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Stories from a horrific era in history

Special ed gets long-awaited funding boost

BY ERICA MELTZER CHALKBEAT

Tammy Johnson oversees special education services in ve rural school districts in southwest Colorado as the executive director of the Uncompahgre Board of Cooperative Educational Services.

And she also puts in time as a preschool special education teacher — doing assessments, writing student education plans, supervising classroom aides — because there’s no one else to do the job.

Administrators in the districts she serves “know that I’m not available in my o ce to put out res now that I have to leave my o ce to work in Norwood with preschool kids,” she said.

Holocaust survivor speaks to Denver students, community

BY BRUCE GOLDBERG SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Paul Galan has vivid memories. He remembers the numerous beatings he took in school because Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler were determined to wipe out Jews. He remembers Jewish stores being looted. He remembers Jewish families being kicked out of their homes, often put on trains bound to concentration

camps.

Galan, 87, who came to the United States in 1951, was born in Czechoslovakia. He is a Holocaust survivor.

“I have vivid memories of the whole experience: e separation, the family, some really horrible experiences,” Galan said. “I just had to deal with it. I dealt with it as an adult, not as a child, and put it all into perspective.”

Today, Galan travels extensively to give pro bono presentations about antisemitism and what his family went through before somehow trickling back to their home, one by one, as World War II wound down.

Galan has been giving talks since 2006, when he retired from a career of making documentary lms. He’s traveled across the U.S. — even as far as Alaska — to deliver his message.

“I’ve traveled with students to Poland and Israel six times,” Galan said.

One such talk took place on April 19 at Denver’s RedLine Contemporary Art Center. Galan spoke in front of about 170 people, a mix of students and community members.

Galan’s talk was part of the 42nd annual Governor’s Holocaust

A long overdue boost to Colorado special education funding is buying Johnson some relief soon. By pooling their share of new state funding, the UnBOCES and the ve school districts plan to hire an experienced preschool special education teacher at $56,000 a year.

“And oh my gosh, we might be able to pay our folks a little salary increase, enough for them to stay,” Johnson said.

e additional funding comes from the 2023-24 state budget and a related special education funding bill and enables Colorado to meet funding commitments it made in 2006 but never honored.

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Paul Galan, a Holocaust survivor, addresses a crowd of about 170 community members and students during a presentation part of the 42nd annual Governor’s Holocaust Remembrance program.

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FUNDING

e formula developed back then proposed that school districts get $1,250 for every student with an individualized education plan and another $6,000 for students whose needs cost more to meet, such as students with autism or speci c learning disabilities, students who are deaf or blind, those with traumatic brain injuries or who have signi cant emotional disabilities.

But instead of meeting that obligation, Colorado lawmakers essentially funded special education out of budgetary leftovers. As recently as 2018, Colorado was paying school districts less than a third of what lawmakers had promised for special education students.

State Sen. Rachel Zenzinger has pushed to steadily increase special education funding each of the last ve years. In 2019, she argued that increasing special education funding was even more important than paying for full-day kindergarten. Kindergarten, a top priority for Gov. Jared Polis, won out.

Last year, Zenzinger and state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer, a Weld County

Republican, secured the rst inationary increase since 2006 for all special education students, for whom districts were reimbursed $1,750 this budget year, a 40% increase.

is year’s budget pledges $6,000 for each higher-needs student, the amount set in 2006 but never met. All told, special education funding

is increasing about 13.4% to $340 million.

Zenzinger, an Arvada Democrat and the chair of the Joint Budget Committee, said securing funding was a matter of political will.

“Once we exposed this problem, it was really hard to not x it,” she said. “Our children are entitled to this, and in order to be successful, we need to provide them resources.”

Colorado also has a lot more money to work with thanks to a strong economy, one-time federal dollars, and rising local property values that have taken pressure o the state education budget.

e special education funding bill passed the House and Senate with broad bipartisan support and awaits Polis’ signature. It’s sponsored by Zenzinger, Kirkmeyer, state Rep. Cathy Kipp, a Fort Collins Democrat, and state Rep. Lisa Frizell, a Castle Rock Republican.

e extra funding still leaves school districts on the hook for about two-thirds of more than $1 billion in total costs to educate students with disabilities. e federal government promised back in the 1970s to pick up 40% of the cost but only reimburses school districts about 14% of their real costs, with the state picking up about 20%.

Lucinda Hundley, who heads the Consortium of Directors of Special Education, said school districts are grateful for the additional money, but they also need lawmakers to understand it’s a fraction of the cost. School districts are legally required to provide special education services, so unreimbursed costs come out of the general education budget.

A study group last year decided against making major changes to how Colorado funds special education, but Hundley said she hopes the state takes another look at how much it invests in special education and considers what a fair share would be between the state and districts.

Rob Gould, a Denver special education teacher and president of the Denver Classroom Teachers

Association, said low funding has exacerbated a shortage of special education teachers and special service providers such as speech language pathologists, occupational therapists, and school psychologists.

“We do not have enough teachers or support sta to serve our students the way they deserve. At every turn, special education educators rise to the occasion, but the state’s lack of investment has exacerbated the educator shortage,” he told lawmakers this month.

Gould described one teacher who quit after her caseload rose to 40 students because she was the only special education teacher in her building.

“She left the profession entirely so she could spend time with her kids on the weekend,” he said.

Sta ng shortages and high workloads sometimes mean students don’t get the services they’re owed. In just one recent example, the Colorado Department of Education found that Denver violated federal requirements by failing to provide speech therapy to more than 1,000 young students.

Colorado’s educator shortage survey found that 17% of open special service provider positions went unlled last school year, compared to just 8% of classroom teacher openings. Year after year, special education teachers are among the hardest to hire.

Johnson, the BOCES director, cobbles together services uses independent contractors and virtual appointments. If money were no object and she could o er competitive salaries to go with sweeping views of the San Juan Mountains, services would look a little di erent.

“I would have a psychologist in every building,” she said. “I would have a social worker in every building. I would have a speech pathologist in person. I would have release time for my teams to plan. If we could meet some of our students’ needs proactively rather than reactively, it would make a di erence.”

In voting to move the bill out of the House Education Committee, state Rep. Mary Young, a Greeley Democrat, said she started working as a special education teacher before there was even a federal law requiring that schools serve students with disabilities. In all those decades, special education had never been adequately funded, she said.

“ e people who do special ed do it because their heart is in it,” Johnson said. “Growing up, my brother couldn’t come to school with us because they didn’t have a program for him. at’s why I’m doing this.

“But I’m in my 27th year and funding hasn’t come close to catching up, and it’s a travesty that we have to do it on the backs of general education students who are also struggling.”

