Castle Rock News Press 033023

Country recieves more than $60K in funding for mental health

Parking issues grow in Castle Rock Meadows Town Center a concern

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Castle Rock town council members are considering increasing parking requirements for multifamily developments due to concerns about a lack of spaces in the Meadows Town Center area, but the town is limited in how it can respond.

During a discussion on multifamily parking requirements at the March 21 meeting, council members called out the Meadows Town Center for being underparked while planning further development.

In January, the council approved 44 apartments and 41 townhomes with 152 residential parking spaces, which is the required number of spaces, at

Rep. Crow delivers check

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A giant check heralded the arrival of more than half a million dollars in federal funding for Douglas County’s e orts to support the public’s mental health.

“It is no surprise to parents that we are in the midst of a mental health crisis for our children. We’re near the bottom of the nation in terms of our rates for youth suicide,” said U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, who secured the

funding as part of the federal spending process.

Crow’s comments came during a March 20 news conference with Douglas County’s elected leaders, where o cials announced that the funding would ow to several of the county’s e orts to develop a safety net for people experiencing a mental health crisis.

“With this funding, it’s our goal to develop reliable follow-up support to keep individuals and families engaged in treatment following a crisis, while avoiding cycling through the emergency or criminal justice system to address mental health

needs,” said Laura Ciancone, Douglas County’s coordinator of mental health programs.

at “is a very costly track and we all pay for it,” Ciancone said. “Stabilizing people during a crisis and connecting them to services (is) key to addressing mental health needs and preventing the revolving door of crisis response.”

Crow, who represents much of the south and east Denver suburbs in Congress, spoke to what he sees as the broader context of mental health support.

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U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, second from right, stands with Douglas County Commissioners Lora Thomas (left of Crow), George Teal (left of Thomas) and Abe Laydon (left of Teal) in the foreground of the photo next to a ceremonial check for funding for mental health services in Douglas County at a March 20 news conference. Standing with them are leaders in providing

in the county.

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Leaving basketball for golf in Larkspur program

Davyon Collins joins Colorado PGA

BY ALEX K.W. SCHULTZ SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

After playing basketball since he was hardly bigger than a basketball, playing and coaching hoops at the collegiate level, and working for an NBA team’s minor league squad, Davyon Collins is taking his knowledge and skills to … e golf course?

Yes, the golf course. It actually makes perfect sense once you’ve gotten to know who Collins is and what the 26-year-old stands for.

Last year, the Houston native packed his bags and headed north to begin working as the second-ever PGA WORKS Fellow for the Colorado PGA Section, which is based in Larkspur. Funded by the PGA of America’s charitable arm, PGA WORKS is a strategic initiative designed to diversify the golf industry’s workforce. e fellowship program o ers a one-year, paid immersion in the Colorado PGA Section, giving fellows a taste of what a career in the golf industry can provide.

Collins said the game of basketball opened many doors for him. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Dallas Christian College, where he played point guard and was a four-year Academic All-American and voted team captain his senior season. He received a master’s degree from Dallas Baptist University, where he spent two

seasons as a graduate assistant. After graduating from DBU, he spent a year on the Southwestern Assemblies of God men’s basketball coaching sta . His education and knowledge of the game helped him land a community development and gameday operations gig with the Texas Legends, who are the Dallas Mavericks’ NBA G League a liate.

Now, the basketball lifer is turning his attention to the world of 9-irons and birdies and fairways, hoping to

use the game of golf to open doors for others, including and perhaps especially those who didn’t know those doors existed in the rst place.

“ e game of golf is kind of tucked away,” Collins said. “People know about it because it’s in front of their faces, but I’ll ask someone the question, ‘Have you seen a course? ere’s a course two minutes away that you pass by every day that you don’t know anything about.’”

Collins said people will drive by the same golf course time and again without ever thinking about stopping for any number of reasons: they fear they’ll be judged for their golf skills, or lack thereof; they don’t even know where to begin (“Should I get a cart rst?” “Where do I even get a cart?” “Where’s the driving range?” “Does this course have a dress code?”); or, worse yet, they may feel like they don’t “belong” based on their sex or the color of their skin.

Hop online and you’ll see what Collins is getting at. A Google search for “PGA Tour player demographics” yields results like “Golf’s Lack of Color” and “Diversity Remains Golf’s Biggest Challenge.”

According to a Golf Diversity & Inclusion Report published a few years ago, the makeup of American golfers at all levels is 77% male and 80% white. Among golfers in the professional ranks, 75% are male and 86% are white. And golf-industry workers — everyone from caddies to greenskeepers — are 90% male and 88% white.

“Out of all the sports, other than hockey, I would say golf has the most room for growth when it comes to diversity and inclusion,” Collins, an African American, said. “ e game is, to be totally honest, an older, male game. It’s mostly 45-and-older men who play it.

“I feel like within the game of golf, you don’t need the money. e money (to enhance the game’s diversity and inclusion e orts) is there. You just need people who care about other people.”

Collins wants to be and has been one of those people.

As the local PGA WORKS Fellow, he supported PGA REACH Colorado’s

charitable programs, which include the Colorado PGA Junior Tour; the PGA Jr. League; Golf in Schools; Drive, Chip & Putt; and PGA HOPE (Helping Our Patriots Everywhere) — all of which are designed to grow the game of golf and make this “tucked away” game available to people of all ages, ethnicities and skill levels.

“My heart’s in growing the game and getting it into the hands of people who have never played,” Collins said.

“For me, it’s really important to get them in the game so they can teach their children and so on and so on, and also to break the ‘ is is a 45-yearold white man’s sport’ stereotype.”

Apparently, Collins is doing the job he was hired to do … and then some.

Six months into his one-year fellowship, which began in May 2022, he was o ered a full-time job with the Colorado PGA Section. He’s now the manager of the section’s Junior Development Series, which gives players ages 6-18 an opportunity to gain competitive golf experience in a more relaxed and fun environment.

In addition to now managing the junior series, Collins is still supporting all the national initiatives he promoted while working as a fellow, including the Drive, Chip & Putt junior skills competition.

In fact, Collins will be at the Masters Tournament next week at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia to help coordinate the Drive, Chip & Putt National Championship, which will take place the Sunday before the Masters tees o on April 6.

ink about that for a moment — a 26-year-old who had never played golf or even swung a club before landing the fellowship will be at professional golf’s biggest event.

“I can’t wait. It’s going to be so exciting,” said Collins, who eventually wants to work in a diversity and inclusion capacity for the PGA of America.

“ e practice rounds are what I’m most excited about. I’ve heard those are the best.”

It’s safe to say that a door to a world Collins initially knew nothing about was opened to him.

He’s waded into that world.

And he’s enjoying every moment of it.

Davyon Collins, a Houston native, was recently selected to serve as the secondever PGA WORKS Fellow for the Colorado PGA Section, which is based in Larkspur.

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Davyon Collins, right, works with a group of kids at a Golf in Schools event Oct. 18 at Thorncreek Golf Course in Thornton. Collins, a Houston native, was recently selected to serve as the second-ever PGA WORKS Fellow for the Colorado PGA Section, which is based in Larkspur. COURTESY PHOTO

Spirituality with an artistic twist at Douglas County Fairgrounds

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month

Holistic Expo

set for April 15-16

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e Centers for Spiritual Living in Parker will be hosting the second annual Holistic Expo and Creative Market, On April 15-16, at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Castle Rock.

Spiritual community, the Centers for Spiritual Living in Parker, is inspired by the philosophy and teachings of Ernest Holmes. e inclusive group recognizes all paths in a spiritual sense and holds services, guided meditations and youth ministry.

From artists and craftsmen to healing practitioners, the Holistic Expo and Creative Market will include 115 vendors and hourly workshops throughout the weekend-long event.

“We focus on nutrition and wellness, Reiki, intuitive healing, jewelry, crystals and all these other things,” said event coordinator Amy Schmidt. “So it’s de nitely a really cool variety.”

After researching websites and meeting each individual, all the Colorado-based exhibitors were hand selected by Schmidt for the event.

“I’ve seen them in person at the di erent area shows and visited them personally, so there’s a lot of really impressive work,” said Schmidt.

Focusing on health and wellness, through the variety of workshops and presentations, visitors will learn about the physiological and biochemical processes of the human

body function. Workshops include topics such as consciousness communication, vibrational sound therapy, IV therapy, signs, animal totems and the basics of beginning meditation.

Workshops start Saturday at 11 a.m., going until 4 p.m.. Sunday’s activities will be held between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m..

Sunday will start with a talk from the Centers for Spiritual Living.   e expo will also include several artists and craftsmen that will bring di erent items for sale. e craft of artisans will be explored through handmade paintings, sculptures, clothing and food items.

“Enjoy the beauty of all the di erent creations that all the di erent artists will have there for sale,” said Schmidt.

e event is a mixture of di erent holistic practitioners with art and candles, upcycled items, herbal remedies and essential oils. Visitors will have the opportunity to shop from intuitive jewelers and artists.

In addition, door prizes will be available, as well as a used book sale and a luncheon provided by Little Reds Kitchen.

“I’m looking forward to seeing the whole community, tons of people enjoying this, having a large turnout that are engaging in the community and having a good time,” said Schmidt. “And bringing somebody to the community that’s really going to serve them and provides an alternative way of helping them improve their lives.”

Tickets are on sale for $5 on the Holistic Expo and Creative Market website at www.expocslparker.org, along with the hourly workshop schedule.

Slash-mulch site opens April 1

The County’s main slash-mulch site, at 1400 Caprice Drive in Castle Rock, opens April 1 and will remain open Saturdays only from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. through Oct. 28. For more information, directions and a list of acceptable items, visit douglas.co.us and search

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Gather your friends or neighbors and adopt a road for littler pickup. Douglas County’s road adoption process is now online and easier than ever. For details, visit douglas.co.us and search for Adopt a Road.

Decode Douglas County

Visit eight Douglas County Open Space or Park locations, and look for clues to crack the code. Pick up or print your booklet today, discover new places including Sandstone Ranch, and decode the secret of Douglas County outdoors! Visit dcoutdoors.org/decode to start your outdoor adventure.

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“Crystal City at the Gate of Grace” by Sonya Shannon.

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Castillos want trial over settlement from STEM schools

Records at center of dispute

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e parents of Kendrick Castillo, a student killed in the 2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting, have not accepted a $387,000 settlement from the school.

e couple continues to reject the school’s settlement o er in an e ort to make the information they have gathered from the shooting public.

Court lings on behalf of John and Maria Castillo show the parents hope to bring light to the full set of events that resulted in Kendrick’s death with the goal of helping prevent future violence.

Kendrick, 18, lost his life when he tackled one of the shooters on May 7, 2019. e two students who attacked STEM are currently serving life sentences.

In February, Douglas County District Court Judge Je ery Holmes ordered STEM to pay the Castillos $387,000, the maximum damages allowed under state law and the Claire Davis School Security Act, and ruled that STEM paying the damages is not an admission of liability.

Holmes’ order also said payment of the damages would preclude the need for a trial.

However, the Castillos told the court they aren’t looking for monetary relief, but want a jury trial for the purposes of hearing public tes-

timony and receiving a judgement on STEM’s culpability. During the course of the lawsuit, STEM successfully fought to make a majority of the information presented con dential.

“John and Maria Castillo have succeeded in using the Claire Davis School Safety Act to nd the truth about what led up to the mass shooting at STEM that their son Kendrick sacri ced his life to stop,” Dan Caplis, an attorney for the Castillos, told e Denver Post. “Now the Castillos

want to share that evidence with the public so that all schools can learn the lessons from the STEM shooting and be safer moving forward.”

Caplis did not respond to interview requests from Colorado Community Media.

To address the issue of con dentiality, Holmes appointed a special master (a retired judge) to determine what information from the submitted evidence is con dential and what can be made public. e

discussion started on March 22.

Nicole Bostel, the STEM spokesperson, said in a statement that the school has resisted making all of the information public because of concerns that it would result in privacy and security violations.

“With the release of certain documents, vital information and details about our current safety practices would be made public, leaving our students and sta vulnerable,” she said. “Additionally, some of the documents include information about students who were not involved in the incident on May 7, and releasing their information would be unfair and violate their privacy.”

However, Bostel said the school trusts the special master will “operate in the best interest of both the Castillos and STEM as we reach a resolution that satis es both parties.”

“Our community is still healing from the events of May 7, and STEM is committed to ensuring that we continue that process forward,” she said.

Caplis told the Denver Post that regardless of the outcome of the meetings with the special master, the Castillos plan to appeal Holmes’ ruling in an attempt to go to trial. ough the Castillos lawsuit originally also named the Douglas County School District as a defendant, Newsbreak reports that the Castillos and the school district settled in December with the district agreeing to release information related to the attack.

STEM Schools continues to deal with a lawsuit filed by the parents of Kendrick Castillo, who died attacking a shooter at the school in 2019.

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Spurlock honored in bi-partisan ceremony at the Capitol

Frizell, Marshall honor former sheri

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

At the start of their workday, Colorado lawmakers heard words of praise for a man who spent more than 40 years in law enforcement.

Five Douglas County state representatives — Republicans and Democrats — requested the tribute to former Sheri Tony Spurlock, a move that state Rep. Bob Marshall attributed to the “broad admiration, respect and support Sheri Spurlock held in the community.”

He became “such an early advocate for mental health not only in the community but for his law enforcement personnel,” said Marshall, a Democrat, on the House oor on March 27.

Spurlock recently stepped down after eight years as Douglas County’s sheri , serving through 2022 to his term limit. He capped o four decades of service to the people of Colorado and Douglas County, Marshall noted in a statement to Colorado Community Media.

Rep. Lisa Frizell noted she’s known Spurlock for 25 years and that he, like her, spent a lot of time in the county when Castle Rock was “a place where you might

have to get gas between Colorado Springs and Denver.”

“ ere was not much there. And so he also experienced the changes that we’ve seen,” Frizell said.

When Spurlock rst started at the Douglas sheri ’s o ce, there was not much crime, Frizell said.

In his career alongside rising crime, he worked “with municipal partners and the partners within the state to make sure we’re all in a better place,” Frizell said.

“He doesn’t care what party you’re from. He doesn’t care if you disagree with him. What he cares about is doing the right thing for everybody,” said Frizell, a Republican. “And everyone’s a constituent — there’s no lines drawn. I respect that very much.”

As sheri , Spurlock focused on mental health and the mental wellness of the community and employees, leading him to become a strong advocate for Colorado’s emergency risk protection order law, otherwise known as the red ag law.

Passed in 2019, the red ag law allows law enforcement or family members to request the temporary seizure of rearms from people who could pose a threat to themselves or to others.

Spurlock also put e ort into forming partnerships outside the sheri ’s o ce. Since his rst term, Spurlock worked with a variety of people and with di erent counties to create partnerships and services

for the community, including developing the cold case review team made up of volunteer citizens.

A doctor, two attorneys, a business man and woman and detectives have come together to clear several cold cases. Suspects have been taken to prison and into custody because of that team, Spurlock has said.

In a partnership with the Aurora Police Department, Arapahoe County Sheri ’s O ce and a district attorney from the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s O ce, Spurlock also helped create the Uni ed Metropolitan Forensics Crime Lab.

Separate from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the metropolitan crime lab opened in 2018 to serve the people of those counties with quicker results.  e local crime lab can help speed investigation when, for example, a woman is sexually assaulted in Douglas County and the perpetrator isn’t initially known, Spurlock has said.

Spurlock started as a deputy in the Douglas sheri ’s o ce and later moved into investigations. In 2015, he took over as Douglas County’s 33rd sheri .  e state representatives who serve Douglas County residents and requested the House oor tribute are Anthony Hartsook, Brandi Bradley, Eliza Hamrick, Frizell and Marshall, according to Marshall.

Sheri Spurlock stands in front of his awards and plaques in his o ce.

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Polis targets local land use in bid to make housing less costly

BY JESSE PAUL AND ELLIOTT WENZLER THE COLORADO SUN

Fast-growing, housing-strapped Colorado communities would be barred from limiting construction of duplexes, triplexes and add-on housing units under a marquee measure unveiled in March by Gov. Jared Polis and Democratic state lawmakers aimed at addressing the state’s housing crisis by increasing residential density.

e land-use bill would also block limits on how many unrelated people can live in the same home and prevent Colorado’s largest cities from restricting what kind of housing can be built near transit stops. A separate measure, meanwhile, would ban municipalities from imposing new growth caps and eliminate existing ones.

e land-use proposal would apply di erently throughout the state depending on population size and housing needs, with the biggest impacts on Colorado’s most populous cities — Denver, Aurora, Boulder, Lakewood, Colorado Springs and Grand Junction — but also rules for rural communities and resort towns, which have faced their own unique housing struggles.

“ is is an a ordability crisis around housing in our state,” Gov. Jared Polis told e Colorado Sun. “Absent action, it’s only going to get worse. We absolutely want to move our state in a way where homeownership and rent are more a ordable, and this will help get that done.”

Polis said the bills — one of which

is expected to be more than 100 pages long — represent the most ambitious land-use policy changes in Colorado in about 40 years. e policy changes will take years to go into e ect, but the governor said if the state doesn’t act, Colorado could start to look like California, where homes are even less a ordable, and tra c is worse.

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of the curve,” he said.

Local government leaders have been wary of the proposals, previewed in the governor’s State of the State address in January, because of how it would restrict their power to create and enforce housing policies.

“Respectfully, get o our lawn,” Kevin Bommer, executive director of the Colorado Municipal League, said at a gathering of local o cials in February when describing negotiations on the legislation with Polis’ o ce.

e organization’s board voted to oppose the land-use bill last week, Bommer said. “CML opposes this sweeping and breathtaking attempt to centralize local land use and zoning policy in the state Capitol, while doing nothing to guarantee a ordability,” Bommer said in a written statement, also calling the measure a “breathtaking power grab.”

e only Colorado mayor who spoke in support of the bill at a Capitol news conference on March 22 rolling out the legislation was Boulder Mayor Aaron Brockett. “ ere’s still some work to be done and I’m sure there’ll be changes hashed out,” he said. “But there is so much at value here.”

e bills are also expected to meet erce pushback from the few Republicans in the legislature, who are in the minority in the House and Senate and have little say over which measures pass or fail.

e measures have been the talk of the Capitol since the 2023 legislative session began in January, but the details of what’s in the legislation have been under wraps until now. Democrats will have less than two months to pass the bills through the House and Senate before the lawmaking term ends in early May.

e governor’s o ce says the landuse bill was drafted after more than 120 meetings with housing and business experts and local o cials and through research on similar policies passed in other states. Oregon, for instance, passed a law in 2019 requiring cities with a population greater than 1,000 to allow duplexes, while cities with more than 25,000 people must allow townhomes, duplexes, triplexes

and fourplexes.

