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VOLUME 94 | ISSUE 38

Homelessness a big issue for 3 metro mayors Hancock, Starker, Olson participate in Denver Metro Chamber’s State of the City

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock was joined by the mayors of Englewood and Wheat Ridge at the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce’s State of the City event to discuss issues facing the region -and homelessness was a key topic.

The Aug. 3 event at the Denver Botanic Gardens was attended by hundreds of metro-area business professionals.

Hancock delivered the keynote address after Englewood Mayor Linda Olson and Wheat Ridge Mayor Bud Starker participated in a panel discussion with Kelly Brough, president and CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.

Addressing homelessness was a topic of Hancock’s keynote address, as well as economic recovery.

“People predicted that Denver would be one of the first cities to roar in terms of our economy,” Hancock said. “Signs of recovery

DPS will require masks for all students, staff Superintendent cites rising COVID rates in community

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this November.

The proposed $450 million General Obligation bond package “would create an estimated 7,500 jobs and

Face masks will be required inside school buildings for all Denver students, staff and visitors, whether they’re vaccinated or not.

Denver Public Schools announced the policy first in an email to staff obtained by Chalkbeat and then in an email to parents Aug. 3.

In the email to district staff, Denver Superintendent Alex Marrero cited a rise in COVID rates in the community and noted that even vaccinated people can contract and spread the virus, though their infections are much less likely to be severe. He said district leaders

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Denver Mayor Michael Hancock speaks at the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce’s PHOTO BY HANNAH METZGER/THE DENVER GAZETTE 2021 State of the City event on Aug. 3.

are all around us. We have survived time of loss, hardship and change, but it is not over yet.”

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Uber, Lyft passengers get price-hike shock Ride-share companies see shortage of drivers

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Nick Kroeker was out with his wife and two friends in Denver’s hip River North neighborhood earlier this summer when the group decided to call it a night and head home to Centennial just before midnight.

Kroeker opened up his Uber app to hail a ride home and was shocked. The cost for the 19-mile trip on the Saturday night in June? Nearly $150, and the prices at rival Lyft weren’t much better.

Before the pandemic, the trip using a ride-hailing service cost between $20 and, at most, $60.

“There weren’t any other options,” Kroeker said, “so we had to take it.”

With many pandemic restrictions lifted across Colorado and vaccination rates ticking up, people are returning to their normal routines and activities.

That includes their use of Uber and Lyft, ride-hailing apps that for years have provided a safer way to get home after a few drinks or have allowed people to avoid the headache of trying to park in a crowded area.

But those who use the services have lately been in for a jaw-

dropping surprise when they dust off the application’s cobwebs after months of inactivity and find that prices have shot up, because demand is outpacing a reduced supply of drivers, triggering dynamic pricing that Uber and Lyft use to try to address the imbalance. A Rakuten Intelligence study found that Uber prices were up 40% in April compared to the previous year.

Hailing a ride can also take much longer than normal with so few drivers available.

With taxi services on the decline, in large part because of the Uber and Lyft disruption, riders are often left with few options.

They can learn to live with the higher prices, drive themselves or simply stay home.

Ride from airport pricey Pam Winsor paid $117, including tip, for a ride home with Lyft to the Park Hill neighborhood in Denver from the airport on July 22. That was about half the price of her airline ticket to Boston.

Winsor said she waited 20 minutes for a Lyft XL — a vehicle with more seats — even though she was traveling alone. Getting a smaller-sized car would have taken even longer and she was ready to be home after her flight was diverted to Wichita, Kansas.

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see any available. She even tried asking fellow ride-sharing passengers at the airport where they were headed to see if she could split the cost with them.

“It left a terrible taste in my mouth about Lyft,” Winsor said.

“I thought about canceling my account.”

Some say they are now avoiding Uber and Lyft whenever they can, rethinking that second or third drink to stay sober for the drive home. That has a trickle-down effect on the economy as Colorado restaurants and bars battle back from the pandemic downturn.

“It has made us decide to drive a little more, which is unfortunate,” said James Dixon, who lives in Adams County and has been keeping track of the price hikes.

“We’ve been noticing the increases for quite a while.”

Dixon arrived back at Denver International Airport on Aug. 1 after a trip and opened the Uber app to find an $85 quote for a ride home. Before coronavirus, the same trip would cost about $40. He settled on Lyft, which after a tip cost him $61.

Dixon said he and his wife like to enjoy Colorado’s craft beer

offering incentives to get more scene, but they’ve had to think twice about venturing out because drivers on the road and work out the imbalance. (“For anyone of the cost of a ride-hailing trip. interested, now is a great chance He’s also rethinking taking Uber to earn money flexibly on your or Lyft to the airport, which he own schedule,” Blackwell said.) does frequently for work, because But they’re running into the parking at DIA may end up being same problem cheaper. finding workSpokespeople ers that other for Uber and employers are Lyft said the experiencing. increased Uber and Lyft prices are due drivers are gig to a spike in workers who demand as can claim fedthe pandemic eral pandemic eases. There unemployment simply aren’t benefits in enough drivers Colorado until working to keep up with all of Pam Winsor, Sept. 6, when they expire. the people who who paid $117 for a ride home The drivers want to get out of their homes from the airport to the have long comfor the first Park Hill neighborhood plained about low pay and a time in more lack of benthan 15 months. efits.

“As more A Lyft people are vacspokesperson said the service has cinated, demand from customers “added thousands of drivers in has increased, which has caused the past few weeks and it’s already longer wait times,” said Michele leading to a better rider experiBlackwell, public policy manager ence with wait times down more for Uber. “We’re working to bring than 15% nationwide, and down more drivers and delivery people 35% in some major markets.” onto the road.”

“For drivers, it continues to be a great time to drive, with drivers in Incentives offered top markets earning significantly The ride-hailing companies are

‘It left a terrible taste in my mouth about Lyft. I thought about canceling my account.’

more than they were pre-pandemic,” the spokesperson said in another nod to the driver shortage. The company didn’t elaborate on how it is that some drivers are earning significantly more money.