Funding is set to go up for the state’s special education programs. SHUTTERSTOCK IMAGE

Assessors predict sticker shock for homeowners

Metro mortgage, rents, taxes will rise with new property valuations

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

is week, homeowners across the Denver area will be staring at numbers that may come as a shock: eir property values may have jumped by up to 45% — or even higher.

“We do ask property owners to take a good look at the notices they receive,” said Denver Assessor Keith Er meyer, urging homeowners to let their local assessor’s o ces know if they dispute the value they receive.

Driven by a costly real-estate market, home values — as calculated for property tax purposes — have spiked since the last time homeowners received notices of value two years ago. Since then, residential properties in the Denver metro area typically saw value increases between 35% and 45%, a group of assessors from across the Front Range announced April 26.

For owners selling their homes these days, the bump in home prices has been good news. But it also means owners are on the hook for

higher property tax bills, Er meyer noted.

Public o cials are openly hoping homeowners will get relief from the state legislature, where lawmakers are expected to take action to lower property tax bills this year.

It’s a fraught equation, though, be-

cause local governments depend on property tax revenue, and too much adjustment could threaten cuts to their services.

Property taxes partly fund county governments, but they also fund school districts, re and library districts, and other local entities.

Toby Damisch, who heads Douglas County’s property tax o ce, emphasized the urgent nature of the situation for homeowners and a ordability.

“If the state lawmakers don’t act immediately on this, then it will be a crisis, in my opinion,” Damisch, the Douglas County assessor, told reporters.

Not an isolated problem

Across Colorado, property values have risen signi cantly, Damisch said. In notably a uent Douglas County, residential properties saw increases between 30% and 60%, with a median of 47%.

Other metro-area counties have seen high spikes as well:

• In Denver, the median increase in single-family home property values is 33%, Er meyer said.

• In Je erson County, median single-family residential values increased by 37%, the county said in a news release.

• Arapahoe County’s assessor, PK Kaiser, announced the county will see almost a 42% increase in residential values.

• Broom eld saw a median value increase for single-family residential of 41%, according to

Residents pay about $8.43 in tax to the district per $1,000 of assessed property value in 2023. SHUTTERSTOCK

Remembrance program. e AntiDefamation League served as program convener, its 42nd year in that role.

Amer Randell, who teaches a Holocaust history class at RiseUp Community High School, helped arrange Galan’s talk in Denver.

“As a history teacher for more than two decades, there is nothing that can parallel learning from a primary source, especially from a person who lived this horri c era in our history,” Randall said. “I hope it gave (the students) a greater sense of empathy for something that happened to a fellow human being — feeling ‘othered,’ the feeling of extreme fear and cruelty — juxtaposed with his belief that all people can be good or bad, not to hate.”

Galan told about going to a forced labor camp, and waking up one morning to the news that the camp had been liberated. He described the long journey he and his family took, on foot, into the mountains in unstable weather in attempts to escape the Nazis.

ere were times when Galan’s

family, desperate for a good night’s sleep and a long way from home, wound up sleeping in the same room as German soldiers who didn’t suspect that they were Jews. Somehow, they got through those times undetected.

He recalled that when his family

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received permission to change their last name so that they wouldn’t be suspected to be Jewish, his antisemitic teacher announced the name change in class, then turned around and stayed that way while several students beat up Galan.

“I spent my whole life recalling ter-

rible things,” Galan said. “But I put it into perspective, with the rest of my life, that I wanted to do something useful. I decided I was going to teach young people.”

And the reactions he gets from young people, he said, “are just amazing.”

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Paul Galan, 87, a Holocaust survivor, tells his story during an April 19 presentation at Denver’s RedLine Contemporary Art Center.

TAXES

Broom eld County’s assessor. How does that all stack up with property value jumps in recent years?

Er meyer recalls talking about median increases that were “largely in the 20s” in Denver in 2015, 2017 and 2019.

“Douglas County, we had 30% increases in the 1997 reappraisal as well as the 1999 appraisal. at felt monumental at the time,” Damisch said. “What we’re looking at this year is that’s at the low end.”

Apartment renters a ected

While property tax discussions often focus on homeowners, the spike in values could also a ect renters in apartments — sometimes called “multifamily” buildings — though it’s unclear by how much.

Asked whether apartment landlords will raise rent because of increases in property tax bills, Damisch said they may try, “but they can only do what the market allows.”

“And taxes is just one of their cost streams,” Damisch said, adding that landlords have seen increased labor and insurance costs as well.

Er meyer noted: “We’ve seen some historic increases in multi-

family in the past that haven’t been met with immediate rent spikes.” e median total property value change for apartment buildings is 20% in Je erson County, according to a news release.

In Douglas County, the median increase in multifamily property values is 25%, Damisch said.

Growing pains

In an expensive real-estate market, it seems like new property developments pop up constantly around metro Denver.

A common concern from existing residents is that new developments will cause their property values to drop. But market forces keeping property values high can also elicit fears of high property tax bills.

Asked about the tension between those two concerns, Damisch acknowledged it’s a di cult question.

“Growth has always been, in Douglas County, one of the hottest topics. We’ve had thousands of people moving in for a few decades,” Damisch said. “Once they get here — myself included — they don’t like the growth.”

Er meyer pointed to the shortage of housing in general around the state.

“I don’t think you could disconnect what we’re talking about today from that particular fact,” Er meyer said. “ at’s one of many, many things that contribute to property

(values).”

Lawmakers may step in

It’s the job of county assessors’ ofces to establish accurate values of homes and other properties to determine how much property owners will owe government entities in taxes — a process meant to ensure that the amount of taxes people pay is fair and equitable.

( e assessor doesn’t set the tax rate but determines the value of the property that the tax rate then gets applied to. Local government entities like counties and school districts set the tax rates. Property tax rates are o cially called “mill levies.”)

e law requires the assessors to value properties every two years.

e property valuation homeowners will soon receive is based on June 2022 data, near the recent peak in the real-estate market.

So even though home prices have declined since then, property values re ect last year’s exceptional highs.

Also at play is a number called the “assessment rate,” another factor that helps determine how much in property taxes a person owes. e state legislature sets the assessment rate.

JoAnn Gro , Colorado property tax administrator, said she “can pretty well guarantee” that the property tax information homeowners receive next week won’t be

“It’s because your legislature isn’t immune to what’s going on right now,” Gro said. “ ere’ve been lots of discussions … about providing some additional property value adjustment.”

“I truly expect to see some adjustments and some relief in 2023,” she added.

She also advised the public “to watch every one of your taxing jurisdictions that’s going to have conversations about setting their mill levy.”

Colorado ranks lower

Despite the public concerns over property taxes, Gro noted that “we still have one of the lowest obligations of property taxes of any state.”