Rep. Steven Woodrow, a Denver Democrat who will be one of the prime sponsors of the land-use bill, said the measure is supposed to prevent some Colorado communities erecting barriers to development while their neighbors sprawl out of control, which can cause gentri cation and water issues.

“We have to do this at the state level because local political pressures are such that it hasn’t been hasn’t been done until now,” Woodrow said.

e measure reshaping land use in Colorado would apply only to municipalities, not counties. e governor’s o ce and the bills’ sponsors believe they can impose policy restrictions on cities and towns because housing is an issue of statewide concern, a position that could be tested in court.

“Research has shown that increasing housing supply, like building units like duplexes and townhomes, can increase a ordability,” Senate Majority Leader Dominick Moreno, a Commerce City Democrat and a lead sponsor of the bill, said at a news conference as the bill was unveiled. “Yet these types of housing are often prohibited in many of the communities that need them the most. And that doesn’t make sense.”

An unanswered question is whether developers will take advantage of the bill, should it pass.

“I think that people are anxious to provide housing,” said J.J. Ament, president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, which supports the bill. “I don’t think it really is a capital problem in Colorado. It is regulatory and environment. I think the capital will ow because the demand is there.”

e legislation is slated to be formally introduced this week. e measures were described in detail to e Sun by their sponsors and the governor.  e requirements will vary for different parts of the state depending on which of ve categories they fall into based on their population and housing needs. Here’s how the requirements would break down:

Tier 1, with cities that include: Arvada, Aurora, Boulder, Brighton, Broom eld, Castle Pines, Castle Rock, Centennial, Cherry Hills Village, Columbine Valley, Commerce City, Denver, Edgewater, Englewood, Erie, Federal Heights, Glendale, Golden, Greenwood Village, Lafayette, Lakewood, Littleton, Lochbuie, Lone Tree, Longmont, Louisville, Northglenn, Parker, Sheridan, Superior, ornton, Westminster and Wheat Ridge.

Outside of the Denver metro area, Greeley, Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor, Colorado Springs, Fountain, Grand Junction and Pueblo would also be considered Tier 1 cities.

Cities in this category have a population of at least 1,000 and are in a metropolitan planning organization — such as the Denver Regional Council of Governments — with a population greater than 1 million and in a Census Urbanized Area with a population greater than 75,000. Cities with a population greater than 25,000 and in a metropolitan planning organization with a population less than 1 million would also fall into this category.

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Tier 1 cities would be most a ected by the land-use bill. ey would be prohibited from restricting duplexes, triplexes and multiplexes up to six units, as well as accessory-dwelling units, sometimes referred to as ADUs or granny ats. ey would also be prohibited from requiring parking tied to those kinds of housing.

ADUs are habitable structures that are on the same property as a house but a separate building, such as an apartment over a garage. Many municipalities across the state restrict where and how they can be built.

Tier 1 cities would also have to allow the construction of multifamily housing near transit centers, which are de ned as the half-mile area around xed-rail stations.Cities wouldn’t be allowed to require new, o -street parking for multifamily homes built in transit corridors, though developers could provide any amount of parking they feel is needed.

Tier 1 cities would also be subject to development guidelines aimed at promoting housing density and walkable communities around so-called key transit corridors, which are de ned as areas within a quarter mile of busrapid-transit and high-frequency bus routes.

Finally, Tier 1 cities will also be required to complete a housing needs plan based on a state housing needs assessment, as well as participate in long-term planning to stop sprawl and address environmental concerns, like greenhouse gas emissions, air pollu-

tion and limited water.

Tier 1 cities have the option of meeting minimum land-use requirements set by the state, which the governor’s o ce refers to as the “ exible option.” If not, they would be forced to adopt a state-developed land-use code. e state code would be created by Colorado Department of Local A airs regulators at a later date.

Tier 1 cities would have to submit codes compliant with the bill to the state by December 2024. Any Tier 1 cities that don’t meet the minimum standards under the legislation’s so-called “ exible option” would be forced to operate under the model land-use code starting in December 2025.

Tier 2 is next, which includes Dacono, Fort Lupton, Firestone, Frederick, Evans, Berthoud, Johnstown, Timnath, Eaton, Miliken, Severance and Monument.

ey are de ned as cities in a metropolitan planning organization that have a population of between 5,000 and 25,000 and in a county with a population greater than 250,000.

Tier 2 cities would be prohibited from restricting accessory-dwelling units and parking associated with ADUs, though they would be able to block duplexes, triplexes and multiplexes. ey would also be exempt from provisions around transit centers and corridors.  ey would, however, still be required to conduct housing needs assessments and create the same type of long-term housing and sprawl and environmental plans.

Tier 2 cities would have to submit codes compliant with the bill to the state by December 2024. Any Tier 1

cities that don’t meet the minimum standards under the legislation’s so-called “ exible option” would be forced to operate under the model land-use code starting in December 2025.

Another category is dubbed, Rural Resort Job Centers. is category includes Aspen, Avon, Breckenridge, Crested Butte, Dillon, Durango, Frisco, Glenwood Springs, Mountain Village, Silverthorne, Snowmass Village, Steamboat Springs, Telluride, Vail and Winter Park.

Rural resort job centers are de ned as municipalities that have a population of at least 1,000 and at least 1,200 jobs and are outside of a metropolitan planning organization. ey also have regional transit service with at least 20 trips per day.

is category is intended to prompt local governments to work with their surrounding region to address housing shortfalls. e communities would be required to allow ADUs but then have to develop a regional housing needs plan to identify where zoning should happen for duplexes, triplexes and other multiplexes. e communities would also have to work together to boost transit corridors and housing surrounding them.

“ ere’s often a dynamic in rural areas where people may live in one community but work in another, and because of that the additional exibility is that they can reach agreements with their partner communities to have a more regional approach to some of the goals that are in the bill,” Moreno said.

Like Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities, rural resort job centers would have the ability to choose between a minimum level

of housing policies while maintaining some of their own design standards or be forced to adopt a model land-use code that will be created by the state.

e speci cs on those two options are not laid out in the bill and would be determined later by state regulators.

“ e goals aren’t as stringent as the (ones for) urban municipalities,” said Moreno.

Rural resort job centers would have to submit land-use codes compliant with the bill to the state by December 2026. Any rural resort job centers that don’t meet the minimum standards under the bill’s exible option would have to operate under the state’s model land-us code starting in June 2027.

Yet another category is called NonUrban Municipalities. Any municipality with a population greater than 5,000 falls into this category — as long as it’s not in another category — including Alamosa, Brush, Cañon City, Carbondale, Cortez, Craig, Eagle, Fort Morgan, Gunnison, La Junta, Lamar, Montrose, Ri e, Sterling, Trinidad and Wellington. Non-urban municipalities would be prohibited from restricting accessory-dwelling units but won’t have requirements around duplexes, triplexes and other multiplexes or transit-oriented development. ey also won’t need to prepare a housing needs plan.

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.

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“As a society, we will not be judged by the number of lanes on our highways or how tall our buildings are,” Crow said. “As a society, we will ultimately be judged on how we treat each other and how we come to aid and help those who need a hand. Because there’s no person in this room who hasn’t needed help at some point in their life.”

Walk-in crisis center, youth unit planned e demand for mental and behavioral health services for children and adolescents exceeds the capacity for services around Colorado, including in Douglas County, Ciancone said.

With the new federal funding — and dollars from the federal American Rescue Plan Act — new programs are unfolding in Douglas County, including the following:

• A walk-in crisis center that will serve as an alternative to the emergency room for all ages. e facility will provide 24/7/365 walk-in crisis support, counseling, deescalation, and information and referrals for individuals experiencing a mental health or substance use disorder crisis, according to a county news release.

• A child and adolescent crisis stabilization unit that will o er 16 beds to serve youth ages 8 to 18 experiencing a mental health crisis.

• A veterans mental health clinician that will provide support for veterans who experience nancial

and geographic barriers to accessing care.

• A suicide prevention grant program that will support “data-driven countywide work” speci cally focused on middle-aged men, prenatal and postnatal women and families, older adults, and youth ages 14 to 24.

Each member of the U.S. House of Representatives was able to submit up to 15 community project funding requests to bene t state or local government grantees or eligible nonpro ts. e House Appropriations Committee then considered requests when writing the annual federal spending bill.

Douglas County’s check represents one of the buckets of funding Crow requested for his area.

Separately, Douglas County commissioners dedicated $1.5 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to grants for local organizations’ work on suicide prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery, the county said in a January news release.

( e American Rescue Plan Act is a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill signed into law in March 2021 with a goal to support the economic and public health recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.)

Programs take shape

e county is partnering with its community mental health organization, AllHealth Network, to open the all-ages walk-in center and the child and adolescent crisis stabilization unit, which Ciancone called a “ rst-of-its-kind facility in Douglas County.”

Douglas County and its partners

aim to support people before and after they use the walk-in center, making sure they get the services they need closer to home, Ciancone said.

Ciancone also spoke to the timeline for new resources unfolding, noting AllHealth Network recently nalized plans with a developer for the walk-in center and the crisis stabilization unit. O cials estimate around a year to a year and a half until opening.

Regarding the suicide prevention grant, “we have received applications, there’s a committee reviewing and we should be making awards in April,” Ciancone said.

e county has launched its veterans mental health program with a clinician, she added.

e county’s community response team — a coresponder program that pairs law enforcement o cers with mental health professionals to help adults and youth experiencing a mental health crisis avoid the emergency room or jail — is also expanding, Ciancone said. e county has six community response teams, according to a March news release, and it may have nine teams by summer or fall.

County initiative approaches a decade

Crow thanked the county and its partners for their work to bolster mental health in the area.

“I cannot thank you enough for working day in and day out, putting your heart and your soul on the line to frankly help save our kids’ lives,” Crow said.

For nearly a decade, the county has run an e ort to help address mental health in the community.

With support from the Douglas County commissioners, and in response to several tragic mental health-related incidents, the Douglas County Mental Health Initiative was established in 2014 to “unite community partners, address unmet mental health needs, connect people to mental health services and

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Mercantile and Future Streets in the Meadows Town Center.

Mayor Pro Tem Kevin Bracken said adding in the planned mixed-use, multifamily development would be the neighborhood’s death knell.

“In my opinion, in light of the last project that added onto the area, I think this area is going to fail from parking,” Bracken said, noting parking spaces in town center are frequently unavailable in his experience.

Council members Laura Cavey, Ryan Hollingshead and Desiree LaFleur also said they have experienced or heard about parking struggles at town center.

e town’s planned development agreement with the Meadows, which was originally approved in 2003, requires one o -street space

prevent those in need from falling through the cracks of the mental health system,” the county’s website says.

Today, the county’s mental health initiative includes more than 40 entities.

Some of its programs include:

• e county’s community response teams of law enforcement o cers and mental health professionals who help people nd mental health support.

• e Care Compact, a program helping adults with complex mental health needs navigate bene ts and overcome barriers to accessing care.

• A peer recovery team that pairs a “case manager” and peer recovery coach to help high-risk and highneed individuals served by the community response teams and Care Compact nd care and avoid treatment gaps. (“Case management” is a term that generally refers to helping manage a person’s situation as it relates to nding resources.)

• And an ongoing, multi-year public outreach e ort that aims to help “eradicate stigma associated with mental health,” the county said in a news release.

e new funding will allow the expansion of the county’s Care Compact program, evidence-based treatment programs and parent support, stipends for communitybased outpatient mental health and substance use treatment and intensive in-home treatment, and “technology integration” of a webbased case management platform and a faith-based community portal to support access to care and connection to resources for basic needs, like food, transportation and housing, Ciancone said.

Due to recent redistricting, the area Crow represents — Colorado’s 6th Congressional District — now only includes a sliver of Douglas County: a small portion of the far south Aurora area. Before, the district also included Highlands Ranch.

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A map of Castle Rock showing where multifamily developments are in light blue and where they could be in dark blue. The town council is considering changing the town code to increase parking requirements for multifamily developments. Areas that would be impacted by a change in the town code have a yellow border.

Communities try design to improve public safety

BY BRITTANY FREEMAN AND CULLEN PURSER ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Mike Burns bought a home right on the river near Delta, Colorado, with plans to spend the summers shing outdoors with his grandkids. But those kinds of excursions haven’t always felt safe, since the family learned more about what had been happening in their new neighborhood.

“Crime, drugs, theft, things like that,” he said. “Because of the things that are going on, it’s created some anxiety in us.”

It turns out the Burns family had moved to a 2,000-foot stretch of dirt road that is at the epicenter of roughly 10 percent of every call the small local sheri ’s o ce receives. e sheri sent more deputies to patrol the area but that has left some neighbors even more unnerved.

“You’ve got four or ve sheri ’s vehicles parked next to your yard,” neighbor Steve Martinez said. “What are people going to think about what kind of neighborhood it is that you’re living in?”

But there’s a new sense of hope on this rural Delta County road these days, thanks to an infusion of state dollars set aside to prevent crime — not with more police o cers — but with environmental improvements.

e Crime Prevention rough Safer Streets grant program is providing communities with millions of dollars funds for projects like installing new lighting and fences, removing overgrown vegetation in high-crime areas, and building sidewalks and trails. It’s one piece of a package of public safety legislation rolled out in the 2022 Colorado legislative session aimed at reducing crime.

“ ose improvements alone cannot make a safer community. But those improvements are an indicator that a community is involved in its own well-being,” explained architect Ignacio Correa-Ortiz, an urban planner who helped choose projects for the state to fund.

Twenty-three communities large and small across the state have until the end of June to complete more than $6.2 million in grant-funded projects that authorities say are part of a shift in the mindset around law enforcement and crime prevention.

“We’re really good at responding and arresting somebody for drugs or assaults or thefts or burglaries, but of course they get out of jail and recidivism happens,” said Delta County Sheri Mark Taylor. “We think that through this process we’ll be able to prevent crimes rather than just responding to crimes.” e program’s funding could not be used to hire more o cers, or for projects that are typically used to investigate or solve crimes once they have happened, such as facial recognition programs or license plate reader cameras.

“In my opinion, the future of law enforcement is all in crime prevention,” said Delta County code enforcement o cer Everett Neil. “ e best way to handle an issue properly is to keep it from happening in the rst place.”

Neil helped to dream up his county’s grant-funded project after neighbors got together and asked the sheri and county commissioners to help them

reduce the crime in their community.

He said he suggested the county fund removal of an abandoned mobile home in the neighborhood that had become a draw for criminal activity and drug use. Neil said he also came to believe the remote wilderness near the river drew criminals who believed it was a good place to hide. When he learned the state was funding environmental improvements to reduce crime, his wheels began to turn.

“ at’s when I realized, well, if we’re getting rid of the mobile home, you know what? Let’s do some fencing. You know what, if we’re gonna do fencing, shoot, let’s do some lighting,” Neil said.

“Let’s do a bus stop too, for the kids. And so we started brainstorming.”

Before applying for the funds, Neil and the county’s grant writer visited the neighborhood to make sure the community would support the improvements, most of which would occur on private property.

“ e grant writer and I went down to the neighborhood. We knocked on every door. We talked to every resident, and we wanted to know if they would be willing to participate in this kind of a program, because there is some cost,” he said, noting that residents may see slightly higher electric bills due to the new lighting. “We were met with 100% buy-in.”

“I can’t tell you how many times [Neil] has been to my door saying, ‘ is is what’s going on. is is where we’re at in the process. What do you think about this? I need your input,’” Burns said. “It’s a rare thing, honestly, to feel that the county is being this responsive.”

Neil said he anticipates the changes will make the neighborhood safer, and he made a bold prediction.

“I fully predict that we’ll be able to reduce the crime in this area through this initiative, at least by 50%,” Neil said.

“It’s something that’s exciting to see and start from the ground up,” Sheri Taylor said. “I hope it works. I hope it’s something that we can use in the future.”

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Victim may have recorded double murder in Franktown

DA says it contradicts suspect account

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A recording captured audio of an incident where Casey Devol allegedly killed his sister and her boyfriend in rural Douglas County, according to prosecutors.

“What we have are recorded statements of the murder itself which were made by one of the victims,” said Andrew Steers, a chief deputy district attorney.

He added: “It’s clearly a recording of the incident. It’s clearly a recording of the murder.”

The existence of the recorder was not known, Steers said, until the autopsy in the case that left Jessica Mitchell, 32, and Bryan Todd Gray, 34, dead in the Franktown area. They were discovered in February 2022 in a garage adjacent to a house they lived in on Russellville Road. Mitchell was Devol’s sister.

Authorities don’t know why someone chose to record the interaction, Steers said during a March 22 hearing in Douglas County District Court.

The recording captured the events leading up to the murder: Three people appeared to be having a dinner and at one point talked about a birthday gift, Steers said. At some point, the man authorities say is Devol leaves and returns and kills the other two

people and a dog.

The audio “goes on for a long period of time, recording just silence at certain points,” Steers said. The recorder eventually died and was recovered as authorities investigated, according to Steers.

The recording “settles as fact whether the defendant acted in self-defense, whether he was intoxicated, whether there was an argument beforehand,” Steers said, arguing that the audio contradicts what Devol told authorities.

“There were no threats,” Steers said.

Mitchell was found with a “digital recorder device,” according to her autopsy report.

A coworker of Gray’s discovered him and Mitchell in the Russellville Road garage at about 1:30 p.m. Feb. 8, 2022.

Located in Kansas

Devol was found and arrested at a hotel in Salina, Kansas, on Feb. 9, 2022. He complied when officers attempted to place him in custody, according to testimony at the hearing.

