Denver Herald 042023

VOLUME 96 | ISSUE 22

Gorillas and other zoo animals enjoy eating local

Horticulturalists tend the Denver Zoo’s kitchen garden

BY KIRSTEN DAHL COLLINS SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Kal, a 380-pound African gorilla at the Denver Zoo, grasped his oppy banana leaf the way some people hold a cone of caramel swirl ice cream. Slowly and deliberately, he savored every bite.

Over at the zoo’s Tropical Discovery building, Rex, a rhinoceros iguana native to the Caribbean, munched his way through a special breed of spineless prickly pear cactus. Nearby, a shy, 40-pound capybara named Rebecca — a rodent native to Central and South America — couldn’t resist a fresh pile of water lettuce.

It was snack time at the Denver Zoo, courtesy of Production Manager Patrick Crowell and his two sta ers, Marcelle Condevaux and Keith Goode. Smiling, the three horticulturalists watched the animals polish o their greens. Crowell and his sta had grown these tropical plants in several designated City Park greenhouses, which serve as kitchen gardens for many of the zoo’s 3,000 animals. Whether it’s cardamom and ginger leaves, banana trees or hibiscus owers, the greenhouse sta enables zoo animals to eat local — even if they crave ora from across the globe. e gardeners also grow landscaping plants for animal enclosures, from tall stands of euphorbia cactus to sweet gum trees.

“We’re trying to grow as much as we can locally,” Crowell said, adding that “growing exotics can take quite a bit of research.”

e greenhouse specialties are grown without pesticides, using recycled water. All of this saves money the zoo would otherwise spend importing

Colorado o ers Zearn digital math learning

BY ERICA MELTZER CHALKBEAT

Colorado is making the digital learning program Zearn Math available for free to schools statewide as part of a broader e ort to address gaps in math learning that widened during the pandemic.

Gov. Jared Polis has set aside up to $6 million in pandemic relief money to pay for licenses for the digital program and to pay for printed materials for schools that adopt Zearn’s math curriculum Training also will be available to teachers in how to use the new platform.

Math scores on state and national standardized tests declined during the pandemic, with sharper drops in math than in reading and writing. Both educators and policymakers are focused on how to help students gain skills they missed out on during three disrupted years.

Last month, Polis and lawmakers unveiled a bipartisan $25 million proposal to o er widespread afterschool tutoring in math, expand teacher training, and encourage districts to adopt high-quality curriculum. In addition, the initiative

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Kal, a 360-pound male gorilla at the Denver Zoo, savors a fresh banana leaf grown for him by zoo horticulturalists at the City Park greenhouses.

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tropical plants from Florida.

One greenhouse holds a grove of banana trees, which are especially useful, since every part of the plant can be used. Crowell said the fruit is fed to fruit bats while the oppy leaves are popular snacks for many animals, including sloths and smaller reptiles — as well as great apes. Elephants and rhinos chew the banana stalks, which increases their ber intake and acts as a natural toothbrush.

e production sta works closely with the zoo’s battery of veterinarians and nutritionists. Animal diets have come a long way since 1896 when the Denver Zoo began with a single caged bear cub, named Billy Bryan, in City Park. Although history does not record what Billy ate, it would probably make today’s zoo nutritionists shudder.

ese days, animal diets are strictly controlled in order to keep them healthy. Often, that means adding the right vegetation.

“We get calls if an animal is ill,” Crowell said.

Many of the plants in the zoo greenhouses have medicinal qualities. Crowell said that leaves from the ginger and cardamon plants help prevent heart problems in great apes. Colorful blue, green and yellow lorikeets — a small parrot from Australia — keep their feathers healthy by pecking at hibiscus owers. According to Crowell, the pollen and nectar of these owers supply the birds with important amino acids.

Some plants are equally important

to animals’ mental health. e Denver Zoo earned its accreditation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums by taking animal well-being seriously — and that requires plenty of the branches, twigs and leaves known as browse. Cuttings from a range of trees and shrubs, including willow, mulberry, and butter y bush, are important not just for nutrition but also to encourage natural activities like foraging. For example, Crowell said, Tundra, the female grizzly bear, enjoys stripping and eating the leaves o hackberry branches while the zoo’s Mongolian horses prefer to chew bark o cottonwood logs. Elephants and primates like to exercise their teeth on bamboo stalks.

Several passive solar greenhouses known as hoop houses help extend the growing season for browse. And whenever it’s time to prune trees and bushes in City Park, Crowell and his team are there, collecting boughs, twigs and leaves. Crowell also roams the zoo’s 80 acres, searching for underutilized patches of dirt where he and his sta can grow additional browse in the summer months. Last year, they supplied more than 1,300 pounds of leafy trimmings to zoo denizens. When the zoo’s urban farmers aren’t running loads of produce over to hungry zebras and gira es, they are searching for more ways to maximize every square foot of growing space. Even the rafters of the Tropical Discovery building are being put to use, with a hydroponic growing table that nourishes crops of collard greens. According to Crowell, many animals love nutrient-dense greens like collard and dandelion. Perhaps we humans should take a few dining cues from the zoo.

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Horticulturalist Patrick Crowell and his sta grow a special type of spineless prickly pear cactus just for Rex, a rhinoceros iguana native to the Dominican Republic. Zookeeper Troy Bumgardner created a special clamp to hold the cactus paddles, enabling Rex to forage as he would in the wild. Rex is known for his friendly disposition and enjoys a good back scratch.

Zoo Production Manager Patrick Crowell, right, and Browse Specialist Keith Goode, left, harvest banana leaves for eager zoo diners, including sloths, smaller reptiles and apes.

Zoo Production Specialist Marcelle Condevaux harvests hibiscus flowers, a favorite treat for many animals including monkeys, orangutans, lorikeets and sloths. Condevaux enjoys life among the plants at the City Park greenhouses. “I like eating my lunches here,” she said. “It’s like a tropical paradise.” PHOTOS BY TIM COLLINS

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Suncor released sulfur dioxide spikes, state says

Commerce City refinery had equipment failure

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

e Suncor re nery in Commerce City sent potentially dangerous spikes of sulfur dioxide into the surrounding neighborhood early April 12 after an equipment failure, though the state health department’s notice didn’t go out until that evening.

Sulfur dioxide detected from Suncor leapt to 155 parts per billion and 186 parts per billion, while the EPA’s National Ambient Air Quality Standards are 75 parts per billion. But to reach an o cial exceedance, the sulfur dioxide levels must be that high for over an hour. By 9 a.m. Wednesday, a state news release said, the levels had “dropped signi cantly.”

e state release at 6:23 p.m. said the spike readings “were veri ed a short time ago.” Despite the drop in the monitored sulfur dioxide levels, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment urged families in the future to limit outdoor exercise, keep windows closed and consider an air puri er.

“ e short exposures to sulfur dioxide that occurred earlier could have exacerbated asthma and made breathing di cult, especially during exercise or physical activity,” the

health department said.

e state release said that early Wednesday, “the Suncor facility reported that #2 Sulfur Recovery Unit and associated Tail Gas Unit in Plant 1 brie y tripped o ine due to a level indicator issue, resulting in: excess sulfur dioxide from the Tail Gas Unit Incinerator (H-25); aring of acid gas (gas with elevated hydrogen sul de) in the Plant 1 Flare; elevated hydrogen sul de in the Plant 1 fuel gas system.”

Neighbors and environmental advocacy groups have been expanding independent monitoring of emis-

sions from Suncor, and amplifying calls for a complete shutdown or at least far tougher state regulation of the re nery. e only re nery in Colorado, Suncor supplies a large portion of vehicle gasoline for the Denver metro area and airplane fuel for Denver International Airport. A re in December damaged equipment at Suncor and forced a weekslong shutdown of the complex, followed by a series of emissions noti cations to neighbors as Suncor worked to bring the facility back online. e shutdown also signi cantly raised gas prices for

Colorado drivers during the winter. Multiple monitors around Suncor check for dangerous emissions, including some run by a neighborhood nonpro t Cultivando through a state environmental justice project. Cultivando released a report from Boulder atmospheric scientist Detlev Helmig in March warning of exactly what happened in mid-April: Short-term emissions from Suncor that endanger health but do not ofcially break EPA limits. Helmig’s instruments identi ed temporary local spikes in levels of pollutants like benzene or harmful particulate matter. Cultivando’s monitoring program can identify spikes that are short-lived but impactful on human health, Helmig said.

“Pollution levels go up and down, up and down very dynamically all the time,” he said at a Cultivando community brie ng. “If you happen to go out there at a certain time when levels are low, it may look not too concerning and pretty clean. But you come back just half an hour later and conditions might have changed very dramatically.”

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

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Colorado to receive $31 million settlement from Juul

Stems for nationwide case

BY OLIVIA PRENTZEL THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado is expected to receive $31.7 million from electronic cigarette manufacturer Juul Labs in a multistate settlement over claims the company used deceptive marketing tactics and promoted products to teens, the state’s attorney general announced April 11.

e lawsuit, led in 2020, claimed Juul was misrepresenting the health risks of their vapes and targeted young people by hiring social media in uencers to promote e-cigarettes and brand ambassadors to give free samples to teens at Colorado convenience stores.

“ is settlement is a victory for the state of Colorado and everyone who fell victim to Juul’s reckless, deceptive, and unconscionable marketing tactics,” Attorney General Phil Weiser said in a statement. “While no amount of money or new restrictions on Juul’s business practices can undo the harms caused by the teen vaping epidemic, this settlement will make great strides toward reducing it and can support young people who are hurting now more than ever.”

Vapes typically contain the same addictive nicotine as other tobacco products.

e settlement funds will be used solely to address tobacco prevention

and teen mental health programs, Weiser said in a news conference, despite a news release his o ce sent earlier that said it would be used in part to cover attorneys’ fees.

“ at $31 million is going to be dedicated entirely to supporting young people who have su ered both from a public health and from a mental health perspective,” Weiser said. “ e kids are not OK. Right now they’re su ering. is vaping epidemic is part of that, it has in icted harms that remain and that need to be addressed.”

e attorney general’s o ce will send $167,000 to the National Association of Attorneys General to reimburse them for a grant they provided for investigation and litigation costs,

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Under the settlement agreement, Juul will be prohibited from using those marketing tactics in the future, Weiser said. e company will also be required to hire a compliance o cer and provide the public opportunities to review documentation of their compliance with the agreement.

Most recent state data shows that 16% of Colorado teens reported they had vaped in the past month. When Colorado led the suit, the state had the highest rate of vaping teenagers in the nation at 27%, double the nation average, according to the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.

Juul has settled lawsuits with 47 states and territories, paying more

than $1 billion, the company said.