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

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

Colorado could ban sale of gas mowers

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

All sales of gas-powered home lawn mowers, trimmers and leaf blowers would be banned in metro Denver beginning in 2025 to attack severe ozone pollution, according to draft policies circulating at the Regional Air Quality Council and targeted for a vote by statewide authorities later this year.

e most likely proposals would also ban summer use of existing gas-powered lawn equipment by big institutional users such as schools or parks and maintenance crews beginning in 2025, and by commercial users a year after that.

Emissions from gas-powered lawn equipment make up a surprisingly high portion of chemicals that bake into summer ozone under Colorado’s hot sun. California already has a sales ban, beginning in 2024. Various Colorado local governments have o ered incentives to turn in gas equipment for voucher discounts to buy new electric gear, but a full sales ban and summer-use ban is a big trial balloon the RAQC is oating in early working group drafts.

e RAQC said no formal vote will be taken until later in the spring, but draft policies are circulating in a working group, and the agency presented outlines of the idea in this month’s Air Quality Control Commission meeting. An even more rigorous option under consideration would begin the bans in 2024.

Colorado’s northern Front Range counties are in severe violation of EPA limits on lung-choking ozone, and the state needs to adopt policies that can make real cuts to measured ozone by at least 2026, when EPA demands for change get tougher, RAQC Executive Director Mike Silverstein said.

e contribution from lawn equipment “is quite large,” Silverstein said. Front Range regulators are adding new rules to cut emissions from the oil and gas industry, the trucking industry and other high-polluting sectors, he noted. “And it makes sense to focus on another large category of emissions like the lawn and garden equipment.”

e EPA in 2008 set ozone health limits of 75 parts per billion, then revised it further downward in 2015 to 70 parts per billion. State planners have said lawn and garden equipment contributes 2.5 parts per billion to that total on an average day. It may seem small, but compared to the other slices of the total that Colorado has the power to control, lawn and garden equipment is a tantalizing target.

Colorado’s ozone was trending downward for a while as cars got cleaner, coal- red power plants were

retired and other rules took e ect. But in recent years, many metro area monitors are spiking into the 80s.  en, just as the Air Quality Control Commission was about to nalize two EPA-required State Implementation Plans for both the 2008 and 2015 ozone standards, state regulators found they’d been calculating oil and gas contributions wrong. ey had underestimated how much ozonecausing emissions come from drilling operations, so that every drilling permit issued in the late 2020s would weaken Colorado’s pledges in the implementation plans. e plans are a commitment to the EPA on how and when Colorado will come into compliance.

e commission put o nal approval of one of the plans until late 2023, when sta could propose new ozone-cutting policies to stu into the document. Silverstein and other Regional Air Quality Council leaders want action on lawn and garden equipment to be part of those late 2023 commission votes.

Lawn and garden equipment makes up 84% of small, o -road engines being run across the U.S., the regional council said. Another favored statistic: One hour of running a high-polluting gas leaf blower produces emissions equal to driving a gas car 1,100 miles, or to Denver from Los Angeles.

Lawn and garden equipment may

also be an appealing target because there is little organized opposition, compared to the powerful oil and gas trade associations, or chambers of commerce who oppose restrictions on commuters’ driving. e RAQC said it has been working on outreach to equipment manufacturers or any trade groups for landscape maintenance, but has not had much success.  Environmental groups that have been pushing the state air quality commission for a faster crackdown on ozone emissions are supportive.

“We want to live in a world where mowing your lawn, or maintaining your landscape, doesn’t mean spewing a bunch of harmful pollution into the air, or for that matter, driving your neighbors crazy with ear-splitting noise,” said Kirsten Schatz of CoPIRG, which has been involved in the working group on the issue at the RAQC.  CoPIRG organized a media event in 2022 featuring clean electric lawn equipment at comparable prices to gas-powered equipment, even before available rebates. ey also highlighted a small local contractor who is using all-electric equipment who had rigged battery-recharging solar panels on his truck roof.

Electric prices are competitive with gas equipment except in the largest commercial ride-on categories, Schatz said. e current drafts of the proposed bans do not bar sales or use of the larger ride-on vehicles in the initial stages.

A little-known fact of the billions in federal aid for electric vehicle tax credits, Schatz added, is that they can be used to lower the price of ride-on electric lawn tractors as well.

Actual prices to the consumer will get better and better, clean air advocates say. e Colorado legislature is working on a bill providing a 30% rebate at the cash register, statewide, on electric lawn equipment.

However tough the nal recommendations turn out to be, Silverstein said, everyone in the working group wants to be clear that they’re avoiding a hit to mom and pop operators or the average homeowner.

“We’re de nitely not trying to target the high school kid that’s mowing lawns to get some spending cash,” Silverstein said. Besides, he said, the

Sue Janssen of Centennial has transformed her Centennial property to support local biodiversity. Here, native bu alograss has replaced the original bluegrass lawn.

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Colorado clinics could be reimbursed for linking patients to food, housing

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

An increasing number of clinics and hospitals in Colorado are trying to address the social issues that affect their patients’ health — lack of warm clothes and school supplies, food scarcity and unsafe housing.

e problem is, the state’s Medicaid insurance program does not reimburse for that work.

is could change, though, as state lawmakers approved a plan Wednesday that could lead to a $12 million-$14 million annual program to fund the community health work that bolsters traditional medical care.

e work — linking patients to housing assistance, food pantries, nonpro ts that provide school supplies and attorneys who ght unsafe housing conditions — is covered in 15 other states. e bipartisan legislation, now headed to the governor’s desk, directs the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to seek federal approval for its plan, which could see its rst reimbursements in 2025.

e Colorado plan is based on reimbursing community health work at $39.34 per hour, which is the rate in Nevada and South Dakota. e state and federal government would split the cost of the new bene t.  Colorado now has about 170 community health workers. State o cials estimate that number would grow to about 330 workers by 2026, after Medicaid begins reimbursing for the work and more health clinics hire social wellness workers. Under the proposed law, a community health worker is de ned as a frontline public health worker who is a

liaison to medical, dental or mental health care, or community programs that “combat social determinants of health.”

Children’s Hospital Colorado, for example, opened a social wellness center, including a food pantry lled with fresh vegetables and meat, in its child health pavilion three years ago.

e program, called Resource Connect, helps patients sign up for food assistance or Medicaid, and connect

with nonpro ts that provide school backpacks, formula and diapers, or mortgage or rental assistance.

Patients are referred to the center based on their answers to questionnaires given during medical appointments. “In the last 12 months, did you ever worry that your food would run out before you had money to buy more?” they ask.

Since Medicaid does not reimburse for the work, the program has relied on grants, donations and operational funds from the hospital. Under the new plan, Medicaid would reimburse hospitals and clinics for the social wellness work, but not for the costs of food, some of which is grown in the hospital’s garden.

e push for new funding in Colorado is a recognition that people’s health is a ected mainly by what happens outside of a medical appointment. A pediatrician can

provide vaccinations and give advice about a healthy diet, but that doesn’t matter as much as the fact that a child might live in a house with mold or a family that can’t a ord healthy food.