Authorities in Kansas saw a handgun and a white towel with what appeared to be blood on it in plain sight at the hotel, where they entered Devol’s room.

Looking through the windows of Devol’s vehicle, an officer saw a “taken apart” gun, according to testimony from a Salina Police Department officer in the hearing.

Public defender Ara Ohanian, Devol’s defense attorney, took issue with what he said was a failure to read Devol his “Miranda rights.”

Those are the rights, under United States law, of an arrested person to

have an attorney and to refuse to answer questions.

“All three officers testified that no one read Mr. Devol his Miranda rights” in the officers’ early interactions with Devol, Ohanian said. But Devol “volunteered” information regarding firearms that he had, without being questioned or prompted, said Nate Marsh, deputy district attorney.

Later, he “was read his rights; he voluntarily waived them in writing,” Steers said.

The Miranda warning was given appropriately, Judge Patricia Herron found.

Video footage also found

Autopsy results show the victims had bruising and shallow injuries and had been shot by two different firearms.

The report, released by the Douglas County Coroner’s Office, shows both victims also had meth, alcohol and marijuana in their systems. In addition to the toxicology reports, notes were made in both autopsies that each had a history of methamphetamine use.

Deputies discovered security footage for the home that showed someone entering the garage carrying “multiple handguns and a long gun.” After a tip from a friend of the family, investigators alleged that Devol is the person in the video.

Devol has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. He pleaded not guilty in September. Devol is slated for a jury trial starting June 12.

per bedroom for multifamily development in the town center area. e agreement prevents the town from changing the parking requirements without the developer’s approval until 2028, according to Development Director Tara Vargish.

Under the town code, multifamily developments typically are required

to have one space for studios, 1.5 spaces for one-bedrooms and two spaces for two or three bedrooms, as well as an additional space for every four units for guest parking. e code has di erent, lower requirements for downtown and senior multifamily developments.  RC Hanish, a representative for the Meadows with Castle Rock Development Company, presented to the board on the development’s plans to address parking issues, which included better signage des-

ignating public parking, but didn’t include adding more spaces to the area.

Hanish said the town center was designed to have a more urban feel and the Meadows wanted to avoid “parking elds.”

“A lot of the guiding principles were trying to get rid of the big parking lots, given that we had meadows as a front door,” he said.  Bracken pushed back against the plan, saying signs wouldn’t solve the problem.

“If the Castle Rock Development Company doesn’t solve for (the lack of parking), this area will fail,” he said. “I’m telling you now because I’m trying to protect your property.”

In response, Hanish said the developers have examined parking needs as new uses were brought in and will continue to do so, but didn’t want to act without evidence.

“Something we’re willing to do … is look at a parking study because maybe there’s something we’re not

seeing,” he said. “Right now, we don’t know what the issue is. We have a perception -- your experience -- but I don’t know how to quantify that into a solution.”

While the situation in the Meadows was in the spotlight of the conversation, council members Tim Dietz, LaFleur and Hollingshead mentioned wanting to include downtown in future discussions on increasing multifamily parking.

Council members agreed the town’s lack of transit contributed to the problem . Dietz suggested it could justify increasing the requirements across the board.

“We’re a town without public transportation and people do like to drive everywhere, so parking is paramount,” Dietz said. “I’d like to see us have a cut and dry two spots.” e council directed sta to engage with the multifamily development community on parking needs and trends locally for a future follow-up conversation.

Former Douglas County Sheri Tony Spurlock holds up a photo of Casey Devol at a media briefing. Devol is the suspect in a double homicide that occurred Tuesday.

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Governing with emotion FROM THE EDITOR

As I read through the bills making their way through the state legislature, I am concerned. A meeting I had with a state o cial helped me put into words how I feel about the legislative process lately.

is o cial said too many lawmakers are governing with “emotion.”

at resonated with me. It means lawmakers set aside data and debate in the name of looking popular, especially on social issues. ey’re going with what makes them seem caring and supportive in an economy that’s simpli ed to haves doing well and have nots forever struggling to get a leg up.

In this equation, the haves and the haves nots get a lot of attention as the shrinking middle class gets ignored.

Let’s be honest, a lot of the bills we have owing through our state and federal governments are feel good. ey sound like the right thing to do but they are not going to make a di erence the daily lives of many average constituents.

Some of my favorite books about how franchises and businesses have thrived in this country can be used as examples on why we are failing. In “Good to Great” and “Built to Last,” the most successful businesses over the years succeeded because of their willingness to evolve and run a business as a business, meaning emotions do not play a part.

With so many newer lawmakers at the Capitol, I am becoming increasingly concerned with the lack of e ort to make the lives of average workers better.

While rent control bills are important, I have seen little discussion on what is going to happen when middleincome homeowners are hit with what are expected to be extremely high property taxes this year. I have also seen little in the way of help for young couples and families looking to buy their rst home. I don’t blame those who simply give up.

I see very little in terms of how my children, who go to a great school district, are going to get better educations in math and reading as Colorado falls behind. ere are a lot of distraction bills about our education system. Very few mean my kids will get better learning tools.

When I go to the grocery store and ll three or four of my paid-for bags for my household of seven, I wonder what is being done by our lawmakers to help families like us.

We have joked that this Easter we will color potatoes instead of eggs because the cost is so outrageous.

I am hearing from some sources in the retail industry that butter is about to be as expensive as eggs, if not already.

I bought 13 items, recently, and spent nearly $100. Don’t get me started on the big shopping trips where meat, lunch supplies and necessities push the nal bill to shocking amounts.

I feel like I am part of the ignored population this year.

My husband and I work hard. We live in a good school district. We do what we can to help the economy. at must mean lawmakers think I do not need help. ey must think that my struggles are not as important as the feel good social bills we hear about nonstop.

I work hard and I have a right to ask what is happening to help relieve the pressures we in the middle are feeling. Many middle-class families lost something during the pandemic and the high-in ation economy that followed it and persists today. Families are struggling, hoping not to drop to low-income status. Lawmakers don’t seem to feel much for them.

elma Grimes is the south metro editor for Colorado Community Media

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Adding value through relatable life experiences

Robin was one of the newest and youngest members of the team attending the training session. As the facilitator shared ideas, strategies and tactics for dealing with the various situations that the team may encounter, she found herself really leaning in to try and absorb and retain as much as she possibly could. It was harder for her because other than a few part-time jobs and her education experiences, Robin could only image some of the scenarios as they were being explained.

Sean was in the same training session, and although new to the company, he had many years of experience in the industry. Since he had been in the industry for so many years, he had a lot of knowledge that others in the training class had lacked. Sean also brought with him so many relatable life and work experiences, making it easy to connect the concepts being taught to his job function.

During an exercise the facilitator paired the newest person with the most experienced person to go through the exercises together during the training. at meant that Robin, the new college graduate, was partnered with Sean, the most tenured person in the training. Initially both Robin and Sean felt uncomfortable about the pairing. Sean believed he would learn nothing from someone so young and inexperienced and that he

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would have to do most of the work. Robin was intimidated at rst and just wished that she would have been paired with someone closer to her

By the end of the training

Robin and Sean were working and collaborating so well. At the end of the day the facilitator asked for lessons learned from the training. Robin shared that although Sean was much more experienced, that his willingness to share information and connect real-world stories to the exercises helped her to connect the dots better to the concepts being taught. And Sean shared that although he believed that his young counterpart could ever teach, “ is old dog any new tricks,” that Robin’s natural curiosity taught him that he certainly did not know it all and it reminded him of the need to be more curious himself.

I don’t know about you but I get to experience this very thing every day. Our own team is made up of some very young, incredibly bright, extremely driven, and curious team members. We are also blessed with, let’s just

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Skin care for spring and summer

Tips from a dermatologist FROM THE EDITOR

St udents and families in the Pikes Peak region are gearing up for spring break later this month. Whether it’s a sandy beach or the snowy slopes, there are several skin care tips to keep in mind.

e most important advice a dermatologist can give you is: no matter the season, protect your skin from solar radiation. ere is nothing that will bene t your skin as much, especially if you are thinking long term.

Whether you are going to enjoy the break on the mountains or at the beach, protect your skin

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say, a little more gray than the rest of the team and lots of lessons learned over the years. And we have others on the team somewhere along their own career and life journey that bring so much to the team in the way of critical thinking, wonderful experience, and knowledge.

What makes our team meetings work so well is that those of us who have been around for a while appreciate the new thinking and insights that those just coming into the business are bringing to each situation or opportunity. And I watch in awe as the seasoned veterans share their wisdom through role plays and pressure testing ideas while the younger team members really pay attention.

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William will drag GOP down

Some Colorado GOP insiders and opinion writers bemoan the election of far-right, conspiracy theorist and election denier Dave Williams to head the Colorado GOP, and want the sane Republicans to step up.  And they are correct in that his leadership will only drag the party down more.

But contending that there are “sane’’ Republicans in our midst is a stretch.

Republican state legislatures around the country have passed draconian laws targeting women, the LGBTQ community, rape victims, the Trans community and anyone who doesn’t look and act as they do.  And they have forestalled any meaningful gun reform laws.  We avoid such measures in Colorado because Democrats hold the majority.  But that didn’t stop state Republicans from introducing bills that would ban abortion, dissuade enforcement of federal rearms laws, pass anti-Covid vaccine requirements, slash our state’s budget, restrict transgender athletes’ rights, etc.   at’s not sane.   at’s spiteful.

e Grand Old Party was never

from ultraviolet rays by using sun protective clothing, hats, and sunglasses, as well as applying sunscreen to the exposed areas. For skiers, although most of the skin is covered by gear, it is very easy to forget the face. Don’t make that mistake. At high altitude, you are exposed to signi cantly more intense ultraviolet radiation than at sea level. Apply a generous amount of sunscreen on your entire face and neck before you put on your scarf, face cover, helmet or goggles. Even though you think most of your skin is covered, it is common to have people with intense facial sunburn after a day in the mountains - the classic skier sunburn that only spares the areas around the eyes, which are covered by the goggles. A useful tip is carrying in your pocket a sunscreen in a stick, so you can apply to the face without even taking your gloves o , while waiting in lift lines. It is easy

We are all learning from one another regardless of age or experience. When we do not know what we do not know, it’s a best practice to stop pretending to be a no-it-all. And that’s something I will also brag on my team about, no one is afraid to ask for help. Our team culture is to be there for one another and help in any way that we can, respecting that everyone on the team brings relatable life experiences regardless of age. It’s about who they are and what they bring that matters most.

How about you and your team? Is everyone valued and respected for what they bring to the opportunities and meetings? Is everyone learning to be more curious and instead of telling, asking better questions? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can openly talk about, share, and learn from one another’s life experi-

to lose track of time when we are having fun in the slopes, so make sure to reapply every few runs.

After a fun day in the mountains, most people like a hot shower or a hot tub. While this feels lovely, remember that, associated with the dry air of the mountains and of heated spaces, this will dry your skin. Apply thick moisturizing cream to your skin at the end of the day to prevent dry or itchy skin.

If you are going to be at a sunny destination to enjoy the ocean or the pool, more of your skin will be exposed to the sun. Clothes provide a physical barrier to protect your skin, and there are several brands that o er clothes with ultraviolet protection factor (UPF) number, which are made for outdoor activities. ey have cool breathable fabric, and some also can be used for swimming.

Regarding the sunscreen for the beach, look for one that is

ences, it really will be a better than good life.

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water resistant (stays e ective for 40 minutes in the water) or very water resistant (stays e ective for 80 minutes in the water). Even if your skin remains dry while using a water-resistant sunscreen, you’ll need to reapply the sunscreen every 2 hours. Also, don’t forget your feet! If you’re wearing sandals, be sure to apply sunscreen to all exposed skin.

Remember that it does not matter if it’s a cloudy day on the mountain or at the beach. Ultra-violet A rays can go through clouds and cause skin damage.

Good skin care should happen all year round, but spring break is a great time to remind us of that, as we prepare to step out of the house and enjoy the beautiful outdoors.

Dr. Renata Prado is a board-certied dermatologist and board-certi ed Mohs Surgeon at Vanguard Skin Specialists

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that grand.  Just look at the in uence of McCarthyism, the John Birch Society and the Federalist Society on the GOP.  Scapegoating, conspiracy rheories, homophobia, and erce anti-woman sentiment abound.

Moreover, these pundits repeat the worn-out and useless tropes of Democrats causing crime, in ation, debt, etc. with no fact checking.

e Colorado GOP candidates ran on such a platform last year and voters saw through that and they were soundly defeated.

Sanity prevailed - for the Democrats.

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Love the headline

Your headline in the Lone Tree Voice for the week of March 23...”Laydon, omas attempt civility”...was a journalistic gem! Editors of a major newspaper would be envious of your wit and perception. In a single phrase you capture a possible cure of our local and national political divide. anks for your clear thinking.

Larry Norton Lone Tree

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Area massage therapists laud the benefits of the practice on their clients’ ailments, stress

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Caring, compassionate hands — and sometimes feet — are used by massage therapists to help improve the lives of their clients. Massage is an ancient practice, and there are more than two dozen types throughout the world, therapists say.

Four massage therapists interviewed by Colorado Community Media say massage has become more accepted by the public, and more scienti c research is being done to document the health bene ts.

Massage can help with pain and injuries; decrease muscular tension; reduce blood pressure, swelling and in ammation; release endorphins; and much more, according to massage therapists.

“Even people who don’t have speci c problems can bene t from massage,” Destine Robertson with Alpine Medical Massage in Centennial and Conifer said. “Everybody has so much stress, and massage can help relieve that.”

People’s perceptions of massage have come a long way, the therapists said.

“A lot of people think of massage as pampering and relaxing,” Ti any Shocklee with Hearth re erapeutics in Golden said, “but it can help people who have many other issues, too.”

A blend of massage styles

Massage therapy is not an easy profession, requiring hours of training, a certi cation exam and licensing in Colorado.

“It’s become a more regulated eld,” said Mary Davis with Healing Traditions Bodywork in Evergreen, “which I think is best. I think it’s needed and necessary to protect people when they are potentially vulnerable going in for a personal treatment like massage.”

But education doesn’t stop at the 600 hours of initial training for most therapists. ey continue to learn di erent techniques to add to their repertoire.

“ e single most popular, most widely done type of massage in the

U.S. and maybe in the world is Swedish massage,” Davis said. “ at is part of your basic training. It is a bit lighter, more relaxing, with long strokes. en what I do and what a lot of therapists do is integrative massage. We have received additional training in areas that have spoken to us.”

Davis said most of the time she’s integrating di erent styles and techniques in one massage.

“I have a toolbox, and I pull different things out based on what I’m feeling that day in their tissues and what they need,” she explained.

Jenna Courage of Littleton erapeutic Massage Center said she has blended together many styles to create her own technique.

“I make each session specialized for each client,” Courage explained. “Some techniques I use on one client but not another. I feel like I am learning from my clients. ey come in with something new, and I gure out how to work with it, then take that knowledge and use it on someone with a similar issue.”

A satisfying career

Some massage therapists like Shocklee chose the practice as their rst career, while others nd massage therapy along their career paths. Davis and Shocklee have been massage therapists for 19 years, while Robertson has spent 22 years in the profession and Courage 31 years.

“Massage is important for me,” Shocklee said. “It’s what I’m meant to do. It helps me stay connected to myself. For me to go to work feels very focusing and a relief from other parts of my day that may be chaotic. It’s doing something that is single-minded by working with one person.”

Courage was working on a premedicine degree when she realized she had a strong interest in alternative health care. She visited a massage school and signed up the

CIRCLE PHOTO: Mary Davis with Healing Traditions Bodywork in Evergreen uses her forearm to massage areas of a client’s back.

Destine Robertson with Alpine Medical Massage in Centennial and Conifer massages a patient’s back.

Ti any Shocklee with Hearthfire Therapeutics in Golden massages a client’s shoulder. Shocklee also o ers ashiatsu massage during which she uses her feet.

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next week.

Robertson, for example, worked in a bakery before moving to massage therapy, quipping that kneading bread dough helped pave the way to her next career. However, she said she should have known that massage therapy was her calling because as a young girl, she rubbed her grandmother’s shoulders. Her grandmother suggested massage therapy as a career.

Davis had a 20-year career in the nonpro t sector rst.

“I like doing things that help people, but I didn’t want to make the commute and sit in an o ce,” Davis said.

Helping others

e massage therapists agree that they continue to practice massage therapy for so many years because of the relationships they have with their clients and because of their ability to

help others with a multitude of issues.

“It’s a pretty amazing feeling to have somebody come in (for a massage) in pain or with an issue that is a big problem in their lives, and you’re able to gure out how to work with them to help either greatly improve or resolve that issue,” Courage said. “Just the feeling of seeing them feel better, to know that they are healthier, happier, more functional in their lives, and you helped create that.”

Shocklee added: “I feel like it’s very rewarding being able to increase people’s wellbeing. It de nitely can be therapeutic for me to help other people and make them feel better. For me personally, doing things like continuing education so I can keep learning new things and taking care of myself have helped me to be able to do it as long as I can. When I rst started, I didn’t think I’d be doing it that long.”

Davis says she usually see an immediate impact from the massages she provides.

“It really motivates me and makes me feel good,” Davis said. “It gives meaning to my work. I feel like I am having a positive impact on people’s lives.”

that are similar to yogic stretching. The therapist uses palms and fingers to apply firm pressure to the body, and you will be stretched and twisted into various positions. Myofascial release therapy: involves releasing sti ness in the fascia, the connective tissue system that contains each muscle in the body. The therapist uses massage and stretch to any areas that feel tense with light pressure.

John F. Barnes Myofascial Release: a treatment used to treat chronic pain from the following: back, neck, menstrual, jaw, headaches, and others.

Ashiatsu massage: a technique where massage therapists use their feet to apply deep pressure to your body. It’s often called barefoot massage. Methods allow the deep tissues, joints and muscles to be massaged while easing the nervous system.

Reiki: a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is based on the idea that an unseen life-force energy flows through people and is what causes us to be alive. If one’s life-force energy is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

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‘Carousel’ wrapping up its run

Ro dgers and Hart’s “Carousel” is presented by Performance Now Theater Company through April 2 at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway.