“With this settlement, we are nearing total resolution of the company’s historical legal challenges and securing certainty for our future,” a company spokesman said. “Since our companywide reset in the fall of 2019, underage use of JUUL products has declined by 95% based on the National Youth Tobacco Survey.”

Colorado sued Juul with other attorneys general, including from California, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico and New York. e total settlement was $462 million.

Late last year, Juul announced it settled more than 5,000 cases brought by about 10,000 plainti s in the U.S., sidestepping a substantial amount of legal issues for the company.

“ ese settlements represent a major step toward strengthening Juul Labs’ operations and securing the company’s path forward to ful ll its mission to transition adult smokers away from combustible cigarettes while combating underage use,” the company said in a news release.

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

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included plans for the state to pay for licenses for a digital math accelerator and make them available at no cost to schools statewide.

Polis announced this week that Colorado has selected Zearn Math as the state’s online math program. e state did not request proposals, instead choosing Zearn based on studies and reviews and purchasing it from a software reseller at a set price.

“We are taking an all-hands-ondeck approach to boost student math achievement and make sure Colorado kids have the support and practice they need to excel in math,” Polis said in a press release. “ is new access saves school districts and families money and is part of our ongoing work to provide high-quality education for every Colorado student.”

Polis spokeswoman Melissa Dworkin said the governor’s team considered several programs and chose Zearn Math based on studies provided by the company that showed students who used Zearn regularly made substantially more progress than those who didn’t.

Educators who study math instruction and ways students learn through gaming and online platforms said Zearn has positive elements but cautioned that teachers need training and time to learn how to use it well. It shouldn’t be used as a substitute for in-person instruction by well-trained teachers, they said, and teachers need to make sure students

are engaged and supported in their learning.

Started by New York teachers and backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the program is used widely in states like Tennessee and Texas. Many New York City schools also use Zearn Math. e program is intended to be used in conjunction with in-person, whole class instruction. ( e Gates Foundation is a funder of Chalkbeat.)

Mary Pittman, president of the Colorado Council of Teachers of Mathematics, said she feels “hopeful excitement” about the plan.

“It is new for Colorado to have access to a program like this across the board,” she said.

She described the platform as offering exible, high-quality materials built around Common Core State Standards, which are the basis for Colorado’s academic standards. She said Zearn was originally used most often for intervention with students who were far behind in math, but that it also o ers a well-regarded comprehensive core curriculum, data that can inform teachers’ daily instruction, as well as lessons that can be used during tutoring or at home.

David Webb, an associate professor of math education at the University of Colorado Boulder who also heads a research consortium on math instruction, said Zearn seems to have good content and be based on solid ideas around math instruction. He worries, though, about relying too much on digital platforms, when it was the lack of interaction with teachers and peers that contributed to learning gaps during online and

hybrid school.

“To see it resolved through digital platforms, it rubs me a little bit the wrong way,” he said. “I understand the desire to get back on track and come up with personalized interventions. But to say we’re going to have you spend more time on technology, I think we need a more holistic x.”

A 2019 Johns Hopkins study found students in some subgroups using Zearn made statistically signi cant progress but overall results were less signi cant. Students in schools that used Zearn for more hours a week generally saw more improvement than those that used it for fewer hours. Teachers in the study generally liked the program and felt it supported student learning.

Even so, many teachers reported the format of Zearn —which requires students to work independently and to read, listen, and type responses —made it hard for some students to use.

Meanwhile, students who used Zearn in the study were less likely to express con dence in their math skills compared with students at schools that didn’t use Zearn. A potential explanation, the study authors wrote, was that students may have found the Zearn material “more challenging than previously experienced, which may have a ected their feelings toward mathematics in general.”

Webb said these types of ndings underscore the importance of coupling digital platforms with instruction from teachers and opportunities for students to work through math problems with their peers. It’s also critical for teachers to get training — something that has become much

more challenging as teachers lose their planning periods to cover for colleagues or can’t go to conferences due to substitute shortages, Webb said.

Arturo Cortez, an assistant professor of learning sciences and human development and director of e Learning To Transform (LiTT) Video Gaming Lab at the University of Colorado, said the teachers he works with who already use Zearn love it because it helps them see quickly which students got the lesson and which need more help.

Zearn also has the potential to bridge divides between the home and the classroom and help parents better support their children’s learning, Cortez said.

He cautioned, though, that teachers need opportunities to learn how to use the program, play with it, and think through how it can help their students —not just a perfunctory session to get familiar with the interface. It’s also important to see how —and whether —students engage with the tool.

“With a lot of digital tools, we sit kids in front of them and don’t spend time with them while they are using them,” he said. “What makes them engaging? What makes kids have that commitment? And how do we create environments like that in the classroom?”

Colorado schools can sign up for Zearn Math for the 2023-24 school year.

Chalkbeat Senior Reporter Ann Schimke contributed reporting.

Chalkbeat is a nonpro t news site covering educational change in public schools.

Anthony Garcia: ‘Alien Expatriates’

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Colorado native and Denverite Anthony Garcia specializes in telling the stories of the voices who are often not heard.

“All my books have that theme,” he said. “I write the stories of the little voices.”

Garcia’s latest book, “Alien Expatriates,” was published in December last year. It is ction based in reality, following the story of iTalli, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration recipient from Denver, and Nephy, a giant from another planet.

It’s “a love story from a man’s point of view,” Garcia said. “It’s funny, but also deals with serious topics such as deportation.”

e two are aliens and form a special friendship as Nephy tries to comprehend an earthling’s profound feelings of love.

“ e interplay of both aliens brings in the love passages of famous writers as Pablo Neruda, Isabel Allende, Garcia-Marquez, Luis Borges and Garcia Lorca to share the deep felt passages of a de nition of love from both aliens on the run from authorities,” Garcia said.

e story tells of an enticing relationship in a coming-of-age scenario. It includes some sciknowledge, which Garcia shared to provide an insight of, perhaps, what aliens from another planet possess in their capabilities.

It’s “a fun prose,” Garcia said.

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In what ways do you think Denver readers will connect with “Alien Expatriates?”

The tale of iTalli, who laments the loss of his girlfriend and his journey being sent back to Puebla, Mexico, is common for many Mexican alien expatriates who are sent back involuntarily.

Nephy. the epitome of an educated American expatriate, is also on the run from the ‘men-in-shades’ authorities and question his true reason to be on this planet. The play on words will entice readers to question who really is an expatriate.

What did you find most enjoyable about writing iTalli and Nephy’s story?

iTalli, in many ways, is a version of many DACA kids that are committed to being good citizen examples and make the most of their opportunity in this country. e rst-generation Mexican workers have demonstrated outstanding work ethic and accomplishments, and I wanted to demonstrate their virtues and abilities of success in the USA.

I wanted to show with Nephy — while alien beings have been visiting our planet for eons — typically seek to avoid human contact. But in this instance, a relationship-friendship was formed by two very di erent individuals, yet both aliens.

Where to get the book

All of Anthony Garcia’s books are available online. He also showcases his books, and is available for a meet-and-greet every First Friday at Denver’s Museo de las Americas, 861 Santa Fe Drive.

What’s next?

Garcia is working on a play version of his 2017 book, “Watili, the Native American Slave Heroine.” He is also working on a book about the coming together of spirituality and religion, inspired by his October 2022 completion of the Camino de Santiago, which is a pilgrimage of medieval origin. Its various routes all nish in northern Spain.

Native American students’ right to wear regalia at graduation in Colorado bill

Danielson co-sponsors bill

BY JASON GONZALES CHALKBEAT

Colorado would guarantee the right of Native American students to wear items such as eagle feathers and other traditional clothing at graduation ceremonies through a bill under consideration this year.

Federal law protects Native American religious and cultural rights. But students sometimes run into issues or nd at-out prohibition at schools when it comes to wearing regalia at ceremonies, advocates say. ey say families must then ght to make districts aware of the importance of traditional clothing. Or students running into a lack of understanding might choose to skip graduation ceremonies altogether.

Senate Bill 202 would ensure K-12 schools, colleges, and universities create policies to protect Native American students so they don’t run into issues.

Sen. Jessie Danielson, a Wheat Ridge Democrat and co-sponsor of the bill, said she’s heard of school o cials telling students they have to hide, remove, or even throw away regalia because of policies that maintain uniformity at graduations. She said some students have even reported school o cials touched or con scated students’ eagle feathers, a cultural and religious symbol.

“ is bill clari es for the school that

you do not interfere with this,” Danielson said. “You cannot harass these students and prevent them from wearing their traditional regalia.”

Schools asking Native American students to remove or throw away items is like a school asking a student to get rid of a Jewish or Christian symbol, said Melvin Baker, Southern Ute Tribal Council chairman, during a mid-April hearing.

He added that the United States has a history of trying to erase Native American culture, and the bill would ensure students get to honor their identity and their achievement.

“Tribal regalia plays a unique role for graduating native Native students,” Baker said. “ ese items are often gifted to students by parents or tribal elders in recognition of this achievement.”

e Native American Rights Fund receives many calls every spring from families across the country looking for support on how to ensure they can wear regalia at graduation ceremonies, said Matthew Campbell, the organization’s deputy director. It’s been a few years since he elded a call from Colorado families, but he said families do sometimes run into trouble with schools.

“Usually, when we reach out to the schools and explain the importance of these items — once they understand — they usually will allow them to be worn,” Campbell said.

In recent years, some states have

added teachings about Native American religion and culture. Other changes that try to create more respect toward Native American culture have happened, including a law Colorado passed last year that bans Native American mascots.

Colorado would join eight other states in ensuring Native American students can wear traditional regalia.

Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, a Longmont Democrat co-sponsoring the legislation, said the goal is to make sure that every Colorado district understands.

e bill de nes qualifying students as members of a tribe, eligible tribal members, or those of Native American descent. e bill says that immediate family members would also be allowed to wear traditional Native American dress during their students’ graduation ceremony.

Speakers at a Senate Education Committee hearing said traditional dress might include clothing, bracelets, necklaces, or eagle feathers. e bill needs a nal vote in the Senate before heading to the House.

e bill doesn’t say how schools will ensure students have the right to wear traditional items, Jaquez Lewis said.

“We leave the details up to the school districts and the schools but what we do in this bill is we set guardrails,” she said.

Some districts have started to create policies.

Cherry Creek School District has cre-

ated a ceremony for Native American students and is workingon graduation ceremony policies, said Aspen Rendon, a partner with the district’s department of equity, culture, and community engagement. e district also has an indigenous action committee working toward creating a more inclusive district, Rendon said.