Public health experts hope that it’s one day nancially feasible for even small doctors’ o ces to have a community health worker on sta .  e Colorado Cancer Screening Program, within the University of Colorado Cancer Center, learned years ago that patient navigators could make a huge impact in getting medically underserved people to screening appointments. e no-show rate at one safety net clinic dropped to 10% from 75% in one year after navigators began working with patients in their native languages, and o ering to pay for transportation to screenings, prescriptions or child care. Prior to the extra help, Medicaid patients were not showing up for appointments or showing up without following the instructions, including fasting or taking the bowel-preparation medicine before a colonoscopy.

Andi Dwyer, director of patient navigation at the screening program, called this year’s legislation a “gamechanger.”

“If this was a pill or device, we would have probably seen payment for this 10 years ago,” she said.

Salud Family Health Centers, a nonpro t that has 13 clinics in Colorado that provide medical, dental and mental health services, has wanted Medicaid to reimburse for community health work for at least 10 years. Salud focuses on lowincome and medically underserved people, including migrant and seasonal farm workers, and employs a few “care managers” who work with patients who require the most hospitalizations.

Medicaid funding would allow Salud to hire more care managers to help a broader group of patients, said Jen Morse, Salud’s vice president of development. Finally, health care policy is catching up with research that shows how health outcomes are improved when providers

At Resource Connect, a program started in 2019 at Children’s Hospital Colorado, parents can take home fresh produce, meat and healthy pantry items. THE COLORADO SUN SEE

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e change to our nearly two dozen publications gives them a cohesive feel, and combined with a change to a more compact size in printing, allows the news content to take center stage, as it should.

Two years ago this week, our publications became owned by a new company, the Colorado News Conservancy. Its mission and purpose are right there in its name: to conserve local news, keep it in local hands and keep it vibrant. We recognized that folks get their news in di erent forms, not just in print, so this is just the rst stage in a project to demonstrate our commitment to innovation and progress.

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Time to honor our grads

Anyone with a loved one who is graduating knows it’s about the culmination of years of hard work.

ere’s a way, as a community, that we can honor those students. You only have to know a student who is graduating this year to participate. In the past, grandparents, neighbors, family friends, neighborhood organizations, teachers and student peers send me information about graduates they’re proud of.

Here is what I need from you:

• e full name of the graduate.

• A headshot photo. ink senior picture or a sel e of the grad in

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their cap and gown.

• e high school the student is graduating from. e school must be located in Denver (or the graduate must live in Denver if attending a school outside of the city). Students who are homeschooled or attending an online/virtual school are welcome to participate.

• eir after high school plans,

which can include college, the military, entering the workforce, gap years, etc.

• Quotes (please have the graduate answer one or both of these questions in a full sentence):

1) In your opinion, what makes the class of 2023 special and why?

2) What did you learn during your high school experience that you will take with you in your future endeavors?

Responses and photos can be emailed to me at: csteadman@coloradocommunitymedia.com. Feel free to call me at 303-566-4107 if you need help.

Your deadline is May 18.

Hope, purpose, passion, performance

We all learn life lessons as we go along. None of us were born knowing everything we needed to know to get us through our time here on earth. We all learn in di erent ways, some by watching, some by listening, and some by doing or experiencing. I have been blessed by so many people in this world who have taught me so many life lessons, and I am grateful for each person and every lesson learned.

May your journey be lled with people who inspire you, teach you, and keep you on a path of continuous learning.

One of the rst life lessons I would like to share is about hope. Hope for me is the genesis of inspiration and motivation. When we have hope, we have power. Hope is certainly not a strategy, but hope is a foundation on which we build our goals and dreams. “ e doors of hope swing widest on the hinges of encouragement” - Zig Ziglar. When we feel hopeful, encouraged, and motivated, that leads to a better understanding of our purpose.

ere are still many who share with me that they really do not know what their purpose is, as they

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say they haven’t found it yet. I struggled with this for a long time too, and some days I still wrestle with it, wondering if I am doing what the good Lord has placed me on this earth to do. For me, I have come to appreciate that we were put here to serve others with the gifts that we have been given. I love this quote by Nelson DeMille, “ e problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you are done.”

We were not put here to do nothing, and that very thought should inspire our purpose daily, fueling our passion to live and serve.

Hope drive’s purpose, and purpose fuels passion. When our hearts and minds are lled with hope, it helps us to identify our purpose, and when that happens, the passion inside of us comes to life. Nelson Mandela put it perfectly when he said, “ ere is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

It has been debated that nding passion can lead to discovering purpose instead of purpose leading to passion, whatever way it works, let hope be the spark of both purpose and passion.

When the spark of hope ignites the purpose and passion within us, we are now in a perfect position to act. Again, never sitting back and doing nothing, it’s about performance and getting things done. And when we are hopeful, purpose driven, and passion fueled, we cannot help ourselves at this point, we must take action. “Having a vision for what you want is not enough. Vision without execution is hallucination.” — omas Edison. Well said, Mr. Edison. e fth lesson for today is this one, hope drives purpose, purpose fuels passion, passion primes the pump of performance, and performance delivered equals results. At the end of the day, it is about what we accomplished. What was the outcome of our e orts? Who did we serve? Who did we help? e de nition of success di ers for everyone, yet every de nition of success will have some form of

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Colorado Community Media sta wins 8 awards

SPJ competition featured news from four states

Colorado Community Media sta netted eight awards during the annual Top of the Rockies contest hosted by the Society for Professional Journalists, or SPJ, in downtown Denver on April 22.

With 24 newspapers across the Front Range, CCM reporters competed in the “Large Newsroom” category, which included larger publications and outlets from Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming.

CCM had two rst-place honors. Evergreen reporter Deb Hurley Brobst took the top honors in the category of Obit Reporting for her article on Mandi Evans, who “gave more to the community than great food.”

South Metro Editor elma

Grimes took rst place in the Mental Health writing category for a series she and two high school interns wrote in 2022. e “Need to Succeed” series broke down how the combination of college costs, social media and parent and societal expectations is costing kids their childhoods.

Several CCM sta members won second-place honors.

Luke Zarzecki took second place in the Feature: Long Form category for his story titled, “Uprooting the American dream: Opinions changing about lush lawns.”

For general reporting in a series or package, several south metro

sta members combined for a second-place award. Former reporters Jessica Gibbs and Elliott Wenzler along with Grimes and current CCM reporter McKenna Harford took an extensive look throughout 2022 at the Douglas County School District’s termination of former superintendent Corey Wise.

