclusivity, but also said it lacked speci city and expressed varying perspectives on the policy de nitions and implementation. Students also pointed to issues with reporting potential violations of the equity policy.

Kane said the results show many of the clarity issues center on implementation, not the policy itself, which she hopes to address with the regulation.

“When we come back with our implementation plan and action steps, we’ll draw direct lines between key ndings of the presentation you’re getting tonight and the resulting implementation plan and action steps,” Kane said.

Board members were supportive of Kane’s plan, but also discussed making changes to the equity policy. Board member Christy Williams said she thinks the focus group comments show the policy is too ambiguous.

“I do think that from (the results) we got, there does need to be some language changes,” Williams said. Board member Mike Peterson also supported potential language changes. He gave the example of wanting to expand the de nition of diversity in the policy to include personality di erences, cognitive di erences and skill variation.

Unlike Williams, board member David Ray said he didn’t think the survey results “provide a compelling argument that the policy needs to be changed.”

Ultimately, the board decided to look at potential changes after hearing more details on the implementation plan.

“I’m really concerned that if we start working on the policy revisions prior to the superintendent bringing us her recommended potential changes then we are not following our process,” board member Elizabeth Hanson said.

Hanson also suggested the board rescind or revise the Jan. 25 resolution that directed the superintendent to recommend potential changes to the equity policy since the board plans to do so.

It’s unclear how many other board members support taking action on the resolution. e board will have a rst reading of the implementation plan on April 25.

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local level.

e City of Centennial has been working for more than a year on a housing study focused on the local needs. Centennial Mayor Stephanie Piko said SB23-213 would wipe that out and require municipalities to follow new requirements.

In Castle Rock, Mayor Jason Gray said, “ e town’s policies — and more importantly, our planning — have provided for an array of market-based housing choices within Castle Rock while respecting property owners’ rights and ensuring quality town services, like longterm renewable water. We cannot allow the governor and the General Assembly to upend our community’s planning and character — and Castle Rock homeowners’ nancial investments — with this overreaching legislation.”

Gray said the council will vote on a letter and resolution to o cially oppose SB23-213 on April 4.

Castle Rock is not alone. In Parker, while the council hasn’t taken a stance on the bill, town o cials said a discussion and possible vote would be coming soon. Littleton may also consider an o cial action to oppose the measure.

In an email statement to Colorado Community Media, Littleton Mayor Kyle Schlachter said he appreciates the legislation the bill is trying to address, while noting that housing is an important issue that even Littleton has labeled as a top priority.

“While I personally would support much of the land use changes SB23213 suggests here in Littleton, such as ADUs (accessory dwelling units), missing middle housing, parking requirements, and occupancy requirements — I am concerned about the unprecedented preemption of home rule authority,” he said. “I think removing local input from land use decisions would be a step in the wrong direction for our state.”

Home rule is a form or structure of governing de ned by the citizens of a municipality or county that allows for more control over matters of local signi cance.

rough home rule, Piko said, Centennial has worked directly with citizens to create housing options to t local needs, which SB23-213 would end.

“Centennial has recently engaged with our residents on several large housing projects, like e Streets at Southglenn and e District.

Between e Streets at Southglenn and e District, we’re looking at adding an additional 3,000 units to our community,” she said. “ at process allowed for the opportunity to engage with citizens, the developer and the city to work through project proposals together to amend projects to meet the needs of our community. Even though not every citizen is happy with the outcome, they have the opportunity to have their concerns heard by their local o cials who can be held accountable for the outcomes of the development.”

Warren-Gully said Arapahoe County is working to address the housing shortage. e county cur-

rently has more than 108,000 units already approved for construction, which would provide homes for nearly 280,000 people.

“ at’s planned housing for all those people,” she said. “ e problem is all those homes will not be built by next year. Development will happen not overnight. is legislation just can’t make them get built faster.”

Arapahoe County is expected to reach 800,000 residents by the year 2030. e current population is just over 650,000.

Cherry Hills Village Mayor Katy Brown agreed with Piko and Warren-Gully, saying a lot of collaborative planning that has gone into meeting Arapahoe County needs at local levels would be undone with the bill passage.

“You’ve just heard a lot about the great work that’s being done to address housing needs locally in Arapahoe County,” she said. “You’ve heard about the smart and collaborative planning and development that takes into consideration the unique communities in our county. But this bill would put an end to all of that by taking decision-making out of the hands of local communities and giving it to the state.”

Under Polis’ land use bill, cities and towns would be barred from limiting the construction of multiplexes and add-on housing units.

Opponents say that is not so simple.

In Colorado, Warren-Gully said, it may sound good to create these plans to force more housing, but the cost is not necessarily going to compute. To give an example, WarrenGully said when a home valued at $450,000 is instead developed into a triplex where the units are sold for $750,000 each — a ordability is still an issue.

“Density does not address affordability,” she said. “We have to be much more intentional to make things a ordable.”

Brown said zoning is currently created by local governments with extensive input from the community.

“By allowing increased density on any single-family lot as a use-byright, this bill takes away a com-

munity’s ability to situate housing where it makes sense,” Brown said. “Where it can be sustainable for things like water and sewer. Questions like — Are the pipes underground big enough to handle the increased volume of water and well, frankly, poop that has to go down them? Are the roads and trafc, are the roads wide enough to accommodate the travel, parking and emergency vehicle access? My community still has some narrow dirt roads. It wouldn’t make sense to

build an apartment building there, but we might be required to do so under this new legislation.”

Piko said she supports the idea of building more townhomes and condominiums in the metro area, however, past legislative decisions and liability for developers have created a hesitancy to build them over

Schlachter said SB23-213 could also create extra layers of bureaucracy and regulations and that passage of this legislation would mean restricting development of new housing instead of encouraging it.

During a recent town hall, Sheridan Mayor Tara Beiter-Fluhr said with current projects and future plans, the city is working to increase a ordable housing without mandates from the state. SB21-213 does not actually guarantee a ordable housing while municipalities like Sheridan are working to provide “truly a ordable housing,” she said.

With housing being a statewide concern, Schlachter said SB12-213 does not cover it. Schlachter said solutions that work for Denver may not make sense for Littleton, just as Littleton solutions may not work for neighboring communities.

“I wish the a ected municipalities had been brought to the table sooner to help craft legislation that would better address the issues regarding housing a ordability,” he said.

SB23-213, which was o cially introduced on March 22, will be discussed in committee on April 6.

Nina Joss contributed to this story.

Gov. Jared Polis takes questions from reporters at a news conference Jan. 17 where he stressed housing is a top priority for the state.

PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD

Answers in short supply

Afew weeks ago I wrote about the need for school resource o cers, or SROs, in local schools. I did not have crystal ball, but days after the editorial went live the shooting at East High School occurred.

It was a tragic day. Not only were two innocent administrators shot, but a young man who was allowed to continue coming to school despite his troubled record died. Had that student been placed in online learning or so many other options we as parents have today — would we not have lost him and would our teachers not be feeling like they are in a war zone?

I was impressed to see the superintendent of the school district stand up and say something has to be done and that means SROs back on campus protecting our students.

Thelma Grimes

I can’t imagine what those parents in that district are feeling as details come out and the constant political debate continues. I had a sinking feeling to nd out the student who is now dead had attended my own children’s school district. A little too close for comfort.

Bottom line — teachers and administrators deserve protection too. at means school boards, superintendents and principals are going to have to speak louder as politically correct decisions are being placed above their safety and our general student population. A teacher being shot by a 6-year-old is not OK. A teacher videoed being beaten unconscious by a student who was mad she took his game is not OK.

en, we had another mass shooting at a school in Tennessee. ree children at the age of 9 were killed.

ree adults trying to save lives were also killed.

Like every shooting, as soon as tragedy strikes — we lack the ability to come together as a country today. We lack the ability to be empathetic and sympathetic because it might create a problem in subjecting political will.

My son is 9 years old and with each shooting I become even more disheartened. ese children should not be the target in a world where adults have created a politically driven war zone in every aspect of our lives.

Of course, the gun debate comes up almost immediately. I saw articles and comments online where a father of one of the innocent victims said simply that he hopes his daughter nds peace in heaven. He was put down for taking that approach. I saw comments where people thought he should be angry and point to gun control.

I say this — He lost his daughter. He has a right to comment and react however he chooses and we as a society should be sympathetic and supportive. en, I saw a troubling statement online about the fact that stopping these shootings may be causing political division and debate but stopping them is not so simple.

Our country has an astounding mental health crisis on our hands and when you have a gunman decide that they are going to take weapons and kill innocent people with the objective of dying that day themselves — What do we do to stop it?

In the end, I want an SRO, a trained member of law enforcement, posted at the front doors, back doors and in each hallway of schools. ey are trained to go ahead and complete the wishes of the disgusting people who are on these suicide missions. And they may do so before innocent lives who deserve none of this are killed.

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

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Another season of new beginnings

The weeks seemed to be piling up, one right on top of the next. With the time ying by so fast, it also seemed as if the to-do list grew longer while the things checked o kept getting shorter or couldn’t keep up with everything that needed to be done and the additional things being added to the list. As they woke up to start another day, she asked her husband, “Why does everything have to be so difcult right now?”

She moved across the country with her 4-year-old son to start a new life and to reconnect with family. Her son was having a hard time adjusting to the new time zone, new surroundings, and new family members he had to get to know. His lack of sleep meant that she wasn’t getting any consistent sleep either, and the vicious cycle of no sleep and stress began. Additionally, she started a brand-new job, and he started school for the rst time, causing even greater disruption and stress. She looked in the mirror one morning and asked, “Why does everything have to be so di cult right now?”

As a career leader and salesperson he knew how large and complex deals could take longer than others. He had started the process on a new opportunity many months ago. As with any sales role, pressure comes when deals slip or push month-to-month and quarter-to-quarter. He was doing everything by the book, awlessly following the process and aligning with the buyer’s journey, yet the deal kept slipping. Finally, almost at the nish line to win the business, a week of discussion with the customer’s legal team forced more delays. He asked some of the people on his team, “Why does everything have to be so di cult right now?”

We all know stories like these, don’t we?

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We have all felt like this at times, haven’t we? I could add several more just like the ones above, but instead, let’s focus on what happens next.

Here we are in another season of new beginnings, and for many of us it is because we associate it with Easter as we celebrate the Risen Christ. In the week and weekend ahead, hope lls our hearts, and our outlook becomes elevated as we have new encouragement and inspiration. For some, it’s just about springtime and the budding of trees, grass turning green again, more sunlight pouring through our window, owers beginning to bloom, and the start of baseball that gives us a new and positive attitude. Another season of new beginnings. So I say to the couple, the mom and her son, and the professional salesperson all mentioned above, as well as any of us who may be saying the same thing right now, “Let today be a day of new beginnings.” If what we are doing right now isn’t working, let’s start over and develop a new plan that aligns with who we want to be, where we want to go and grow, and what we want to enjoy in this life. Everything will get better for you as a couple, a new, safe, and happy new life awaits you mother and child, and that deal will close as will many others for you in your brilliant sales career. is season of life will pass just like every previous season. If we hold on to the yesterdays of life that have caused us stress, fear, worry, and doubt, we are only anchoring ourselves in that negative cycle of gloom and doom. As Zig Ziglar said, “Failure is an event, not a person, yesterday really did end last night.” It’s time for another season of new beginnings.

How about you? Are you asking yourself why things are so di cult right now? Would it be helpful if you could see the light and

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Teacher pay has become a business issue

On a recent Saturday morning, Douglas County Schools Superintendent Erin Kane stopped at a Parker restaurant for breakfast burritos. e woman working behind the counter instantly recognized her and chatted her up.

e woman was not a parent with a concern, or a teenager who remembered Kane from her  days as a school principal. She didn’t recognize Kane from news coverage of the previous year’s school board sta ng and political tumult.

She recognized Kane because she currently works for her – an employee of the Douglas County Schools working the second job she needs to pay rent.

In the 2022 election, Douglas County voters rejected ballot measures 5A and 5B which would have generated more revenue for salaries and top infrastructure

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Reformers Redux

On April 6, Colorado Parent Advocacy Network (CPAN) will hold a Denver rally for conservatives supporting “parents’ rights” at the state Capitol. e related legislation in the US House pushed by MAGAs is no coincidence.

CPAN’s practical problem is clear … informed people here in DougCo won’t be sidetracked by the current right-wing triggers — “parents’ rights” and “woke.” We haven’t gotten over the damaging divisiveness of last year’s fake triggers — “critical race theory,” “Marxist teachers unions,” “teaching homosexuality and transgender in public schools” and more. Triggers concocted by the central planning process coming out of the dark-monied “libertarian in name only” think-tanks on the East Coast, with a helping of Bannonista rhetoric.

Our own DCSD has been besieged by the local Reformers mix since 2007 and before. Back then, there was a direct line from Reformers politics to the Koch-funded Tea Party and think-tanks Americans for Prosperity, American Enterprise Institute and the Independence Institute, among others.

CPAN is the latest of many darkmonied Reformer committees established to hornswoggle voters in the runup to DCSD and other school board elections in November. During CPAN’s November 2022 evening kicko , multi-layered connections between the current DCSD Board

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love at the end of the tunnel? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can prepare our hearts and minds for our own season of new begin-

priorities. Frankly, the timing was terrible. In ation and interest rates were surging, and asking for a tax increase from economicallystressed homeowners was predictably doomed to fail.

e bond request for school construction failed by more than eight points. e request for a mill levy increase – to retain and attract quality teachers and sta – came closer, falling short by a mere 2,495 votes.

So here we are in 2023. Douglas County is now the only school district in the metro area where starting pay for a teacher is below $50,000 per year. A teacher commuting to Parker from Aurora will likely pass several Cherry Creek schools where the average teacher makes $18,000 more per year.

Anecdotally, the Douglas County teachers who can a ord to stay teaching are those with economically-secure partners. Young teachers are hard to recruit, and those who do take jobs quickly move to better-paying jobs in nearby districts after a year or two.

It is likely that the school district will try again in the upcoming

majority and the host of Trumpist/ anti-minority organizations were in plain sight. e proof is in the bitter pudding of the same cast of roving anti-minority activists who continue to show-up for false-fronted nonpro ts like CPAN.