Je rey Chavez, the district’s indigenous and native student community liaison, said it’s important to recognize native traditions, especially in urban districts like Cherry Creek. Ensuring students get to wear their regalia at ceremonies helps carry on traditions.

“ at’s how we honor ourselves and our community and family with those traditions,” he said.

Indigenous action committee member Donna Chrisjohn said a principal didn’t allow her son in 2020 to wear Native American regalia at his graduation ceremony. Her son ended up not participating in the ceremony. She is glad the district is changing and happy to have helped make lawmakers aware of the issue.

“ is is so impactful for all families to know that someone will not push back when their child decides that they want to show up as who they really are,” Chrisjohn said. “ at’s a huge step in the right direction.”

Chalkbeat is a nonpro t news site covering educational change in public schools.

Sitting Bull portrait sells at auction to private bidder

BY SANDRA HALE SCHULMAN

e rare portrait of Lakota leader Sitting Bull that was up for sale at Blackwell Auctions sold for $67,100 in mid-March to a private purchaser from the northeastern United States. e portrait was one of four paintings of Sitting Bull created by New York artist and activist Caroline Weldon, and is thought to be the only one still in private hands.

Stored for decades and needing repair, the solemn portrait of the charismatic Lakota leader was consigned to auction by heirs of the original owner from 1890. e artist’s friendship with Sitting Bull was made into a 2017 lm, “Woman Walks Ahead.”

“I just tried to promote it as best I could,” Blackwell auctioneer Edwin Bailey told ICT. “I knew that it was a very special piece, and the story was absolutely fascinating. e deeper I got into it, I watched the movie and contacted the historical researchers.”

Bailey says the painting was special because it is “vastly superior to the other two Weldon painted. e value of the painting was based on its subject matter and its dramatic history, not the popularity of the artist or broad demand for the artist’s work, which is usually what drives the value of a piece of art.”

Daniel Guggisberg, historian and researcher, told ICT that the portrait was not done from a sitting, one of several revisions to the story that was portrayed in the 2017 lm featuring Jessica Chastain as Weldon and Michael Greyeyes as Sitting Bull.

“It is based on a portrait made by photographers Palmquist & Jurgens of Minneapolis in March 1884,” Guggisberg said.. “ e other two known paintings of Sitting Bull she made are based on photographs, notably by William Notman & Son of Montreal, taken in August 1885 while Sitting Bull toured with Bu alo Bill’s Wild West. She did not paint from life - would not have the means to do so and Sitting Bull certainly would not have agreed to sit for a painted portrait for hours or days on end. Caroline Weldon certainly had artistic talent, but not beyond an

amateur’s level.”

Weldon went to see Sitting Bull (1831-1890) in the late 1880s to help him politically, not to paint him. She ended up staying and moving into his camp at the Standing Rock Reservation with his family.

Guggisberg said that “the painting presumably was made while Caroline Weldon had brie y returned to Brooklyn in the latter part of 1889 and early 1890. e date on the painting is 1890.”

Weldon is believed to have sold

the painting to the man whose heirs recently put it up for auction.

“As far as I know, no painting by Carolyn Weldon has ever sold at auction,” Guggisberg said. “While the story in the lm was greatly changed, even without the motion picture, I still think this would’ve been an amazing piece because of the story.”

Bailey said Weldon endured a lot of heat — even physical violence — for promoting Native rights in the late 1800s.

Bailey said he started the bids on March 18 at $20,000 and said thenal sales gure was reached in about two minutes.

“It didn’t have any bids on it to start with, advanced bids, pre-op option bids,” he said. “ ere were several people that just got on when the option started and it ran to where it ran. at’s one of those pieces that could have gone anywhere. “

Bailey said the seller is granddaughter of William Lafayette Darling, a railroad engineer from St. Paul that was involved in the construction of the Northern Paci c Line at the time that went through the Dakotas on to Montana and Idaho. He is believed to have purchased the painting from Weldon. When he died in 1938, the painting went to his daughter and then to her daughter in 1990.

e painting will soon be shipped to the new owner.

“We’ve been in touch with the buyer and it’s been hanging up here on the wall for several weeks now,” he said. “I’m looking at it right now.”

Bailey said the auction house does not release details about the buyer.

“I can say that they’re in the Northeast and I hope they loan or exhibit it,” he said. “It’s not something I can even fathom somebody just poking down a hallway and looking at once in a while. I just don’t see that happening. I think it’s going to show up again and I think it’s going to show up at a museum, perhaps by a private collector. e best I’ll say is, that is what I hope is the outcome.”

Sandra Hale Schulman, of Cherokee Nation descent, has been writing about Native issues since 1994.

This 1890 painting of Sitting Bull by artist Catherine Weldon sold at auction on March 18, 2023, for $67,000 at Blackwell Auctions in Clearwater, Florida. Weldon’s friendship with Sitting Bull in the late 1880s was told, with some embellishment, in the 2017 film, “Woman Walks Ahead,” starring Jessica Chastain as Weldon and Michael Greyeyes as Sitting Bull. BLACKWELL AUCTIONS

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The Englewood Tavern, 4386 S Broadway, Englewood Jamie Lissow @ 6:30pm

Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark Pl, Greenwood Village

Fri 4/28

Mark O'Connor @ 6pm Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St, Lone Tree

Vamonos Pest/Mobro:

Vamonos Pest at Cherokee Ranch & Castle @ 5:30pm

Cherokee Ranch & Castle, 6113 N Daniels Park Rd, Sedalia

Wild Pink @ 6pm

Gothic Theatre, 3263 S Broadway, Englewood

R�N for Fire Heroes - Fire�ghter Strength Challenge & 5K @ 11pm / $30

Apr 30th - May 7th

1071 Round Top Lane, Castle Rock

Mon 5/01

Social Skills: Group for Teens (1317 yrs) S/S23 @ 5am

May 1st - Aug 31st

Parker Recreation Center, 17301 E Lincoln Ave., Parker

Kids’ Zone: Gym Jam (3-6 yrs) S/S23 @ 5am

May 1st - Aug 31st

Jamie Lissow @ 6:15pm

Comedy Works South, 5345 Land‐mark Pl, Greenwood Village

Tom Mcelvain Music @ 7pm Wild Goose Saloon, Parker

Dave Hadley: Water 2 Wine w/ June Star

@ 5pm Water 2 Wine, 8130 S University Blvd #110, Centennial

Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts @ 8pm Wild Goose Saloon, Parker

Miguel Mateos @ 8:30pm

Stampede, 2430 S Havana St, Aurora

Sat 4/29

The Slocan Ramblers: Five String Barn Concert @ 6:30pm

Five String Barn Concert, Castle Rock

Sun 4/30

Parker Recreation Center, 17301 E Lincoln Ave., Parker

BOOM Sports: (18 mos-6 yrs) 10 Punch Card S/S23 @ 5am

May 1st - Aug 31st

Parker Fieldhouse, 18700 E Plaza Dr, Parker

Preschool Month RegistrationMay @ 8am / Free May 1st - May 31st

Parker Fieldhouse, 18700 E Plaza Dr., Parker. 303-805-6315

Tue 5/02

Gymnastics: Ninja: Mighty Ninja (34 yrs) May @ 3pm

May 2nd - May 23rd

Parker Recreation Center, 17301 E Lincoln Ave., Parker

Denver Concert Band: Young Artist Concert @ 1pm / $22

Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075

Commons Street, Lone Tree. Info@ DenverConcertBand.org, 720-5091000

Ruston Kelly @ 6pm Gothic Theatre, 3263 S Broadway, Engle‐wood

Wed 5/03

Dear Marsha,: DM Acoustic @ Brewability @ 5:30pm Brewability Lab, 3445 S Broadway, Englewood

Whitechapel

@ 7pm Gothic Theatre, 3263 South Broadway, En‐glewood

Littleton YMCA Offering Free Family Fun on Healthy Kids Day @ 8am

Littleton Family YMCA, 11 West Dry Creek Court, Littleton

6 Million Dollar Band @ 7pm Wild Goose Saloon, Parker

Kelsey Cook @ 6pm

Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark Pl, Greenwood Village

New Pornographers @ 7pm Gothic Theatre, 3263 South Broadway, En‐glewood

Ladies Night @ 5pm / $10 Stampede, 2430 South Havana, Aurora

Thu 5/04

Bad Omens: 107.9 KBPI Birthday Bash @ 6pm Fiddlers Green Amphitheater, 6501 S Fid‐dlers Green Cir, Greenwood Village

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Spring is coming - join us as a community scientist

After the cold and wet winter we’ve been experiencing in Denver, I know everyone is looking forward to spring. As the days grow longer and warmer, we all start looking for the telltale signs that spring is arriving — birds chirping, trees lea ng out, lilac buds, bulbs emerging out of the damp soil. As you observe nature around you, why not start taking pictures, recording your observations and contributing to large projects as a community scientist? April is the perfect month to join community science e orts across the globe.

At the Denver Botanic Gardens, we seek to connect people with plants. Our scientists are particularly interested in studying patterns and processes of biodiversity. One way we do this is through community science (also known as citizen science) initiatives such as the Denver EcoFlora project. ese initiatives allow participants to connect with plants by making observations of biodiversity patterns in their environment. EcoFlora is based on the traditional ora concept, a list or inventory of plants in a given area or period of time. e eco in EcoFlora represents going beyond a traditional ora and encompassing the study of urban ecosystems. We run the Denver EcoFlora project on the iNaturalist platform where we engage the community in documenting plants living in the Denver metro area. Our goal is to document all plants living in the seven county metro area (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broom eld, Denver, Douglas and Je erson counties) using the iNaturalist app. Why? You may ask.

Well, understanding the ora of an area is the best way to protect it.

As part of the EcoFlora project, we send out monthly challenges called EcoQuests to engage participants in documenting a speci c species, group of plants or theme.

April’s EcoQuest has two parts: the rst is focused on some of the rst owers to emerge in spring, the pasque owers (Pulsatilla nutalliana). en, starting April 28, a global competition begins with the start of the City Nature Challenge

- a challenge to document the most biodiversity within cities. Using the iNaturalist app, you can make observations of any wild organism: plant, bird, insect, fungi. Observations made between April 28 and May 1 count towards the competition. Last year, we had nearly 400 participants observe more than 600 species. Our goal is to surpass those numbers this year. And, if the wet winter unfolds into a sunny spring, we just might be able to do it. Many local partners are organizing hikes or bioblitzes during the City Nature Challenge. Check our website (botanicgardens. org/science-research/citizen-science-programs/ city-nature-challenge) for details on events and how to register.

You can contribute to scienti c studies by downloading the iNaturalist app and using it to take photos of the nature around you. We encourage you to get outside, feel the sun on your face and contribute to science while you’re out there.