Performances:

7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Think: “If I Loved You,” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone” ... 303-9877845, Lakewood. org/LCCPresents.

Englewood concert

Cellist Silver Ainomae will return to Hampden Hall in the Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, at 2 p.m. on April 8 for an Englewood Arts Presents concert in the “Chamber Music of the Masters” series. englewoodarts.org or ebertoluzzi@hotmail.com.

Colorado Wind Ensemble

Colorado Wind Ensemble performs at 7:30 p.m. on May 5 at the King Center on the Auraria Campus, 855 Lawrence Way. With special guest trombonists Dr. Jonathan Whitaker from the University of Alabama and Dr. Peter Ellefson from Indiana University. The CWE has openings for bassoon and percussion. See website for audition information: coloradowindensemble.org.

Zikr Dance

The Zikr Dance Ensemble is touring with “Mysteries, Rites and Revelations” and the premiere of “Mobile.” Performances locally: April 2 — Lone Tree Arts Cen-

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ter; April 11 — Highlands Ranch Southridge Recreation Center; April 14-15 — Lakewood Cultural Center. See zikrdance.com.

College gallery

Colorado Gallery of the Arts at Arapahoe Community College, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, is holding an Artist Invitational through May 5: Works by Andrea Gordon, Cindy Young, Amber Seegmiller, Jodee Sweets, Anthony Snyder, Sisel Lan, Mary Murphy, Nicole Hartman, Z.A. Handler, Amy Mower. Gallery hours: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursdays until 7 p.m.; Saturday, April 8, noon to 3 p.m.

Miners Alley

“I Hate Hamlet” by Paul Rudnick plays through April 23 at Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Directed by Rory Pierce. Tickets: $44 to $56. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. MinersAlley.com.

For the ladies

Mark your calendar: LOST (Ladies Only Sample Tour) in Littleton on May 18. More later. See ladiesonlysampletour.com.

Curious Theatre

“Amerikin” by Chisa Hutchinson plays at Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver through April 15. Directed by Jada Suzanne Dixon. 303-623-0524, curioustheatre.org.

Creativity summit

Colorado Creative Industries

Summit for 2023 will draw more than 300 Colorado creatives from more than 65 cities and towns to Crested Butte this summer for two days to be announced soon. Con-

tact Colorado Creative Industries. Early bird pricing through March. Dates to be firmed up very soon. See oedit.colorado.gov/coloradocreative-industries-summit.

ACC benefit

Mark the calendar again! Arapahoe Community College will hold its “Wine, Art and Design” benefit in Littleton, at ACC Art and Design Center, 24oo W. Alamo Ave., from 6:30 to 9 p.m. See arapahoe.edu/ foundationevents.

Lone Tree

Tunes on the Terrace at Lone Tree Arts Center has ticket packages available for June 23: Six One Five Collective; July 7: The Hot Lunch Band; July 21, 8 p.m.: Pink Martini, featuring China Forbes; August 4: Face Vocal Band. All performances will take place. If moved to the Main Stage, patrons will be notified via email on the day of the performance. All outdoor seats have a corresponding seat in the Main Stage theater in case of inclement weather. No cancellations within 72 hours of the performance. See lonetreeartscenter.org.

Curtis Center Curtis Center for the Arts, 2349 E. Orchard Road in Greenwood Village, continues with Month of Photography through May 6. Works by Ben Cooper and Jaime Belkind-Gerson are exhibited. Open Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Arvada Center

“Damn Yankees” will play at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., from April 7 through May 7. Tickets start at $53. 720-898-7200, arvadacenter.org.

Presented by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Colorado

The cast of “Carousel.”

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Say goodbye to winter with a mix of indoor entertainment

While March is technically the beginning of spring, it isn’t until April that it really starts to feel like we’re transitioning from the cold weather to something more pleasant. April is the month where we move from inside activities to music under the stars, meals on patios and art shows spilling out into the street.

With that in mind, here’s a roundup of activities to say a fond (depending on your interests) farewell to winter.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — John Mayer Solo at Ball Arena

When John Mayer rst appeared on the scene in the early 2000s, I think even few of even his most devoted fans (of which I am one) could have predicted the journey he’d take in the ensuing 20 years. He mastered the pop guitarist thing and explored a range of roles: blues maestro, folky troubadour and even jam band favorite. During all this he worked hard to stay true to himself and the result is a wonderful song catalog full of radio mainstays and hidden gems.

To celebrate the rst two decades of his career, Mayer has embarked on a solo tour, which stops at Ball Arena, 1000 Chopper Circle in Denver, at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 3. He’ll be joined by the fantastic folk/blues singer Joy Oladokun for what I’m cer-

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tain will be a truly special evening. Get tickets at www. ticketmaster.com.

Celebrate the legendary Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus is one of jazz’s most incomparable voices — his compositions are as nuanced and innovative as the writing of legends like Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong. And the Mingus Big Band has been celebrating his music since 1979. It is under the artistic direction of Sue Mingus and was built o the Mingus Dynasty septet that she formed after his death in 1979.

e 14-piece band will be performing at e Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver, 2344 E. Ili Ave., at 7:30 p.m. on ursday, April

6. Anyone who loves jazz or wants to learn more about one of the 20th century’s most dynamic composers shouldn’t miss this performance.

According to provided information, the group “features new arrangements of Mingus compositions in a larger band format that Mingus was not always able to organize in his lifetime.” Get tickets at newmancen-

terpresents.com.

Visit Brazil via Diego Figueiredo’s guitar

It is di cult to imagine a better music to get you in the mood for warmer weather than Brazilian jazz, which makes guitarist Diego Figueiredo’s performance at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, at 7:30 p.m. April 7 perfectly timed.

According to provided information, Figueiredo takes a unique approach to jazz and classical solo guitar. He’s a Grammy-nominated guitarist, who has performed in more than 60 countries and has an international reputation as one of the world’s best jazz musicians.

For information and tickets, call 303-987-7845 or visit Lakewood.org/ LCCPresents.

Explore the transience of photography at Walker Fine Art

Walker Fine Art’s, 300 W. 11th Ave., No. A, in Denver, latest exhibition, “Transient Presence,” began in midMarch to celebrate Denver’s Month of Photography, but runs through Saturday, May 13, to give fans of the medium more time to appreciate the work of six photographers.

is group exhibition features the work of Melanie Walker, Bonny Lhtoka, Joo Woo, Jane Fulton Alt, Kevin Hoth and Katie Kindle, all of whom explore the exability and impact of

photography in unique ways. As is always the case with exhibits at Walker, expect to be both challenged and delighted in equal measure.

Find more information at www. walker neart.com/transient-presence.

Dining of the delecTABLE kind at ASLD e Art Students League of Denver is unveiling the sixth version of its biennial, functional ceramics exhibit delecTABLE: e Fine Art of Dining at the league, 200 Grant St. in Denver, where it is on display from April 7 through May 21.

According to provided information, the show features 90 pieces by more than 70 ceramists, as well as accompanying 2D and ber arts works by ASLD faculty.

e show was juried by Andrew Clark, a Tennessee ceramics artist and current gallery manager at Companion Gallery in Humboldt, Tennessee. ere will be an opening reception from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on April 7 and there will also be discussions, workshops and more held during delecTABLE’s run.

For all the necessary information, visit https://asld.org/delectable/.

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

CSO principal cellist plays in Englewood

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Englewood Arts presented Colorado

Symphony Principal Cellist Seoyoen Min on March 18 in another of its excellent Saturday matinee series concerts at Hampden Hall. She was accompanied by pianist Hsiao-Ling Lin in three classical works spanning the past three centuries.

Included: Beethoven (1770-1827)

“Cello Sonata No. 4 in C, Op. 102” (1815); Ginastera “Pampeana No. 2 Rhapsody for Cello” (1950); and Grieg “Cello Sonata in A Minor, Op. 36 (1883).” e Ginastera work refers to the plains, pampas, in Argentina. ere is a connection to Colorado’s eastern plains in that work. He was an important 20th-century classical composer.

Min’s inaugural season with the CSO

was 2019/2020. e native of South Korea has been an active soloist in the U.S. and South Korea. She was also featured with the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, where she performed the Fredrich Gulda Cello Concerto with Christopher Dragon.

She made her South Korean debut at the Youngsan Art Hall in 2016 and has performed in solo engagements with the Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra, Seoul National Symphony Orchestra, the Seoul Academy Ensemble, the Seoul Soloists Cello Ensemble and OZ Ensemble.

She is a founding member of the Edith String Quartet and has participated in a number of chamber music collaborations throughout her career.

Included: a cello ensemble with Lynn Harrell and with Kyung Sun Lee in the Virtuosi Seoul Ensemble, as well as the St. Lawrence Quartet.

In her home community, she performs with Englewood Arts as a chamber musician and soloist and with the Front Range Chamber Players.

e contemporary music scene in South Korea has drawn her interest as well. In the summer, she performs as a guest artist with the Southeastern Young Artists in Georgia, with the Grand Teton Festival as principal cello and the “Going Home Project” Orchestra as assistant principal.

Seoyoen Min is a private teacher in her home community and has been a guest faculty member at area music institutions. Most recently, she has taught a master class at the University of Wyoming, where she also taught at the UW Cello Festival.

Her personal mentors include musical gures such as Lynn Harrell, Gary Ho man, Xenia Jankovic, Peter Bruns and Tilman Wick, she wrote.

She holds a master of music degree from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, where she studied with Hans Jorgen Jensen and a bachelor of music degree from Seoul National University.

Watch for her name as summer music programming begins to appear

in our paper and elsewhere in the area, as summer announcements begin to appear.

Clarke Reader

Seoyoen Min, principal cello with the Colorado Symphony, performed March 18 in Englewood’s Hampden Hall.

Seoyoen Min accompanied by pianist Hsiao-Ling Lin

Elizabeth superintendent ready to face challenges

Snowberger says he is looking to calm tensions

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

With a depleted school board due to a majority resigning, growing tension and unease in the community over curriculum not being taught in the district, and a growing national issue of politics breaking into the classroom, the new superintendent of the Elizabeth School District says he is ready to take the lead.

Just before three school board members resigned from the vemember panel, Dan Snowberger was unanimously approved as the new superintendent. e divided board approved Snowberger’s contract on March 13 in a 5-0 vote.

With a smile, Snowberger said he is glad the board’s nal show of unity was to make him the new district leader.

Right after the o cial vote to make Snowberger superintendent, the resignations of three board members were o cially approved.

During the interview process, Snowberger said he had no clue three members would be stepping down, but he feels even now that the entire ve-member board wanted only what’s best for the district, which has just over 2,200 students.

“ ey are truly committed to getting focused on what our kids need to be successful,” he said. “We are getting kids ready for very di erent futures than what we had when we were in school. In my conversations with the board and individually, we shared the same philosophy. We need to make sure our schools do not become political.”

In a time where many industry professionals with decades of administrative experience are retiring, Snowberger says he still has the drive to lead, educate and ready students for success in adulthood.

“I am passionate about what I do,” he said. “I am not giving up on public education. I certainly share some of the concerns that when schools become political, we fail, and families go elsewhere. We have the responsibility to prepare our kids for success in life. We have to guide it back.”

e decision to apply for the Elizabeth job came down to timing and programs the Elbert County school district is o ering. Snowberger was superintendent in the Durango School District between 2012 and 2021.

Snowberger said his wife was injured in an accident and needed better care that was o ered along the Front Range, which is how he came from Durango to the Colorado Springs area. With his wife back on her feet, Snowberger said he wanted to get back into a leadership role and Elizabeth o ered what he is looking for when it comes to technology and direct employment programs.

“My last district where I was superintendent we were working extremely hard in cooperation with our community to expand our career and technical education options,” he said. “Seeing that Elizabeth was in the same homegrown talent initiative was

a huge attraction to me. Schools have to expand their thinking in what we are preparing kids for.”

Addressing tensions/unrest

O cially, Snowberger’s rst day will not be until after May 31. He is currently serving as the director of education operations in Monument, a position he has held since 2021.

In the meantime, Snowberger will be on campus in Elizabeth one or two days a week, which he agrees will help in getting to know the district and sta , especially with the community going through some unrest.

As superintendent, Snowberger acknowledged that he has a “huge” role ahead in supporting the board in current challenges and leveling the tensions among sta , parents and the community.

“We have an amazing sta here,” he said. “Needless to say, they are highly committed to students and community here in Elizabeth. at is certainly exciting. We are struggling in education with people choosing to go into the profession. So, it’s important to us that we retain the sta that we have here. We’ve gone through some challenges with our board that has led to some concern with our sta .”

Snowberger said work must be done to calm the waters.

“I refer to it as putting the rudder in the water and getting us on a rm course,” he said. “ e key is there is a very clear mission in this district and that is preparing children for success when they leave our schools. My intent is to focus on that e ort. Conversations that need to be had in concerns with curriculum and ideologies — we will work through that, but it will be done in a matter that is focused on our kids and what they need.”

Snowberger said he holds nothing against the board members who resigned, noting that school boards are unpaid positions in Colorado and can be highly stressful.

In resigning, Elizabeth School Board members said the community became hard to deal with in regard to continued complaints about controversial curriculum they agreed shouldn’t and hasn’t been taught in the district.

“It’s an odd situation for sure,” Snowberger said. “I don’t think it was a situation that paints anyone in a bad light or good light. I think they just had to make a decision.”

Snowberger said while there are strong disagreements in the community, the focus has to continually remain on student success and keeping and maintaining a school district that people want to move to and be a part of.

Politics in schools

In a statement after the resignations were accepted, Snowberger said it is unfortunate that adult issues have disrupted and continue to disrupt work being done in classrooms.

“When adult con ict gets in the way of our focusing on what we can do for our kids tomorrow, that’s just sad,” he said. “And, unfortunately, that’s not just Elizabeth.  We’ve seen that play out across the country where we have had challenging situations among

Dan Snowberger is introduced to the community as the newly hired superintendent of the Elizabeth School District on March 13. PHOTIO BY THELMA GRIMES

Boys volleyball grows in popularity among local high schools

Legend leads the way

BY JIM BENTON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Boys volleyball became a sanctioned sport in Colorado three years ago and has steadily been growing.

“ e level of volleyball is rising and rising,” said Legend boys volleyball coach Ryan Lindstrom. “It’s getting better and it’s getting bigger.”

When the Colorado High Schools Activities Association sanctioned boys volleyball before the start of the 2021 season, players and teams were reluctant to jump in.

“When it was rst sanctioned, Legend was the only school in Parker with a team,” Lindstrom said. “We had kids from Ponderosa and Chaparral try out for the team.

is year, Douglas County made the amazing choice to go 100 percent. So all Douglas County schools have boys volleyball teams, which is fantastic.

“We’re lucky at Legend to have some really good players. We have 42 boys in the program. We didn’t cut anybody. We want them to keep playing volleyball.”

Legend’s Paxton Wright has been playing volleyball since he was youngster.

“I was super happy (when boys volleyball was sanctioned),” he said. “I have a deep passion for the sport ever since I was young. I just love it and want it to become a bigger sport in the state.

“When I rst started playing it was a club level thing and then my freshman year at Legend we got second in the state, last year we got third and this year we are trying to make it rst,” he said.

Legend (6-1) is ranked third in the CHSSANow.com state poll, defeating underRidge, 3-0, in a Continental League match on March 23. e set scores were 2510, 25-15 and 25-17.

“We think we’re pretty good,” said Lindstrom. “I think we’ll be in the top ve or six in the state for sure. We expect to be very competitive through the whole year.”

Wright is grati ed about Legend’s start this season.

“We’ve started o pretty strong,” he said. “We’ve got our chemistry going. Communications is the key to our success. We’re just swinging well, ghting well and passing well and playing at a good level.”

Wright, a 6-foot-4 junior, had a strong game against underRidge (0-3) with 13 kills, three aces, two blocks and 10 digs.

Senior Reece Lindstrom had six aces and 12 assists while senior Tommy Gibas had ve kills and DavisRoach contributed nine assists.

Cameron Mueller (6) and Trevor Tribute (10) of ThunderRidge attempt to block a kill by Legend’s Paxton Wright (7) during the March 23 Continental League match.

Legend junior Paxton Wright (7) had 13 kills, three aces, and 10 digs in the Titans’ 3-0 sweep over ThunderRidge on March 23.

Legend’s Timothy Gibbs (11) blocks an attempted spike by ThunderRidge’s Westley Watson (11) during the match on March 23 at Legend.

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Rock Canyon girls soccer o to rough start

Has rough schedule

BY JIM BENTON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Rock Canyon’s girls soccer team is o to slow start with a rugged non-league schedule.

e Jaguars, the third-ranked team in the CHSAANow.com state rankings has started the 2023 season with a 0-2-1 record.

Rock Canyon opened the season with a 1-1 double overtime tie against Arapahoe, a perennial playo team, which is also ranked in the top 10.

Eighth-ranked Fossil Ridge blanked the Jaguars, 2-0, in a March 21 game at Echo Park.

Rock Canyon then dropped a 2-1 overtime decision to fourth ranked Pine Creek on March 23.

“We have a really tough nonleague schedule,” said Rock Canyon coach Mat Henbest. “We de nitely think it will help us down the road.

e schedule does prepare us.”

e Jaguars have had trouble scoring in the early games this season.

“It is easier to defend than it is to create,” said Henbest. “It does make a di erence.”

Mid elder Addison Vali, a senior who has committed to play for SMU next season, had the lone Rock Canyon goal in the game against Arapahoe. Nicole Fraser scored for the Jaguars in the overtime setback at Pine Creek.

In early season games involving teams ranked in the top ten in the March 20 state rankings, it seems thatdefenses of the teams might be a little ahead at least according to the numbers.

In games completed before March 22, the combined o ensive production was 2.368 goals per game while the top 10 ranked teams have allowed just 0.842 goals a game.

Rock Canyon gave up two second half goals in the loss to Fossil Ridge despite having a 10-4 advantage in shots on goal.

Nicola Frazer got the gamewinning goal for Pine Creek in the second overtime period to defeat the Jaguars in the March 23 contest.

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Addison Vali (15) has scored one of the two goals for Rock Canyon this season in a slow start to the season for the Jaguars.