“Stripping back the layers of the onion” shows the same worn-out ideological players: current “CPAN award winning” DCSD Superintendent Kane and her four board members; CO and DougCo GOP; old-timey Reformers/Tea Partiers; billionaire funded local think tanks (Independence Institute et al.), Clarity (Anschutz) Media and radio KNUS, Foundation Against Intolerance and Fascism, some churches and grifting election deniers. Among others.

e DCSD community has already seen how quickly the current DCSD Board majority (aka Reformers Redux) stripped away the institution’s standing, energizing a new era of mistrust and disappointment. It behooves each of us to stay informed about school board politics and demand good faith candidates we can comfortably support in November. And it is time to pass the MLO and bond measures despite heavy reservations.

So, the question for DCSD taxpayers — isn’t it time we demand good choices among local school board candidates, people who have the intellectual and decision-making

o -year election. ey have to – or Douglas County teachers will only fall farther behind. Meanwhile, the surging county population is screaming for new schools.

We won’t know until the school board authorizes the ballot initiatives this summer, but Kane and her team are already gearing up. is time, the outcome will hinge on voter turnout. In o -year elections, voters tend to be whiter, older, and more conservative – not exactly the ideal demographic mix for a successful public education funding initiative. To pass, the new measures will require strong turnout from DCSD parents to counteract those dependable Douglas County voters who re exively say NO to anything resembling a public funding increase.

Fortunately, the economic outlook is better this year than last.

ey have that going for them.

Public education has no shortage of critics and skeptics (frequently, I am one). However, Parker’s economic and workforce competitiveness cannot be separated from the issue of public school funding. is year, public school funding will

need to be a priority issue for businesses.

e Parker Chamber of Commerce’s Government A airs Committee met with Kane’s team recently to discuss the anticipated 2023 ballot request. All agreed that, this time, an endorsement will not be enough. A uni ed message is needed, and chambers, major employers, and concerned parents will need to make clear that investment our community’s teachers is an urgent business priority.

e schools in Douglas County are academically competitive with every other district in the area, but the deterioration of teachers, sta , and infrastructure chips away from success potential every year that funding falls dramatically short of need.

You simply can’t attract primary employers and top-notch talent to a place where special education teachers wrap burritos and re ll salsa stations to a ord groceries.

T.J. Sullivan is the CEO of the Parker Chamber of Commerce. Find him on Instagram at @ParkerChamberCEO

nings, 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.

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An tiques might seem like a eld that’s struggling to rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the local scene in Elizabeth — and elsewhere in Colorado — suggests a renaissance of sorts might be occurring in the industry.

Randy Wallace owns Randy’s Antiques and Art on Main Street in Elizabeth. e bustling scene in town — featuring e Prickly Pear Antiques, e Carriage Shoppes and 1897 House of Antiques, among others — breeds community, not competition, he said.

“ e more stores in town, the better,” Wallace said. “People love to come antique shopping when there are multiple stores. Each one of our shops has a di erent niche, each one has just a little bit di erent style; I think customers enjoy having a di erent variety when they come to Elizabeth.”

Wallace said that while his shop specializes in antique art and furniture, others cater to di erent interests, like the Prickly Pear’s tearoom.

Over in Littleton, owner Joe Crawford of Old Crow Antiques had the novel idea to add a root beer bar to his shop, with the eventual goal of making the soda section — which currently carries between 60-90 varieties of vintage soda pop at any given time — the largest root beer bar in the world.

Crawford said Old Crow — which he opened three years ago with his brother — is one of the “new kids on the block” in the local

antiquing scene, but said they’ve been welcomed into the scene with open arms.

“I feel like we’re part of a larger community in the metro area,” Wallace said. “ ere are stores throughout the area, and we’ve gotten to know the people who own and work there — some have been here a long time.”

Nostalgia and good, old-fashioned, quality craftsmanship

Antique shops can often sprawl thousands of square feet — Old Crow’s showroom is over 45,000 square feet — packed with items from all eras and purposes. Shopkeepers say that a sense of longing for a di erent time helps people nd what they’re looking for out of the scores of inventories, in addition to the fact that many antiques have stood the test of time for a reason.

“In antique furniture, it’s already lasted 100 years, and — if you take care of it — it’ll last another 100 years,” Wallace said. “A lot of today’s stu is kind of throwaway.”

Julie McCoy, who runs own Unique Treasures Antiques and Collectibles in Wheat Ridge with her parents, echoed Wallace’s sentiment.

“(Antiques are) made so much better,” McCoy said. “ ey’re around 100 years later for a reason. It’s not like Ikea stu that you put together and throw away. It’s good quality

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stu that’s built to last. It builds a lot of memories with people.”

People also point to childhood nostalgia or family memories as reasons for antique shops’ sustained popularity.

“(People seek out) childhood memories,” McCoy said. “Stu that’ll last, people come in and say, ‘My mom had this,’ they need to have that again to relive their childhood.”

Crawford said his family got into the antiques business because of a love for history and historic items cultivated from time spent with grandparents as kids.

“We tell people it’s a walk down memory lane,” Crawford said. “You’ll see something that reminds you of another time, maybe a simpler time, or childhood. Something you haven’t thought of in maybe 50, 60 years.

“I’ll be reminded of my grandma, my family and that’s what it is for me, the stories and experiences of everything that’s here,” Crawford continued. “We say, ‘ ere are a lot of ghosts under this roof.’”

Tracy wins the 2023 Denver Lyric Opera Guild’s top award

Since 1984, members of the Denver Lyric Opera Guild have raised enough to give over a million in support money to help young (23-32) opera singers get started on their professional careers.

e top award of this year’s competition was given by the judges to operatic bass Gry en Hagen Tracy, a Coloradan, who has been an apprentice with the Santa Fe Opera and is a graduate of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, where he had a residency and received a Master of Music Degree.

He has been in Central City Opera Company’s training program and received his Bachelor of Music degree from Lamont School of Music at DU. He also has a Master of Music from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

It’s necessary for these young

singers to travel to auditions in order to be cast in operatic performances and these awards help them with launching into a professional career. e group meets monthly at Columbine Country Club in Littleton and welcomes new members. Visit the website.

Kathy van Arsdale will be the next DLOG president.

Colorado Ballet

e Colorado Ballet has announced performances of “Sinfonetta,” originally planned for the 2019/2020 season and nally appearing. e work, choreographed by Jiri Kylian in 1976 and new to

Denver audiences, is set to a score by Leos Janacek and blends clasic and contemporary techniques.

Elie Caulkins Opera

A horn fanfare is performed from the audience at the Elie Caulkins Opera House. Performances: April 14, 15, 21, 22 at 7:30 p.m. and April 15, 16 and 23 at 2 p.m. 303-837-8888, ext. 2. Ballet Masterworks tickets start at $40. See ColoradoBallet.org.

Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center

Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center, one of History Colorado’s community museums, is among 15 nalists for the 2023 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. It is located in the San Luis Valley and shows visitors what a frontier fort looked like. It’s a great site for a family visit with kids who are learn-

ing about our state. Well organized to tell a story. e address is 29477 Hwy 159, Fort Garland, CO and is open every day from 9 a.. to 5 p.m.. Call 1-719-430-3512 for information. Or, try 303-HISTORY.

Mary Louise Lee Orchestra

e Mary Louise Lee Orchestra will play a Tribute to Natalie Cole at 8 p.m. April 21 at Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree 720-509-1000. Tickets cost $31 to $45.

Colorado Gallery of Art e Colorado Gallery of Art at Arapahoe Community College Littleton Campus has an exhibit of work by invited students and alumni. Ooen Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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in Wheat Ridge. COURTESY UNIQUE TREASURES

Randy’s Arts and Antiques features a menagerie of furniture and art from di erent eras. COURTESY RANDY WALLACE

Part of the showroom at Old Crow Antiques in Littleton. COURTESY JOE CRAWFORD

SONYA’S SAMPLER

Paul Taylor Dance Company performs at Newman Center

Brings 64 years of modern dance

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Every seat was lled at the Newman Center’s Gates Concert Hall on March 27 when the New Yorkbased Paul Taylor Dance Company performed as part of this season’s “Newman Center Presents” series.  e company, which rst performed in New York City in May of 1954, is now directed by former company member Michael Novak, following Taylor’s death in 2018. He was chosen by Taylor to follow as director and is leading the current national tour.

In the course of Taylor’s 64 years with the modern dance company, he choreographed 147 dances, as well as performing works by other choreographers. He used music from many di erent genres.

On March 27, the program began with a dance called “Arden,” with music by British composer William Boyce (1711-1779), a contemporary of Handel. We assume it refers to England’s legendary Forest of Ardena, where 1,000-year-old trees are still found.

Taylor’s choreography is never stately like an ancient tree might be, but this work, which used nine dancers, was somewhat more slowly-paced than the works that followed.

A medley of Andrews Sisters’ songs from the WWII era was used for a slightly-less frantically-paced work called “Company B.”

It was rst performed in 2992 and seems slightly more relaxed in pace. It included a number of songs that were popular in the 1940s. Older readers will remember “Bei Mir Bist du Schone,” “Pennsylvania Polka,” “Two-Two,” “Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!,” “I Can Dream, Can’t I?” and “Joseph! Joseph!” from school dances and radio broadcasts perhaps. It called out the 16-member traveling company and was rst performed in 1991.

“Rush Hour,” the third dance the troupe performed is set to music by American composer Adam Crystal, showed a particular interest in writing for dancers and lms. It dates to a 2016 rst production and involve all 16 dancers who are touring, with frantic movement as singles, pairs and as groups.

With “Rush Hour,” special geomet-

ric lighting design by Clifton Taylor and trim black and grey costumes by Fritz Masten added an additional theatrical feel to this work, which verges on frantic o and on.  It involved all 16 dancers who are part of this tour and was originally presented in March, 2016.

At the start, a large pink Peony lls part of the rear wall and by the second part, dancers, clad in cleverly-designed costumes in black snd grey,s, with a good bit of detail on them. oor and stage walls have changed to geometric forms instead... e Crystal music is borderline-frantic-or at least darker

in mood, as all sixteen dancers rush, leap and move otherwise—with precisely-designed combinations of steps in every case, but designed to give an impression that everyone is urgently going somewhere, in a disjointed, frantic manner... Has a New York City street scene feel about it, for sure! Or, it could be London, Paris or Hong Kong...

Members of this dance company mostly bring college degrees to the job and the talented Taylor was a MacArthur Genius awardee, who received a 1993 National Medal of Arts-our highest honor-from President Clinton.

He choreographed 147 of the more than 170 dances in the company’s repertoire.

e company has toured all parts of the world on good will visits on behalf of the U.S. State Department, sharing it’s teeasure trove of dances, as well as appearing in many U.S. theaters. We’ll hope for a return.

In May, the Newman Center plans to announce its next season of “Newman Center Presents, which will include concerts, lecture and more dance. We look forward to another season there and elsewhere around the area—thankful that the arts are up and running again!

Larry Keigwin’s “Rush Hour” was a number performed by the Paul Taylor Dance Company on March 27 at the University of Denver’s Newman Center.

PHOTO BY WHITNEY BROWNE

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Colorado Country Dance Social @ 6pm / $10

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Spring Cherry Creek Race Team | Ages 9-18 @ 3:30pm / Free Apr 18th - May 16th

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The Arvada Center invites audiences to join its book club

An yone who has been in a book club before knows they can be a brilliant opportunity to bond with friends, both old and new, over a shared love of the written word. And they can also be ground zero for all kinds of interpersonal messiness.

In the Arvada Center’s production of Karen Zacarías’ laugh-outloud “The Book Club Play,” one group becomes the subject of a documentary film maker, resulting in all kinds of hilarity as the members let the camera into their lives.

“I love books. And I find book clubs fascinating,” wrote Kate Gleason, who plays several pundits in the show, in an email interview. “I like how book clubs are a chance for very different characters to come together in a shared experience. I was challenged and excited to play several wildly different characters with one common thread — books.”

“The Book Club Play” runs at the Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., through May 18. Directed by Lynne Collins as part of the Black Box Theatre repertory season, performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays through Saturdays, 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays.

Gathering with others who share a love of books is a triedand-true setting for all kinds of

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stories, and there’s a good reason for this — in book clubs, members have a tendency to really let their hair down and cut loose. Not only does this make for a very dynamic energy between characters, but it can be a vehicle to explore how we connect with each other.

“It’s about the relationships we have with our friends, family, and ourselves, all centered around great, or not so great, books,” Gleason wrote. “The ability to agree or disagree is all part of the fun.”

Stories involving book clubs provide opportunities to explore all kinds of culture: classic highbrow novels and the authors who write them, as well as trashy books that provide an opportunity to get together and complain with friends. With that kind of range, audiences who see “The Book Club Play” can expect laughs and literary references galore.

“Creating family and community are all part of our shared human experience. In all its glory and messiness,” Gleason wrote.

“And books can connect or disconnect us from each other. Let the hilarity ensue.”

For more information and tickets, visit https://arvadacenter.org/ events/the-book-club-play.

History Colorado takes travelers on a tour of Arvada

No matter where you live, there’s always an opportunity to learn a little more about your town or city. That’s the ethos behind History Colorado’s Tours and Treks adventure series — a series that goes back more than 50 years.

As part of this year’s lineup, History Colorado is hosting a Historic Arvada Walking Tour from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 15. According to provided information, the tour will provide a look at “historic buildings, tales of champions of religious and racial tolerance, and delicious spots to stop for snacks.”

All the details for the tour can be found at www.historycolorado. org/tours-and-treks.

Broomfield Symphony celebrates Buster Keaton

You’d be forgiven for believing that the work of silent film star Buster Keaton has very little to recommend it in the modern cinematic landscape. But upon closer inspection, his fingerprints are everywhere — a recent example is the ballet of violence that is “John Wick 4.”

To learn a little more about

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Grapefruit Lab to perform Grapefruit Lab performs “Strange Bird, Queer Bird” April 7 to 15 at Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Original music by Teacup Gorilla, choreography by Kate Spear and design by Colorado Shoe School. Fridays, Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, April 15, additional matinee at 2 p.m. Name your price for tickets.

Parker Symphony Orchestra

Parker Symphony Orchestra will perform a Concert called “Arabian Nights” at 7:30 p.m. at the PACE Center, 20000 E. Mainstreet, Parker. 303-805-3289. Box office Monday-Saturday noon to 5 p.m.