Denver Botanic Gardens Citizen Science projects: botanicgardens.org/science-research/ citizen-science-programs

Denver EcoFlora project: inaturalist.org/projects/denver-eco ora-project

Denver Botanic Gardens City Nature Challenge information: Denver-Boulder Metro City Nature Challenge: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/ city-nature-challenge-2023-denver-bouldermetro

Jennifer Neale is the director of research and conservation for the Denver Botanic Gardens

Reducing barriers to mental health treatment

Growing up in rural Iowa, mental health struggles were not something we spoke about openly or took seriously in any way. Most of my time outside school was spent working or playing sports, and there was never any time to address mental health — there was always something “more important” that needed to be taken care of.

It was especially unheard of at the time to think that a mental illness could be just as disabling as a physical injury.

I have struggled with suicidal thoughts since I was 9 years old and went without any sort of professional care or treatment for over two decades. From my experience, I know that professional intervention can have life-changing results, and one of my priorities as a legislator has always been to ensure those su ering from mental illnesses are able to access care that is as high quality as it is a ordable.

To further this goal, I was a prime

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sponsor of SB154 in 2021, which established a 988 Suicide Prevention Lifeline in Colorado to coincide with the federal launch in July 2022. For these e orts, I had the honor of being named a legislative champion by Mental Health America.

But there is always more to be done in correcting the healthcare gap between mental and physical illnesses. HB23-1130 is a bill currently gaining traction in our state legislature that is looking to reduce the amount of time between a patient with a serious mental illness (SMIs) being prescribed personalized treatment and when they are able to a ord it and actually begin receiving this form of care. is delay is primarily caused by “step therapy,” which is a treatment ap-

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proach used by health plans to keep medication costs low.

When a patient is prescribed a drug by their doctor, their health insurance provider or Medicaid will have them try lower-cost medications rst to determine if they will be e ective at treating the patient’s condition. If those treatments don’t work, the patient can “step up” to the potentially more expensive treatment originally recommended by their doctor. HB1130 recognizes the signi cant harm that a patient may experience as a result of this delay by seeking to limit its use when treating SMIs.

When HB1130 passed the House with an overwhelming majority vote and show of support from lawmakers with 39 representatives signing on as cosponsors, I knew I wanted to do everything in my power to ensure a similar result in the Senate. A rst “step” was signing on as a prime cosponsor.

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that insurers need to keep initial costs low to serve a greater number of patients. HB1130 remedies existing step therapy laws to allow patients with SMIs to try only one drug before they will receive insurance coverage for the prescribed drug.

Additionally, HB1130 does not lessen step therapy requirements for all Coloradoans with a mental illness, and rather focuses on those with severe mental illnesses that are impacted the most by delays to the most e ective treatments.

As a lifelong advocate for behavioral health being accessible to all who need it, I am proud to be a prime co-sponsor for HB1130. is legislation is a leap forward in recognizing that mental illnesses can be as debilitating as physical illness, and require the same high-quality, a ordable, and individualized care as any other health condition.

Chris Kolker is the Colorado State Senator for District 16 in Centennial.

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This purple flower is the pasque flower of the April EcoFlora challenge. PHOTO BY SCOTT DRESSEL-MARTIN

She was invited to speak at her rst women’s conference. Although Carolyn was excited about the opportunity to nally be invited to share her story, she was petri ed of speaking in public. Without a real opportunity to speak that was immediately in front of her, she would dream about one day becoming a speaker. She could see herself on stage wowing the audience.

But now, it suddenly became very real for her, and with each passing day, her panic levels increased. She couldn’t eat, she couldn’t sleep, and she couldn’t focus on her full-time job. And sadly, a week before she was scheduled to speak, she backed out of the event.

Allen is in sales. Allen is having a very di cult beginning to his year as his numbers are way o . He has heard the word “no” so often already this year that he has developed a fear of asking the prospect for the business. Before each call he began thinking to himself, “ is prospect will just say no too.” He decided he would rather just not ask for the business, hoping they would ask him

Don’t let fear block goals

for an agreement, because he feared the word, “no.” is became so bad for Allen that he actually stopped making prospecting calls as he was fearful that no one would take his calls. His email and social media reach out campaigns became informational without any calls to action as he was afraid no one would reply or he would be blocked. So now he shared that his biggest fear is losing his job for non-performance. Unfortunately, Allen is right, he is in danger and has been placed on a performance improvement plan. Fear impacts us all in di erent ways. For some the grip of fear becomes paralyzing. For others, they have learned to work through their fears, developing strategies and coping mechanisms to help overcome their fears in certain situations. And some of us face our fears head on. It’s not that the fear isn’t there, it’s just that they acknowledge their fear

and summon the courage to deal with it in that moment. Still there are others who say they have no fear, that they aren’t afraid of anything, and these are the folks who lie about other things too.

We all have fears, and that’s normal and okay. What we should strive to work towards is not letting our fears stop us from achieving our goals. We can never let our fears get in the way of who we want to be and what we want to do. When fear wins, we lose, and when we allow fear to cheat us from achieving our goals it’s a double loss.

Here are a few things that I have learned to lean into when I have felt fearful. First is this that hope and fear are the same thing, a belief that something is going to happen in the future. So why not live with hope instead of fear, hoping that something good will happen and not anything bad. Second is turning fear into an acronym, F.E.A.R. stands for False Evidence Appearing Real. And lastly, the famous quote said by so many, but I will choose this version, “Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the realization that there is something

more important than fear.” - Franklin D.

Roosevelt

Here’s the good news, Carolyn overcame her fear of public speaking by learning how to be overprepared with her content. She learned other helpful speaking tips from Toastmasters, and she is doing awesome. Allen not only survived his 90-day performance improvement plan, he is also back to focusing on doing his sales behaviors, following a sales process, and winning business. Fear for both is a thing of the past.

Are you holding on to any fears that are keeping you from achieving your goals? I would love to hear your hope and fear story at gotonorton@gmail.com and when we can never allow our fears to cheat us out of our goals and dreams, it really will be a better than good life.

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

Hudson Gardens is gem for generations

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

I spent a happy Monday afternoon soaking up Colorado sunshine and the beautiful views at Hudson Gardens with my grandson. And I wanted to remind readers that it’s a really lovely way to spend a few hours — just being there! It’s free, beautifully maintained by South Suburban Parks and Recreation District and o ers an ever-changing menu of growing things. Soon, the Rose Garden will be blooming, as will the Water Lily Pond and trees and shrubs ... including fragrant lilacs.

In 1940, Col. King C. Hudson was stationed at Fort Logan in Denver and his wife, Evelyn, joined him. He was ready to retire soon and the couple decided they would like to live in the area and start the restaurant she had been wanting to operate after a career in the foods business in Chicago. (Marshall Field’s tearoom in particular.) ey looked at various properties and decided on a large plot of farmland in Littleton, near the bank of the South Platte River.

Local old-timers in this primarily agricultural community shook their heads over that restaurant idea. “People will never come this far south to have dinner,” they said.

First, the Hudsons built a log home for themselves, close to the riverbank, then they designed and built the log Country Kitchen Restaurant on Santa Fe Drive.

e pair had traveled widely in Europe and Asia and she had written a series of “Tummy Travel” books

about food they’d enjoyed. (Some reprints are available in the Gardens’ shop.) e restaurant opened with bu et assortments of foods re ecting various nationalities and added some more traditional menu dinners as well. e Country Kitchen was an immediate success, was recommended in the latest Duncan Hines travel guidebook that many driving travelers carried and, drew crowds from Denver, as well, who returned soon with more friends in tow. At rst, the pair would close the restaurant in the winter after the holidays and travel for a while, opening again in warmer weather, but eventually, it had a sta who could keep the operation running.

In the early 1950s, Marathon Oil and Martin Marietta both opened

labs nearby, drawing employees who enjoyed good food. Our family came to work for Marathon and soon visited the Hudsons’ restaurant with our families. (Moving here, in the middle of the U.S., with Rocky Mountains close enough for a picnic excursion, seems to guarantee lots of company, which is usually ne, as long as there’s time to wash sheets in between!)

Eventually, the busy couple retired, renting the log building to another food person, who operated as e Northwoods Inn, with a huge Paul Bunyan gure standing by their sign.

e Hudsons continued to live in their riverside home. He raised purebred horses and she became interested in beautifying her city, con-

tributing trees and planting materials to the new Arapahoe Community College campus and elsewhere. She also served on the Littleton Fine Arts Board, seeking ways to pay for sculpture and an art collection for the growing city.

She told me of a visit to the city planning o ce to inquire about something. (A visit she made quite frequently.) While there, she saw a drawing on a desk of riverfront land that included hers, she realized. Planners’ drawings showed that land lled with houses and apartments.

I can remember Evelyn telling me a few days later that she had driven home and immediately called her lawyer and set up a foundation that day, which would protect the Hudson acreage as open land. Her thinking quickly progressed to creating a place of beauty that people of all ages could enjoy and appreciate — and perhaps learn a bit about how to grow beautiful plants and teach others about that beauty.

She called a few close friends and her beloved nephew, Don Had eld, and soon was involved in setting up the rst Hudson Gardens Board of Directors, which met in her living room monthly — and at times, more often. Local landscape architect Doug Rockne was hired to design Hudson Gardens, with input from British horticulturalist Andrew Pierce. Board members and sta were generous with time and expertise at public gardens visited across the U.S. and in Canada. From Longwood Gardens in Philadelphia to Buchart Gardens in Vancouver, Canada.

Plans were drawn and redrawn and plant lists were developed and landscapers hired. Soon, a lovely garden was open for business ... I feel certain, Evelyn is somewhere, smiling ...

A water lily at Hudson Gardens.

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Warm Hearts Warm Babies serves hospitals, agencies across Colorado

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Surrounded by colorful fabric patterns, handmade baby items and frequent laughter, volunteers of the Warm Hearts Warm Babies nonpro t went to work on a Friday morning to put together layettes for organizations who need them.

e nonpro t has a list of roughly 40 agencies it delivers items to throughout Colorado, said Kathleen Williams, the nonpro t’s grant coordinator. e list includes the Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Platte Valley Medical Center and Denver Medical Center.

“Warm Hearts is totally made up of volunteers,” said Sandi Powis, president of the board of directors. “Everyone’s volunteering with their heart and skills to make things for newborn (babies), preemies to help them get a good start in this world.”

Volunteers sew, knit, crochet and quilt items such as bibs, burp pads, jackets, hats and blankets. e items are assembled into a layette, which is a collection of clothing and accessories for newborn infants.

