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Castle Rock ups presence on county homelessness initiative

County looks to take over control of Daniels Park from the City of Denver Land could cost half a billion dollars

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Castle Rock Mayor Jason Gray

Mayor Gray added to initiative

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Following contentious conversations about a proposal to locate

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temporary housing near the Douglas County Justice Center, Castle Rock Mayor Jason Gray has been added as a town representative to the Douglas County Homelessness Initiative.

In May, Castle Rock Town Council members were made aware of the potential to locate temporary housing pods in the downtown area to

help provide shelter to residents experiencing homelessness. A majority of the council opposed the idea and directed staff to send a letter to the initiative voicing disagreement with the idea.

Only Town Councilman Tim Dietz, who sits on the Douglas County SEE INITIATIVE, P12

County buys shelters as part of addressing local homelessness Facilities don’t yet have a set location

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Douglas County is moving forward with acquiring 17 temporary

shelters as part of their plan to address the rise in local homelessness.

The “Pallet” structures are 64 square feet, collapsible and include air conditioning, mattresses and electricity. They will cost the county about $200,000.

Commissioners Abe Laydon and George Teal voted to approve the decision in a June 13 meeting.

“We’re not interested in building residential communities for the homeless or creating encampments on any level,” Laydon said. “We’re looking to support our code enforcement and by law in order to have that code enforcement there has to be a place for people to go.”

Douglas County is looking at ways to take over a Denver park located in the county, a move that City of Denver officials say could cost the county at least half a billion dollars.

Daniels Park, located between Highlands Ranch and Castle Pines, is owned by the city and known for its bison herd.

The decision by Douglas County commissioners to look into the topic comes about a month after Denver City Council voted to ban concealed carry firearms in its parks. While Denver Parks and Recreation Deputy Director Scott Gilmore said he was told this was the reason for the possible takeover, multiple calls and texts to Commissioner George Teal to confirm that claim went unanswered.

In a Monday work session, the county commissioners voted to direct legal counsel to proceed with gathering information about how to “bring Daniels Park into Douglas County ownership.” Teal and Commissioner Abe Laydon voted in favor of the motion while Commissioner Lora Thomas voted against it.

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June 23, 2022

Briefly In Douglas County Application withdrawn for store/gas station The Town of Castle Rock announced last week that the convenience store chain Kum & Go has withdrawn its application to rezone property at the southwest corner of Crystal Valley Parkway and Plum Creek Boulevard to allow them to construct a gas station and convenience store there.

“Over the past several months, we have carefully reviewed and taken into consideration feedback from the surrounding community,” a representative of the chain wrote in a letter to the town. “While we believe we could have mitigated many of the concerns expressed by residents, we felt it was important to respect their strong desire not to have a fueling station at this location.”

Kum & Go had submitted the application and held two townrequired neighborhood meetings in 2021. Dozens of residents participated in the meetings to share their concerns regarding the proposed rezoning.

“We’re thankful that the residents in this area so actively participated in the town’s development process,” said Mayor Jason Gray. “The town

Quick response ends fire threat On June 16, the Douglas County Office of Emergency Management, South Metro and West Douglas Fire Departments had what county officials called a “hard, heavy, fast” response to

The Elephant Rock Fire near Devil’s Head. These agencies combined with the county’s exclusive-use helicopter quickly contained a fire in less than one hour, according to the social media post.

heard you, and more importantly, Kum & Go heard you and has abandoned its efforts to pursue a store on Crystal Valley Parkway.”

A Colorado-based company owns the property in question, for which the currently permitted uses include retail sales and service, grocery, drugstore, convenience goods, personal service shops, fast food restaurants with a drive-thru, banks, offices, medical/dental, insurance and related services.

The current permitted uses do not include a gas station, which is why Kum & Go had proposed a rezoning.

“I’m proud to have helped many residents of District 6 achieve what they think is the best outcome for their neighborhood on this item,” said Town Councilmember Tim Dietz, who represents the area.

Kum & Go stated in its letter that it is eager to serve Castle Rock and will be seeking “more appropriate locations” from which to do so.

The chain presently has a store under construction at the northwest corner of Meadows Parkway and Lombard Street, which will be its first location in town. The Iowa-based company operates more than 400 locations, primarily in the Midwest.

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This new law means that when an intersection is clear and they already have the right of way, bicyclists ages 15 and older may treat stop signs as yield signs and stoplights as stop signs. Learn more at https://bit. ly/3xJrL5F.

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State gets closer to combining mental, medical care Some new laws and money should help Colorado reach longtime goal

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

Almost a quarter of the residents of Routt and Moffat counties use the local community health center, which is why it has tried to incorporate mental health screenings for anyone who comes in for a checkup — or even a toothache.

Northwest Colorado Health, with offices in Steamboat Springs and Craig, began integrating mental health care a decade ago, trying to catch early signs of depression and send patients to therapy appointments, either on site or to the region’s community mental health center. It added mental health screenings to dental appointments in 2017.

Yet, like many of Colorado’s 20 community health centers spread statewide, Northwest can’t hire enough counselors and social workers to keep a full staff and is constantly scrambling to keep up with its behavioral health goals. Patients who can’t get an in-person appointment are linked via telehealth to a therapist who doesn’t live in northwest Colorado.

“The asterisk is that when we are fully staffed, we are fully integrated,” said Stephanie Einfeld, CEO of Northwest Colorado Health. “That’s truly been a big barrier of ours.”

Northwest Colorado Health is the community health center for Routt and Moffat counties. Patients receive mental health screenings during medical and dental appointments but the center struggles to hire enough behavioral health staff.

(Provided by Northwest Health) Colorado has been talking about true integration of mental and physical health care for years, if not decades, in what many experts see as the key to addressing the state’s suicide and mental health crisis.

Now, an influx of federal coronavirus relief funds will supercharge the work.

One piece of legislation passed

by Colorado lawmakers this year provides $35 million for community health centers, doctors’ offices and clinics to add mental health offerings — whether they’re starting from none or have ambitious plans to ramp up services. Another new law designates $11 million to add more mental health care to schoolbased health clinics and pediatricians’ offices. Two other bills focus on recruitment and retention of therapists, psychologists and substance abuse counselors.

“We will never see this kind of funding again,” said Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, who was a prime sponsor of House Bill 1302 that put $35 million into “whole-person care.”

What many clinics need are technology boosts to improve telehealth options, as well as funding to hire more therapists, she said. Colorado lost too many behavioral health providers to retirement and burnout in recent years, and then the coronavirus pandemic sent rates of depression and anxiety to new heights.

“It’s always a balancing act with whole-person care, that you have to have the providers accessible and on hand,” said the senator, a Boulder Democrat and a pharmacist.

Clinics can apply for the grant dollars to expand hours to offer night and weekend behavioral health care for working parents who are struggling. They could use it to put employees through advanced training so they can screen for mental health issues or provide therapy.

Under a companion bill aimed at increasing the workforce, community colleges can seek funds to expand night and weekend programs for health care workers who want to go into mental health or advance their careers but don’t want to leave their jobs. Also included: funding to expand a program in which robots are dispatched to remote parts of the state to teach health care professionals how to perform certain

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In the next five years or so, Jaquez Lewis envisions that colleges will offer free tuition to those interested in working in health care and mental health. And patients — no matter where they go for health care — will get preventative behavioral health care without hardly noticing.

“It’s done so seamlessly as part of the regular questions that the patient doesn’t even know what’s going on,” the senator said. “It’s not like, ‘Now we are going to screen you to see if you have mental health issues.’”

“We’re trying to finally gear things for reality.”

The $35 million bill is a continuation of a now-dead federal grant program, called the state innovation model. Under the program, from 2015-19, 344 primary care practices received funding to integrate mental health care. A federal evaluation showed the program resulted in fewer behavioral health-related visits to hospital emergency departments, but then the funds stopped.

The efforts to better incorporate mental health care into medical offices come at the same time Colorado is attempting to revamp the state’s community mental health system, which includes 17 centers across the state. New rules will open the centers, which have operated under no-bid contracts to take care of patients with Medicaid or no insurance, up to competition — including potentially from some of the state’s 20 community health clinics that offer medical and dental care.

Community health clinics, ranging from Tepeyac and STRIDE centers in the Denver metro area to Uncompahgre Medical Center in Norwood, began offering mental health care as far back as 2006 or 2007, according to the Colorado Community Health Network. But those services have expanded to the point that today, the centers often have a mental health professional sit in on medical appointments or, at the least, have a medical employ-

ee ask screening questions about whether a person feels depressed or has thoughts of wanting to die.

The reason community health centers must incorporate mental health care is that 1 in 7 Coloradans get primary care from a local community clinic, said Taylor Miranda Thompson, the senior quality initiatives manager for the network.

That’s 847,000 patients at 230 clinics in 45 of Colorado’s 64 counties.

“The focus for health centers is prevention, and that can mean identifying a patient with depression symptoms … or chronic stress or difficulty sleeping, or even screening for thoughts of suicide,” she said.

Each of the 20 community health centers in Colorado connects with its local mental health center to hand off patients who have more severe mental health issues.

Across the board, the centers need more staff and funding for technology upgrades. When the pandemic hit, many quickly transitioned to telehealth. Now that the sense of urgency has decreased, and there is funding available, health centers are looking to upgrade their platforms, said Stephanie Brooks, the community health network’s policy director.

And in rural areas, health centers are hoping that legislative reforms bring better broadband services so that patients will have more reliable video connections during virtual appointments, she said.

“The health centers all have some very quickly set up telehealth platform, but because they had to set it up so quickly, they have more to do,” Brooks said. “You can do it fast, cheap or really good. I think they’re working on making it really good.”

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

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Commissioner Lora Thomas voted against the decision, saying she felt the county wasn’t ready for the move.

Laydon has said that because of a decision by a district court judge in Fort Collins, the county must have a shelter available in order to enforce camping restrictions. In the case, People vs. Wiemold, the judge ruled that a man couldn’t be cited for violating a camping ban because there was no shelter available to him.

The county currently only has a ban on camping in parks and open space in the county.

While there is a Winter Shelter Network in the county from November to March, the option is only available to women and children.

The county also recently appropriated funds to participate in the Arapahoe County GOALS facility, which is limited to families. There is no other shelter available in the county.

The Pallet structure concept is modeled after a similar program in Aurora.

Location of shelter The Town of Castle Rock recently voted to write a letter to the commissioners stating they were not in favor of a possible plan to place the shelters by the justice center, which is located in the town.

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Pallet shelters at Aurora Safe Outdoor Space help provide temporary housing and resources to homeless people. Douglas County is considering a similar model and plans to discuss possible locations at the June 9 homelessness initiative meeting.

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for our homeless and at the same time, I don’t think there’s a place in Castle Rock to have a shelter, I think that there are other places in Douglas County that lend itself to a shelter better than us,” Mayor Jason Gray said.

In a June 9 meeting of the Douglas County Homeless Initiative, Director of Human Services Dan Makelky said staff has looked at locations throughout the county for the pallets to be placed, including in an industrial park off Santa Fe Drive in Highlands Ranch.

Once locations are identified, staff will have to present the findings to commissioners before any decision is made, he said. A spokesperson for the county said no meet-

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“Candidly we’ve had a lot of tours, a lot of discussion, staff has worked to identify locations that make sense that are non-residential that don’t impact communities negatively, but nothing official has been decided,” Laydon said.

The county doesn’t yet have enough storage space to store the pallets once they are delivered and will need to look at leased spaces, said Jennifer Eby, assistant director of community services for the county.

Bathrooms While Eby initially included bathrooms in the quote to go with the pallets, Teal said he wasn’t interested in including them.

“I know that this came up as an idea on how our response to the homeless situation should occur, but I’m hesitant to go into plans where we set these up and say ‘that’s the solution,’” Teal said.

Commissioners recently approved a combined case manager and law enforcement team called HEART, or Homeless Engagement Assistance and Resource Team.

The county plans to encourage residents to call them when they encounter a homeless person they want to help.

The county is also planning to begin a signage campaign asking the public not to hand out cash to people experiencing homelessness.

The homeless initiative will host a live town hall 6 p.m. June 22 at the Philip Miller Building, 100 Third St. in Castle Rock, where residents can talk directly with commissioners and provide feedback. Residents can also join online by visiting douglas.co.us/townhall. The initiative’s next regular meeting is July 14 from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. at 4400 Castleton Court. in Castle Rock.

The county plans to also use the structures for emergency shelters for situations such as natural disasters.

“We really believe that we are so early on this in Douglas County that we can nip it in the bud and get to functional zero,” Laydon said “We may never be able to solve this, but we can get pretty darn close to ensuring that this is the safest, cleanest, crime free community that citizens have come to expect and enjoy.”

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Castle Rock downtown redevelopment gets go-ahead Council still divided by Design Review Board

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Castle Rock’s Downtown Development Authority is moving forward with its latest redevelopment project to bring new housing, office and retail options to Wilcox Street thanks to initial council approval.

On June 7, Castle Rock Town Council approved an ordinance to allow the DDA to turn the existing lot at 221 Wilcox Street into a mixed-use, five-story building with 28 apartment units. Three council members, Tim Dietz, Caryn Johnson and Laura Cavey, opposed the project.

Dietz said he wasn’t against the redevelopment idea itself, but ideological issues with the town’s Design Review Board kept him from voting for the project. The Design Review Board approved the project and granted two variances to allow a fifth story and adjust the minimum required amount of street trees.

“This is a beautiful, beautiful project, yet however, I can’t support it because of the way that it comes to council from unrepresentative means, meaning the design review board makes this

The lot at 221 Wilcox St. will be redeveloped as a five-story, mixed-use project featuring retail, restaurant and office space, as well COURTESY OF CASTLE ROCK DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY as 28 apartment units.

decision,” Dietz said. “Otherwise, if we didn’t have the DRB and I was able to actually put my thumbprint on these projects, then I would probably say yea.”

Other council members were more supportive of the idea presented by the Downtown Development Authority, which will continue the past few years of efforts to revive the downtown area.

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A look at GOP secretary of state hopefuls Anderson, O’Donnell, Peters have dramatically different positions

BY SANDRA FISH THE COLORADO SUN

Three Republicans are running this year to be Colorado’s next secretary of state, a position in which they would oversee the administration of elections and handle business registration.

It’s a job that’s become highly politicized since the 2020 presidential election, which former Republican President Donald Trump and his supporters baselessly claim was stolen from him through fraud and malfeasance. Two of the three GOP candidates embrace those claims.

The Republican candidate who wins the June 28 primary will go on in November to face Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who has risen to national prominence defending election systems in Colorado and elsewhere.

The Colorado Sun asked the three GOP candidates about some of the major issues in the contest.

Who are the candidates?

• Pam Anderson, a former Jefferson County clerk and recorder and the former executive director of the Colorado County Clerks Association • Mike O’Donnell, an Australian immigrant and Yuma County resident who has worked at nonprofits that make loans to small businesses.

He does not have experience in election administration.

• Tina Peters, the Mesa County clerk who was indicted earlier this year in a security breach of her county’s election system. She has also been barred by a judge from overseeing the 2022 elections in Mesa County partly because of the breach, which stemmed from her belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

Yes or no: Was the 2020 presidential election stolen?

ANDERSON: “No. Here in Colorado we have independent, verifiable paper ballots audits that have found no evidence that the outcome was incorrect.”

O’DONNELL: “Well, I can’t say yes or no to that. We have a president (Joe Biden) who’s in power today.

So whether or not it was stolen, we probably won’t know for quite a while, but (Biden) is the elected president.”

PETERS: Yes. “This is a personal opinion based on the evidence that I have seen and gone through and based on what I know from our reports. I do believe there may have been enough fraud that it turned the election.”

Top priorities for the candidates ANDERSON: She said she wants to restore “trusted professionalism” to the Secretary of State’s Office and to county clerk and recorder offices across Colorado. “We have had a long tradition of nonpartisan administration in these offices that sort of remain above that partisan

Left to right, the three Republicans running to be Colorado’s next secretary of state: Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, former JefferFILE PHOTOS BY THE COLORADO SUN son County Clerk Pam Anderson, and Mike O’Donnell, a nonprofit leader.

fray,” she said. “That’s been my record, as both a municipal and county clerk both from the management side as well as the elections administration side.”

O’DONNELL: He said he wants

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School district, Douglas County settle legal fees over mask lawsuit County will pay $90,000 for coordinator position

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Douglas County Board of Health and the Douglas County School District have decided to call it even on a 2021 lawsuit regarding mask rules, with the county promising to pay the district $90,000 for a psychological safety coordinator.

The settlement comes after the school board in October sued the health department for enacting an order that allowed parents to opt their students out of mask requirements.

The order was one of the first decisions by the Douglas County Board of Health after the county formed its own health agency and split from Tri-County Health Department over its mask requirements.

“We are unified in our focus on what’s best for the communities we collectively serve,” said Doug

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Benevento, president of the Douglas County Board of Health, according to an emailed news release.

“We look forward to our continued relationship with our school district and our mutually beneficial support for mental and behavioral health among our community’s youth.”

The case resulted in the Board

of Health amending their order to exclude the school district.

After the case was resolved, a judge ordered the county to pay for the district’s legal fees and the two parties have been working on a settlement since. Now, they’ve agreed they will each pay their own legal fees, plus the county will fund

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election security. If someone is voting who shouldn’t be voting, that’s diluting your vote.”

decimate the small business sector the same way we did during COVID.” PETERS: “For sure it would be

Mail-in ballots and early voting We asked the three candidates if they’d support ending Colorado’s all-mail-ballot elections, which became statewide in 2013, and if they’d

limit or end early in-person voting.

ANDERSON: She’d keep the current system. “For access to our constitutional rights here in Colorado, our model provides freedom of choice to the voter. While we proactively mail a ballot to every active eligible voter, the choice still remains for the voter if they wish to utilize that mail ballot or to go to a vote center anywhere in their county. I think that choice remaining with the voter is important.”

O’DONNELL: He didn’t directly answer the mail-ballots question.

“There are people who pretend to be residents here who get their ballots sent out of state and are voting from out of state.” On early voting: “I’m not sure that I have a strong opinion about that. I think we start voting very, very early here.”

PETERS: She said use of mail-in ballots should be limited to people who can’t vote in person because of physical disabilities or overseas voters, though she added “if we can eliminate the fraud any other way, I’m all for solutions. … I think that some of these, what they call conveniences, have gotten to the point where they’re being abused.”

She said, however, that early voting is fine.

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On changing or eliminating election rules The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office enacts election rules that county clerks have to abide by. We asked the three GOP candidates how they would approach the rulemaking process.

ANDERSON: She said she would like to examine rules on candidate and petition signature collection, as well as rules ballot signature verification. And she wants to return “to being inclusive with the local election officials and how these rules impact voters on the ground.”

O’DONNELL: He said he’s concerned that current rules allow potential noncitizens to register to vote, in turn inflating voter rolls. He said he’d want to change such rules.

the coordinator position.

The person in that position will “provide coordination, leaderhsip and facilitation of all components of district safety assessments and services, including mandatory child abuse reporting, suicide assessments, threat assessments and crisis team response,” according to the settlement.

“The psychological safety of our students and staff directly benefits physical safety, educational growth, and the positive culture the entire Board of Education, staff, and teachers are dedicated to providing for the district,” said Mike Peterson, president of Douglas County School District Board of Education, according to the release.

The district’s lawsuit was filed by a previous school board before the November election. The plaintiffs also included nine families of students with conditions ranging from cystic fibrosis, autism and Down’s syndrome to rare genetic disorders, severe respiratory disorders and asthma.

PETERS: She said she’d eliminate a 2021 rule prohibiting third-party audits of election equipment, which was aimed at addressing calls from her and her followersothers for an Arizona-style audit of the 2020 presidential election results in Colorado. She said she might also get rid of other rules. “This secretary of state — and I’ve talked to other clerks who have been around for 20 years — has passed more legislation, has rolled out more rules than any one secretary of state in the last 20 years.”

Relationship with county clerks and their association Elections are managed at the local level by county clerks, who oversee ballot printing and counting and audits of results. The secretary of state works closely with those clerks and the Colorado County Clerks Association, so The Sun asked the three candidates about how they would work with both.

ANDERSON: She said that all elections are local and thus maintaining good relationships with county clerks and recorders is paramount.

“There is a regulatory role that’s appropriate as well, but making sure that we’re collaborating on resources, training, education and security (is critical),” Anderson said.

O’DONNELL: He said he’s been meeting with county clerks and believes the state is creating too much work for them in some areas, such as when it comes to motor vehicles and a new requirement from the legislature to sell park passes with vehicle registrations. He said he isn’t “connected with the County Clerk’s Association.”

PETERS: She said she disagrees with how the clerks association has handled the Mesa County controversy that ensued after she allegedly allowed an unauthorized person access to voting equipment and a sensitive election system software update. She implied that other SEE GOP, P26

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Ciara and Russell Wilson to open retail shop in Park Meadows The House of LR&C will be first Colorado location

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The House of LR&C, a retail company owned by Grammy Award-winning singer Ciara and Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson, will be opening its first Colorado store location in Lone Tree’s Park Meadows mall this summer.

The store will open July 15, said Rachel Wille, the public relations and social media manager at Brookfield Properties, in an email.

Brookfield Properties is the real estate company that owns Park Meadows.

The House of LR&C store will be located on the lower level of Park Meadows near the center court area of the shopping mall and will occupy 1,900 square feet. The deal has been in the works for the past few months, Wille said.

“We are thrilled to welcome The House of LR&C to Park Meadows,” said Pam Schneck-Kelly, the senior general manager of Park Meadows, in the emailed statement. “Ciara, Russell Wilson and their team have been fantastic partners throughout the opening of this location and we are con-

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what has traditionally been an exclusive industry.”

The company’s core values are love, respect and care. According to its website, 3% of the company’s net revenue goes to the Why Not You Foundation, a nonprofit established by Ciara and Wilson in 2014 that focuses on education, children’s health, fighting poverty and empowering young people.

Shoppers of The House of LR&C will find the brands Human Nation, a brand created by the company; Good Man Brand, which was co-founded by Wilson; and LITA by Ciara, which launched in August 2021.

Events to commemorate the store’s opening in Park Meadows are currently being planned, Wille said, and details will be announced in the near future.

The City of Lone Tree is excited about the store’s opening, said Nate Jones, the city’s communication director, in an email.

“We’re thrilled Ciara and Russell Wilson have chosen to do business here in Lone Tree,” Jones said. “The Park Meadows retail resort always does an amazing job of bringing first to market retail opportunities to residents and shoppers in Colorado, and the House of LR&C is a fine addition to their team. To our new neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, welcome, and let’s ride!”

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currently coach a volleyball team. When meeting with one of the parents, I mentioned that I had four kids. She promptly looked me up and down and said, “Wow. I thought women with that many kids were supposed to let themselves go!”

I’m guessing she was implying that I looked slimmer than she expected for giving birth four times.

And despite my understanding of what she was trying to do, I was frustrated.

I never had a “skinny” body.

I always had a healthy layer of chub growing up, which only increased in my college years. I have many memories of kids in elementary and middle school calling me “fat” or “the Pillsbury dough girl.”

Since then, I’ve attached being liked and having friends to my weight.

I started having children in my early 20s. Obviously, my weight fluctuated a lot in the nine years of bearing and nursing four babies. To no one’s surprise, my body always got more compliments or attention when I was thinner than when I was heavier.

Currently, I am at the lowest weight I’ve been since middle school. I’ve been at this weight since 2018. But there’s a reason for this: genetics, time and money. I spent that year carefully planning my workouts to be a balance of weights and cardio. I went to the gym for two hours daily. The gym had a daycare for my four kids. I hired a health coach. I bought meal plans and apps. And I had the money and availability to do all of these things at the same time.

And it paid off!

I had chiseled arms and low enough body fat to get lots of attention. The first thing out of people’s mouths were, “wow, you look so good!”, “Your face! It’s all gone!”

You look good You look good You look good But it didn’t make me feel good.

This may sound weird, but that attention and those compliments REALLY bothered me.

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Here’s another thing, I didn’t feel any different.

My body still Stacey Carruth looked the same in the mirror to me, just smaller. I still nitpicked at myself every time I looked at it. Instead of enjoying it, like I promised myself I would do for so many years if I lost the weight, I just looked for the next thing that needed to change … there was always something.