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Keaton and what makes him such a special performer, check out the Broomfield Symphony’s presentation of two films, “One Week” and “Sherlock Jr.” The screening will be held at the Broomfield Auditorium , 3 Community Park Road, at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 8. The symphony will be performing music from Rodney Sauer to accompany the films. Buy tickets at https://broomfieldsymphony.org.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Snail Mail at the Fox Theatre

Lindsey Jordan, who records under the name Snail Mail , makes the kind of indie rock that fans of the genre’s early days in the 1990s will immediately recognize. While there are certainly familiar elements to Snail Mail’s music, she’s uses a razor-sharp pen to artfully delve into themes of loneliness, identity and human connection.

Snail Mail will be stopping by Boulder’s Fox Theatre , 1135 13th St., at 8:30 p.m. on April 11. She’ll be joined by Water From Your Eyes and Dazy, both bands that represent exciting new talents that add a lot to indie rock. Get tickets at www.axs.com.

Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke.Reader@ hotmail.com.

Arvada Center

“Damn Yankees” plays April 7 to May 7 at Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. , Arvada. Tickets start at $53. 720-898-7200, arvadacenter.org.

Call for artists CORE Art Space, 6501 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood. invites entries for “Flower Power” which will run May 12 to 28. Entries due by April 16 at CAFE, .callforentry.org. Juror Michael Paglia. Show runs may 1228, with a reception May 12, 5 to 10 p.m.. Gallery open 12 to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday

Theater for kids

“Robin Hood” will play april 8-22 and May 27-June 24 at Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave, Golden,: Saturday at 1 p.m. and June 17 and 24 at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. 303935-3044.

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Man allegedly kills wife, daughter with ax and saw

Fear of becoming homeless a motive

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On March 25, the Englewood Police Department arrested Reginald Maclaren, 81, after he allegedly killed his wife and adult daughter with an ax to prevent them from becoming homeless.

Police documents say he was arrested on multiple charges, including murder in the rst degree and a weapons charge.

According to the arrest a davit, Maclaren allegedly admitted to killing his wife, Bethany Maclaren, 70, and daughter, Ruth Maclaren, 35, because his family was running out of money and would not be able to a ord their home anymore.

Maclaren went to the emergency department at Swedish Medical Center on the evening of March 25,

where he waived his Miranda rights and shared information with the police, documents say.

In this interview with detectives, Maclaren allegedly said his family would have had to vacate their apartment on March 25, and they had nowhere to live afterwards because they had no money, documents say.

He was allegedly previously employed at Hospital Shared Services and worked frequently with the homeless population. According to authorities he said being homeless was a miserable life.

Maclaren allegedly began planning to kill his family approximately 10 days ago, according to police documents. Investigators say he bought an ax, two large trash cans and a hand saw at Home Depot and stored these items in his apartment.

At approximately 6:03 p.m. on the day of the murders, police say they received a call from Maclaren stating that he thought his wife and daughter had been killed with a

hammer.

When o cers entered the residence at 901 Englewood Parkway, they found the two victims inside large trash cans in the living room/ kitchen area. According to police, both victims had substantial visible injuries.

Maclaren allegedly struck his wife and daughter in the head that morning with the ax while they were sitting on the couch, making them unconscious, according to police documents. He then allegedly struck each in the head with the ax two more times. e a davit says he then sawed their arms and legs o to make them t in the trash cans.

Englewood detectives, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation Crime Scene Unit and the Arapahoe County Coroner’s O ce conducted a homicide investigation at the scene of the crime.

Maclaren allegedly said he does not regret killing his family because he “knows they are in a better

place.”

Police documents say Maclaren being held without a bond. He appeared in Arapahoe County District Court this week to hear the charges led against him.

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Battling property tax bills could be settled at ballot

and then decide later which one to pursue.

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

e Colorado legislature’s inaction so far this year on a long-term x e ort to address rising property tax bills has prompted two scal policy nonprofits — one conservative and the other liberal — to propose competing ballot measures that would dramatically reshape the state’s nancial picture.  e policy battle is a repeat of what happened at the Colorado Capitol last year, when the same groups, neither of which have to disclose their donors, initiated property tax ballot measures when the General Assembly was slow to act. ey backed down only when lawmakers passed a Band-Aid bill giving property owners two years of temporary tax relief.

Property tax revenue funds schools and local governments, meaning that any discussion about how they should change carries extremely high stakes. e stakes have only increased since Colorado voters in 2020 repealed the Gallagher Amendment, which prevented residential property tax bills from getting too big but, when combined with the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, strangled local government budgets.   Rising property values across Colorado after the COVID-19 pandemic began have caused property tax bills to jump, too. Coloradans will get new property assessments from their counties starting May 1.

Colorado’s property taxes are among the nation’s lowest. But a big increase in property tax bills will really a ect people with xed incomes, such as retirees, who bought their homes when they were worth much less and weren’t expecting such a large nancial burden.

Gov. Jared Polis and Democrats, who control the Capitol, say they are committed to coming up with a long-term x this year. But the legislative session is more than halfway over — the General Assembly adjourns May 8 — and no proposals have been made public.

e governor and lawmakers have committed to expanding an existing property tax relief plan in the 2023 and 2024 tax years to $900 million, $200 million more than what was approved during the 2022 legislative session in a deal that got the nonpro ts to abandon their ballot measures.

“Conversations are obviously ongoing,” Senate President Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, told reporters. “I know there’s conversations happening with advocates, with connected districts, with businesses etc.”

In the absence of state lawmakers doing something, however, independent groups have stepped in to try to ll the vacuum — and also pressure the General Assembly to get moving.  Advance Colorado, the conservative scal nonpro t, entered the property tax conversation rst this year with Initiative 21, which would be on the November statewide ballot. It would amend the state constitution to cap property tax increases at 3% per property and set aside up to $100 million in state TABOR surplus each year for re districts.

TABOR caps government growth and spending each year based on population increases and the rate of in ation. Any money collected above the cap must be refunded to taxpayers unless voters say otherwise.

Michael Fields, who leads Advance Colorado, said the measure is an insurance policy against legislative inaction this year. “I think we’re wanting to see what the legislature comes up with,”

Fields said. “But given that we can’t go back in time, we wanted to get it led and get it through the process.”

e Bell Policy Center, the liberalleaning scal nonpro t, responded last week by ling eight proposed 2023 ballot measures for review by the state’s Title Board. If they are approved, Bell Policy Center can begin collecting signatures to have them placed on the fall ballot.

e measures, submitted in partnership with the Colorado Education Association, the state’s largest teacher union, would reduce or cap property tax increases and/or use TABOR surplus to replace the revenue lost by school, re district and local water project budgets.

Scott Wasserman, who leads the Bell Policy Center, says the measures are intended to neutralize Initiative 21 from Advance Colorado and also serve as a hedge against legislative inaction on property tax policy this year.

“It is clear from the initiatives already led by those who seek to destroy Colorado’s revenue base that these interests want to undercut the legislature’s ability to address the uneven e ects of a property tax spike,” the Bell Policy Center and Colorado Education Association said in a joint statement. “ e measures we’ve led would restrict the damage of possible statewide reductions or limitations, and ensure communities are adequately funded, while also protecting property taxpayers at this time of increasing property values. In the event the legislature is unable to reach a solution this year, we fully intend to move them forward and supersede any other initiative.”

Here’s the gist of what the Bell Policy Center/Colorado Education Association measures would do, in some combination:

Direct TABOR surplus — forecast to be more than $2.5 billion in the current scal year ending June 30 — to education, local re districts and water projects to make up for any money lost from property tax assessment rate reductions or caps on Coloradans’ increasing property tax bills. e measures wouldn’t a ect TABOR surplus until the 2023-24 scal year, which begins July 1.

Cap commercial and residential property tax increases at 3% annually, unless a property is valued at more than $2 million or $3 million, depending on the version of the ballot measure. Two of the initiatives would instead limit property tax increases by lowering property assessment rates.

Groups often le several iterations of the same or similar ballot measures

Some of the Bell Policy Center/Colorado Education Association proposals would change statute and others that would amend the state constitution. Wasserman estimates the changes would reduce property tax revenue by about $800 million. If state economic and tax forecasts are correct, there should be enough TABOR surplus in coming years to replace the de cit.

In reality, it will be very di cult for either Advance Colorado or the Bell Policy Center to get a property tax measure on the November ballot.

It takes time and a lot of money — potentially millions — to go through the Title Board process and then collect the 125,000 voter signatures required to get an initiative on the statewide ballot.

It’s even harder to get a constitutional amendment on the statewide ballot. at comes with the additional requirement that the voter signatures gathered include at least 2% of the registered voters in each of Colorado’s 35 state Senate districts.

Advance Colorado has deep pockets — again, it doesn’t disclose its donors — and Fields has a proven track record of getting scal policy questions on the ballot.

Bell Policy Center, by comparison, is backed by some wealthy foundations, including Gary Community Ventures, a philanthropic group focused on policy change that helps children and families. But the Bell Policy Center hasn’t really spent the kind of money that Advance Colorado and its associated political nonpro ts have dedicated to ballot measures in recent election cycles.

Fields cast doubt on the Bell Policy Center’s ability to follow through.

“I would encourage Scott and his donors to do some polling on how popular TABOR refunds are with Coloradans. Last time, they couldn’t even get enough signatures to get their tax hike (Initiative 271 in 2020) on the ballot, so it’s hard to believe these are actually serious proposals.”

Wasserman pointed out that Initiative 12 — which would have tied income tax rates to the amount of money people make, charging higher earners more — was a proposed constitutional amendment and that signature gathering for the measure was launched during the pandemic. He said his proposals this year are 100% serious.

“We always are serious when we le measures at the Title Board,” he said.

“You can’t just cut local revenue without a back ll for the loss.” ere are also questions about the viability of the proposals from both the Bell Policy Center and Advance Colorado. Properties often fall into multiple taxation districts with di erent mill levy rates, which determine how much people owe the government.

It would likely be tough for local governments to work together and determine how to cap a property owner’s tax bill.

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

Houses sit in an upscale neighborhood Nov. 21 in the east Centennial area.

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Governor wants fix as competing nonprofits o er their solutions

Creek downs Valor in top-teams tussle

Bruins take 9-7 win in lacrosse showdown

BY JIM BENTON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Cherry Creek’s boys lacrosse team found itself in a di erent position in its March 29 game against Valor Christian.

Creek’s Bruins showed they could play from behind and defeated the Eagles 9-7 in an early season showdown between Colorado’s top two teams, at least according to the March 27 CHSAANow. com state rankings

Top-ranked Creek outscored No. 2 Valor 5-2 in the second half to improve to 5-0 this season. Valor lost for the rst time in six games.

“Coming back was a key,” said Creek coach Matthew Bocklet. “We haven’t had to play from behind this year. So for our guys to show the ability to come back was great. I’m proud of that.”

Creek and Valor are two of the state’s perennially tough boys lacrosse teams. Both were in the quarter nals last season. e Bruins have won seven state championships and Valor two in Class 4A.

Creek took a quick 1-0 lead but Valor goalie Buck Cunningham scored on a long throw from the opposite goal area, which seemed to spark the Eagles.

Valor grabbed an early 5-2 at lead and was on top 5-4 at halftime.

Cherry Creek nally went ahead 7-6 on a third-period

goal by Ollie Nolting but the game was tied at 7-all in the fourth period.

Goals by junior Owen Burke and senior Brody Fisher in the nal seven minutes provided the winning margin.

Fisher had three goals in the game and two came in the fourth quarter. Nolting had two goals and one assist for the Bruins. Gus Bell nished with three assists.

Sophomore Rush LaSelle had three goals and an assist for Valor. Valor’s Baden Brown and Liam Goodwin each had a goal and assist.

“We made a lot of mistakes and they are a great team,” said Bocklet. “Great teams capitalize on your mistakes, and every time we threw the ball away in the clearing game, they got the ball and came down and scored.

“ e guys are feeling good but we’ve got to learn from our mistakes and hopefully improve upon them. We’re always going to be happy about a win. I’m always going to be critical of how we played but as long as we learn from our mistakes, we’ll be in a good spot. It would be a surprise if we don’t play Valor again this season.”

Valor coach Jeremy Noble hopes his team can use the loss to learn and move on.

“It was a big game and we used it as a measuring stick to see where we are at, as a program,” said Noble. “All the credit goes to Cherry Creek. ey had a good game plan on defense and were the better team. We will learn from this as a group and move forward.”

Legend takes 12-2 win over Ralston Valley

Boys baseball team excels in pitching, hitting

BY JIM BENTON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Legend’s baseball team played its third game in three days against Ralston Valley on March 30.

With games bunched together, it can put stress on a high school pitching sta because of pitch limitation rules.

However, Legend got a solid pitching performance from Gavin Hasche and combined that with a 10-hit attack over ve innings to notch a 12-2 win over the Mustangs in a game that ended after ve innings because of the mercy rule.

e win improved Legend’s record to 5-2 and came after the Titans defeated Lakewood 14-3 on March 28 and an 11-7 setback to Cherry Creek on March 29.

“We knew we had three games in a row so we kind of spaced our pitching a little bit,” said Legend coach Scott Boyd.

“Our starters for three games threw very well. We hit the baseball against Ralston Valley. We have tough games coming up against Valor and Erie and our goal is to win every week. With this group of kids, we should be able to do that.”

Hasche, a senior who has committed to Boston College, allowed two runs, gave up ve hits and struck out six batters in his ve-inning outing.

“I felt good,” said Hasche. “I pitched pretty good but I made some mistakes. I was just locating my fastball and my slider was moving.”

Senior shortstop Nathan Hopkins, who made two dazzling elding plays early in the game, paced the Titans offense by going 3-for-3 with a solo home run and two runs batted in. He scored three runs.

Dylan Reif (3) of Cherry Creek tries to get past Valor Christian’s James Hamilton (5) during the March 29 boys lacrosse game between the the teams.

PHOTO BY JIM BENTON

Legend starting pitcher Gavin Hasche gave up two runs and five hits in a 12-2 win over Ralston Valley on March 30.

PHOTO BY JIM BENTON

independence to solve issues with local thinking rather than falling back to outsiders and interference that failed our schools before? After all, shouldn’t we be electing local ofcials who have the leadership moxie to bring all kinds of people together?

Lloyd Guthrie Roxborough

Pick a name

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Compared to Colorado, with our weak gun laws, the State of Tennessee has almost no gun laws. e six people who died in the Nashville school shooting were simply traded for the right of every Tennessean to own a weapon of war. Or two or three or a dozen.