Lyft has a new “Wait & Save” feature that allows riders to delay their trips until the cost goes down. But Dixon said it can take a half-hour or more for the charge to become more palatable.

“When you have a trip to the airport,” he said, “it’s just not a possibility.”

Ryan Howard, a frequent Uber user who lives in Denver, paid about double last month — or $30 — for a 14-minute trip downtown to get a haircut. He checked Lyft to see if it was any cheaper, but it wasn’t.

“I did consider driving, but trying to park down on 16th Street isn’t easy at any time — especially when you’re trying to make an appointment,” he said. “As a consumer, there’s really not a whole lot you can do.”

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Tami Door to exit Downtown Denver Partnership after 17 years The head of the influential business group says she doesn’t know what’s next

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After 17 years heading the Downtown Denver Partnership, Tami Door will resign in November.

“Serving as president & CEO of this world-class organization in this world-class city has been a distinct privilege,” Door said in a statement.

In an interview, Door said she isn’t sure what she will do next, but it will relate to what she’s done for the past 17 years.

“City building and place-making and business and community development — those are at my core, not just professionally, but as a person,” Door said. “So I’m going to take the next couple of months and really look at how I intertwine all these experiences and the things that I really cared about, and translate them into the next phase of my career.”

Under Door, the businesses association has played a major role in developing the Central Business District and in shaping policy downtown. Downtown Denver has seen $13 billion of investments since 2004, according to the partner-

Downtown Denver Partnership President and CEO Tami Door in a 2019 photo.

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ship, and has founded huge events like Denver Startup Week.

The partnership has advocated (and helped pay for) more bikeways, thrown its weight behind the 5280 Loop, and reimagined the 16th Street Mall as a place where people should linger more instead of just pass through.

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Campaign finance records show that the organization helped fund the campaign to keep the urban camping ban, which makes it illegal for unhoused people to sleep in public, in 2019. Last year, Door said she supported the sales tax to address homelessness but DDP did not contribute to that campaign, records show.

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The second annual Beautiful Paws contest has begun.

The contest, which is put on by the Denver Animal Shelter, is a pet calendar contest fundraiser that benefits the Denver Animal Shelter.

How it works is, people submit a photo of their pet for $25. Community members then vote for their favorite pet photo. Voters can cast as many votes as they’d like, for $1 each vote. The 13 photos that get the most votes will win the opportunity to have their pet professionally photographed and featured in the 2022 Beautiful Paws calendar — the

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The contest began on July 31 and runs through Aug. 28. The calendar itself will be for sale once produced, and proceeds from its sales also will benefit Denver Animal Shelter.

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The partnership also led the charge to hire private security guards for the 16th Street Mall, which some saw as a safety measure and others as a way to filter low-income people out.

The rumor mill has decided that Door, whose organization has often allied with the Hancock administration, will run for mayor.

Door would not rule out working in the public sector but said her focus right now is transitioning out of an intense role and resetting.

“I spent a lot of my career, obviously, on the private side and being a conduit for public clients,” Door said. “And that’s a really strong niche and a place that I personally find a lot of value in,” Door said.

“My focus is very much focused on city-building, placemaking, community-building, businessbuilding, and I’m going to spend the next couple of months figuring out where my experience and my passions will best be used going forward.”

Hancock said Door’s “leadership has been integral in the growth of our downtown.”

The partnership’s board has started a national search for Door’s replacement.

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do the whole DJ stuff. In the end, I actually didn’t end up doing the DJ stuff instead of photography because I got an opportunity for photography. It was cheaper for me to buy the equipment. There was a bit more money at the time in photo.

What I really enjoyed was photographing concerts. But I also enjoyed photographing weddings and quinceañeras because that’s something that’s going to be for the rest of your life, and it’s a one-time event. You want to have that for the rest of your life and remember it.

Photographer, DJ from California came to Colorado for better life Hard work I’m 38, and I live in Denver. You know where Highway 285 and Sheridan meet? I’m along that area.

My day job, I do maintenance and janitorial in Lakewood. It’s close to 285 and Wadsworth. It’s all in one place, a commercial building.

In Englewood, that’s my second job. That’s something temporary — that’s only seasonal. That’s a little extra money right there. I’ve been doing maintenance and janitorial and floor tech for about five years.

Buffing, stripping, waxing floors.

‘Start from scratch’ I was born in Torrance, California. I was raised in Long Beach and lived there all my life until 2006, when we moved out here to Colorado, and ever since, I’ve been here.

What brought me out here was that we saw that it was a great state to start from scratch, to leave behind all the violence and all the violent stuff going on where I grew up in Southern California.

My family, we were just looking for a better life and better oppor-

neer, which means I help every single person in the church band get their instruments sounding perfectly — voices, microphones and so on, when there are musical performances. At my previous church, I did the same, but I did a bit of video-editing and photoediting. I was a teacher at the church, teaching photography to teenagers.

Knowing about God My family has really been a big blessing in my life, and when I met my wife, of course back then I knew about God, and I have always believed in God, but my wife pretty much introduced me to showing me the ways to knowing more about God. I met my wife through my DJ partner about four years ago. I’ve just been blessed because even though I’ve been through hard times, God has always been at my side. I’ve really been blessed.

I want to thank my family for supporting me in every way, and to my wife: I love you and thank you for being my partner and being by my side in the good and the bad.

Capturing moments My DJ career started in California. I wasn’t sure what I was going to end up doing when I started the whole photo and video work. All of a sudden, I saw an opportunity to

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County plans excavation of ancient rock shelter Staff applied for grant to fund project at Native American site

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Douglas County’s Department of Community Development is hoping to learn more about Native Americans who lived in the area about 700 years ago after a rock shelter they likely used was discovered in the county.

The shelter was found by the county about five years ago during a site survey of a piece of land acquired by the county commissioners. Then in 2020, during a test excavation of a 50 centimeter by 50 centimeter square, enough artifacts were discovered to call for a deeper exploration.