The only thing that my appearance demonstrated was where I spent my time. When I was working on my body, I was not working on my writing, I did not have a career, I wasn’t reading, I wasn’t going to school, I wasn’t starting a new business, I wasn’t taking care of an elderly parent, I wasn’t dealing with a mental illness, I wasn’t unemployed, I wasn’t training ill-behaved dogs, I wasn’t volunteering with refugees and I wasn’t traveling.

There are trade-offs. And just because you choose something else besides having chiseled arms, it doesn’t make you unhealthy or less worthy of attention.

You can be healthy AND chubby. To reach the look of magazines and certain celebrities, it takes a huge amount of time and energy and an undeviating nutrition plan for most people. Are people who don’t have the time to do what I did less worthy of attention?

Are people who don’t have the money to do what I did less health-conscious? Are people who don’t have my body type less beautiful?

No. That’s the correct answer.

Though what we choose to compliment and to whom we choose to give our attention will be the ultimate deciding factor.

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Stacey Carruth is a mother of four living in Arapahoe County

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Homelessness Initiative as Castle Rock’s liaison, said he supported the temporary housing solution because it would help the county’s other efforts to address homelessness, including code enforcement.

“It would be in unincorporated Douglas County in a well-secured, monitored place with temporary

June 23, 2022 sioners Abe Laydon and George Teal both suggested changing Castle Rock’s liaison for the homelessness initiative.

“What I’d like to do is add an additional liaison of Mayor Gray,” Bracken said, noting Dietz’s opinion on the housing proposal was in the minority of the board.

Dietz clarified that he had learned about the potential housing pod location at the same time as the rest of the council and hadn’t kept information from the other councilmembers.

“I welcome the extra ears and eyes,” Dietz said. “It is sort of an insult because my heart is in it.”

In addition to Dietz, Castle Rock Assistant Town Manager Kristin Read and councilmember Caryn Johnson also typically attend the county homelessness initiative meetings. Gray added that the meetings are public and open to anyone interested in attending.

“All of us can attend (these meetings), but hopefully between Tim and I, we’ll do a good job of reporting back,” Gray said.

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several counties, including Jefferson, Gilpin and Clear Creek counties.

Douglas County banned open carry in parks and all county facilities until 2014.

Laydon said he is “pleased to start conversations” with the City of Denver about what it would look like for DougCo to potentially own and maintain the park.

“Daniels Park is in Douglas County, not the city and county of Denver, but we have been strong partners for a long time on this beautiful community asset,” Laydon said. “(It) could be a win/win for both Denver and Douglas.”

In a statement attributed to the board of commissioners, they wrote that this step is the beginning of a process that will include discussions with the City of Denver.

“This is the place to start and any speculations on what could occur as a result of discussions would be premature,” according to the statement.

housing … where people can come and transition out of town,” Dietz said at the May 17 meeting.

“By having these temporary beds, we could eventually have a no camping ban in Castle Rock.”

On June 7, Castle Rock Mayor Pro Tem Kevin Bracken said he didn’t feel Dietz had done a good job relaying information from the homelessness initiative meetings to the town council and asked Gray to step in as a second representative.

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battle with Denver is not governing well, but is instead infusing politics into yet another decision, and I am frankly not interested in this discussion,” Thomas wrote in her weekly newsletter.

Gilmore said he’s saddened to hear about the discussion after years of working together with the county.

“We’ve always had a great relationship, and for one individual person to, for whatever political reasons he has, to try to make this an issue, to create an issue, it doesn’t make sense,” he said.

Gilmore added that even if the county won a legal battle to take over the park by eminent domain, they would have to pay for the value of the land. He estimated the cost of the land to be about half a billion dollars.

“We would not agree with this,” he said. “We would never move forward with an agreement to give away one of our treasured parks.”

Daniels Park, a 1,000-acre piece of land given to the city nearly 100 years ago, has significance with tribes in the area, many of whom have ceremonies on the land.

The Tall Bull Memorial Ground is located in Daniels Park. The City of Denver has a longtime agreement

with the group to allow use of the park.

The concealed carry ordinance the city passed can only be enforced if signage has been put in place, which has not yet occurred at Daniels Park, Gilmore said.

“I have 270 parks in Denver,” he said. “That is definitely more of a priority than any of the surrounding parks in five different counties.”

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As property taxes and values rise, school funds don’t

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he Douglas County School District covers 850 square miles and is located just south of the Denver area.

DCSD is the third-largest school district in Colorado and the largest employer in Douglas County.

The school district includes the suburban communities of Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, Parker and Castle Rock, as well as many rural communities. DCSD serves 64,000 students across 89 schools.

We both have the privilege to serve our community as directors on the DCSD Board of Education. We both have children who attend DCSD schools. We are both passionate about providing all students with the brightest future possible and agree on the need for additional funding for our schools, our students and our staff members.

Like all school districts in our great state, DCSD struggles with funding. According to educationdata.com, Colorado ranks 33rd in public school funding. Public schools in Colorado are funded through state tax dollars and local property tax dollars. Looking around Douglas County, it would be easy to believe that our schools should be doing quite well when considering our county’s prosperity. As more homes are built and existing home values increase, more local taxes are collected and the local entities that collect those dollars are thriving — with the exception of our schools.

Why? Each school district has a “bucket” of dollars that is made up of state and local revenue.

The size of the bucket for each district is fixed annually by the state legislature. The bucket is first filled with local dollars, then the state fills in the rest to the top of the bucket. Therefore, during prosperous times when there are more local dollars, the bucket gets filled with more local revenue and less state revenue — however, overall funding does not increase.

This is completely different from how other local government entities are funded.

So how do schools increase the size of their bucket? The law allows each school district to increase funding up to 25% through a locally approved mill levy override. MLOs generally provide additional ongoing revenue which can be used for people (competitive salaries and providing additional student services).

Additionally, the law intends for all capital funding (to build new schools as well as to upgrade and maintain current schools) to come from a locally approved bond initiative.

In 2018, the amazing residents of Douglas County voted yes to pass an MLO and a bond measure.

We continue to be incredibly thankful for their support. We used the additional MLO funding to begin to close some of the

internal pay gaps that exist in DCSD and to add counselors to each of our schools. The bond enabled us to catch up on critical maintenance in our buildings that had been put off for far too long.

The bond also Elizabeth Hanson made it possible for DCSD to finally construct a longawaited addition at Castle View High School, and to purchase the former Wildlife Experience building that will offer our students more career and techChristy Williams nical education opportunities such as aviation, culinary, nursing, STEM, teaching and more.

DCSD’s MLO allowed us to increase our funding by 12%. However, through years of successful initiatives, nearby districts have increased their funding by closer to 25%, which has led to significant challenges for our school district when it comes to competitive pay for our amazing teachers and staff. Cherry Creek School District, for example, receives 25% additional funding through their MLO, so their average teacher salary is about $18,000 higher than in DCSD. While our teachers are incredibly dedicated and passionate, it is very difficult to ignore a significantly higher paycheck a few miles away.

In addition, some areas of our county are seeing tremendous growth, such as Sterling Ranch, The Canyons and Crystal Valley Ranch. There is a great need to build new elementary schools to meet this growth and to create additions to some of our middle schools near these developments.

The only way to fund the construction of new schools is to pass a local bond measure.

Due to these challenges, the DCSD Board of Education formed a Mill Bond Exploratory Ad-Hoc Committee made up of citizens from across our county to advise the board on the feasibility of a November 2022 ballot initiative.

We are both very grateful for the hard work of this committee.

As two individual directors, we are asking our community to come together in support of a potential MLO and bond measure so that we can retain our educators and support staff, accommodate growth in our county, and ultimately continue to provide the brightest future possible for our students. More information is available at dcsdk12.org/funding.

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t’s that time of year where we start reviewing the ballot and working to decide who might be best to serve us on the local, state and federal levels. For me, it’s become the time where I dread filling in the bubbles.

FROM THE I still believe in voting. I EDITOR truly believe it’s important to vote and get my opinions out there. However, given the current state of our political climate, I dread it. I dread it because it’s becoming harder to even see which candidates are looking for the job to actually do good work, or if they are just spreading a Thelma Grimes party message, being vindictive and acting like children.

I, like many, am tired of the self-serving politicians who, as soon as they are elected, forget about the job they are there to do and immediately stand on a side and fight.

To the politicians in office — you are not elected to just represent a side. You see, once in office, you are there to represent all your constituents — even the ones who did not vote for you.

To the voters — If you are filling in a bubble based solely on a party line — What good does that do?

In an interesting discussion with a friend recently, I said I was tired of the same people constantly getting reelected. I would like to see the career politicians go. That means Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz. In all honesty, I would also like to see some of the newer ones go — the AOCs, and Lauren Boeberts for instance. I would like all of them out.

I was saying I do not understand how they continue to get reelected when clearly they are not doing good work. My friend brought up a valid, yet interesting point, saying, “It’s better to vote for the devil you know.”

Honestly, there is a lot of truth to his statement. Incumbents continue to be returned to office because of fear for voting for change. In Pelosi’s case, she continues to get reelected because she’s the one they know on the side that California district trusts more. While there may not be a lot of trust or approval, for many, it’s better than the untested challenger on the other side of the aisle.

That has led us to the current issues. Every two years a new party takes over with the main leaders being reelected and kept in place. While the tide might change from red to blue every few years, nothing really changes.

If we could get a good, unaffiliated candidate — I would give it serious thought.

Am I always right in the vote I cast? Absolutely not. I do find myself disappointed more often than I used to be. However, I am always positive I did my best to research, understand and pick the candidate who I believe will represent the people – all people.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR In response to gun-control column In response to Robert Tann’s column, “I’ve lived in a country with gun control. It works”: Unlike Robert Tann, I have never lived in a country with gun control and, therefore, have little applicable firsthand experience. However, I wanted to add some statistics to those that Robert Tann cited of countries which have highly effective gun control, most with, reportedly, even tighter control than those he describes. I have taken the liberty to expand the death toll criteria slightly, to include the

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fatalities that would probably have been avoided had gun control in the country not been in place.

Note: these numbers are approximate estimates mostly from Wikipedia, a few from a variety of sources and some are as much as decades out of date. Estimates vary widely, especially dependent on causes of death included.

• Russia (USSR) under Stalin 1920s through 1957, 20 million-plus

he origin of “burning bridges” has its roots in ancient Rome.

And we see where they were not only burning the bridges, but also burning the boats. In some cases, they burned the bridges and the boats so the enemy could not pursue them. And in other cases, they burned both bridge and boat so they enemy could not flee.

Throughout our journey in this life, we have all heard the expression or received guidance around burning bridges. It’s interesting because sometimes we are encouraged not to burn the bridges, and other times people may suggest that we burn the bridges behind us. In a recent conversation this topic came up and it was fun, but also a bit polarizing for the group as there were very strong

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In doing a little research on the topic I stumbled onto a page with some audacious quotes about burning bridges. The list of quotes started out with some very strong feelings about why we should burn the bridges behind us. “Sometimes burning bridges isn’t a bad thing. It prevents you from going back to a place you should never have been to begin with.”

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to burn the bridges behind me. I do agree where there are times when moving ahead and never looking back makes sense. But before I do that, I would really rather preserve the opportunity to save a relationship, resolve a conflict, or just maintain the potential for a better outcome in the future. Just because we disagree today, doesn’t mean we will disagree tomorrow.

The intensity of opinions has created a heightened state of awareness when it comes to burning or not burning bridges. And unfortunately, sadly, it has escalated into not just burning bridges

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Executions, ethnic cleansing through starvation in subjugated regions, includes Belarus, Ukraine and modern-day Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia • China under Mao 1949 through 1976, 40 million to 60 million Executions, starvation aimed at class warfare Cambodia under Khmer Rouge 1975 - 1979, 25% of population Class warfare, most prevalent killing tool: garden hoe • N. Korea 3 million Does tying victim to muzzle of artillery cannon and firing it count as a gun death?

Other countries acknowledged to have highly effective gun control and history of high death tolls: Nazi Germany; postwar, preUSSR dissolution East Germany; Romania; Poland; Latvia; Estonia; Czechoslovakia; Lithuania; Venezuela; Cuba Noel Hughes Castle Rock

and burning the boats but leaving nothing but scorched earth behind when conflict or disagreements arise. I always wonder why there is a need to take this route. I understand that people have very strong feelings and opinions, and those feelings and opinions may not line up with our own. However, if there is no room to find middle ground on a given topic, there could be an opportunity to work together or to help one another in the future.

The song, “It’s a Small World (After All)” was written in 1963. If you have visited Disney, you have probably taken a ride through the attraction named after the song, and you probably couldn’t get the song out of your head for the rest of the day. There was no internet in 1963, nor was there any social

media. Access to information was limited to what we saw in the newspaper, watched on television, or listened to on the radio. Today, we have instant access to information and can reach people in a matter of a few clicks, creating a very small world.

This is important when it comes to burning bridges because when we burn a bridge, the boat, and leave scorched earth behind us because of one person, group of people, or company, we could also be burning bridges with everyone that is associated or connected to someone else that we may want to get to know, or a place where we are hoping to work, or even a referral where we are trying to make a sale.

I am not suggesting that anyone compromise their integrity or

their position just to appease others. What I am suggesting is that perhaps we can try an alternate approach because we, or someone we know, may really need that bridge again one day.

Romans 12:8 — “Do all that you can to live at peace with everyone.”

How about you? Do you prefer to burn the bridges or build the bridges? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@xinnix.com, and when we realize that when we leave roads, bridges, and doors open for the future, it really will be a better than good year.

Intention versus impact The Colorado Department of Education intends to revise the social studies standards. The impact of their intention will ultimately be harmful. When kids are not given the opportunity to hear terminology and perspectives that are different than what is comfortable or “normal” for them, they move through the world full of fear and ignorance, thus perpetuating harm.

Equitable education names the existence, contributions, perspectives and history of African American, Asian American, Indigenous, Latinx, LGBTQ+ and religious minority communities in the standards. The impact of this naming is empowerment and safety for all of our kids.

As a mom of two white boys, I believe it’s necessary to see BIPOC and LGBTQ+ history and perspectives named in schools. This inclusion in social studies standards creates equity in what students learn across the state and ensures that all students in Colorado have an equal opportunity to learn about their history and the histories of others.

The passing of House Bill 1192

ensured inclusion of the history, culture, and social contributions of racial and ethnic minorities, religious minorities, and the LGBTQ+ individuals within these minority groups in the public school curriculum. If the Colorado Board of Education moves forward with the new recommendations, the impact will be detrimental for all students.

When students are seen, affirmed, supported and feel like they belong, empathy and understanding are the

positive results. It is these values that will help prevent the perpetuating of overt acts of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and xenophobia seen in our society today.

If our intention is to do no harm to our kids, then we must do what positively impacts the future world in which our kids live and move and learn.

Becca Jay Parent of two DCSD students Roxborough

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E

ver wanted to take a road trip across the state without slogging through an hours-long drive on highways?

Residents can let public transportation take the wheel on trips to places near and far, including a new long-distance shuttle line that runs from the Denver area to places such as Idaho Springs, Frisco and Vail.

Other bus routes can take you to Fort Collins, Longmont, Colorado Springs and even Grand Junction.

And public transportation can also take you to some destinations in the suburbs you may not be familiar with.

Here’s a look at the public transportation routes that run through these places and more — with a rundown of some attractions along the way.

RTD in the suburbs You might not think twice when you watch a Regional Transportation District, or RTD, bus roll past, but the bus and rail systems can drop riders close to many scenic areas around town.

Olde Town Arvada, for example, sits along the RTD G Line, a commuter rail line that runs between Union Station in the downtown Denver area and Wheat Ridge. As opposed to RTD’s light rail lines, the commuter rail lines travel at faster speeds.

The historical atmosphere and “social hub” feeling in Olde Town Arvada — near Ralston Road and Wadsworth Boulevard — make it a great place to visit, said Austin Nettleton, a RTD spokesperson.

“That’s pretty much one of my favorite spots to go to — there’s so many cool food and drink places,” said Nettleton, who used to live near that area, in Broomfield, and would go down to the RTD Olde Town Arvada station.

Meanwhile, the N Line can take you from Denver through the north and east suburbs of Commerce City, Thornton and North-

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The N rail line largely weaves through residential areas, but the Northglenn-112th Station — near York Street and 112th Avenue — sits within walking distance of Carpenter Park, a place that offers a laundry list of activities.

“They’ve got a pretty cool skate park there (and) a huge outdoor park. A boathouse, you can rent those little paddle boats. And they’ve got a huge rec center there too,” Nettleton said.

(Paddle boats have been unavailable due to a staffing shortage, the City of Thornton’s website said as of June 12.)

Other Carpenter Park amenities include a carousel, horseshoe pits, sand volleyball courts and a “sprayground” with a spray pad for enjoying in warm weather, according to Thornton’s website.

Near Denver’s southeast edge sits RTD’s Dayton Station along Interstate 225, where riders can exit at a trail connection that leads to Cherry Creek State Park.

“There’s even a bridge that goes across 225 to take you to the mountain bike trails,” Nettleton said, referring to a mountain bike skills area along the paths.

Another destination in the suburbs is Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, a large outdoor concert venue a short walk from RTD’s Arapahoe at Village Center light rail station.

The venue in Greenwood Village hosts well-known music artists and sits close to Arapahoe Road and Interstate 25.

Those who don’t live close to a rail station can bike, take a ride-sharing service such as Lyft or catch an RTD bus to get to a station.

Getting farther north If you’ve been to Boulder, you may have seen the FLEX bus, a non-RTD transit line that serves several places in Colorado’s northern Front Range corridor.

The FLEX route includes stops between Fort Collins, Loveland, Berthoud, Longmont and Boulder.

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In light of changing federal mask policy for transportation, masks might not be required in your area on public transit.

Austin Nettleton, a spokesperson for RTD in Denver and surrounding areas, said masks are not required for all passengers and drivers on RTD transportation.

“We encourage and recommend facial coverings, but they are not required or enforced for employees and customers,” Nettleton said.

Anna Russo, a spokesperson

for the Transfort transit system in Fort Collins that extends to Boulder, also said masks are not required for all passengers and drivers.

“We do encourage people to wear masks, but it’s not a requirement,” Russo said.

“We ask that you don’t ride Transfort if you have COVID symptoms,” she added.

Bob Wilson, a Colorado Department of Transportation spokesperson, said passengers are not required to wear masks but drivers are on Bustang routes.

The FLEX bus route that runs between Fort Collins, Loveland, Berthoud, Longmont and Boulder is currently “fare free.”

“So someone could board the FLEX in Boulder and get all the way up to Fort Collins for free,” said Anna Russo, a spokesperson for Transfort, the part of the City of Fort Collins government that operates FLEX. All the routes that are operated

by Transfort, which includes FLEX and MAX and the numbered routes in Fort Collins, are currently free, according to Russo.

Transfort started providing service for free around spring 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic reached Colorado, Russo said.

It was an effort to “help with the pandemic and just support people who might need some financial assistance getting around town,” Russo said. “But then we’ve just continued it through up until now. We might go back to charging fares in the future, but at this time, we don’t have a date for that.”

Officials are conducting a study of Transfort’s revenue sources and costs, and they are looking at the feasibility of continuing to operate fare free permanently, but it’s still unclear, Russo said.

To track a bus or find out when a bus will arrive, see ridetransfort.com/rider-tools/rider-tools.

For tips on how to ride the bus, visit ridetransfort.com/ridertools/how-to-ride-transfort or call 970-221-6620.

Those using RTD in Denver and surrounding areas can see the bus or rail lines that can get them to their destination — and how long it will take — at rtddenver.com/app/plan. For a look at how to ride RTD, see rtd-denver.com/rider-info/how-to-ride or call 303-299-6000.

See mobile apps that can help with riding RTD at rtd-denver. com/business-center/openspatial-data/mobile-apps. The RTD Mobile Ticketing app, for example, lets riders buy and use Day Passes instantly on their phones.

Asked about the most costeffective way to ride, Austin Nettleton, a spokesperson for RTD, “highly recommends” getting the regional/ airport day pass.

It’s $10.50 for adults and allows people to ride any bus or rail line and make as many transfers as they want for the entire service day, Nettleton said.

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A shuttle for the Colorado Department of Transportation’s new Pegasus program that serves stops in Denver, Lakewood, Idaho Springs, Frisco, Vail and Avon.

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ment.

“Downtown Fort Collins is full of history, and the sugar beet industry was big in town,” said Anna Russo, a spokesperson for Transfort.

Downtown Fort Collins is also known as one of the places that inspired Disneyland’s Main Street USA, according to Russo.

Visitors can take a self-guided walking tour of downtown’s history, learning about the “architecture, wild characters and iconic historic sites,” according to the tourism website VisitFtCollins.com.

If you’re seeking some color, you can swing by Colorado State University’s Annual Flower Trial Garden.

The purpose of the trial garden program is to evaluate the performance of different annual plant cultivars under the unique Rocky Mountain environmental conditions, according to CSU’s website.

“They plant different varieties and different colors of annual flowers, and it’s open to the public. You can walk through them and look,” Russo said.

Nearby in Loveland, visitors can check out the Loveland Museum of Art and History, the Benson Sculpture Garden and the Swim Beach area at Lake Loveland.

“And they can get to those destinations by transferring to City of Loveland transportation from the FLEX,” Russo said.

In the Boulder area, the FLEX line ends at the University of Colorado Boulder campus.

“So that’s a nice area to walk around, and there’s also a museum of natural history on their campus,” Russo said.

Another type of long-distance

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65 and older, individuals with disabilities and Medicare recipi-

transit, Bustang, managed by the Colorado Department of Transportation, also connects to the FLEX. Bustang buses “do pick up at our downtown Fort Collins transit center and the Harmony transfer center at Harmony (Road) and I-25,” Russo said.

That’s another way people coming from the south could connect to transportation in Fort Collins, she said.

Ways to traverse the state CDOT’s Bustang routes make up a network of paths that run through northern, western, southern and part of eastern Colorado.

Bustang routes go between Fort Collins and Denver, Grand Junction and Denver and Colorado Springs and Denver, according to the service’s website.

Additionally, the “Bustang Outrider” routes go between Lamar, Pueblo and Colorado Springs; Alamosa and Pueblo; Durango and Grand Junction; Crested Butte and Denver; Craig and Denver; and Telluride and Grand Junction, according to the website.

Just last month, the state launched another option for travel along the Interstate 70 mountain corridor with the introduction of Pegasus, CDOT’s new express shuttle that began providing passenger service May 27.

Pegasus was to depart year-round from Union Station in Denver, stopping at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood along with stops in Idaho Springs, Frisco, Vail and Avon, according to a CDOT news release.

A Pegasus shuttle seats up to 11 people, is wheelchair accessible and is equipped with USB ports, power outlets and Wi-Fi. Each vehicle also has luggage storage, bike racks and ski or snowboard containers, according to the news release.

Each Bustang bus is equipped with a restroom, bike racks, free Wi-Fi, power outlets and USB ports, and there are also a wheelchair lift and two wheelchair securement areas on each bus, according to the Bustang website.

Pegasus service runs on weekends, but CDOT plans to expand it to daily service although there isn’t a set date for that yet, said Bob Wilson, a CDOT spokesperson.

The many CDOT routes offer opportunities to explore Colorado’s mountain towns, Wilson said, along with chances to take care of more practical matters.

“It provides people an opportunity if you’re living in Craig, for instance, if you need to see a doctor, you’re able to do that in Denver,” Wilson said.

During the Denver Broncos football season, riders can catch a “Bustang to Broncos” bus, Wilson said. It provides round-trip transportation from both Colorado Springs and Fort Collins to Empower Field at Mile High stadium in Denver.

ents, according to RTD’s website.

The RTD Transit Watch app allows riders to report “unusual and suspicious” activities directly to transit police without having to make a phone call. Riders can also opt in to receive updates,

alerts and safety information, according to RTD’s website. RTD encourages riders to also dial 911 if there is an emergency, Nettleton said.

For information on the Bustang and Pegasus routes offered by

“So people can not worry about drinking and driving,” Wilson said.

The first Bustang route became operational in July 2015, Wilson said.

It started off only running between Fort Collins and Denver, Colorado Springs and Denver, and Glenwood Springs and Denver, but over the last seven years, the service has expanded to more routes, Wilson said.