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Clara Geurzaine (10) of Rock Canyon battles for a loose ball with Natalie Lin(9) of Rock Canyon during the March 21 game.

Gianna Fiorelli (4) of Rock Canyon attempts to get to the ball during the March 21 game against Fossil Ridge which the Jaguars lost, 2-0.

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school boards and challenging school board elections.

“My belief is we as adults can work through our di erences and we need to model that for our students,” he continued. “We have kind of lost that in our country. We can’t agree to disagree anymore. We must argue and oftentimes get to a personal level. My hope is that we can model for our children that adults can disagree but in the end, we will unify around what’s best for them and work through our di erences.”

In the Elizabeth School District, tensions have boiled over regarding curriculum such as critical race theory and social-emotional learning.

Critical race theory, or CRT, has exploded as a political debate, especially in K-12 education, over the last few years. Around the nation, some lawmakers have introduced bills to ban CRT curriculum in classrooms.

Proponents of CRT have said it has value because it teaches the history of racism in America. ose against it say it paints white people as racist and is not factual.

While the topic of CRT has become a hot-button issue in recent years, it is not new. CRT, developed in the 1980s, is a graduate-level academic program that focuses on the idea that race is a social construct and racism is part of the country’s legal system and policies.

While the entire Elizabeth School District board was against CRT, and the generally conservative Elbert County has voiced opposition to the curriculum, disorder driven by fear of CRT has engulfed the district, with outgoing board members calling the public comment portion of meetings “chaos” and the constant emails about the unwanted curriculum overwhelming.

Social-emotional learning, or SEL, promotes student social, emotional and academic success. Proponents of SEL say it addresses not just academics, but also a student’s emotional and mental health.

Opponents of SEL say this should not be taught in a classroom by

teachers, instead, it should be solely left up to therapists and parents.

For Snowberger, SEL is not so black and white.

“I know there has been some outcry in this community about social and emotional learning and that it is conditioning our kids,” he said. “I can assure in this community that social-emotional learning is helping our kids through crisis, so they don’t become a danger to other students in the classroom.

“ at’s the intent of social-emotional learning to me is making sure we have professionally trained sta to work with students in crisis. And, yes, in a small community like this there are children in crisis.”

School safety

Monitoring student behavior and needs is a reality today’s educators must face. As school shootings and violence continue around the nation, Snowberger said even small districts must be cautious.

“ at’s de nitely a scary part of being an educator today,” he said. “Society does not stay outside of our schools. Society comes into our schools. Sadly, we see that happening in movie theaters, grocery stores and public places across our country. We hyper focus on them when they happen in schools. e key is if we are focused on our kids, and we build relationships with our community and students, we are in a much better position to prevent it from happening.”

Safe2Tell, an anonymous reporting platform, is a good tool, Snowberger said. He has a special ring tone set to alert him when a Safe2Tell lead comes through, Snowberger said every report must be taken seriously.

“Working to build the relationship between community and students helps. Every school shooting, there is typically somebody that knew something,” he said. “We need to encourage them to speak up when they have information.”

Besides encouraging tips about students who might be in crisis, Snowberger said he also hopes the community talks with him more directly, discouraging online and social media discussions. Instead, he said emails and phone calls are always welcome from students, sta and the community.

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Sr. SW Test Engineer

Visa U.S.A. Inc., a Visa Inc. company, currently has an opening for Sr. SW Test Engineer (multiple openings) (REF57761G ) Highlands Ranch, CO. Job duties include: responsible for designing, creating and executing test plans and test cases for the Debit Processing Services applications. Responsible for reviewing requirements, assessing the appropriate course for testing, executing those plans and ensuring all anomalies and issues are appropriately addressed. Position reports to the Visa Highlands Ranch, CO office and may allow for partial telecommuting. The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $85,300.00 USD to $132,300.00 USD. Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for an annual bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position is eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Program, FSH/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time off and Wellness Programs. Qualified applicants should apply by emailing resume to careersus@visa.com. Must reference job code: REF57761G

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Educational Audiologist

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

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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:

ALL THE REAL PROPERTY TOGETHER WITH IMPROVEMENTS, IF ANY, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 15, BLOCK 3, RAMPART STATION FILING NO. 1, AMENDMENT NO. 2, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of:

11614 Wilson 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, April 26, 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: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 1/6/2023

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 #:

File #: 00000009417395

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE

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

Notice No. 2023-0007

Publication: 3/2/2023

Publication: 3/30/2023

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

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT SIXTEEN (16), BLOCK EIGHT (8), STROH RANCH FILING NO. 18B, 7TH AMENDMENT, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

CO 80134

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

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

Legal Description of Real Property:

LOT 39 BLOCK 12 FOUNDERS VILLAGE FIL-

ING NO. 3 COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of:

5351 East Kensington Avenue, Castle Rock, CO 80104

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 26, 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: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 1/4/2023

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-22-950399-LL

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE

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

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: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 1/5/2023

DAVID GILL

DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

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

N. APRIL WINECKI

Colorado Registration #: 34861 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112

Phone #: (303) 706-9990

Fax #: (303) 706-9994

Attorney File #: 19-023524

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0001

First Publication: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE

Highlans Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2023-0030

To Whom It May Concern: On 2/3/2023 2:13:00 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: Pete Surette AND Rachel W Surette

Original Beneficiary: Washington Mutual Bank, FA Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association

of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/23/2005

Recording Date of DOT: 7/29/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005070385

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $489,000.00

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.

and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 11/30/2018

Recording Date of DOT: 12/3/2018

Reception No. of DOT: 2018072375

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $304,000.00

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $290,401.17

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: 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 288, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 122-R, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of: 10664 Evondale Street, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126

NOTICE OF SALE

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

Original Grantor: DAVID MILLER

Beneficiary:

ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST OPTION LENDING, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

County. Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $217,979.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $198,115.35

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 43, BLOCK 2, IMPERIAL HOMES AT ROXBOROUGH VILLAGE FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 7867 Kyle Way, Littleton, CO 80125

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust. THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at

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.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 26, 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: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 1/5/2023 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-22-950840-LL

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0006

First Publication: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE

Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2023-0023

To Whom It May Concern: On 1/25/2023 9:05:00 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. Douglas County Legals March 30, 2023 * 1

Public Notices

Original Grantor: ETHNA M RONDEAU

Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR PIVOT LENDING GROUP, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Zing Credit Union Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 7/24/2019

Recording Date of DOT: 7/30/2019

Reception No. of DOT: 2019046328

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt:

$428,000.00

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $413,259.31

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: 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 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

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 #: 22-029105

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0023

First Publication: 3/23/2023

Last Publication: 4/20/2023

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.

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.

INC. AS NOMINEE FOR DHI MORTGAGE COMPANY LTD, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 11/9/2006

Recording Date of DOT: 12/5/2006

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

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.

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 1/11/2023

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

Which has the address of: 1271 Kittery Street, Castle Rock, CO 80104

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 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.

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.

Reception No. of DOT: 2006104225

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $74,000.00

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $56,993.69

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 full payment of all principal, interest and other charges at the maturity date as required by the 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 34, BLOCK 2, BRADBURY RANCH FILING NO. 10, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of: 11850 High Desert Road, Parker, CO 80134 NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 26, 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: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 1/5/2023 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

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

N. APRIL WINECKI Colorado Registration #: 34861 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303)

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

SCOTT TOEBBEN

Colorado Registration #: 19011 216 16TH STREET SUITE 1210, DENVER, COLORADO 80202

Phone #: (720) 259-6714

Fax #: (720) 259-6709

Attorney File #: 22CO00367-1

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0012

First Publication: 3/9/2023

Last Publication: 4/6/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2023-0013

To Whom It May Concern: On 1/11/2023 11:34:00

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: LLOYD RUSTIN HIGBEE AND TIFFANY HIGGINS HIGBEE

Original Beneficiary: WELLS FARGO BANK, 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.

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

date hereof: $61,510.18

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 7, BLOCK 6, THE MEADOWS FILING NO. 12, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of: 4498 Applecrest Circle, Castle Rock, CO 80109

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 26, 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: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 1/6/2023 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 #: CO21052

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0009

First Publication: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2023-0017

To Whom It May Concern: On 1/18/2023 3:01:00

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: Kim Marie Torrez-Hruska

Douglas County Legals March 30, 2023 * 2

Public Notices

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

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt:

Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 2/28/2020

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: 1/19/2023

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 #: CO21342

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0017

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. 2023-0029

To Whom It May Concern: On 2/2/2023 3:50:00

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: JEREMY RAY MCCAMY

Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR PLUM 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.

of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 16, CHALLENGER PARK TOWNHOMES, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of: 9567 Deerhorn Ct #16, 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.

The name, address and telephone numbers of

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

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 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: 1/23/2023

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 #: 23-029174

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

Legal Notice No. 2023-0020

(4) (i), you are

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.

Peter Alexander Knapstein, Karl Wilhelm Knapstein, Jan Paul Knapstein

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 PUBLIC NOTICE

Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2023-0024

To Whom It May Concern: On 1/25/2023 3:59:00 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: JOHN O KUFFOUR AND DELIA S CLARK

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 by the Deed of Trust and related loan documents 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 30, TROUT CREEK RANCH-UNIT 2, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO

Which has the address of: 13368 Hedi Road, Woodland Park, CO 80863

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.

Douglas County News Press

GILL

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

#: 877-353-2146

#: Attorney File #: 48065998

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

Original Beneficiary: LONG BEACH MORTGAGE COMPANY

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: RRA CP Opportunity Trust 2 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 9/29/2004

Recording Date of DOT: 10/4/2004

Reception No. of DOT: 2004102623 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $76,600.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $57,072.07

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.

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.

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 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.

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:

Douglas County Legals March 30, 2023

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: 3/16/2023

Last Publication: 4/13/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE

Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0199

To Whom It May Concern: On 12/29/2022 4:55:00 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: SEAN STEPHENS AND SAMANTHA ANDOLINO

Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CALIBER HOME LOANS, INC., TS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: MIDFIRST BANK Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/18/2019

Recording Date of DOT: 3/19/2019

Reception No. of DOT: 2019013899

DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt:

$358,388.00

Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof:

$341,172.56

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: 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 175, COTTONWOOD SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

Which has the address of: 8745 Aspen Cir, Parker, CO 80134

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 26, 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: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Dated: 12/30/2022

DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

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

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 #: 22-029131

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

Legal Notice No. 2022-0199

First Publication: 3/2/2023

Last Publication: 3/30/2023

Publisher: Douglas County News Press

hereof: $287,823.52

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 monthly payments of principal and interest 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 74, Woodmoor Mountain III, County of Douglas, State of Colorado APN #: R0177738

Which has the address of: 13910 Blue Jay Lane, Larkspur, CO 80118

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 26, 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.

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 City and County

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL FOR THE CONSOLIDATED BELL MOUNTAIN RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

Pursuant to 36 CFR 218.25, comments on this proposed action will be accepted for 30 days beginning on the first day after the date of publication of this notice in the Douglas County News-Press, the newspaper of record. If the comment period ends on a Saturday, Sunday or Federal holiday, comments will be accepted until the end of the next Federal working day. A timely submission will be determined as outlined in 36 CFR 218.25(a) (4). It is the responsibility of the sender to ensure timely receipt of any comments submitted.

Only individuals or entities (as defined by 36 CFR 218.2) who submit timely, specific written comments (as specified in 36 CFR 218.2) about this proposed action during this or another public comment period established by the Responsible Official will be eligible to file an objection. Other eligibility requirements are specified in 36 CFR 218.25(a)(3) and include, among other requirements, the commenter’s name, postal address, title of the proposed action, and signature or other verification of identity upon request and identification of the individual or entity who authored the comment(s). All written comments received by the Responsible Official, including names and addresses of commenters shall be placed in the project file and shall become a matter of public record for this proposed action. Comments submitted anonymously will be accepted and considered; however, anonymous comments will not provide the Agency with the ability to provide the respondent with subsequent environmental documents.

Comments should be within the scope of the proposed action, have a direct relationship to the proposed action, and must include supporting reasons for the Responsible Official to consider (36 CFR 218.2).

WHEREAS, the reputation and success of legitimate massage therapy businesses is denigrated and undermined by individuals who mask their unlawful sexual activities and human trafficking by falsely posing as massage therapy businesses; and

NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, COLORADO, THAT:

PART I: GENERAL

Section 1. Definitions: Except as otherwise indicated by context, the following words, terms, and phrases shall have the following meanings for purposes of this ordinance:

(a) "Advert ise" or “advertisement” means to publish, display, or disseminate information and includes, but is not limited to, the issuance of any card, sign, or direct mail, or causing or permitting any sign or marking to be placed on or in any building or structure or in any newspaper, magazine, or directory, or any announcement or display via any televised, computerized electronic or telephonic networks or media.

(b) “Agent” means an individual designated by a massage facility to act on behalf of the massage facility under this ordinance.

(c) “Applicant” means an individual acting on behalf of a massage facility to apply for a license.

(d) “Client” means an individual who enters into an agreement for massage therapy for a fee, income, or compensation of any kind within the County.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Consolidated Bell Mountain Ranch Metropolitan District, Douglas County, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third (63rd) 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 cancelled.

The following candidates are declared elected:

Manville Frank Strand: Four-Year Term

Jay P. Smith: Four-Year Term

Edward Ammon: Four-Year Term

CONSOLIDATED BELL MOUNTAIN RANCH

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ Crystal Schott

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945187

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

LEGAL NOTICE OF OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT

USDA FOREST SERVICE

PIKE-SAN ISABEL NATIONAL FORESTS & CIMARRON AND COMANCHE NATIONAL GRASSLANDS

SOUTH PLATTE RANGER DISTRICT

DUTCH FRED SKILLS AREA

The USDA Forest Service is conducting an analysis of Dutch Fred Skills Area Project. The project area is located on the South Platte Ranger District, off Rampart Range Road (NFSR 300), in the popular North Rampart motorized recreation area in Douglas County. The Responsible Official for this decision is Brian Banks, South Platte District Ranger.

The proposed action would create a skills training area adjacent to the existing Dutch Fred OffHighway Vehicle (OHV) facility. The skills training area will consist of two designated practice areas where forest visitors can develop or practice their riding skills like what they may encounter while on forest system trails. One practice area would be dedicated for beginner riders and the other for more experienced, intermediate riders. In addition, approximately one-half mile of the existing trail NFST 681 would be rerouted to avoid the intermediate skills area. Once rerouted, the old section of NFST 681 would be decommissioned and rehabilitated.

The two practice areas will be located on either side of the existing Dutch Fred dispersed camping area. Heavy equipment will be used to develop these skills areas and the beginner practice area will be contained with buck and rail wood fencing. Signage will be installed for education and instruction. The more advanced area will be constructed in a similar fashion as the beginner practice area, but with the addition of more obstacles. This may include logs, rocks, large tires, etc.

This project was previously scoped as part of a combined project, the Single-Track Trail #770 Extension Construction & Training Area project, in March 2019, but was not included in that previous decision. The proposed action has been modified since the scoping period. A preliminary Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared for the Dutch Fred Practice Area Project and is available online at the project website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=60863.

The document is also upon request at the South Platte Ranger District office, 30403 Kings Valley Drive, Suite 2-115, Conifer, CO 80433. Additional information regarding this proposed action can be obtained from Marc Grandia, Developed and Motorized Recreation, at 303-275-5626 or by e-mail at marc.grandia@usda.gov.

The Dutch Fred Practice Area project is an activity implementing a land management plan. This activity is subject to pre-decisional objection under subparts A and B of 36 CFR Part 218.

Submit comments to the Responsible Official, Brian Banks, South Platte District Ranger, by one of the following methods: via the online comment submission form available by clicking the “Comment/Object on Project” link on the project website, mail: c/o Marc Grandia, 30403 Kings Valley Drive, Suite 2-115, Conifer, CO 80433, telephone: 303-275-5626, or facsimile: 303-275-5642 (please include “Comments on Dutch Fred Practice Area” in the subject line of your correspondence) in order to be considered when making the final decision. Office hours, for those who wish to hand deliver their comments, are 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, Monday – Friday (except Federal holidays). Acceptable formats for electronic comments are text or html e-mail, Adobe portable document format, and formats viewable in Microsoft Office applications. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Legal Notice No. 945208

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

A public hearing will be held before the Douglas County Planning Commission on Monday, April 17, 2023 at 6:00 P.M., and before the Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 2:30 P.M., in the Commissioners’ Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, CO, for a proposed amendment to the Douglas County Zoning Resolution. The proposed amendment revises the approval criteria for Administrative and Major Amendments to Planned Developments in Sections 1514.01, 1514.02, 1520.01, and 1520.02.

For more information call Douglas County Planning at 303-660-7460.

File No. / Name: DR2022-007

Legal Notice No. 945213

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING. ORDINANCE No. O-023-001

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at a public hearing of the Board of County Commissioners of Douglas County, Colorado, will be held on April 11, 2023 at 2:30 p.m., in the Commissioners Hearing Room, 100 Third St., Castle Rock, CO on the final passage and adoption of a proposed Ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. O-023-001

THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, COLORADO

AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING BUSINESS LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS TO REGULATE MASSAGE FACILITIES AND TO REGULATE AND PROHIBIT UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF DETERRING ILLICIT MASSAGE BUSINESS AND PREVENTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING, WITHIN THE UNINCORPORATED PORTIONS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, (“Board”) is authorized to enact this ordinance pursuant to C.R.S. § 30-15-401.4, in order to establish a licensing authority to regulate massage businesses and to deter and shut down illicit massage businesses; and

WHEREAS, C.R.S. § 12-235-101 et seq, known as "The Massage Therapy Practice Act" ("the Act"), regulates the profession of massage therapy to provide for consistent statewide certification and oversight of massage therapy professionals; and

WHEREAS, the Board finds that the purpose and intent of the Act is to regulate and protect legitimate massage therapy businesses in order to also safeguard and promote the public health, safety, and welfare of the citizens, including those residing within Douglas County, while recognizing that massage is a legitimate health care professional activity that provides benefits to the residents of the County; and

(e) “Control” means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of an applicant, licensee, controlling person, manager, agent, or employee, in any way.