“They were finding enough intact cultural materials that it’s very significant,” said Brittany Cassell, the county’s curator.

The shelter is similar to others known to have been used by Native Americans. Archaeologists like Cassell are still working to understand how Native Americans used them.

“Doing a full excavation and having more artifacts will help us understand a lot more,” Cassell said.

“Not just about this rock shelter, but others as well.”

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The rock shelter, in an undisclosed location in Douglas County, was discovered about five years ago.

shelter’s location because of a state regulation that states that — unless permission is given — a prehistoric site’s whereabouts cannot be released.

“There are a lot of people who will seek out these, especially rock shelters, to exploit them,” Cassell said.

If people were to visit the site, they could intentionally or unintentionally cause damage to the artifacts or alter the context necessary to understand the items, she said.

“Once you go in and disturb the soil or take those artifacts you might just think you’re taking a simple rock but to the trained eye, it’s a tool or has more significance,” Cassell said. “Once you take that away, it doesn’t have a context anymore and you don’t have that piece to tell you how they lived in that rock shelter.”

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team hopes to learn includes what time of year the shelter was used, what animals were hunted and processed, what plants and materials were used, and any periods that the shelter was abandoned.

Early research of the site shows artifacts that are about 700 to 900 years old, Cassell said. Many tribes are affiliated with the area including Southern Ute, Ute Mountain Ute, Northern Cheyenne, Sioux, Comanche, Pawnee, Jicarilla Apache, Southern Arapaho, Cheyenne and Northern Arapaho.

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Cassell is the first full-time curator for Douglas County and began in the position in 2018.

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The site could eventually be a county historical landmark, she said. The commissioners unanimously approved the proposal and Commissioner George Teal spoke of his excitement for the project.

“To be able to do this excavation, find these items ... but preserve them for all of us, not just the one or two kids that might find the shelter walking out of their backyard someday, I think is really valuable,” Teal said.

The county will learn in early December whether it is awarded the grant and, if approved, will begin a mapping and planning phase for the excavation in the spring of 2022.

Later that summer, the physical excavation would begin. The county hopes to work with tribal groups throughout the project.

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Historic Greenland post office being restored Treasure of old town site preserved with $156,000 grant from state

BY LIAM ADAMS LADAMS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Douglas County hopes it can revive the memory of a once-bustling Greenland town site when it finishes restoring the Greenland post office this fall.

In late June, the county started its bottom-to-top refurbishing of the post office, one of two remnants from Greenland’s former life as a railroad hub. Not only does the post office retain qualities of its 19thcentury self, but it was a symbol of community togetherness, and the county would like to preserve that spirit.

“From the history of the post office and what it served for the Greenland town site, it was kind of a central gathering point for that community,” said Kati Rider, the county’s assistant director of planning resources. “So, it’s always served as that symbol for the Greenland town site.”

Greenland was most active from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century. It was located right next to the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, which transported 24 passenger trains and 20 freight trains a day, according to the county’s virtual

Douglas County is restoring the historic Greenland post office by rebuilding its foundation. The county received a $156,000 grant from the state to commission the restoration. COURTESY OF DOUGLAS COUNTY

history museum. The goods most commonly transported on the trains were lumber, grain, clay, potatoes, milk, cheese and cattle.

With the commerce, Greenland became home to two general stores, two saloons, blacksmith and wagon making shops, and the post office.

“When the town site was active, the post office is where people came to get their news, it’s where the people came to connect,” said Rider.

The post office operated from 1873 until 1959.

Along with the post office, the rest of the town site dissolved into inactivity. Douglas County designated what it calls Greenland Townsite as a historic property in 2011. The school and post office are the only two buildings still around.

However, the school has changed over time and was once modified as a home, meaning it has lost some of its historical integrity, said county curator Brittany Cassell.

The county has known for a while that it wanted to restore the post office and preserve it for years to come. In 2019, the State Historic Fund awarded the county a $156,000 grant, which required a 25% cash match from the county, or about $52,000.

The county has commissioned more minor, aesthetic restoration projects at the post office in recent years. However, the current project, which is specifically what the county received the state grant for, is rebuilding the foundation. Rider said erosion over the years has significantly weakened the foundation.

Another goal of the current project is to stabilize the walls, although it’s unclear if they will be restored to the original condition. The siding is made of asphalt, which “is pretty unique to this structure,” Rider said. “During that time, people who lived in the area used materials that they could find to build buildings, to restore them, to keep them up.” The county doesn’t know yet if the same asphalt siding can be replicated.

The county needs to complete the current restoration by October. It doesn’t know when or how it will open the post office to the public yet.

Rider said, “the primary focus right now is stabilization of the structure.”

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produce an estimated $483 million in worker wages and benefits, and $1 billion in economic benefits,” according to Denver City Councilman Jolon Clark’s August 2021 District 7 newsletter.

All three mayors pointed to housing affordability and homelessness as an ongoing challenge they are facing. In a question to Olson and Starker, Brough mentioned that many metro-area communities have not dealt with homelessness to the degree that Denver has, and asked the two mayors to speak on possible opportunities for regional cooperation to address the issue.

“You need to go out and (do) outreach (because) no one effort is the magic goal,” Starker said. “Every community is different. All those needs will be different. And we need to have a variety of choices and options (to provide) outreach to these populations.”

Starker brought up Jefferson County’s new homeless navigator program, which was launched in 2020. This program is “comprised of six municipal and county-based housing navigators who work directly with persons experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness,” says the city of Wheat Ridge’s website. The homeless navigator seeks to help “people experiencing homelessness identify solutions to complex health and housing challenges and support those who are seeking a path out of

Englewood Mayor Linda Olson.

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Wheat Ridge Mayor Bud Starker in a June 2021 file photo.

homelessness,” the website says.

The homeless navigator helps connect people experiencing homelessness, with services and solutions to the complex health and housing issues they may be facing.