“And expansion is expected to continue” as resources and funding allow, he added.

Hearing demand from Front Range and rural areas of Colorado drove the creation of the Bustang service, Wilson said.

“We had heard from a lot of people (that there was no) option to get from locations throughout the state to Denver” unless you had a car, Wilson said.

Randy Wheelock, a Clear Creek County commissioner, welcomed the recent addition of the Bustang Pegasus route.

“Whether addressing local air quality or climate change, or addressing both local and state mobility needs, we must transform how we use our roads,” Wheelock said in the news release. “Pegasus has the potential to be that transformational catalyst, helping us want to change how we travel and building ridership for a more thoughtful transportation future.”

The state also offers the Snowstang service during the ski season, providing round-trip service on weekends and holidays from Denver to four resorts: Loveland Ski Area, Copper Mountain, Arapahoe Basin and Steamboat Resort and Howelsen Hill in Steamboat Springs, according to the Bustang website.

the Colorado Department of Transportation, see ridebustang. com or call 800-900-3011. To plan a trip, visit ridebustang.com/planmy-trip. For the Bustang mobile app, see ridebustang.com/farestickets.

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Theater announces upcoming season

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own Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St. in Littleton, has announced a new season, with tickets on sale for individual shows and the season. “The Wedding Singer,” the finale for the current season, plays through June 26. 303-794-2787, ext. 5; townhallartscenter.org.

Lone Tree Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., has announced its new season, including both local and touring acts in great variety.

Tickets are on sale at the box office, 720-509-1000, lonetreeartscenter.org.

History Highlands Ranch Historical Society has announced a number of tours, including Melvin Schoolhouse and Melvin-Lewis Cemetery, Fairmount Cemetery, and Cherokee Castle. Visit the HRHS website for information on membership and activities of this strong group: thehrhs.org.

Stories on Stage Stories on Stage, an organization that offers stories read by theatre professionals on Sunday afternoons at the lovely Su Teatro Theatre on Santa Fe Drive in Denver, has announced a 2022-2023 season

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Affordable Arts Festival The annual Affordable Arts Festival will return to Arapahoe Sonya Ellingboe Community College’s West Lawn on Aug. 28, with nothing priced over $100, although we are told that many items were previously much higher. Admission is $12 and benefits ACC’s student scholarships. ACC is at 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive in Littleton.

Mosaics coming Nationally and internationally known mosaic artists will exhibit work at “Mosaics 2022: As Seen Through New Eyes” July 30-Oct. 2 at the Foothills Art Center in Golden. Artist Marlea Taylor, of Englewood, is involved in organizing the exhixbit to be juried by Yulia Hanansen, internationally known artist and printmaker, and Foothills Curator Eriq Hochuli.

More on this later — mark your calendar.

The musical trio from “The Wedding Singer” and the rest of the cast are performing at Town COURTESY PHOTO Hall Arts Center in Littleton through June 26.

Sweet sounds on summer nights Grab a folding chair or blanket and enjoy concerts in warm weather

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Grab a quick picnic and a blanket or folding chairs (perhaps a summer music “kit” will have a place in the car rather than schlepping every time). Summer concerts outside are a special treat on Colorado’s lovely summer evenings.

Perhaps readers have a neighbor who performs or a favorite nearby park location, but you may find that a favorite performer is playing across town and be drawn to visit.

Most are free concerts and some require tickets in our communities from Castle Rock up to Lakewood.

Take a bit of time to fill in the calendar. Kids can learn the joy of music as the sun sets and parents and grandparents already are aware.

Perhaps visiting relatives will also be entertained.

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Castle Rock Band: 2:30 p.m. July 4 in Festival Park, Castle Rock.

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Not band music, but enjoy the performances June 23-26 of “Jesus Christ Superstar” at Littleton United Methodist Church. See littletonumc.church.

Lone Tree Arts Center has Tunes on the Terrace. See lonetreeartscenter.org.

Englewood Arts Presents: (Ticketed at 2 in the afternoon in Hampden Hall): July 9, Midsummer Matinee, Susan Paik and Teddy Niedermeyer; July 28, Krueger SEE SUMMER, P20

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Oh, those summer nights at the Arvada Center

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olorado is home to plenty of well-known — even world famous — concert venues, but some of the best shows I’ve seen have been at the numerous venue gems sprinkled all over the metro area. Take the Arvada Center’s Outdoor Amphitheater, which provides some lovely summer night skylines without the massive queues and uphill climbs.

The 2022 Summer Concert Series at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., is one of the strongest yet, with local favorites that are part of the fabric of summer — like the Colorado Symphony — and national touring acts like Dawes, Madeleine Peyroux and Melissa Etheridge.

We spoke to Marcus E. Turner, director of communications and audience services at the center, about the season and what audiences can expect.

Interview edited for brevity and clarity.

ternational touring acts alongside some of our favorite local institutions, we create a unique season that crosses lots of genres. The rollercoaster of styles that come with this lineup create an exciting energy for fans and staff alike.

of the venue and the incredible artistry of our performers come together to create what we believe is a perfect summer evening. If you’d like a relaxed evening hearing Mozart or if you’d prefer to dance to Elle King’s hits, the experience at the Arvada Center is altogether unforgettable.

For the full lineup and tickets, visit https://arvadacenter.org/music-anddance/summer-concerts.

Tell me about blending local performance groups and national acts like Dawes.

The unique thing about our concert series is that a dedicated fan can see so many different concerts at a single venue. The intimacy and layout of our Outdoor Amphitheatre provides audiences with an up close and personal look at some of the best artists in our region and in the country.

The one with the Cherry Creek Mall You know the episode of “Friends,” where they set up shop at the Cherry Creek Mall for a summer and invited folks in to take photos and poke around? No? Well, you have now.

The Friends Experience, a traveling exhibit that recreates 12 rooms of set recreations, including Joey and Chandler’s apartment, Monica and Rachel’s kitchen and Central Perk, will be open at the Cherry Creek Mall, 2500 E. First Ave. in Denver, through Sept. 5. In addition to wandering through the sets, visitors can also check out props and costumes from the show, purchase gifts and more.

Tickets and information can be found at https://denver.friendstheexperience.com/.

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What do people need to know about attending this year’s series?

We are looking forward to having fans come back to the Arvada Center Outdoor Amphitheatre this summer. There are covered seats that are reserved so audience members can choose the seat they want or there are casual general admission spots on our lawn. Outside food and beverages are not permitted in our amphitheatre but we work with amazing local caterers to provide a variety of options for audiences.

What was it like to be planning a full series again?

We have expanded this series to include more concerts than we’ve had in previous years. Concerts are not just an important aspect of the Arvada Center’s slate of programming but are a key component in the Denver metro cultural scene. It is exciting for us to play our part in adding a variety of different acts for concert lovers to experience the summer.

What is the Center most excited about with the series returning?

The Outdoor Amphitheatre is a magical place on concert nights. The enthusiasm of the fans, the intimacy

Tell me about this year’s line-up.

The concert lineup at the Arvada Center truly has something for everyone. By having national and in-

Wander through an Unreal Garden A well created garden can be a truly awe-inspiring thing. Enlku, a mixed reality company that has worked with brands like Meow Wolf and Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, has taken that to another level with its The Unreal Garden immersive augmented reality (AR) experience.

Visitors will get to discover animal characters in an interactive holographic story, “spanning the sky to the ocean, and the earth to outer space,” according to provided information. Located at 500 16th St. Mall, on the second floor of the Denver Pavilions, the virtual gardens are open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Sunday and Monday, and noon to 10 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.

A family-friendly experience, The Unreal Garden is described as a “story-living experience” that is unique to each visitor. Get details and tickets at www.theunrealgarden. com.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Fleet Foxes at Mission Ballroom There’s a kind of magic to the music Fleet Foxes make. The way Robin Pecknold and company layer their lilting vocals and intricate instrumentation can carry the listener away to some other world — a place full of trees and valleys, where all the seasons get their fullest expression.

While we unfortunately don’t currently reside in that world, you can get there in a way by catching Fleet Foxes at 7:30 p.m. on June 28 at the Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St. in Denver. Last year the band released one of the best live albums of the year in “A Very Lonely Solstice,” and I’m sure they’ll unveil another absolutely superb show on this tour.

Get tickets for the performance at www.missionballroom.com.

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

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Brothers; Aug. 13, Bravo Cellos. Outdoors in the City Center Amphitheatre’s SunSET concerts: July 7, Hazel Miller and the Collective; July 14, County Line; July 21, Mile High Big Band; July 28, 17th Avenue Allstars.

See englewoodarts.org.

Denver Botanic Gardens, York Street: Evenings al Fresco, select Mondays and Wednesdays — local musicians and small ensembles will perform throughout the Gardens. See botanicgardens.org.

Lakewood Concert series on Wednesday nights, ticketed, at Lakewood Heritage Park. See lakewood. org, click on “community” and then on “arts and culture.”

City Park Jazz on Sunday nights at Denver’s City Park. See cityparkjazz. org/2022-concert-calendar.

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Colorado hospitals scored 17th for COVID-19 response State ranked low on its handling of mental health crises

BY TONY GORMAN AND ALEJANDRO A. ALONSO GALVA CPR NEWS

Colorado hospitals’ response to COVID-19 ranked 17th among all 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to The Commonwealth Fund’s national health care scorecard, an annual report that ranks state health care systems on various metrics based on how well states provide high-quality, accessible and equitable health care.

For the first time, the scorecard focused specifically on how well states managed COVID-19 from 2020 to early 2022.

Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary care physician at Denver Health, told CPR in March while Colorado’s COVID-19 numbers are better in recent weeks than earlier in the pandemic, “most hospitals remain incredibly busy with nonCOVID patients who are much sicker and tend to stay in the hospital for longer periods of time than before the pandemic.”

He said health care systems across the state continue to face significant staffing issues, which may worsen as health care work-

‘We have had some of the nation’s highest rates of adult and youth suicide. We’ve got an opioid epidemic on our hands. So we’re in a critical condition on the extreme side of things in so many ways.’

Vincent Atchity, president and CEO of the nonprofit Mental Health Colorado

ers “finally take a moment to reflect on the immense psychological trauma they have suffered in the last two years.”

Colorado ranked 12th in fully vaccinated adults who also received a booster dose with 44% of Colorado adults having received a vaccine and booster shot.

The state also ranked 12th best in preventing excess deaths associated with COVID-19 with 281 deaths per 100,000 people in the state.

The lowest COVID-19 metric was in the number of hospital shortages. Colorado hospitals went 59 days with shortages placing the state 28th nationally.

Colorado ranked 12th overall in

health care performance. Hawaii, Maine, Vermont, Washington and Oregon landed in the top five.

Alabama, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Mississippi and Georgia rounded out the bottom.

The state saw its highest marks in hospital patient experience and fitness, but also in preventable hospitalizations. It also saw its highest improvements in hospital 30-day mortality, the number of adults who report fair or poor health and avoidable ER visits.

However the good numbers came with some stark reminders of Colorado’s mental health crises.

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“We have had some of the nation’s highest rates of adult and youth suicide. We’ve got an opioid epidemic on our hands,” said Vincent Atchity, president and CEO of the nonprofit Mental Health Colorado. “So we’re in a critical condition on the extreme side of things in so many ways.”

One glaring metric was a 10% jump in adults with unmet mental illness needs, up to 32%. Colorado ranked 48th in that category.

This story is from Colorado Public Radio, a nonprofit news source. Used by permission. For more, and to support CPR News, visit cpr.org.

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Feds ignore Polis’ plea to stop wild horse roundups Roundup planned on the Western Slope

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

Federal officials will begin capturing hundreds of mustangs roaming in far northwestern Colorado this week, dismissing a request from Gov. Jared Polis to halt roundups while the state and U.S. Bureau of Land Management find a “more humane” option for managing wild horses.

The federal agency’s announcement of its next roundup — in the Piceance-East Douglas rangeland outside Meeker — came after 145 wild horses died in an equine flu outbreak at a Cañon City holding facility.

The public land where the East Douglas herd lives is suited for no more than 235 horses, according to the BLM, yet there are 1,385 mustangs on the range. The roundup was scheduled to begin June 16 with a bait-and-trap operation, in which horses are lured into a corral with fresh water and food. Federal officials plan to bring in a helicopter and horseback riders in mid-July to round up more mustangs.

The roundup was originally scheduled for September, but the BLM moved it up because the horses are so malnourished coming out of winter, officials said.

“We saw some horses really suffering in March and April,” Elijah Waters, the BLM’s northwest district manager, said in an email. “We were getting quite a bit of feedback from the public to do something, and we felt like the best option was to gather as soon as we could for the horses in poor condition and for the horses that will remain and need forage before going into next winter.”

The animals will go to a holding facility in Utah — not the pens on state prison grounds in Cañon City that were the site of the deadliest mustang flu outbreak on record.

The horse deaths, which began April 23 and stopped May 26, incited outcry from mustang advocates around the country and Colorado’s governor and first gentleman, Marlon Reis, an animal rights advocate.

Polis already had urged federal

Wild horses graze on public lands Sept. 1, 2021, near the Sand Wash Basin outside Craig.

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officials last summer to pause wild horse roundups and work with Colorado on a gentler solution to the abundance of horses on public lands. That plea came ahead of a helicopter roundup last summer of 684 horses in the Sand Wash Basin in northern Colorado along the Wyoming border.

After the Cañon City outbreak, Polis again wrote to the BLM asking them to call off scheduled roundups.

The federal agency’s Stephanie Connolly, acting state director for the BLM, rebuffed the governor’s request in a June 2 letter, which was released to The Sun on June 14. She said that while the BLM appreciates the governor’s “engagement in managing wild horses,” the East Douglas herd is more than six times the size that the land can support. A few hundred of the horses have left the public rangeland, Connolly said, “in search of food and water on nearby private property.”

The herd has grown by about 20% each year, she said. And BLM research found that 80% of the shrubs and grasses consumed on the rangeland last year were eaten by wild horses, which is out of balance for other animals that use the land,

she said. Public land managed by the federal agency is leased to cattle and sheep ranchers, as well as used by elk, deer and other wildlife.

“The situation will only grow more dire for these horses, wildlife and the environment,” Connolly wrote.

The governor’s office told The Sun that it was disappointed by the BLM’s decision to move ahead with a “costly and wasteful roundup of our wild horses.” The governor offered “numerous cost-effective and humane alternative methods of management,” including birth control, but those were ignored.

“It is apparent not only that they will not seriously consider better alternatives, allowing only a few weeks for bait-and-trap methods, but that the agency truly doesn’t care to first listen to stakeholders before moving forward,” Polis’ spokesman Conor Cahill said. The governor was particularly disappointed that the BLM announced its plans for the roundup at the same time it announced a listening session to gather public input.

The governor did get one of his wishes granted by federal officials: no additional horses are headed to

the holding pens in Cañon City.

All of the horses that died in this spring’s outbreak were from the West Douglas rangeland, along the Colorado-Utah border. The craggy, mostly inaccessible land was deemed “unsuitable” for wild horses by the BLM, and last summer, the agency announced an emergency roundup of horses and burros.

The outbreak was caused by a fairly common equine flu virus and was further complicated by a streptococcus bacteria. Most of the horses had not received a flu vaccine despite being hauled to the holding facility seven months earlier, and the BLM has said it is investigating the reasons for the delay and will release details later.

The American Wild Horse Campaign said it was alarmed by the federal plan to accelerate the roundup, calling it inhumane to send more mustangs into holding facilities that have been plagued with disease. Holding pens across the country are already crowded, said the campaign’s executive director Suzanne Roy. “The BLM already has a capacity crisis on its hands,” she said in an email. “The agency must not use a limited emergency as an excuse to accelerate a wholesale helicopter roundup of hundreds of wild horses and send them to a broken holding system where they are at a heightened risk of disease and death.”

Nationwide, the bureau has more than 56,000 wild horses and burros in holding pens or pastures, some awaiting adoption. That includes more than 2,000 horses in Cañon City, where prison inmates care for the animals.

The agency estimates there are about 82,000 wild horses and burros roaming rangeland in 10 Western states, but says the land is appropriate for only about 26,000 of them.

In Colorado, about 1,800 mustangs remain on range, but the federal goal is 827.

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Denver Broncos enter into purchase agreement with Walton-Penner family The purchase price was expected to be more than $4 billion STAFF REPORT THE COLORADO SUN

The Walton family has won the bidding to purchase the Denver Broncos in the most expensive deal for a sports franchise anywhere in the world.

The Broncos announced June 7 they had entered into a sale agreement with the Walton-Penner ownership group led by Walmart heir Rob Walton, his daughter, Carrie Walton Penner, and her husband, Greg Penner.

Mellody Hobson, CEO of Ariel Investments, and chair of the board of Starbucks Corporation, is also a part of what will be the team’s ownership group.

Hobson is Black. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has made minority ownership a point of emphasis in the league.

“Having lived and worked in Colorado, we’ve always admired the Broncos,” Rob Walton, who was the chairman of Walmart from 1992 to 2015, said in a written statement.

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dures are met, our family is excited to share more with Broncos fans, the organization and the community.”

The purchase price was expected to be about $4.5 billion, which would be the most expensive deal in sports history. It would surpass the $3.1 billion sale last month of Chelsea F.C., one of European soccer’s blue-ribbon teams, to an American-led consortium fronted by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly.

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The Pat Bowlen Trust has run the franchise for several years and last year put the club up for sale after Hall of Famer Pat Bowlen’s children couldn’t concur on a successor to their father.

Bowlen died in 2019 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s, a month shy of his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Joe Ellis, the Broncos president and CEO, said the purchase agreements “marks a significant step on the path to an exciting new chapter in Broncos’ history.”

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“My job is to get the team ready and teach systems and teach them to come together as a team and get them better at football,” Hackett said. “I know that’s obviously a huge, huge deal. But for us it’s about winning no matter who is going to own the team, so I’m excited.”

After a first round of bids, five finalists were invited to tour the team’s facilities and take a deeper dive into the franchise’s finances.

Hackett said he met with most of the billionaire bidders.

“After talking with everybody, I think they all have an amazing passion and want to be part of this league, and they want to be part of a team — and I think that’s something that’s really beautiful,” Hackett said.

“They want to come to win, and they want to do something great here. And so, wherever it is, I think we’re going to be very grateful.”

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Playing golf and learning life lessons First Tee celebrates opening the Overland Park Junior Course

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It was barely a year ago when 16-year-old Layla Duong first put her hands on a golf club.

Back then, she knew nothing of the sport.

“Golf is for the rich,” she thought. “Golf is boring.”

But in April 2021, through a friend’s encouragement, Duong applied for, and obtained, a job with First TeeColorado Rocky Mountains.

Today, Duong serves as a First Tee junior coach and works directly with about 40 youth as their mentor.

She plays golf on South High School’s varsity golf team and, being the first in her family to play golf, she is teaching them how to play the sport so it becomes something they can do together.

“I have a deep passion for the sport now,” Duong said.

“I will continue (playing) golf my whole life.”

Though Duong has fallen in love with golf, it’s not just the sport that she enjoys so much — it’s being involved with First Tee. “I learned not only golf, but I learned how to be mentally strong, and how to stay true to myself,” Duong said.

“As a minority, I thought I’d be looked at differently.

I thought I would have to change myself in order to fit in. But everyone was very open and non-judgmental.”

First Tee is a national foryouth nonprofit organization that was established 25 years ago. Youth get to play golf, but moreover, the organization creates learning experiences that build inner strength, self-confidence and resilience.

“What First Tee does is use golf as a tool to educate youth, socially, academically and physically,” said Paula Purifoy, CEO of First TeeColorado Rocky Mountains.

“We do a lot of mentoring — it’s so much more than golf.”

The organization does this by instilling nine core values related to golf, which can be carried through a youth’s development.

The core values are: Honesty - This encourages youth to honestly self report scores and penalties.

Integrity - This pushes youth to be responsible for their own actions on the golf course, even when no

To learn more about First Tee-Colorado Rocky Mountains, visit firstteecoloradorockymountains.org.

The organization hosts open houses for members of the community. There are a number of them scheduled through June and July. To register or to find an open house in a nearby Denver neighborhood, visit the website above and select `get involved.’ Then scroll to `open houses’ and click on it to open the link. one is looking.

Sportsmanship - A value that teaches youth to observe the rules of play, and win or lose with grace.

Respect - To show respect for oneself, playing partners, competitors, the golf course and traditions of the game.

Confidence - Through being positive, this core value focuses on youth being more confident.

Responsibility - The lesson is to allow youth to learn and take responsiblity for their own actions.

Perseverance - Pushing youth to succeed in golf where players must continue through bad breaks and their own mistakes.

Courtesy - Starting and ending a game of golf with a handshake among competitors.

Judgment - Deciding strategy, and when to play safe and when to take a chance.

Daniel Reeves has been with First Tee for 20 years, starting when he was 19.

Today, he serves as the executive director of the local chapter.

“We focus on making it fun and the relationships,” Reeves said, adding he enjoys seeing the youth grow up, become successful and, “creating as big of an opportunity as possible for others to help others.”

First Tee-Colorado Rocky Mountains offers two primary programs — on course and in school/after school.

The on course program runs for six weeks. It is a feebased program, but scholarships are available.

The on course First Tee program is offered at 28 facilities across the state, with eight of them being in Denver, Purifoy said.

The in school/after school program is free to families.

Part of this program entails working with physical education teachers to provide the training, equipment and lesson plans for their students.

First Tee’s school program is probably best known for

Judson Price, 10, of Parker plays on the new First Tee – Colorado Rocky Mountains’ junior course at the PHOTOS BY CHRISTY STEADMAN Overland Park Golf Course in Denver during the grand opening event on May 12.

Happy Haynes, executive director of Denver Parks & Recreation, holding the giant scissors, and Layla Duong, 16, a First Tee junior coach, cut the ribbon during the May 12 grand opening event of the First Tee –Colorado Rocky Mountains’ junior course at the Overland Park Golf Course in Denver.

its Read `N’ Swing. Aiming at continued education, a student reads with a First Tee staffer or volunteer, then after quality reading time, students participate in a golf activity.

Read `N’ Swing got its start at Columbine Elementary School, a Denver Public School located at 29th Avenue and Columbine Street, when the school was rated one of the lowest in the entire country for reading, Purifoy said.

The program saw so much success that it has now been expanded to 55 schools in the Denver-metro area, Purifoy said.

Headquartered at the City Park Golf Course in Denver, First Tee-Colorado Rocky Mountains is one of about 150 chapters located across

the U.S. There are also some chapters abroad.

First Tee-Colorado Rocky Mountains is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

“In the beginning, (First Tee) served about 200 kids at City Park,” Purifoy said.

The program has grown since 2002. Citing 2019, Purifoy said, about 10,000 youth across the state are involved with First Tee annually.

On May 12, First Tee celebrated the grand opening of the Overland Park Junior Course — an event that was postponed for two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Prices, of Parker, attended the celebration.

Their son, Judson, 10, has had golf lessons in the past, but it was not a favorable experience, Sandra Price said.

The family is now thinking about getting Judson involved with First Tee. “I like the fact that everyone is so engaged,” Sandra Price said. “And I like the community involvement.”

The Overland Golf Course in Denver was established in 1895. For adult and more experienced golfers, the course boasts challenges to players of any skill level.

Now with the junior course, Overland will be able to serve at least 500 youth, said Happy Haynes, executive director of Denver Parks & Recreation, at the May 12 event.

“We’re creating new leaders in this community,” Haynes said. “Through the game of golf, kids are growing in every way you can think of.”

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How Colorado plans to spend $12M in new funding on an e-bike program Denver quickly ran out of electric bike rebates, and state officials who know a new voucher program will be popular want to make sure shops have stock

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado officials are detailing plans to give out $12 million in statewide electric bike rebates approved by this year’s legislature, following on the wild success of a Denver ebike assistance plan that maxed out its first round of 3,250 applications in a matter of weeks.

Denver, meanwhile, said it plans to announce a new round of e-bike assistance after the Fourth of July.

The timing and scale of e-bike purchase programs is apparently being affected by near-universal supply chain problems and high demand.

Bike shops haven’t been able to find enough stock for surges of customers, transportation advocates said, and state and local officials are checking with stores before expanding programs.