Douglas County has three County Commissioners who support the right to own an AR 15 assault/pistol/ ri e, or other weapon of war, over the lives of every school student in Douglas County. ey were elected by a majority of the residents of the county who have similar views. Other elected o cials do not even support the red ag law that would take these weapons of war out of the hands of mentally ill people.

I would like to invite a representative group of the afore mentioned AR15 supporters to join me in visiting three schools that are a short walk from my house. Students from these three schools pass my house every day. ese representatives would simply trade their AR 15s for the life of every student and teacher or keep their AR 15s and pick a name, who they view, has less value than an AR 15.

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“I like to be both a defensive player and a hitter, and this game I showed up to be both and I liked it,” said Hopkins. “Today the wind was in my favor on the home run and I caught it on the barrel of the bat and the wind pushed it out for me.

“We have to impress some people,”

What goes around

We can certainly engage in gallows humor over Trump’s indictment, but the reality is that this political move will just light a re under some to go after Biden for his family’s foreign in uence money — which we all know would be like furiously pedaling a stationary, nodestination bike in a spin class. Hey. While we’re about it, let’s just indict every government o cial who has been doing insider trading.

And because I’m already on the path to mix more metaphors, all I can picture is Nero playing the violin while Rome burns. In our country’s case, though, it’s not just dollars going up in smoke. We ourselves may be willingly stepping into the incinerator.

Linda

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I am hesitant to become a paid subscriber to the Lone Tree Voice (LTV) until I see a more balanced viewpoint in the selection of articles provided and the editorial opinion. Additionally, there is very little substance of real importance provided by the regular contributors, i.e. their u and feel-good articles. I am more hesitant after seeing regular grammar and spelling errors in the LTV, the latest being the subject headline, the front page headline at that, which clearly had no or poor editorial review since the text should have obviously read “County.” Journalism today isn’t what it was in the glory days. I’ll subscribe when the LTV becomes a truly quality newspaper.

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continued Hopkins. “People are going to sleep on us and we’re going to catch them o guard. We have a lot of pitchers that can do good things and if they keep performing at the rate they are doing right now, we’re going to have a good season. It’s going to be fun to watch.”

Jackson Phillips and Connor Boyd also gured in on the Legend o ensive heroics against Ralston Valley. Phillips was 2-for-2 with two RBI and Boyd went 2-for-3 with a pair of runs batted in.

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Enjoy working outside in beautiful surroundings? Castle Pines Metro District is looking for positive, motivated, team-oriented people for its Landscape Maintenance Team for the summer (May-August). Duties include mowing, trimming, planting, miscellaneous jobs, and repairs. Hours: 7 a.m. – 4 p.m., Monday –Friday; Salary $20/per hour. depending on experience. Requirements: 17 years old, clean MVR, dependable, clean/neat appearance.

To apply call Sue or Liz at Metro, 303-688-8330, or email apply@castlepinesmetro.com.

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Senior Estimator

Haselden Construction LLC in Centennial, CO. Prep estimates w/ proper level of detail for all design stages: Conceptual, Schematic Design, Design Development & Construction Docs. Bac’s (or frgn equiv) in Const. Mgmt., Civil Eng. or rltd + 5 years’ exp as a senior estimator or rltd, or Masters + 2 yrs exp. Salary: $115,000 / year. Email res to: Attn: Amanda Sparks - Ref #5250, AmandaSparks@haselden. com.

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Registered Occupational Therapist/ COTA

Full-Time and part-time Registered Occupational Therapist/COTA for 2023-24 School Year! OTR must have, or be eligible for appropriate Colorado licensure. Provide Pre-12 intervention, assessment, direct & indirect services just east of Denver on I-70, Bennett, Strasburg Byers & Kiowa areas COTA Needed for Limon & Surrounding Areas

Support from an experienced

COTA is available for OT. Full

Time Salary range: MA $50,450$56,050 PhD $55,700 -$61,300.

Part-Time Salary prorated based on the number of days employed. COTA Salary range BA $41,222$46,600. Excellent Benefits. Access to a company vehicle or mileage reimbursement. May be eligible for a loan forgiveness program! Flexible scheduling with the opportunity to complete some work at home. To apply for this position, please visit our website ecboces.org and click on the “Jobs” page, click on the job you are interested in & then click on the grey button “Apply Online”, located at the bottom of the job listing. EOE

Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101 or email tracyg@ ecboces.org.

Help Wanted

Educational Audiologist

East Central BOCES is looking for a part-time Educational Audiologist for the 2023-24 school year

• CDE Special Services and Colorado Audiologist licensure required; CCC’s or AAA certificate; knowledge of current technologies in Audiology including HAT systems and cochlear implants preferred.

• Experience with children 0-21 preferred.

• Complete evaluations, provide direct services, and consultation services, manage hearing equipment and oversee hearing screening program.

• Benefits include: a signing bonus, mileage reimbursement

• Flexible scheduling with some opportunity to work from home.

• May be eligible for a loan forgiveness program.

• Ph.D. Salary $51,450-$60,550.

• For Questions, please contact Tracy at tracyg@ecboces.org or 719-775-2342 ext. 101.

• To apply for this position, please visit our website ecboces.org and click on the “Jobs” page, click on the job you are interested in & then click on the grey button “Apply Online”, located at the bottom of the job listing. EOE

Help Wanted

Speech Language Pathologist or SLPA Positions

FT & PT Speech-Language Pathologist or SLPA Positions

Available for 2023-24 School Year!

Open to School Internships. Able to provide supervision for CFY hours. Join our dynamic, multidisciplinary team of professionals for the 2023-24 school year. Administer assessments, provide direct, indirect & consultation services for students

PreK-12th grades. Competitive salaries: SLP - $50,450-$56,050 & SLPA- BA $41,000- $46,600, both commensurate upon experience. May also be eligible for loan forgiveness! Excellent benefits, including full health benefits & mileage reimbursement. Flexible scheduling with the opportunity to complete some work at home. To apply for this position, please visit our website ecboces.org and click on the “Jobs” page, click on the job you are interested in & then click on the grey button “Apply Online”, located at the bottom of the job listing. EOE. Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101 or email tracyg@ ecboces.org

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Eng, SW Dev & Eng

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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 64, STONEGATE FILING NO. 21A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of: 10119 Riverstone Drive, 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.

LOT 15 VILLAGES OF PARKER FILING NO. 25

COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of: 11812 Mill Valley Street, Parker, CO 80138

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, May 17, 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: 3/23/2023

Last Publication: 4/20/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 1/25/2023

DAVID GILL

DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

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: 4/6/2023

Last Publication: 5/4/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 2/8/2023

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 Colorado Registration #: 44893 355 UNION BLVD SUITE 250, LAKEWOOD, COLORADO 80228 Phone #: (303) 274-0155

Fax #: Attorney File #: CO21329

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0033

First Publication: 4/6/2023

Last Publication: 5/4/2023

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 334, MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CENTER FILING NO. 7C, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of:

14103 Double Dutch Circle, 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, May 17, 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: 3/23/2023

Last Publication: 4/20/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 1/30/2023

DAVID GILL

DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

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

JENNIFER C. ROGERS

Colorado Registration #: 34682 4530 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. 10, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89119

Phone #: 877-353-2146

Fax #:

Attorney File #: 48065998

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0026

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 17, 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: 3/23/2023

Publication: 4/20/2023 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 1/25/2023 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

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

JENNIFER C. ROGERS Colorado Registration #: 34682 4530 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. 10, LAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89119 Phone #: 877-353-2146 Fax #: Attorney File #: 48061541

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE

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

DAVID R DOUGHTY

Colorado Registration #: 40042 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112

Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Castle Rock NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2023-0032

To Whom It May Concern: On 2/6/2023 10:10:00

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: JOSE M DUARTE, JR Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CALIBER HOME LOANS, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

MIDFIRST BANK

Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 12/19/2017

Recording Date of DOT: 12/28/2017

Reception No. of DOT: 2017087162 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $431,521.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $382,647.19

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:

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $486,461.94

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: failed to make the monthly mortgage payments as required by the terms of the Note 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 13, Highlands Ranch filing No. 108-D, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

Which has the address of: 3730 White Bay Dr., Highlans Ranch, CO 80126-5020

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.

2021088800 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $533,935.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $523,694.00

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 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 1, BLOCK 6, CRYSTAL VALLEY RANCH

FILING NO. 15 AMENDMENT NO. 2 TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of:

4779 Trails Edge 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. Wednesday, May 31, 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

LOT 16, BLOCK 20, THE VILLAGES AT CASTLE ROCK, 2ND AMENDMENT-LIBERTY VILLAGE PORTION, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of: 7439 Grady Cir, Castle Rock, CO 80108-9702

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, May 31, 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.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 24, 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: 3/30/2023

Last Publication: 4/27/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 2/3/2023

DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

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

MARCELLO G. ROJAS

Colorado Registration #: 46396 3600 SOUTH BEELER STREET SUITE 330, DENVER, COLORADO 80237 Phone #: (303) 353-2965 Fax #:

File #: CO220011

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: https:// www.douglas.co.us/public-trustee/ Legal Notice No. 2023-0030

CREEK FUNDING, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS

AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

ARC HOME LLC

Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/27/2021

Recording Date of DOT: 4/30/2021

Reception No. of DOT: 2021056179

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt:

$564,752.00

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $551,799.49

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 10, BLOCK 6, STROH RANCH FILING NO. 12, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of:

12813 Domingo Court, 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, May 24, 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: 3/30/2023

Last Publication: 4/27/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 2/3/2023

DAVID GILL

DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

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

DAVID R DOUGHTY

Colorado Registration #: 40042 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112

Phone #: (303) 706-9990

Fax #: (303) 706-9994

Attorney File #: 23-029244

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0029

First Publication: 3/30/2023

Last Publication: 4/27/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Castle Rock NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2023-0022

To Whom It May Concern: On 1/24/2023 11:47:00

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: ROCKY C MYERS

Original Beneficiary: BOKF NA

DBA COLORADO STATE BANK AND TRUST

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BOKF, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/15/2018

Recording Date of DOT: 3/16/2018

Reception No. of DOT: 2018015436

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt:

$422,112.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $390,072.13

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 11, BLOCK 3, CASTLEWOOD RANCH SUBDIVISION-FILING NO. 1 - PARCEL 6, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of: 1271 Kittery Street, 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, May 17, 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.

property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 176 HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 122-H, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of: 4705 Hunterwood Drive, 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.

SOUTH 30 FEET AND THE EAST 30 FEET FOR ROADWAY, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of:

4655 Best Rd, 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.

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

Recording Date of DOT: 3/4/2020

Reception No. of DOT: 2020015070

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt:

$386,650.00

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $307,227.46

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. 2022006436 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 272, Highlands Ranch Filing No. 111-B, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

Which has the address of:

2179 Gold Dust Ln, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129

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, May 10, 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: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 1/20/2023

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 #: 00000009703596

*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, May 10, 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: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 1/17/2023 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

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

HEATHER DEERE Colorado Registration #: 28597 355 UNION BLVD SUITE 250, LAKEWOOD, COLORADO 80228 Phone #: (303) 274-0155

Fax #: Attorney File #: CO21320

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0014

First Publication:

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.

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 12, FOUNDERS VILLAGE FILING NO. 25, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of: 443 Blue Teal Dr, 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, May 3, 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.

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0018

First Publication: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE

Larkspur NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2023-0014

To Whom It May Concern: On 1/17/2023 11:53:00

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: Priscilla Santana Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for United Wholesale Mortgage, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 7/20/2018

Recording Date of DOT: 7/23/2018

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

Reception No. of DOT: 2018044335 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $538,257.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $505,539.46

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

N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee for RCF 2 Acquisition Trust c/o U.S. Bank Trust National Association Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 5/27/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 6/7/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005051396 DOT Recorded in Douglas County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $359,200.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $273,270.87

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.

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE

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

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:

A PART OF SECTION 17, TOWNSHIP 10 SOUTH, RANGE 66 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTH 1/4 CORNER OF SAID SECTION 17 AND CONSIDERING

THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID SOUTHEAST 1/4

TO BEARS SOUTH 88 DEGREES 17 MINUTES

11 SECONDS EAST WITH ALL BEARINGS CONTAINED HEREIN RELATIVE THERETO;

THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 17 MINUTES

11 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID SOUTH LINE

A DISTANCE OF 780.00 FEET TO A POINT ON THE CENTERLINE OF A 60-FOOT ROADWAY

EASEMENT; THENCE NORTH 1 DEGREE 42

MINUTES 49 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID

CENTERLINE A DISTANCE OF 867.72 FEET

TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE NORTHEASTERLY ALONG THE ARC OF A CURVE TO THE RIGHT AND ALONG SAID CENTERLINE A DISTANCE OF 295.64 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENT, SAID CURVE HAS A RADIUS OF 500.00 FEET AND A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 38 DEGREES 52 MINUTES 39 SECONDS;

THENCE NORTH 35 DEGREES 35 MINUTES 28

SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID CENTERLINE A DISTANCE OF 681.43 TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG THE ARC OF A CURVE TO THE LEFT AND ALONG SAID CENTERLINE A DISTANCE OF 118.60 FEET, SAID CURVE HAS A RADIUS OF 500.00 FEET AND A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 13 DEGREES 35 MINUTES 28 SECONDS; THENCE NORTH 88 DEGREES 09 MINUTES 46 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 1,292.14 FEET TO A POINT OF THE NORTH-SOUTH CENTERLINE OF SAID SECTION 17; THENCE SOUTH 1 DEGREE 55 MINUTES 01 SECOND WEST ALONG SAID CENTERLINE A DISTANCE OF 1,820.32 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; EXCEPT THE

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 207, HIGHLANDS RANCH, FILING NO. 112-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of: 9307 Desert Willow Trail, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129

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, May 3, 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: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 1/11/2023 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

The name, address and telephone numbers of

Public Notices

the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

DAVID R DOUGHTY Colorado Registration #: 40042 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112

Phone #: (303) 706-9990

Fax #: (303) 706-9994

Attorney File #: 22-028513

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0013

First Publication: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Castle Rock NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2023-0016

To Whom It May Concern: On 1/18/2023 2:11:00 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: Garrett Musson

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

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Guild Mortgage Company LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 7/23/2021

Recording Date of DOT: 7/27/2021

Reception No. of DOT: 2021089586

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt:

$565,250.00

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $556,796.82

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 3, BLOCK 3, CRYSTAL VALLEY RANCH FILING NO. 12A, AMENDMENT NO . 1, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of:

5918 Plains End Court, 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, May 10, 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: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 1/18/2023

DAVID GILL

DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

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

ILENE DELL'ACQUA

Colorado Registration #: 31755 7700 E. ARAPAHOE ROAD, SUITE 230 , CENTENNIAL, COLORADO 80112

Phone #: (877) 369-6122

Fax #:

Attorney File #: CO-22-946526-LL

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0016

First Publication: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2023-0035

To Whom It May Concern: On 2/9/2023 10:18:00

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: JOHN BREILO

Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

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 has died and the property is not the principal residence of any surviving Borrower, resulting in the loan being due and payable.

