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Rock and roll on I-70 means more driver delays

BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

More delays are on the way after rock scaling work on Interstate 70 at Floyd Hill took a dangerous turn on Aug. 9 when a dislodged rock rolled across both east and westbound I-70.

It landed on U.S. 40, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. CDOT did not report any crashes or injuries as a result of the rolling rock.

Crews will now hold tra c on U.S. 40 during blasting in addition to the holds occurring on I-70 in the interest of public safety, according to CDOT.

Speci cally, motorists can expect tra c holds approximately every 75 minutes starting at 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on I-70 and U.S. 40 Monday- urs-

day between Homestead Road, which is Exit 247, and the U.S. 6, which is Exit 244, which could result in up to 45 minutes of delay, CDOT

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noted.

Scaling will continue through the week of Aug. 21. After that, scheduled blasting and corresponding

delays will take place up to twice a week in the current east section of construction into early 2024, according to a CDOT spokesperson. Heavy equipment can still be seen on the south side of I-70 eastbound as crews remove 40 feet of the mountain to make way for the veyear I-70 project.

e I-70 Floyd Hill Project will improve eight miles of the I-70 mountain corridor, from west of Evergreen to eastern Idaho Springs. e project will deliver a third westbound I-70 travel lane, which will function as an express lane, to improve the current two-lane bottleneck, according to CDOT. Construction began in July 2023 and is expected to conclude in late 2028.

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Rock scaling continues Aug.16 on the south side of eastbound I-70 at Floyd Hill as part of a five-year project.

PHOTO BY CHRIS KOEBERL

Back to school night at Carlson Elementary

BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Students from every grade and their parents ocked to the playground for back-to-school night at Carlson Elementary in Idaho Springs Aug. 14 to meet their teachers and sta , and reunite with friends.

“It’s a chance to come together as a community and get to meet our new teachers, connect with community partners and get excited about the year to come,” said Carlson principal Loraine Swartz. Carlson Elementary will close its doors at its current location at the end of the school year in 2024. e district plans to move the elementary school to what is referred to as Building 103 on the west side of Highway 103 in Idaho Springs. e former middle school is undergoing renovation now, and district o cials expect it to be open for the 2024 school year. It’s not clear if the name Carlson will make the move to the new school location, Swartz said.

However, getting into the swing of a new school year is what matters for now, Swartz said.

“Back-to-school night is all about celebrating the new school year,” Swartz said.

Pushing his 4-year-old daughter, Charlie, on a dizzying piece of playground equipment, Joe Santaniello said he’s anxious and excited for Charlie to start pre-kindergarten. His goal for his daughter’s rst year of school is simple.

“I want her to be happy with learning,” he said.

On the other end of the school spectrum, Esi Juenemann will be a sixth grader this year. Esi and her mother Lexi Weaver anticipated a lot of homework as Esi prepares for the move to middle school next year.

“I hope she develops a good work ethic getting ready to go into middle school,” Lexi said.

Esi has attended Carlson Elementary since entering as a pre-kindergarten student herself, and her mom said she realizes changes are on the horizon for her.

“She’s gaining independence. I’m never going to see her again,” Lexi said, laughing.

Community partners, including the Rock House and Clear Creek Metropolitan Recreation District, were on hand to talk to students about what their organizations o er students of almost any age.

Free hot dogs were a nice bonus as well, Swartz added.

“It’s a celebration,” Swartz said.

Charlie Santaniello, four years old, gets a wild ride from her Dad during back-toschool night at Carlson elementary Aug. 14. Charlie will be in Pre-K this year.

PHOTO BY CHRIS KOEBERL

Clear Creek students start school year

BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Students and parents arrived during sunrise over Clear Creek Middle/High School in Evergreen as the district started the 2023-24 school year on Aug. 16.

School buses were once again lled with students, from seventh graders just starting out at “the big school” to seniors getting ready to move into the “real world.”

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Back in class

everyone at the front doors with an encouraging message: “You can do this. Dream big.”

Liam Ross started seventh grade this year after moving on from Carlson Elementary last year.

One challenge Liam said he’s in for at the new and much larger school is getting from one end of the building to the other for class.

“In like four minutes,” Liam laughed.

He said he’s looking forward to the new school, new people and his favorite subject, math.

“Math explains everything,” he said.

High school freshman Dylan Garner is looking forward to the football season and representing the Golddiggers. Dylan said the team looks good this year, and he’s eager to join his teammates on the eld.

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School buses arrive Aug.16, 2023 at Clear Creek high school for the first day of the school year.

PHOTO BY CHRIS KOEBERL

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on Friday, Sept. 1.

Senior Giazelle Sempek arrived with her mom for her last year of high school. Her goal for this year: “Have a nice year,” she said. “Meet some good people and get a good experience of being in high school in Colorado.”

Giazelle said she’s already planning for college where she will pursue her interest in becoming a cardiologist.

She sees her senior year as a year of transition.

“Just transitioning into being a good woman and learning new things and hopefully getting a good grasp of life before being thrown out into the world,” she said.

Direction: the goal for the Class of 2024

Clear Creek High School principal Chris Gould met students outside on the rst day of the new school

year. Looking around the high school surrounded by mountains, trees and trails, Gould said the loca-

tion of the learning environment is unique.

“Our location is hard to beat,” he said. “We have a bike path around our campus. We have elk and fox running through the campus all the time.”

Future direction for students is critical, especially for seniors, Gould said.

“Students have asked for school to be more relevant for more career connectedness,” he said. “Giving them some more ability to direct (their path) and how that leads to their careers, their life.”

Future direction requires preparation, the principal added. Making connections is engrained in the curriculum.

“When they get out of school, they’ve got a plan, they know the direction they want to at least try,” Gould said.

e senior graduation date has not yet been set for 2024, according to the district.

Seventh grade student Liam Ross arrives at his first day in the “big school” in Evergreen Aug. 16. PHOTO BY CHRIS KOEBERL

Clear Creek County commissioners discuss overdose awareness and sport shooting complex

BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Commissioners voted unanimously to make Aug. 31 Overdose Awareness Day in Clear Creek County starting this year.

“We can stem the tide of this but we have to work together,” said Clear Creek County commissioner George Marlin during the Aug. 15 commission meeting in Georgetown.

e Gateway to the Rockies Opioid Council is made up of Je erson, Gilpin and Clear Creek counties. Last year 169 people died from overdoses in these three counties, according to the Council.

Everyone is a ected by opioid overdoses. e surviving mothers,

fathers, siblings and friends carry the burden of the loss of loved ones, commissioners noted.

One critical remedy for an opioid overdose is already available for free through the Clear Creek Public Health Department, Director Dr. Timothy Ryan explained.

It was available during a recent back-to-school event held in Idaho Springs on Aug 1.

Brown paper bags provided by the public health department were labeled “Narcan/Fentanyl.”

Inside the bag were several fentanyl test strips used to detect fentanyl in other drugs such as cocaine. You can’t see it, smell it or taste it, but the strips will detect fentanyl in

other drugs by placing a small liquid solution of it on the strip, Ryan explained.

Also, in the paper bag is a box labeled “Narcan.” Inside the box are two doses of the medication “naloxone” used to reverse the e ects of an opioid overdose.

Ryan said the medication is “extremely e ective at stopping or reversing what would be a fatal event.”

Dozens of boxes have already been distributed free of charge in the county, Ryan said. e need for what he describes as “life-saving medication” is in Clear Creek County. For information or to pick up

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Former Clear Creek County Sportsman’s Club will become County Sport Shooting Park summer of 2024. Picture Aug. 14, 2023.

PHOTO BY CHRIS KOEBERL

GTIS Half Marathon ends with a marriage proposal

Runners from across state joined run, now in 45th year

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e Georgetown to Idaho Springs

Half Marathon can be full of surprises. is year’s nish line was the site of a marriage proposal — the perfect time for Matt Sneider of Larkspur to propose to his girlfriend, Mallory Clutts of Colorado Springs.

e two crossed the nish line on Aug. 12 at the Idaho Springs ball elds in 2 hours, 9 minutes — not bad considering this was Matt’s rst marathon — when Matt’s dad immediately slipped him the ring, and he got down on one knee.

Both were crying as he proposed, and Mallory, who has been a runner for years, said “yes.”

Dad Dan and mom Stacie Sneider, along with Mallory’s parents, who were in on the surprise, watched them cross the nish line and the proposal.

Stacie said the family decided the nish line was the perfect marriage-proposal location because Matt hadn’t run a mile in his life until he met Mallory.

“When they started dating, they started running together,” Stacie said.

e Georgetown to Idaho Springs

— known as GTIS — Half Marathon serves Clear Creek not only by providing exhaustive fun but nancially as well because it is a fundraiser for the Clear Creek Booster Club with money going to help student-athletes at Clear Creek High/Middle School and funding other school activities. More than 1,400 runners took to the course, which starts at Georgetown Lake, circles Georgetown and follows the Interstate-70 frontage road down to the Idaho Springs ball elds.

Siri Lewis, this year’s race director, said the event couldn’t happen without all of the volunteers. is is Lewis’ second year as the race director of the race in its 45th year, and the part-time

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Mallory Clutts uncovers her eyes as she reacts to Matt Sneider’s proposal after the couple finished the Georgetown to Idaho Springs half marathon.

PHOTO BY SARA HERTWIG

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CCHS teacher said becoming the race director allowed her to learn how many great things the Clear Creek Booster Club does for students.

At the finish line

At the ball elds were lots of wellwishers cheering on the runners, food, live music from Riverspell,

vendor booths and more.

Jerreed Ivanich and Luke Anderson packed up their kids early to drive from Aurora to watch their wives, Emily Ivanich and Stephanie Anderson, cross the nish line together in 1:53:46.

Jerreed explained that their wives run several marathons and halfmarathons a year, adding that it was important for the children to see their moms nish the race.

“ ey get to see their moms do something di cult,” Jerreed said. e family rang cowbells and held

a sign that read, “You look hot when you sweat.”

Stephanie Mellon, the Clear Creek High/Middle School digital teacher librarian, worked at one of the booths at the ball elds. She said she has helped out at the GTIS Half Marathon on and o for 10 years, both as a parent and as a sta member.

“ is is such a big fundraiser,” Mellon said. “It does so much for kids, and it’s such a great community event.”