The Colorado Energy Office will administer the new state e-bike program, aiming at a January launch, to open up more access to the bikes meant to replace fossil fuel-driven cars with transportation that runs on cleaner electric power. The legislation seeks to help 12,000 people statewide with e-bike and equipment purchases, safety training and aid to governments, tribes and nonprofits setting up distribution programs.

Smaller state pilot programs called Can Do Colorado use a triplogging app designed by the National Renewable Energy Lab, and the results show “people are using them and that they’re being used

for their intended purpose, to offset vehicle miles traveled,” said Sarah Thorne, who is administering the e-bike program for the Colorado Energy Office.

Advocacy groups can’t wait for more.

“These are the steps that states and cities need to take to address transportation change,” said Piep van Heuven, director of government relations for Bicycle Colorado.

“Household motor vehicle trips are one of the biggest drivers of transportation emissions in the country, and nearly 60% of these trips are a distance of 6 miles or less, the perfect distance for an e-bike trip.”

While Denver’s program was split between assistance for lowincome applicants, and those who did not need to be income qualified, Colorado will aim all of its e-bike rebates at lower income residents, Thorne said. As a way to reach more residents, Colorado’s program may allow bikes to be purchased from online and big box retailers.

Denver’s vouchers are redeemed at participating specialty bike shops.

The new state program, using Colorado taxpayer money, will not require applicants to use the tracking app as part of efforts to gather data on how many car trips are replaced with cleaner energy trips.

“It’s optional,” Thorne said. In the pilot program, some people tired of entering trip logs after a few months. “It’s a big ask.”

E-bikes use a battery pack and motor to make pedaling easier or extend coasting, with variable settings that can set the bikes cruising from 15 to 30 mph. They can help take hundreds of pounds of cargo across town and up hills, and advocates say they make commuting safer by allowing bikers to surge at green lights, merge into traffic or avoid accidents.

Advocates also mention commuters may arrive at a job site “not sweaty” with the assist from the battery pack.

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The program, which also included rebates on swapping out naturalgas burning home appliances, like furnaces and hot water heaters, for electric versions is financed by a sales tax approved by city voters in 2020 estimated to raise more than $40 million a year for climate action.

The climate office capped ebike applications at 3,250, and the rebates will pause until Denver allocates more money periodically throughout the year. More than half the applicants sought the $400 e-bike rebates that don’t depend on income level, and about 40% applied for rebates that go up to $1,200 for income-qualified candidates. Those buying e-cargo bikes, set up to carry kids to school or make deliveries, can get an additional $500.

The state e-bike program is part of a host of electrification measures included in Senate Bill 193, which also offers tens of millions to school districts to swap dirtier diesel buses for electric versions. Colorado has set reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions of 26% by 2025, 50% by 2030, and 90% by 2050, from a 2005 baseline.

The bill package also includes $2 million to “increase energy efficiency, reduce water use, promote renewable energy implementation” at pot-growing facilities, which are heavy users of electricity and water.

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clerks don’t understand the conspiracy she baselessly claims occurs between Griswold and Denverbased Dominion Voting Systems, which provided machines that process the vast majority of ballots in Colorado.

Individual questions for each candidate The Sun asked Anderson about her role as a director of the Center for Technology and Civic Life, which distributed grants from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s foundation to local election offices around the country in 2020 to help defray costs brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. (She’s on leave from the organization while running for office.)

ANDERSON: She said she served with the center as a volunteer director, one of many volunteer roles she’s played “because of my expertise as a local election official.” ”I don’t know Mark Zuckerberg.

Never met him. I’ve never been paid in these capacities,” she said.

O’Donnell is a political novice and the only Republican candidate for secretary of state without experience administering elections. We asked him how he’d handle being the state’s top election official.

O’DONNELL: He said he would join a national association for

election officials and take online classes in election administration if he wins the primary. “A lot of the elections are handled by the county clerks and the system is well in place. There are a lot of rules that don’t make sense to me, there are a lot of things that just inflate the voter rolls and little issues we have with not removing people from the voter rolls.”

The Sun asked Peters how she could serve as secretary of state if she ends up being convicted of the charges against her, which could result in a prison sentence.

PETERS: “I will never plead guilty because I’ve committed no crime … This is a political maneuver to color the minds of the voters to keep me out of the Secretary of State’s Office,” she said. She said that if she were convicted and sentenced to prison she “will have in place in the Secretary of State’s Office … people that are trustworthy, that are honest, that are strong, that are capable — that can run that office.”

Colorado Sun staff writer Jesse Paul contributed to this report.

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Recorded in Douglas County. secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, the indebtedness is: Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Public Notices callDOT Sheree 303.566.4088 legals@coloradocommunitymedia.com Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: has filed written election and demand for sale as Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Legals

Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE Castle Rock NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0038 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/29/2022 10:12:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: CURTIS G ANDERSON Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/16/2017 Recording Date of DOT: 10/18/2017 Reception No. of DOT: 2017070838 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $309,195.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $289,340.10 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower's failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 22, BLOCK 2, VILLAGES AT CASTLE ROCK, FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. ACCOUNT NUMBER: R0333654.

Which has the address of: 619 North Bentley Street, Castle Rock, CO 80104 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/29/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ALISON L. BERRY Colorado Registration #: 34531 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 22-026873 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0038 First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Castle Rock NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0043 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/31/2022 10:52:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: ERIN L KEANEY Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR BROKER SOLUTIONS, INC. DBA NEW AMERICAN FUNDING, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 12/20/2019 Recording Date of DOT: 12/23/2019 Reception No. of DOT: 2019087979

$421,720.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $413,395.80

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 5, BLOCK 2, THE MEADOWS FILING NO. 11, PARCEL 3, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 4221 Timber Hollow Loop, Castle Rock, CO 80109 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/31/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: LYNN M. JANEWAY Colorado Registration #: 15592 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 22-026530 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0043 First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0039 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/29/2022 10:46:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: IAN EVANS AND KRISTIN SMITH Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR HOME MORTGAGE ALLIANCE, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/13/2017 Recording Date of DOT: 6/14/2017 Reception No. of DOT: 2017039963 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $347,096.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $240,156.75 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower’s failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 8, BLOCK 5, ANTELOPE HEIGHTS FILING II, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 16429 E Hollow Horn Ave, Parker, CO 80134 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt

provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/29/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ALISON L. BERRY Colorado Registration #: 34531 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 22-026890 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0039 First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Castle Rock NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0042 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/31/2022 10:50:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: RENEE BROOKS Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR NATIONS LENDING CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/30/2020 Recording Date of DOT: 5/6/2020 Reception No. of DOT: 2020037096 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $316,167.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $308,693.28 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower's failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 50, BLOCK 1, RED HAWK FILING NO. 1, LOT 1, BLOCK 8 - 4TH AMENDMENT, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 1493 Ophir Rd, Castle Rock, CO 80109 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/31/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of

Douglas County.

ALISON L. BERRY Colorado Registration #: 34531 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 22-027003

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0042 First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0049 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/13/2022 11:40:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: JULIE E. BAUMAN AND RICHARD B. BAUMAN Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR TAYLOR, BEAN & WHITAKER MORTGAGE CORP., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee for Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust Inc., Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AR1 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/26/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 9/27/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005092177 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $440,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $345,591.69 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower's failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 5, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 118-L, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 796 Ridgemont Circle, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126

Original Grantor: Allura M. Jones Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Liberty Home Equity Solutions, Inc., Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: PHH Mortgage Corporation Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/12/2014 Recording Date of DOT: 3/12/2014 Reception No. of DOT: 2014012307 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $442,500.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $277,411.78 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to make timely tax and insurance payments under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 78, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 28, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 4 Canongate Ln, Highlands Ranch, CO 80130-3907 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 3, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 6/9/2022 Last Publication: 7/7/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/13/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 3, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 6/9/2022 Last Publication: 7/7/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/13/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: LYNN M. JANEWAY Colorado Registration #: 15592 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 22-027307 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0049 First Publication: 6/9/2022 Last Publication: 7/7/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ILENE DELL'ACQUA Colorado Registration #: 31755 7700 E. ARAPAHOE ROAD, SUITE 230 , CENTENNIAL, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (877) 369-6122 Fax #: Attorney File #: CO-22-910712-LL *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0050 First Publication: 6/9/2022 Last Publication: 7/7/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Larkspur NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0047 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/5/2022 9:03:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: CHRISTINA M LEVESQUE Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GATEWAY MORTGAGE GROUP, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/27/2017 Recording Date of DOT: 6/27/2017 Reception No. of DOT: 2017043454 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $216,015.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $198,767.56 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower’s failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0050 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/13/2022 11:39:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

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

Legal Description of Real Property: A TRACT OF LAND SITUATED IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 34, TOWNSHIP 9 SOUTH, RANGE 67 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, TOWN OF LARKSPUR, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEASTERLY CORNER OF LOT 12, LARKSPUR AND CONSIDERING THE EASTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 12 TO BEAR SOUTH 23 DEGREES 23 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST WITH ALL BEARINGS CONTAINED HEREIN RELATIVE THERETO; THENCE SOUTH 23 DEGREES 23 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF FRINK STREET (ALSO THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF THE DENVER AND RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILROAD), A DISTANCE OF 37.75 FEET; THENCE NORTH 64 DEGREES 53 MINUTES 57 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 105.88 FEET; THENCE NORTH 25 DEGREES 44 MINUTES 05 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 29.95 FEET; THENCE NORTH 25 DEGREES 06 MINUTES 59 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 17.56 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 65 DEGREES 27 MINUTES 33 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 127.98 FEET OT THE POINT OF BEGINNING. Which has the address of: 9079 Frink Road, Larkspur, CO 80118 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 6/2/2022 Last Publication: 6/30/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/5/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: LYNN M. JANEWAY Colorado Registration #: 15592 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 22-027172 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0047 First Publication: 6/2/2022 Last Publication: 6/30/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0052 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/15/2022 2:19:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: Mainstreet Pier, LLC, a Colorado limited liabilty company; Timothy Tait and Elizabeth Tait Original Beneficiary: Independent Bank, a Texas state-chartered banking corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Independent Bank, a Texas state-chartered banking corporation Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 7/26/2018 Recording Date of DOT: 7/27/2018 Reception No. of DOT: 2018045507 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $12,380,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $11,731,503.88 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Debt secured thereby.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: PARCEL 1: LOT 31A-2, BLOCK 1, TWENTY MILE VILLAGE FILING NO. 2, 12TH AMENDMENT, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, ST ATE OF COLORADO. PARCEL 2: NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENTS FOR STORM SEWER AND/OR SURFACE DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE FACILITIES, ACCESS, INGRESS, EGRESS, PARKING, PEDESTRIAN PATHWAYS AND PARKING LOT IMPROVEMENT OR REPAIRS, AS CONTAINED IN THE DECLARATION OF PROTECTIVE COVENANTS, RESTRICTIONS, OPERATIONS AND EASEMENTS, “TWENTY MILE VILLAGE RETAIL II,” LOTS 17-42, TWENTY MILE PROPERTY FILING NO. 2, SECOND AMENDMENT,

RECORDED JULY 25, 2000, IN BOOK 1872 AT PAGE 1465, AND RECORDED DECEMBER 27, 2016 AT RECEPTION NO. 2016095015, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 18595 Mainstreet, Parker, CO 80134 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 6/16/2022 Last Publication: 7/14/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/15/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: PETER Q. MURPHY Colorado Registration #: 23328 1775 SHERMAN STREET, SUITE 1950, DENVER, COLORADO 80203 Phone #: (303) 866-0119 Fax #: Attorney File #: 10615.471 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0052 First Publication: 6/16/2022 Last Publication: 7/14/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Castle Rock NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0057 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/27/2022 10:57:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: Joel Christopherson Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as beneficiary, as nominee for American Mortgage Network, Inc., a Delaware Corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Arvest Central Mortgage Company Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 1/4/2007 Recording Date of DOT: 3/12/2007 Reception No. of DOT: 2007020987 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $180,750.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $211,809.76 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and/or other violations of the terms thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 16, BLOCK 4, FOUNDERS VILLAGE, FILING NO. 6, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 4367 Andover Avenue, Castle Rock, CO 80104 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 6/23/2022 Last Publication: 7/21/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/27/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

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

$314,204.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $298,172.49

ALEXIS R. ABERCROMBIE Colorado Registration #: 56722 216 16TH STREET SUITE 1210, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (720) 259-6714 Fax #: (720) 259-6709 Attorney File #: 22CO00140-1

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

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0057 First Publication: 6/23/2022 Last Publication: 7/21/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0053 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/19/2022 10:58:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: Del Hansen Original Beneficiary: U.S. Bank N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Community Loan Servicing, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 5/20/2015 Recording Date of DOT: 5/27/2015 Reception No. of DOT: 2015034588 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $306,900.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $278,659.67 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: A default in payment required by the Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: Lot 392, Highlands Ranch Filing No. 111-C, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

Which has the address of: 9855 Castle Ridge Circle, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 6/16/2022 Last Publication: 7/14/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/19/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: KAREN J RADAKOVICH Colorado Registration #: 11649 4750 TABLE MESA DRIVE , BOULDER, COLORADO 80305-5575 Phone #: (303) 494-3000 Fax #: Attorney File #: 7192-14890 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0053 First Publication: 6/16/2022 Last Publication: 7/14/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Parker NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0037

indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

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

Dated: 3/31/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 100, COTTONWOOD SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO.

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

Which has the address of: 17605 Ponderosa Ave, Parker, CO 80134 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/29/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ALISON L. BERRY Colorado Registration #: 34531 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 20-024128 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0037 First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

LYNN M. JANEWAY Colorado Registration #: 15592 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 22-026497 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0044 First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE RENOTICED AND REPUBLISHED PURSUANT TO CRS 38-38-109(2)(b)(II) Castle Rock NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0003 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/20/2022 12:44:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: Jovi Altadonna and Amy Altadonna Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for loanDepot.com, LLC, Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: loanDepot.com, LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/10/2017 Recording Date of DOT: 4/19/2017 Reception No. of DOT: 2017026083 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $381,177.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $360,843.71 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

PUBLIC NOTICE Castle Rock NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0044 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/31/2022 10:54:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: EVAN P BUCK Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR KBHS HOME LOANS, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/25/2020 Recording Date of DOT: 8/31/2020 Reception No. of DOT: 2020081661 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $430,711.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $422,817.00 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower's failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 1, BLOCK 5, OF THE MEADOWS FILING NO. 20, PHASE 2, AMENDMENT NO. 6, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO.

To Whom It May Concern: On 3/29/2022 10:06:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Which has the address of: 2976 Distant Rock Ave, Castle Rock, CO 80109

Original Grantor: CHRIS JON HAMMERBERG Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/1/2018 Recording Date of DOT: 6/5/2018 Reception No. of DOT: 2018033623 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt:

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

NOTICE OF SALE

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 13 BLOCK 8 FIRST REPLAT OF THE MEADOWS NUMBER 1, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 4 572 N Diamond Leaf Drive, Castle Rock, CO 80109 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 6/16/2022 Last Publication: 7/14/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/20/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ILENE DELL'ACQUA Colorado Registration #: 31755 7700 E. ARAPAHOE ROAD, SUITE 230, CENTENNIAL, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (877) 369-6122 Fax #: Attorney File #: CO-22-897884-LL *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice NO. 2022-0003 First Publication: 6/16/2022 Last Publication: 7/14/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE

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Public Notices Franktown NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0056 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/21/2022 11:40:00 AM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: Frederick J. McCoy Jr AND Susan M. McCoy Original Beneficiary: KeyBank National Association Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: KeyBank, NA, s/b/m First Niagara Bank, NA Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/31/2013 Recording Date of DOT: 11/1/2013 Reception No. of DOT: 2013088007 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $495,800.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $428,786.37 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: the failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 120, RUSSELLVILLE UNIT 6, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 11274 East Manitou Rd, Franktown, CO 80116 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 6/16/2022 Last Publication: 7/14/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/21/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ILENE DELL'ACQUA Colorado Registration #: 31755 7700 E. ARAPAHOE ROAD, SUITE 230 , CENTENNIAL, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (877) 369-6122 Fax #: Attorney File #: CO-22-912176-LL *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0056 First Publication: 6/16/2022 Last Publication: 7/14/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Larkspur NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0041 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/31/2022 2:15:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: PERRY L. ELLIOTT AND COLLETTE MARIE ELLIOTT Original Beneficiary: AMERIQUEST MORTGAGE COMPANY Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Towd Point Mortgage Trust 2017-1, U.S. Bank National Association, as Indenture Trustee Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 10/1/2004 Recording Date of DOT: 10/15/2004 Reception No. of DOT: 2004106480 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $274,700.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $190,960.93 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: A TRACT OF LAND SITUATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ¼ OF THE SOUTHWEST ¼ OF SEC-

TION 4, AND IN THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SECTION 9, ALL IN TOWNSHIP 10 SOUTH, RANGE 66 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ OF SECTION 9; THENCE SOUTH 1 DEGREE 19 MINUTES 34 SECONDS WEST ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID NORTHWEST ¼ OF THE NORTHWEST ¼ A DISTANCE OF 934.97 FEET; THENCE NORTH 87 DEGREES 30 MINUTES 57 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 1281.93 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EAST BOUNDARY OF MESA GRANDE SUBDIVISION; THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG SAID EASTERN BOUNDARY ALONG THE ARC OF A CURVE TO THE RIGHT A DISTANCE OF 314.08 FEET, SAID CURVE HAS A RADIUS OF 970.00 FEET AND A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 18 DEGREES 33 MINUTES 08 SECONDS TO A POINT OF TANGENT; THENCE NORTH 19 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 16 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID EASTERN BOUNDARY AND ALONG SAID TANGENT A DISTANCE OF 359.77 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG SAID EASTERN BOUNDARY ALONG THE ARC OF A CURVE TO THE LEFT A DISTANCE OF 384.91 FEET, SAID CURVE HAS A RADIUS OF 585.16 FEET AND A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 37 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 16 SECONDS TO A POINT OF TANGENT; THENCE NORTH 18 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 00 SECONDS WEST ALONG SAID TANGENT A DISTANCE OF 10.53 FEET TO THE SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF COUNTY ROAD NO. 74; THENCE NORTH 72 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 00 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID SOUTH RIGHT OF WAY LINE A DISTANCE OF 267.95 FEET; THENCE NORTH 63 DEGREES 19 MINUTES 34 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID RIGHT OF WAY LINE A DISTANCE OF 981.51 FEET TO THE EAST LINE OF THE SOUTHWEST ¼ OF THE SOUTHWEST ¼ OF AFORESAID SECTION 4; THENCE SOUTH 0 DEGREES 48 MINUTES 25 SECONDS WEST ALONG SAID EAST LINE A DISTANCE OF 678.60 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 11100 Haskell Creek Rd, Larkspur, CO 80118 The Deed of Trust was modified by a document recorded in Douglas County on 5/13/2021, Reception number 2021061896. Reason modified and any other modifications: Legal Description.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 20, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/31/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ANNA JOHNSTON Colorado Registration #: 51978 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700 , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 350-3711 Fax #: Attorney File #: 00000009442807 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0041 First Publication: 5/26/2022 Last Publication: 6/23/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

PUBLIC NOTICE Castle Rock NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0048 To Whom It May Concern: On 4/6/2022 1:38:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: ROCKY C MYERS Original Beneficiary: BOKF NA DBA COLORADO STATE BANK AND TRUST Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: BOKF, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/15/2018 Recording Date of DOT: 3/16/2018 Reception No. of DOT: 2018015436 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $422,112.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $396,043.70 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 11, BLOCK 3, CASTLEWOOD RANCH SUBDIVISION-FILING NO. 1 PARCEL 6, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 1271 Kittery Street, Castle Rock, CO 80104 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. If the sale date is continued to a later date, the deadline to file a notice of intent to cure by those parties entitled to cure may also be extended.

First Publication: 6/2/2022 Last Publication: 6/30/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 4/6/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: JENNIFER C. ROGERS Colorado Registration #: 34682 4100 E. MISSISSIPPI AVE., STE. 420 , DENVER, COLORADO 80246 Phone #: 877-353-2146 Fax #: Attorney File #: 48032973 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0048 First Publication: 6/2/2022 Last Publication: 6/30/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

City and County Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS A public hearing will be held before the Planning Commission on July 11, 2022, at 6:00 p.m., and before the Board of County Commissioners on July 26, 2022, at 2:30 p.m., in the Commissioners' Hearing Room, 100 Third St., Castle Rock, CO, for approval of a minor development final plat located in Castle Pines Village approximately 700 feet south of the intersection of Country Club Parkway and Country Club Estates Drive. For more information call Douglas County Planning, 303-660-7460.

File #/Name: SB2022-012/ Castle Pines Village Filing 37, 1st Amendment Legal Notice No. 942271 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice Castle View Owner LLC will submit an application to the Colorado Division of Housing (DOH).

The purpose of this application is to request up to $5,000,000 to develop 200 rental units at Meadows Filing 19, Lot 2 North Parcel D2A, Castle Rock, Colorado. The request of funding from DOH is to benefit persons with low and moderate incomes by increasing the availability of affordable housing in Castle Rock. It is not the intent to cause displacement from any existing housing; however, if persons are displaced from their existing residences reasonable housing alternatives shall be offered.

All interested persons are encouraged to contact the applicant for further information. Written comments should be sent to 950 17th Street, Suite1600, Denver, CO 80202, or ahmed.abdelhameed@ulyssesdevelopment.com and will be forwarded to DOH for consideration during the application process.

Members of the public may request a public meeting and should arrange a request with the Applicant. Applicant shall post notice of meeting (Date, Time, and Location) to ensure other members of the public are aware of meeting. If reasonable accommodations are needed for persons attending the public meeting, please contact the Applicant.

Legal Notice No. 942289 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice This Ordinance and any changes thereto shall be considered for adoption at a public meeting of the Castle Pines City Council at 6:30 p.m. on June 28, 2022, which may be postponed at said meeting, and which meeting shall be open to the public.

ORDINANCE NO. 22-08 An Ordinance Of The City Council Of The City Of Castle Pines, Colorado Amending Article 4 of Chapter 11 Of The Municipal Code Of Castle Pines Relating To Excavation Of Newly Constructed Or Resurfaced Streets The complete text of all Ordinances is available through the City Offices and on the City’s official website: www.castlepinesco.gov By:Tobi Duffey, CMC. City Clerk Legal Notice No. 942288 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE DOUGLAS COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held before the Douglas County Health Department on Thursday, July 14, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. in the Commissioners Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, concerning the adoption of Regulation 22-01 for Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems and Regulation 22-02, Rules and Regulations for Body Art Establishments. For more information, please call the Douglas County Health Department at 720-643-2400.

4db317ff394b%22%7d Call In Number: +1 872-888-7894 Access Number: 151204636# The Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 4, Douglas County, State of Colorado (the “District”), intends to undertake and consider approval of certain actions pertaining to the modification of taxing boundaries and creation of one or more subdistricts.

Pursuant to § 32-1-1101(1)(f)(I), C.R.S., the District intends to create one or more subdistricts within its boundaries for the purpose of realigning the projected development of property within the District consistent with the services, programs and facilities to be provided therein. The initial subdistricts to be created include four subdistricts intended to align with construction phasing and the specific and changing service needs of the various subdistricts during construction of public infrastructure and operations upon buildout.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS STERLING RANCH COLORADO METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 4 By: Cameron J. Richards, Esq., Attorney for the District Legal Notice No. 942297 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

Legal Notice No. 942277 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

May 5, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICE PURSUANT TO THE LIQUOR LAW OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, CORK BRYAN & BRYAN has requested the Licensing Officials of Douglas County to grant a TAVERN Liquor License at the location of 30 W SPRINGER DR. IN HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO 80129. The Public Hearing on this application is to be held by the Douglas County Local Liquor Licensing Authority at 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, 80104 on Tuesday, JULY 5, 2022 at 1:30 p.m.