Each layette contains a quilt, two receiving blankets, bibs, burp pads, clothing and a goodie bag containing items such as a bottle, some diapers and a small toy. ese items are delivered in a handmade tote bag.

“All these items are made with love,” Powis said. “We don’t connect to the individuals personally. We deliver the layettes to hospitals, birthing centers, food banks — anyone that can help us help the newborn.”

A number of the mothers who receive these items are experiencing homelessness, sometimes living in shelters or in their cars, Williams said.

e nonpro t also o ers items for the neonatal intensive care units at hospitals in Colorado, such as positioning roles that are used to help support the infants.

“We also provide clothing for babies that don’t survive, from tiny little babies to full-term babies,” Williams said. “We have clothing for them that we hand out at the hospitals.”

Included in those burial layettes is a cloth-made envelope intended for the parents to hold important items and memories, Powis said.

“It’s sad, but it’s so important,” Powis said. “And to know that a mom wouldn’t have to go out, or send her mom or her sister to go out and nd things for her precious one that has passed — that it can be given to them and that’s not a worry for them.”

How it began

e nonpro t’s origin dates back to 1996, when a woman named Victoria Swain gave birth to a stillborn infant, according to the nonpro t’s website. e hospital she was at could not provide a blanket or clothes for her infant, prompt-

ing Swain to look into how she could help donate these types of items.

After recruiting some volunteers and spending a few years working through a di erent organization called Newborns in Need, in 2000, Swain and the other board members decided to create their own nonpro t: Warm Hearts Warm Babies.

Powis estimated the nonpro t currently has about 200 volunteers and 12 work groups throughout the state including in Arvada, Brighton, Littleton and ornton.

Powis is part of the work group in Conifer, where she lives. She joined the organization roughly six years ago.

“I’ve been doing things for babies for many years, donating to other groups, but they were all missing something. ere was no social connection with anyone else making things,” Powis said. “I found that they had a local organization up here in Conifer and it was like, that’s it — that’s one I can link up with. I can meet people right here in our community.”

Williams learned about the nonpro t through a quilt show, as representatives of the organization had a table at the event. Living in Aurora at the time, she initially joined the Aurora group. Since then, she has moved to Colorado Springs

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CIRCLE PHOTO: Eleanor Morris, left, smiles alongside her grandmother, Glenda Bredeson, on March 17 at The Baby House in Arvada.

TOP RIGHT: Signs hanging in the Warm Hearts Warm Babies’ building, called The Baby House, in Arvada on March 17.

Information pamphlets within Warm Hearts Warm Babies’ building in Arvada on March 17.

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Sandi Powis, president of the board of directors

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and joined the local work group there.  e importance of the nonpro t’s work resonated with Williams after an interaction she had with a stranger a number of years ago, she said.

“I was still up in Aurora, out buying onesies and things for our (goodie) bags so that we could deliver onesies and diapers and things, and a lady was standing behind me at the cash register,” Williams said.  e woman asked her what she was buying the materials for, to which Williams began to explain Warm Hearts Warm Babies.

“And she stopped me and she said, ‘ en, I need to thank you, because my daughter just had a baby at the hospital and it was wintertime and … we had nothing to bring that baby home in. And I told the nurses and they brought us one of your bags,’” Williams said.

“And so that keeps me going,” she continued. “I think about that and that keeps me going and seeing how important it is, the work we do.”

Fostering community

Materials for making items and assembling the layettes are stored in the nonpro t’s building, based in Arvada, which is nicknamed “ e Baby House.”

Among the volunteers who gathered at the building that Friday was Glenda Bredeson, an Arvada resident who has been a part of the organization since 1999.

Over time, the nonpro t has gradually grown and expanded in di erent areas of Colorado, said Bredeson, vice president of the nonpro t’s board.

Volunteering for the nonpro t has become a family a air, as Bredeson’s 18-year-old granddaughter, Eleanor Morris, worked alongside Bredeson in e Baby House.

“I remember volunteering here when I was a little girl,” Morris said, explaining she and her cousins would help assemble goodie bags. “I’ve always loved it.”

Since then, she began crocheting and knitting items to donate.

“She was thrilled when she made her rst two baby hats and brought them in,” Bredeson said.

Although Morris lives in Virginia, she visits when she can and also plans to still create items to donate and ship them to the nonpro t.

“I was so excited just to be here and volunteer because I grew up always coming here. Every time I visited, I would be here, and it was just amazing,” she said.

One of Bredeson’s favorite parts of the nonpro t is the people. Vickie Lutz, an Arvada resident who began volunteering for the organization in 2020, agreed and said that’s true for most of the volunteers.

Lutz said the nonpro t has incredibly talented volunteers. She showed o intricate blankets, toys and clothing items in e Baby House that volunteers spent hours creating.

Challenges and goals

e talent of the volunteers isn’t just for making impressive items, though

— it can also be applied toward teaching younger people the craft.

“Eleanor came to us. She didn’t know how to knit or crochet, and now she’s phenomenal at it. ere are so many people here that are willing to teach,” Lutz said.

e need for more younger volunteers is a challenge the nonpro t faces.

“We’re all older, and it’s just not going to be sustainable if we don’t get young people,” Lutz said.

Powis said the organization also needs more volunteers who will sew.

“ e last couple of months, unfortunately, we’ve had to cut back. We’ve had to cut back on the clothes,” Powis said. “We were sending out two out ts. Now it’s down to one.”

Before COVID-19, the nonpro t was able to have a backup supply of clothing, she said. Now, the organization is scraping by, month by month, due to losing a lot of active members.

On top of the need for volunteers, there are also nancial pressures.

“Our donations have gone down drastically over the last couple of years,” Powis said. “And again, our volunteers and the items coming in have really gone down — but the need is still the same — more, more.”

To help raise funds to pay for costs such as rent, volunteers will create items to sell at various craft shows. e nonpro t is also one of the charities that people can select as part of the King Soopers Community Rewards program.

As the grant coordinator, Williams plans to work this year on nding new areas to get donations and support, she said. She noted that Sue Lee, cofounder of the nonpro t Sock It To ‘Em Sock Campaign, has helped by not only donating socks to Warm Hearts Warm Babies but also in providing connections to other people.  e nonpro t creates 125 to 150 layettes every month, Powis said.

e main goal she has for this year is getting enough donations of money and items to continue the nonpro t’s work.

“ ere are other organizations out there that would love to have us help them, but at this point, we can’t go out and look for more agencies. But I know they’re there — I know there’s more mamas that could use the help,” she said. “I would (like) not only to be able to help who we have, but also for it to grow and help more.”

ere are a variety of ways that community members can support Warm Hearts Warm Babies, Williams explained.

“Even if people don’t sew or … they don’t crochet, but they can help in, you know, at e Baby House or they can help in collecting donations for us — do a donation drive for us in their schools or their churches — to help us so that we can continue to help these mothers and babies and give them a good start in life,” Williams said.

Powis encouraged people to reach out to the nonpro t and come visit them. ose interested in learning more about Warm Hearts Warm Babies can visit warmheartswarmbabies. org.  “We’re a world that needs to be more interactive with each other,” Powis said, emphasizing the importance of volunteering. “It’s so good for your soul.”

Handmade toys are one of the accessories included in layettes that Warm Hearts Warm Babies volunteers create.

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Colorful fabric patterns in The Baby House on March 17 in Arvada.

Completed layettes in The Baby House in Arvada on March 17.

What’s a ‘reasonable’ rent increase?

The answer is vague

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER THE COLORADO SUN

Imagine driving down a Colorado highway and instead of seeing a posted speed limit, you pass a road sign that reads: “Go an appropriate speed.”

e idea may seem ludicrous, but similarly vague language is often inserted into bills by Colorado’s state lawmakers. Unde ned terms like “reasonable” and “substantial” are included in key parts of legislation and then left to courts to sort out later.

Sometimes, the ambiguity arises as laws are tested because it’s impossible for the legislature to imagine every possible scenario in which a statute may apply. Other times, loosey-goosey terms are intentionally added by lawmakers trying to build enough political support to pass a controversial bill.

“When you have a more broad standard that could be left open to interpretation of the courts, I think it’s easier to get things done,” said Rep. Javier Mabrey, a Denver Democrat who is an attorney.

But while some see vagueness as a tool to keep bills moving forward, others see it as a possible burden for the court system.

“If the law is vague, anyone can be dragged in front of the courts for most any reason,” said Rep. Matt

Soper, a Delta Republican who is also an attorney. is year at the Capitol, multiple highly debated bills weaving their way through the legislative process include ambiguous terms.

What’s a “reasonable increase” in rent? What’s a “substantially economically identical” o er on a multifamily residential building that’s for sale? Coloradans won’t know for sure unless those bills get signed into law and are challenged in the court system.

“ is session will be marked by bills that have to be litigated later,”

said Jason Hopfer, a longtime lobbyist who represents clients like the Douglas County School District, Je erson County, Xcel Energy and the Colorado Community College System.

Reasonable rent hikes

One bill intended to protect people from evictions that’s sponsored by Mabrey includes language that could be interpreted in a number of ways. e measure attempts to also stop landlords from e ectively evicting tenants by unreasonably increasing their rent. But the bill

state Sen. Bob Gardner

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Jason Dunn, Colorado’s former U.S. attorney and a former state deputy attorney general

doesn’t de ne what a “reasonable” rent increase is.

e bill also uses the word “reasonable” to lay out when a tenant has to let a landlord into their property and when a landlord has to

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‘To do that in legislation is to invite or force a judge to make their own personal judgment about what’s a reasonable increase in rent.’

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Dunn used Colorado’s “Make My Day” law, which allows homeowners to protect themselves from intruders, as a defense.

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Mabrey said it’s important to balance vagueness and specificity but ultimately, lawmakers have to find a way to get things done.

“The law is interpreted by the court at the end of the day,” he said.

Mabrey said the goal of the vague language around rent increases in his House Bill 1171 is to thread the needle between preventing landlords from imposing retaliatory rent increases and not creating a back-door rent control policy.

Without a definition for the phrase in the bill, Mabrey said a judge would be the one to decide what “reasonably” means based on the circumstances their jurisdiction is facing.

“To do that in legislation is to invite or force a judge to make their own personal judgment about what’s a reasonable increase in rent,” said state Sen. Bob Gardner, a Colorado Springs Republican and lawyer who often picks apart vague language in bills.

Judges would be uncomfortable making that determination, said Jason Dunn, Colorado’s former U.S. attorney and a former state deputy attorney general.

“No judge is going to take on that role of legislating,” said Dunn, a Republican who now works in private practice for Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where he focuses on government investigations and white collar defense.

The bill has been approved by the Colorado House and is waiting to be considered by the Senate.