(f) “Controlling Person” means a person directly or indirectly possessing control of an applicant or licensee.

(g) “Employee” means any person who performs any service at a massage facility on a full-time, part-time, or contract basis, whether the person is designated an employee, independent contractor, or otherwise. “Employee” does not include a person exclusively engaged in the repair or maintenance of the massage facility, or in the delivery of goods to the licensee or facility.

(h) "Erotic parlor" means a facility that entices clients through advertising or other business practices directed towards sexual desire, lust, or passion.

(i) "F ully clothed" means fully opaque, nontransparent material that must not expose an employee's genitalia or substantially expose the employee's undergarments.

(j) “Home business” means a business, profession, occupation, or trade that is conducted within a residential dwelling unit for the economic gain or support of a resident of the dwelling and is incidental and secondary to the residential use of the lot, and that does not adversely or perceptively affect the character of the lot or surrounding area. This use shall not include an animal hospital, day care, health clinic, hospital, kennel, tearoom, or hemp fabrication, manufacturing, or processing.

(k) "Illicit massage business" means a business that may provide massage but engages in human trafficking-related offenses, as described in C.R.S. §§ 18-3-503 and 18-3-504.

(l) "Licensing authority" means the governing body of the Board of County Commissioners of Douglas County, or any authority designated by County charter or County resolution.

(m) “Manager” is an individual authorized by the licensee to exercise overall operational control of the business, to supervise employees, or to fulfill any of the functions required of a licensee or massage facility by this ordinance.

(n) "Massage facility" means any place of business where massage therapy or full-body- massage is practiced or administered. The term "massage facility" shall not include:

(1) Training rooms in public and nonpublic institutions of higher education, as defined in C.R.S. § 23-3.1-102(5).

(2) Training rooms of recognized professional or amateur athletic teams.

(3) Offices, clinics, and other facilities at which medical professionals licensed by the state of Colorado, or any other state, provide massage services to the public in the ordinary course of their medical profession.

(4) Medical facilities licensed by the state.

(5) Barber shops, beauty salons, and other facilities at which barbers and cosmetologists licensed by the state provide massage services to the public in the ordinary course of their professions.

(6) Bona fide athletic clubs not engaged in the practice of providing massage therapy to members or to the public for remuneration, or an athletic club that does not receive more than 10 percent of its gross income providing massages to the athletic club’s members or to the public.

(7) A place of business where a person offers to perform or performs massage therapy:

(i) For 72 hours or less in any six-month period; and

(ii) As part of a public or charity event, the primary purpose of which is not to provide massage therapy.

(8) A place of business where a licensed massage therapist practices as a solo practitioner, and:

(i) Does not use a business name or assumed name; or

(ii) Uses a business name or assumed name and provides the massage therapist's full legal name or license number in each advertisement, and

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each time the business name or assumed name appears in writing; and

(iii) Does not maintain or operate a table shower.

(9) The licensing authority may verify the exempt status of a business or facility in keeping with the intent of this ordinance.

(10) The licensing authority may promulgate additional exemptions to the definition of “massage facility.”

(11) If there is a continued pattern of criminal behavior regarding sexual misconduct, or criminal intent that is related to human trafficking disguised as a legitimate exemption, the licensing authority may, at its discretion, determine that a practice is no longer exempt from the definition of “massage facility.”

(o) "Massage" or "massage therapy" means a system of structured touch, palpation, or movement of the soft tissue of another person's body in order to enhance or restore the general health and well-being of the recipient. Such system includes, but is not limited to, techniques such as effleurage, commonly called stroking or gliding; petrissage, commonly called kneading; tapotement or percussion; friction; vibration; compression; passive and active stretching within the normal anatomical range of movement; hydro massage; and thermal massage. Such techniques may be applied with or without the aid of lubricants, salt or herbal preparations, water, heat, or a massage device that mimics or enhances the actions of human hands.

(p) "Massage therapist" means an individual that has fulfilled the requirements for state licensure under C.R.S. § 12-235-108 and has a valid massage therapist license issued by the state of Colorado to engage in the practice of massage therapy. The terms “masseuse” and “masseur” are synonymous with the term “massage therapist.”

(q) “Mobile Massage Unit” means a vehicle or other movable enclosure specifically equipped for a massage therapist to provide massage therapy inside the vehicle or enclosure.

(r) "Person" means a natural person, partnership, association, company, corporation, or organization or managing agent, servant, officer, partner, owner, operator, or employee of any of them.

(s) “Sexual Act” means sexual contact, sexual intrusion, or sexual penetration as defined in C.R.S. § 18-3-401.

(t) "Solo practitioner" means a licensed massage therapist, as defined in this ordinance, performing the practice of massage therapy independently.

(u) "Table shower" means an apparatus for the bathing or massaging of a person on a table or in a tub.

PART II: MASSAGE FACILITY LICENSES

Section 2. Licenses generally; minimum requirements.

(a) The licenses required by this ordinance are in addition to any other applicable licenses or permits required by municipality, county, or state. Massage facilities licensed under this ordinance shall comply with all other applicable ordinances and laws, including zoning ordinances.

Section 3. License required.

(a) Each new massage facility in Douglas County must obtain a massage facility license prior to opening for business and operating as a massage facility; and

(b) Each existing massage facility that operated in Douglas County prior to May 11, 2023, and which continues to operate in Douglas County, thereafter, must submit a complete application for a massage facility license on or before December 31, 2023; and

(c) No person shall be permitted to operate a massage facility in Douglas County without a valid massage facility license.

Section 4. Application.

(a) In addition to the requirements of any other applicable laws, codes, or regulations, each application for a massage facility license shall contain the following information:

(1) If the applicant is an individual; satisfactory proof that he or she is 18 years of age or older.

(2) If the applicant is a legal entity; satisfactory proof that each of the individual officers, directors, managers, partners, members, principal owners, and/or anyone with a 10 percent or more financial interest of such entity are 18 years or older.

(3) Whether the applicant, or any of the other individuals required to be listed in the application pursuant to subsection (a)(2) of this section 4, have been convicted of, or entered a plea of "nolo contendere" that is accepted by the court, for a felony or misdemeanor, in any Federal, State, or Municipal court in any of the United States jurisdictions or possessions, for prostitution, solicitation of prostitution, any human trafficking related offense, fraud, theft, embezzlement, money laundering, or similar crimes. Failure to disclose any such criminal conviction may result in denial of the license application.

(4) Whether the applicant, or any of the other individuals required to be listed in the application pursuant to subsection (a)(2) of this section 4, is registered as a sex offender or is required by law to register as a sex offender, as described in C.R.S. § 16-22-103.

(5) Whether the applicant, or any of the other individuals required to be listed in the application pursuant to subsection (a)(2) of this section 4, has a pending criminal action that involves or is related to any offense described in subsections (a)(3) and (a)(4) of this section 4.

(6) Whether the applicant, or any of the other individuals required to be listed in the application pursuant to subsection (a)(2) of this section 4, has voluntarily surrendered any license to practice as a massage therapist or operate a massage facility as a result of, or while under, civil or criminal investigation, or had a previous license under this or any other similar massage facility law or

regulation in another jurisdiction or possession of the United States, denied, suspended, or revoked, and if so, the name and location of the massage facility for which such license was surrendered, denied, suspended, or revoked, as well as the date of such surrender, denial, suspension, or revocation.

(7) Whether the applicant, or any of the other individuals required to be listed in the application pursuant to subsection (a)(2) of this section 4, has been an officer, director, manager, partner, member, controlling person, and/or principal owner of any legal entity which currently operates or previously operated a massage facility or business meeting the definition of massage facility in this ordinance and the name, dates of operation, and location of such business or businesses.

(8) Satisfactory proof of the applicant's ownership or right to possession of the premises wherein the massage facility will be operated. The applicant shall have a continuing obligation to provide, where applicable, subsequent evidence of the right to possession of the premises.

(b) The licensing authority shall receive, review, approve, or deny license applications.

(c) The licensing authority may require a reasonable administrative fee not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars for issuing or renewing licensure applications. Such fee shall not be based on the number of employees.

Section 5. Sheriff’s Office Review.

(a) Prior to the issuance of any massage facility license, the corresponding application and background check information shall be referred to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office. The licensing authority, or the licensing authority’s designee, may utilize the applicant’s or licensee’s criminal history record to determine whether the applicant or licensee is approved or denied a license based on the criminal history information.

(b) The Sheriff’s Office shall not be authorized to approve or disapprove any license application.

Section 6. Issuance; denial.

(a) If, after reviewing the application and conducting an investigation, the licensing authority finds that the individual applicant and each of the individuals required to be listed in the corresponding license application satisfy the requirements in section 4:

(1) Are 18 years of age or older; and

(2) Have not been convicted of, or pleaded nolo contendere to, an offense involving prostitution, solicitation of prostitution, any human trafficking related offense, fraud, theft, embezzlement, money laundering, or similar crimes; and

(3) Are not a registered sex offender or required by law to register as a sex offender; and

(4) Have not (a) voluntarily surrendered any license to practice as a massage therapist or operate a massage facility as a result of, or while under, civil or criminal investigation; or (b) had a license to practice as a massage therapist, or to operate a massage facility or similar license, revoked or suspended by the State of Colorado or a political subdivision of Colorado, or a regulatory board in another United States jurisdiction or possession, for an act that occurred in that jurisdiction that would be a violation of this ordinance; and

(5) The proposed location of the applied-for massage facility has not had a similar license revoked, suspended, or surrendered for cause within the last 24 months; and

(6) The administrative fee has been paid.

(b) Then he or she shall, following receipt of the complete license application and background check, approve the issuance of a massage facility license to the applicant for use at the location identified in the license application as the situs of the business.

(c) The licensing authority shall be empowered to place reasonable conditions and restrictions, on a case-by-case basis, upon any massage facility license that would otherwise be denied, revoked, or suspended. The licensee shall have the right to a hearing before the licensing authority to review any such conditions or restrictions.

(d) Only if, after reviewing the application, the licensing administrator finds, in addition to findings required by any other law, code, or regulation, that:

(1) The required administrative fee is not paid; or

(2) The County zoning or subdivision regulations do not allow for the operation of a massage facility at the proposed location; or

(3) The applicant has been convicted of, or has entered a plea of guilty or nolo contendere that is accepted by the court for a felony or misdemeanor for Prostitution, as described in C.R.S. § 18-7-201; Solicitation of a Prostitute, as described in C.R.S. § 18-7-202; a human trafficking-related offense, as described in C.R.S. § 18-3-503 or 18-3-504; Money Laundering, as described in C.R.S. § 185-309; or similar crimes; or

(4) The applicant is registered as a sex offender or is required by law to register as a sex offender, as described in C.R.S. § 16-22-103; or

(5) The applicant has a pending criminal action that involves or is related to the offenses described in subsection (d)(3) or (d)(4) of this section 6; or

(6) The applicant has one or more previous revocations or suspensions of a license to operate a massage facility.

(e) Then he or she may, following receipt of the complete license application and background check, issue a denial of the application. In the event of a denial, the licensing authority shall explain in writing, with reasonable detail, the reason for the denial.

(f) A licensing authority or its designee shall have discretion to deny an application after considering, in accordance with C.R.S. § 24-5-101, an applicant’s conviction of, or plea of guilty or nolo contendere that is accepted by the court for felony or misdemeanor Fraud, Theft, or Embezzlement,

as described in C.R.S. § 18-4-401.

(g) In the event that the licensing authority takes into consideration information concerning the applicant’s or licensee’s criminal history, the licensing authority shall also consider any information provided by the applicant or licensee regarding the criminal history, including, but not limited to, evidence of mitigating factors, rehabilitation, character references, and educational achievements, especially the mitigating factors pertaining to the period of time between the applicant’s last criminal conviction and the consideration of the applicant’s application for a license or renewal.

Section 7. Temporary license.

(a) The licensing authority may issue a temporary massage facility license upon receipt of a complete massage facility license application involving the sale or change in ownership of a business. Such temporary license shall be valid for thirty days, and the licensing authority shall renew the temporary license every thirty days until approval or denial of the massage facility license.

PART III: REGULATION

Section 8. Limitations on operation – prohibited acts.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person in the business of operating a massage facility, or any manager or employee thereof, to:

(1) Allow a person who does not hold a valid massage therapy license pursuant to C.R.S. § 12-235-107 to perform massage in a massage facility.

(2) Advertise to a prospective client that services including prostitution, sexual acts, escort services, sexual services, or services related to human trafficking disguised as legitimate services, are available.

(3) Permit sexual acts or sexual services within or near a massage facility or in relation to massage therapy.

(4) Deny inspection of a massage facility by law enforcement, the licensing authority, or the licensing authority’s designees.

(5) Refuse, interfere with, or elude immediate identification of employees of the massage facility to law enforcement, the licensing authority, or the licensing authority’s designees.

(6) Fail to immediately report to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office any act of sexual misconduct occurring in a massage facility.

(7) Allow an employee or contractor of a massage facility to provide massage therapy without being fully clothed.

(8) Require client nudity as part of a massage without the client’s prior consent.

(9) Allow a massage facility to be open and practicing massage therapy without a licensed massage therapist on the premises.

(10) Permit a person in a massage facility to make an agreement with an employee or contractor to engage in any prostitution-related offense in the massage facility or any other location.

(11) Permit a massage facility to be used for housing, sheltering, or harboring any person, or as living or sleeping quarters for any person; except that an owner and the owner’s family members who operate a massage facility as a home business are exempt from the prohibited activity in this subsection (a)(11).

(12) Operate an erotic parlor on the premises of a massage facility.

(13) Operate a massage facility without a valid massage facility license.

Section 9. Required Acts.

(a) Every licensed massage facility shall be required to:

(1) Maintain a list of all employees on site including the start date of employment, full legal name, date of birth, home address, telephone number, and employment position of each employee.

(2) Require that all licensees and employees have at least one of the following forms of valid government identification, and immediately present such identification to the licensing authority or the licensing authority’s designees upon request:

(i) A United States military card or military dependent's identification card; or

(ii) A United States Coast Guard Merchant Mariner card; or

(iii) A Native American tribal document; or

(iv) A valid Colorado driver's license or Colorado identification card issued pursuant to article 2 of title 42, unless the applicant holds a license or card issued pursuant to part 5 of article 2 of title 42; or

(v) A valid driver's license or identification card issued by another state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States that is compliant with the federal “REAL ID Act,” as amended; or

(vi) A valid United States passport; or

(vii) A valid United States permanent resident card; or

(viii) Any other valid type of identification that requires proof of lawful presence in the United States to obtain.

(3) Require licensed massage therapists to maintain copies of valid massage therapy licensure, as required by C.R.S. § 12-235-107, and a form of identification containing the therapist’s name, address, and social security number or individual taxpayer identification number, that must be immediately presented to the licensing authority, the licensing authority’s designees, or law enforcement upon request.

(4) Maintain a complete set of records including a log of all massage therapy administered at the facility. The records shall include all accounts, invoices, payroll, and employment records of the massage facility. The log shall include the date, time, and type of each massage therapy administered, and the name of the massage therapist administering the massage therapy. The licensee shall retain the records and log book for a minimum of one year following any massage therapy. The records and log shall be subject to inspection upon request by the licensing authority, the licensing authority’s designees, and law enforcement, during normal business hours, in compliance with applicable law.

(5) Operate under or conduct business under only the designation specified in the license.

(6) Ensure that all employees and contractors remain fully clothed in professional attire while administering massage or otherwise visible to clients on business premises, including premises designated by the client through an outcall massage service or mobile massage unit.

(7) Maintain a valid massage facility license prior to and during all periods of operation.

Section 10. Inspections.

(a) The licensing authority, or the licensing authority’s designees, shall be responsible for enforcement of this ordinance including inspection of massage facilities.

(b) No owner, manager, massage therapist, or employee shall fail to immediately grant full massage facility access any time such establishment is open for business, to the licensing authority, the licensing authority’s designees, or any other person authorized or required by law to inspect the massage facility.

(c) All rooms, cabinets, and storage areas shall be subject to inspection and any locked rooms, cabinets, or storage areas shall be promptly opened for inspection.

(d) Each massage facility shall keep a complete book of records to include a log of all massage therapy administered at the facility, as required in section 9 (a)(4) of this ordinance, open to inspection without unreasonable delay.

(e) Inspectors may request to review a Stateissued massage therapist license for any massage therapist or other employee of the massage facility at any time during an inspection.

(f) All owners, managers, massage therapists, employees, contractors, or persons occupying the facility other than clients shall present identification and shall not elude identification.

Section 11. R evocation or suspension of license; Penalties

(a) The licensing authority, or the licensing authority’s designees, may revoke or suspend a license for violating any prohibited act pursuant to section 8 of this ordinance.

(b) The licensing authority, or the licensing authority’s designees, may temporarily suspend a massage facility license with a hearing to be scheduled within 15 days when the licensing authority finds:

(1) The licensee willfully failed to disclose any information on the application as required; or

(2) The licensee knowingly permitted a person who does not hold a valid license pursuant to C.R.S. § 12-235-107 to perform massage therapy; or

(3) A pattern of activity that the massage facility is committing human trafficking-related offenses as described in 18-3-503 and 18-3-504; or

(4) The licensee failed to permit an inspection in accordance with section 10 of this ordinance any time the facility is open for business.

(c) A law enforcement officer may follow the penalty assessment procedure described in C.R.S. § 16-2-201 for any violation.

(d) The licensing authority or its designees may impose the following additional penalties when it is found that a licensee has violated any of the prohibited activities described in section 8 of this ordinance:

(1) A fine of $300.00 for a first violation.

(2) A fine of $600.00 for a second violation by the same person or licensee.

(3) A fine of $1,000.00 for a third or subsequent violation by the same person or licensee.

(e) A massage facility that engages in two or more violations of this ordinance is a public nuisance, as described in C.R.S. § 16-13-303, unless the violation is already a public nuisance, as described in C.R.S. § 16-13-303. The County Attorney of Douglas County, or the District Attorney acting pursuant to C.R.S. § 16-13-302, may bring an action in the District Court of Douglas County for an injunction against any massage facility that violates this ordinance.