Date of Application: JUNE 1, 2022 MANAGER: LISA BRYAN

Thunderbird Water a Title 32 Water District, providing water to Indian Creek Ranch west of Sedalia Colorado is planning a Drinking Water project to re-drill our Well #1. To comply with the Federal public participation requirement a meeting will be held July 14, 2022 to discuss and answer any and all questions concerning estimated costs, project alternatives, the preferred alternative, any projected rate increases and construction related and/or environmental impacts of the project. The meeting will be held at the Indian Creek Ranch Club House, 7149 W. Cherokee Dr. Sedalia Colorado, 80135, beginning at 7PM. Legal Notice No. 942103 First Publication: June 2, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

Legal Notice No. 942267 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

NOTICE AS TO PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING A PETITION TO INCLUDE REAL PROPERTY INTO THE BOUNDARIES OF THE STERLING RANCH COLORADO METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 4 DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO

Metropolitan Districts

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 32-1-401, C.R.S., that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 4 (the “District”) has received two petitions for the inclusion of real property into the District’s boundaries. The property owner and general location information of the properties proposed to be included is as follows:

Public Notice NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING STERLING RANCH COLORADO METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 7 DOUGLAS COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors of Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 7 (the “District”), Douglas County, Colorado, will hold a special meeting on Friday, June 24, 2022, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. via teleconference and can be joined with the details below: Meeting Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetupjoin/19%3ameeting_ZjIzYTFjMjUtOTFjMS00N WQxLWFjMmYtNjkxYzVkMmI4YjM2%40thread. v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%229c493 48f-726d-4af4-9b1b-db710183b6d9%22%2c% 22Oid%22%3a%22f2bfe141-b412-434d-80304db317ff394b%22%7d Call In Number: +1 872-888-7894 Access Code: 151204636# The Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 7, Douglas County, State of Colorado (the “District”), intends to undertake and consider approval of certain actions pertaining to the modification of taxing boundaries and creation of one or more subdistricts.

Pursuant to § 32-1-1101(1)(f)(I), C.R.S., the District intends to create one or more subdistricts within its boundaries for the purpose of realigning the projected development of property within the District consistent with the services, programs and facilities to be provided therein. The District intends to create an additional subdistrict containing property intended to be developed for industrial or mixed residential / retail commercial use.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS STERLING RANCH COLORADO METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 7 By: Cameron J. Richards, Esq., Attorney for the District

Owner: Sterling Ranch, LLC 8155 Piney River Avenue, Suite 200 Littleton, CO 80125 Location: Parcel 1: Parcels of land making up a part of Sterling Ranch Filing No. 2 Superblock Lot 126, County of Douglas, State of Colorado in the Sterling Ranch planned development.

Parcel 2: A parcel of land being a part of the Southeast Quarter of Section 30, the Northwest Quarter of Section 31 and the Southwest Quarter of Section 31, Township 6 South, Range 68 West of the Sixth Principal Meridian, County of Douglas, State of Colorado in the Sterling Ranch planned development.

The Board will hear the petition and consider adopting a resolution including the defined parcels into the District’s boundaries at a special meeting of the Board to be held at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, June 24, 2022 via teleconference and can be joined with the meeting details below: Meeting Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetupjoin/19%3ameeting_ZjIzYTFjMjUtOTFjMS00N WQxLWFjMmYtNjkxYzVkMmI4YjM2%40thread. v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%229c493 48f-726d-4af4-9b1b-db710183b6d9%22%2c% 22Oid%22%3a%22f2bfe141-b412-434d-80304db317ff394b%22%7d Call In Number: +1 872-888-7894 Access Code: 151204636# This meeting is open to the public.

All persons interested shall appear at the designated time and place and show cause in writing why the petition should not be granted.

STERLING RANCH COLORADO METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 4 /s/ Denise Hogenes General Manager, Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board On behalf of: Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 4 Board of Directors

Legal Notice No. 942299 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING STERLING RANCH COLORADO METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 4 DOUGLAS COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO

Legal Notice No. 942300 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors of Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 4 (the “District”), Douglas County, Colorado, will hold a special meeting on Friday, June 24, 2022, at the hour of 9:00 a.m. via teleconference and can be joined with the details below:

NOTICE AS TO PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING A PETITION TO INCLUDE REAL PROPERTY INTO THE BOUNDARIES OF THE STERLING RANCH COLORADO METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 7 DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO

Meeting Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetupjoin/19%3ameeting_ZjIzYTFjMjUtOTFjMS00N WQxLWFjMmYtNjkxYzVkMmI4YjM2%40thread. v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%229c493 48f-726d-4af4-9b1b-db710183b6d9%22%2c% 22Oid%22%3a%22f2bfe141-b412-434d-8030-

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 32-1-401, C.R.S., that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 7 (the “District”) has received a petition for the inclusion of real property into the District’s boundaries. The property owner and general location information of the properties

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Public Notices proposed to be included is as follows: Owner: Sterling Ranch, LLC 8155 Piney River Avenue, Suite 200 Littleton, CO 80125 Location: A parcel of land making up a part of Sterling Ranch Filing No. 2 Superblock Lot 126, County of Douglas, State of Colorado in the Sterling Ranch planned development.

The Board will hear the petition and consider adopting a resolution including the defined parcels into the District’s boundaries at a special meeting of the Board to be held at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, June 24, 2022 via teleconference and can be joined with the meeting details below: Meeting Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetupjoin/19%3ameeting_ZjIzYTFjMjUtOTFjMS00N WQxLWFjMmYtNjkxYzVkMmI4YjM2%40thread. v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%229c493 48f-726d-4af4-9b1b-db710183b6d9%22%2c% 22Oid%22%3a%22f2bfe141-b412-434d-80304db317ff394b%22%7d Call In Number: +1 872-888-7894 Access Code: 151204636# This meeting is open to the public.

All persons interested shall appear at the designated time and place and show cause in writing why the petition should not be granted.

STERLING RANCH COLORADO METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 7 /s/ Denise Hogenes General Manager, Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board On behalf of: Sterling Ranch Colorado Metropolitan District No. 7 Board of Directors Legal Notice No. 942298 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON CONSOLIDATED AMENDED AND RESTATED SERVICE PLAN DAWSON RIDGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1-5 AND WESTFIELD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 AND 2, TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to § 32-1-204(1), C.R.S., a Consolidated Amended and Restated Service Plan (the “Service Plan”) for Dawson Ridge Metropolitan District Nos. 1-5 and Westfield Metropolitan District Nos. 1 and 2 (collectively, the “Districts”) has been filed with the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado.

A public hearing on the Service Plan for the Districts will be held by the Town Council of the Town of Castle Rock, Colorado (the “Town Council”) on July 19, at 6:00 p.m., at 100 N. Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, or as soon thereafter as the Town Council may hear such matter.

The purpose of the hearing is to consider the Service Plan and to form a basis for adopting a resolution approving, conditionally approving or disapproving the Service Plan.

A general description of the land contained within the boundaries of the Districts is as follows: parcels of land within Sections 15, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 32, 33, and 34, Township 8 South, Range 67 West, of the 6th P.M., Town of Castle Rock, County of Douglas, State of Colorado, as more particularly described in the Service Plan, containing approximately 2,261.114 acres.

Pursuant to § 32-1-203(3.5), C.R.S., any person owning property in the proposed District may request that such property be excluded from the District by submitting such request to the Town Council no later than ten days prior to the public hearing.

BY ORDER OF THE TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK TOWN COUNCIL Legal Notice No. 942294 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Bids and Settlements Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Date: 06/15/22 Project Title: Vehicle Detection Installation ATSPM Corridor Upgrades Town of Castle Rock Contractor: Adiona Transportation Solutions, LLC 6145 Broadway, Suite 8 Denver, CO 80216 Notice is hereby given that the Town of Castle Rock intends to start processing the Final Payment to the above-named contractor on July 11, 2022, provided no claims are received.

Any person or firm having debts against the Contractor must file a proper written notice with the Public Works Director, Town of Castle Rock, 4175 Castleton Court, Castle Rock, CO 80109, on or before July 11, 2022.

TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK By: Chris Sobie, P.E., Traffic Operations Engineer Legal Notice No. 942292 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT

TOWN OF PARKER STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO SECTION 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on the day of , 2021, final settlement will be made by the Town of Parker, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Town of Parker and Hamon Infrastructure, Inc., for the completion of Cottonwood Drive Widening (CIP20-004), and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said Hamon Infrastructure, Inc for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said 7th day of July, 2022, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Town of Parker Council, c/o Director of Engineering/Public Works, 20120 E. Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado, 80138. Failure on the part of claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve said Town of Parker from all and any liability for such claimant's claim. The Town of Parker Council, By: Tom Williams, Director of Engineering/Public Works.

Legal Notice No. 942272 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Second Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on July 16, 2022, final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and Martin Marietta Materials, Inc., for the 2021 Asphalt Overlay Project, Douglas County Project Number CI 2021-003 in Douglas County; and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said 16th day of July, 2022 file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Board of County Commissioners, c/o Director of Public Works Engineering, with a copy to the Project Engineer Daniel R. Roberts, P.E. Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104.

Failure on the part of claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve said County of Douglas from all and any liability for such claimant's claim.

The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, By: Janet Herman, P.E., Director of Public Works.

Legal Notice No. 942263 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Second Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Account Number: 2734 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT TOWN OF PARKER STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO SECTION 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on the 7th day of July, 2022, final settlement will be made by the Town of Parker, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Town of Parker and T&M Construction, LLC, for the completion of O’Brien Park Detention Pond Wall Repair (CIP21-020), and that any person, copartnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said T&M Construction, LLC for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said 7th day of July, 2022, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Town of Parker Council, c/o Director of Engineering/Public Works, 20120 E. Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado, 80138. Failure on the part of claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve said Town of Parker from all and any liability for such claimant's claim. The Town of Parker Council, By: Tom Williams, Director of Engineering/Public Works.

First Publication: June 23, 2022 Second Publication: June 30, 2022 Legal Notice No. 942273 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Second Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Public Notice PUBLIC INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed bids for proposed Federal Aid Project No. STU 0852-118 (23474) associated with US Highway 85 (Highlands Ranch Parkway to Dad Clark Gulch) Widening Project, Douglas County Project Numbers CI 2022-021 and CI 2011-025 will be received by Owner, Douglas County Government, Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104, until Thursday, July 14, 2022, at 2:00 p.m.

An EEO-1 Report(s) must be submitted to the Joint

Reporting Committee if the contractor and subcontractors meet the eligibility requirements (29 CFR 1602.7). For additional information regarding these federal requirements, please refer to: https://www.eeco.gov/employers/eeo-1-datacollection and Report(s) should be submitted as soon as possible in order to comply with the EEOC’s mandatory filing requirements. The Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goal of fifteen percent (15%) has been established for this Project. Douglas County, in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 252, 42 US.C. §§ 2000d to 2000d-4) and the Regulations, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprise will be afforded full and fair opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consideration for an award. The Contract Goal for the minimum number of totals On the Job Training required for this Project is 28,160 hours.

The contractor awarded a contract for this Project shall name CDOT and Douglas County as an “additional insured” on its general liability and automobile liability policies.

Prior to submitting a Bid Proposal, Bidders shall have received prequalification status (active) with the Colorado Department of Transportation to bid on individual projects of the size and kind of work set forth herein.

The Project consists of widening and reconstructing US Highway 85 between Highlands Ranch Parkway and Dad Clark Gulch (which is located approximately 1,200 feet north of County Line Road), requiring multiple complex construction phases. This Project requires: removal of the bridge that carries US 85 over C-470 and installation of new wider bridge over C-470, installation of several retaining walls which requires shoring in nine (9) major areas, installation of two (2) concrete box culverts – one to carry the C-470 Trail under US 85 and one to carry the High Line Canal Trail under US 85, installation of major storm sewer system, installation of curb and gutter and median cover material, installation of a 10-feet wide concrete multi-use trail along the east side of US 85, installation of a joint utility trench and over 245,000 feet of electrical conduit, project requires over 100,000 tons of asphalt pavements, and several new traffic signals.

The Contract Documents (electronic version) will be available after 10:00 a.m. on Monday, June 20, 2022, through the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System Website www.rockymountainbidsystem.com and electronic versions of the Plans obtained by any other means than as described above may not be complete or accurate, and it is the Bidder’s responsibility to obtain a complete set of the Project Plans and Specifications.

Douglas County will not be held responsible for misinformation received from private plan rooms.

A PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 29, 2022, at Conference Room A & B on the First Floor of the Philip S. Miller Building, located at 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, CO 80104, or you can participate in the prebid conference virtually via Microsoft TEAMS (the link is provided in the contract bid documents).

All questions are due to Neil Sarno, Project Engineer by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, July 5, 2022. Any questions on the bidding process shall be directed to Neil Sarno, Project Engineer at nsarno@douglas.co.us or at 303.660.7490.

INVITATION TO BID 2022 BMR SCHOOL BUS ROAD PAVING PROJECT Consolidated Bell Mountain Ranch Metropolitan District (CBMRMD) Douglas County, Colorado Bids will be received by the Consolidated Bell Mountain Ranch Metropolitan District for the subject 2022 BMR School Bus Road Paving Project until 3 PM local time, Friday, 1 July 2022. Bids shall be submitted electronically to email: svrabel511@ gmail.com, prior to the above stated time and date.

Bidders will receive confirmation that their bid has been received. Any Bids received after the stated time and date will not be opened. A summary of bid results will be emailed to all bidders.

The work to be performed generally consists of 4 ½” gravel Type 2 base, and 4 1’2” asphalt paving approx 725 SY of asphalt pavements on Bell Mountain Ranch, adjacent to our current public park. In addition the work also includes stripping the existing gravel/dirt mix to a depth of 8” as indicated on the enclosed Park drawing/sketch.

A location map of the work site is contained in the Contract Documents. The prospective work site is open for inspection at any time. No formal pre-bid conference will be held.

Bids shall be submitted on a lump sum basis as described in the Contract Documents. The value of this work is expected to be between $60,000 and $70,000.

Electronic copies of the Contract Documents for use in preparing Bids may be obtained from Steve Vrabel, Assistant Secretary Treasurer CBMRMD, phone 303-506-8372, e-mail: svrabel511@gmail. com, anytime after 10 June, 2022.

The Bidder to whom a Contract is awarded will be required to furnish a Performance, Payment and Warranty Bond guaranteeing faithful performance.

Please indicate the cost of your P & P Bond as a separate cost with your bid.

No Bids may be withdrawn within a period of forty-five (45) days after the date Bids are opened.

CONSOLIDATED BELL MOUNTAIN RANCH METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

Legal Notice No. 942285 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Town of Castle Rock, Colorado Date: 22 June 2022 Project Title: Terrain Control Valve Project Contractor: RMW Ltd, LLC d/b/a Elite Surface Infrastructure 1199 Atchison Court Castle Rock, CO 80109 Notice is hereby given that The Town of Castle Rock intends to start processing the Final Payment to the above-named contractor on July 8, 2022, provided no claims are received.

TOWN OF CASTLE ROCK By: Matthew Hayes, P.E. Project Manager

Public Notice

All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 303-660-7527. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is ALCOCK LAW GROUP 19751 E MAINSTREET 225 Parker, CO 80138, 303-993-5400 Dated 6/9/2022, Castle Rock, CO Tony Spurlock Sheriff of Douglas County, Colorado Tommy Barrella, Deputy Douglas County, Colorado Legal Notice NO. 942178 First Publication: 6/9/2022 Last Publication: 7/7/2022 Published In: Douglas County News Press

Misc. Private Legals PUBLIC NOTICE DISTRICT COURT, DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO 4000 Justice Way Castle Rock, Colorado 80109

CONSOLIDATED NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

The Project includes the following major items and approximate quantities:

Legal Notice No. 942262 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Second Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Account Number: 2734

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JUDGMENTS BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Recorded Transcripts of Judgement are in the amount of $6,989.50

Notice is hereby given that in the following proceedings filed in the Court during the month of May 2022, under the Uniform Dissolution of Marriage Act, the above Court has found that due diligence has been used to obtain personal service of process within the State of Colorado and that efforts to obtain same would be to no avail, C.R.S. 14-10-107(4) (a) has ordered five publications of a Consolidated Notice of said proceedings:

Any person or firm having debts against the Contractor must file a proper written notice with Matthew Hayes, Project Manager, Town of Castle Rock, 175 Kellogg Court, Castle Rock, Colorado 80109, on or before July 7, 2022.

Plan holder information, can be found on the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System Website.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE INITIAL BID AT THE TIME OF SALE.

Douglas/Elbert Combined Court Domestic Cases

By: /s/ Russel Grant, President ℅ STEVE VRABEL, ASST. SEC. TREASURER

The Bid Opening will be conducted at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, July 14, 2022, at the Department of Public Works Engineering, on the Second Floor of the Philip S. Miller Building, Suite 220, located at 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, CO 80104.

Removal of Concrete Pavement - 20,000 SY Removal of Asphalt Mat - 148,000 SY Embankment Material - 74,500 CY Structure Excavation - 36,300 CY Aggregate Base Course (Cl 6) - 79,400 TON Stone Matrix Asphalt - 20,500 TON Hot Mix Asphalt (PG 64-22) - 82, 800 TON Concrete Pavement (10-Inch) - 3,500 SY Steel Piling (HP 12x74) - 3,200 LF Drilled Shafts (12” to 54”) - 17,400 LF Precast Panel Facing - 12,156 SF Concrete Class D (Box Culvert) - 736 CY Concrete Class G - 2,300 CY Concrete Class D (Wall) - 8,500 CY Reinforcing Steel - 380,000 CY Reinforcing Steel (Epoxy) - 1,900,000 CY RCP (18” to 48”) - 18,300 LF Storm Sewer Inlets (various) - 150 EACH Manhole Slab Base (various) - 60 EACH Guardrail Type 9 (various) - 7,500 LF Bridge Rail Type 9 - 5,700 LF Chain Link Fence - 11,000 LF Concrete Bikeway (6 Inch) - 14,400 SY Curb and Gutter - 26,000 LF Curb Type 4 (Key-Way) - 28,000 LF Median Cover Material - 134,800 SF Electrical Conduit (various) - 245,000 LF Luminaire - 177 EACH Light Standard Metal - 72 EACH Traffic Signal Pole/Master Arm - 25 EACH Traffic Signal Pedestal Pole - 13 EACH Fiber Optic Cable - 37,000 LF Splice Fiber Optic Cable - 2,000 EACH Prestressed Concrete (CBT45) - 4,000 LF Ductile Iron Pipe (size various) - 628 LF 27-Inch Welded Steel Pipe - 55 LF 27-Inch Welded Steel Pipe (Jacked) - 55 LF Detour Pavement - 4,000 LF Public Information (Tier II) – 1,100 DAY Flagging – 10,000 HOUR Uniform Traffic Control – 1,500 HOUR Traffic Control Inspection – 333 DAY Traffic Control Management – 762 DAY

in connection with this sale. All bidders will be required to have in their possession cash or certified funds at least equal to the amount of the judgment creditor’s bid. Please telephone 303-660-7527 prior to the sale to ascertain the amount of this bid. The highest and best bidder will have two hours following the sale to tender the full amount of their bid, or they will be deemed to have withdrawn their bid.

Case No.: 22 DR 166 Names of Parties: Petitioner: Ines Da Cruz, and Co-Petitioner / Respondent: Cristian Manuel Delgado Salazar Nature of Action: In re: The Marriage of You are further notified that a copy of the Petition and Summons may be obtained from the Clerk of the Court during regular business hours (7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) and that default judgment may be entered against that party upon whom service is made by this notice if he or she fails to appear or file a response within thirty (30) days after the date of publication.

Dated this 19th Day of May, 2022 By: /s/ Jacob Edson Magistrate Legal Notice No. 942284 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 21, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Legal Notice No. 942290 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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Summons and Sheriff Sale Public Notice Family Court, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2022CV30056, Division/ Courtroom # 6 SHERIFF’S SALE NO. 22000695 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY CASTLEWOOD RANCH HOMEOWNER'S ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff: v.

TRAVIS BRADLEY et al., Defendant(s) Regarding: Lot 27, Block 2, Castlewood Ranch Subdivision, Filing No. 1, Parcel 5, County of Douglas, State of Colorado also known by street and number as 6206 Brantly Ct, Castle Rock, CO 80104 (the "Property).; also known as: 6206 Brantly Ct Castle Rock, CO 80104 (the “Property”) Under a Judgement and Decree of Foreclosure entered on May 2, 2022, relating to Transcripts of Judgments recorded in the Douglas County public records the undersigned is ordered to sell certain real property set forth and described above.

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice: You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Division of the Sheriff's Office of Douglas County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 4th day August, 2022, at 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2213, Castle Rock, CO 80109, phone number 303-660-7527. At which sale, the above-described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO MAY 2022 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, protests to final revised abandonment list and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of MAY 2022 for each County affected.

2022CW3071 OAK BLUFF SUBDIVISION, LLC AND SUNDOWN SUBDIVISION, LLC, 609 W Littleton Blvd, Suite 206, Littleton, CO 80120. James J. Petrock, Eric K. Trout, Hayes Poznanovic Korver LLC, 700 17th Street, Suite 1800, Denver, CO 80202. APPLICATION FOR UNDERGROUND WATER RIGHTS FROM NOTNONTRIBUTARY SOURCES AND APPROVAL OF PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION IN THE NONTRIBUTARY LOWER DAWSON, DENVER, ARAPAHOE, AND LARAMIE-FOX HILLS AQUIFERS, AND THE NOT-NONTRIBUTARY UPPER DAWSON AQUIFER IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. Subject Property: Approximately 177.323 acres on 4 contiguous parcels generally located in the N1/2 of the NE1/4 of Section 1, Township 8 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., and the N1/2 of the NW1/4 and the NW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 6, Township 8 South, Range 65 West of the 6th, P.M., Douglas County, State of Colorado, as shown on Exhibit A (“Subject Property”). Applicants are the sole owners of the Subject Property and there are no lien or mortgage holders, therefore no notice is required under C.R.S. 37-92-302(2)(b). Well Permits: There are currently no wells on the Subject Property. Well permits will be applied for prior to construction of any wells. Source of Water Rights: The Upper Dawson Aquifer is not-nontributary as defined in C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.7), and the Lower Dawson, Denver, Arapahoe, and LaramieFox Hills aquifers are nontributary as defined in C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.5). Estimated Amount: 12 acre-feet of the Upper Dawson Aquifer groundwa-

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Public Notices ter was reserved for exempt uses under Parcel A in Case No. 1995CW288 (the “95CW288 Decree”).

The Subject Property is a part of Parcel A. By this application Applicants wish to decree and augment said 12 acre-feet. Applicants own all of the groundwater underlying the Subject Property.

Proposed Uses: Domestic, including in-house use, commercial, irrigation, stockwatering, fire protection, and augmentation purposes, including storage, both on and off the Subject Property.

Jurisdiction: The Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this application pursuant to C.R.S. §§ 37-90-137(6), 37-92-203(1), 37-92302(2). Summary of Plan for Augmentation: Groundwater to be Augmented: 12 acre-feet per year for 100 years of Upper Dawson Aquifer groundwater. Water Rights to be Used for Augmentation: Return flows from the use of not nontributary and nontributary groundwater and direct discharge of nontributary groundwater. Statement of Plan for Augmentation: The Upper Dawson Aquifer groundwater will be used in up to twelve (12) wells, each withdrawing in up to 1 acre-foot per year as follows, in-house use (0.3 acre-feet per year per well), irrigation, including home lawn, garden, and trees, of up to 12,000 square-feet per lot (0.6 acre-feet per well), stockwatering for up to 8 domestic animals per lot (0.1 acre-feet per lot), and fire protection, on the Subject Property.

Applicants reserve the right to amend the amount and uses without amending the application or republishing the same. Sewage treatment for in-house use will be provided by non-evaporative septic systems. Return flow from in-house use will be approximately 90% of that use, and return flow from irrigation use will be approximately 15% of that use. During pumping Applicants will replace actual depletions pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-90-137(9)(c.5). Depletions occur to the Cherry Creek stream system and return flows accrue to that stream system and are sufficient to replace actual depletions while the subject groundwater is being pumped. Applicants will reserve an equal amount of nontributary groundwater underlying the Subject Property to meet post-pumping augmentation requirements. Applicants request the Court approve the above underground water rights and augmentation plan, find that Applicants have complied with C.R.S. § 37-90-137(4) and water is legally available for withdrawal, find there will be no material injury to the owners of or persons entitled to use water under any vested water right or decreed conditional water right, and grant such other and further relief as is appropriate. 3 pages.