Dunn, who has previously served as an adviser for state legislators during bill drafting, has spent hours trying to understand what lawmakers intended when they approved bills by listening to committees and floor work. That process doesn’t always settle it though, because one lawmaker’s comments don’t necessarily represent the entire legislature’s understanding of a bill.

In one example, Dunn represented a client who shot a man on his patio near Steamboat Springs.

But Dunn’s challenge was that the law says to legally use deadly force, an intruder must have entered the person’s “dwelling,” which could or could not include a patio. Dunn won the case but said he never got a clear answer on how the legislature defined dwelling.

“You can’t always predict what sort of factual events will come up that drive an interpretation of language,” Dunn said.

Sometimes when a bill isn’t specific, it’s because state regulators, like those at the Department of Local Affairs, are charged with developing procedures later. That’s the case for some parts of Gov. Jared Polis’ recently released local land use bill.

But Dunn and Gardner caution that lawmakers can’t leave all the specifics to other authorities or the courts because eventually, it turns into its own version of policymaking.

“Courts really don’t like that at all,” Gardner said. “They wish we would be precise all the time so they don’t have to play at politics.”

Rep. Mike Weissman, an Aurora Democrat and lawyer, would prefer to see direct language in all bills.

“Wouldn’t we rather say what we actually meant in the first instance?” said Weissman, who is chair of the House Judiciary Committee.

House Bill 1190 is another bill with some vague language. It would give local governments a “right of first refusal” when multifamily residential properties are put up for sale.

Under the proposal, aimed at boosting affordable housing, local governments would have the right to match any acceptable offer for the property.

That offer would have to be “substantially economically identical” to the one made by a private buyer, but that phrase isn’t defined in the bill.

Rep. Andrew Boesenecker, a Fort Collins Democrat and prime sponsor of the bill, said the goal is to

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NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE

WHEREAS, on May 23, 2005, a certain Deed of Trust was executed by Delia Torres, as Grantor, in favor of Financial Freedom Senior Funding Corporation, a Subsidiary of Indy Mac Bank, F.S.B., and the Public Trustee of Denver County, Colorado as Trustee, and was recorded on June 19, 2005, at Reception Number 2005100755, in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Denver, Colorado; and

WHEREAS, the Deed of Trust was insured by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (the Secretary) pursuant to the National Housing Act for the purpose of providing single family housing; and

WHEREAS, the beneficial interest of the Deed of Trust is now owned by the Secretary, pursuant to an assignment recorded on July 6, 2009 at Reception Number 2009084299 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Denver Colorado.

WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Deed of Trust in that Paragraph 9 (a) (i) has been violated; and

WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent is $227,025.89 as of March 1, 2023; and

WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust to be immediately due and payable;

NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to the powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, 12 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR part 27, subpart B, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, recorded on July 19, 2017 at Reception No. 2017094067 in the records of the Denver County Clerk and Recorder, notice is hereby given that on May 5, 2023 at 3:00 p.m.. local time, all real and personal property at or used in connection with the following described premises (“Property”) will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder:

THE NORTH 20 FEET OF THE WEST 77 FEET OF LOT 3, AND THE SOUTH 5 FEET OF THE WEST 77 FEET OF LOT 2 BLOCK 14, ELMWOOD ADDITION TO THE CITY OF DENVER, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO.

Commonly known as: 674 Elati Street, Denver, Colorado 80204

The sale will be held on front steps of the City and County Building located at 1437 Bannock St., Denver, CO 80202.

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid the lesser amount of the loan balance, or the appraised value obtained by the Secretary prior to sale.

There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorated share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale.

When making their bids, all bidders except the Secretary must submit a deposit totaling 10% of the Secretary’s bid in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. A deposit need not accompany each oral bid. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of 10% of the Secretary’s bid must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable.

The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within 30 days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the highest bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveying fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery date of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them.

The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extension will be for 15-day increments for a fee of $500.00, paid in advance. The extension fee shall be in the form of certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of HUD. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due.

If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder may be required to forfeit the cash deposit, or at the election of the foreclosure commissioner after consultation with the HUD representative, will be liable to HUD for any costs incurred as a result of such failure. The Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD representative, offer the property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal

to the highest price offered by that bidder.

There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein, HUD does not guarantee that the property will be vacant.

The scheduled foreclosure sale shall be cancelled or adjourned if it is established, by documented written application of the mortgagor to the Foreclosure Commissioner no less than three (3) days before the date of sale, or otherwise, that the default or defaults upon which the foreclosure is based did not exist at the time of service of this notice of default and foreclosure sale, or all amounts due under the mortgage agreement are tendered to the Foreclosure Commissioner, in the form of a certified cashier’s check payable to the Secretary of HUD, before the public auction of the property is completed.

The amount that must be paid if the mortgage is to be reinstated prior to the scheduled sale is $227,025.89 as of March 1, 2023, plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the deed of trust had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out of pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other costs incurred in connection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement.

Tender of payment by certified or cashier’s check or application for cancellation of the foreclosure sale shall be submitted to the address of the Foreclosure Commissioner provided below.

Dated: March 29, 2023

Deanne R. Stodden

Foreclosure Commissioner 1550 Wewatta Street, Suite 710 Denver, CO 80202

Telephone: (303) 623-4806

Email: foreclosure@messner.com

Legal Notice No. 82178

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

TO: COURI JOHNSON: You are notified that you have 10 days after publication for this notice of levy to file your claim of exemption with the District Court of Denver County, 1437 Bannock, Room 256, Denver, CO 80202 in Case 2021CV031742

entitled: HB ENTERPRISES, LLC v. TREADSTONE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, LLC and COURI JOHNSON, individually $7,438.24 garnished at Chase Bank, 5800 S. Parker Rd., Aurora, CO 80015

Legal Notice No. 82188

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE

WHEREAS, on September 7, 2004, a certain Deed of Trust was executed by Horace Hart, as Grantor, in favor of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., and the Public Trustee of Denver County, Colorado as Trustee, and was recorded on September 21, 2004, at Reception Number 2004196375, in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Denver, Colorado; and

WHEREAS, the Deed of Trust was insured by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (the Secretary) pursuant to the National Housing Act for the purpose of providing single family housing; and

WHEREAS, the beneficial interest of the Deed of Trust is now owned by the Secretary, pursuant to an assignment recorded on July 26, 2018 at Reception Number 2018092262 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Denver Colorado.

WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Deed of Trust in that Paragraph 9 (a) (i) has been violated; and

WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent is $294,067.61 as of March 1, 2023; and

WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust to be immediately due and payable;

NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to the powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, 12 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR part 27, subpart B, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, recorded on July 19, 2017 at Reception No. 2017094067 in the records of the Denver County Clerk and Recorder, notice is hereby given that on May

LOT 13, 14 AND THE NORTH 10 FEET OF THE LOT 15, BLOCK 7, STRAYER AND SHEPARD’S PARK HILL, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO.

Commonly known as: 2840 Magnolia Street, Denver, CO 80207.

The sale will be held on front steps of the City and County Building located at 1437 Bannock St., Denver, CO 80202.

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid the lesser amount of the loan balance, or the appraised value obtained by the Secretary prior to sale.

There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorated share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale. When making their bids, all bidders except the Secretary must submit a deposit totaling 10% of the Secretary’s bid in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. A deposit need not accompany each oral bid. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of 10% of the Secretary’s bid must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable.

The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within 30 days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the highest bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveying fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery date of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them.

The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extension will be for 15-day increments for a fee of $500.00, paid in advance. The extension fee shall be in the form of certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of HUD. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due.

If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder may be required to forfeit the cash deposit, or at the election of the foreclosure commissioner after consultation with the HUD representative, will be liable to HUD for any costs incurred as a result of such failure. The Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD representative, offer the property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder.

There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein, HUD does not guarantee that the property will be vacant.

The scheduled foreclosure sale shall be cancelled or adjourned if it is established, by documented written application of the mortgagor to the Foreclosure Commissioner no less than three (3) days before the date of sale, or otherwise, that the default or defaults upon which the foreclosure is based did not exist at the time of service of this notice of default and foreclosure sale, or all amounts due under the mortgage agreement are tendered to the Foreclosure Commissioner, in the form of a certified cashier’s check payable to the Secretary of HUD, before the public auction of the property is completed.

The amount that must be paid if the mortgage is to be reinstated prior to the scheduled sale is $227,025.89 as of March 1, 2023, plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the deed of trust had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out of pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other costs incurred in connection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement.

Tender of payment by certified or cashier’s check or application for cancellation of the foreclosure sale shall be submitted to the address of the Foreclosure Commissioner provided below.

Dated: March 29, 2023

Deanne R. Stodden

Foreclosure Commissioner 1550 Wewatta St., Ste. 710 Denver, CO 80202

Telephone: (303) 623-4806

Email: foreclosure@messner.com

Legal Notice No. 82179

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

To: First Mortgagees of Parcels in Monroe Chase Owners Association

Date: April 20, 2023 and April 27, 2023

Re: Notice of Proposed Declaration Amendment

The purpose of this notice is to provide written notice of the proposed Second Amendment to the Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions, Easements and Party Wall Agreement for Monroe Chase, Denver, Colorado (“Declaration Amendment”) to first mortgagees of Parcels within the community of Monroe Chase Owners Association (“Association”), pursuant to C.R.S. § 38-33.3-217(1)(b)(I).

The Association, through its Board of Directors and with assistance from legal counsel, has prepared the proposed Declaration Amendment to the existing Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions, Easements and Party Wall Agreement for Monroe Chase, which is located in the City and County of Denver, State of Colorado, and was recorded in the real property records of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on March 12, 2002 at Reception No. 2002049136, as it may have been amended and supplemented from time to time (“Declaration”).

The consent of fifty-one percent (51%) of first mortgagees is required to approve the proposed Declaration Amendment, pursuant to Article IX, Section 11.1(B) of the Declaration. The general purpose of the Declaration Amendment is to clarify insurance and maintenance responsibilities between Owners and the Association. The general nature of the Declaration Amendment is to amend the insurance responsibility of the Association to cover, in general, structural components of the Parcels, while amending the insurance responsibilities of Owners to cover, in general, the whole of the interior of the Parcel along with utilities. The Declaration Amendment also clarifies certain leasing restrictions, removes a requirement for mediation, and outlines responsibility for damage caused by the negligence of an Owner.

A first mortgagee shall be deemed to have approved the proposed Declaration Amendment, if said first mortgagee does not deliver to the Association a negative response within sixty (60) days after the date of this notice, pursuant to C.R.S. § 38-33.3-217(1)(b)(II). You may deliver your response in writing to the Association, c/o Moeller Graf, P.C., 385 Inverness Pkwy., Suite 200, Englewood, CO 80112, but you are not required to respond.