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provided the music and the commentary at the nish line, a job he’s had for 25 years. He called the GTIS Half Marathon a bucket-list event for runners because it’s all downhill, the scenery is gorgeous and the race volunteers are so friendly.

Severns said in past years, the vehicles at a standstill on I-70 have honked their horns as the runner went by to encourage them.

Matthew Schmidt of Erie, Colorado, was the rst to cross the nish line, though because of the staggered start, he came in third with a time of 1:21:35. is was his rst time at this half marathon.

He was followed closely by Scott Kukel of Highlands Ranch, who came in fourth in the race. is was Kukel’s 23rd consecutive GTIS Half Marathon in part because of its local feel.

“I like the course,” he said, “and it supports the school district. I like supporting local races, and this one has a nice vibe and good feel.”

e rst woman to cross the nish line was Phillippa Keast of Denver, who nished second in 1:31:21. Keast, who originally hails from New Zealand, ran in the GTIS Half Marathon last year.

“I like it,” she said. “It’s fun. is race is relaxed and welcoming. Everyone is so encouraging.”

Runners come down the hill to the finish line by the ball fields in Idaho Springs.

PHOTOS BY SARA HERTWIG

The 45th annual Georgetown to Idaho Springs half marathon took place Aug. 12.

Finishers of the Georgetown to Idaho Springs half marathon collect their medals.

Luke Anderson and Jerreed Ivanich drove from Aurora to Idaho Springs with their kids to support their wives as they crossed the finish line.

Phillippa Keast was the first woman to cross the finish line in the Georgetown to Idaho Springs half marathon.

Early design work approved for new Idaho Springs police headquarters

BY CHRIS KOEBERL CKOEBERL@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Idaho Springs city council members unanimously approved spending $21,410 for a “conceptual design” for the new police headquarters during the Aug. 14 meeting.

e new PD headquarters will be in the former City-Wide Bank building, located at 1744 Miner St.  e City of Idaho Springs recently purchased the building for $625,000.

room, no showers and no interview room, he said.

members.

Henderson is Hiring and Investing in Colorado!

“If I need to have a private conversation, I need to have that outside in my patrol vehicle,” he said.

To say Chief of Police, Nathan Buseck, is excited about the new location would be an understatement.

Currently, sta has no locker

e prior City-Wide Bank o ers a centralized location, in proximity to City Hall and the Historic District, Buseck stated in a letter to council

Locker rooms with showers, an interview room, an armory, public waiting room and private o ces are some of the features included in the plans Halsey Architecture is putting together.

Henderson has operated in Colorado since 1976 and is investing nearly $150 million into our operations to enable future production. We are committed to our employees and our community and are currently hiring new employees to join our 360 strong! Further, the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation, recently announced more than $300,000 to Henderson Operations Social Investment Grant recipients in 2022. Learn more about the recipients below:

e initial design is expected to be completed in October of this year.

• Clear Creek County: Clear Creek County Health and Wellness Center – $100,000 (second payment of a $500,000 commitment) This will support the building and launch of the first collaborative care center in Clear Creek County.

Henderson is Hiring and Investing in Colorado!

Henderson is Hiring and Investing in Colorado!

Henderson has operated in Colorado since 1976 and is investing nearly $150 million into our operations to enable future production. We are committed to our employees and our community and are currently hiring new employees to join our 360 strong! Further, the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation, recently announced more than $300,000 to Henderson Operations Social Investment Grant recipients in 2022. Learn more about the recipients below:

•Clear Creek County: DLD Sub-Area Planning Grant – $60,000 Funding supports a planning process to strategically identify enhanced community, land use and infrastructure proposals to provide new sustainable revenue streams and improved services.

Henderson is Hiring and Investing in Colorado!

Henderson has operated in Colorado since 1976 and is investing nearly $150 million into our operations to enable future production. We are committed to our employees and our community and are currently hiring new employees to join our 360 strong! Further, the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation, recently announced more than $300,000 to Henderson Operations Social Investment Grant recipients in 2022. Learn more about the recipients below:

Henderson has operated in Colorado since 1976 and is investing nearly $150 million into our operations to enable future production. We are committed to our employees and our community and are currently hiring new employees to join our 360 strong! Further, the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation, recently announced more than $300,000 to Henderson Operations Social Investment Grant recipients in 2022. Learn more about the recipients below:

• Clear Creek County: Clear Creek County Health and Wellness Center – $100,000 (second payment of a $500,000 commitment) This will support the building and launch of the first collaborative care center in Clear Creek County.

•Clear Creek County School District: Career-Connected Learning Project – $10,000 When combined with a $10,000 match of Henderson employee donations through Mile High United Way, it will support increasing opportunities for students to engage in career-connected experiential learning.

• Clear Creek County: Clear Creek County Health and Wellness Center – $100,000 (second payment of a $500,000 commitment) This will support the building and launch of the first collaborative care center in Clear Creek County.

•Clear Creek County: Clear Creek County Health and Wellness Center – $100,000 (second payment of a $500,000 commitment) This will support the building and launch of the first collaborative care center in Clear Creek County.

•Clear Creek County: DLD Sub-Area Planning Grant – $60,000 Funding supports a planning process to strategically identify enhanced community, land use and infrastructure proposals to provide new sustainable revenue streams and improved services.

•Grand County Rural Health Network: Grand County Multisector Resource Hub – $25,000 Funding will support a collaborative planning process around the development of a multisector resource hub that would provide a one-stop resource for marginalized community members of Grand County.

•Clear Creek County: DLD Sub-Area Planning Grant – $60,000 Funding supports a planning process to strategically identify enhanced community, land use and infrastructure proposals to provide new sustainable revenue streams and improved services.

• Clear Creek County: DLD Sub-Area Planning Grant – $60,000 Funding supports a planning process to strategically identify enhanced community, land use and infrastructure proposals to provide new sustainable revenue streams and improved services.

•Clear Creek County School District: Career-Connected Learning Project – $10,000 When combined with a $10,000 match of Henderson employee donations through Mile High United Way, it will support increasing opportunities for students to engage in career-connected experiential learning.

•Grand County Rural Health Network: Grand County Multisector Resource Hub – $25,000 Funding will support a collaborative planning process around the development of a multisector resource hub that would provide a one-stop resource for marginalized community members of Grand County.

•Clear Creek County School District: Career-Connected Learning Project – $10,000 When combined with a $10,000 match of Henderson employee donations through Mile High United Way, it will support increasing opportunities for students to engage in career-connected experiential learning.

•Clear Creek County School District: Career-Connected Learning Project – $10,000 When combined with a $10,000 match of Henderson employee donations through Mile High United Way, it will support increasing opportunities for students to engage in career-connected experiential learning.

•Grand County Search and Rescue: Mission Control Vehicle – $46,000 The vehicle will replace an inoperable multipurpose avalanche response, complex mission and command truck for Grand County.

•Grand County Rural Health Network: Grand County Multisector Resource Hub – $25,000 Funding will support a collaborative planning process around the development of a multisector resource hub that would provide a one-stop resource for marginalized community members of Grand County.

•Grand County Rural Health Network: Grand County Multisector Resource Hub – $25,000 Funding will support a collaborative planning process around the development of a multisector resource hub that would provide a one-stop resource for marginalized community members of Grand County.

•Grand County Search and Rescue: Mission Control Vehicle – $46,000 The vehicle will replace an inoperable multipurpose avalanche response, complex mission and command truck for Grand County.

•Middle Park Medical Foundation: Kremmling Wellness Center Gym – $75,000 Funding supports the development of a modern community recreation space with a goal of improving the overall health of the community by creating more opportunities to engage in recreational activities.

•Grand County Search and Rescue: Mission Control Vehicle – $46,000 The vehicle will replace an inoperable multipurpose avalanche response, complex mission and command truck for Grand County.

•Middle Park Medical Foundation: Kremmling Wellness Center Gym – $75,000 Funding supports the development of a modern community recreation space with a goal of improving the overall health of the community by creating more opportunities to engage in recreational activities.

•Grand County Search and Rescue: Mission Control Vehicle – $46,000 The vehicle will replace an inoperable multipurpose avalanche response, complex mission and command truck for Grand County.

Congratulations to the recipients!

•Middle Park Medical Foundation: Kremmling Wellness Center Gym – $75,000 Funding supports the development of a modern community recreation space with a goal of improving the overall health of the community by creating more opportunities to engage in recreational activities.

•Middle Park Medical Foundation: Kremmling Wellness Center Gym – $75,000 Funding supports the development of a modern community recreation space with a goal of improving the overall health of the community by creating more opportunities to engage in recreational activities.

Congratulations to the recipients!

Congratulations to the recipients!

Since 2012, more than $1.6 million has been invested through the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation in Clear Creek and Grand counties. The funds have been awarded to programs and projects that build community resilience and capacity.

Congratulations to the recipients!

Since 2012, more than $1.6 million has been invested through the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation in Clear Creek and Grand counties. The funds have been awarded to programs and projects that build community resilience and capacity.

Since 2012, more than $1.6 million has been invested through the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation in Clear Creek and Grand counties. The funds have been awarded to programs and projects that build community resilience and capacity.

Since 2012, more than $1.6 million has been invested through the Freeport-McMoRan Foundation in Clear Creek and Grand counties. The funds have been awarded to programs and projects that build community resilience and capacity.

For more information on hiring visit www.moly.jobs and for more information on community investment grants visit FreeportInMyCommunity.com

For more information on hiring visit www.moly.jobs and for more information on community investment grants visit FreeportInMyCommunity.com

For more information on hiring visit www.moly.jobs and for more information on community investment grants visit FreeportInMyCommunity.com

Wildland firefighters need our support

At any given moment during this smoky summer of 2023, hundreds of wild res were blazing in the United States — more than 850 as of late July, according to the nonpro t Fire, Weather & Avalanche Center. Most of those wild res ignited in the forests of the American West.

Fires were also burning by the thousands in Canada, creating a pall of particulate-dense smoke that blotted out views of the Chicago skyline and the Washington Mall. ose res are expected to burn well into fall.

is hellish aspect lends weight to historian Stephen Pyne’s conclusion that we live now in an age of re called the “Pyrocene.”

Assembled to combat these blazes is a massive army of wildland reghters. Some are volunteers, some are prison work crews earning time credited against their sentences. Some are municipal re ghters dispatched to the woods.

Some 11,300 of them are federal re ghters, called “forestry technicians,” who work under the aegis of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior.