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 JULY 31, 2022 (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. 942280 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles Public Notice 1) 2010 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE VIN 1J4PR4GKXAC160934 Villalobos Towing LLC 5161 York Street, Denver, CO 80216 720-299-3456 Legal Notice No. 942291 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice 3) 2006 QUALITY FLATBED TRAILER VIN 5NDFB121X6S002024 REDLINE RECOVERY INC 6966 W. MISSISSIPPI AVE LAKEWOOD, CO 80226 720-546-8397 Legal Notice No. 942096 First Publication: May 12, 2022 Last Publication: May 12, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Pres Ad Correction 2008 QUALITY FLATBED TRAILER VIN 5NDFB121X8S002024 REDLINE RECOVERY INC 6966 W. MISSISSIPPI AVE LAKEWOOD, CO 80226 720-546-8397 Legal Notice No. 942295 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice 1) 2006 KAWASAKI MOTORCYCLE VIN JKAEXVD106A100243 2) 1998 WELLS CARGO ENCLOSED TRAILER VIN 1WC200E14W4031521 3) 1971 INTERNATIONAL LOADSTAR 1600 TRUCK VIN 416060H164469 4) 978 CADILLAC DEVILLE VIN 6D47S8Q264714 5) 1996 BIG TEX FLATBED TRAILER VIN 4K8CX1629T1H06788

6) 1975 GMC 4000 TRUCK VIN V4001PJ7176E REDLINE RECOVERY INC 6966 W. MISSISSIPPI AVE LAKEWOOD, CO 8022 720-546-8397 Legal Notice No. 942286 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice 1) 1989 Ford F250 Blue 1FTHF26H4KKA27817 2) 2005 HYUNDAI SANTA FE SILVER KM8SC13D05U990051 3) 2007 LEXUS RX350 SILVER JTJH31U572008641 4) 2012 VW JETTA BLACK 3VWDP7AJ0CM328692 5) 2010 CHRYSLER PT CRUISER BLACK 3A4GY5F9XAT203552 6) 1999 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN 1GNFK16RXJ565730 7) 2002 HONDA MC YELLOW JH2RC44022M615748 8) 2000 CHEVROLET VAN WHITE 1CGCDL19W0YB133962 Parker Towing Inc 18800 E. Clarke Road, Parker, CO 80134 303-841-9161 Legal Notice No. 942287 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Notice to Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Harjit Singh Sandhu, Deceased Case Number: 22PR30302 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before October 10, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jacqueline Sandhu Personal Representative 11939 Ramble Lane Parker, CO 80138 Legal Notice No. 942218 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Helen May Swarmer, Deceased Case Number: 22PR39 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before October 17, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Carroll Rosenstein Personal Representative 9870 Firestone Circle Lone Tree, Colorado 80124 Legal Notice No. 942249 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Maria O. Fischer, a/k/a Maria Olga Fischer, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30295 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before October 30, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

John J. Vierthaler Attorney to the Personal Representative 8441 W. Bowles Ave. Ste. 210 Littleton, CO 80123 Legal Notice No. 942265 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of BARBARA J. McKINZIE, also known as BARBARA JEAN McKINZIE, BARBARA McKINZIE, and BARBARA J. RIEKER, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30148 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before October 10, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mark D. Ahrenholtz, Personal Representative 91 S. Main Street Veyo, UT 84782 Legal Notice No. 942239 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John Kennedy Ford, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30475 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before October 09, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mary Kay Ford, Personal Representative 19400 Indian Summer Lane Monument, CO 80132 Legal Notice No. 942238 First publication: June 09, 2022 Last publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Public Notice

Douglas, County, Colorado on or before October 24, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Celia Calleen Averill.

Case No.: 2022C31672

Brandy Stopinsek, Personal Representative 6536 Frank Gardner Way Parker, CO 80134

By: Andi Truett Clerk of the Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 942293 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Erica Lynn Starich, AKA Erica L. Starich, Erica Starich, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR030303

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Von I. Lee, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30304

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before October 9, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before October 24, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Raymond L. Hardin, Personal Representative 3641 Park Drive Rapid City, SD 57702

Donna Sue Lee, Personal Representative 9614 Silverberry Circle Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80129

Legal Notice No. 942212 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Legal Notice No. 942270 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mary Elizabeth Equi, Deceased Case Number: 22PR16 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before October 10, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sandra Quinby, Personal Representative 65535 Kentucky Road Bend, Oregon 97730 Legal Notice No. 942211 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of STEVEN MICHAEL MARTIN, a/k/a STEVEN M. MARTIN, a/k/a STEVEN MARTIN, a/k/a STEVE M. MARTIN, a/k/a STEVE MARTIN, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30309 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before October 17, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jennifer Salazar, Personal Representative 4642 E. Piedmont Rd. Phoenix, AZ 85044 Legal Notice No. 942260 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Stephen Edward Giefer, a/k/a Stephen E. Giefer, a/k/a Stephen Giefer, Deceased Case Number: 22PR30267 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado, located at 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2009, Castle Rock, Colorado 80109, on or before October 10, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Autumn Roxanne Giefer, Personal Representative c/o Kathryn T. James, Esq. Folkestad Fazekas Barrick & Patoile, P.C. 18 South Wilcox Street, Suite 200 Castle Rock, Colorado 80104 Legal Notice No. 942213 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of WAYNE NEIL ANDERS, aka WAYNE N. ANDERS, AND WAYNE ANDERS, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30319 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before September 15, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mulvihill & Fruhwirth, P. C. Cheryl Mulvihill Attorney for the Personal Representative 19751 East Mainstreet #330 Parker, CO 80138 Phone Number: 303-841-2752 Legal Notice No. 942240 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JAMES FRANCIS STOPINSEK, A/K/A JIM STOPINSEK, A/K/A JIM F. STOPINSEK, A/K/A JIM FRANCIS STOPINSEK, A/K/A JAMES F. STOPINSEK, A/K/A JIMMY STOPINSEK, deceased Case Number: 22PR30325 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of

Legal Notice No. 942206 First publication: June 09, 2022 Last publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on June 1, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of June Rosina Gaye be changed to Rosina June Gaye Case No.: 22 C 100316 By: The Magistrate Legal Notice No. 942250 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Name Changes

Public Notice is given on June 8, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court Colorado.

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on May 24, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Casey Keller be changed to Casey Lynne Benoit Case No.: 22 C 243

The Petition requests that the name of Charlotte Lee Regan be changed to Charlote Rose Jones Case Number: 2022C31970 .

By /s/ Cheryl Mulvihill, attorney for petitioner Legal Notice No. 942266 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

By: Magistrate

Children Services

Legal Notice No. 942278 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

(Adoption/Guardian/Other)

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on May 27, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Minor Child has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Victoria Rudenko be changed to Victoria Wittich Case No.: 22 C 258

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, DOUGLAS COUNTY STATE OF COLORADO 4000 Justice Way Castle Rock, CO 80109 In the Matter of the Petition of: Petitioner: ALEANA LYNNE For the Relinquishment of a Child, ANDREW WINTER

By: K.A.P. Cone, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 942276 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on May 17, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Ashley Steven Hill be changed to Steven Aidan Hill Case No.: 21 C 34855

BAUMGARTNER LAW, LLC S. Birk Baumgartner, 47829 Attorney for Petitioner 300 E. Hampden Ave., Suite 401 Englewood, CO 80113 Telephone: 303-529-3476 Email: birk@baumgartnerlaw.com Case Number: 2021 JV 30004 Courtroom: C NOTICE OF HEARING TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES AND INCLUDING RYAN WINTER: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, that the within matter has been set for a relinquishment hearing as indicated below:

By: Magistrate Donna Michelle Stewart Legal Notice No. 942238 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

DATE: July 11, 2022 TIME: 1:30 pm PLACE: Douglas County Juvenile Court / C MATTER: Relinquishment hearing

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on May 27, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Taylor Ariana Stultz be changed to Taylor Ariana Berninzoni Case No.: 22 C 262 By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 942274 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

TIME SET: 15 minutes MANNER: Webex: https://judicial.webex.com/meet/judge.hurst Your failure to file an answer or to appear on the hearing date after service and, in the case of an alleged father, failure to file a claim of paternity under article 4 of this title within thirty-five days after service, if a claim has not previously been filed, may likely result in termination of the parent’s or the alleged parent’s parental rights to the minor.

You have the right to waive your right to appear and contest and that failure to appear and contest may likely result in termination of the parent’s or the alleged parent’s parental rights to the minor.

Dated this 16th day of June, 2022.

BAUMGARTNER LAW, LLC S. Birk Baumgartner, #47829

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public Notice is given on June 10, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Sherrie Anne Comeaux be changed to Shaylayla Dreamchild.

Case No.: 2202C32021

Dated this 16th day of June, 2022.

Respectfully Submitted, BAUMGARTNER LAW, LLC S. Birk Baumgartner, #47829 Attorney for Petitioner Legal Notice No. 942301 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

By: Andi Truett Clerk of the Court / Deputy Clerk

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Legal Notice No. 942275 First publication: June 23, 2022 Last publication: July 07, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

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PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public Notice is given on May 13, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Celia Colleen Averill be changed to

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Public Notices Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications, protests to final revised abandonment list and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of MAY 2022 for each County affected.

2022CW3079 APPLICATION FOR ADJUDICATION OF DENVER BASIN GROUNDWATER AND PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION, IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. I. Name and Address of Applicants: NATHANIEL THORNTON & KAELA MONAHAN, 15855 El Dorado Way, Larkspur, Co 80118, 719325-6612. Name and Address of Attorneys: David M. Shohet, #36675, MONSON, CUMMINS, SHOHET Public Notice Land Upon Which Wells are to Be Located. The land and underlying groundwater upon which the wells are located is owned by the Applicants.

COURT, DIVISIONSprings, 1, COLORADO & FARR, LLC, 13511 NorthgateDISTRICT Estates Dr., Ste.WATER 250, Colorado Colorado 80921, (719) 471-1212, III. Application for Approval of Plan for Augmentation. A. Structure to be Augmented. The structure to be augmented is the Thornton/Monahan MAY 2022 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION E-mail: dms@cowaterlaw.com. II. Application for Denver Basin Groundwater Rights. A. Property Well No. 1, which is currently completed to the Dawson aquifer in the NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 34, Township 10 South, Range 66 West Description. The Applicants own approximately 4.5 in portions of E 1/2 of the 6th P.M., in Douglas County, Colorado, and permitted under Well Permit No. 210673, along with any replacement or additional wells TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN acres WATERlocated APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV.of 1 the SW 1/4 and associated therewith. B. Water Rights to be Used for Augmentation. The water rights to be used for augmentation during pumping are the rethe West 1/2 of the SE 1/4, all in Section 34, Township 10 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M. in Douglas Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications, protests to final revised turn flows resulting from the pumping of the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer from the Thornton/Monahan Well No. 1, together with water rights County, Colorado, moreamendments specificallyfiled described as Lot 30 of El Dorado Acres, offor 15855 abandonment list and certain in the Office of the Water Clerk during the with monthanofaddress MAY 2022 each El County af- from the nontributary Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer for any injurious post pumping depletions. C. Statement of Plan for Augmentation. Applicants Dorado Way, Larkspur, Colorado 80118, and depicted on the Exhibit A map (“Applicants’ Property”). B. seek to provide for the augmentation of stream depletions caused by pumping of the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer by one well herein. fected.

Water use criteria and their consumptive use component for replacement of actual depletions for the Applicants’ Property are estimated as Water Source. 1. Not-Nontributary. The groundwater to be withdrawn from the Dawson aquifer underlying 2022CW3079 APPLICATION FOR ADJUDICATION OF DENVER BASIN GROUNDWATER AND PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION, IN DOUG- follows: 1. Use. The Thornton/Monahan Well No. 1 will pump a maximum total of 1.0 acre feet of water from the Dawson aquifer annually. Such the Applicants’ Property is not-nontributary.

Pursuant to C.R.S. §37-90-137(9)(c.5), the augmentation LAS COUNTY. I. Name and Address of Applicants: NATHANIEL THORNTON & KAELA MONAHAN, 15855 El Dorado Way, Larkspur, Co use shall be a combination of household use, irrigation of lawn and garden, pool/hot tub, and the watering of horses or equivalent livestock. 2. requirements wells inAddress the Dawson aquiferDavid will M. require the replacement ofCUMMINS, actual stream depletions.

2. 13511 Depletions. It is estimated that maximum stream depletions over the 100 year pumping period for the Dawson aquifer amounts to approxi80118, 719-325-6612.for Name and of Attorneys: Shohet, #36675, MONSON, SHOHET & FARR, LLC, Northgate Estates Dr., Ste. 250, Colorado Springs, 80921, (719) dms@cowaterlaw.com.

Application for mately 10.67% percent of pumping. Maximum annual depletions for total residential pumping from all wells are therefore 0.1067 acre feet, in Nontributary.

The groundwater that will beColorado withdrawn from the471-1212, Denver,E-mail: Arapahoe, and Laramie-FoxII.Hills Denver Basin Groundwater Rights.

A. Property Description.

The Applicants own approximately 4.5 acres located in portions of E 1/2 aquifers underlying the Applicants’ Property is nontributary. B. Estimated Rates of Withdrawal andof the SW year 100. Should Applicants’ pumping be less than the 1.0 acre feet described herein, resulting depletions will be correspondingly reduced. 3.

1/4 and the West 1/2 of the SE 1/4, all in Section 34, Township 10 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M. in Douglas County, Colorado, more Augmentation of Depletions During Pumping. Pursuant to C.R.S. §37-90-137(9)(c.5), Applicants are required to replace actual stream depleGroundwater Rates Withdrawal. any wellColorado to be drilled specifically describedAvailable. as Lot 30 of1.

El Estimated Dorado Acres, with of an address of 15855Pumping El Doradofrom Way, Larkspur, 80118, on andthe depicted on tions attributable to pumping of a well completed to the Dawson aquifer. Depletions during pumping will be effectively replaced by residential the Exhibit A map (“Applicants’ Property”).

B. Water Not-Nontributary.

The groundwater to be withdrawn from will the Dawson Applicants’ Property will not exceed 100Source. g.p.m.1.The actual pumping rates for each and every well vary aquifer return flows from non-evaporative septic systems, and depletions from irrigation will be adequately replaced by irrigation return flows. The underlying the Applicants’ Property is not-nontributary. to C.R.S. §37-90-137(9)(c.5), the augmentation requirements for to wells in the annual consumptive use for non-evaporative septic systems is 10%. At a household use rate of 0.25 acre feet per residence per year, 0.225 according to aquifer conditions and wellPursuant production capabilities.

The Applicants request the right Dawson aquifer will require the replacement of actual stream depletions. 2. Nontributary. The groundwater that will be withdrawn from the acre-feet is replaced to the stream system per year, assuming the use of a non-evaporative septic systems. Thus, during pumping, stream withdraw groundwater at rates flow necessary to Applicants’ withdraw Property the entire decreed amounts.

TheRates actual Denver, Arapahoe, and Laramie-Fox Hillsof aquifers underlying the is nontributary.

B. Estimated of depth Withdrawal and depletions will be adequately augmented. 4. Augmentation for Post Pumping Depletions. For the replacement of any injurious post-pumping of any well to be1.constructed within the respective aquifers will

by Applicants’ topography and actual Groundwater Available.

Estimated Rates of Withdrawal.

Pumping from any wellbetodetermined be drilled on the Property will not exceed depletions which may be associated with the use of the Thornton/Monahan Well No. 1, Applicants will reserve water from the nontributary 100 g.p.m. actual pumping rates for each and every well will vary according to aquifer conditions and well productionrequests capabilities. The Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer, less the amount of actual stream depletions replaced during the plan pumping period. Applicants also reserve the aquiferThe conditions.

2. Estimated Average Annual Amounts of Groundwater Available.

Applicants Applicants request the right to withdraw groundwater at rates of flow necessary to withdraw the entire decreed amounts. The actual depth of right to substitute other legally available augmentation sources for such post pumping depletions upon further approval of the Court under its a vested right forwithin the the withdrawal of all will legally available groundwater in the Denver Basin2. Estimated aquifers Average retained jurisdiction. Even though this reservation is made, under the Court’s retained jurisdiction, Applicants reserve the right in the future to any well to be constructed respective aquifers be determined by topography and actual aquifer conditions. underlying Applicants’ Property.

Saidrequests amounts mayright be for withdrawn overof the 100-year aquifer life in the prove that post pumping depletions will be noninjurious. The reserved nontributary Laramie-Fox Hills groundwater will be used to replace any Annual Amounts ofthe Groundwater Available.

Applicants a vested the withdrawal all legally available groundwater Denver Basin aquifers underlying the Applicants’ Property.

Saidestimate amounts may withdrawn over the 100-year life pursuant pursuant to C.R.S. §37-90-137(4).

Applicants thatbethe following values andaquifer average annualto C.R.S. injurious post-pumping depletions. Upon entry of a decree in this case, the Applicants will be entitled to apply for and receive a new well permit the Thornton/Monahan Well No. 1, for the uses in accordance with this Application and otherwise in compliance with C.R.S. §37-90-137. IV. §37-90-137(4).

Applicants estimate that the Denver following Basin values aquifers and average annual amounts are representative amounts are representative of the underlying Applicants’ Property:of the Denver Basin aquifers for Remarks. A. This Application was filed in both Water Divisions 1 and 2 because depletions from the pumping of the Dawson aquifer may occur underlying Applicants’ Property:

Water Court

NET SAND (Feet)

AQUIFER Dawson (NNT) Denver (NT) Arapahoe (NT) Laramie Fox Hills (NT)

Total Appropriation (Acre Feet)

Annual Avg. Withdrawal 100 Years (Acre Feet)

387

348

3.48

519

397

3.97

279

213

2.13

219

148

1.48

Decreed amounts may vary based upon the State’s Determination of Facts. Pursuant to C.R.S. §37-92-305(11), the Applicants further request Decreed amounts may tovary based uponthethe State’s Determination of Facts. Pursuant to C.R.S. §37-92that the Court retain jurisdiction finally determine amount of water available for appropriation and withdrawal from each aquifer. C. Requested Uses. the The Applicants Applicants request the request right to use thethe groundwater for beneficial uses upon the Applicant’s Property consistingofof domes305(11), further that Court retain jurisdiction to finally determine the amount tic (including long and short term rentals), irrigation, stock water, commercial (home office), recreation, wildlife, fire protection, and also for water available for appropriation and withdrawal from each aquifer. C. Requested Uses. The Applicants storage and augmentation purposes associated with such uses. The Applicants also request that the nontributary water may be used, reused, request the right to use the groundwater for beneficial uses upon the Applicant’s Property consisting of and successively used to extinction, both on and off the Applicants’ Property subject, however, to the requirement of C.R.S. §37-90-137(9)(b), domestic long and shortannually term rentals), irrigation, stock may water, (home office), that no more than(including 98% of the amount withdrawn shall be consumed.

Applicants use commercial such water by immediate application or by storage and subsequent application to the beneficial herein. Provided, however, associated Applicants shall onlysuch be entitled to recreation, wildlife, fire protection, and uses alsoand forpurposes storage stated and augmentation purposes with use water from the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer pursuant to a decreed augmentation plan entered by this Court, covering the out-of-prioruses.depletions The Applicants request that the nontributary may bewith used, reused, and successively ity stream caused byalso the use of such not-nontributary aquiferwater in accordance C.R.S. §37-90-137(9)(c.5).

D. Wellused Fields. Appliextinction, both and off the Applicants’ Property subject, however, to theaquifers requirement of the C.R.S. §37- Property cantstorequest that they be on permitted to produce the full legal entitlement from the Denver Basin underlying Applicants’ through any combination wells.

Applicants request wells withdrawn be treated as aannually well field. E. Averaging of Withdrawals.

Applicants request 90-137(9)(b), thatof no more than 98% ofthat thethese amount shall be consumed.

Applicants that they be entitled to withdraw an amount of groundwater in excess of the average annual amount decreed to the aquifers beneath the Applicants’ Property, so long as the sum of the total withdrawals from all the wells in the aquifers does not exceed the product of the number of years since the date of issuance of the original well permit or the date of entry of a decree herein, whichever comes first, multiplied by the average annual volume of water which the Applicants are entitled to withdraw from the aquifers underlying the Applicants’ Property. F. Owner of

in both the South Platte and the Arkansas River systems. The return flows set forth herein will accrue to tributaries of the South Platte River system where the majority of such depletions will occur, and it is Applicant’s intent to consolidate the instant matter in Water Division 1 upon completion of publication. Applicant requests that the total amount of depletions to both the South Platte River and the Arkansas River systems be replaced to the South Platte River as set forth herein, and for a finding that those replacements are sufficient and do not cause injury. B. Applicants request a finding that they have complied with C.R.S. §37-90-137(4), and that the groundwater requested herein is legally available for withdrawal by the requested not-nontributary well upon the entry of a decree approving an augmentation plan pursuant to C.R.S. §37-90137(9)(c.5). C. The term of this augmentation plan is for 100 years, however the length of the plan for a particular well may be extended beyond such time provided the total plan pumping allocated thereto is not exceeded. Post pumping stream depletions accrue to a particular well only to the extent related to that well’s actual pumping. D. The Court will retain jurisdiction over this matter to provide for the adjustment of the annual amount of groundwater withdrawals to be allowed in order to conform to actual local aquifer characteristics from adequate information obtained from well drilling or test holes. E. The Applicants request a finding that vested water rights of others will not be materially injured by the withdrawals of groundwater and the proposed plan for augmentation. F. Wells shall be installed and metered as reasonably required by the State Engineer. Each well may be required to be equipped with a totalizing flow meter and Applicants may be required to submit diversion records to the Division Engineer on an annual basis or as otherwise requested by the Division Engineer. The Applicants may also be required to provide accountings to the Division Engineer and Water Commissioner to demonstrate compliance under this plan of augmentation. G. The Applicants intend to waive the 600 feet well spacing requirement for any wells to be located upon the Applicants’ Property. H. Applicants will comply with any lienholder notice provisions set forth in C.R.S. §37-92-302(2)(b) and §37-90-137(4)(b.5)(I), and such notice will be sent within 14 days of the filing of this application.

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 JULY 31, 2022 (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.: 942283 First Publication: June 23, 2022

Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO MAY 2022 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, protests to final revised abandonment list and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of MAY 2022 for each County affected.

2022CW3076 APPLICATION FOR ADJUDICATION OF DENVER BASIN GROUNDWATER AND FOR APPROVAL OF PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION, OF MICHELE L. HONAKER RITCHIE AND JODY L. RITCHIE, IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. I. Name, Address, and Telephone Number of Applicant. Michele L. Honaker Ritchie and Jody L. Ritchie (“Applicants”),15731 El Dorado Way, Larkspur, Colorado 80118 , (719) 660-0062. Name, Address, and Telephone Number of Attorneys. Ryan W Farr, #39394, Emilie B. Polley, #51296, MONSON, CUMMINS, SHOHET & FARR, LLC 13511 Northgate Estates Drive, Suite 250, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80921, (719) 471-1212. II. Summary of Application. Applicants seek to quantify the Denver Basin groundwater underlying the Applicants’ Property, as defined below, and approval of a plan for augmentation for the use of a not-nontributary Dawson aquifer well for water provision to the Applicants’ Property. III. Application for Underground Water Rights. A. Property Information. 1. Property Description. Applicants own an approximately 6.1-acre property that is depicted on the attached Exhibit A map, located in the NE1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 34, Township 10 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., specifically described as Lot 5 El Dorado Acres, County of Douglas, State of Colorado and referred to as 15731 El Dorado Way, Larkspur, Colorado 80118 (“Applicants’ Property”). 2. Existing Wells. There is one existing in-house only exempt well on the Applicants’ Property under Division of Water Resources Permit No. 294015 (“Ritchie Well”). The Ritchie Well is constructed to a total depth of 320 feet to the Dawson Aquifer, and located approximately 2,296 feet from the south section line and 1,111 feet from the east section line. Upon approval of this plan for augmentation, this well will be re-permitted. B. Water Source. 1. Not-Nontributary. The groundwater to be withdrawn from the Dawson aquifer underlying Applicants’ Property is not-nontributary. Pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-90-137(9)(c.5), the augmentation requirements for wells in the Dawson aquifer require the replacement of actual stream depletions. 2 Nontributary. The groundwater that will be withdrawn from the Denver, Arapahoe, and Laramie-Fox Hills aquifers underlying the Applicants’ Property is nontributary. C. Estimated Rates of Withdrawal and Ground Water Available. 1. Estimated Rates of Withdrawal. Pumping from the wells will not exceed 200 g.p.m. The actual pumping rates for the wells will vary according to aquifer conditions and well production capabilities. Applicants request the right to withdraw groundwater at rates of Property. flow necessary to withdraw entire amounts. actual depth of any wells to be constructed the respective aquifers Said amountsthemay bedecreed withdrawn overThe a 100-year life of the aquifers pursuantwithin to C.R.S. § 37-90will be determined by topography and actual aquifer conditions. 2. Estimated Average Annual Amounts of Ground Water Available. Applicants Applicants estimateof that the following values and amounts are representative of the Said request 137(4). a vested right for the withdrawal all legally available groundwater in average the Denverannual Basin aquifers underlying Applicants’ Property.