(f) T he licensee may appeal the revocation or suspension of a license in accordance with C.R.C.P. 106(a)(4).

Section 12. Fees.

(a) The application and annual license fees shall be established by the licensing authority in accordance with the provisions of section 4 (c) of this ordinance.

Section 13. Repeal.

(a) All ordinances, or parts of ordinances, of the County of Douglas, Colorado, in conflict herewith are expressly repealed.

Section 14. Adoption.

(a) Pursuant to C.R.S. §§ 30-15-405 and 406, County ordinances are typically adopted on First Reading at a Board of County Commissioner Business Meeting. Subsequently, after notice has been provided in the newspaper, the Board of County Commissioners will adopt an ordinance at Second and Final Reading, which is conducted at a public hearing. If adopted as an “emergency ordinance,”

the ordinance will take effect immediately. Otherwise, all ordinances go into effect 30 days after publication after Second and Final Reading.

PART IV: CERTIFICATION

The Douglas County Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall have on file copies of this ordinance available for inspection by the public during regular business hours.

INTRODUCED, READ AND ADOPTED ON FIRST READING on ____________, 2023, and ordered published in the DOUGLAS COUNTY NEWS-PRESS.

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, COLORADO

By: Abe Laydon, Chair ATTEST: Deputy Clerk

ADOPTED ON SECOND AND FINAL READING on __________________, 2023, and ordered published by reference to title only in the DOUGLAS COUNTY NEWS-PRESS.

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, COLORADO

By: Abe Laydon, Chair

ATTEST: Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 945218

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND BOARD OFCOUNTY COMMISSIONERS

A public hearing will be held on Monday, April 17, 2023 at 6:00PM before the Planning Commission and Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 at 2:30PM before the Board of County Commissioners, in the Commissioners’ Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, CO, for approval of a Preliminary Plan on a property located north of the Singing Hills Road and Hilltop Road intersection and west of Flintwood Road. For more information call Douglas County Planning at 303-660-7460.

File No./Name: SB2022-036/ Fields Preliminary Plan.

Legal Notice No. 945222

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Published Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

A Public hearing will be held before the Planning Commission on April 17, 2023 at 6:00 P.M., and before the Board of County Commissioners on, May 9, 2023 at 2:30 P.M., in the Commissioners’ Hearing Room, 100 Third St., Castle Rock, CO, for approval of a preliminary plan located approximately 160 feet northwest of the intersection of Betts Ranch Road and Sunridge Hollow Road. For more information call Douglas County Planning, 303-660-7460.

File No. / Name: SB2021-048 / Reata South

Preliminary Plan Filing No. 1, 6th Revision

Legal Notice No. 945196

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

ORDINANCE NO. 1.567.1

A Bill for an Ordinance to Adopt the 2023 Revised Budget for the Town of Parker and to Make Appropriations for the Same

The Town of Parker Council adopted this Ordinance on March 20, 2023.

The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the office of the Town Clerk, 20120 East Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado.

Chris Vanderpool, CMC, Town Clerk

Legal Notice No. 945219

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

ORDINANCE NO. 9.356

A Bill for an Ordinance to Approve the Intergovernmental Agreement Dissolving the Rueter-Hess Recreation Authority and Establishing the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners as the Managing Jurisdiction of Recreation Operations and Management at Rueter-Hess Reservoir By and Between Parker Water and Sanitation District, Douglas County, City of Castle Pines, City of Lone Tree, the Town of Parker and the Town of Castle Rock

The Town of Parker Council adopted this Ordinance on March 20, 2023.

The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the office of the Town Clerk, 20120 East Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado.

Chris Vanderpool, CMC, Town Clerk

Legal Notice No. 945220

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

Wellspring Community and Covenant Church Annexation

Douglas County Legals March 30, 2023

Public Notices

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.

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 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:

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.

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]

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:

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.

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 90.00; THENCE N36°50'W 120.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. (PARCEL A LEGAL DESCRIPTION FROM THE TITLE COMMITMENT IS INCOMPLETE, MISSING INFORMATION ADDED IN ITALICS FONT AND UNDERLINED)

PARCEL B: 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, A DISTANCE OF 976 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE S53°10'W, A DISTANCE OF 396 FEET; THENCE N36°50'W A DISTANCE OF 220 FEET; (THIS POINT BEING 24 FEET EAST OF THE 1/16TH LINE); THENCE N53°10'E, A DISTANCE OF 396

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

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION AND CERTIFIED STATEMENT OF RESULTS BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL MERIDIAN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Meridian Metropolitan District of 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 regular election to be held on May 2, 2023, is hereby canceled pursuant to Sections 1-13.5-513(6), C.R.S. The following candidates are hereby declared elected:

Elizabeth Sharrer to a 4-year term until May, 2027

Thomas Ashburn to a 4-year term until May, 2027

Contact Person for the District: Thomas N. George, Esq District Address: 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 2000, Denver, CO 80203

District Telephone Number: 303/839-3800

MERIDIAN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/Robin A. Navant, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945211

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL HORSESHOE RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Horseshoe Ridge Metropolitan District Nos. 2 of 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 regular 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:

Jason Hamel to a 4-year term (2023-2027)

Thomas Johnson to a 4-year term (2023-2027)

HORSESHOE RIDGE

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL

§§ 1-11-103(3), 1-13.5-513, C.R.S.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Pine Bluffs

Metropolitan District, Douglas County, Colorado, that at or after the close of business on the sixtythird day before the election to be conducted on May 2, 2023, 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 was canceled pursuant to Section 1-13.5-513, C.R.S., and the following candidates were declared elected by acclamation:

Walter R. Koelbel: Four (4) year term

Jeffrey G. Sheets: Four (4) year term

Walter A. Koelbel, Jr.: Two (2) year term

Thomas E. Whyte: Two (2) year term

VACANT: Two (2) year term

Kayla M. Enriquez

By: /s/

Designated Election Official

Pine Bluffs Metropolitan District

Legal Notice No. 945207

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL

MERIDIAN VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Meridian Village Metropolitan District No. 2 of 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 regular 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:

Neiman Porter to a 4-year term until May 2027

Erik Jorgensen to a 4-year term until May 2027

Eric Weinberg to a 4-year term until May 2027

MERIDIAN VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2

By: /s/ Robin A. Navant

Fred Ciochetto Andrew Dixon

Joe Ventola Richard Otton

Roger

A. Kime

Reginald

Joey

Robert S. Gladu, Jr

D. Morris Shannon Starkey

Halligan Gregory King

Andrew F. Casazza

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. 3

/s/: Catherine T. Bright

Designated Election Official

Phone Number: 303-770-2700

Legal Notice No. 945226

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL HORSESHOE RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 AND 3

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Horseshoe Ridge Metropolitan District Nos. 1 and 3 of Douglas County, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third day before the elections, 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 regular elections to be held on May 2, 2023, are hereby canceled pursuant to Section 1-13.5513(6), C.R.S. The following candidates are hereby declared elected:

By:

/s/ Courtney

Linney, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945181

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL VILLAGE ON THE GREEN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Village on the Green Metropolitan District No. 1 of 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 regular 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:

Thomas Ashburn to a 4-year term (2023-2027)

Marcus Palkowitsh to a 4-year term (2023-2027)

Vacancy 4-year term (2023-2027)

VILLAGE ON THE GREEN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

By: /s/ Courtney Linney, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945182

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL FOR THE STONE CANON RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Stone Canon Ranch Metropolitan District, Douglas County, Colorado, that at the close of business on February 28, 2023 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:

Don Gibson: Four-Year Term

Richard E. Williams: Four-Year Term

Lisa M. Garcia: Two-Year Term

STONE CANON RANCH

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ Crystal Schott Designated Election Official

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945188

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION AND CERTIFIED STATEMENT OF RESULTS

Cherokee Ridge Estates Metropolitan District Douglas County, Colorado

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Cherokee Ridge Estates 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 cancelled pursuant to Section 1-13.5-513, C.R.S.

The following candidates are hereby declared elected for the following terms of office:

Name: Length of Term Term Expiration Eduardo San: 4 Years May, 2027 John Cowan: 4 Years May, 2027

/s/ Natalie M. Fleming (Signature of Designated Election Official) Natalie M. Fleming (DEO’s Printed Name)

Contact Person for the District: Jeffrey E. Erb, Esq.

Address of the District: 900 East Mexico Avenue, Suite 300 Denver, CO 80210

Telephone Number of the District: (303) 626-7125 District Email: jerb@erblawllc.com

Legal Notice No. 945228

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF INDEPENDENT

MAIL BALLOT ELECTION

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN and particularly to the eligible electors of the Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 3, of the County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the regular election of the Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 3 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. 3 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:

Thomas Ashburn to a 4-year term (2023-2027) Eugene Coppola to a 4-year term (2023-2027) Vacancy 2-year term (2023-2025)

HORSESHOE RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 AND 3

By: /s/ Courtney Linney, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945180

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION AND CERTIFIED STATEMENT OF RESULTS Stonegate North Villages Metropolitan District Douglas County, Colorado §1-13.5-513(6), 32-1-104, 1-11-103(3) C.R.S.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Stonegate North Villages Metropolitan District, Adams 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 cancelled pursuant to Section 1-13.5-513, C.R.S. The following candidates are hereby declared elected for the following terms of office: Name: Length of Term: Term Expiration

2027

/s/ Michele Barrasso (DEO’s Printed Name)

Contact Person for the District: Kim J. Seter, Esq.

Address of the District: 7400 East Orchard Road, Suite 3300 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Telephone Number of the District: (303) 770-2700

Fax Number of the District: (303) 770-2701

District Email: kseter@svwpc.com

Legal Notice No. 945194

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Southeast Public Improvement Metropolitan District of City and County of Denver, Arapahoe, and Douglas Counties, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third day before the election, there

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were not more candidates for director than offices to be filled including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the regular election to be held on May 2, 2023, is hereby canceled pursuant to Section 1-13.5513(6), C.R.S. The following candidates are hereby declared elected:

Darryl Jones to a 4-year term until May 2027

Charles Davis to a 4-year term until May 2027

Eric Hecox to a 4-year term until May 2027

Walter Koelbel to a 4-year term until May 2027

SOUTHEAST PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT

DISTRICT

METROPOLITAN

By:

/s/Robin A. Navant

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945199

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR 2022 BUDGET AMENDMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the proposed amended 2022 budget has been submitted to the Miller’s Landing Business Improvement District ("District"). Such proposed amendment to the 2022 budget will be considered at a meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District to be held at 2:30 p.m. on April 18, 2023 via telephone and videoconference. To attend and participate by telephone, dial 650-479-3208 and enter passcode 145 959 0296. To attend by videoconference use the following URL: https:// spencerfane.webex.com/spencerfane/j.php?M TID=m6ff80f3063e715601a4454b83e569e00.

A copy of the amended 2022 budget is available for public inspection at the offices of Spencer Fane LLP, 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 2000, Denver Colorado. Please contact Robin A. Navant by email at rnavant@spencerfane.com or by telephone at 303-839-3800 to make arrangements to inspect the amended budget prior to visiting the foregoing office. Any interested elector within the District may, at any time prior to final adoption of the amended 2022 budget file or register any objections thereto.

MILLER’S LANDING

BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT

By: /s/ Shawn Temple, President

Legal Notice No. 945221

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL FOR THE FRANKTOWN FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Franktown Fire Protection District, Douglas County, Colorado, that at the close of business on February 28, 2023 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:

Deborah C. Gamec: Four-Year Term

Kevin Collins: Four-Year Term

FRANKTOWN FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

By: /s/ Crystal Schott

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945225

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

CORRECTED NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Antelope Heights 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, C.R.S.

The following candidates are declared elected:

Toni Serra until the next regular election (May 6, 2025)

Paul Costello until the second regular election (May 4, 2027)

Vacancy until the second regular election (May 4, 2027)

Vacancy until the second regular election (May 4, 2027)

DATED: March 17, 2023

/s/ Lisa Jacoby

Designated Election Official for the Antelope Heights Metropolitan District c/o McGeady Becher P.C.

450 E. 17th Avenue, Suite 400 Denver, Colorado 80203-1254

Phone: 303-592-4380

Legal Notice No. 945224

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

FOR HIGHLANDS RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN and particularly to the electors of the Highlands Ranch Metropolitan 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

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 (One Director per Region)

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

Southwest Director Region:

Renee Anderson for Four-Year Term

Northeast Director Region: Nancy Smith for Four-Year Term

Homar Alvarado for Four-Year Term Bradford Mark Wann for Four-Year Term

North Central Director Region:

Andy Jones for Four-Year Term

James E. Freiberg for Four-Year Term

HIGHLANDS RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By /s/ Stephanie Stanley

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945216

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL CRYSTAL CROSSING METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Crystal Crossing Metropolitan District of 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 regular 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:

David Hammelman to a 4-year term until May 2027

Vacancy (2023-2025) Vacancy (2023-2027)

CRYSTAL CROSSING METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ Robin A. Navant

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945206

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL HESS RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 4-8

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Hess Ranch Metropolitan District Nos. 4-8 of 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 regular 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:

Robert L. Eck, II to a 4-year term until May 2027 Vacancy (2023-2027) Vacancy (2023-2027)

HESS RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 4-8

By: /s/ Becky Johnson

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945197

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE OF MAIL BALLOT ELECTION FOR SOUTH METRO FIRE RESCUE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN and particularly to the electors of the South Metro Fire Rescue Fire Protection District (“District”) of Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson Counties, 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 10, 2022) and no later than 15 days prior to the election (April 17, 2022). The drop off location for the delivery of mail ballots

of replacement ballots shall be

Village, 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.

Additional Dropbox locations: Arapahoe County Administration Building, 5334 S. Prince Street, Littleton

Community College,

Santa Fe Drive, Littleton

County Elections Facility,

County Fairgrounds,

Quincy Avenue, Aurora

Holly Street, Centennial

until May 2027

MERIDIAN VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 3 & 4

By: /s/ Robin A. Navant

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945190

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION AND CERTIFIED STATEMENT OF RESULTS BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL SOUTH MERIDIAN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the South Meridian Metropolitan District of 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 regular election to be held on May 2, 2023, is hereby canceled pursuant to Sections 1-13.5-513(6),

C.R.S. The following candidates are hereby declared elected:

Elizabeth Sharrer to a 4-year term until May, 2027

Thomas Ashburn to a 4-year term until May, 2027

Vacancy 2023-2025 (4-year term)

Contact Person for the District:

Thomas N. George, Esq

District Address: 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 2000, Denver, CO 80203

District Telephone Number: 303/839-3800

SOUTH MERIDIAN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

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:

One Director from Director District No. 1 for Four-Year Term One Director from Director District No. 3 for Four-Year Term

One Director from Director District No. 4 for Four-Year Term One Director from Director District No. 5 for Four-Year Term

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

Director District No. 1 Sue Roche for a Four-Year Term Randy Perlis for a Four-Year Term

Director District No. 3 Jim Albee

Director District No. 4 Bruce Stahlman

Director District No. 5 Renee Anderson

SOUTH METRO FIRE RESCUE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

By /s/ Barb Andrews

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945202

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

By: /s/ Robin A. Navant,

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945210

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL SIERRA RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Sierra Ridge Metropolitan District No. 1 of 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 regular 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:

Thomas Clark to a 4-year term until May 2027 Vacancy (2023-2027) Vacancy (2023-2027)

SIERRA RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

By: /s/ Becky Johnson

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945193

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

day before the election to be conducted on May 2, 2023, 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 was canceled pursuant to Section 1-13.5-513, C.R.S.

The following candidates were declared elected by acclamation:

Patrick Vellone, (4) Year Term until May 2027

Vacant, (4) Year Term until May 2027

RAVENNA METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

/s/ Stacie L. Pacheco

Stacie L. Pacheco, Designated Election Official

Contact Person for the District:

Alan D. Pogue, Esq.

ICENOGLE SEAVER POGUE, P.C. 4725 South Monaco Street, Suite 360 Denver, Colorado 80237

Telephone: 303-292-9100

Email: APogue@ISP-Law.com

Legal Notice No. 945231

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL NORTH PINE VISTAS

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1-3

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the North Pine

Vistas Metropolitan District Nos. 1-3 of 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 regular 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:

NORTH PINE VISTAS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1:

Darwin Horan to a 4-year term until May 2027

Vacancy (2023-2025)

Vacancy (2023-2027)

NORTH PINE VISTAS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2:

Darwin Horan to a 4-year term until May 2027

Jeffrey Slocum to a 4-year term until May 2027

Vacancy (2023-2025)

NORTH PINE VISTAS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3:

Darwin Horan to a 4-year term until May 2027

Robert Gay to a 4-year term until May 2027

Angelina Darling-Lilly to a 2-year term until May 2025

NORTH PINE VISTAS

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1-3

By: /s/ Becky Johnson

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945195

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Foxhill Metropolitan District No. 1 of 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 regular 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:

Francis Gay to a 4-year term (2023-2027)

Kathleen Gay to a 4-year term (2023-2027)

FOXHILL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

By: /s/ Courtney Linney,

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945185

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL MERIDIAN VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 3 & 4

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Meridian Village Metropolitan District Nos. 3 & 4 of 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 regular 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:

Thomas Ashburn to a 4-year term until May 2027

Michael Brown to a 4-year term until May 2027 Graham Hollis to a 4-year term

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL MERIDIAN VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Meridian Village Metropolitan District No. 1 of 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 regular 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:

Thomas Ashburn to a 4-year term until May 2027

Michael Brown to a 4-year term until May 2027

Graham Hollis to a 4-year term until May 2027

Elizabeth Sharrer to a 2-year term until May 2025

MERIDIAN VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

By: /s/ Robin A. Navant

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945189

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice PERRY PARK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE OF POLLING PLACE ELECTION

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the electors of the Perry Park Metropolitan District of Douglas County, Colorado

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on the 2nd day of May, 2023 between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. The Board of Directors of the District have designated the following polling place:

Perry Park Country Club 7047 Perry Park Boulevard Larkspur, CO 80118

At said election, the electors of the District shall vote for three (3) Candidates to serve the following terms of office on the Board of Directors of the District:

The names of persons nominated as Director for four-year terms are:

Joseph Brickweg

Darren Hill

The names of persons nominated as Director for a two-year term are:

Kirk H. Mulbach

Jill Arthurs

Bonnie R. Schwam

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee voter ballots may be requested from and filed with, and replacement ballots may be received from, Kurt Schlegel, Designated Election Official of the Perry Park Metropolitan District at kurt@specialdistrictsolutions.com until the close of business on Tuesday - April 25, 2023.