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 2, PARKER VILLAGE FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of: 12301 Pine Dr , Parker, CO 80138 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, May 31, 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.

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.

Douglas County News Press

1/23/2023

GILL

COUNTY Public Trustee

The name, address and telephone numbers of the

A public hearing will be held on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. before the Lone Tree Planning Commission to consider:

Proposed amendments to Chapter 16 of the Municipal Code: • Changes to Article XXXVI – amending the definition for boarding/rooming house.

For more information, please call the Community Development Department at 720-509-1180.

Legal Notice No.945255

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE Wellspring Community and Covenant Church Annexation

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Petition for Annexation has been presented to the Town Council of the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado, and found to be in compliance with Colorado law. The Town Council has adopted the attached resolution setting a public hearing to be held on April 18, 2023 at 6:00 pm in the Town Hall, 100 N. Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado to determine if the property described therein is eligible for annexation under Colorado law.

Given this 8th day of March, 2023.

Section 3. The Town Clerk shall give notice of said hearing in the manner prescribed by §3112-108(2), C.R.S.

Section 4. This Resolution shall become effective on the date and at the time of its adoption.

PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 7th day of March, 2023 by the Town Council of the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado, on first and final reading by a vote of 7 for and 0 against.

ATTEST: TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK

Lisa Anderson, Town Clerk

Approved as to form:

Approved as to content: Jason Gray, Mayor

Michael J. Hyman, Town Attorney

Tara Vargish, Director of Development Services

RECEIVED February 6, 2023

PETITION FOR ANNEXATION [WELLSPRING COMMUNITY ANNEXATION FILING NO. 1]

To the Town Council of the Town of Castle Rock

We, the undersigned, constituting and comprising the owners of 100% of the area (territory) (excluding public streets and alleys) described in Exhibit A attached hereto and made a part of the Petition) the "Described Area"), do hereby petition that the Described Area be annexed to and become part of the Town of Castle Rock and do represent and state:

To

Lisa Anderson, Town Clerk RESOLUTION NO. 2023-025

A RESOLUTION FINDING THAT THE PETITION FOR ANNEXATION SUBMITTED BY MATRIX DESIGN GROUP IS IN SUBSTANTIAL COMPLIANCE WITH ARTICLE II, SECTION 30(1)

(B) OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION AND SECTION 31-12-107(1), C.R.S.; AND SETTING

1. It is desirable and necessary that the Described Area be annexed to the Town of Castle Rock. Annexation into the Town of Castle Rock has benefits for both the current residents and the annexed property. Current residents get a say in the new development that could come with that annexation. The new property then has access to (and helps fund) Town services such as roads, utilities, water, parks, trails, recreation and more.

Debt:

U.S. Bank National Association Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/25/2005

Recording Date of DOT: 11/4/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005106906

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $71,200.00

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $69,997.56

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 407, HIGHLANDS RANCH, FILING NO.

121-B, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of:

9762 Westbury Cir, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129

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, May 31, 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

Douglas County News Press

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

A DATE, TIME, AND PLACE FOR A HEARING TO DETERMINE IF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS ELIGIBLE FOR ANNEXATION UNDER ARTICLE II, SECTION 30 OF THE COLORADO CONSTITUTION AND SECTIONS 31-12-104 AND 31-12-105, C.R.S. (Wellspring Community Annexation)

WHEREAS, on February 6, 2023, a petition (the “Petition”) was filed with the Town Clerk by Matrix Design Group (the “Petitioner”) for the annexation of a 2.07-acre parcel of land located at 498 E. Wolfensberger Road as more particularly described on the attached Exhibit A (the “Property”); and

WHEREAS, the Petition requests that the Town of Castle Rock (the “Town”) annex the Property; and

WHEREAS, the Petition states that it is signed by persons: (i) comprising more than fifty percent of the landowners in the area to be annexed and (ii) owning more than fifty percent of the area to be annexed, excluding public streets, and alleys and any land owned by the Town, as required by Article II, Section 30(1)(b) of the Colorado Constitution; and

WHEREAS, pursuant to §31-12-107(1)(f), C.R.S., the Town Council, without undue delay, is required to determine if the Petition is in substantial compliance with the requirements set forth in Article II, Section 30(1)(b) of the Colorado Constitution and §31-12-107(1), C.R.S.; and

WHEREAS, upon such determination, the Town Council is required to set a date, time, and place for a hearing to determine whether the Property is eligible for annexation to the Town in accordance with the requirements of Article II, Section 30 of the Colorado Constitution and §§31-12-104 and 31-12-105, C.R.S.

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK, COLORADO AS FOLLOWS:

The Town Council finds and determines:

A. The Petition requests that the Town annex the Property;

B. The Petition is signed by persons: (i) comprising more than fifty percent (50%) of the landowners of the Property, and (ii) owning more than fifty percent (50%) of the Property, excluding public streets and alleys, and any land owned by the Town;

C. The Petition substantially complies with the requirements of Section 30(1)(b) of Article II of the Colorado Constitution and §31-12-107(1), C.R.S;

D. The Petition is accompanied by a map containing the information required by §31-12-107(1)(d), C.R.S.; and

E. No signature on the Petition is dated more than 180 days prior to the date of filing of the Petition with the Town Clerk.

Section 2. Pursuant to §31-12-108, C.R.S., a public hearing is scheduled before the Town Council on April 18, 2023, at 6:00 P.M., at the Castle Rock Town Hall, 100 N. Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, for the purpose of enabling the Town Council to determine whether:

2. The requirements of Sections 31-12-104 and 31-12-105, C.R.S. 1973, as amended, exist or have been met as these sections apply to the annexation of the Described Area. The described area meets the requirements of section 31-12104; by greater than onesixth of the perimeter of the area proposed to be annexed being contiguous with the annexing municipality. More specifically the described area is surrounded by Town of Castle Rock land. The described area meets the requirements of section 13-12-105; no identical ownership applies to the described parcel.

3. That the signers of the petition comprise the landowners of more than 50% of the territory included in the area proposed to be annexed, exclusive of streets and alleys. The signer of the petition comprises the landowner of 100% of the described area to be annexed.

4. That the undersigned request that the Town of Castle Rock approve the annexation of the area proposed to be annexed.

5. That the legal description of the land owned by each Petitioner hereto is attached to and made part of this Petition.

The Petitioner(s) hereto understand and are cognizant of the fact that the Town of Castle Rock ("Town") is not legally required to annex the Described Area, and that if the Town does annex the Described Area, the annexation shall be upon the conditions and agreement of the Petitioner(s) as set forth in the Annexation Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the forgoing statement, and in further consideration of the benefits which will accrue to the Petitioner(s) and the obligations resulting to the Town if the Described Area is annexed to the Town, the Petitioner(s) agree and covenant that if the Described Area is annexed to the Town, the Petitioner(s) will comply with all applicable provisions of the Code of the Town of Castle Rock, as amended, and all applicable ordinances, resolutions, and regulations of the Town now existing or as hereinafter amended.

The covenants and agreements herein above set forth shall run with the land owned by each Petition hereto which is subject to this annexation and shall extend to and be binding upon the heirs, assigns, legal representatives and successors to each Petitioner. Each Petitioner expressly accepts the aforesaid covenants and agreements by proceeding with the Petition for Annexation to the Town of Castle Rock.

Nicole DeVries

Executive Director Wellspring Community 826 Park Street Castle Rock, CO 80109

Exhibit A

WELLSPRING COMMUNITY LEGAL DESCRIPTION:

(FROM TITLE COMMITMENT)

PARCEL A:

COMMENCING AT THE SOUTH QUARTER CORNER OF SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 8 SOUTH, RANGE 67 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO; THENCE N60°50'W, 976 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE N36°50'W, 220.00 FEET; THENCE N53°10'E 90.0 FEET; THENCE S36°50'E 340.00; THENCE S53°10'W

THEREFORE,

Trust.

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

A. The Property is eligible for annexation to the Town in accordance with the requirements of Article II, Section 30 of the Colorado Constitution and §§31-12-104 and 31-12-105, C.R.S.;

B. Whether an election of the landowners and registered electors in the area to be annexed is required under Article II, Section 30(1)(a) of the Colorado Constitution and §31-12-107(2), C.R.S.; and

C. Whether additional terms and conditions are to be imposed upon the proposed annexation.

FEET; THENCE S36°50E, A DISTANCE OF 220

FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.

PARCEL C: (OMITTED, ALREADY ANNEXED)

LEGAL DESCRIPTION AS SURVEYED:

A PARCEL OF LAND IN THE SOUTHEAST

QUARTER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER (SE1/4, SW 1/4) SECTION 3, T3S, R67W OF THE 6th P.M., DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

BEGINNING AT THE MOST EASTERLY CORNER OF TRACT B "CASTLE HIGHLANDS FILING NO. 2" AS RECORDED UNDER RECEPTION NO. 2001019899 IN THE DOUGLAS COUNTY RECORDS.

Legal Notice No. 945106

First Publication: March 16, 2023;

Second Publication: March 23, 2023;

Third Publication: March 30, 2023;

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

Pursuant to the laws of the State of Colorado:

COURTYARD SOCIAL, LLC d/b/a

COURTYARD SOCIAL has requested the Liquor Licensing Authority of the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado to grant a HOTEL & RESTAURANT

LIQUOR License, as provided by law, at the premises located at:

333 Perry St. Unit D, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104

A Public Hearing on this application will be held before the Liquor Licensing Authority at the hour of 1:00 PM or as soon thereafter as possible, on APRIL 20, 2023 either at the Town of Castle Rock Offices, 100 Wilcox St., Castle Rock, Colorado, or if circumstances require, via Webex by accessing the agenda with instructions at castlerock-co.legistar.com/Calendar. At said time and place, any interested persons may appear and be heard for or against the granting of said license.

The completed application and supporting documentation was received, and reviewed for filing, on MARCH 7, 2023. COURTYARD SOCIAL LLC has listed the following officers:

WILLIAMGARY MANTELLI.

Legal Notice No. 945178

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

A public hearing will be held on April 25, 2023, at 2:30PM, in the Commissioners' Hearing Room, 100 Third St., Castle Rock, CO, for a proposed vacation of a portion of Douglas County Road No. 5 between the intersections of Roxborough Park Road and Thunder Run. For more information call Douglas County Planning, 303-660-7460.

File No. SB2023-007 / Vacation of a Portion of Douglas County Road No. 5

Legal Notice No. 945250

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

A HEARING HAS BEEN SCHEDULED FOR THE TRANSFER OF A HOTEL AND RESTAURANT LIQUOR LICENSE FOR ROCKY MOUNTAIN PIZZERIA INC D/B/A ROCKY MOUNTAIN PIZZERIA (TRANSFEROR) AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESTAURANTS D/B/A ROCKY MOUNTAIN PIZZERIA (TRANSFEREE) ON APRIL 20, 2023 AT 20120 EAST MAINSTREET IN THE TOWN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, TOWN OF PARKER, COLORADO AT THE HOUR OF 6:30 P.M., OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS CAN BE HEARD.

PUBLISHED:

CHRIS VANDERPOOL, TOWN CLERK

Legal Notice No. 945253

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Metropolitan Districts

Public Notice

NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED RATE ADJUSTMENTS OR INCREASES

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors of the Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Authority may fix, adjust or increase fees, rates, toll, penalties or charges for domestic water or sanitary sewer services provided to the Authority’s residential and/or commercial property owners within or outside the boundaries of the Authority. Such action is being considered by the Board of Directors at the public meeting and hearing scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on April 12, 2023 at 13031 E. Caley Avenue, Centennial, CO 80111.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY WATER AND WASTEWATER AUTHORITY

By: /s/ Ronald Fano, Authority Council

Legal Notice No. 945289

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Public Notice NOTICE OF INDEPENDENT MAIL BALLOT ELECTION MIRABELLE METROPOLITAN

NOTICE is hereby given that an independent mail ballot election will be held by Mirabelle Metropolitan District No. 2, in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado (the “District”) on Tuesday, May 2, 2023.

This election will be conducted as an independent mail ballot election only. Mail ballots will be mailed to eligible electors between April 10, 2023 and April 17, 2023.

DROP-OFF LOCATION AND HOURS: WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON

Office of the Designated Election Official 2154 E. Commons Avenue, Suite 2000 Centennial, Colorado 80122

Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., April 10, 2023 through April 17, 2023, and Tuesday, May 2, 2023 between the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

The names of persons nominated as Director to serve until May 2027 (three seats to be voted upon):

MATTHEW L. DAVIS ANDRIA MINO GORDON MAC L. ORLADY KATHLEEN SIEG WYATT CHADWICK MICHELE MARIE MILLER

By:/s/ Ashley B. Frisbie Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945247

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN and particularly to the electors of the Bear Ridge Metropolitan District of Douglas County, State of Colorado:

NOTICE IS HEREBY given that a regular election of the Bear Ridge Metropolitan District shall be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. The election is being conducted as an independent mail ballot election. Mail ballots are required to be mailed to eligible electors between 22 and 15 days prior to the election date.

At the election, the electors of the District will vote for Directors to serve the following terms of office on the Board of Directors of the District:

The names of persons nominated as Director for a FOUR-Year Term are:

Patrick David Brett Patrick

The names of persons nominated as Director for a TWO-Year Term are:

NOTICE OF CANCELATION OF ELECTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Heritage Hills Metropolitan District, Douglas County, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third day before the election, there were not more candidates for director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 2, 2023 is hereby canceled pursuant to section 1-13.5-513 (1), C.R.S.