The cities of Golden, Wheat Ridge and Edgewater were all sharing the cost and benefit of a homeless navigator, but Golden’s City Manager suggested last month having the city hire its own, due to demand.

Olson mentioned she is proud to announce that nearly 100% of the Metro Mayors Caucus members — which consists of mayors from 38

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cities and towns across the Denver metropolitan region, according to its website — have agreed to a pledge to end homelessness among veterans first.

The “veteran population is the first population that you can get to a functional ground zero, where it’s rare and infrequent that people are homeless,” Olson said. “Once you can do one area, you can flex your muscles and learn some things (and) move on to the next population.”

“Our business leaders value our working relationship with mayors throughout the region,” Brough

said. “It is clear we will only solve the challenges we face by working together.”

She asked Olson and Starker for suggestions on how business leaders can help mayors lead.

Starker suggested that business leaders should get involved civically, such as attending a city council meeting.

Olson agreed.

“What I fear for the business community,” she said, “is that you allow your voice to be expressed by someone else. Come to a meeting and say, `I own a business. I’m not speaking on behalf of my business, but this is my view.’ Or if you can speak on behalf of your business, all the better.

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Same with automobiles. When was the last time you saw an ad that said the cars were being sold for MSRP? Never.

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Former Colorado Avalanche goalie Philipp Grubauer recently signed a six-year, $35.4 million dollar deal with the Seattle Kraken.

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“Dr. Strangelove” is what’s known as a black comedy. It’s a 1964 film that stars Peter Sellers, who appears in three major roles.

He was nominated for Best Actor but lost out to Rex Harrison, who starred in the dreadful adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion,” titled “My Fair Lady.”

Audrey Hepburn, who trained for her singing role in the film, was furious when the decision was made to dub most of her singing (by Marni Nixon), was nominated for Best Actress, but lost out to Julie Andrews who starred in “Mary Poppins,” another movie Harry and I successfully avoid.

Dorothy Parker said, “I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.”

I met a millionaire once.

He said, “I don’t need a lot of money, but I have a lot of money.”

He said, “It’s easier to make a

million dollars than it is to paint a good painting.”

It never crossed my mind that I’d earn a million, win a million, or inherit a million.

I belong to a valiant group that calls itself Starving Artists. We don’t really starve, but when we compare our incomes to those of Philipp Grubauer and Nick Saban and some of those Hollywood stars, it feels like we’re starving.

When I was a kid, a quarter was a lot of money. My grandmother sent me a dollar for my birthday.

That was the Comstock Lode.

Before she died, she gave me one hundred dollars. That would have been an incomprehensible amount to spend when I was a boy, but less now than what it costs to have a plumber cross my threshold.

Don’t forget your canned ham.

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

Bringing mindfulness into your everyday life

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hen we bring awareness into our daily activities we are able to actively seek the joy of being alive. Living mindfully also helps us take in the beauty that surrounds us each day. Medita- LIVING & tion and mindfulAGING WELL ness are achievable for all. below are some tips on how to bring both into your everyday life.

Mindfulness and meditation are really about teaching us how to Molly Woodhull focus our awareness in the present moment. In meditation we choose to focus on one thing at a time. We will notice our mind

wandering away from the chosen anchor and with kindness and compassion we bring our awareness back. As we become better at focusing on the present moment, we gain a new awareness of the beautiful things that happen around us all the time. Plus, we spend less time ruminating about the past and fretting about the future.

MicroMeditation It is important to start your meditation practice in a way that feels realistic and accessible to you. So, feel empowered that MicroMeditations are possible. A MicroMeditation is one breath to one minute of thoughtful breathing. Take one thoughtful deep breath before or after a tough conversation. It will make a difference!

Wake to joy It has been shown that the way we start our day affects the way we end it. Instead of going straight to your phone answering emails or text messages, try and take a few deep belly breaths. It is beneficial to take 30 minutes to an hour between the time you wake up and when you start your work for the day. Do something mindful during this time. And by mindful, this means just being totally present doing something you love, something that brings you joy.

Mantras Spoken words can be a great way to focus attention. A great mantra is, “Peace begins (deep inhale) with me (deep exhale).” Leave a sticky note on your mirror to remind you of this mantra. Recite these simple words every morning

and night, and throughout the day as needed.

Peace, joy, and lightness live within all of us. Meditation and mindfulness allow us to tap into a deeper sense of peace and joy.

Molly Woodhull is a Corporate Wellness Consultant and Founder of Woodhull Wellness. To learn more contact molly@woodhullwellness.com, or call 937-361-4546.

This column is hosted by the Seniors’ Council of Douglas County.

Please join us for our next virtual online presentation Sept. 2 at 10 a.m. Molly Woodhull will be our presenter and provide an overview on meditation techniques for well-being. For more information, please visit www.MyDougCoSeniorLife.com, email DCSeniorLife@ douglas.co.us or call 303-663-7681.

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Bus stop by bus stop, Denver-area officials microtarget vaccine hesitancy The local approach could become a model for the rest of the U.S.

BY MARKIAN HAWRYLUK KAISER HEALTH NEWS

John Letson had seen too many apocalyptic movies to feel comfortable getting a COVID-19 vaccine initially.

“I was completely against it,” the 40-year-old movie buff said, referencing “I Am Legend” and “Children of Men,” in which humanity is in jeopardy, as examples of what could go wrong.

“I think an untested thing during a pandemic has later effects that we don’t know yet.”

After discussing with a doctor the various myths that have arisen about the vaccines, his opposition softened. On the way to get pizza in late June, he happened upon a mobile vaccination clinic behind a bus stop on Colfax Avenue in Aurora and got his first dose.

“I was here. They were here,” he explained, as a nurse gave him a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

The mobile clinic in the East Colfax neighborhood is part of a new push by Denver-area public health officials to find the neighborhoods where vaccinations lag behind state or county averages.