For all of them, it’s exhausting work. Wildland re ghters typically log 16-hour days for weeks at a time, burning 4,000 to 6,000 calories a day while carrying heavy backpacks.

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It’s punishing labor and always dangerous. Barely a year has gone by in the last quartercentury that has not seen at least 15 wildland re ghter deaths, the victims not just of ames and smoke but also of heat exhaustion, vehicle accidents, air crashes, falling trees and heart attacks.

Often, they don’t die alone. In June 2013, 19 “Hotshots” burned to death in a horri c Arizona wild re, the third-greatest loss of wildland re ghters in U.S. history.

Yet despite the hardships and the history, a mandated pay raise in June 2021, spurred by President Joe Biden, brought the minimum wage for federal wildland re ghters up to a mere $15 an hour.

Fire ghters of my acquaintance seldom cite money as a motivator for their work. ey ght res in the spirit of public service, while in some rural communities, as a young Apache re ghter told me, “It gives us something to do.”

But re ghters, like everyone else, must shoulder rents and mortgages and groceries, and a paycheck of less than $3,000 a month just

doesn’t cut it.

Enter a temporary order from President Biden raising that base pay rate by 50%. Put in place in August 2022, and retroactive to the previous October as part of a hotly contested package of infrastructurefunding policies, the pay raise was funded only until Sept.30, 2023, after which pay for wildland re ghters drops back to 2020 levels.

Wildland re ghters lobbied for Biden’s pay raise to be made permanent but they made few inroads. at was until they nally found an ally in Arizona’s Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Now an independent, Sinema allied with Republican Sens. John Barrasso of Wyoming and Steve Daines of Montana, and Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana, to introduce the bipartisan Wildland Fire ghter Paycheck Protection Act. It would fund permanent pay increases.

By late June of 2023, their bill had passed out of committee by a vote of 10 to 1, the only no vote coming from Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. When it reaches the Senate oor, it will be open to debate and a full vote.

ere, however, the politicians are likely to squabble, especially on the House side. Larger issues loom, too, such as the need to revise policy so

that forests are better managed to improve the conditions that now foster massive wild res. ose conditions are the product of a “wise use” regime that saw forests as profitable tree farms and not as living systems e Forest Service also had a decades-long policy of dousing all wild res as early as possible. While Washington deliberates, and while a more comprehensive bill compensating wildland reghters struggles to gain traction, res continue to burn in the outback. Without a pay raise, federal o cials fear, some re ghters will walk away from a risky and insultingly low-paying job.

Wildland re ghters are needed right now, and we need to pay them what they deserve through the Wildland Fire ghter Paycheck Protection Act. ey will be needed even more in a future of climbing temperatures and widespread drought causing even more massive wild res.

We can only hope that we will have the re ghters to confront them.

Gregory McNamee is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonpro t dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. He is an author and journalist in Tucson.

OLDS: This week in the Clear Creek Courant…

16-year-old found guilty of killing o cer – Aug. 25, 1993

BY TEDDY JACOBSEN SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Loveland Ski Area gets to expand – Aug. 21, 2013

Clear Creek County Commissioners approved a proposal from the Loveland Ski Area to expand and enhance the resort. e plan was initially expected to take ve to seven years to complete.

A Summit County jury found Marcus Fernandez, 16, guilty of killing Colorado State Patrol Tech. Lyle Wohlers of Dumont during a tra c stop. Fernandez faced mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole for two counts of murder. Under a Supreme Court decision in 2019, Fernandez was resentenced to 46 years and could be released as early as 2038.

Georgetown residents done with dirt – Aug. 25, 1978

Georgetown residents suggested paving the town’s dirt streets at a

Georgetown Board of Selectmen meeting. “A growing number of people want something done about the streets,” resident Barbara Clark told the selectmen. Another resident complained about the dusty streets, saying, “Our home is like Oklahoma in the ‘30s, it’s just God-awful.”

Georgetown adopts new building guidelines – Aug. 24, 1973

Georgetown’s Historic Preservation Commission adopted a list of guidelines for the design and construction of new buildings within the mining town. “We’ve never had any guidelines before,” Chairman Henry Anderson said. Some of the

guidelines included a height restriction of 35 feet in residential areas and 50 feet in commercial areas, material and texture use consistent with neighboring buildings, and plenty of trees and shrubs and greenery.

e Clear Creek Courant was created in August of 1973. ese items come from Courant’s historic archives. As it turns out, previous Courant writers had the same idea for the paper’s 25th anniversary. eir section was dubbed, “Olds: Not to be confused with news.” It lives on for an entire year to celebrate the paper’s 50th birthday.

Gregory McNamee

50 years of Courant headlines not to be confused with news

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Low Water Music Series: e Clear Creek Metropolitan Recreation District is hosting the Friday evening Low Water Music Series from 5:30-8 p.m. Aug. 25, Sept. 1 and 8 at the Idaho Springs ball elds. Journey Girls will perform Aug. 25, Tonewood Stringband on Sept. 1 and Horizon Line of Sept. 8.

Community barbecue: Keller Williams Preferred Realty will host a community barbecue from 1-7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 1, at Sugar Plum, 1845 Miner St., Idaho Springs. Food, music and autographs available with former Denver Bronco Randy Gradishar. RSVP to Lisa at 303-550-9859.

orders. Call your local library to be added to the sign-upmsheet. Idaho Springs Library 303-567-2020 or Georgetown Library 303-569-2620.

Adopt-a-Highway Cleanup Days in Empire: Friends of Clear Creek will host Adopt-a-Highway Cleanup Days in Empire from 8-10 a.m. on Saturdays, Sept. 16. Meet at the Empire Visitors Center, and the group will clean up a half mile of Empire’s two-mile stretch along Highway 40.

Mountain Jams: Mountain Jams concerts start at 2 p.m. on Saturdays through Sept. 16 at Library State Park in Georgetown. is year’s acts, sponsored by Georgetown Cultural Arts and Georgetown Heritage Center, include a mix of jazz, bluegrass, rock, folk and country. Artists include local favorites and internationally recognized touring artists. For a complete lineup and additional details, visit www.eventbrite.com/cc/eorgetownmountain-jams.

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PERRY

Lee F. Perry

November 15, 1960 - July 18, 2023

Lee F. Perry – November 15,1960 to July 18, 2023 passed away from natural causes. Lee was a beloved brother, uncle, businessman and friend. He was 62 years old.

Lee grew up in Boulder working at his fathers full service gas station. He was an excellent mechanic and loved cars, trains, planes and just about anything mechanical.

he returned to Idaho Springs to help out friends at C & C Machine and Welding. He excelled at the work as he loved the problem solving and the creative challenges presented by a small jobs shop in an old mining town. He ended up single handed running C & C Machine and Welding for over 30 years. When the machine shop closed last year, he took on the role of Dairy Manager at Safeway in Idaho Springs.

Devil on the Divide 2023: e Devil on the Divide 2023 50K and 22K will be Sept. 9, both reaching altitudes of 13,000 feet. Prior ultrarunning experience is required. For more information and to register, visit devilonthedivideultra.com/sign-up. html.

Touch a Truck: e third annual Touch a Truck will be from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10, across the road from Albert Frei & Sons’ Walstrum Quarry at the foot of Floyd Hill. Climb into the driver’s seat of a giant haul truck, touch a quarry loader, and check out re engines and ambulances. Donations accepted, with proceeds going to the Clear Creek Rotary scholarship youth programs.

Free legal clinic: A free legal clinic will be from 2-5 p.m. ursday, Sept. 14, at both the John Tomay Library in Georgetown and the Idaho Springs Library. Volunteer attorneys will answer questions and explain the process and procedure for all civil issues, including family law, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law, small claims, veterans issues, and civil protection

Heritage Hops: Mark your calendars — Heritage Hops, a beer tasting with food pairings in support of the the John Tomay Memorial Library renovation in Georgetown, will be from 5-7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, at e Old School, 809 Taos St. Georgetown is lled with hops plants left by the 19th-century breweries, and it had been a tradition for one of the local breweries to create a beer from those hops. Enjoy Heritage Hops by Cabin Creek Brewery paired with bites from Chef Marty of Chef’s Corner. Ticket information will be coming soon.

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Blue Spruce Habitat volunteers needed: Blue Spruce Habitat for Humanity is looking for volunteers. A variety of opportunities and exible schedules are available on new construction sites as well as for exterior minor home repairs. No previous construction experience needed. Contact volunteer@bluesprucehabitat.org for information.

Walk-in vaccine clinics: Walk-in vaccine clinics for adults and children needing u and other vaccines are available from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesdays at the Clear Creek Health and Wellness Center, 1969 Miner St., Idaho Springs. No appointments required for the vaccines, though you can pre-register by calling 303-670-7528.

Lee was a gifted and brilliant man. He graduated 4th in his class with Honors from the Colorado School of Mines with a degree in Geophysical Engineering. Life being what it is, he was unable to secure work in his eld during the economic crisis of the early 1980’s. is led him to nd employment in the exciting new emerging eld of satellite uplinks which was a perfect t for his second passion, anything which included space, rockets, satellites, and astronomy. He went to work for one of only two existing uplink companies in the United States at that time. Even though he was a native Boulder boy, American Uplinks is how he ended up in Idaho Springs. He traveled extensively with the company and saw much of the United States.

When American Uplinks sold, Lee returned to Boulder to assist his family in closing the old establish family garage so his father could retire. While between jobs

Lee intuitively knew what was important in life. He valued family, friends, loyalty, and integrity. He wasn’t a “stu ” guy. He was kind, funny, generous, humble, and had a great dry wit. If you were lucky enough to call Lee Perry a friend, you were blessed indeed.

Lee is survived by sister Edith (Jerry) Gloss, brothers Robert (Sue) Perry, and William Perry, Brother in Law Richard Fogg and by 3 nieces and a nephew. He is preceded in passing by his parents Bill and Louise Perry and sister Janet Fogg.

e family is planning a private celebration of his life within the next few months. If you wish to honor Lee, please consider donating to a local Clear Creek County Charity. He gave freely of his time and talents to several including the Idaho Springs Library.

CULTIVATING CREATIVITY

Creators across Colorado show positive impact of fairy gardens

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A tiny, magical place hides in plain sight by a residential sidewalk in Highlands Ranch, inviting guests to crouch down to get a better view.