By: /s/ Kurt C. Schlegel

Designated Election Official

Perry Park Metropolitan District

Published in the Douglas County News-Press

One time only on Thursday – March 30, 2023

Legal Notice No. 945223

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Douglas County Legals March 30, 2023 * 7

Public Notices

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF ELECTION AND CERTIFIED STATEMENT OF RESULTS

DOMINION WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to §1-13.5513(6), C.R.S., that, at the close of business on February 27, 2023, there were not more candidates than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates, for the Dominion Water & Sanitation District (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:

Harold R. Smethills Jr.: Until May, 2027

John K. Ostermiller: Until May, 2027

The following office remain vacant:

VACANT: Until May, 2027

/s/ Ashley B. Frisbie

Designated Election Official

Contact Person for the District:

Blair M. Dickhoner, Esq.

WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON

Attorneys at Law

2154 E. Commons Avenue, Suite 2000 Centennial, Colorado 80122 (303) 858-1800

Legal Notice No. 945231

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE OF POLLING PLACE

ELECTION FOR PERRY PARK WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN and particularly to the electors of the Perry Park 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):

Perry Park Country Club

7047 Perry Park Blvd

Larkspur, CO 80118

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:

Steven Ostrowski for Four-Year Term

Gary Peterson for Four-Year Term

Brian Arthurs for Four-Year Term

James Maras for Four-Year Term

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots may be filed with the Designated Election Official at cschott@cogovlaw. com between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., until the close of business on the Tuesday immediately preceding the election (Tuesday, April 25, 2023). All absentee ballots must be returned to Perry Park Country Club, 7047 Perry Park Blvd, Larkspur, CO 80118 by 7:00 p.m. on election day.

PERRY PARK WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

By /s/ Crystal Schott

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 945184

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Bids and Settlements

Public Notice

Notice of Final Payment/Final Settlement

Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board

Notice is hereby given that at 9:00 am. On Monday, April 24, 2023, the STERLING RANCH COMMUNITY AUTHORITY BOARD shall make final payment and settlement to the following contractors in connection with all services rendered, materials furnished and for all labor performed in and for the referenced project:

1. Iron Woman Construction and Environmental Services, LLC in the amount of $99,177.91 pursuant to the contract for work performed in Sterling Ranch Filing No. 6 dated December 3, 2019.

2. Iron Woman Construction and Environmental Services, LLC in the amount of $384,838.86 pursuant to the contract for work in Sterling Ranch Filing General dated December 3, 2019, for work performed in Sterling Ranch Waterton Road and Pond Improvement work.

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

for the work contracted ID be done, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of the claim.

All such claims shall be filed with the Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board, 8220 Piney River Avenue, Littleton, CO 80125 on or before the above-mentioned dale and time of final settlement.

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

BY ORDER OF THE STERLING RANCH COMMUNITY AUTHORITY BOARD

Legal Notice NO. 945168

First Publication: Thursday, March 23, 2023

Last Publication: Thursday, March 30, 2023 Published in: The Douglas County News Press

and Sheriff Sale 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; BERK-

LEY 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

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:

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

Trail, Parker, CO

CO

CO

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 FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, a Colorado Limited Partnership, Dissolved January 10, 2022; SWQ LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company; Westfield Metropolitan District No. 1 aka WESTFIELD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1, a Colorado Quasi-Municipal Corporation; M.D.C. Land Corporation, a Colorado Corporation; Richmond Homes, Inc. I, aka RICHMOND HOMES, INC. I, a 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

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.

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 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.

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.

Misc. Private Legals

Public Notice TO: ZECHARIAH STANSBURY: You are notified that you have 10 days after publication for this notice of levy to file your claim of exemption with the District Court of Douglas County, 4000 Justice Way, #2009, Castle Rock, CO 80109 in Case 2021CV30729 entitled: WELLS FARGO BANK N.A. v. ZECHARIAH STANSBURY $2,006.61 garnished at Bellco Credit Union, 7600 E. Orchard Rd., Ste 400, Greenwood Village, CO 80111.

Legal Notice No. 944996

First Publication: March 2, 2023 Last Publication: March 30, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice COLORADO DEPARTMENT

WASTE MANAGEMENT DIVISION Notification of Issuance of Emergency Permit No. CO-23-03-22-01 for Treatment of Hazardous Waste under the Colorado Hazardous Waste Act Name of Permittee: Douglas County Bomb Squad Location of Treatment: 2965 Hwy 85, Castle Rock, CO 80109

The Douglas County Bomb Squad was authorized on March 22, 2023 to treat by burning confiscated consumer small arms ammo. Controlled burning is a safe management method for this waste. This emergency permit will expire March 24, 2023 or immediately after treatment is completed.

Legal Notice No. 945229

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

TO: STEVEN PAULA: You are notified that you have 10 days after publication for this notice of levy to file your claim of exemption with the District Court of Douglas County, 4000 Justice Way, #2009, Castle Rock, CO 80109-1918 in Case 2018CV030939 entitled: TIDEWATER FINANCE COMPANY, d/b/a TIDEWATER MOTOR CREDIT, d/b/a TIDEWATER CREDIT SERVICES v. STEVEN PAULA, a/k/a STEVEN OFA PAULA, a/k/a STEVEN O. PAULA $974.14 garnished at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., 9000 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, CO 80010.

Legal Notice No. 945031

First Publication: March 2, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE DISTRICT COURT, DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO 4000 Justice Way Castle Rock, Colorado 80109 Douglas/Elbert Combined Court Domestic Cases

CONSOLIDATED NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

Notice is hereby given that in the following proceedings filed in the Court during the month of February 13, 2023, under the Uniform Dissolution of Marriage Act, the above Court has found that due diligence has been used to obtain personal service of process within the State of Colorado and that efforts to obtain same would be to no avail, C.R.S. 14-10-107(4) (a) has ordered five publications of a Consolidated Notice of said proceedings:

Case No.: 22DR671

Names of Parties: Mark E. Correll Jr.

Jennafer Correll

Nature of Action: Dissolution of Marriage

You are further notified that a copy of the Petition and Summons may be obtained from the Clerk of the Court during regular business hours (7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) and that default judgment may be entered against that party upon whom service is made by this notice if he or she fails to appear or file a response within thirty (30) days after the date of publication.

Dated this 21st Day of August, 2019

By: /s/ Magistrate Clerk of the Combined Court 4000 Justice Way Castle, Rock, Colorado 80109 Legal Notice No 944992

First

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

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

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

regulatory floodway. The FIRM and, if applicable, the FIS report have been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to adopt or show evidence of having in effect to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. For more information on the proposed flood hazard determinations and information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s website at https://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/BFE_Status/bfe_main.asp , or call the FEMA Mapping and Insurance eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877FEMA MAP (1-877-336-2627).

Legal Notice No. 945143

First Publication: March 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles

Public Notice

Westside Towing, 1040 Atchinson Ct Castle Rock, 80109 has the following for sale:

1) 2018 Audi Q3 Vin. JR007104

2) 1978 Chevy Camaro Vin. 8L523290

3) 2004 Suzuki Forenza Vin 4K015617

4) 2002 Toyota Corolla Vin. 2Z644868

Legal Notice No.945204

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

1) 2014 FORD F150

VIN 1FTFW1EF3EKD70267

2) 2005 NISSAN XTERRA

VIN 5N1AN08W85C609384

3) 2012 CHEVROLET IMPALA

VIN 2G1WG5E39C1214900

4) 2010 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER

VIN JTEDK3EH1A2166511

13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

John J. Vierthaler, Attorney for Personal Representative 8441 W. Bowles Ave., Ste, 210 Littleton, CO 80123 Legal Notice No. 945192 First Publication: March 30, 2023

Publication: April 13,

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

Legal Notice No. 945138

First Publication: March 23, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Donna Elaine Beasley, aka Donna E Beasley, aka Donna Beasley, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR030114

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.

Mulvihill & Fruhwirth, P. C.

Todd E. Mackintosh PO Box 200782 Denver, Colorado 80220

Legal Notice No. 945092

First Publication: March 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 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

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.

named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before July

CO 80221-2021 720-930-8139

Legal Notice No. 945230

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

Attn: Madison Wiesinger abandoned belongings at 9657 Dunning Circle in Highlands Ranch will be disposed of or sold if not picked up within the next 15 days (April 7, 2023).

Legal Notice No. 945135

First Publication: March 23, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Notice to Creditors

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public 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.

The 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 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

Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mark S. Johnson, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30013

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

Douglas County News-Press

of NANCY G. OGLESBY, a/k/a NANCY GREEN OGLESBY, and as NANCY OGLESBY, Deceased Case Number :2023PR30073

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 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

LYONS GADDIS, PC Attorneys for the Personal Representative

B. Oglesby,

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 on or before July 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gail Wells, Personal Representative c/o Woodson L. Herring, Esq., Woodson L. Herring, LLC 5800 S. Nevada Street, Littleton, CO 80120

Douglas County News-Press

of Courtney T. Peterson, AKA Courtney Peterson, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30128

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 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 Legal Notice No. 945205 First Publication: March 30, 2023 Last Publication: April 13, 2023 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Cheryl Mulvihill , Attorney for the Personal Representative 19751 East Mainstreet #330 Parker, CO 80138 303-841-2752

Legal Notice No. 945191

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: April 13, 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 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 Cheryl Rae Rowlette, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30018

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 Johanna Carlson Santucci, a/k/a Johanna C. Santucci, a/k/a Johanna Santucci, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30068

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 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. 945173

First Publication: March 23, 2023

Last Publication: April 6, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Jo Anne Ibanez Yionoulis, also known as Jo Anne I. Yionoulis, also known as Jo Anne Yionoulis, Deceased Case Number: 23PR30104

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 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Thomas M. Yionoulis Personal Representative 9211 Rockport Lane Highlands Ranch, CO 80126

Legal Notice No. 945107

First Publication: March 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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 30, 2023

Last Publication: April 13, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of RICHARD A. SCHWARTZ, a/k/a RICHARD ALLEN SCHWARTZ, a/k/a RICHARD SCHWARTZ, a/k/a DICK SCHWARTZ, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30082

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

Legal Notice No. 945163

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 14, 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 Mackenzie Newell Bredesen be changed to Mackenzie Newell Renaud Case No.: 23C94

By: Magistrate B. Fields

Legal Notice No. 945232

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 9, 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 Jennifer Lee Fuentes be changed to Catori Vi Casary Case No.: 2023C89

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 945201

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 March 17, 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 Amy Lynn Wheeler be changed to Amy Lynn Grace Case No.: 23 C140

By: Magistrate B. Fields

Legal Notice No. 945233

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: April 13, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

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

Notice No. 945217

Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: April 13, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Maria S. Carrington, Personal Representative 54 Eastwick Drive Gibbsboro, NJ 08026

Legal Notice No. 945102

First Publication: March 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 30, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Fred Sieders, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30002

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 20, 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, Douglas County, Colorado on or before July 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Thomas A. Rodriguez, #30377

Attorney to the Personal Representative 675 15th Street, Suite 2650 Denver, Colorado 80202

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 March 13, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

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Why so many Colorado cars have expired license plates

Situation is widespread

BY PAOLO ZIALCITA COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

eodore Shille was driving home from the grocery store when he noticed something. During the short trip, he passed three cars that had expired temporary license plates or no plates at all.

It wasn’t the rst time he had seen this near his Denver home; a few days before he wrote in to CPR News and asked, “what’s the deal with all the cars driving around without a license plate, or with an expired temporary plate?”

It’s a question that regularly appears on a local Reddit message board.

And it’s something this reporter has seen, as well. When I started looking into this story, I stood at a busy intersection in Westminster near the entrance to U.S. 36 on a Sunday morning to count the number of cars I saw with expired temporary license plates or no plates. Within 10 minutes, I saw 10 cars.

Why are there so many cars on Colorado roads with expired plates? At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, before vaccines were readily available, county Department of Motor Vehicle ofces were closed frequently and experienced supply chain issues for materials needed to make the plates. Could that still be a ecting permanent license plate turnaround times? Are drivers lax in getting their plates updated, or is something else happening?

According to Adam Wilms, director of vehicle services at the state DMV, that early pandemic slowdown has come and gone.

“You’ll see appointments ranging from same day to, I would say, a max of three or four days out,” he said.

But that only covers one aspect of the process to acquire permanent plates. It really begins once someone purchases a vehicle from a dealership.

After all the forms are signed, the dealer has 30 days to forward the title paperwork to your county DMV o ce for processing. Jessica Ramirez, who manages titles for GoJo Auto in Denver, said this part usually goes smoothly for her, but there are exceptions.

“Every deal’s di erent. I have three right now that aren’t good,” Ramirez said. “Sometimes it’s a trade-in and we pay out the lien and the bank doesn’t send us the title. Or it gets lost in the mail, so I have to wait for a lien release and then get a duplicate title. ere’s lots of things that could delay it.”

e county DMV has 30 days after it receives the title to process the paperwork and send the buyer a “Title Complete Notice” via mail. Ramirez said she heard from the people she sends paperwork to that there are potential slowdowns there, as well.

Derek Kuhn, a spokesperson for the state DMV, said that all Colorado counties should be caught up on title processing by now, except for one.

“Our team con rmed that Denver County DMV is running behind on processing title paperwork, but we believe they should be caught up in a couple of weeks,” he said.

Department spokesperson Courtney Meihls said the Denver County DMV wait time is currently 30 days: “Denver is experiencing a backlog due to sta ng issues, and because our branches operate di erently than other [motor vehicle] branches throughout the state.”

Public Notices

If drivers don’t receive their permanent plates within by the time the temporary plates expire, Meihls continued, the DMV branches will provide extended temporary plates.

After the local DMV mails that Title Complete Notice, the process to get permanent plates varies by county. In Denver County, for example, buyers can either register their vehicle over the phone or visit a branch o ce. Buyers may be required to bring documentation, like proof of ownership and insurance, into their local DMV o ce.

All that’s left to do is pay for registration fees, which can vary depending on the age, weight and value of the vehicle. Fees can amount in the low hundreds, while some vehicles may garner a nal fee of well over $1,000. Fees help pay for vital infrastructure across the state.

“What most people don’t realize is that a signicant portion of [registration fees] goes to the county, so that pays a lot of your county taxes,” Wilms said. “In addition to that, it’s your road and bridge taxes and fees. A lot of the money goes to the highway user tax fund and funds the repairs and the creation of our roads and bridges throughout Colorado.”

e road to obtaining permanent plates should take 60 days, at most. But for Kyle Spence, it took six months.

“As soon as I actually purchased the car and left with it, that’s when everything started falling to pieces,” Spence said.

When his rst set of temporary tags expired in November, he called his dealership, a national chain, in orton which told him they hadn’t submitted any documents to the state.

“ ey never really gave me a reason for it,” he said. By January, Spence’s second set of temporary tags were due to expire, and he hadn’t received the Title Complete Notice from the DMV. So, he took matters into his own hands.

“ ere’s a way that you can look up your VIN number of your vehicle, [and] whether or not you have a title number,” he said. Spence took the title number to the tax collector’s o ce without his Title Complete Notice and eventually got his permanent plate. He acknowledged, however, that persuading the o ce to go through the process without the notice was di cult.

For Kate McElhaney, the road to permanent plates has been similarly rocky. In November, she bought an electric vehicle and by February, she was still waiting to obtain permanent plates.

“I don’t know where the holdup is. Is it with the dealership? Is it with the DMV? I’m not really sure,” she said.

Neither her dealership nor the DMV have answered her questions. And with the tax deadline quickly approaching, she isn’t sure how to le to get the state’s electric vehicle tax credit.

“If I don’t get my car registered until after April 15, what does that mean?” she asked. “Do I just surrender my tax credit or can I go for it in this calendar year? I don’t know and I can’t really nd any information on that.”

But what about people driving around with longexpired temporary plates, or cars with no plates?

Until recently, Colorado only penalized people with expired vehicle registration. But earlier this month, a new law went into e ect that aims to reduce the number of cars with expired temporary license plates by introducing new nes to people late with the registration of their temporary plates, as well

as permanent ones.

In response to the DMV’s renewed hard stance on all unregistered vehicles, some state law enforcement agencies said they would take more consistent action against cars with expired plates or no plates.  Colorado State Patrol, the Douglas County Sheri ’s O ce, and other police departments recently said they will begin pulling over people for unregistered vehicles.

e Denver Police Department, however, signaled that unregistered vehicles are low on their priority list.

“Consistent with our commitment to Vision Zero, Denver Police O cers generally focus on safety violations when conducting tra c enforcement. When they are not responding to reports of crime, o cers are encouraged to engage in proactive e orts, to include enforcing tra c and parking violations,” DPD said in a statement.

Police departments aren’t the only entity with the authority to enforce registration laws. In Denver, a division of the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure handles parking violations and citations around the city.

at division — the Right of Way Enforcement — issued about 92,000 citations in 2022 to cars breaking municipal code 54-62, which prohibits having either an expired license plate or no front license plate. at’s about 7,000 more citations than were issued in 2019.

John LeDrew has received several of those tickets.  About a year ago, he began leasing a plug-in hybrid and has been driving with expired temporary license plates since they rst expired. He wasn’t told by his dealership or the DMV that he could obtain more temporary license plates.

“I did the calculation, the fees were like $600. I went [to the DMV] to register and get those tags, but it turned out to be closer to $1,400,” LeDrew said. “I couldn’t a ord that at the time. So, I asked what my options were and he said, ‘you just drive around with expired tags.’ I said, ‘alright, cool.’ And I just left.”

LeDrew has been trying to save up to a ord his permanent plates, but owning a small business and having a commission-based salary makes his nances di cult to predict. He believes he’s close, but more tickets could set him back.

“It’s just one of the constant battles we have to manage,” he said.

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