Using detailed maps that show vaccines given by ZIP code or census tract, the health departments highlight underperforming areas being masked by a county’s overall vaccination rate.

They then partner with community organizations with intimate knowledge of those neighborhoods to determine strategies to address the specific barriers keeping residents from being inoculated.

As the Biden administration seeks to boost the nation’s COVID-19 vaccine rate by going “neighborhood by neighborhood,” in the president’s words, the approach taken on Colfax Avenue could become a model for the rest of the country.

According to the National Association of County and City Health Officials, such efforts depend on the accuracy of the data and the hwillingness of jurisdictions to work together, which can .be difficult for some regions to accomplish. The Denverarea effort has managed to use granular data across seven counties to help raise the vaccination rate by an estimated 4 percentage points in one troubled Col-

John Letson gets his first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a Denver Public Health mobile vaccine clinic behind a bus stop in Aurora on June 23. Letson was nervous about getting inoculated until he spoke PHOTO BY MARKIAN HAWRYLUK/KHN to his doctor, who dispelled some of the vaccine myths he had heard.

fax area in about a month.

“We have to do the dirty work to be with the community and listen to what their actual concerns are,” Nicole Steffens, a program manager with the nonprofit Colorado Health Institute, said in a presentation on the mapping tool. “We can take all the data that we want based on large, mass groups of people on surveys with vaccine hesitancy or why people aren’t getting vaccinations, but that might not actually apply to that very specific location.”

The public health agencies cooperating in the Denver region represent 3 million Coloradans, about 60% of the state’s population. They overlay data from the state vaccine database with the COVID caseload, poverty rates and racial demographics to highlight areas of concern.

“We weren’t very surprised to see the areas that lit up,” said Meghan Prentiss, with the Tri-County Health Department, which serves Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties. “They all kind of followed those common trends of other health indicators.”

East Colfax topped the department’s priority list.

The neighborhood, which spans the border between Denver and Aurora, is one of the more impoverished in the metro area, with large numbers of immigrants and minorities, many of whom speak neither English nor Spanish.

Two-thirds of the city of Denver’s eligible residents were fully vaccinated by the end of June, compared with just above 30% in the East Colfax neighborhood.

In the 80010 and 80011 ZIP codes, which include the

Colfax corridor, fewer than half of those ages 30 to 39 were vaccinated, compared with more than 75% in more affluent Washington Park or City Park.

Part of the problem, people in the community told health officials, was transportation.

Initially, the state had set up mass vaccination clinics in the center of Denver. But many East Colfax residents have no car, relying primarily on public transit. It’s about a 50-minute ride one way on the Route 15 bus to the Ball Arena vaccine site.

For many, that was too far to venture.

“It looks great on TV to have these mass clinics where people drive through,” said Judy Shlay, an associate director who runs the immunization program for Denver Public Health, which operates the mobile vaccine clinic. “But we have to be more agile and flexible for people who are maybe more hesitant to go downtown, or because they have to take three buses to get there.”

Moreover, people in the East Colfax area often work hourly jobs as independent contractors or gig workers and get no time off to get vaccinated. And if they fall ill after getting vaccinated, they might miss another day’s pay.

So public health officials worked with transit authorities to identify where high-ridership bus lines intersected in the corridor, settling on a location by a Walmart, a Sprouts grocery store and the Little Caesars restaurant where Letson had gone to buy pizza.

On two days in late June, the mobile clinic vaccinated a total of 150 people, most

receiving their first shots.

Among them was Marley Sosa, 18, whose sister is a nurse who worked at the clinic.

“She made me feel safe about it,” he said. “People are just hesitant because it’s a new vaccine.”

Ira Milhouse, 40, who is homeless, said he got vaccinated so he could receive a $50 grocery gift card provided as an incentive.

Stephanie Aguilar, 18, came after clinic staffers walked through the shopping plaza where the van was parked, informing everyone they could get vaccinated that day.

Others inquired about the incentives but walked away unvaccinated.

Janice Robinson, 53, had come to the bus stop, part of her daily routine of “taking a ride” with no particular destination. “I don’t want the vaccine,” she said. “I don’t think I need it. I don’t really go anywhere.”

Desiree Mister, 45, had just finished a shift at Sprouts.

She was tired of wearing a mask and wanted to get vaccinated. But she wasn’t sure if she could sell her plasma if she got vaccinated. She decided she’d come back the following week after a plasma draw. (The Food and Drug Administration says people who have received COVID vaccines can continue to donate blood or sell plasma without a waiting period, although rules at plasma collection sites can vary.)

Early data, Shlay said, showed that vaccine access was highly correlated with income, and those able to connect digitally had an easier time tracking down shots. It proved much more difficult for East Colfax

residents with language barriers.

That meant the vaccine had to come to East Colfax, which has few police or fire stations, libraries or rec centers that could host vaccine clinics. “We couldn’t anchor something in there,” Shlay said. “So we had to use small organizations that maybe aren’t reaching everybody.”

One of those was the Village Exchange Center, a nonprofit just a block off Colfax Avenue. The center offers benefits to immigrants, including a food bank that serves 4,000 people a day.

Workers there inserted flyers about the vaccines into the bags of food they distributed and held information sessions.

“We have several pastors that have just said, ‘This is evil, and we’re not going to do it,’” said Amanda Blaurock, the center’s executive director. “And we respect that. We don’t go around decisions that community members have made. We just say, ‘We’re hosting it, and if you want it, we’re trying to make it as accessible as possible.’”

One census tract in the area has a recorded population of 4,389, and as of midJune, slightly more than 1,300, or about 30%, were fully vaccinated. Health officials would need to get roughly 1,700 more vaccinated to reach their 70% goal.

A month later, the rate had climbed to 34%, and health officials expect more dramatic gains in the coming weeks after people receive their second doses.

The initial success has buoyed interest in more transit-based vaccine clinics. Shontel Lewis, who represents the East Colfax area on the Regional Transportation District mass transit agency’s board of directors and spearheaded its involvement, said future clinics might be held at park-andride locations and other bus stops in underserved areas.