Basin aquifers underlying Property: amountsDenver may be withdrawn over a 100-year life of Applicants’ the aquifers pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-90-137(4). Applicants estimate that the following values and average annual amounts are representative of the Denver Basin aquifers underlying Applicants’ Property:

AQUIFER Dawson (NNT) Denver (NT) Arapahoe (NT) Laramie Fox Hills (NT)

NET SAND (Feet)

Total Appropriation (Acre Feet)

388 513 279

473 532 290

218

200

Annual Avg. Withdrawal Years (Acre Feet) 4.73 5.32 2.9

100

2.0

Decreed amounts may vary from the above to conform with the State’s Determination of Facts. Pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-92-305(11), Applicant Decreed amounts from to thefinally above to conform withofthe State’s Determination ofand Facts.

Pursuant further requests that the Courtmay retainvary jurisdiction determine the amount water available for appropriation withdrawal from each aquifer. D. Uses. Applicant requests the right to use the ground beneficial upon the Applicants’ consisting to Requested C.R.S. § 37-92-305(11), Applicant further requests thatwater the for Court retainuses jurisdiction to finallyProperty determine of domestic, irrigation (indoor and ourdoor), commercial, stock water, recreation, wildlife, fire protection, and also for storage and augmentation amountwith of such water available foralso appropriation withdrawal frombeeach D.successively Requestedused Uses. purposesthe associated uses.

Applicants request that theand nontributary water may used, aquifer. reused, and to extincApplicant requests the Property right tosubject, use the ground water for beneficial upon the Applicants’ Property tion, both on and off the Applicants’ however, to the requirement of C.R.S. uses § 37-90-137(9)(b), that no more than 98% of the amount consisting withdrawn annually shall be consumed.

Applicantsand mayourdoor), use such water by immediate application or by storage wildlife, and subsequent of domestic, irrigation (indoor commercial, stock water, recreation, fire application to the beneficial uses and purposes stated herein. Provided, however, that Applicants shall only be entitled to construct wells or use protection, and also for storage and augmentation purposes associated with such uses. Applicants also water from the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer pursuant to a decreed augmentation plan entered by this Court, covering the out-of-priority request that theby nontributary water may be used, reused, and successively to extinction,E.both andApplistream depletions caused the use of such not-nontributary aquifers in accordance with C.R.S. used § 37-90-137(9)(c.5).

Well on Fields. cants request that they be permitted to produce the full legal entitlement from the DenverofBasin aquifers underlying Applicants’ through off the Applicants’ Property subject, however, to the requirement C.R.S. § 37-90-137(9)(b), thatProperty no more any combination of wells.

Applicants request that these wells be treated as a well field.

F. Averaging of Withdrawals.

Applicants request than 98% of the amount withdrawn annually shall be consumed. Applicants may use such water by that they be entitled to withdraw an amount of groundwater in excess of the average annual amount decreed to the aquifers beneath the Applicants’ application or by storage from and all subsequent to the beneficial uses and purposes Property,immediate so long as the sum of the total withdrawals the wells in application the aquifers does not exceed the product of the number ofstated years since the dateherein. of issuance of the original well permit the date of entry a decree herein, whichever comeswells first, multiplied by the from average Provided, however, thatorApplicants shallofonly be entitled to construct or use water theannual volume of water which Applicants are entitled to withdraw aquifers underlying the Applicants’ Property.

Owner of Land Upon Which not-nontributary Dawson aquifer pursuantfrom to the a decreed augmentation plan entered byG.this Court, covering

the out-of-priority stream depletions caused by the use of such not-nontributary aquifers in accordance with C.R.S. § 37-90-137(9)(c.5). E. Well Fields. Applicants request that they be permitted to produce the full legal entitlement from the Denver Basin aquifers underlying Applicants’ Property through any combination of wells. Applicants request that these wells be treated as a well field. F. Averaging of Withdrawals.

Applicants request that they be entitled to withdraw an amount of groundwater in excess of the average annual amount decreed to the aquifers beneath the Applicants’ Property, so long as the sum of the total withdrawals from all the wells in the aquifers does not exceed the product of the number of years since the date of issuance of the original well permit or the date of entry of a decree herein, whichever comes first,

Wells are to Be Located. The land upon which the wells are to be located as well as the underlying groundwater is owned by the Applicants. IV. Application for Plan for Augmentation. A. Structures to be Augmented. The structure to be augmented is a Dawson aquifer well constructed on the Applicants’ Property, along with any replacement or additional wells as needed that are constructed to the Dawson aquifer underlying the Applicants’ Property. B. Water Rights to be Used for Augmentation. The water rights to be used for augmentation during pumping are the return flows resulting from the pumping of the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer wells, together with water rights from the nontributary Denver aquifer for any injurious post-pumping depletions. C. Statement of Plan for Augmentation. Applicants wish to provide for the augmentation of stream depletions caused by pumping of the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer. D. Uses. Pumping from the Dawson aquifer will be a maximum of 2.10 acre-feet of water per year. Such uses shall be for domestic, irrigation (indoor and outdoor), commercial, stock water, recreation, wildlife, fire protection, and also for storage and augmentation purposes associated with such uses. E. Depletions. Applicants’ consultant has determined that maximum stream depletions over the 100-year pumping period for the Dawson aquifer amounts to approximately 10.67% of pumping.

Maximum annual depletions are therefore 0.224 acre-feet in year 100. Should Applicants’ pumping be less than the 2.10 acre-feet total described herein, resulting depletions and required replacements will be correspondingly reduced. 1. Augmentation of Depletions During Pumping. Applicants’ consultant has determined that depletions during pumping will be effectively replaced by residential return flows from a nonevaporative septic system. The annual consumptive use for a non-evaporative septic system is 10% per year. Therefore, at an in-house use rate of 0.25 acre-feet per year, replacement amounts to 0.225 acre-feet to the stream system annually. Thus, during pumping, stream depletion replacement requirements will be more than adequately met. 2. Augmentation for Post Pumping Depletions. For the replacement of any injurious post pumping depletions which may be associated with the pumping from the Dawson aquifer as set forth herein, Applicants will utilize non-evaporative septic return flows and potentially irrigation return flows from the subsequent usage of the Denver aquifer underlying the Applicants’ Property. Additionally, Applicants may utilize water from the Arapahoe or Laramie-Fox Hills aquifers as a replacement source if needed. Applicants also reserve the right to substitute other legally available augmentation sources for such post pumping depletions upon further approval of the Court under its retained jurisdiction. Applicants reserve the right in the future under the Court’s retained jurisdiction to prove that post pumping depletions will be noninjurious. Upon entry of a decree in this case, Applicants will be entitled to apply for and receive a new well permit for the uses in accordance with this Application and otherwise in compliance with C.R.S. § 37-90-137. V. Remarks. A. The Application was filed in both Water Divisions 1 and 2 because depletions from the pumping of the Dawson aquifer may occur in both the South Platte and the Arkansas River systems. The return flows set forth herein will accrue to tributaries of the South Platte River system, where the majority of such depletions will occur, and it is Applicants’ intent to consolidate the instant matter with the pending Division 1 application in Water Division 1 upon completion of publication. Applicants request that the total amount of depletions to both the South Platte River and the Arkansas River systems be replaced to the South Platte River as set forth herein, and for a finding that those replacements are sufficient. Applicant requests a finding that they have complied with C.R.S. § 37-90-137(4), and that the ground water requested herein is legally available for withdrawal by the requested not-nontributary wells upon the entry of a decree approving an augmentation plan pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-90137(9)(c.5). C. The term of this augmentation plan is for 100 years, however the length of the plan for a particular well may be extended beyond such time provided the total plan pumping allocated thereto is not exceeded. Post pumping stream depletions accrue to a particular well or wells only to the extent related to that well’s actual pumping. D. The Court will retain jurisdiction over this matter to provide for the adjustment of the annual amount of ground water withdrawals to be allowed in order to conform to actual local aquifer characteristics from adequate information obtained from well drilling or test holes. E. The Applicant requests a finding that vested water rights of others will not be materially injured by the withdrawals of ground water and the proposed plan for augmentation. F. All wells shall be installed and metered as reasonably required by the State Engineer. The well will be equipped with a totalizing flow meter and Applicants, or their successors and assigns, shall submit diversion records to the Division Engineer on an annual basis or as otherwise requested by the Division Engineer. Applicants, or their successors and assigns, shall also provide accountings to the Division Engineer and Water Commissioner as required by them to demonstrate compliance under this plan of augmentation. G. Applicants intends to waive the 600 feet well spacing requirement for any wells to be located upon the Applicants’ Property. H. Applicants have provided notice at least 14 days prior to the filing of this application to all well owners pursuant to Douglas County Assessor Records whose wells are within 600 feet of the location of the Ritchie Well. Such owners and related well permits are as follows: a. Russell and Carol Pitts 15705 El Dorado Way, Larkspur, Colorado 80118; b. Paul and Sonia Chizzo, 15716 El Dorado Way Larkspur, Colorado 80118; c. Carl and Donna Borys, 15755 El Dorado Way, Larkspur, Colorado 80118. I. Applicants will comply with any lienholder notice provisions set forth in C.R.S. §37-92-302(2)(b) and §37-90-137(4)(b.5)(I), and such notice will be sent within 14 days of the filing of this application.

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 JULY 31, 2022 (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.: 942281 First Publication: June 23, 2022

Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

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Public Notices Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO MAY 2022 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, protests to final revised abandonment list and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of MAY 2022 for each County affected.

2022CW3078 (96CW1144) ARAPAHOE COUNTY WATER AND WASTEWATER AUTHORITY (“ACWWA”), c/o Steve Witter, 13031 East Caley Avenue, Centennial, Colorado 80111, Telephone: (303) 790-4830. APPLICATION FOR FINDING OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE IN ARAPAHOE AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES. All correspondence and communications should be addressed to: Brian M. Nazarenus, Esq., Sheela S. Stack, Esq., William D. Wombacher, Esq., Stacy L. Brownhill, Esq., Nazarenus Stack & Wombacher LLC, 5299 DTC Blvd., Suite 610, Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111, Telephone: (720) 647-5661, (Attorneys for ACWWA). 2. Original Decree. The original decree was entered in Case No. 96CW1144 (“1144 Decree”) on May 19, 2016, by the District Court, Water Division 1 (“Water Court”).

3. Description of the Conditional Groundwater Rights. By the 1144 Decree, the Water Court approved conditional groundwater rights for the following ten (10) wells located in the alluvium of Cherry Creek (“Cherry Creek Wells”) and five (5) wells located in the alluvium of Happy Canyon Creek (“Happy Canyon Creek Wells”)(collectively the “1144 Wells”). 3.1. Cherry Creek Wells. 3.1.1. Race Well No. 2. 3.1.1.1. Legal Description. By the 1144 Decree, the point of diversion of Race Well No. 2 was relocated to the SW1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 32, Township 6 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, Colorado, at a point 1,280 feet from the South section line and 1,500 feet from the East section line of said Section 32. 3.1.1.2. Original Decree. Case No. W-3098, entered on September 17, 1973 by the Water Court, with an appropriation date of May 12, 1950, decreed for irrigation use. The original decreed point of diversion for Race Well No. 2 was located in the SW1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 32, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 220 feet from the South section line and 1, 400 feet from the East section line of said Section 32. 3.1.1.3. Subsequent Decrees. The decree entered in Case No. 84CW681(B), dated January 30, 1990, by the Water Court, quantified the historical consumptive use attributable to Race Well No. 2 as 124 acre-feet per year. 3.1.2. Wieder Well. 3.1.2.1. Legal Description. The point of diversion of the Wieder Well is decreed in this case to be the SE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 29, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point 2,500 feet from the North section line and 1,600 feet from the West section line of said Section 29. 3.1.2.2. Original Decree. Case No. W-1740, entered on December 1, 1972 by the Water Court. The original decreed point of diversion for the Wieder Well was located in the NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 29, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point 520 feet south and 400 feet east of the Northwest corner of said Section 29. 3.1.2.3. Subsequent Decrees. 3.1.2.3.1. Case No. W-8513-77. Case No. W-8513-77, entered on September 3, 1982 by the Water Court. In Case No. W-8513-77, the priority decreed to Murdock Well No. 2 (decreed as Rich Well 4-RF770) for 1.33 cfs with a priority date of May 25, 1935, as previously decreed in Case No. W-1740, was transferred to Wieder Well No. 6702-F. Also in Case No. W-8513-77, the original priority for Wieder Well No. 6702-F for 1.78 cfs with a priority date of January 19, 1965, as previously decreed in Case No. W-1740, was transferred to Murdock Well No. 2. 3.1.2.3.2. Case No. 84CW681(A). The point of diversion for the Wieder Well was Murdock Wellentered No. 1in was to theentered SW1/4onof the NW1/4 of Section 29,Court, Township 5 South, changed by the decree Caserelocated No. 84CW681(A), September 28, 1989 by the Water to the NW 1/4 of theRange NW 1/4 of Section66 29,West Township 5 South, RangeArapahoe 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, a point approximately feet from North of the 6th P.M., County, Colorado, at a point 1,950atfeet from the North520 section linetheand section line and 400 feet from the West section line of said Section 29. In Case No. 84CW681(A) the water right transferred to the Wieder Well feet from the Westtosection of said Section 29. 3.1.3.2.

No.only W-1740, withthe in Case1,150 No. W-8513 was determined have 0.0line acre-feet of historical consumptive use.Original Therefore,Decree. the WiederCase Well will operate under an appropriation date of April 1953,The entered December 1, 1972 by2 the Water Court.

Murdock water rights adjudicated pursuant to the 114426, Decree. original on priority for Murdock Well No. (as transferred to Wieder Well No.Well 6702-F in CaseNo. No.1W-8513-77) and Wieder Well No. (as transferred to MurdockThe Wellsource No. 2) was abandoned to the 1144 was originally permitted as6702-F Well Permit No. 19246-S. of water was pursuant groundwater, andDecree. the 3.1.3. Murdock Well No. 1. 3.1.3.1. Legal Description. Pursuant to the decree entered in Case No. 14CW3154, entered on June 9, 2017 by the point of ofMurdock diversion Wellto No. 1 wasof located SE 29, 1/4Township of the NE 1/4 Range of Water original Court, the decreed point of diversion Wellfor No. Murdock 1 was relocated the SW1/4 the NW1/4inofthe Section 5 South, Section 29,P.M., Township South, Rangeat66 West1,950 of the Arapahoe atWest a point 66 West of the 6th Arapahoe 5County, Colorado, a point feet 6th from P.M., the North section lineCounty, and 1,150Colorado, feet from the section line of said Section 3.1.3.2.

Case W-1740, with an appropriation date of April 1953, entered on December 1, 1972 1,400 feet 29. south andOriginal 20 feetDecree. west of theNo.Northeast corner of said Section 29. 26, 3.1.3.3.

Subsequent Decrees. by the Water Court. Murdock Well No. 1 was originally permitted as Well Permit No. 19246-S. The source of water was groundwater, and the Case No. W-445.

The following water rights were changed from to Township all municipal original3.1.3.3.1. decreed point of diversion for Murdock Well No. 1 was located in the SE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 irrigation of Section 29, 5 South,uses Range and were toCounty, Murdock WellatNo. 1 by thefeet decree entered Case No.Northeast W-445,corner entered onSection April29.

66 West of the 6th transferred P.M., Arapahoe Colorado, a point 1,400 south and 20 feetinwest of the of said 3.1.3.3.14, Subsequent 3.1.3.3.1.

1972 by Decrees. the Water Court.Case No. W-445. The following water rights were changed from irrigation to all municipal uses and were transferred to Murdock Well No. 1 by the decree entered in Case No. W-445, entered on April 14, 1972 by the Water Court.

Ditch Hawkey, Gird Ditch

Dane

&

George Dane Ditch

Priorities

Amounts

No. 43 No. 77 No. 144 No. 87 No. 113

2.5 cfs 2.0 cfs 15.15 cfs 1.8 cfs 0.49 cfs

Appropriation Dates 7/30/1869 12/30/1873 12/30/1879 6/30/1874 10/30/1879

Adjudication Date 12/10/1883 12/10/1883

3.1.3.3.2. Case No. 84CW681(A). The point of diversion for Murdock Well No. 1 was changed pursuant to the decree entered in Case No. 84CW681(A), entered on September 28, 1989 by the Water Court, to the SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 29, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 1,370 feet from the North section line and 839 feet from the West section line of said Section 29. In addition, this decree found that ACWWA is not entitled to any consumptive use credits associated with the following Hawkey, Dane & Gird Ditch or George Dane Ditch water rights and, therefore, no consumptive use amounts were assigned to the following priorities. The following priorities were abandoned pursuant to the 1144 Decree: Ditch

Priorities

Amounts

Appropriation Dates

Adjudication Date

Hawkey, Dane & Gird Ditch

No. 77 No. 144

2.0 cfs 15.15 cfs

12/30/1873 12/30/1879

12/10/1883

George Dane Ditch

No. 113

0.49 cfs

10/30/1879

12/10/1883

3.1.3.3.3. Case No. 01CW284. In Case No. 01CW284, the Water Court declared that the water rights decreed in Case No. W-1740 for Murdock Well No. 1 were abandoned. 3.1.3.3.4. Remaining water rights for Murdock Well No. 1:

Ditch

Priorities

Hawkey, Dane No. 43 & Gird Ditch George Dane No. 87 Ditch

Amounts (cfs)

ACWWA’s 5/7th Interest (cfs)

Annual limit (acre-feet)

Appropriation Dates

Adjudication Date

2.5

1.79

192*

7/30/1869

12/10/1883

1.8

1.08

43**

6/30/1874

12/10/1883

*The 192.0 acre-feet annual limit represents the total historical consumptive use for the Hawkey, Dane & Gird Ditch water right of which an undivided 5/7ths interest was transferred to Murdock Wells No. 1 and No. 2 in Case No. W-445, an undivided 1/7th interest was transferred to the Mee Wells No. 1 and No. 2 in Case No. W-7445, and an undivided 1/7th interest in this water right was transferred to the Hodge No. 1 Well in Case No. W-7517. **The 43.0 acre-feet annual limit represents the total historical consumptive use for the George Dane Ditch water right which right was transferred to Murdock Wells No. 1 and No. 2, in Case No. W-445.

3.1.4. Gillen Well. 3.1.4.1. Legal Description. The point of diversion of the Gillen Well is located in the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 20, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point 1,117 feet from the West section line and 104 feet from the South section line of said Section 20. 3.1.4.2. Original Decree. Case No. CA3635, entered on May 18, 1972 by the Water Court, with an appropriation date of December 31, 1948, decreed for domestic and agricultural use. The original decreed point of diversion for the Gillen Well was located in the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 20, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 1,117 feet from the West section line and 104 feet from the South section line of said Section 20.

3.1.4.3. Subsequent Decree. 3.1.4.3.1. Case No. 84CW681(A). The point of diversion of the Gillen Well was changed by the decree entered in Case No. 84CW681(A), entered on September 28, 1989 by the Water Court, to the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 20, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 1,117 feet from the West section line and 104 feet from the South section line of said Section 20. In addition, the water right was changed from irrigation use to include all municipal purposes. The Water Court quantified the historical consumptive use attributable to the Gillen Well as 61 acre-feet per year at the rate of 1.07 cfs. 3.1.5.

Mee Well No. 2. 3.1.5.1. Legal Description. The point of diversion of Mee Well No. 2 is located in the NW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 19, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point 2,550 feet from the East section line and 600 feet from the North section line of said Section 19. 3.1.5.2. Original Decree. Case No. W-4619, entered on June 13, 1974 by the Water Court, with an appropriation date of May 12, 1955, decreed for irrigation use. The original decreed point of diversion for Mee Well No. 2 (known as Well No. 2-13167 (RF 1003)) was located in the NW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 19, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point beginning at the Southeast corner of said Section 19 and bearing North 28°40’ West, 5,000 feet. 3.1.5.3. Subsequent Decree. The point of diversion for Mee Well No. 2 was changed by the decree entered in Case No. 84CW681(A), entered on September 28, 1989 by the Water Court, to the NW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 19, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 2,550 feet from the East section line and 600 feet from the North section line of said Section 19. In addition, the water right was changed from irrigation use to include all municipal purposes. The Water Court quantified the historical consumptive use attributable to Mee Well No. 2 as 55 acre-feet per year. 3.1.6. Hodge Well No. 1. 3.1.6.1. Legal Description. The point of diversion of Hodge Well No. 1 is located in the NE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 19, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point 450 feet from the North section line and 400 feet from the East section line of said Section 19. 3.1.6.2. Original Decree. Case No. W-4839, entered on April 10, 1975 by the Water Court, with an appropriation date of September 19, 1867 for the amount of 0.004 cfs and December 31, 1917 for the amount of 0.026 cfs, decreed for domestic use. The original decreed point of diversion for Hodge Well No. 1 was located in the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 20, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point whence the Northwest corner of said Section 20 bears North 18° West, 350 feet. 3.1.6.3. Subsequent Decrees. 3.1.6.3.1. Case No. W-7517.

Pursuant to the decree entered in Case No. W-7517, entered on October 14, 1975 by the Water Court, Hodge Well No. 1 was decreed as an alternate point of diversion to an undivided 1/7th interest in the Hawkey, Dane & Gird Ditch water right. 3.1.6.3.2. Case No. 84CW681(A). The point of diversion for Hodge Well No. 1 was changed by the decree entered in Case No. 84CW681(A), entered on September 28, 1989 by the Water Court, to the NE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 19, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point approximately 450 feet from the North section line and 400 feet from the East section line of said Section 19. In addition, the water right was

changed to include all municipal purposes. The Water Court quantified the historical consumptive use attributable to Hodge Well No. 1 as 0 acre-feet per year; therefore, the Hodge Well No. 1 water right is hereby abandoned. 3.1.7. Braun Well. 3.1.7.1. Legal Description. The point of diversion of Braun Well is located in the NW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 32, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point 920 feet from the North section line and 1,420 feet from the East section line of said Section 32. 3.1.7.2. Original Decree. Case No. W-1740, entered on December 1, 1972 by the Water Court, decreed as Rich Well No. 1-5379-F, for irrigation use, at a rate of 1.33 cfs, with an appropriation date of May 7, 1964. 3.1.7.3. Subsequent Decrees. 3.1.7.3.1. Case No. 84CW681(A). The decree entered in Case No. 84CW681(A) on September 28, 1989 by the Water Court quantified the historical consumptive use attributable to the Braun Well as 73.0 acre-feet per year. 3.1.7.3.2. Case No. 86CW388(A). The consumptive use water attributable to the Braun Well was included as a source of augmentation water in the plan for augmentation decreed in Case No. 86CW388(A). 3.1.7.3.3. Case No. 90CW201. In Case No. 90CW201, the consumptive use water associated with the Braun Well water right was included as a source of augmentation water in the decreed plan for augmentation and a source of substitute supply in the decreed appropriative right of substitution and exchange. 3.1.8. Race Well No. 4. 3.1.8.1. Legal Description. The point of diversion of Race Well No. 4 is located in the NE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 32, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point 15 feet from the North section line and 2,230 feet from the West section line of said Section 32. 3.1.9. Smith Well No. 2. 3.1.9.1. Legal Description. The point of diversion of Smith Well No. 2 is located in the SW1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 29, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point 2,970 feet from the West section line and 450 feet from the South section line of said Section 29. 3.1.9.2. Original Decree. Case No. W-4396, decreed by the Water Court on June 13, 1977, for irrigation use at a rate of 1.66 cfs, with an appropriation date of July 14, 1950 as to 1.44 cfs and of January 27, 1966 as to 0.22 cfs. 3.1.9.3. Subsequent Decrees. 3.1.9.3.1. Case No. 84CW681(A). The decree entered in Case No. 84CW681(A), entered on September 28, 1989 by the Water Court, quantified the historical consumptive use attributable to Smith Well Nos. 1 and 2 was quantified as 228.0 acre-feet per year. 3.1.9.3.2. Case No. 86CW388(A). In Case No. 86CW388(A), a conditional water right was decreed to Smith Well No. 2, which was decreed as an alternate point of diversion for ACWWA’s other tributary water rights. 3.1.10.