In Enterprise Reporting, former Littleton reporter Robert Tann won for his in-depth look at police chases that span over Douglas and Arapahoe counties.

Arvada Reporter Rylee Dunn won third place for her in-depth look at parents in the Je erson County School District. Dunn’s article, “Inside Je co Kids First, and Ganahl’s furor over students,” won in the Education: News category.

For extended coverage, CCM’s Digital Editor Deborah Grigsby won third-place honors for her coverage of mobile home legislation in 2022.

In design, CCM’s Tom Fildey won third place for Single Page Design where he featured a photo page of a wild re impacting bighorn sheep.

Artist has solo show in co ee shop

Littleton photographer Peggy Dietz, a longtime active member of the Littleton Fine Arts Guild, has a solo show at Englewood’s Nixon’s Co ee House, 872 Englewood Parkway, including her painting “Old World Tulips.”

Hours: 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday to Friday; 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. e Guild’s members rotate in keeping the co ee house decorated. Works on display are for sale. ( ese make great gifts for the spring graduate ...)

CVA exhibit

CVA- e Center for Visual Art at Metropolitan State University in Denver hosts “I Do, We Do/You Do,” an exhibit by invited artists Jorge Lucero, Jen Delos Reyes, Harrell Fletcher and Lisa Jarrett of Dr. Martin Luther King School Museum of Contemporary Art, uniting teaching, artmaking and exhibiting Modern Art merged with an elementary school, reimaging the way art is taught across generations. Opens May 18 with reception. rough Aug. 5. 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver,

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SoSu Artist Collective SoSu Artist Collective, a group of Littleton art teachers, will host a sale at 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 306, in the Streets at Southglenn shopping center on Saturday, May 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a selection of Mother’s Day gift ideas.

ACC program

e Arapahoe Community College Art and Design Center at 2400 W. Alamo Ave. in Littleton and ACC Foundation invite the community to visit on ursday, May 18 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. irty-minute Design Programs with hands-on projects, silent auction, light fare, beverages. Tickets: foundation@arapahoe.edu.

Denver Ballet Theatre

Denver Ballet eatre presents the

rst by believing, doing the behaviors, and having the right attitude that leads us to our success.

ballet version of “Sleeping Beauty” at Parker’s PACE Center on May 6 at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Tickets: parkerarts.org.

Butterfly Pavilion

e Butter y Pavillion, 6252 W. 104th Ave. in Westminster, features Mother’s Day events the weekend of May 13-14. ere will be a Butter y Workshop on May 13 and a Butter y Stroll on May 14. See butter ies.org for prices and details.

Curtis Center

Curtis Center for the Arts will hold the 19th Annual International Pastel Exhibition from May 12 to July 1 in the center, 2349 E. Orchard Road, Greenwood Village. e juror is Aaron Shuerr, a well-recognized pastel artist from Montana. ere will be demonstrations by members during the exhibit. (We will hope to announce times and dates.)

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News coming from Denver Art Museum about Hamilton Building galleries reopening soon ...

Storytime

“Cuentame un Cuentito” —Tell Me A Story — will be presented at 11 a.m. on May 13 at Su Teatro, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. 11 a.m. Gabriella Cavallero, Elizabeth and Tony Morales, presented by Stories on Stage. 303494-0523, storiesonstage.org.

Artist reception

Arapahoe Libraries will hold a reception for featured artist Casey Kawaguchi on May 3, 6 to 8 p.m. at Smoky Hill Library, 5430 S. Biscay Circle, Centennial. A collection of his artwork will be displayed at Smoky Hill Library during May. He works as a mentor at Redline Contemporary Art Center. His work re ects comic books, Japanese heritage and a contemporary character.

Littleton Symphony

Littleton Symphony May 19 at 7:30 p.m., Littleton United Methodist Church. “Appalachian Spring,” Strauss’ “Horn Concertos.” Soloist: David Byrd-Marrow. Young Voices of Colorado. Tickets: 303-933-6824. LittletonSymphony.org.

measurement of results. Earl Nightingale teaches a lesson in his program e Strangest Secret, he says that we do not achieve success when we become rich, we achieve success

e best way to get started on your way to getting things done is to create a list of all the things you are hoping for. Make room for hope, give hope a chance, and watch what happens.

How about you? Are there areas of

your own life, personally or professionally, that can bene t from an infusion of hope, purpose, passion, performance, and achieving greater results? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can begin with a little spark of hope, to ignite the res of purpose and passion, to elevate our performance, results will happen and that

really will make it 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.

Current and former members of the Colorado Community Media sta celebrate eight awards at the annual Top of the Rockies event hosted by the Society of Professional Journalists. The competition includes submissions from professionals in New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.

Local foragers teach students to cook with

Were some see weeds, Erica Davis sees ingredients for delicious soups and salads.

“In urban areas, there are a lot of plants that we call weeds that spring up everywhere, that are widely available to people, that are edible and good,” she said.

Foraging is the act of gathering wild plants from nature, generally to be used for food, and sometimes to make other products. For Davis and other foragers, spring means plants are starting to grow –which means kitchens will soon be full of wild foods ready to be prepared in creative

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of plants and safety and sustainability guidelines for foraging. Afterward, she teaches them how to prepare several of the plants they have foraged.

In the spring, dandelions and wild mustard greens are common staples in her classes, Davis said.

“People sometimes picture foraging as going out into the forest and picking plants — and that’s part of it — but I would really encourage people to learn the weeds and make use of them,” she said. “A lot of them are non-native species, so there really aren’t as many ecological considerations with picking them.”

Across the Front Range and in the mountains, several foragers share their knowledge through cooking classes based on

ways. wild foods.

Why cook with wild food?

Davis, who runs a blog called Wild Food Girl, has upcoming classes in Ramah and Fairplay. Her Arvada class this spring has already sold out.

“I think one of the biggest challenges with edible wild plants is that people don’t always know how to prepare them,” she said. “We all know how to cook spinach, we all know how to make broccoli — but we don’t all know how to cook tumble mustard so that it tastes good. So in my classes, I like to give students that experience of preparing an edible wild plant — or three — in a way that I think they are going to like best.”

Davis’ classes begin with an hour-long plant walk where students learn the names

Davis teaches her students to make dandelion green soup from a recipe passed down by an Italian relative. Musk mustard is great in salads, and tumble mustard and field pennycress are fun to ferment, she said.

Beyond the creative and flavorful uses of foraged foods, research from 2019 suggests that wild edible greens harvested in urban areas can be abundant and highly nutritious. The study dubbed wild edible plants “open-source food.”

“This idea that open-source food is out there for anybody to eat and make use of — and then furthermore, it’s organic, it’s free, it’s fresh — I just think that’s a great concept,” Davis said.