“The approach is often cookie-cutter. We tend to go with the same strategies, and then, when no one comes, we just throw our hands up,” Lewis said.

If the goal is to get everybody vaccinated, she said, the interventions need to be tailored to specific communities. “Our approach might be different,” she said, “but our goal is the same.”

This story is from Kaiser Health News, a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente. Used by permission. For more, khn.org.

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BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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or many Front Range residents, this summer has been about one thing: getting out. Out to see family, out to see friends, out to play, out to enjoy a cold brew that just doesn’t taste the same on the couch, out to do anything at all.

Lucky for us, this summer of friends and freedom has coincided with the opening of several new major entertainment venues and districts that seem almost tailor-made to sate our hunger for a heaping helping of fun as pandemic restrictions have eased.

And while some of these new spots are in central Denver, others have popped up in the suburbs, meaning that enjoying some of the area’s latest and greatest entertainment options don’t require a commute followed by a lengthy hunt for a parking spot.

Developer Bob Koontz began planning Pindustry — a 54,500-square-foot “eatertainment” facility that combines bowling lanes, an arcade, a massive rooftop patio and several other activities and spaces — years before anyone had ever heard of COVID-19.

But he says this summer has proven to be a great time to open such a venture, which has benefited not only from activity-hungry crowds but also people looking for ways to escape this year’s intense heat.

“We’re really above what we had projected for our opening,” said Koontz. “It seems like the public has really liked what we are offering and so we are getting some pretty good crowds.”

But while Koontz is plenty happy about Pindustry’s timing, he’s also confident that his team has created something that will continue to draw crowds and fill a niche even after the novelty of being able to go out follwing pandemic restrictions starts to wear off.

Located in an old automobile garage set amid a sprawling collection of strip malls southeast of the intersection of Arapahoe Road and I-25, Pindustry’s suburban location doesn’t exactly scream “Denver’s next hip night out destination.” After all, Pindustry isn’t even in Denver. But for Koontz, that’s exactly the point.

“We’re targeting it more to the more hip, adult kind of crowd that works in this Denver Tech Center corridor,” said Koontz. “It’s a big workforce here and it seemed like if you could put the right place together than they’d enjoy having a place where they didn’t necessarily have to go downtown after work. I think we’ve hit that chord.”

Walkable new destination in suburbia But while Pindustry’s lanes (there are not one but two kinds of bowling), games and lineup of local musical acts could keep that crowd entertained for quite some time,

Bowling lanes at Pindustry in Greenwood Village. Pindustry offers both traditional bowling and duckpin bowling.

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The new Hopdoddy restaurant at the 9+Co development in Denver.

Pindustry is just the first of a much broader range of fun-oriented businesses setting up shop in the area as part of the newly established Arapahoe Road Entertainment District.

“This is going to be the most walkable area in the whole south suburbs, which tend to be pretty car driven,” Koontz said.

Next month, Pindustry will be joined by Grange Hall, a new food hall (a first for a large swath of suburbs stretching from south Denver to Highlands Ranch and Parker) from popular Denver chef Troy Guard that will feature nine food stalls and a brewery inside a former CB Potts located across the parking lot.

The area is also already home to Cinebarre, a Regal movie theater where filmgoers can order food and drinks from an in-house restaurant and bar to enjoy during their movie, which opened in 2019. There are also plans for a new location of the popular New York burger chain Shake Shack and other fast-casual restaurants.

Something different for downtown As the Arapahoe Road Entertainment District continues to take shape, it could start to look a lot

PHOTO BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO

like McGregor Square. That’s the 659,000-square-foot development across the street from Coors Field that opened last spring and includes several restaurants and bars, a large outdoor plaza with space for cornhole and other games, and even its own food hall and a new Tattered Cover store.

On a recent weekday afternoon, Genesee resident Alex Flournoy went with a group of about 20 people to check out the new development after going to the Rockies game.

They drank at Tom’s Watch Bar, the complex’s spiffed-up sports bar that features massive TV screens divided into sections to show multiple games as well as a virtual golf simulator.

Flournoy said he liked what he was seeing from McGregor Square, which he felt was bringing a “new trendiness factor” and welcoming “community feel” to LoDo. For him, that new vibe is a nice alternative to the more sophomoric one he finds dominates the more traditional sports bars and nightclubs located nearby on Blake, Market and Larimer streets.

“As close as it may sit only one block away, it feels fresh, new, inviting and safe,” he said. “Particularly if you don’t really like or fit into the

LoDo scene.”

New neighborhoods taking shape Meanwhile, those looking to experience a new kind of night out in Denver in a spot that isn’t as intensely urban as McGregor Square can head to 9+CO, a new development rising on the site of the old University of Colorado Medical Center.

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Explore creative expressions at Walker Fine Art

BY CLARKE READER SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

All creative expression can be seen as an experiment. The creator may know what they’re aiming for, but there’s no guarantee things will pan out the way you hope.

The often-abstract act of making is what Walker Fine Art gallery owner Bobbi Walker is exploring in the new exhibit, Experimental Expressions.

“In featuring these artists who work abstractly, we are recognizing a creative act as an experiment,” Walker explained. “This can ease the weight of seriousness for the artist and allow room for free-flowing ideation through creative spontaneity and emotional expression.”

On view at the gallery, 300 W. 11th Ave., No. A, in Denver, through

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Sprawling over several blocks, the 26-acre district has more room to stretch than McGregor Square and includes green spaces, stores, outposts of Postino, Hopdoddy Burger Bar and other restaurants that have previously left their mark on the city, plus a gelato shop. However, the crown jewel of the complex is the new 10-screen AMC cinema, with such amenities as plush recliners

Saturday, Sept. 4, Experimental Expressions features the work of six artists who, according to provided information, “seek balance between inner narratives and outside influences, expanding upon their individual discoveries through sculpture, drawing, painting and mark-making.”