Please review this notice carefully. It may affect first mortgagees’ rights in the Lot(s) within the Association’s community in which first mortgagees may have an interest.

A copy of the proposed Declaration Amendment may be obtained by contacting Moeller Graf, P.C., at 720-279-2568 or via email at jhinson@moellergraf.com.

Legal Notice No. 82195

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

WHEREAS, on February 27, 2006, a certain Deed of Trust was executed by Leo Chavez, Sr. and Mary A. Chavez, as Grantors, in favor of Financial Freedom Senior Funding Corporation, a Subsidiary of Indy Mac Bank, F.S.B., and the Public Trustee of Denver County, Colorado as Trustee, and was recorded on March 15, 2006, at Reception Number 2006041435, in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Denver, Colorado; and

WHEREAS, the Deed of Trust was insured by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (the Secretary) pursuant to the National Housing Act for the purpose of providing single family housing; and

WHEREAS, the beneficial interest of the Deed of Trust is now owned by the Secretary, pursuant to an assignment recorded on February 3, 2014 at Reception Number 2014011210 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Denver Colorado.

WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Deed of Trust in that Paragraph 9 (a) (i) has been violated; and

WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent is $314,996.52 as of March 1, 2023; and

WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust to be immediately due and payable;

VER, STATE OF COLORADO

Commonly known as: 5060 W Vassar Ave., Denver, Colorado 80219.

The sale will be held on front steps of the City and County Building located at 1437 Bannock St., Denver, CO 80202.

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid the lesser amount of the loan balance, or the appraised value obtained by the Secretary prior to sale.

There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorated share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale.

When making their bids, all bidders except the Secretary must submit a deposit totaling 10% of the Secretary’s bid in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. A deposit need not accompany each oral bid. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of 10% of the Secretary’s bid must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within 30 days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the highest bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveying fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery date of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them.

The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extension will be for 15-day increments for a fee of $500.00, paid in advance. The extension fee shall be in the form of certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of HUD. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due.

If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder may be required to forfeit the cash deposit, or at the election of the foreclosure commissioner after consultation with the HUD representative, will be liable to HUD for any costs incurred as a result of such failure. The Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD representative, offer the property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder. There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein, HUD does not guarantee that the property will be vacant.

The scheduled foreclosure sale shall be cancelled or adjourned if it is established, by documented written application of the mortgagor to the Foreclosure Commissioner no less than three (3) days before the date of sale, or otherwise, that the default or defaults upon which the foreclosure is based did not exist at the time of service of this notice of default and foreclosure sale, or all amounts due under the mortgage agreement are tendered to the Foreclosure Commissioner, in the form of a certified cashier’s check payable to the Secretary of HUD, before the public auction of the property is completed.

The amount that must be paid if the mortgage is to be reinstated prior to the scheduled sale is $314,996.52 as of March 1,2023, plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the deed of trust had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out of pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other costs incurred in connection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement.

Tender of payment by certified or cashier’s check or application for cancellation of the foreclosure sale shall be submitted to the address of the Foreclosure Commissioner provided below.

Dated: March 28, 2023

Deanne R. Stodden

Foreclosure Commissioner 1550 Wewatta Street, Suite 710 Denver, CO 80202

Telephone: (303) 623-4806

Email: foreclosure@messner.com

Legal Notice No. 82176

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

2023 at 3:00 p.m.

time, all real and personal

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to the powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, 12 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR part 27, subpart B, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, recorded on July 19, 2017 at Reception No. 2017094067 in the records of the Denver County Clerk and Recorder, notice is hereby given that on May 5, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. local time, all real and personal property at or used in connection with the following described premises (“Property”) will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder:

WHEREAS

Trust was executed by Carol Kurz, Successor Trustee of the John B. Kurz, Jr. Trust dated April 30, 1997, as Amended and Restated April 7, 2006, as Grantor, in favor of MetLife Home Loans, a Division of MetLife Bank, N.A., and the Public Trustee of Denver County, Colorado as Trustee, and was recorded on July 29, 2011, at Reception Number 2011082392, in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Denver, Colorado; and

WHEREAS, the Deed of Trust was insured by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (the Secretary) pursuant to the National Housing Act for the purpose of providing single family housing; and

WHEREAS, the beneficial interest of the Deed of Trust is now owned by the Secretary, pursuant to an assignment recorded on October 17, 2018 at Reception Number 2018134975 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Denver Colorado.

WHEREAS, a default has been made in the covenants and conditions of the Deed of Trust in that Paragraph 9 (b) (i) has been violated; and

WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent is $295,784.28 as of March 1, 2023; and

WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secretary has declared the entire amount of the indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust to be immediately due and payable;

NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to the powers vested in me by the Single Family Mortgage Foreclosure Act of 1994, 12 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR part 27, subpart B, and by the Secretary’s designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, recorded on July 19, 2017 at Reception No. 2017094067 in the records of the Denver County Clerk and Recorder, notice is hereby given that on May 5, 2023 at 3:00 p.m. local time, all real and personal property at or used in connection with the following described premises (“Property”) will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder:

LOT 2, BLOCK 7, VIRGINIA VILLAGE, FILING NO. 3 CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER STATE OF COLORADO.

Commonly known as: 1290 S. Ivy Way, Denver, CO 80224.

The sale will be held on front steps of the City and County Building located at 1437 Bannock St., Denver, CO 80202.

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will bid the lesser amount of the loan balance, or the appraised value obtained by the Secretary prior to sale.

There will be no proration of taxes, rents or other income or liabilities, except that the purchaser will pay, at or before closing, his prorated share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secretary to the date of the foreclosure sale.

When making their bids, all bidders except the Secretary must submit a deposit totaling 10% of the Secretary’s bid in the form of a certified check or cashier’s check made out to the Secretary of HUD. A deposit need not accompany each oral bid. If the successful bid is oral, a deposit of 10% of the Secretary’s bid must be presented before the bidding is closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The remainder of the purchase price must be delivered within 30 days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may determine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier’s check. If the Secretary is the highest bidder, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder will pay all conveying fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery date of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them.

The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to deliver the remainder of the payment. All extension will be for 15-day increments for a fee of $500.00, paid in advance. The extension fee shall be in the form of certified or cashier’s check made payable to the Secretary of HUD. If the high bidder closes the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the extension fee shall be applied toward the amount due.

If the high bidder is unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any extensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder may be required to forfeit the cash deposit, or at the election of the foreclosure commissioner after consultation with the HUD representative, will be liable to HUD for any costs incurred as a result of such failure. The Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD representative, offer the property to the second highest bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bidder.

There is no right of redemption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclosure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Foreclosure Commissioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire purchase price in accordance with the terms of the sale as provided herein, HUD does not guarantee that the property will be vacant.

The scheduled foreclosure sale shall be cancelled or adjourned if it is established, by documented written application of the mortgagor to the Foreclosure Commissioner no less than three (3) days before the date of sale, or otherwise, that the default or defaults upon which the foreclosure is based did not exist at the time of service of this notice of default and foreclosure sale, or all amounts due under the mortgage agreement are tendered to the Foreclosure Commissioner, in the form of a certified cashier’s check payable to the Secretary of HUD, before the public auction of the property is completed.

The amount that must be paid if the mortgage is to be reinstated prior to the scheduled sale is $295,784.28 as of March 1, 2023, plus all other amounts that would be due under the mortgage agreement if payments under the deed of trust had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage expenses incurred in giving notice, mileage

by the most reasonable road distance for posting notices and for the Foreclosure Commissioner’s attendance at the sale, reasonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out of pocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commissioner, and all other costs incurred in connection with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement.

Tender of payment by certified or cashier’s check or application for cancellation of the foreclosure sale shall be submitted to the address of the Foreclosure Commissioner provided below.

Dated: March 29, 2023

Foreclosure Commissioner

Deanne R. Stodden 1550 Wewatta Street, Suite 710 Denver, CO 80202 Telephone: (303) 623-4806

Email: foreclosure@messner.com

Legal Notice No. 82177

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Notice to Creditors

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of JEFFERY JOHN WHALEN, aka JEFFERY J. WHALEN, aka JEFF J. WHALEN, aka JEFF WHALEN, Deceased Case Number 2022PR31427

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 21, 2023 , or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael K. Obernesser. Reg. No. 38766

Attorney to the Personal Representative c/o Peakstone Law Group 5475 Tech Center Drive Suite 210 Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919

Legal Notice No. 82202

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Estate of Ronald C. Hill, AKA Ronald Clyde Hill, AKA Ron Hill, AKA Ron Clyde Hill AKA Ron C. Hill, Deceased Case Number 2023PR30366

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 21, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mary Kathleen Anstine

Personal Representative c/o Mollie B. Hawes, Miller and Steiert, P.C. 1901 W. Littleton Blvd. Littleton, CO 80120

Legal Notice No. 82203

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Thomas Robert Howes, a/k/a Thomas Howes, and Tommy Howes, Deceased, Case Number 23PR73

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 6, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Randy Howes, Personal Representative 4367 S. Coors St. Morrison, CO 80465

Legal Notice No. 82159

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Marienne Middleman, Deceased Case Number 2023PR30140

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

George Middleman, Personal Representative 7877 E. Mississippi Ave., #607 Denver, Colorado 80247

Legal Notice No. 82198

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of THOMAS T. GRIMSHAW, a/k/a THOMAS TOLLIN GRIMSHAW, a/k/a THOMAS GRIMSHAW, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30251

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 14, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Colette Ratcliff Grimshaw

Personal Representative 550 E. 12th Avenue, Unit 1504 Denver, CO 80203

Legal Notice No. 82170

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Rose Mary Elizabeth Meier, aka Rose Mary Meier, aka Rosemary Meier, aka Rose Mary Pelster, Rose Mary Elizabeth Pelster, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30327

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 21, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Steven Paul Meier, Personal Representative

2717 South Marion Circle Denver, Colorado 80210

Legal Notice No. 82197

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Dolores M. Kalber, a/k/a Dolores Kalber, a/k/a Dolores Marie Kalber, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30310

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 14, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lori Jean Lucero, Personal Representative

Patrick R. Thiessen FRIE ARNDT DANBORN & THIESSEN 7400 Wadsworth Blvd., Suite 201 Arvada, Colorado 80003

Phone Number: (303) 420-1234

Attorney for Lori Jean Lucero

Personal Representative

Legal Notice No. 82167

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of CARMEN GREGORIA GARZA, a/k/a CARMEN GREGORIA LASSERRE, AND CARMEN LASSERRE, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30375

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Roger E. Whitsett Personal Representative 693 South Clay Street Denver, Colorado 80219

Legal Notice No. 82200

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Steven Mark Rochefort, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30211

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Joseph M. Rochefort

Personal Representative 411 Hilcrest Str. El Segundo California 90245

Legal Notice No. 82172

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Ruby K. Coleman, also known as Ruby Kate Coleman, and Ruby Coleman Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30337

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 7, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Nadya Vecchiet-Lambert, Esq.