Loyd Well No. 4-14737. 3.1.10.1. Legal Description. The point of diversion of Loyd Well No. 4-14737 is located in the NE1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 9, Township 6 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, Colorado, at a point 1,200 feet from the East section line and 1,000 feet from the North section line of said Section 9. 3.1.10.2. Original and all Subsequent Decrees. Case No. W-2640, entered on May 14, 1973 by the Water Court. The use of the water rights decreed to Loyd Well No. 4-14737 was changed pursuant to the decree entered in Case No. 84CW156, entered on December 13, 1988 by the Water Court. The Water Court quantified the historical consumptive use attributable to Loyd Well No. 4-14737 as 30.64 acre-feet per year. 3.2. Happy Canyon Creek Wells. 3.2.1. Happy Canyon Creek Well No. 1 (“HCC-1”). 3.2.1.1.

Legal Description. The point of diversion of HCC-1 is located in the NE1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 32, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point 1,550 feet from the South section line and 1,750 feet from the West section line of said Section 32. 3.2.2. Happy Canyon Creek Well No. 2 (“HCC-2”). 3.2.2.2. Legal Description. The point of diversion of HCC-2 is located in the NE1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 32, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point 1,360 feet from the South section line and 1,410 feet from the West section line of said Section 32. 3.2.3. Happy Canyon Creek Well No. 3 (“HCC-3”). 3.2.3.1.

Legal Description. The point of diversion of HCC-3 is located in the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 32, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point 1,025 feet from the South section line and 1,085 feet from the West section line of said Section 32. 3.2.4. Happy Canyon Creek Well No. 4 (“HCC-4”). 3.2.4.1. Legal Description. HCC-4 will be located in the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 32, Township 5 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Arapahoe County, Colorado, at a point 1,200 feet from the West section line and 100 feet from the South section line of said Section 32. 3.2.5. Happy Canyon Creek Well No. 5 (“HCC-5”). 3.2.5.1. Legal Description. HCC-5 will be located in the SE1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 6, Township 6 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, Colorado, at a point 920 feet from the South section line and 130 feet from the East section line of said Section 6. 3.3. Source of the 1144 Wells. Groundwater from the alluvium of Cherry Creek and/or Happy Canyon Creek. 3.4. Appropriation Date. December 31, 1996 for the Cherry Creek Wells and Happy Canyon Creek Wells. 3.5. Amounts. 3.5.1. Cherry Creek Wells. 1,200 gpm (2.67 cfs.), each, conditional. 3.5.2. HCC-1 – HCC-5. 300 gpm, each, conditional. 3.6. Uses. 3.6.1. Type of Use. HCC-1, HCC-2, and HCC-3 have been drilled and are currently being used to supply water to ACWWA’s Joint Water Purification Plant (the “JWPP”) for treatment and potable uses. The 1996 conditional water rights may be used for all municipal uses, including all domestic, agricultural, industrial, commercial, irrigation, stockwatering, fire protection, recreation, fish and wildlife preservation and propagation, augmentation and exchange purposes, the replacement of depletions resulting from the use of water from other sources, and the recharge of Denver Basin aquifers, either by immediate application or by storage and subsequent application to said uses.

No exchange is decreed herein, and any exchange of the 1996 conditional water rights may occur pursuant to a subsequent decree authorizing such exchange. If all out-of-priority depletions are fully augmented pursuant to the plan for augmentation decreed herein, then the 1996 conditional water rights may be used, reused, and successively used to extinction pursuant to the terms and conditions decreed herein. 3.6.2.

Place of Use. Within the present and future boundaries and service area of ACWWA. ACWWA may also use the 1996 conditional water rights in the Upper Cherry Creek Water Users Association (“UCCWA”) plan for augmentation decreed in Case No. 01CW284 (“UCCWA Decree”) as described in paragraph 22.C of that decree, or outside the boundaries of ACWWA pursuant to existing agreements entered into prior to entry of this decree with nearby municipal water providers in the Cherry Creek basin, such as CWSD, as part of the joint use of the JWPP, IWSD, and Stonegate. The 1996 conditional water rights may be stored at Rueter-Hess Reservoir (pursuant to an agreement with Parker Water and Sanitation District) and Chambers Reservoir, or within the Denver Basin aquifer, as part of ACWWA’s aquifer storage recharge and recovery program pursuant to a separate future administrative approval or judicial decree. 3.6.3. Integrated System. The 1996 conditional water rights will be used throughout, and will be a part of, ACWWA’s integrated water system. 3.7. Alternate Points of Diversion. The 1144 Decree approved and decreed changes of water rights to facilitate use of ACWWA’s tributary water rights at alternate points of diversion described in paragraph 14 of the 1144 Decree and for all municipal purposes, including use by storage and augmentation. The approval of wells as alternate points of diversion in the 1144 Decree allows the lagged stream depletions from the operation of ACWWA’s wells to replicate historical in‐priority stream depletions from the changed water rights, so long as the depletions occur when the changed water rights are in priority and the depletions do not exceed the daily, monthly, annual, and long‐term depletion limits associated with the changed water rights, subject to the terms and conditions of the 1144 Decree and this Decree. 3.8. Places of Storage. 3.8.1. Rueter-Hess Reservoir. The axis of the dam intersects the thread of Newlin Gulch at a point on the South section line of Section 30, Township 6 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., in Douglas County, Colorado, which point is approximately 2,400 feet east of the Southwest corner of said Section 30. The northwest abutment of the dam is in the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of said Section 30, approximately 1,300 feet east of the West section line, and approximately 550 feet north of the South section line, of said Section 30. The southeast abutment of the dam is in the NW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 31, same range and township, approximately 1,900 feet west of the East section line and 250 feet south of the North section line, of said Section 31. 3.8.2. Chambers Reservoir. Described in paragraph 4.2, below. 3.8.3. Aquifer Storage and Recovery (“ASR”). There is ASR in both the Arapahoe aquifer and the Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer underlying ACWWA’s present and future service area. ACWWA’s extraction of any fully-reusable and fully-consumable water stored by ASR in the Arapahoe aquifer through the Airport-3 Well, Denmark-Arap Well, A-3 Well, and the Chaparral A-3 Well, shall be in compliance with the State Engineer’s Denver Basin Artificial Recharge Extraction Rules, 2 C.C.R. 402-11, as such rules may be amended. ACWWA will store by ASR any fully-consumable and reusable water lawfully captured, possessed, and controlled by ACWWA for subsequent withdrawal and application to beneficial use. Storage by ASR shall not occur until ACWWA first obtains a subsequent decree authorizing such storage. 4. Description of Conditional Water Storage Right. 4.1. Name of Structure. Chambers Reservoir. 4.2. Legal Description and Location. Chambers Reservoir is an off-stream lined reservoir located in the W1/2 of the NW1/4 of Section 8, Township 6 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, Colorado. The centerline of the Chambers Reservoir dam crosses an unnamed tributary of Happy Canyon Creek, in the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of said Section 8, at a point 340 feet from the North section line and 630 feet from the West section line of said Section 8. 4.3. Lined Storage. By letter dated July 6, 2012, the State Engineer determined that the reservoir lining met the design standard set forth in the “State Engineer Guidelines for Lining Criteria for Gravel Pits dated August 1999.” 4.4. Surface Area. 31.41 acres. 4.5. Capacity.

1,405.43 acre-feet. 4.6. Sources Filling the Structure. 4.6.1. Direct precipitation on the reservoir; and 4.6.2. Local tributary inflows into the reservoir. 4.7. Legal Description of Reservoir Outlets. 4.7.1. Discharge Point to Storm Sewer. The location of the discharge point from Chambers Reservoir to a proposed storm sewer pipe, which is tributary to an unnamed tributary of Happy Canyon Creek, is in the NW1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 8, Township 6 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, Colorado, at a point 244 feet from the North section line and 920 feet from the West section line of said Section 8. 4.7.2. Discharge Point to Unnamed Tributary. The location of the discharge point from Chambers Reservoir to an unnamed tributary of Happy Canyon Creek is in the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 5, Township 6 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Douglas County, Colorado, at a point 790 feet from the South section line and 65 feet from the West section line of said Section 5. 4.8. Date of Appropriation. December 8, 2010. 4.9. Amount. 96.0 acre-feet, conditional, with the right of continuous refills totaling 96.0 acre-feet in a given year, and a maximum inflow rate of 6.4 cfs for the storage right. 4.10. Types of Use. ACWWA plans to use Chambers Reservoir to store raw water to supply its nonpotable irrigation system and to make releases for augmentation. The water will be used for all municipal purposes, including domestic, agricultural, industrial, commercial, irrigation, augmentation, stock watering, recreation, fish and wildlife, and fire protection uses. Water may be produced for immediate application to beneficial use, for storage in the locations described in paragraph 3.8, above, or by aquifer storage and recovery, and subsequent application to beneficial use or release and re-diversion to storage, for exchange purposes, for replacement of depletions resulting from the use of water from other sources, and for all other augmentation and replacement purposes, including augmentation of not nontributary groundwater diversions. Water may be used, reused, and successively used to extinction and may be used by disposition to other parties described in paragraph 4.11, below, by sale, lease, trade, or other means. 4.11. Place of Use. The water may be used within the boundaries and service area of ACWWA as it exists now or may exist in the future.

ACWWA may also use the water in the UCCWA Decree described in paragraph 22.C of that decree, or outside the boundaries of ACWWA pursuant to existing agreements entered into prior to entry of this decree with nearby municipal water providers in the Cherry Creek basin, such as CWSD, as part of the joint use of the JWPP, IWSD, and Stonegate. 5. Detailed Outline of Work Done For the Completion of the Conditional Appropriation and For Reasonable Diligence. For purposes of demonstrating diligence, work on one feature of the project or system shall be considered in finding that reasonable diligence has been shown in the development of all water rights conditionally decreed herein, and shall constitute diligence toward the development of each of the conditional water rights decreed herein. A detailed list of work done toward completion or for completion of the appropriations and application of water to a beneficial use as conditionally decreed includes, but is not limited to, the following:5.1. Well Maintenance. During this diligence period ACWWA spent approximately $6.6 million on repairs and maintenance and capital equipment for ACWWA’s water distribution system and wells. 5.2. Upper Cherry Creek Water Association. ACWWA is a member of UCCWA. UCCWA developed a very complex regional plan for augmentation, involving one conditional water storage right and one conditional appropriative right of exchange with several exchange-to and exchange-from points, which was originally decreed in Case No. 01CW284 on December 4, 2007. The water rights under the regional plan were continued as conditional and certain portions made absolute by the decree entered on October 21, 2015 in Case No. 13CW3184 by the Water Court. An application to continue the water rights as conditional and make certain portions absolute was filed by UCCWA on behalf of its members on October 29, 2021 in Case No. 21CW3197. ACWWA is currently operating under the UCCWA plan, and has expended substantial sums on engineering and legal fees in participating in the UCCWA regional plan. 5.3. Joint Water Purification Plant. During this diligence period, ACWWA and Cottonwood Water and Sanitation District (“CWSD”) made improvements at the JWPP, a water treatment facility which is co-owned by ACWWA, CWSD, and the Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Public Improvement District. The improvements included the replacement of reverse osmosis membranes and the design, construction, and commissioning of a new biological treatment system (“BTS”). The BTS treats the reverse osmosis concentrate produced by the JWPP prior to discharge. The JWPP was constructed specifically to fully use and reuse the alluvial water rights of ACWWA and CWSD. Nine of CWSD’s alluvial wells and several of ACWWA’s alluvial wells are specifically listed as exchange-to points under the decree entered in Case No. 01CW284. Water which is exchanged up to the alluvial wells of ACWWA and CWSD is typically treated at the JWPP before delivery to customers. Therefore, the improvements made at the JWPP increase and support the ability of ACWWA and CWSD to use the subject exchange.

ACWWA expended approximately $8.2 million for the design and construction of the JWPP concentrate biological treatment system. 5.4. Lawn Irrigation Return Flow Analysis. In 2018, ACWWA’s engineering consultants prepared and submitted to the Division Engineer an analysis of lawn irrigation return flows throughout ACWWA’s service area pursuant to the decree entered in Case No. 86CW388(A). Said return flows will provide part of the physical and legal water supply for all of the structures and conditional water rights described herein. 5.5. Chambers Reservoir. During the subject diligence period, the Division of Water Resources Dam Safety Branch performed a final construction inspection of the synthetic liner installation project at Chambers Reservoir Dam and approved the synthetic liner. This reservoir operation will increase the demand for ACWWA to operate the subject exchange. Additionally, releases from Chambers Reservoir are a source of augmentation water and may be exchanged to the upstream point of ACWWA’s depletions pursuant to the subject exchange. 5.6. Case No. 15CW3144. ACWWA was awarded a decree in Case No. 15CW3144, entered on February 8, 2018 by the Water Court, which contains findings of reasonable diligence for and made portions absolute of ACWWA’s conditional water rights decreed in Case No. 86CW388(A). These conditional rights are also part of ACWWA’s integrated water system. 5.7. ACWWA Flow Project. In 2009 ACWWA contracted with United Water and Sanitation District (“United”) and East Cherry Creek Valley Water & Sanitation District (“ECCV”) to develop the ACWWA Flow Project. When fully developed, this project will acquire, treat, and deliver 4,400 acre-feet of annual average yield water rights from ditch systems in the South Platte Basin to the ECCV Water Treatment Plant for treatment, then to ACWWA for use. This water will be used for ACWWA’s customers and its return flows will be used in ACWWA’s augmentation plan, which will use ACWWA’s alluvial wells to supply ACWWA additional potable and nonpotable water supplies. ACWWA has numerous wells that are listed as exchange points in this Application. Water which is exchanged up to ACWWA’s alluvial wells can be stored in Chambers Reservoir for use. Therefore, the development of the ACWWA Flow Project increases and supports ACWWA’s ability to use the subject exchange. The total estimated cost of the Phase II infrastructure is $60 million for an additional 10 million gallons of pumping and treatment capacity. The Booster Pump Stations are approximately $25 million and the NWTP Expansion is approximately $35 million. ACWWA has purchased an additional 3 million gallons of capacity from these facilities, totaling about $18 million in capital expenditure for the following: • Expansion of the Northern Water Treatment RO Plant (2018-2020); • Expansion of the North and South Booster Pump Stations (2018-2019); and • Construction of Deep Injection Well II (2018). 5.8. 2019 Draft Integrated Master Plan. During this diligence period, ACWWA began updating its 2011 Master Plan. The updated integrated master planning effort involves assessing the condition and performance of the existing systems, including improvements that have occurred since the 2011 master plan, analyzing existing Continued to Next Page

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The story behind the Ukrainian artwork about to be sold in Denver Selling the work, Ukrainians say, will help refocus attention on Russia’s war in Ukraine

BY TATIANA FLOWERS THE COLORADO SUN

Maria Manuilenko was carrying lots of cash — and 10 suitcases filled with expensive artwork — when she got stranded at the Ukraine-Poland border.

She had spent weeks collecting paintings made by Ukrainian artists, and had plans to bring them back to the United States, where they would be sold to support the artists and people fighting on the frontlines.

But a customs enforcement officer was skeptical of Manuilenko, and would not allow her across the border, before he sent her back to Lviv to have her paperwork reviewed. When she arrived at 2 a.m., past curfew, the area was vacant. Luckily, a man driving by saw Manuilenko standing alone at a train station and offered to take her to another checkpoint where a different customs officer let her through.

“It was just some random guy that she had never seen before,” said Maria Oleynikova, Manuilenko’s friend of 25 years. “There were two options: Option 1, she would get through the border with the paintings and be fine. Option 2, she might not come back … This brave woman got in this van wit the paintings and made it through the border.”

Manuilenko landed in the United States on June 4, with the art, ready to display the work at an exhibit Saturday from 4 to 9 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel in Denver.

All of the works were rescued by the Ukrainian artists who created them and other volunteers who retrieved them from cities where heavy shelling has continued since the war began more than 100 days ago. Many of those volunteers, including Manuilenko, put themselves in harm’s way to keep the artwork from being destroyed.

Showing the work, the exhibit organizers say, will help refocus attention on Russia’s war on Ukraine at a time when many people are

becoming desensitized to the death and destruction occurring there.

Money raised by the exhibit will help to keep attention on the war, increase empathy for those affected and raise funds for people still stuck on the frontlines, they said.

“The level of indifference is growing,” said Taras Overchuk, a Ukrainian man living in Highlands Ranch who is the president of Ukraine Aid Fund. The new nonprofit is working to find continuous streams of funding and other support for those stuck in Ukraine.

“One of the problems is people are getting used to war,” he said.

“For us, it’s a little bit scary. I think the enemy of Ukraine is trying to use time, specifically, so that help and support will be decreased over time.”

Most of the art was created by people from Kharkiv. The second largest city in the country has borne the brunt of intense shelling since the war began.

Though some of the art work has been sold online, many pieces will be available to purchase at the gala Saturday. The artists will receive a share of the proceeds, and the remaining money will be sent back to Ukraine to help pay for items needed by local people such as medical equipment, drones, protective goggles, tactical gloves, clothing and other costly supplies.

Tickets cost $65 for admission and the art range in price, from $400 to just over $5,000.

“We need as many U.S. people locally here, not just the Ukrainian community, to come and experience this,” said Oleynikova, a co-organizer of the event. “At the event, it’s not just going to be the art. I’m having a film presentation. There’s going to be drinks and hors d’oeuvres. It’s going to be a really awesome fun event for people to come to – but also for an awesome cause.”

Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts is one of the oldest art institutions in Ukraine and one of the top design schools in the country. Most of the artists whose works will be featured at the exhibition, have graduated from that institution, are well-known across Europe and have galleries in Los Angeles, New York and Amsterdam, for example. Many of the artists are now refugees, spread out across Europe and neighboring countries, Manuilenko said.

Many artists were forced to flee from their homes during the war, and left most of their art work behind, but some of the paintings have been saved, and are often cut off from the subframes and exported out of Ukraine by twisted rolls.

Cherry Creek Framing in Denver has offered to professionally stretch all of the paintings for free, so that they can be neatly framed, at the exhibit on Saturday. About 40 paintings will be featured, alongside statues and masks.

Some of the artists whose work is in the show have saved money and are now living in other parts of Europe. Some are so distraught they’re not able to paint at all, while others are creating art but have refused to sell their work because it documents a historical event: everyday life during the war.

Artist Kostyantyn Lyzogub, has joined the Ukrainian armed forces.

He splits his time between creating artwork for a few days, followed by a few more days fighting in the war. He created a painting that is currently featured on marketing flyers for the event. That painting will be sold at a silent auction at the event.

Painter Polina Kuznetsova could not sleep the first night of the war, and began walking around familiar streets in Kharkiv, taking photographs on empty streets.

“Somehow, I was internally saying goodbye to my city,” she said in a short film that will be screened during the event.

The effort to help people under threat in Ukraine will not stop after the art exhibit, Overchuk said. Ukraine Aid Fund and other informal groups of Ukrainians in Colorado will continue sending money and items that are requested by people in the war zone.

“We are connected with a lot of volunteers on the ground. We are sending suitcases with stuff that people need. And the more we’re doing it, the more people hear about it, and the more requests we’re getting,” said Oleynikova, who lives in Colorado, but is originally from Kharkiv.

Ukraine Aid Fund has not been receiving the same level of donations and funding support as it did when the war began and Overchuk attributes that to “diminishing interest” as the war drags on. His organization and other volunteers have had to turn down some

requests because they simply don’t have the money, or the bandwidth, to address every request. The organization is now working to increase its current number of volunteers (about 14) and grow its list of donors and subscribers, Overchuk said.

Manuilenko left her home in Kharkiv on the first day of the war, stopping in two other parts of Ukraine before reaching her final destination in Poland one month later. Back in Kharkiv, her neighbor’s home was recently bombed and so he’s now living in her apartment.

As an art curator, Manuilenko has organized art exhibitions all over the world. Rescuing paintings and bringing them to the U.S. was a difficult and unfamiliar task since all airports in Ukraine remain closed. When asked to help develop the most-recent fundraising idea, it was Manuilenko who suggested showcasing art with a focus on pieces from Kharkiv, her hometown.

Manuilenko, now a refugee, said she wants to help other Ukrainians in any way possible, because she understands what it means to flee her home.

“Every day I read the news and I can’t live normal because I know that my people are in Ukraine. It’s a very difficult situation,” she said, as she began to cry during an interview earlier this week. Manuilenko has tried to keep her mind off the war by staying focused on planning for Saturday’s event.

She’s hoping to return to Ukraine with her 10 suitcases filled with medical supplies, such as blood stopping medical gauze, tourniquets and defibrillators. She and event organizers are asking medical organizations and other members of the public to donate medical items ahead of her return on June 20.

Those interested in donating can contact organizers through the Ukraine Aid Fund website or email contact@ukraineaidfund.org.

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and future water storage needs, examining existing and future supply and demand/load analysis, analyzing and assessing treatment plant and lift station capacity, identifying capital improvement projects, and proposing an overall phased capital improvement program.

The plan fully relies on ACWWA’s alluvial water rights (including numerous wells that are listed as exchange points in Case No. 01CW284) and the augmentation of the use of those wells when not in priority to ensure that ACWWA has an efficient system. Therefore, the development of this planning document increases and supports ACWWA’s ability to use the subject exchange.

5.9. Protection of Water Rights. During the diligence period, ACWWA has been an active opposer in numerous Water Court cases involving Cherry Creek, in

which it seeks to protect its decreed and vested water rights. 5.10. ACWWA continues to rely upon and develop the conditional water right described herein and has no intent to abandon them. 6. Claim to Make Absolute.

During this diligence period, ACWWA has made absolute portion of the following water rights: 6.1. Chambers Reservoir Storage Right. A total of 4.06 acre-feet was stored in priority from precipitation and local inflows on May 4-17, May 23, and May 29-June 3, 2021. 6.2.

Braun Well. During the week of February 14-20, 2022 (UCCWA’s accounting week), ACWWA pumped (February 15-22) 32.58 acre-feet, or 4.07 acre-feet per day, assuming 8 days of pumping. This equates to 2.05 cfs/ day for the week. The original May 7, 1964 appropriation for the Braun Well was 1.33 cfs. Subtracting the original appropriation flowrate from the prorated max rate in February 2022 would leave 0.72 cfs made ab-

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solute as of the December 31, 1996 appropriation. 7.

Names and addresses of owners of the land on which the structures are or will be located, upon which water is or will be stored, or upon which water is or will be placed to beneficial use. Applicant owns all the land on which the Cherry Creek Wells and Chambers Reservoir are located. Cottonwood Water & Sanitation District owns the land on which the Happy Canyon Wells are located, 2 Inverness Drive East, Suite 200 Englewood, Colorado 80112. WHEREFORE, ACWWA respectfully request that this Court enter an order finding that (1) 4.06 acre-feet of the 96.0 acre-feet of the Chambers Reservoir Water Storage Right has been made absolute, and 91.94 acre-feet is continued as conditional; (2) 1.02 cfs of 2.67 cfs of the Braun Well Conditional Water Right has been made absolute, and 1.65 cfs is continued as conditional; and (3) reasonable diligence has

been exercised in the development of the conditional water rights associated with the Cherry Creek Wells, Happy Canyon Creek Wells, and Chambers Reservoir Water Storage Right described herein, and such rights be continued as conditional. (16 pages, 0 exhibits) 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 JULY 31, 2022 (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.: 942282 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

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