The following candidates are hereby declared elected:

Jerome Dyck: May 2027

Christina Epling: May 2027

/s/ Sue Blair

Designated Election Official

Contact Person for the District:

Sue Blair, Designated Election Official Community Resource Services 7995 E. Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E Greenwood Village, CO 80111 303.381.4960 (voice) 303. 381.4961 (fax) sblair@crsofcolorado.com

Legal Notice No. 945263

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION and CERTIFIED STATEMENT OF RESULTS

§1-13.5-513(6), 32-1-104, 1-11-103(3) C.R.S.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Castleton Center Water and Sanitation District, Douglas County, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third day before the election, there were not more candidates for director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 2, 2023 is hereby canceled pursuant to section 1-13.5-513(6) C.R.S.

The following candidates are hereby declared elected:

Bob Anderson: 4-Year Term until May 2027

Jack Christensen: 4-Year Term until May 2027

Vacancy: 4-Year Term until May 2027

Vacancy: 2-Year Term until May 2025

/s/ Mandi Kirk

Mandi Kirk, Designated Election Official

Contact Person for the District:

Erin M. Smith, Esq.

Telephone Number of the District: 303-292-6400

Address of the District: 600 17th Street, Suite 2150S Denver, CO 80202

District Facsimile Number: 303-292-6401

District Email: esmith@nortonsmithlaw.com

Legal Notice No. 945282

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING FOR HEARING ON PETITION FOR INCLUSION OF REAL PROPERTY WITHIN THE CENTENNIAL WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

NOTICE is hereby given to all interested persons that a Petition for Inclusion of Real property has been filed with the Board of Directors of the Centennial Water and Sanitation District. The Board of Directors have fixed April 24, 2023 at the hour of 6:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in a manner set forth in the Public Notice for the meeting as the date and time of a public meeting at which said petition shall be heard.

The property requested to be included is known as Lot 2A, Highlands Ranch – Filing 156, 1st Amendment, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

The name and address of the Petitioner is:

Englewood/McClellan Reservoir Foundation

1000 Englewood Parkway Englewood, Colorado 80110

All interested parties shall attend the meeting at the John D. Hendrick Office Building located at 62 Plaza Drive, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 or may participate via Zoom –

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81522301645

Phone Number: 346-248-7799

filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates, for Cottonwood Highlands Metropolitan District No. 1 (the “District”). Therefore, the election for the District to be held on May 2, 2023, is hereby cancelled.

The following candidates for the District are declared elected by acclamation: Jill Luchs: Until May 2027

The following office remains vacant: VACANT: Until May 2027

/s/ Ashley B. Frisbie Designated Election Official

Contact Person for District: K. Sean Allen, Esq.

WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON

Attorneys at Law 2154 E. Commons Avenue, Suite 2000 Centennial, Colorado 80122

(303) 858-1800

Legal Notice No. 945260

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Pres

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN and particularly to the eligible electors of the Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 2, of the County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the regular election of the Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 2 shall be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. The election is being conducted as an independent mail ballot election. Mail ballots are required to be mailed to eligible electors between 22 (April 10th) and 15 days (April 17th) prior to the date of the election.

At said election, the eligible electors of the Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 2 shall vote for Directors to serve the following terms of office on the Board of Directors of the District:

The names of the persons nominated as Director for a FOUR-YEAR term:

Matt Collins

Nick Courchaine

James Soiland

Jason Kassay

Sydney Reves Smith

Kyle Stephen Whitehair

Jack Hamlin

The address of the location for application and the return of mail ballots and the hours during which the office will be open: Seter & Vander Wall, P.C. 7400 E. Orchard Road, Suite 3300 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., beginning at least 22 days prior to Election Day (April 10th) and from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. on Election Day (May 2nd).

Voted ballots may also be dropped off at the following location:

The Overlook Clubhouse 7853 Piney River Avenue Littleton, CO 80125

Monday through Friday between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., and from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, beginning at least 22 days prior to the Election Day (April 10th) and from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Election Day (May 2nd)

Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 2

/s/: Catherine T. Bright

Designated Election Official Phone Number: 303-770-2700

Legal Notice No. 945186

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice NOTICE OF MAIL BALLOT ELECTION FOR AIRPORT VISTA METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN and particularly to the electors of the Airport Vista Metropolitan District No. 2 (“District”) of Douglas County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election of the District shall be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, during the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.

AIRPORT VISTA METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2

By /s/ Sarah H. Luetjen

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945257

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL FOR THE HORSE CREEK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Horse Creek Metropolitan District, Douglas County, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third (63rd) day before the election or thereafter there were not more candidates for Director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 2, 2023, is hereby cancelled.

The following candidates are declared elected:

Young-Sun Yun: Four-Year Term to 2027

Vacancy: Four-Year Term to 2027

Vacancy: Four-Year Term to 2027 HORSE CREEK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ Sarah H. Luetjen

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945200

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE OF MAIL BALLOT ELECTION FOR FOUNDERS VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN and particularly to the electors of the Founders Village Metropolitan District (the “District”) of Douglas County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election of the District shall be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, during the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. The election is being conducted as a mail ballot election. The ballots will be mailed to the eligible electors of the District no earlier than 22 days prior to the election (April 11, 2022) and no later than 15 days prior to the election (April 18, 2022). The drop off location for the delivery of mail ballots and receipt of replacement ballots shall be located at 44 Cook Street, Suite 620, Denver, Colorado, and shall be open Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. beginning at least 22 days prior to the election day and from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on election day.

At such election, the electors of the District shall vote for and against Ballot Question A and for Directors to serve the following terms of office on the Board of Directors of the District:

Three (3) Directors for Four-Year Terms

The names of persons nominated and terms of office for which nominated are as follows:

Carolynn Kranse for Four-Year Term

Matthew D. Hilinski for Four-Year Term

Patrice Neef for Four-Year Term

Mary Cates for Four-Year Term

FOUNDERS VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By /s/ Sarah H. Luetjen

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945131

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF POLLING PLACE ELECTION FOR CENTENNIAL WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN and particularly to the electors of the Centennial Water and Sanitation District (“District”) of Douglas County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a regular election of the District shall be held on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, during the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. The Board of Directors of the District has designated the following polling place(s):

62 Plaza Drive Highlands Ranch, CO 80129

9 South, Range 68 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, Douglas County, Colorado as more particularly described in the Bear Ridge Subdivision Plat recorded on October 11, 2022 at Reception No. 2022066424 in the real property records of Douglas County, Colorado. The address of the location for application and the return of mail ballots, and the hours during which the office will be open is: Erb Law, LLC, 3900 E. Mexico Avenue, Suite 300, Denver, CO 80210, Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., beginning at least 22 days prior to Election Day (April 10th) and from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. on Election Day (May 2nd).

Webinar ID: 815 2230 1645, at said hearing to show cause in writing why such Petition should not be granted.

By order of the Board of Directors of the Centennial Water and Sanitation District /s/ Samuel Calkins, General Manager Legal

The election is being conducted as a mail ballot election. The ballots will be mailed to the eligible electors of the District no earlier than 22 days prior to the election (April 10, 2023) and no later than 15 days prior to the election (April 17, 2023). The drop off location for the delivery of mail ballots and receipt of replacement ballots shall be located at 44 Cook Street, Suite 620, Denver, Colorado, and shall be open Monday through Friday between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. beginning at least 22 days prior to the election day and from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on election day.

At such election, the electors of the District shall vote for and against Ballot Issue Nos. A to P and for Directors to serve the following terms of office on the Board of Directors of the District:

3 (Three) Directors for Four-Year Terms

1 (One) Director for Two-Year Term

The names of persons nominated and terms of office for which nominated are as follows: Barton Brundage

At such election, the electors of the District shall vote for Directors to serve the following terms of office on the Board of Directors of the District:

Three (3) Directors for Four-Year Terms

The names of persons nominated and terms of office for which nominated are as follows:

Scott Poulson for Four-Year Term

Bobbie Jean Lloyd for Four-Year Term

Andrea J. Gee for Four-Year Term

Shohini Ghosh for Four-Year Term

Tony Fabian for Four-Year Term

Juli Faller for Four-Year Term

John M. Mackowiak for Four-Year Term

Sara Jo Light for Four-Year Term

Nickie Holder for Four-Year Term

Martin Claus for Four-Year Term

Andrea Anzur for Four-Year Term

Ora J. DeMorrow for Four-Year Term

Frank Johns for Four-Year Term

Matthew Burcham for Four-Year Term

Al Duff for Four-Year Term

Michael Guilfoyle for Four-Year Term

Greg Woodward for Four-Year Term

Terry Nolan for Four-Year Term

beginning in May 2023 to and including December 31, 2032.

The IFB documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com.

IFB documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website. While the IFB documents are available electronically, Douglas County cannot accept electronic bid responses.

Bid responses shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “IFB No. 013-23, Spruce Meadows Livestock Grazing” and mailed or handcarried to the address shown below prior to the due date and time. Electronic and/or faxed bid responses will not be accepted. Bids will be received until 3:00pm on Friday, April 21, 2023 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Bids will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any bids so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said bid and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items/services with the successful bidder.

Please direct any questions concerning this IFB to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303-6607434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No. 945259

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) #010-23

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES

The Departments of Community Development and Human Services of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests proposals from responsible and qualified Domestic Violence (DV) organizations.

The RFP documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com.

RFP documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website. While the RFP documents are available electronically, Douglas County cannot accept electronic proposal responses.

RFP responses will be received until 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 11, 2023 by Douglas County Government, Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Three (3) copies of your proposal response must be submitted in a sealed envelope, plainly marked “Request for Proposal (RFP) #010-23, Domestic Violence Services”. Proposal responses will not be considered which are received after the time stated and any proposals so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said proposal and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items/services with the successful vendor.

Please direct any questions concerning this RFP to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303-660-7434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No. 945267

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Summons and Sheriff Sale

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, DOUGLAS COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2009 Castle Rock, CO 80109 720-437-6200

Plaintiff: ACM Dawson Trails VIII JV LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company.

v.

Defendants: TechTrack LTD aka Techtrack LTD

aka TechTrak Ltd aka TECHTRACK LTD, a Colorado Limited Partnership; Unique Mobility, Inc. aka Unique Mobility aka UNIQUE MOBILITY, INC., a Colorado Corporation; MSP Investment Co. aka MSP Investment Company aka MSP Investment Co., LLP aka MSP Investment Company, Inc. aka MSP INVESTMENT CO., a Colorado Limited Liability Partnership; Bellamah Community Development, aka BELLAMAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, a New Mexico Limited Partnership; Jefferson Bank & Trust aka JEFFERSON BANK & TRUST, a Colorado Banking Corporation; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as receiver for Jefferson Bank & Trust, aka Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Resolution Trust Corporation as receiver for Sun State Savings and Loan Association, F.S.A., aka RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION, Administratively Dissolved, December 17, 1993; Sun State Savings and Loan Association aka SUN STATE SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, an Arizona bank; Dawson Ridge Metropolitan District No.

a rate of 450 gallons per minute (gpm)/0.999 cfs for municipal, domestic, irrigation, power generation, mining, industrial, commercial, manufacturing, mechanical, stock watering, recreation including fishery and wildlife and fire protection uses, and the maintenance of adequate storage system and reserves, as confirmed by the October 12, 1982 Decree in Case No. 80CW365, Water Division 1.

d. 83CW356 Water Rights. 81 acre-feet per year of nontributary ground water to be withdrawn from the Denver Aquifer Formation to be withdrawn at a maximum pumping rate of 150 gpm for municipal, commercial and industrial purposes, inclusive of but not limited to domestic, irrigation, power generation, mining, recreational purposes including fishery, wildlife, manufacturing, mechanical, fire protection, stock watering, and the maintenance of adequate storage systems and reserves, as confirmed by the December 28, 1988 Decree in Case No. 83CW356, Water Division 1.

Deanne R. Stodden, #33214

Reagan Larkin, #42309 Sarah Donahue, #45212

MESSNER REEVES LLP

1550 Wewatta Street, Suite 710 Denver, CO 80202 Telephone: (303) 623-1800

Facsimile: (303) 623-0552

Email: dstodden@messner.com

rlarkin@messner.com

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: ALL

UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO MAY CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT PROPERTY:

Delaware Corporation; Plateau Natural Gas Company, a Colorado Corporation; Castle Rock Industrial Bank, a Colorado Corporation; Bryan H. Scott, an individual; Brenda C. Scott, an individual; Dean C. Stange, an individual; Marcus

S. Palkowitsh, an individual; Jannie Ho Duk Richardson aka Jannie H D Richardson aka Jannie H Richardson an individual; Emeline W. Haney, an individual; Mae E. Haney, an individual; Mary Alice Haney, an individual; E. Michelle Haney, an individual; Margaret M. Haney, an individual; Franklin L. Haney II, an individual; FRANKLIN L HANEY CO, a Tennessee Corporation; Thomas J. Mancuso, an individual; Colleen K. Huber, an individual; Robert Anderson, Jr., an individual; Victoria Lee Crecelius, an individual; Jonathan K. Anderson, an individual; Margaret S. Palkowitsh, Deceased; Merrill M. Miller, an individual; Robert R. Graft, Deceased; Kathleen T. Sheehan, an individual; Michael J. Boryla, an individual; Lynette L. Lechman, an individual; Gregory W. Aggeler, an individual; Susan G. Peterson, an individual; Gary K. Duke, an individual; Rex Martin, Deceased; the Town of Castle Rock, a Colorado home rule municipal corporation; Christine M. Duffy as the Public Trustee of Douglas County, Colorado; Sue Sandstrom as the Public Trustee of Arapahoe County, Colorado; and all unknown persons who may have an interest in the subject matter of this action.

Attorneys for ACM Dawson Trails VIII JV LLC

Alan E. Curtis, #34571 Virginia M. Sciabbarrasi, #39753

WHITE & JANKOWSKI LLC

1333 West 120th Avenue, Suite 302 Westminster, CO 80234

Telephone: (303) 595-9441

Fax: (303) 825-5632 alanc@white-jankowski.com virginias@white-jankowski.com

Case No. 22CV30920

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION TO THE FOLLOWING NAMED DEFENDANTS:

a. Victoria Lee Crecelius;

b. Westpac Financial II.

You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the Complaint filed with the Court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this Court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons on you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the Complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the Court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint without further notice.