Miniature tree trunk stumps lead the way to a small door near a sign that reads, “Fairy Garden.” Behind that door is a mystical land where fairies can gather, sit at a table, admire a pond, enter a small hut or hang out with other animals.

“I love kids, and there’s a lot of kids in our neighborhood. And I wanted something for them to just have fun with and see,” said Angie Gallagher, the creator of the fairy garden.

Fairy gardens hold magical powers beyond being a gathering place for mystical creatures — they are also a hub for people’s creativity, community and positivity.

“It gives us that hope,” Gallagher said. “It reminds us of the magic in the world, and I think we

need that.”

Scattered throughout Colorado, fairy gardens come in all shapes and sizes.

An elementary school in ornton, Riverdale Elementary, had students in an after-school club create potted fairy gardens to be placed in the school courtyard.

In the west metro area of Golden 7-year-old Juniper Kenyon’s eyes lled with wonder as she assembled her own fairy garden in a glass container alongside her 9-yearold sister, Olive, and her mother, Kelly at the Golden Library.

“I wanted to make a house for the fairies that we could put … outside so they could live in it,” Juniper said.

She said once she got back to her family’s home in Golden, she planned

CIRCLE PHOTO: Angie Gallagher holds a small house that she plans to put in a Thaibased fairy garden she hopes to create. PHOTOS BY TAYLER SHAW

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to put a bed inside her garden for the fairies to enjoy.

e family was among about 20 participants in the library’s community workshop to make fairy gardens in late July.

“We really love fairies,” Kelly said. “I just think it’s fun that we’re all together and just being creative.”

Seeing the excitement and pride on the faces of children like Juniper and Olive as they made their fairy gardens was a highlight for Alada Ramsey, a librarian at Golden Library who helped with the event.

Making fairy gardens has been a big part of Ramsey’s family, she said.

“My kids always built fairy gardens at my house, and at … my mother’s house, and at my grandmother’s house” she said. “We’re constantly doing fairy gardens.”

When children are young, their imaginations can become enamored with the idea that fairies will come to the gardens and play, she said.  “It’s just so fun, and it also is a great opportunity to teach kindness,” Ramsey said. “Because if you can imagine that there are fairies and you can imagine what their needs and wants are, that’s all good for getting you out of yourself and into the world and opening yourself up to the natural world around you.”

Emily Due, also a librarian at Golden Library who helped lead the event, said she loved to see how intergenerational the event was, as there were young kids, parents and grandparents who participated and made their own fairy gardens.

“I wasn’t expecting the adults to get so into it,” Due said.

Putting together the fairy gardens consisted of putting pebbles, air plants, moss, seashells, stones and other decorations into a glass bowl.

Although everyone had access to the same materials, each garden ended up looking di erent, Due said, which highlights the artistic expression that is possible.

Due said she likes that so much of fairy gardens comes from folklore and mythology, which ties into the literacy elements that libraries want to promote.

“We have an opportunity to educate and maybe get them interested in stories that are already on our shelves, but then also, we’re encouraging them to play,” Due said.

In her research on fairy gardens, Due said she found out that some people believed that fairies were the rst magical creatures to inhabit British islands, arriving before humans had.

“When people came, the fairies got a little bit scared and so they went underground. And so, fairy gardens was a way for people to say, ‘Hey, come on back. Spend time with us,’” Due said.

Angie Gallagher, of Highlands Ranch, compared fairy gardens to bird baths and birdseed being o ered in people’s yards.

“It’s to help the birds with the migration, and it’s

kind of the same idea,” she said of fairy gardens.

In addition to assembling a fairy garden in the community, Gallagher has made fairy garden starter kits that she has given out to people, which included a sheet about fairies.

e sheet explained that fairies are all over the world, such as in Mexico, ailand, Russia, and the United States, and they are ying to new places all across the globe.

“I wanted the fairies to be multicultural because I’m half ai,” she said.

Gallagher said she had wanted to create a community fairy garden for a long time, gathering inspiration from the app Pinterest and getting materials from the dollar store and Amazon.

Part of the fun is having fairy gardens in little, unexpected places, she said.

“To have little pockets of fun is just really all you need to keep the faith,” she said.

e community response to the fairy garden has been great, she said. e magical place really resonated with a few young girls in the community, who Gallagher said are obsessed with the garden.

“We see them all the time,” she said. “And they even started leaving notes, so then I would write little notes back.”

One note came after a rainstorm, and the girls expressed concern for how the storm may have impacted the fairies and their garden, wanting to make sure the fairies were OK, Gallagher recalled.

“ ey were so worried during the rainstorm about how the fairies were su ering,” she said. “So, I wrote a note back.”

Gallagher said she gave the girls ample fairy garden supplies beyond the starter kit, and the girls actually created a fairy garden not too far from Gallagher’s.

On top of the notes from young fairy admirers, Gallagher said she has gotten some notes from parents who are thankful for the time she has spent to feed their children’s creative minds.

“ at just brings smiles to our faces when we see parents or grandparents bringing the little kids,” she said. “I love hearing the kids talk about what they think fairies are about, or — they just start coming up with stories about who they think is living there.”

Gallagher does not put any gurines of fairies in her garden, wanting to reinforce people’s creativity as they imagine who the fairies are.

In the future, she plans to add to her fairy garden by creating new sections that incorporate di erent cultures, hoping to increase representation and expand people’s imagination of what a fairy may look like.

“I’m going to make a ai-based fairy garden, and then I’ll probably make one that’s a Parisian fairy garden,” she said.

She also hopes to add fairy gardens to some of the Airbnb properties her family owns.

“I think there’s always something really fun about just this idea of positive hope — that someone is looking out for you. It’s like another version of an angel,” Gallagher said of fairies. “It gives you hope to kind of move about your day with con dence.”

A small fairy door next to the sign that says, “All fairies are welcome,” sits within a fairy garden in Highlands Ranch. PHOTOS BY TAYLER SHAW

Juniper Kenyon prepares to add a fairy figurine into her fairy garden at a workshop at the Golden Library.

A fairy garden sign is placed near the entrance of Angie Gallagher’s community fairy garden in Highlands Ranch.

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“I grabbed one of these bags so I have Narcan with me. It’s easy to store, it’s easy to keep, it’s easy to administer… I recommend everyone on our sta , everyone in the community get your hands on some Narcan,” Marlin said. “It can save a life.”

Out with the old, in with the new sport

shooting area

Commissioners approved a contract award to Himmelman Construction, bringing Clear Creek County’s sport shooting park one step closer to reality.

e shooting complex will replace the Clear Creek County Sportsman’s Club at 3204 Stanley Road in Dumont. e CCCSC closed when its lease expired on Dec. 31, 2022, explained county Special Projects Manager Lisa Leben. e CCCSC lease with the county dates back to 1978, Leben said.

e new range will provide shooting opportunities that are safe and

a ordable for all ages. It will include a classroom for hunter education and training, restrooms and a small retail shop, Leben explained.

An opening date in the summer of 2024 is expected.

“ e range will be open to the public to pay by the hour and it will also o er annual memberships,” Leben said. “ e plan is to give Clear Creek and Gilpin County residents a reduced membership rate.”

Funding for the project is in place. According to county records, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Shooting Range Program has provided $1,160,000 for construction and

$90,000 toward engineering and design. Gilpin County has contributed $400,000 and Clear Creek has provided the remaining funding.

However, the county is still looking for someone or an organization to operate the facility, according to planning documents.

“Clear Creek County is seeking proposals from interested parties with the appropriate expertise and experience to help manage and operate a new public shooting range,” the documents state.

Nonetheless, Leben said she still anticipates the facility to open on time next summer.

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Legals

On May 30, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Clear Creek records.

Original Grantor(s)

Christopher F Berry

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

Mortgage Assets Management, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

August 07, 2007

County of Recording Clear Creek

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

August 21, 2007

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)

245836 Book: 778 Page: 764

Original Principal Amount

$217,500.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$136,399.69

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated for reasons including, but not limited to, the failure to timely pay Property Charge Expenses including tax and/or insurance payments under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby. Therefore, the current holder of the Evidence of Debt has elected to accelerate the entire indebtedness.

The outstanding principal balance (exclusive of any other charges properly allowable under the document(s) evidencing said debt) due and owing upon the Evidence of Debt secured by the above-described Deed of Trust being foreclosed is $136,399.69.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

A PORTION OF GOVERNMENT LOT 3, SEC-

TION 36, TOWNSHIP 3 SOUTH, RANGE 73 WEST OF THE 6TH P.M., DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

BEGINNING AT A POINT WHICH BEARS N. 48°28’E., 60.52 FEET FROM IDAHO SPRINGS

TOWNSITE CORNER NO. 38; THENCE S. 85°40’W., 100 FEET; THENCE N. 14°49’E., 64.52 FEET; THENCE N. 85°40’E., 76.00 FEET; THENCE S. 7°00’E., 61.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, COUNTY OF CLEAR CREEK, STATE OF COLORADO.

And is also known by street and number as 187 Virginia Canyon Road, Idaho Springs, CO 80452

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

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale

303-566-4123

as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 11:00 A.M. on Thursday, 09/28/2023, at The Clear Creek County Public Trustee’s Office, 405 Argentine Street, Georgetown, Colorado, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication8/3/2023

Last Publication8/31/2023

Name of PublicationThe Clear Creek Courant

Number of Clips 14 NOTICE OF RIGHTS

YOU MAY HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE REAL PROPERTY BEING FORECLOSED, OR HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS OR SUFFER CERTAIN LIABILITIES PURSUANT TO COLORADO STATUTES AS A RESULT OF SAID FORECLOSURE. YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO REDEEM SAID REAL PROPERTY OR YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE A DEFAULT UNDER THE DEED OF TRUST BEING FORECLOSED. A COPY OF SAID STATUTES, AS SUCH STATUTES ARE PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED, WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR RIGHTS SHALL BE SENT WITH ALL MAILED COPIES OF THIS NOTICE. HOWEVER, YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE DETERMINED BY PREVIOUS STATUTES.

●A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE FILED PURSUANT TO SECTION 38-38-104 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE AT LEAST FIFTEEN (15) CALENDAR DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST SCHEDULED SALE DATE OR ANY DATE TO WHICH THE SALE IS CONTINUED;

●A NOTICE OF INTENT TO REDEEM FILED PURSUANT TO SECTION 38-38-302 SHALL BE FILED WITH THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE NO LATER THAN EIGHT (8) BUSINESS DAYS AFTER THE SALE;

●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;

●IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS.

Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coag.gov

Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372

www.consumerfinance.gov

DATE: 05/30/2023

Carol Lee, Public Trustee in and for the County of Clear Creek, State of Colorado

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebted-

ness is:

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

McCarthy & Holthus, LLP

7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-23-957720-LL

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Legal Notice No. CCC648

First Publication: August 3, 2023

Last Publication: August 31, 2023

Publisher: Clear Creek Courant

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PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 2023-011

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On June 22, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Clear Creek records.

Original Grantor(s) Tim R Hamid and Linda J Hamid as Joint Tenants Original Beneficiary(ies) Bank of America, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of DebtBank of America, N.A.

Date of Deed of Trust

May 25, 2009 County of Recording Clear Creek

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

June 02, 2009

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)

253052 Book: 807 Page: 251

Original Principal Amount

$140,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$103,378.75

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), You are hereby notified that the current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described above, the original principal amount of which was $140,000.00, declares that the covenants of said Deed of Trust have been violated for reasons including, but not limited to, the failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby. Therefore, the current holder of the Evidence of Debt has elected to accelerate the entire indebtedness. The outstanding principal balance (exclusive of interest and any other charges properly allowable under the document(s) evidencing said debt) due and owing upon the Evidence of Debt secured by the above-described Deed of Trust being foreclosed is $103,378.75.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOTS 7, 8 AND 9, BLOCK 4, TOWN OF SILVER PLUME, EXCEPTING THAT PART OF LOTS8 AND 9 MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS, TO-WIT: BEGINNING AT THE SE CORNER OF LOT9 WHENCE CORNER NO. 12 OF THE SILVER PLUME TOWNSITE BEARS N. 87 DEGREES

10’30” E., 89.91 FEET; THENCE S. 66 DEGREES 46’ W., 18.50 FEET; THENCE N. 23

DEGREES 15’ W., 34.00 FEET; THENCE S. 66

DEGREES 46’ W., 13.90 FEET; THENCE N. 23

DEGREES 15’ W., 58.00 FEET; THENCE N. 66

DEGREES 46’ E. 32.40 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 23 DEGREES 15’ E., 92.00 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING, COUNTY OF CLEAR CREEK, STATE OF COLORADO.

ALSO KNOW BY STREET AND NUMBER AS 1035 MAIN STREET,

SILVER PLUME, COLORADO 80476

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 11:00 A.M. on Thursday, 10/19/2023, at The Clear Creek County Public Trustee’s Office, 405 Argentine Street, Georgetown, Colorado, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication8/24/2023

Last Publication9/21/2023

Name of PublicationThe Clear Creek Courant

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;

DATE: 06/22/2023

Carol Lee, Public Trustee in and for the County of Clear Creek, State of Colorado

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755

McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-23-960541-LL

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

City and County

Public Notice

Notice of Public Hearing

Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority

Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on September 11, 2023 to consider an application for a new Tavern License for Gold Pan Tavern LLC, dba Gold Pan Tavern located at 1631-1633 Miner Street, Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 08/02/2023. Officers: Urbano Salinas-Gonzalez, Owner. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to the applications.

/s/Wonder Martell Deputy City Clerk

Legal Notice No. CCC667

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: August 24, 2023

Publisher: Clear Creek Courant

Public Notice

Notice of Public Hearing

Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority

Pursuant to the liquor laws of Colorado, the Idaho Springs Liquor Licensing Authority will hold a public hearing on September 11, 2023 to consider an application for a Modification of Premise for Yard’s Tap House LLC, dba Yard’s Tap House located at 2731 Colorado Blvd., Idaho Springs, CO 80452. The public hearing will be held in City Hall, 1711 Miner St., at 7:00 p.m. Date of application: 08/11/2023. The application is available for inspection during normal business hours in the office of the City Clerk. Interested persons may appear at the hearing and voice their opinion in favor of or in opposition to the applications.

/s/Wonder Martell Deputy City Clerk

Legal Notice No. CCC677

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: August 24, 2023

Publisher: Clear Creek Courant

Public Notice

L0817-TD 23-021

NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED

To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to PEREZ, REYMUNDO

And Whereas, You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 13 day of NOVEMBER, A.D. 2020 the then County Treasurer of Clear Creek County, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to CHARLES L HARMON the following described real estate in the County of Clear Creek, State of Colorado, to wit:

TAX LIEN SALE CERTIFICATE OF PURCHASE #2020-01219

Property Schedule R005583 Parcel 183703109003 SAINT MARY’S SUBDIVISION LOT: 757 U5 325/704 409/257-262 514 499/398 COUNTY OF CLEAR CREEK, STATE OF COLORADO

And Whereas, Said County Treasurer issued a Tax Lien Sale Certificate of Purchase therefore to CHARLES L HARMON;

And Whereas, That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2019;

And Whereas, That said real estate was taxed in the name of PEREZ, REYMUNDO for said year of 2019;

And Whereas, That said CHARLES L HARMON on the 07 day of August, A.D. 2023, the present holder of said certificate, who has made request upon the Treasurer of Clear Creek County for a deed to said real estate;

And Whereas, That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued to the said CHARLES L HARMON; at 11:00 o’clock A.M., on the 21 day of December, A.D. 2023, unless the same has been redeemed. And Whereas, Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed.

Witness my hand this 08 day of August, A.D., 2023.

/s/ Carol Lee

Carol Lee, Treasurer Clear Creek County

Legal Notice No. CCC673

First Publication: August 17, 2023

Last Publication: August 31, 2023

Publisher: Clear Creek Courant

Public Notice

L0817-TD 23-020

NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED

To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to

LEGARETTA EDWIN V & SUSAN J

And Whereas, You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 13 day of NOVEMBER, A.D.

2020 the then County Treasurer of Clear Creek County, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to CHARLES L HARMON the following described real estate in the County of Clear Creek, State of Colorado, to wit:

TAX LIEN SALE CERTIFICATE OF PURCHASE #2020-01217

Property Schedule R004208

Parcel 183535141006

Subdivision: IDAHO SPRINGS Block: K

Lot: 8 THRU - Lot 12 AND – Lot PT 7 - & W 19.5FT OF L7 & N22 1/2 FT OF DEDICATED 40FT OF HIGH ST ADJ TO L7 & IMP N22.5FT OF DEDICATED 40FT OF HIGH ST & IMPS; 440/994,996

COUNTY OF CLEAR CREEK, STATE OF COLORADO

SITUS ADDRESS: 718 HIGH ST

And Whereas, Said County Treasurer issued a Tax Lien Sale Certificate of Purchase therefore to CHARLES L HARMON;

And Whereas, That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2019;

And Whereas, That said real estate was taxed in the names of LEGARETTA EDWIN V & SUSAN J for said year of 2019;

And Whereas, That said CHARLES L HARMON on the 07 day of August, A.D. 2023, the present holder of said certificate, who has made request upon the Treasurer of Clear Creek County for a deed to said real estate;

And Whereas, That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued to the said CHARLES L HARMON; at 11:00 o’clock A.M., on the 21 day of December, A.D. 2023, unless the same has been redeemed.

And Whereas, Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed.

Witness my hand this 08 day of August, A.D., 2023.

/s/ Carol Lee

Carol Lee, Treasurer Clear Creek County

Legal Notice No. CCC672

First Publication: August 17, 2023

Last Publication: August 31, 2023

Publisher: Clear Creek Courant

Public Notice

CITY OF IDAHO SPRINGS

Clear Creek County, Colorado

Ordinance No. 8, Series 2023

Editor’s note: Italicized text = deleted text

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 18, SERIES 2021, CONCERNING THE VACATION OF RIGHTS-OF-WAY ASSOCIATED WITH THE BLOCK 57 DEVELOPMENT, TO CONSIDER THE CONDITION OF COMPENSATION SATISFIED

WHEREAS, pursuant to its authority under CRS

§ 43-2-303, on September 27, 2021, through the adoption of Ordinance No. 18, Series 2021, the Idaho Springs City Council (“Council”) vacated certain portions of 11th Avenue, Idaho Street and a platted alleyway in and around the development subsequently approved by the City and now known as the Block 57 Mixed Use Development (the “Project”); and

WHEREAS, one of the conditions of approval of the rights-of-way vacation was that “Four Points and/or the School District shall compensate the City for the vacated ROW Areas in an amount equal to the fair market value of such Areas derived by averaging two (2) appraisals of the same by an appraiser selected by the City and by an appraiser selected by Four Points/the School District”; and

WHEREAS, subsequent to said vacation ordinance, in April of 2022, the Project proponent, Four Points Funding, LLC (“Four Points”) obtained final City approval of a subdivision and final development plan (“FDP”) for the Project; and

WHEREAS, as a part of the subdivision and FDP process, the amount of open green space within the Project increased, due in part to the addition of a parcel on the West end of the Project that will not be developed; and

WHEREAS, as a result of the addition of more green open space to the Project, together with other factors including escalated costs due to unforeseen environmental regulations, Four Points filed a request with the Council to consider the matter of right-of-way compensation to be satisfied; and

WHEREAS, the Council considered Four Points’ request and all materials filed in association therewith, and finds that it is fair and reasonable to consider the issue of compensation to be satisfied by the additional open green space to be included in the Project; and

WHEREAS, the City Council further finds that the vacation of right-of-way is a legislative act and that the Council may impose and amend conditions upon the same by duly-adopted legislation.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Idaho Springs, Colorado as follows:

Section 1. The above and foregoing recitals are incorporated herein by reference as findings and determinations of the City Council.

Section 2. Ordinance No. 18, Series 2021, Section 2, is hereby amended by editing Condition # 4 therein, as follows:

4. Four Points and/or the School District shall compensate the City for the vacated ROW Areas in an amount equal to the fair market value of such Areas derived by averaging two (2) appraisals of the same: 1 by an appraiser selected by the City and 1 by an appraiser selected by Four Points/the School District. Compensation shall be considered satisfied through the provision of excess pervious green open space.

Section 3. Any and all Ordinances or parts thereof in conflict or inconsistent herewith are, to the extent of such conflict or inconsistency, hereby repealed; provided, however, that the repeal of any such Ordinance or part thereof shall not revive any other section or part of any Ordinance heretofore repealed or superseded.