Safety precautions

Despite their affordability and freshness, wild plants are not all safe to eat. Crystal Baldwin, who teaches wild plant-based

WEEDS

classes at her Golden business, Earth Sweet Boutique, said it’s always important to triple-check plants before you eat them.

“I don’t like to frighten people away from… foraged foods because there’s a lot of very safe ones,” Baldwin said. “But I like them to be aware that there are dangerous, poisonous ones that will kill you, and so it’s important to kind of have an idea of what those might be and what to look out for.”

Baldwin encourages those interested in foraging to start by taking classes, working with local experts and reading about which plants are safe to eat.

She also said it’s important to check if plants are near old buildings that could be contributing lead to soil or if plants have been sprayed with pesticides.

‘Part of human history’

In addition to cooking, Baldwin said wild foods can be used to make skincare products, tinctures, infused honey, medicines and more.

“There’s many different things you can do with foraged foods, and the great thing about it is that we have tons of free, wonderful, wild foods here in Colorado,” she said.

Some of Baldwin’s favorite plants to forage are pine and conifer needles, which are high in vitamin C. She uses the needles to make a simple syrup that she drinks with seltzer water and fresh lemon.

“It’s extremely refreshing and has a lot of minerals, so it’s very hydrating in the summertime when it’s hot,” she said.

When foraging, it’s important to do so in a way that does not damage plants or plant populations, Baldwin said. When gathering pine needles, for example, she takes about an inch or two from each branch and moves around to different branches so as to not damage the plant.

Davis agreed that sustainability is an important part of foraging process, and it’s something foragers need to be mindful of in order to do correctly.

“Sometimes people think ‘Foraging must be bad for the environment because you’re picking the plants!’ But I think the actual truth is much more nuanced than that,” she said. “Foraging is part of human history, I mean, we have been foraging since time immemorial, and we can do it in ways that don’t harm the plant populations if we’re mindful.”

Beyond freshness and accessibility, Davis said foraging offers health benefits and a range of flavors that are not available in grocery stores.

And perhaps best of all, wild food offers a way to get close to nature.

“For me, also, they o er a connection to nature,” Davis said. “ ey invite time spent outdoors, getting to know plants, working with my hands.”

Davis has available spots in her classes in Ramah and Fairplay this spring and summer. Her classes can be found at https://wildfoodgirl.com/ wfg-events/.

On her webpage, people who want to learn more about foraging can also sign up for the Colorado foragers email list.

In May, Baldwin is hosting a wild food cooking class at her shop, taught by veteran forager Wendy Petty. Students can sign up at https:// earthsweetboutique.com/products/wild-foragedfood-cooking-class and see future classes at https:// earthsweetboutique.com/pages/classesevents.

Dandelion greens can be used to make a delicious Italian soup.

Erica Davis foraging pu ball mushrooms in the fall.

Erica Davis hunting feral parsnips in the Midwest. These root vegetables can also be found in Colorado.

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Depressed? Could be Front Range pollution

degeneration and mental health problems.

BY JIM ROBBINS KFF HEALTH NEWS

In the 1990s, residents of Mexico City noticed their dogs acting strangely — some didn’t recognize their owners, and the animals’ sleep patterns had changed.

At the time, the sprawling, mountain-ringed city of more than 15 million people was known as the most polluted in the world, with a thick, constant haze of fossil fuel pollution trapped by thermal inversions.

In 2002, toxicologist and neuropathologist Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas, who is a liated with both Universidad del Valle de México in Mexico City and the University of Montana, examined brain tissue from 40 dogs that had lived in the city and 40 others from a nearby rural area with cleaner air. She discovered the brains of the city dogs showed signs of neurodegeneration while the rural dogs had far healthier brains.

Calderón-Garcidueñas went on to study the brains of 203 human

residents of Mexico City, only one of which did not show signs of neurodegeneration. at led to the conclusion that chronic exposure to air pollution can negatively a ect people’s olfactory systems at a young age and

may make them more susceptible to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Particulate matter really matters e pollutant that plays the “big role” is particulate matter, said Calderón-Garcidueñas. “Not the big ones, but the tiny ones that can cross barriers. We can detect nanoparticles inside neurons, inside glial cells, inside epithelial cells. We also see things that shouldn’t be there at all — titanium, iron, and copper.”

e work the Mexican scientist is doing is feeding a burgeoning body of evidence that shows breathing polluted air not only causes heart and lung damage but also neuro-

It’s well established that air pollution takes a serious toll on the human body, a ecting almost every organ. Asthma, cardiovascular disease, cancer, premature death, and stroke are among a long list of problems that can be caused by exposure to air pollution, which, according to the World Health Organization, sits atop the list of health threats globally, causing 7 million deaths a year. Children and infants are especially susceptible.

Sussing out the impact of air pollution on the brain has been more di cult than for other organs because of its inaccessibility, so it has not been researched as thoroughly, according to researchers. Whether air pollution may cause or contribute to Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s is not settled science. But CalderónGarcidueñas’ work is at the leading edge of showing that air pollution goes directly into the brain through the air we breathe, and has serious impacts.

Some psychotherapists report seeing patients with symptoms stemming from air pollution. Not only does the pollution appear to cause symptoms or make them worse; it also takes away forms of relief.

“If we exercise and spend time in nature we become extra resilient,” said Kristen Greenwald, an environmental social worker and adjunct professor at the University of Denver. “A lot of folks do that outside. at’s their coping mechanism; it’s soothing to the nervous system.”

On polluted days a lot of her clients “can’t go outside without feeling they are making themselves more sick or distressed.”

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Studies, observations indicate possible link to mental well-being

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Megan Herting, who researches air pollution’s impact on the brain at the University of Southern California, said environmental factors should be incorporated in doctors’ assessments these days, especially in places like Southern California and Colorado’s Front Range, where high levels of air pollution are a chronic problem.

“When I go into a medical clinic, they rarely ask me where I live and what is my home environment like,” she said. “Where are we living, what we are exposed to, is important in thinking about prevention and treatment.”

In the last two decades, with new technologies, research on air pollution and its impact on the human nervous system has grown by leaps and bounds.

Research shows tiny particles bypass the body’s filtering systems as they are breathed in through the nose and mouth and travel directly into the brain. Fine and ultrafine particles, which come from diesel exhaust, soot, dust, and wildfire smoke, among other sources, often contain metals that hitchhike a ride, worsening their impact.

A changing climate is likely to exacerbate the effects of air pollution

on the brain and mental health. Warmer temperatures react with tailpipe emissions from cars to create more ozone than is generated when it’s cooler. And more and larger forest fires are expected to mean more days of smoky skies.

Ozone linked to neurodegeneration

Ozone has been linked to neurodegeneration, decline in cerebral plasticity, the death of neurons, and learning and memory impairment. Ozone levels are extremely high in Los Angeles and the mountain valleys of the West, including the Front Range of Colorado, Phoenix, and Salt Lake City.