This is an action to quiet the title of the Plaintiff in and to certain water situate in Douglas County, Colorado, more particularly described on Exhibit B of the Complaint, attached hereto and by this reference made a part hereof.

Dated March 28, 2023

WHITE & JANKOWSKI LLC

Alan E. Curtis, #34571

Virginia M. Sciabbarrasi, #39753

Attorneys for Plaintiff ACM Dawson Trails VIII JV LLC

EXHIBIT B TO COMPLAINT TO QUIET TITLE DESCRIPTION OF WATER RIGHTS

1. Water Rights Decrees. All right, title, and interest to all nontributary and not-nontributary ground water decreed in Case No. W-4765, W-9496-78, 80CW365, and 83CW356, all in Division 1 Water Court, State of Colorado, including but not limited to all rights and obligations arising under those decrees; any amounts of water banked under the terms of the decree and existing statutes, rules, and regulations; and any claims made but not fully disposed of in each case. The Water Rights adjudicated in each decree are generally summarized as follows:

a. W-4765 Water Rights. Nontributary ground water with an appropriation date of June 5, 1959 and a decreed amount of 0.084 cfs to be withdrawn from the Dawson Formation and used for commercial purposes, as confirmed by the April 4, 1977 Decree in Case No. W-4765, Water Division

1.

b. W-9496-78 Water Rights. Nontributary ground water rights confirmed by the May 29, 1980 Decree in Case No W-9496-78, Water Division 1, with appropriation dates of August 21, 1972, which are decreed for municipal, domestic, irrigation, power generation, mining, recreational purposes, including fishery and wildlife, manufacturing, mechanical, fire protection and stock watering uses, and the maintenance of adequate storage systems and reserves and may be withdrawn from the following aquifers in the following amounts: (a) 300 acre-feet annually from Laramie-Fox Hills Aquifer; and (b) 1,200 acre-feet annually from the Arapahoe Aquifer.

c. 80CW365 Water Rights. Nontributary

2. Well Permit Rights. All rights in Techtrack Well No. 1 (Permit No. 23514-F), Well D-2 (Permit No. 2169-F), and any other permits and water rights associated with so-called “pre-213” wells to the extent they exist on the Water Agreement property; and all rights to all well permits identified in and/or all well permits that may be issued under the terms of the Water Rights Decrees identified above.

3. Water Agreement. All right title and interest in the water and water rights described or conveyed as appurtenances in the Water Agreement dated July 15, 1983 and recorded with the Douglas County Clerk and Recorder on July 18, 1983 at Reception No. 1983308035, Book 483, Page 282 (Water Agreement).

4. Deeded Water. All right title and interest in the water and water rights described in or conveyed or encumbered as appurtenances in the following deeds recorded with the Douglas County Clerk and Recorder and also attached as EXHIBIT C (Deeded Water).

a. Bargain and Sale Deed from Douglas County Development Corporation, DCDC II, Inc., and Emeline W. Haney, Mae E. Haney, Mary Alice Haney, E. Michelle Haney, Margaret M. Haney and Franklin L. Haney II to ACM Dawson Trails, recorded in Douglas County at Reception No. 2022065657 on October 5, 2022.

b. Bargain and Sale Deed from Dawson Trails I LLC to ACM Dawson Trails, recorded in Douglas County at Reception No. 2022065717 on October 6, 2022.

c. Bargain and Sale Deed from Dawson Trails I LLC to ACM Dawson Trails, recorded in Douglas County at Reception No. 2022065714 on October 6, 2022.

5. Unadjudicated Water. All of the right, title and interest in and to the unadjudicated ground water located on, under, or appurtenant to property listed in EXHIBIT A, but specifically excepting therefrom those properties identified in paragraph 85 of the Complaint, to wit, Lots 1, 2, and Part Lot 59 of Twin Oaks Subdivision. Such unadjudicated ground water includes but is not limited to: (a) all nontributary ground water, as defined by C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.5); (b) all not-nontributary ground water, as defined by C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.7); (c) all nontributary ground water and not-nontributary ground water, as may exist now or in the future; and (d) the exclusive right to withdraw and use the ground water from all formations including the: (i) Shannon Sandstone Member of the Pierre Shale, (ii) Lower Pierre Shale, (iii) Niobrara, (iv) Carlile, (v) Greenhorn, (vi) Graneros, (vii) Dakota, and (viii) Lyons.

6. All Other Water Rights. In addition to the water rights described above, all of the right, title, and interest in and to all other waters, water rights, and rights to use water or ground water located on, under, or appurtenant to the property in Douglas County, Colorado described in the Water Agreement, Deeded Water, and EXHIBIT A (collectively, the Other Properties) including all right, title, and interest in and to: (a) all tributary ground water; (b) all surface water; (c) all designated ground water; (d) all ditches and ditch rights; (e) all reservoirs and reservoir rights; (f) all water wells; (g) all monitoring wells; (h) all well permits; (i) all ponds; (j) all stock ponds; (k) all springs; (l) all artesian springs; and (m) all water tanks, wells, well casings, pumps, pipelines, sprinklers, irrigation equipment, windmills; and (n) all other appurtenances used in association with these water rights.

7. Any return flows remaining from the Additional Water Rights described above in 1-6 above and the right of disposition of such return flows.

Legal Notice No. 945252

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO 4000 Justice Way Castle Rock, CO 80109 Telephone: (720) 437-6200

Case No. 2022CV30345 Division: 5

MS MAN DEBT, LLC, a Florida limited liability company

Plaintiff,

v. DERRICK MYERS, an individual; WILLIAMMRK HOMES, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company; and 303 INVESTMENTS, INC., a Colorado corporation; COLLEGIATE PEAKS BANK, A DIVISION OF GLACIER BANK; BERKLEY BANK, A BRANCH OF THE FIRST BANK OF DOWNS; AMK CONSTRUCTION, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company; HILLTOP METROPOLITAN DISTRICT; DAVID GILL, in his official capacity as the Douglas County Public Trustee; STEPHEN SPEZIALY, an individual; SHEILA SPEZIALY, an individual; FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION, a Texas corporation; CHRISTOPHER REDIGER, an individual; and ANY UNKNOWN PERSONS THAT MAY CLAIM AN INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES, Defendants.

Attorneys for Plaintiff

You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the Complaint filed with the Court in this action, by filing with the Clerk of the Court an Answer or other response.

You are required to file your Answer or other response within thirty-five (35) days after the service of this Summons upon you. Service of this Summons will be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the Complaint may be obtained from the Clerk of the Court.

If you fail to file your Answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within thirty-five (35) days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, without any further notice.

This action seeks to impose an equitable lien and foreclose the real property situated in the County of Douglas, Colorado, and described as follows:

LOTS 1-3, 6-30, HILLTOP, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also commonly known and numbered as:

1. 5126 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

2. 5208 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

3. 5249 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

4. 5264 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

5. 5424 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

6. 5437 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

7. 5483 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

8. 5524 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

9. 5531 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

10. 5572 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

11. 5577 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

12. 5622 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

13. 5625 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

14. 5690 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

15. 5295 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

16. 5343 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

17. 5407 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

18. 5460 Freddy’s Trail, Parker, CO

Dated: March 14, 2023

MESSNER REEVES LLP

/s/ Deanne R. Stodden

Deanne R. Stodden, #33214

Reagan Larkin, #42309

Sarah Donahue #45212

Attorneys for Plaintiff

Legal Notice No. 945145

First Publication: March 23, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, DOUGLAS COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2009 Castle Rock, CO 80109 720-437-6200

Plaintiff: ACM Dawson Trails VIII JV LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company.

v. Defendants: TechTrack LTD aka Techtrack LTD aka TechTrak Ltd aka TECHTRACK LTD, a Colorado Limited Partnership; Unique Mobility, Inc. aka Unique Mobility aka UNIQUE MOBILITY, INC., a Colorado Corporation; MSP Investment Co. aka MSP Investment Company aka MSP Investment Co., LLP aka MSP Investment Company, Inc. aka MSP INVESTMENT CO., a Colorado Limited Liability Partnership; Bellamah Community Development, aka BELLAMAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, a New Mexico Limited Partnership; Jefferson Bank & Trust aka JEFFERSON BANK & TRUST, a Colorado Banking Corporation; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as receiver for Jefferson Bank & Trust, aka Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Resolution Trust Corporation as receiver for Sun State Savings and Loan Association, F.S.A., aka RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION, Administratively Dissolved, December 17, 1993; Sun State Savings and Loan Association aka SUN STATE SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION, an Arizona bank; Dawson Ridge Metropolitan District No. 1 aka DAWSON RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1, a Colorado Quasi-Municipal Corporation; Douglas County Development Corporation, a Colorado Corporation; DCDC II, Inc., a Delaware Corporation; Plateau Natural Gas Company, a Colorado Corporation, Dissolved December 30, 1970; Dawson Trails I LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company; Dawson Ridge LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company; FirstBank of Castle Rock, N.A., a Colorado Corporation; Westside Property Investment Company, Inc., a Colorado Corporation; Sun NLF Limited Partnership aka Sun NLF aka SUN NLF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, a Delaware Limited Partnership; SBAB, LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company, Dissolved January 1, 2002; Westpac Financial II aka WESTPAC FINANCIAL II, an Arizona Corporation, dissolved January 10, 1996; The Pueblo Bank and Trust Company aka THE PUEBLO BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, a Colorado Corporation; SRKO Family Limited Partnership aka SRKO

individual; Dean C. Stange, an individual; Marcus S. Palkowitsh, an individual; Jannie Ho Duk Richardson aka Jannie H D Richardson aka Jannie H Richardson an individual; Emeline W. Haney, an individual; Mae E. Haney, an individual; Mary Alice Haney, an individual; E. Michelle Haney, an individual; Margaret M. Haney, an individual; Franklin L. Haney II, an individual; FRANKLIN L HANEY CO, a Tennessee Corporation; Thomas J. Mancuso, an individual; Colleen K. Huber, an individual; Robert Anderson, Jr., an individual; Victoria Lee Crecelius, an individual; Jonathan K. Anderson, an individual; Margaret S. Palkowitsh, Deceased; Merrill M. Miller, an individual; Robert R. Graft, Deceased; Kathleen T. Sheehan, an individual; Michael J. Boryla, an individual; Lynette L. Lechman, an individual; Gregory W. Aggeler, an individual; Susan G. Peterson, an individual; Gary K. Duke, an individual; Rex Martin, Deceased; the Town of Castle Rock, a Colorado home rule municipal corporation; Christine M. Duffy as the Public Trustee of Douglas County, Colorado; Sue Sandstrom as the Public Trustee of Arapahoe County, Colorado; and all unknown persons who may have an interest in the subject matter of this action.

Attorneys for ACM Dawson Trails VIII JV LLC

Alan E. Curtis, #34571 Virginia M. Sciabbarrasi, #39753 WHITE & JANKOWSKI LLC 1333 West 120th Avenue, Suite 302 Westminster, CO 80234 Telephone: (303) 595-9441 Fax: (303) 825-5632 alanc@white-jankowski.com virginias@white-jankowski.com

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

Case No. 22CV30920

TO THE FOLLOWING NAMED DEFENDANTS: a. Plateau Natural Gas Company; b. Bellamah Community Development; c. Castle Rock Industrial Bank; d. Rex Martin; e. Robert R. Graft.

You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the Complaint filed with the Court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this Court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons on you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the Complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the Court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint without further notice.

This is an action to quiet the title of the Plaintiff in and to certain water situate in Douglas County, Colorado, more particularly described on Exhibit B of the Complaint, attached hereto and by this reference made a part hereof.

Dated February 28, 2023

WHITE & JANKOWSKI LLC

Alan E. Curtis, #34571

Virginia M. Sciabbarrasi, #39753

Attorneys for Plaintiff ACM Dawson Trails VIII JV LLC

EXHIBIT B TO COMPLAINT TO QUIET TITLE DESCRIPTION OF WATER RIGHTS

1. Water Rights Decrees. All right, title, and interest to all nontributary and not-nontributary ground water decreed in Case No. W-4765, W-9496-78, 80CW365, and 83CW356, all in Division 1 Water Court, State of Colorado, including but not limited to all rights and obligations arising under those decrees; any amounts of water banked under the terms of the decree and existing statutes, rules, and regulations; and any claims made but not fully disposed of in each case. The Water Rights adjudicated in each decree are generally summarized as follows:

a. W-4765 Water Rights. Nontributary ground water with an appropriation date of June 5, 1959 and a decreed amount of 0.084 cfs to be withdrawn from the Dawson Formation and used for commercial purposes, as confirmed by the April 4, 1977 Decree in Case No. W-4765, Water Division 1.

b. W-9496-78 Water Rights. Nontributary ground water rights confirmed by the May 29, 1980 Decree in Case No W-9496-78, Water Division 1, with appropriation dates of August 21, 1972, which are decreed for municipal, domestic, irrigation, power generation, mining, recreational purposes, including fishery and wildlife, manufacturing, mechanical, fire protection and stock watering uses, and the maintenance of adequate storage systems and reserves and may be withdrawn from the following aquifers in the following amounts:

(a) 300 acre-feet annually from Laramie-Fox Hills Aquifer; and (b) 1,200 acre-feet annually from the Arapahoe Aquifer.

c. 80CW365 Water Rights. Nontributary Denver Formation ground water in the amount of 489 acrefeet per year with an appropriation date of August 21, 1972 to be withdrawn at a maximum pumping a rate of 450 gallons per minute (gpm)/0.999 cfs for municipal, domestic, irrigation, power generation, mining, industrial, commercial, manufacturing, mechanical, stock watering, recreation including fishery and wildlife and fire protection uses, and the maintenance of adequate storage system and reserves, as confirmed by the October 12, 1982 Decree in Case No. 80CW365, Water Division 1.

d. 83CW356 Water Rights. 81 acre-feet per year of nontributary ground water to be withdrawn from the Denver Aquifer Formation to be withdrawn at a maximum pumping rate of 150 gpm for municipal, commercial and industrial purposes, inclusive of but not limited to domestic, irrigation, power generation, mining, recreational purposes including fishery, wildlife, manufacturing, mechanical, fire protection, stock watering, and the maintenance of adequate storage systems and reserves, as confirmed by the December 28, 1988 Decree in

Public Notices

Case No. 83CW356, Water Division 1.