Section 4. Should any one or more sections or provisions of this Ordinance be judicially determined invalid or unenforceable, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remaining provisions of this Ordinance, the intention being that the various provisions are severable.

INTRODUCED, READ, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Idaho Springs, Colorado on the 14th day of August, 2023.

Chuck Harmon, Mayor

ATTESTED AND CERTIFIED: Diane Breece, City Clerk

PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED, after publication, at a Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Idaho Springs, Colorado, held on the ___ day of September, 2023.

Chuck Harmon, Mayor

ATTESTED AND CERTIFIED:

Diane Breece, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. CCC678

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: August 24, 2023

Publisher: Clear Creek Courant

Misc. Private Legals

Public Notice

The Devil on the Divide 50k/22k trail run takes place on Saturday, Sept 9, 2023. Staging area is at the Empire Ball Field. Course includes Jones Pass, CDT, Herman Gulch, Watrous Gulch and Bard Creek Trail and Road. For more information, visit www.devilonthedivideultra.com or email devilonthedivide@ gmail.com.

Legal Notice No. CCC676

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: August 24, 2023

Publisher: Clear Creek Courant

Water Court

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO

JULY 2023 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION

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

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

2023CW3080 APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF UNDERGROUND WATER RIGHTS AND PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION INCLUDING A WATER EXCHANGE PROJECT AND AN EXCHANGE PROJECT RIGHT IN CLEAR CREEK AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. Attorneys for Applicants: Gilbert Y. Marchand, Jr., #19870, Cynthia F. Covell, #10169, Andrea L. Benson, #33176, Alperstein & Covell, P.C., 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 730, Denver, CO 80204, phone: (303) 894-8191; fax: (303) 861-0420, gym@ alpersteincovell.com; cfc@alpersteincovell.com; alb@alpersteincovell.com.

1. Name, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number of Applicants: Robert Edwall and Christina Edwall (“Edwall”), Thomas Kulisz and Ashley Kulisz (“Kulisz”), c/o 11 Boca Raton Ct., San Ramon, CA 94583, E-mail: rob@ehsconstruction.com, Phone: 925-699-6961. 2. Names of structures to be augmented: Edwall Well and Kulisz Well. The wells are not currently permitted or decreed. A conditional underground water right for each well is sought herein. See section 5, below. Applicants will apply for well permits to be issued in accordance with the final decree entered in this proceeding. Edwall and Kulisz own and are developing the following property (Property) into a two-lot subdivision, each of which lots will have a well and/or will be supplied by a well on the Property. The Property is described as follows: a 54-acre parcel in the south half of the south half of Section 8, Township 4 South, Range 71 West, 6th P.M., Jefferson County, Colorado. The legal description and a general location map of the Property are contained, respectively, in Exhibits A and B, which are attached to the application filed with the Court and incorporated herein by reference. The proposed locations of the wells are shown in Exhibit B. However, Applicants seek the right to drill each well anywhere on the Property within the two-lot subdivision. Applicants will identify the specific point of diversion of each well in their application to make the conditional underground water rights absolute. Applicants request that the augmentation plan for which a decree is sought apply also to any replacement, supplemental, or additional wells that may subsequently be permitted as necessary to allow Applicants to obtain the water supply for the Property described herein. 3. Water rights to be used for augmentation: 0.50 acre-feet of water per year available to Applicants pursuant to a Water Supply Agreement (“Agreement”) that Applicants are negotiating with the City of Idaho Springs, a Colorado municipal corporation organized under the laws of the State of Colorado and acting by and through its Idaho Springs Water Activity Enterprise (“Idaho Springs”). Idaho Springs is the owner and operator of the Idaho Springs Reservoir, also known as Chicago Creek Reservoir (the “Reservoir”), located on Chicago Creek, a tributary of Clear Creek, in Clear Creek County, Colorado. More particularly, the Reservoir is generally located in the west half of Section 6, Township 5 South, Range 73 West, of the 6th P.M., and the east half of Section 1, Township 5

South, Range 74 West, of the 6th P.M. Water stored in the Reservoir was decreed to Idaho Springs by the District Court for Water Division 1 in Case Nos. 84CW508 and 84CW671, and is decreed for use for augmentation purposes. Pursuant to the Agreement that Applicants are negotiating with Idaho Springs, Idaho Springs will lease and agree to provide to Applicants one-half (1/2) of an acre-foot of water (“Subject Water”) each year during the term of the Agreement, subject to the limitations, terms, and conditions stated in the Agreement. The Subject Water will be delivered by Idaho Springs by measured direct flow releases from the Reservoir, or, in Idaho Springs’ discretion, from such other water rights owned by or otherwise available to Idaho Springs which may be lawfully used to supply water to Applicants under the terms and conditions of the Agreement. The term of the Agreement being negotiated is twenty-five (25) years, and the Agreement is proposed to automatically renew for additional five (5) year terms unless, within thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of the then current term, either party provides written notice to the other party that the term of the Agreement shall not be extended. The location of the Reservoir is marked on Exhibit C, which is a USGS topographic map, attached to the application filed with the Court and incorporated herein by reference. Pursuant to C.R.S. Section 37-92-305(8) (c), the decree sought herein may provide procedures to allow additional or alternative sources of augmentation or replacement water, including water leased or purchased on a yearly or less frequent basis, to be used in the plan after the initial decree is entered if the use of the additional or alternative sources is part of a substitute water supply plan approved pursuant to C.R.S. Section 37-92-305(8) or if such sources are decreed for such use or are otherwise lawfully available. 4. Statement of plan for augmentation:

4.1 Water Demands: Applicants own the Property and are developing it into a two-lot subdivision, which will include two residences, irrigation (2,000 square feet per lot), domestic animals (up to four large animals per lot), two hot tubs, and a shop with equipment washing. The water demand estimates for the two-lot subdivision are as follows: household use - 0.6 acre-feet per year based on CDWR’s Standard HHU Estimate of 0.3 acre-feet per year per household; irrigation – 0.2 acre-feet per year based on CDWR’s estimate of 0.05 acre-feet per year per 1,000 square feet of lawn; domestic animals – 0.1 acre-feet per year based on CDWR’s Estimate on four large animals (i.e., four horses at 0.05 acre-feet per year); hot tubs – 0.009 acre-feet per year based on up to three fills per year at 500 gallons per tub; single shop and equipment washing – 0.031 acre-feet per year based on Applicants’ projected use of 10,000 gallons per year. The total projected demand for the two lots is 0.94 acre-feet per year. Applicants reserve the right to revise the proposed annual amounts and uses without having to amend or republish this application, provided that any resulting revised consumptive use amount is within the amount that can be augmented by the replacement supply proposed herein. 4.2 Stream depletions and Replacement: The total estimated consumptive use is estimated to be 0.37 acre-feet per year, comprised of 0.06 acre-feet per year associated with household use; 0.17 acre-feet per year associated with irrigation use; 0.1 acre-feet per year associated with domestic animals’ use; 0.009 acre-feet per year associated with hot tub use; and 0.031 acrefeet per year associated with single shop and equipment watering use. Sewage treatment will be provided by a nonevaporative septic system. Return flows will be approximately 61 percent of total water usage on the two lots. Applicants estimate that stream depletions will accrue to Soda Creek, a tributary of Beaver Brook, a tributary of Clear Creek, a tributary of the South Platte River, and that return flows will accrue to the same stream system. The depletions from well pumping will affect a reach of Soda Creek in the southwest quarter of Section 8, Township 4 South, Range 71 West, 6th P.M. (“Depletion Reach”), which location is depicted in Exhibit B. Applicants will take credit for return flows and will replace out-of-priority depletions to the stream caused by withdrawals from the wells. To replace such depletions, augmentation water is proposed to be delivered by Idaho Springs by measured direct flow releases from the Reservoir, or, in Idaho Springs’ discretion, from such other water rights owned by or otherwise available to Idaho Springs which may be lawfully used to supply water to Applicants under the terms and conditions of the proposed Agreement. Applicants acknowledge that transit losses may be assessed by the Division Engineer on the delivery of such augmentation water. Due to the small volume of annual stream depletions projected to occur under this plan, instantaneous stream depletions may be aggregated and replaced by one or more releases of short duration. 4.3 Exchange Project:

The augmentation supply will be delivered to the confluence of Beaver Brook and Clear Creek, which - per the DWR Map Viewer - is located in the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 3, Township 4 South, Range 71 West, of the 6th P.M. The location where stream depletions from the well pumping affect the stream system is the Depletion Reach described in section 4.2, above, which is upstream of the location where the augmentation water is delivered. Since the location of the augmentation supply delivery is below the location of the Depletion Reach, an exchange project is involved. The reach of the exchange project is from the confluence of Beaver Brook with Clear Creek to the most upstream point of the Depletion Reach (“Exchange Reach”). The date of appropriation of the exchange project right is July 5, 2023. The appropriation was initiated by Applicants’ formation of the intent to appropriate the water exchange project right followed by actions to further and give notice of the appropriation including, but not limited to, the filing of this application. The maximum rate of the water exchange project right will be determined herein, and is presently estimated to be 0.113 cubic feet per second. The maximum volume of the water exchange project right will be determined herein, and is presently estimated to be 0.224 acre-feet. Without amending the application, Applicants reserve the right to revise the rate and volume of the water exchange project right as necessary to reflect the well pumping and augmentation operations proposed herein. The source of substitute supply for the water exchange project and water exchange project right is the 0.5 acre-feet per year available to Applicants pursuant to the proposed Agreement with Idaho Springs or such other replacement water that may be added to the plan pursuant to C.R.S. Section 37-92-305(8). The proposed use is augmentation of the well depletions described herein. The water exchange project and water exchange project right will operate to replace depletions to the flow of water in the stream system as the depletions occur. The water exchange project and water exchange project right will be operated and administered with a priority date of July 5, 2023, at the maximum flow rate determined herein. Applicants’ augmentation plan will cause depletion of the Exchange Reach described above, and future water rights in the Exchange Reach that are junior to an appropriation and priority date of July 5, 2023 will not be allowed to call out Applicants’ well pumping and/or augmentation plan. 5. Underground water rights: Applicants seek two underground water rights, one for the Edwall Well and one for the Kulisz Well described above in section 2. The name and permit information, as well as the proposed locations of the wells, are described in section 2. The proposed locations of the wells are shown on Exhibit B attached to the water court application. The source of water is groundwater, tributary to Soda Creek, tributary to Beaver Brook, tributary to Clear Creek, tributary to the South Platte River. The estimated depth of the Edwall Well is approximately 600 feet. The estimated depth of the Kulisz Well is approximately 600 feet. The date of appropriation of each well is July 5, 2023. The appropriations were initiated by formation of the intent to construct each well to supply water to its respective lot within the two-lot subdivision, followed by overt acts that gave notice of the appropriations, including the filing of this application. The amount claimed is 15 gallons per minute (0.033 cubic feet per second), conditional, for each well. The use of each well is water supply for the two-lot subdivision, as described above in sections 4.1 and 4.2. The wells will operate pursuant to the augmentation plan to be decreed in this case. 6. Name(s) of the owners of the land upon which any new diversion or storage structure or modification to any existing diversion or storage structure or existing storage pool is or will be constructed or upon which water is or will be stored: Same as Applicants. WHEREFORE, Applicants request the Court to enter a decree confirming the underground water rights claimed herein and approving the plan for augmentation including water exchange project and exchange project right described herein and finding that the exercise of the underground water rights and the augmentation plan including water exchange project and exchange project right will not cause injury to any owner of or persons entitled to use water under a vested water right or a decreed conditional water right if approved on the terms and conditions proposed and/or to be determined herein, and to grant such other relief as the Court deems proper under the circumstances. Five pages, plus verification page and three pages of Exhibits. THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN

AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.