The participating artists (along with some information provided by the gallery) are: Atticus Adams, whose “sculptural work is inspired by the nostalgia of summers at his grandmother’s house … Adams’ sculptures are touchstones of happy times.”

Deidre Adams, for whom “making abstract work is often about solving problems of her own creations … [her] pieces present a constant and intriguing dialogue of color, form and texture.”

Carol Browning, who is working towards “unlocking the sights, sounds and movement of nature.

(She) presents visual symphonies on canvas, an expression in mark-making and vibrant color that emphasize the rhythms of life.”

Patricia Finley “presents works from her experiments with ink. In all works, color is the underlying theme, result and purpose behind her creations.”

Melanie Grein is displaying “a new body of work that projects buoyancy … Grein’s paintings, which explore relationships of space, line, color and texture, interpret land, sky and water to offer calm and solace.”

Ben Strawn, whose “newest works are predicated on a practice of automatic drawing executed in charcoal on paper. (His) constructed

images become worlds of form, abstract landscapes of shape, color, chiaroscuro, and movement.”

When putting together an exhibit, Walker said the artists communicate frequently about their work, which allows the gallery to do some pre-curation. Once the exhibits arrive, the pieces that best hold together as a cohesive whole are gathered into a show where they all compliment each other.

“I believe it is the quintessential summer exhibition, light and buoyant, punctuated with bursts of vibrant color,” Walker said. “The desire to capture the feeling of joy and release which only summer brings that is encapsulated in the artists’ dynamic compositions and use of vivid color.”

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and an upscale bar with cocktails on the menu.

“With a wide variety of restaurants and retailers now open, 9+CO is really becoming the vibrant community we always envisioned it would be,” said Frank Cannon, development director for developer Continuum Partners in a statement issued last year. “As you walk around the community, you see people who live and work here, but you also see patrons from surrounding neighborhoods who are enjoying 9+CO as a destination for dining, services and gathering spaces.”

Development in that vein has also spread to the north suburbs. While Downtown Westminster, which is located on the site of the old Westminster Mall, was taking shape before the pandemic, it has started to come into its own in the last several months with the opening of several new restaurants, plus a coffee shop and a hotel. The Alamo Drafthouse theater that first opened in 2019 has also reopened and a new Tattered Cover is slated to open in the next few weeks.

While the primary audience of suburban destinations such as Down-

town Westminster and the Arapahoe Road Entertainment Complex is people who live nearby and are looking for a day or night out, Koontz said such areas – and particularly places like Pindustry within them — will also serve another audience: those looking to host corporate events.

“There aren’t that many options for large company events,” he said.

“You can go to a hotel ballroom or places like Topgolf that have had success with company events. But you can only go to Topgolf so many times and so I think we’re offering a nice option.”

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Denver imposes sweeping vaccine order All city employees, hospital workers, teachers fall under new rule

BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

The city of Denver has announced that it will require all city employees, all workers at hospitals and nursing homes, all people who work in homeless shelters and correctional facilities, and all teachers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of September.

The Aug. 2 order comes amid a wave of vaccination mandates, but it is among the most sweeping in the nation issued by a city government.

Bob McDonald, the executive director of the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment, said the city decided to issue the order due to a surge in coronavirus cases caused by the Delta variant. The surge is moving faster than a similar increase at this time last year.

McDonald said Denver could be in for a nightmare scenario come fall — when respiratory illnesses like COVID-19 normally take off — if the city doesn’t get more people vaccinated now.

At the same time, McDonald said other protective measures — such as requiring mask-wearing or limiting capacity in indoor spaces — are now less effective because of the Delta variant’s supercharged transmissibility.

People who are unvaccinated or immunocompromised are strongly encouraged to wear masks in public spaces, McDonald said, while those who are vaccinated are encouraged to make a personal decision on masking.

But McDonald said a mask mandate can’t accomplish enough at this time to be worth it.

“We’re not going to mask our way out of this; we’re not going to test our way out of this,” McDonald said at an Aug. 2 news conference. “We need to get people vaccinated. That’s the only way we’re going to pull out

School districts across metro Denver and beyond have been revising their mask-wearing policies and other rules to address the threat of COVID-19 as the new school year approaches. And frequently, those policies have met with strong objections from many -- some feeling the rules go too far and some saying they don’t go far enough.

Some districts, such as Denver, Jeffco and Englewood, have announced mask-wearing requirements inside schools, while others, like DCSD, are strongly urging that they be used but not mandating them in school buildings.

Colorado’s public-health department released new K-12 school COVID-19 guidelines in late July, but the new guidance “does not constitute statewide requirements,” a state news release said.

Instead, the guidance outlines “best practices” for local governments and school districts.

With Tri-County Health Department -- serving Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties -- and the state deciding not to require masks, the choice of whether to mandate masks fell to school districts. of this.”

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said the order applies to all of the city’s roughly 10,000 employees, including police officers, sheriff’s deputies and firefighters. But it also applies to all teachers — whether public or private — at schools within the city. And it applies to people who work at hospitals and nursing homes, as well as other outbreakprone settings like correctional facilities and shelters for people experiencing homelessness.

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Here’s a look at what other school districts are doing, as of Aug. 5: • In Denver Public Schools, masks will be required for all students, visitors and staff while in all schools and buildings, regardless of vaccination status, according to the district’s website.

• In Aurora Public Schools, masks will be strongly recommended for all students who are unvaccinated, according to the district’s website. All staff who are vaccinated will not be required to wear face masks at schools and district sites. All staff members who are unvaccinated will be required to wear masks in the workplace.

• In Douglas County Schools, masks will be “strongly encouraged” for students 11 and younger when learning indoors. The same is true for students 12 and older who are not fully vaccinated.

Masks will not be required.

• Jeffco Public Schools will require in-school masking for ages 3 through 11. For students age 12 and above, masks indoors are strongly recommended for unvaccinated students and recommended for vaccinated students

in alignment with guidance from Jefferson County Public Health, according to a news release.