2. Well Permit Rights. All rights in Techtrack Well No. 1 (Permit No. 23514-F), Well D-2 (Permit No. 2169-F), and any other permits and water rights associated with so-called “pre-213” wells to the extent they exist on the Water Agreement property; and all rights to all well permits identified in and/or all well permits that may be issued under the terms of the Water Rights Decrees identified above.

3. Water Agreement. All right title and interest in the water and water rights described or conveyed as appurtenances in the Water Agreement dated July 15, 1983 and recorded with the Douglas County Clerk and Recorder on July 18, 1983 at Reception No. 1983308035, Book 483, Page 282 (Water Agreement).

4. Deeded Water. All right title and interest in the water and water rights described in or conveyed or encumbered as appurtenances in the following deeds recorded with the Douglas County Clerk and Recorder and also attached as EXHIBIT C (Deeded Water).

a. Bargain and Sale Deed from Douglas County Development Corporation, DCDC II, Inc., and Emeline W. Haney, Mae E. Haney, Mary Alice Haney, E. Michelle Haney, Margaret M. Haney and Franklin L. Haney II to ACM Dawson Trails, recorded in Douglas County at Reception No. 2022065657 on October 5, 2022.

b. Bargain and Sale Deed from Dawson Trails I LLC to ACM Dawson Trails, recorded in Douglas County at Reception No. 2022065717 on October 6, 2022.

c. Bargain and Sale Deed from Dawson Trails I LLC to ACM Dawson Trails, recorded in Douglas County at Reception No. 2022065714 on October 6, 2022.

5. Unadjudicated Water. All of the right, title and interest in and to the unadjudicated ground water located on, under, or appurtenant to property listed in EXHIBIT A, but specifically excepting therefrom those properties identified in paragraph 85 of the Complaint, to wit, Lots 1, 2, and Part Lot 59 of Twin Oaks Subdivision. Such unadjudicated ground water includes but is not limited to: (a) all nontributary ground water, as defined by C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.5); (b) all not-nontributary ground water, as defined by C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.7); (c) all nontributary ground water and not-nontributary ground water, as may exist now or in the future; and (d) the exclusive right to withdraw and use the ground water from all formations including the: (i) Shannon Sandstone Member of the Pierre Shale, (ii) Lower Pierre Shale, (iii) Niobrara, (iv) Carlile, (v) Greenhorn, (vi) Graneros, (vii) Dakota, and (viii) Lyons.

6. All Other Water Rights. In addition to the water rights described above, all of the right, title, and interest in and to all other waters, water rights, and rights to use water or ground water located on, under, or appurtenant to the property in Douglas County, Colorado described in the Water Agreement, Deeded Water, and EXHIBIT A (collectively, the Other Properties) including all right, title, and interest in and to: (a) all tributary ground water; (b) all surface water; (c) all designated ground water; (d) all ditches and ditch rights; (e) all reservoirs and reservoir rights; (f) all water wells; (g) all monitoring wells; (h) all well permits; (i) all ponds; (j) all stock ponds; (k) all springs; (l) all artesian springs; and (m) all water tanks, wells, well casings, pumps, pipelines, sprinklers, irrigation equipment, windmills; and (n) all other appurtenances used in association with these water rights.

7. Any return flows remaining from the Additional Water Rights described above in 1-6 above and the right of disposition of such return flows.

Legal Notice No. 945042

First Publication: March 9, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Published in the Colorado Community Media, Douglas County News Press.

Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles

Public Notice Correction Public Notice

1) 1968 CHEVROLET C10 VIN ID39708

REDLINERS INC 2531 W 62ND CT UNIT G DENVER, CO 80221

720-930-8139

Legal Notice No. 944647

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News - Press

Public Notice

1967 CHEVROLET C10 VIN ID39708

REDLINERS INC 2531 W 62ND CT UNIT G DENVER, CO 80221

720-930-8139

Legal Notice No. 945273

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice 1) 2010 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER

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CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500

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CADILLAC XTS

HONDA ACCORD

HARLEY DAVIDSON

FORD F150

FOCUS

10) 2007 STERLING TRUCK VIN 2FWJA3CG06AN93996

11) 2012 CHEVROLET IMPALA VIN 2G1WC5E32C1214233

12) 2007 JEEP COMMANDER VIN 1J8HG48K77C627033

13) 1969 CHEVROLET C10 PICKUP VIN CE149S804379

14) 1996 JEEP CHEROKEE VIN 1J4FJ58S9TL267215

REDLINERS INC

2531 W 62ND CT UNIT G DENVER, CO 80221-2021 720-930-8139

Legal Notice No. 945272

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before July 31, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Barbara C. Peterson

Co-Personal Representative 8135 South Glencoe Court Centennial, Colorado 80122

Heather Dawn Peterson

Co-Personal Representative 6417 Pathway Court Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516

Notice Notice to Creditors Estate of Cheryl Rae Rowlette, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30018

personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before July 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Zachary S. Levinson, Personal Representative 9975 Melbourne Circle Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80130

Legal Notice No. 945137

First Publication: March 23, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of James Anthony Gianetto, a/k/a James A. Gianetto, a/k/a James Gianetto, a/k/a Jim A. Gianetto, a/k/a Jim Gianetto, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30107

Mulvihill , Attorney for the Personal Representative 19751 East Mainstreet #330 Parker, CO 80138 303-841-2752 Legal Notice No. 945191

Public Notice

1) 2005 PONTIAC G6 VIN 1G2ZG528054147183

Villalobos Towing LLC 5161 York Street, Denver, CO 80216 720-299-3456

Legal Notice No. 945268

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023 Douglas County News-Press

Notice to Creditors Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Albert E. Fabyanic, Deceased Case No. 2023PR30078

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Douglas County District Court on or before July 30, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Marco D. Chayet Jennifer R. Oviatt Personal Representative 18th Judicial District Public Administrator’s Office P.O. Box 460749, Denver, CO 80246 (303) 355-8520

Legal Notice No. 945214

First Publication: March

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 August 4th, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Rowlette, Personal Representative 2503 Innisbrook Ct. Castle Rock, CO 80104

Legal Notice NO. 945130

First Publication: March 23, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Robert S. Meer, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30137

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 July 31, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

s/Jeffrey M. Villanueva

Jeffrey M. Villanueva, #10001 Attorney for Personal Representative 1755 Blake Street, Suite 225 Denver, Colorado 80202

Legal Notice No. 945235

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: April 13, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of William Benjamin Spangler, Deceased Case Number: 23PR30076

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 August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Patricia Jo Stone, Attorney for Personal Representative 19751 E Mainstreet, Suite 200 Parker, CO 80138

Legal Notice No. 945278

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of KENT ALLEN MCKNIGHT, aka KENT MCKNIGHT, aka KENT A MCKNIGHT, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30606

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 August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

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 July 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mary Lewis: Personal Representative 5250 Lorraine Rd. Larkspur, CO 80118

Publication: March 23, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Estate of Mary Ellen Bowe, a/k/a Mary E. Bowe,

Mary Bowe, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30008

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 July 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jennifer Evans, Personal Representative c/o Baker Law Group, LLC 8301 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 405 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Jonathan P. Shultz, Attorney for the Personal Representative 19751 E Mainstreet, Ste 200, Parker, CO 80138

Legal Notice No. 945276

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of MARIA OTILIA DA SILVA, aka MARIA O. DA SILVA, aka MARIA DA SILVA, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030122

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Douglas County Probate Court on or before August 7, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Maria Isaura Marques, Personal Representative 12735 Buffington Trail Parker, CO 80134

Legal Notice No. 945246

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Thomas J. Levinson, aka Thomas Joel Levinson, aka Thomas Levinson, and Tom Levinson, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30096

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the

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 July 31, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Doris Keilt Gianetto, 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. 945215

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: April 13, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of BRUCE KLAAS, aka BRUCE G. KLAAS, aka BRUCE GREGORY KLAAS, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR030118

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado or on or before August 17, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Bruce G. Klaas Jr., Personal Representative 2100 Rim Ridge Dr. Castle Pines, Colorado 80108

Legal Notice No. 945217

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: April 13, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of JAMES LEE DURKIN, a/k/a JAMES L. DURKIN, a/k/a JAMES DURKIN, Deceased Case Number : 2023PR30072

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 July 30, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Fazila Williamson, Personal Representative c/o Opfer | Campbell | Beck, P.C. 19751 East Mainstreet, Suite 215 Parker, CO 80138

Legal Notice No. 945198

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: April 13, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JOHN OSCAR BREILO, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR030003

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 August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jonathan P. Shultz, Attorney for the Personal Representative 19751 E Mainstreet, Ste 200, Parker, CO 80138

Legal Notice No. 945275

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Notice

TO CREDITORS Estate of Gertrude V. Kriese, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR030100.

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 July 24, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeffrey Kriese, Personal Representative c/o Gubbels Law Office, P.C. 103 4th Street, Ste., 120 Castle Rock, CO 80104

Legal Notice No.

notice is given on March 14, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

Petition requests that the name of Laurie Catt Jarrell and Laurie Diane Catt be changed to Aurie Catt Jarrell CASE NUMBER: 2023C30982

By: Stephanie K Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 945203

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: April 13, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Wilson Reid Lowther, also known as Reid Lowther, also known as W. Reid Lowther, also known as Wilson R. Lowther, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30088

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 August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

William Ryan, Personal Representative c/o Long Reimer Winegar LLP 1800 Glenarm Place, Ste. 1202 Denver, CO 80202

Legal Notice No. 945241

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Barbara Jean Bundy, aka Barbara J. Bundy, aka Barbara Bundy, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30089

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 July 23, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

/s/ Jonathan F. Haskell Attorney to the Personal Representative Jonathan F. Haskell, #42476 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 600 Denver, Colorado 80246

Legal Notice No. 945149

First Publication: March 23, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Name Changes

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 15, 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 Paula Sue Loletta Dutenhoeffer be changed to Paula Sue Loletta Wills Case No.: 23 C131

By: Magistrate Brian Fields

Legal Notice No. 945227

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: April 13, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on September 28, 2022, 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 Abigail Mary Van Matre be changed to Abigail Mary Daly

Case No.: 2022C540

By: Blake Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 945141

First Publication: March 23, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 6, 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 Eli Zambrano be changed to Eli Cristiano Zambrano Molinar Case No.: 23C122

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the

By: Stephanie K.

Parker Rotary raises funds for earthquake victims in Turkey, Syria

$22,000

raised

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In the aftermath of the earthquakes that hit southern Turkey and northern Syria, the Rotary Club of Parker raised over $22,000 to aid ShelterBox USA in their e orts to supply emergency shelter, tools and supplies to those impacted by the damage.

ShelterBox USA is a global humanitarian relief organization that brings emergency shelter and essential supplies to set up a household when families have lost everything in a disaster or con ict situation.

“We’re based on the premise of what are the things that you need to sustain your life if you lose everything in an instant and you’re forced to ee your home,” said President of ShelterBox USA Kerri Murray.  e devastating series of earthquakes has resulted in millions of people being displaced, damaging nearly 57,000 buildings and over 50,000 people have been killed. With people sleeping in the open in freezing temperatures, those at ShelterBox USA are focusing on providing temporary shelters to families.

“What we’re concerned about at Shelterbox is ensuring that in the

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with and without disabilities can rent the units. ( e units will not be exclusive to adults in Wellspring programs.)

Several people who have par-

middle of winter, these families have a temporary place to call home in the aftermath of what’s likely the worst time of their life,” said Murray.

e Rotary Club of Parker is one of thousands across the country and globally and provides an annual donation to ShelterBox USA. In addition to the annual donation to the relief organization, the 66 members of the rotary club raised money in four different ways.

Many of the members provided individual donations, the Rotary Club of Parker Foundation donated money and a member decided to do a one to one match with another member’s donation.

As the motto of the Rotary Club of Parker is “service above self”, a member of the club wished not to be named when speaking with the individual.

“We were able to raise $22,500,” said a member of the Rotary Club of Parker. “ at means almost 23 shelter boxes, which is a record for us.”

ShelterBox has been airlifting humanitarian relief tents into the impacted areas as well as solar lanterns, water puri cation units and containers to store clean water.

“A tent is a key item for forced survivorship whether it is a beach or earthquake or hurricane,” said a member of the Rotary Club of Parker.

ticipated in Wellspring’s programs walked up to the lectern at the county commissioners’ March 28 meeting to speak in praise of the nonpro t, with the audience applauding after each speaker.

Commissioner George Teal noted that when people in broader society talk about disabilities, it’s often a conversation about “an inhibited

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“ ey need immediate help, these people, because they lost everything.”

Murray said ShleterBox USA is intune to types of displacement situations and therefore brings high thermal blankets, sleeping bags, clothing as well as lightweight mattresses, sleeping mats and cooking equipment depending on the situation.

“I think the worst part of this awful disaster situation that both southern Turkey and northern Syria are facing is that so many people who’ve been a ected were already displaced by the civil war that is coming from Syria,” said Murray.

Many people a ected in Syria were already IDPs, so these individuals were already vulnerable. According to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, more than 15 million people in Syria were in need of assistance prior to the earthquake.

Teams from ShelterBox USA on the ground overseas are coordinating with local rotary partners in Turkey and partners in Syria to help mobilize the large-scale emergency response.

ShelterBox USA has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 and 2019 for their continuous work in Syria. e organization has been supporting this area of Syria for 11 years due to an ongoing civil war con ict.

As ShelterBox relies on private charitable donations, the donation

life, a life constrained.”

“And I look out today, and I look out at all the (people in the crowd) today — I don’t see lives inhibited, I don’t see lives constrained. I see spirits unleashed,” Teal said. “It makes me proud to live here that we have such a great community.” e commissioners unanimously voted in favor of transferring the

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from Parker Rotary helped the team in Turkey in Syria provide more supplies.

“ ey were really much the rst group and the rst of rotarians that stepped up,” said Murrary. e Rotary club has been just so awesome and is helping to provide charitable support to help fund the response in Turkey and Syria.”

In addition to raising money for organizations such as ShelterBox USA, the Rotary Club of Parker has three major areas of focus. e club provides monthly scholarships for Parker students, community service and international humanitarian services.

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One of the attendees, speaking about Wellspring, said: “Years later, I hope this ne establishment is still around so I could go and celebrate the 30th-year anniversary.”

Another speaker simply said: “I think it’s always good for people to not judge you for who you are.”

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