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

Legal Notice No. CCC674

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: August 24, 2023

Publisher: Clear Creek Courant

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO JULY 2023 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION

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

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

2023CW3088 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF CLEAR CREEK, (“Applicant” or the “County”), c/o Water Resources Department, P.O. Box 2000, Georgetown, CO 80444; Email: lleben@clearcreekcounty.us; Telephone: (303) 679-2434. Please direct all correspondence concerning this Application to: Peter C. Johnson, Esq., Andrea A. Kehrl, Esq., and Bradley N. Kershaw, Esq., Vranesh and Raisch, LLP, 5303 Spine Road, Suite 202, Boulder, CO 80301; Email: pcj@vrlaw.com; aak@vrlaw.com; bnk@vrlaw.com; Telephone: (303) 443-6151. APPLICATION FOR FINDINGS

OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE IN CLEAR CREEK COUNTY. In prior decrees for the subject water rights, described below, Applicant was identified as a Co-Applicant with the Clear Creek Economic Development Board. On June 6, 2023, the Clear Creek Economic Development Board conveyed the subject water rights to the board of county commissioners of the county of Clear Creek by Quitclaim Deed. Applicant has filed a notice of transfer of conditional water rights in the underlying case. 2. Names of Appropriative Rights of Substitution and Exchange: A. Johnson Gulch Exchange B. Clear Creek Reservoir Nos. 3 and 4 Exchange C. Ball Placer Reservoir Exchange D. Clear Creek Exchange E. Idaho Springs Reservoir Exchange F. Upper Beaver Brook Reservoir Exchange The aforementioned appropriative rights of substitution and exchange are referred to collectively as the “Subject Water Rights.” Exercising the Subject Water Rights allows Applicant to deliver certain water, identified below, to Clear Creek in order to divert an equivalent amount of water from the tributaries to or the mainstem of Clear Creek, as described further below. 3. Description of Subject Water Rights: A. Date of Original Decree: The Subject Water Rights were originally decreed in Case No. 02CW310, District Court, Water Division No. 1, entered October 20, 2010. B. Subsequent Decrees Awarding Findings of Diligence: Case No. 16CW3144, District Court, Water Division No. 1, entered on July 28, 2017. C. Legal Descriptions: All Exchange Reaches are located in Clear Creek County, except as provided otherwise below: 1. Johnson Gulch Exchange: The exchange reach will be located on Johnson Gulch, a tributary to Clear Creek. The upstream terminus will be Upper Johnson Gulch Reservoir, which will have a dam located in the NW1/4 NE1/4 of Section 3, T4S, R72W, 6th P.M. at a point approximately 900 feet from the North section line and 1,900 feet from the East section line of said Section 3. The downstream terminus will be the confluence of Johnson Gulch and the mainstem of Clear Creek in the SE1/4 SE1/4, Section 34, T3S, R72W, 6th P.M., at a point approximately 210 feet from the South section line and 950 feet from the East section line of said Section 34. The Applicant will also utilize the Johnson Gulch Exchange to store water in Clear Creek Reservoir No. 2, which will be located within the exchange reach.

2. Clear Creek Reservoir Nos. 3 and 4 Exchange:

The exchange reach will be located on an unnamed tributary to Clear Creek which will fill Clear Creek Reservoir Nos. 3 and 4. The upstream terminus will be Clear Creek Reservoir No. 4, which will have a dam located in the SW1/4 NW1/4, Section 34, T3S, R72W, 6th P.M. at a point approximately 300 feet from the West section line and 1,800 feet from the North section line of said Section 34. The downstream terminus of said exchange will be the confluence of the unnamed tributary which fills Clear Creek Reservoir No. 4 and the mainstem of Clear Creek in the NE1/4 SW1/4, Section 34, T3S, R72W, 6th P.M., at a point approximately 1,400 feet from the West section line and 2,050 feet from the South section line of said Section 34. 3. Ball Placer Reservoir Exchange: The exchange reach will be located on Bard Creek, a tributary to Clear Creek and on the West Fork of Clear Creek. The upstream terminus will be the Ball Placer Pipeline, which will be located in the NW1/4 NW1/4, Section 33, T3S, R74W, 6th P.M., at a point approximately 320 feet from the West section line and 480 feet from the North section line of said Section 33. The downstream terminus of the exchange will be the confluence of West Fork of Clear Creek and the mainstem of Clear Creek in the NW1/4 SE1/4 Section 27, T3S, R74W, 6th P.M., at a point approximately 2,010 feet from the South section line and 2,160 feet from the East section line of said Section 27. Water will also be exchanged within the exchange reach from the confluence of Bard Creek and West Fork of Clear Creek to the upper terminus of the exchange reach. Said exchange shall only be made with the written consent of the Town of Empire to store water in the Ball Placer Reservoir. 4. Clear Creek Exchange: The exchange reach will be located on the mainstem of Clear Creek. The upstream terminus will be the Bakerville Reservoir No. 2 which will have a dam located in T4S, R75W, 6th P.M. at a point on Clear Creek whence the NW1/4 corner of Section 22, T4S, R75W, 6th P.M. bears N 86° 0’ E a distance of 11,000 feet. The downstream terminus of said exchange will be the confluence of the West Fork of Clear Creek and the mainstem of Clear Creek located in the NW1/4 SE1/4 Section 27, T3S, R74W, 6th P.M., at a point approximately 2,010 feet from the South section line and 2,160 feet from the East section line of said Section 27. Water from the downstream terminus and an intermediate point within the exchange reach at the confluence of the South Fork of Clear Creek and the mainstem of Clear Creek will be exchanged upstream to both Bakerville Reservoir No. 1, which is located within the exchange reach and Bakerville Reservoir No. 2, which is the upstream terminus of the exchange reach. 5. Idaho Springs Reservoir Exchange: The exchange reach is located on Chicago Creek, a tributary to Clear Creek. The upstream terminus is Idaho Springs Reservoir located on Chicago Creek in the SE1/4 NE1/4, Section 1, T5S, R74W, 6th P.M., at a point approximately 2,380 feet from the North section line and 160 feet from the East section line of said Section 1. The downstream terminus of said exchange is the confluence of Chicago Creek and Clear Creek at a point in the SE1/4 SE1/4, Section 35, T3S, R73W, 6th P.M., at a point approximately 530 feet from the South section line and 630 feet from the East section line of said Section 35. Said exchange shall only be made with the written consent of the City of Idaho Springs to store water in the Idaho Springs Reservoir. 6. Upper Beaver Brook Reservoir Exchange: The exchange reach will be located on Beaver Brook, a tributary to Clear Creek. The upstream terminus of the Upper Beaver Brook Reservoir Exchange will be the Upper Beaver Brook Reservoir located in the SW1/4 SE1/4, Section 15, T4S, R72W, 6th P.M., at a point approximately 100 feet from the South section line and 2,270 feet from the East section line of said Section 15. The downstream terminus of said exchange will be the confluence of Beaver Brook and Clear Creek located in the NE1/4 NW1/4, Section 3, T4S, R71W, 6th P.M., at a point approximately 1,370 feet from the North section line and 2,320 feet from the West section line of said Section 3. The exchange reach lies within both Clear Creek and Jefferson Counties. Said exchange shall only be made with the written consent of the Lookout Mountain Water District to store water in the Upper Beaver Brook Reservoir. 7. A map showing the approximate locations of the above-described structures and the substitution and exchange reaches are attached hereto as Exhibit 1. D. Water and Water Rights to be Used for Substitution and Exchanges: All water available to Applicants for substitution and exchange purposes. Said sources currently include, but will not be limited to, the following: 1.