Air pollution also causes damage from chronic inflammation. As air pollution particles enter the brain, they are mistaken for germs and attacked by microglia, a component of the brain’s immune system, and they stay activated.

“Your body doesn’t like to be exposed to air pollution and it produces an inflammatory response,” said Patrick Ryan, a researcher at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, in an email. “Your brain doesn’t like it either. There’s more than 10 years of toxicological science and epidemiologic studies that show air pollution causes neuro-inflammation.”

Much of the current research focuses on how pollution causes mental health problems.

Damage to the brain is especially pernicious because it is the master control panel for the body, and pollution damage can cause a range of neuropsychiatric disorders. A primary focus of research these days is how pollution-caused damage affects areas of the brain that regulate emotions — such as the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and hippocampus. The amygdala, for example, governs the processing of fearful experiences, and its impairment can cause anxiety and depression. In one recent review, 95% of studies looking at both physical and functional changes to areas of the brain that regulate emotion showed an impact from air pollution.

A very large study published in February in JAMA Psychiatry, by researchers from the universities of Oxford and Peking and Imperial College London, tracked the incidence of anxiety and depression in nearly 400,000 adults in the United Kingdom over a median length of 11 years and found that long-term exposure even to low levels of a combination of air pollutants — particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and nitric oxide — increased the occurrence of depression and anxiety.

Another recent study, by Erika Manczak at the University of Denver, found adolescents exposed to ozone predicted “for steeper

increases in depressive symptoms across adolescent development.”

But the epidemiological research has shortcomings because of confounding factors that are difficult to account for. Some people may be genetically predisposed to susceptibility and others not. Some may experience chronic stress or be very young or very old, which can increase their susceptibility. People who reside near a lot of green space, which reduces anxiety, may be less susceptible.

“Folks living in areas where there is greater exposure to pollutants tend to be areas under-resourced in many ways and grappling with a lot of systemic problems. There are bigger reports of stress and depression and anxiety,” said Manczak. “Given that those areas have been marginalized for a lot of reasons, it’s a little hard to say this is due to air pollution exposure.”

The best way to tell for sure would be to conduct clinical trials, but that comes with ethical problems. “We can’t randomly expose kids to air pollution,” Ryan said.

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real savings in emissions comes from a changeover among the equipment operators who are using the machines all day, every day.

e regional council is also looking for federal or state money that could expand the vouchers for individual lawn and garden equipment buyers to small businesses in landscaping. at kind of support could take millions of dollars, Silverstein acknowledged.

e urgency to act in Colorado is building, he added. At the April

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can address “all these additional stressors in their life that really a ect health care,” she said.

“ e fact that this bill is even getting some feet under it shows that there is some recognition at a policy level,” she said.

Dr. Hans Elzinga, a family medicine physician at Salud’s Longmont clinic, said it’s “a stereotype in medicine that Medicaid patients are going to be more likely to no-show.” In the past decade, though, health providers have realized that if they can identify patients’ barriers to care, and help them overcome them, they will show up.

“We need to identify why those things aren’t happening and then make it possible,” he said.

Elzinga works with Tania Maldonado, a patient navigator who speaks English and Spanish. In some cases, she said, patients don’t need assistance getting to an appointment, they just need better communication. She has had patients who only spoke

meeting, air quality commissioners asked the RAQC for speci c ideas it was serious about putting in the State Implementation Plans for a late 2023 vote.

“If we’re going to make a real difference quickly,” Silverstein said, “we’ve got to have a rapid transition to electric.”

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.

Spanish and were having their young children try to interpret and explain medical directions, she said.

e legislation requires the state Medicaid division to begin covering community health work as soon as the state receives approval from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Next year, the state is expected to spend about $300,000 as sta seek federal approval, hold four public meetings with community health workers, and lay out the specifics of the coverage.

In other states, community health work can occur not just in health facilities, but in schools, community centers or patients’ homes.

Prime sponsors of the legislation are Sens. Kyle Mullica, a ornton Democrat, and Cleave Simpson, an Alamosa Republican.

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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 27, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mark Canfield, Co-Personal Representative 375 Lafayette Denver, CO 80218

Craig Canfield, Co-Personal Representative 538 Cherry Hills Road Billings, MT 59105

Legal Notice No. 82214

First Publication: April 27, 2023

Last Publication: May 11, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Ann Elizabeth Iford, aka Ann E. Iford, aka Ann Iford, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR65

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 September 5, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Cosme A. Ramirez,

Personal Representative 720 East 4th Avenue Denver, Colorado 80203

Legal Notice No. 82222

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

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

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 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 Esther Katherine Bay, aka Esther Bay, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30347

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 27, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Anastasia Fainberg Attorney to the Personal Representative 3600 S Yosemite Street Suite 810 Denver, CO, 80237

Legal Notice No. 82208

First Publication: April 27, 2023

Last Publication: May 11, 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

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of CHANTAL S. PAPEZ, a/k/a CHANTAL PAPEZ, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30419

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 September 5, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

/s/ Anthony D. Damon Attorney for Personal Representative

The Damon Law Firm, LLC 4465 Kipling Street #101 Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

Legal Notice No. 82218

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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 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 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. 82216

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of MARY F. MAJORS, aka MARY FAYE MAJORS, aka M. FAYE MAJORS, aka MARY MAJORS, aka FAYE MAJORS, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30439

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 September 5, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Katz, Look & Onorato, PC

Attorneys to the Personal Representative 1120 Lincoln Street. Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203

Legal Notice No. 82223

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Luis Carlos Marquez Cordova, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 31442

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 Building, Bannock St. Room 230, Denver, CO 80202 on or before May 18, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Daniel McAuliffe, Attorney for the Personal Representative

High Country Lawyers, PLCC PO Box 5091 Frisco, CO 80443

Legal Notice No. 82219

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Dianne Jean Hinton, a/k/a Dianne J. Hinton, and Dianne Hinton, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30354

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 September 5, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Brandon Groome, Personal Representative c/o Poskus & Klein, P.C. 303 East 17th Avenue, Suite 900 Denver, Colorado 80203

Legal Notice No. 82228

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 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 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 Arden Louise Rains,

Public Notices

AKA Arden L. Rains, AKA Arden Rains, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030450

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 5, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Meryl Arden Rains

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

Legal Notice No. 82220

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Kelly K. Scott

AKA Kelly Kourtney Scott, AKA K. Kourtney Scott, AKA K.K. Scott, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30397

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 5, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Brie Hein, Personal Representative 9045 Bermuda Run Circle Highlands Ranch, CO 80138

Legal Notice No. 82221

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 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 Kip M. Sleichter, also known as Kip Merle Sleichter, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030464

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 28, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