Attorney to the Personal Representative 6855 South Havana Street, Suite 370 Centennial, CO 80112

Legal Notice No. 82166

First Publication: April 6, 2023 Last Publication: April 20, 2023 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

BOKF, N.A., Personal Representative

Russell G. Gamble, Trust Officer, SVP

Broadway, 4th Floor Denver, CO 80202

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Maria Bittler, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31545

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Marlene Bittler Hewitt Personal Representative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

a/k/a Judy B. Bulow, a/k/a Judy J. Bulow, a/k/a Judy Bulow, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30090

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 7, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Janelle Bulow, Personal Representative

Patrick R. Thiessen (40185) FRIE, ARNDT, DANBORN & THIESSEN P.C. 7400 Wadsworth Blvd, Ste. 201 Arvada, CO 80003

Phone Number: 303-420-1234

Attorney for Janelle Bulow

Personal Representative

Legal Notice No. 82163

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Evan Thomas Wissing, a/k/a Evan T. Wissing, a/k/a Evan Wissing, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30433

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 20, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Katy Uhl, Personal Representative 1330 S Washington, Denver CO 80210

Legal Notice No. 82196

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of JACQUELINE C. HELLER, a/k/a JACQUELINE CHARDON HELLER, Deceased Case Numbe: 2023PR30221

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 7, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lawrence C. Heller, Personal Representative 8247 San Benito Way Dallas, TX 75218

Legal Notice No. 82164

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Gilbert Y. Marchand, also known as Gilbert Yaeger Marchand, and Gilbert Marchand, Deceased Case Number 2022PR031657

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 15, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Mary Ellen Marchand, Personal Representative 2552 E. Alameda Avenue, Unit 16 Denver, CO 80209

Legal Notice No. 82201

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Kristi Lou Peeples, a/k/a Kristi L. Peeples a/k/a Kristi Peeples, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30306

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court, City and County of Denver, State of Colorado, on or before August 14, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

William Charles Peeples, Personal Representative 24900 WA County Road 1 Flagler, CO 80815

Stan M. Kimble, P.C. Stan M. Kimble, Attorney for the Estate P.O. Box 731 Limon, CO 80828

Legal Notice No. 82157

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

The Estate of: JOSEPH MITCHELL OLMEDO, SR. aka Joseph M. Olmedo, Sr., aka Joseph Olmedo, Sr., aka Joseph Mitchell Olmedo, aka Joseph M. Olmedo, aka Joseph Olmedo, aka Joe Olmedo, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30309

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 15, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Susan Mickus: Attorney for Personal Representative Jon A Olmedo Skipton Law 2 Inverness Drive East, Suite 102 Englewood, CO 80112

Legal Notice No. 82173

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Andrew P. Woolfolk II, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30181

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dana R. Woolfolk

Co-Personal Representative 8680 E Duke Pl Denver CO 80231

Co-Personal Representative Kimberly L. Woolfolk-King 7958 Vassar Dr. Denver CO 80231

Legal Notice No. 82182

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Casey Daniel Rozmarynoski, a/k/a Casey D. Rozmarynoski, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30403

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 20th, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Marcy and James Merner Personal Representative 37 45 Rolling Heights Oneida WI 54155

Legal Notice No. 82197

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of CHRISTOPHER STEWART REAMY; a.k.a. CHRISTOPHER S. REAMY; a.k.a. CHRISTOPHER REAMY; CHRIS REAMY, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 30277

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 21, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Scott H. Challinor, Attorney for Mariami Reamy, Personal Representative 6161 S. Syracuse Way, Suite 270 Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111

Legal Notice No. 82192

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sonya Z. Botiller, a/k/a Sonya Botiller, Deceased Case No: 2023PR30197

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

prevent a seller from favoring an o er from a private buyer over a government buyer without good reason.

“It needs to be reasonably broad in order to give a potential buyer, in this case, a public entity, the ability to make an o er that should be considered as equal,” he said. “Otherwise, you’re going to end up going through the minutiae of being able to nd one sentence that’s di erent and use that as a reason to say that the o ers were not equal.”

But there is a risk in using broad language. If a judge feels that a law is too di cult to interpret, they can deem it “void for vagueness,” Soper said.

Gardner said he’s seen a lot of legislation this session that could leave Coloradans confused about how to

comply.

Russ Carparelli, a former Colorado Court of Appeals judge, sees it as part of the judiciary’s role to interpret unclear language from the legislature but that judges should also steer clear of trying to understand what an entire legislative body intended to do when passing a bill.

“If they write poorly, we’re stuck with it,” he said. “We’ve got to enforce it as they wrote it — as they wrote it poorly. at’s just the way it is. at’s the law.”

Poorly written bills have caused problems for the legislature in the past, with errors requiring lawmakers to revisit policies to correct issues.

In 2017, for instance, lawmakers passed a bill that unintentionally blocked dozens of government entities, like the Regional Transportation District and Scienti c and Cultural Facilities District, from collecting revenue from the state’s recreational marijuana sales tax. Lawmakers had

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Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court, City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before August 14, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Nancy S. Botiller, Personal Representative 3063 S. Steele St. Denver, CO 80210

Legal Notice No. 82183

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of H. Thomas Arnett, aka Howard Thomas Arnett, Howard T. Arnett, Thomas Arnett and Tom Arnett, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30299

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kristi Radosevich Attorney to the Personal Representative PO Box 2708, Elizabeth, CO 80107

Legal Notice No. 82204

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Robert Dexter Harry, M.D., aka Robert Dexter Harry, aka Robert D. Harry, and Robert Harry, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR030392

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Thomas Harry Personal Representative 3773 Gill Drive Denver, Colorado 80209

Legal Notice No. 82171

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Estate of Kathleen M. Fiore, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR7

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 14, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

to come back for a special session to attempt to x the mistake. ( e special session was unsuccessful.) is year, House Speaker Julie McCluskie has brought a bill to x a mistake in a measure passed in 2022 that accidentally limited a housing grant program to making a single grant. e x allows for grants — plural — to be made.

Most lawmakers aren’t attorneys e vast majority of lawmakers in Colorado’s citizen legislature aren’t coming to bill drafting with a background in law. ey are part-time politicians who typically work in the private sector when the legislature isn’t in session.

While some have legal experience, many come from careers in activism, education, business or engineering. ere are ranchers, farmers, an emergency room nurse, a musician and a pharmacist among the chambers’ members.

Rep. Lorena Garcia, an Adams

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Randy A. Meier, Personal Representative

Patrick R. Thiessen (40185) Frie, Arndt, Danborn & Thiessen P.C. 7400 Wadsworth Blvd., #201 Arvada, Colorado 80003 303/420-1234

Attorney for Personal Representative

Legal Notice No. 82165

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

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County Democrat, is in her rst year at the Capitol. She was an activist and nonpro t leader before running for o ce.

Without legal training, she said she works to ensure she won’t be tripped up by complex language when drafting her bills, many of which are complicated policy areas like the legislature’s ability to issue subpoenas and immigrants’ ability to access public bene ts.

“We have turned courts into lawmakers, and that’s not what they should be. But we’ve allowed that and we’ve encouraged that by being vague,” Garcia said.

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4 Garden Center #200 Broomfield, Colorado 80020

Legal Notice No. 82175

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

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Estate of William Paul Trinen, a/k/a William P. Trinen, a/k/a Bill Trinen, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30285

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of TERRENCE A. OKUMURA, a/k/a TERRENCE AKIRA OKUMURA, AND TERRENCE OKUMURA, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30343

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

aka Pete Pittenger Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30371

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 21, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Matthew Dean Pittenger, Co-Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C.

1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203

Legal Notice No. 82194

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Morris D. Troy, a/k/a Morris Daniel Troy, a/k/a Morris Troy, a/k/a Morey Troy, Deceased Case Number : 2023PR030374

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Joan M. Troy, Personal Representative of the Estate of Morris D. Troy 183 S. Pontiac St. Denver, CO 80230

Legal Notice No. 82199

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Wilfird C. Meier, aka Wilfird Meier, aka Wilfird Charles Meier, aka Bill Meier, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR030313

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 11, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Estate of DOUGLAS SCOTT NORMALI, a/k/a DOUGLAS S. NORMALI, a/k/a DOUGLAS NORMALI, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30160

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

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

Legal Notice No. 82193

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Marilyn Joyce Harring, also known as Marilyn J. Harring, Deceased Case Number 2023PR30113?

Case Number: 2023PR30301?

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court on or before August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Reinold Joseph Jones, IV

Personal Representative 4385 So. Elati St. Englewood, Colorado 80110

Legal Notice No. 82162

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Irene Sigrid Staerz, aka Irene Staerz, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30279

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 14 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Uwe D. Staerz Personal Representative c/o Schafer Thomas Maez PC,

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 7, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Maya D. Pingle, Personal Representative 2495 S. Columbine Street Denver, CO 80210

Legal Notice No. 82158

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

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Estate of Amanda Mary Malone, a/k/a Amanda M. Malone, and Amanda Malone, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30260

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Peter J. Malone, Personal Representative 4445 Longhorn Bow Mar, CO 80123

Legal Notice No. 82156

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

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Estate of Patricia Connors Houlihan, a/k/a Patsy Connors Houlihan, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30346

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Probate Court of the City & County of Denver, Colorado or on or before August 13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Thomas M. Houlihan Personal Representative 3021 S. Gilpin St. Denver, CO 80210

Legal Notice No. 82185

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

William T. Okumura Personal Representative 80292 Moonshadow Drive Indio, California 92201

Legal Notice No. 82190

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Estate of Carrie Elizabeth Gayles, aka Carrie E. Gayles, aka Carrie Gayles, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30282

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 14, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Carlton E. Gayles, Personal Representative c/o Schafer Thomas Maez PC, 4 Garden Center #200 Broomfield, Colorado 80020

Legal Notice No. 82174

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JUNE LARAE PRINCE, aka JUNE L. PRINCE, aka JUNE PRINCE, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30364

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Tiffany Burnham, Personal Representative c/o 3i Law, LLC 2000 S. Colorado Blvd. Tower 1, Suite 10000 Denver, CO 80222 Legal Notice No. 82191 First Publication: April 20, 2023