Vidler Tunnel Water Rights: Clear Creek County currently owns 71 acre feet of fully consumable water from the Vidler Tunnel. The Vidler Tunnel system water rights are comprised of the following: (a) Rice Ranch Rights: A total of 361 con-

sumptive acre feet, at a total maximum diversion rate of 31.22 cubic feet per second (“cfs”), was decreed by the District Court in and for Water Division No. 5, in Case Nos. W-217 and W-2110, for domestic, irrigation and use on the Eastern slope and being historically attributable to the following described water rights: (i) Rice Ditch, decreed for 4.50 cfs with a May 3, 1893 appropriation date and a March 2, 1910 adjudication date. The originally decreed headgate of the Rice Ditch is located on the left (south) bank of the Snake River in the NW1/4 SE1/4 of Section 22, T5S, R77W, 6th P.M.; (ii) Soda Creek Ditch, decreed for 2.72 cfs with a July 1, 1900 appropriation date and March 10, 1952 adjudication date. The originally decreed headgate of the Soda Creek Ditch is located on the right (east) bank of the Soda Creek at a point whence the South quarter corner of Section 27, T5S, R77W, 6th P.M., bears South 10°5’ East a distance of 940 feet; (iii) Phillips Ditch, decreed for 4.00 cfs with a June 1, 1904 appropriation date and a March 2, 1910 adjudication date. The originally decreed headgate of the Phillips Ditch is located on the left (west) bank of the Keystone Creek in the SW1/4 SW1/4 of Section 14, T5S, R 77W, 6th P.M.; (iv) Rice Ditch - Riley Enlargement, decreed for 10.00 cfs with a July 5, 1914 appropriation date and an October 26, 1937 adjudication date. The originally decreed headgate of the Riley Enlargement is located on the left (south) bank of the Snake River at a point whence the SW corner of Section 22, T5S, R77W, 6th P.M., bears South 54°46’ West a distance of 3845 feet; and (v) Rice Ditch - Rice Enlargement, decreed for 10.00 cfs with a July 5, 1914 appropriation date and a March 10, 1952 adjudication date. The originally decreed headgate of the Rice Enlargement is the same as the Rice Ditch - Riley Enlargement. (b) Arduser Ditch Rights: A total of 52.5 consumptive acre feet, at a total maximum diversion rate of 3 cfs, was decreed by the Summit County District Court in Case No. 2350 for all purposes including irrigation, domestic and manufacturing and being historically attributable to the Arduser Ditch, Ditch No. 230, Priority No. 249, decreed by the Summit County District Court in Civil Action No. 1709 for 3 cfs, with a September 28, 1934 appropriation date and an October 26, 1937 adjudication date. 2. Henderson Mine Water: Clear Creek County currently has a long-term lease for 12 acre-feet of fully consumable water from the Henderson Mine which has the following water rights: (a)

Date entered: (i) Water Division No. 1 Decrees: Decreed as conditional on September 5, 1973, and made absolute on July 16, 1980. (ii) Water Division No. 5 Decrees: Decreed as conditional on August 10, 1973, and made absolute on March 17, 1978. (b) Case Nos.: (i) Water Division No. 1 Decrees: Case Nos. W-7158, W-715877, 81CW275 and 85CW235. (ii) Water Division No.

5 Decrees: Case Nos. W-1700 and W-1700A-77.

(c) Courts: District Courts, Water Division Nos. 1 and 5, State of Colorado. (d) Type of water right (surface, underground storage): Non-tributary groundwater. (e) Legal Description of Points of Diversion or Place of Storage: Beginning at a point at the center of Shaft No. 1 whence USLM Mineral Monument Rue bears N. 73 degrees 42’ E a distance of 3208.4 feet. This is an unsurveyed area but appears to be in Section 25, T3S, R76W of the 6th P.M., Clear Creek County. Alternate Point of Diversion: Henderson Shaft No. 2 – Beginning at a point at the center of Shaft No. 2 whence USLM Mineral Monument Rue bears N. 77 degrees 16’ 46” E a distance of 4931.33 feet. This is an unsurveyed area but appears to be in Section 25, T3S, R76W of the 6th P.M., Clear Creek County. Note: The Rue Mineral Monument is located at North Latitude 39 degrees 46’ 17” and West Longitude 105 degrees 49’ 58”. (f) Source: Non-tributary groundwater from the Henderson Mine. (g) Amount: 5 cfs absolute from Water Division 1; 0.349 cfs absolute from Water Division 5. (h) Appropriation Date: April 1, 1967. (i) Decreed Uses: Industrial, domestic, irrigation, municipal, piscatorial, recreational, and all other lawful uses. 3. Additional Sources: Applicant may use any additional source of decreed fully consumptive water for substitution and exchange that is available at or above the downstream terminus of the exchange being utilized, provided, however that Applicant shall not use effluent which is generated upstream of the Church Ditch as a source of substitution and exchange. E. Appropriation Dates and Amounts of Substitutions and Exchanges: 1. Johnson Gulch Exchange: December 19, 2002; 1.0 cfs CONDITIONAL. 2. Clear Creek Reservoir Nos. 3 and 4 Exchange: December 19, 2002; 0.5 cfs CONDITIONAL. 3. Ball Placer Reservoir Exchange: December 19, 2002; 5.0 cfs CONDITIONAL. 4. Clear Creek Exchange: December 19, 2002; 5.0 cfs CONDITIONAL. 5. Idaho Springs Reservoir Exchange: June 2, 2002; 2.0 cfs, of which 1.0 cfs is ABSOLUTE and 1.0 cfs CONDITIONAL. 6. Upper Beaver Brook Reser-

voir Exchange: December 19, 2002; 0.5 cfs CONDITIONAL. F. Uses of Water: All municipal uses within Clear Creek County including domestic, irrigation, lake level maintenance, industrial, commercial, fire protection, recreation, piscatorial, storage, augmentation, exchange, replacement and all other municipal uses. Such uses include the right to fully consumptive uses of the water for the above-described purposes and to use, reuse, and successfully use the water to extinction.

4. Absolute Claims: The Applicant does not seek to make any additional portion of the Subject Water Rights absolute in this Application. 5. Provide a detailed outline of what has been done toward completion or for completion of the appropriation and application of water to beneficial use as conditionally decreed, including expenditures, during the previous diligence period: A. The Subject Water Rights are part of an integrated system operated by the Applicant for use of water within Clear Creek County, which system includes other reservoirs, exchanges, and senior water rights. Pursuant to § 37-92-301(4) (b), C.R.S., work performed, effort, and cost expended on one feature of the project or system shall be considered in finding that reasonable diligence has been shown in the development of water rights for all features of the entire project or system. B. The Subject Water Rights are incorporated into Clear Creek County’s basin-wide augmentation plan decreed in Case No. 05CW302 (hereinafter, “Basin-Wide Augmentation Plan”). Throughout the diligence period of July 28, 2017 to the present (“Diligence Period”), the County has operated, managed, administered, and maintained accounting for the BasinWide Augmentation Plan. During the Diligence Period, the County followed the decreed procedure to include ten new plan participants in the Basin-Wide Augmentation Plan, and the County currently is undertaking the process to add two new plan participants. C. During the Diligence Period, the County has continued to install, maintain, and upgrade its integrated water system, including but not limited to certain structures for the Subject Water Rights. D. The County has participated in numerous regional and statewide water planning efforts during the Diligence Period. The County continues to actively attend and exercise its voting membership duties on the South Platte River Basin Roundtable in preparation and adoption of the 2023 update to the State Water Plan. Certain of the County’s reservoirs are identified in the draft 2023 update to the Colorado Water Plan’s Basin Implementation Plan for purposes of funding studies and construction of certain facilities through the Identified Project and Process. The County also has engaged in internal water planning efforts. E. During the Diligence Period, the County has maintained its water rights portfolio and prosecuted several water court applications related to its water rights, including: Upper Johnson Gulch Reservoir (Case No. 17CW3007, entered September 14, 2017); Grizzly Gulch Reservoir (Case No. 17CW3115, entered March 1, 2018); Green Lake (Case No. 18CW3184, entered June 25, 2019); Leavenworth Reservoirs Nos. 1 and 2 and Bakerville Reservoirs Nos. 1 and 2 (Case No. 19CW3095, entered November 19, 2019); Basin-Wide Augmentation Plan exchanges for two of the Subject Water Rights (Case No. 20CW3082, entered April 6, 2021); amendment to King Murphy School Pond augmentation plan (Case No. 20CW3165, entered April 14, 2022); and Clear Creek Reservoirs Nos. 2 – 4 and Clear Creek Diversion Structures A, B, and D (Case No. 22CW3179, entered June 6, 2023). F. In spring of 2022, County staff attended a meeting with the Freis and their representatives regarding the development of a public - private partnership for the development and construction of Clear Creek Reservoirs Nos. 3 and 4, which are exchange-to structures for the Subject Water Rights. G. During the Diligence Period, the County monitored the Water Court applications in Division No. 1 and opposed approximately eight (8) Water Court applications to protect its water rights, including the Subject Water Rights. H. The County expended approximately $1.4 million, and dedicated additional staff time, towards the activities described above during the Diligence Period. 6. Names and addresses of owners or reputed owners of the land upon which any new diversion or storage structure, or modification to any existing diversion or storage structure is or will be constructed or upon which water is or will be stored, including any modification to the existing storage pool: A. Nickolas J. & Shannon L. Williamson, 1647 Elk Valley Drive, Evergreen, CO 80439 B. AR & MJ Frei Limited Partnership, 35715 Hwy. 40, Bldg. B, Suite 120, Evergreen, CO 80439 C. Albert and Mary Jane Frei Irrevocable Trust, 35715 Hwy. 40, Bldg. B, Suite 120, Evergreen, CO 80439 D. Newton Family Investment Company, 171 Bard Creek Road, Empire, CO 80438 E. U.S. Forest Service, P.O. Box 3307, Idaho Springs, CO 80452 F. City of Idaho Springs

, P.O. Box 907, Idaho Springs, CO 80452 G. Lookout Mountain Water District, c/o Robert Heine, 1202 Bergen Parkway, Suite 215, Evergreen, CO 80439 H. Town of Empire, P.O. Box 100, Empire, CO 80438 I. Colorado Department of Transportation, 2829 W. Howard Place, Denver, CO 80204 7. Remarks or other pertinent information: Structures will be located on lands owned by Colorado Department of Transportation (“CDOT”) only after all necessary approvals from that state agency. In the event that the Applicant needs to access CDOT right-of-way for any purpose, the Applicant shall obtain a utility permit (or any other required instrument) from CDOT. WHEREFORE, Applicant seek entry of a decree by the Court that grants findings of reasonable diligence for the Subject Water Rights in their entirety, continues the conditional Subject Water Rights for another diligence period, and confirms Applicant’s right to complete the appropriations to the full decreed extent. (15 pgs., 1 Exhibit)

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

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

Legal Notice No. CCC675

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: August 24, 2023

Publisher: Clear Creek Courant

Notice to Creditors

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Delene M. Geisness, a/k/a Delene Martha Geisness, a/k/a Delene Geisness, a/k/a Dee Geisness, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30021

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Clear Creek County, Colorado on or before December 11, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Marvin P. Geisness

Personal Representative c/o Douglas A. Turner, P.C. 602 Park Point Drive, Suite 240 Golden, CO 80401

Legal Notice No. CCC665

First Publication: August 10, 2023

Last Publication: August 24, 2023

Publisher: Clear Creek Courant

Name Changes

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on August 4, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Clear Creek County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Inger Elisabeth Greipsland Garvais be changed to Inger Elisabeth Garvais Case No.: 23 C 45

By: Judge

Legal Notice No. CCC671

First Publication: August 17, 2023

Last Publication: August 31, 2023

Publisher: Clear Creek Courant