/s/ Nadya Vecchiet-Lambert, Esq. on behalf of Diane Cole, Personal Representative 6855 S. Havana St. Ste 370, Centennial, CO 80112

Legal Notice No. 82211

First Publication: April 27, 2023

Last Publication: May 11, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Ryan Nelligan, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR166

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 28, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Eduardo Salvidrez, Personal Representative 1596 W. Maple Avenue Denver, Colorado 80223

Legal Notice No. 82206

First Publication: April 27, 2023

Last Publication: May 11, 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 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 Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Roberta Phyllis Martinez, a/k/a Robbie Martinez, a/k/a Roberta P. Martinez, a/k/a Roberta Martinez, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30341

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 28, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Daniel P. Kapsak

Attorney to the Personal Representative 610 Hover Street Suite 203 Longmont, Colorado 80501

Legal Notice No. 82210

First Publication: April 27, 2023

Last Publication: May 11, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Gale Alan Pittenger, aka Gale A. Pittenger, aka Gale Pittenger, aka G.A. Pittenger, 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 ISABELLE GRANT CLARK, a/k/a ISABELLE G. CLARK, and ISABELLE CLARK, deceased Case Number: 2022PR603

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 27, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

BOKF, NA, Personal Representative c/o Shana Rogers, Trust Officer, Vice President 1600 Broadway, 4th Floor Denver, CO 80202

Legal Notice No. 82209

First Publication: April 27, 2023

Last Publication: May 11, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Andrew S. Kassel, aka Andrew Scott Kassel, aka Andrew Kassel, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30417

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 28, 2023 (date)*, or the claims may be forever barred.

Donald Brian Miller, Personal Representative c/o Schafer Thomas Maez PC, 4 Garden Center #200 Broomfield, Colorado 80020

Legal Notice No. 82212

First Publication: April 27, 2023

Last Publication: May 11, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of MARGARET ELAINE JOHNSON, a/k/a M. ELAINE JOHNSON, AND ELAINE JOHNSON, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30405

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 5, 2023, or the claims

may be forever barred.

Karen E. Johnson, Personal Representative

3107 South Stuart Street Denver, CO 80236

Legal Notice No. 82227

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Children Services

(Adoption/Guardian/Other)

Public Notice

JUVENILE COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO 520 West Colfax Avenue, Rm. 125 Denver, CO 80204 Telephone: (720) 337 - 0570

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: CHARNETTA J. LEWIS AND FARRIS L. LEWIS FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CHILD AND CONCERNING, BARBRYUNA MYEISHA LEWIS, DIEDRIC DUONE THOMAS, AND MORGAN RUTLEY RESPONDENTS

Attorney for Petitioners: Timothy J. Eirich, Atty. Reg. # 35670 Grob & Eirich, LLC 12596 W. Bayaud Ave., Suite 390 Lakewood, CO 80228

Phone: 303-679-8266

Tim@GrobEirich.com

FAX: 303-679-8960

Case Number: 23JA030008 Division: 2H

NOTICE OF ADOPTION PROCEEDING AND SUMMONS TO RESPOND PURSUANT TO § 19-5-203(1)k), C.R.S.

To the above-named Respondents, BARBRYUNA MYEISHA LEWIS, DIEDRIC DUONE THOMAS, AND MORGAN RUTLEY:

You are hereby notified that a Petition to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship between the Respondents, and a Petition for Custodial Adoption, has been filed with the Denver Juvenile Court. If you wish to respond to these Petitions, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 35 days of this Notice or appear at the hearing. The hearing on the Petition to Terminate Parental Rights and the Petition for Custodial Adoption is scheduled for June 16, 2023 at 930am in Division H (Honorable Judge Woods) of the Denver Juvenile Court, 520 West Colfax Avenue, Denver, CO 80204 Your failure to file a Response, or to appear, within 35 days after service, may likely result in termination of your parental or your alleged parental rights to the minor child.

Timothy J. Eirich, #35670

Grob & Eirich, LLC Attorney for Petitioners

Legal Notice No. 82224

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Pubic Notice

Denver Probate Court County, Denver, Colorado Court Address: 1437 Bannock St #230 Denver, Co 802449

In the Interest of: Marilyn Del Rosario Hernandez Martinez, Minor

Case Number: 2023PR030176

Division: 1

Attorney or Party Without Attorney (Name and

Address): Lisa A. Guerra, Esq. THE GUERRA LAW OFFICE L.L.C. 3600 S. YOSEMITE ST., SUITE 520 DENVER, CO 80237

Phone: (303) 347-090

E-mail: lisaguerra@theguerralawoffice.com

Fax Number: (303) 347-0901

Atty. Reg. #.:41583

NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO § 15-10-401, C.R.S.

To: Jose Sandro Hernandez Martinez

Last Known Address, if any: Unknown

A hearing on Guardianship for Interest of minor Marilyn Del Rosario Hernández Martínez will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued:

Date: June 6th

Time: 2:30p.m

Courtroom or Division: 1

Address:1437 S Bannock St. #230, Denver, Co 80202Via Webex

https://judicial.webex.com/join/courtroom300

The hearing will take approximately 1 hour

Legal Notice No. DHD1000

First Publication: April 27, 2023

Last Publication: May 11, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE OF ADOPTION & HEARING

Pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §43-104.14, Heather S. Colton, Attorney at Law, 1003 H Street, Lincoln, NE 68508 (402) 476-7474, does hereby provide the following Notice of Adoption & Hearing:

Timothy Wempen and John Doe, real name unknown, you have been identified as the possible biological father of twin female children who were born on April 23, 2018. The children were conceived in approximately September 2017 in Nebraska. The biological mother of said children, Tiffany Griggs, has relinquished her parental rights to the minor children and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services intends to place the children up for adoption in May 2023 in the County Court of Seward County, Nebraska. If you are the biological father, you may (i) deny paternity; (ii) waive any parental rights you may have; (iii) relinquish and consent to the adoption of the minor children; (iv) file a Notice of Objection to Adoption and Intent to Obtain Custody, pursuant to section 43-104.02 if you are a putative father, or (v) object to the adoption in court within forty-five days after the later of receipt of notice under this section if you are an acknowledged or adjudicated father. If you wish to deny paternity, waive your parental rights, relinquish and consent to the adoption, or receive additional information to determine whether you may be the father of the children in question, you must contact Heather Colton at the above address. If you wish to object to the adoption and seek custody of the child, you must seek legal counsel from your own attorney immediately.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that if you take no action in this matter, a hearing to determine your parental rights and whether your consent to this adoption is required by law pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §43-104.22 will be held in the County Court of Seward County, Nebraska located at 261 S 8th Street, Seward, NE 68434 on May 30, 2023, at 1:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as the same may be heard by the court.

Legal Notice No. 82226

First Publication: May 4, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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