• Littleton Public Schools is planning to start the 2021-22 school year without a mask requirement.

Schools will practice physical distancing as much as is possible without disrupting the learning environment.

• In Englewood Schools, the district announced Aug. 4 that the wearing of masks by all students, visitors and staff inside its schools will be required this fall, regardless of whether a person is vaccinated for COVID-19 or not.

• For the Adams County area: In Adams 12 Five Star Schools, masks are recommended for all students, regardless of vaccination status, but are not required.

27J Schools (Brighton area) will also not require students to wear masks indoors. But in Westminster Public Schools, all students, staff and teachers will be required to wear masks when indoors. Students in all three school districts are required to wear masks on buses.

Source: Colorado Community Media staff reporting.

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July that it would require vaccination for workers. On Aug. 2, Kaiser Permanente announced it would require vaccination for all of its physicians and employees across the country, including in Colorado.

Workers covered under the city of Denver’s order will need to have received their final dose of vaccine

by Sept. 15 in order to be fully immunized by the end of that month.

Hancock said there will be narrow exemptions for medical or religious reasons. He also said the city

would work with employees who are reluctant to receive the vaccine, providing them with information to address their concerns.

But he said the city won’t be afraid to take action against city employees who refuse to get vaccinated.

“There might be some folks who may lose their jobs behind this,” Hancock said. “We recognize that.”

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Defendants: HANAN KABLI a/k/a HANAN KIM, an individual; LEILA KABLI, an individual; NEWREZ, LLC d/b/a SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING, a Delaware limited liability company; PAUL D. LOPEZ, in his official capacity as the Denver County Public Trustee; TOWN CENTER METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, a special district; EBERT METROPOLITAN DISTRICT f/k/a FIRST CREEK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, a special district; CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER; and all unknown persons who claim any interest in the subject matter of this action.

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Attorney for Plaintiff: Name: MESSNER REEVES LLP Reagan Larkin (No. 42309) Address: 1430 Wynkoop Street, Suite 300 Denver, Colorado 80202 Phone No.: (303) 623-1800 Email: rlarkin@messner.com Case No.: 2021CV031635 Division: 259

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Plaintiff Hajja Kabli seeks a declaratory judgment and to quiet title to the real property situated in the County of Denver, Colorado, and described as follows: LOT 10, BLOCK 21, GREEN VALLEY RANCH FILING NO. 56, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO and commonly known as 5538 Iran Street, Denver, Colorado 80249.

Dated this 19th day of July, 2021.

MESSNER REEVES LLP By: s/ Reagan Larkin Reagan Larkin Attorney for Plaintiff Hajja Kabli Legal Notice No. 81138 First Publication: July 29, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice District Court, Denver County, Colorado Court Address: 1437 Bannock Street Denver, Colorado 80202 Telephone: 720-865-8301 Plaintiffs(s): Michele Ducharme and Enrique Carrasco v.

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The following documents are also served herewith: Interpleader dated – May 6, 2021.

Dated this 7th day of May, 2021 /s/Steve Roberts Steve Roberts, Esq. #41944 Attorney for Plaintiff Legal Notice No. 81133 First Publication: July 29, 2021 Last Publication: August 12, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO 1437 Bannock Street, Room 256 Denver, CO 80202 (303) 606-2300 Plaintiffs: ORGANIC GROWTH HOLDINGS, LTD., a Florida Corporation v.

Defendants: KATE HATFIELD a/k/a KATHLEEN MARIE HATFIELD d/b/a QUEEN BEE ALCHEMY, LTD. and/or QU Attorneys for Plaintiffs: Attorney: Andrew J. Gibbs, No. 33632 Steven A. Flaxman, No. 52294 Benjamin E. Tracy, No. 30114 Tueller & Gibbs, LLP Address: 1601 Blake Street, Suite 300 Denver, Colorado 80202 Phone No. (303) 854-9121 Fax No. Declined pursuant to C.R.C.P. 5(b) Email: agibbs@tuellergibbs.com sflaxman@tuellergibbs.com btracy@tuellergibbs.com Case No.: 2021CV31745 SUMMONS

Public Notice

M1 Towing lot address 2810 W. 62nd Ave, Denver, Co 80221, 720-364-1160 is applying for title.

Legal Notice No. 81164 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 12, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice Broncos Towing, 303-722-3555 (office) will be applying for title to the following vehicles, abandoned.

1) 2011 Ford Escape Silver Vin. A09232 Legal Notice No. 81131 First Publication: July 29, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice Notice of Self Storage Sale Please take notice ClearHome Self Storage Denver located at 1830 S Bannock St., Denver CO 80223 intends to hold a sale to sell the property stored at the Facility by the below list of Occupants whom are in default at a Auction.

The sale will occur as an online auction via www. storagetreasures.com on 8/25/2021 at 12:00 PM. Jason Sovaiko unit #103; James Hunter unit #P24.

This sale may be withdrawn at any time without notice. Certain terms and conditions apply. See manager for details.

Legal Notice No. 81145 First Publication: August 5, 2021 Last Publication: August 12, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jack Edward Casey, aka Jack E. Casey, aka Jack Casey, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30847.

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court, Colorado or on or before December 6, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Personal Representative: Scott Casey 7580 Britneywoods Circle Arlington, TN 38002 Legal Notice No. 81147 First Publication: August 5, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of RICHARD L. COOK, AKA Richard Cook, AKA Dick L. Cook, AKA Dick Cook, Deceased Case Number 2021PR030834 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 December 5, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

PUBLIC NOTICE

Craig A. Cook, Personal Representative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Nancy Mackay Todd, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30908

Legal Notice No. 81146 First Publication: August 5, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of CATHERINE C. CAMPBELL, a/k/a CATHERINE COOPER CAMPBELL, a/k/a CATHIE CAMPBELL, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30849 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 November 29, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kendall Deanne Heise, Personal Representative c/o Steven R. Hutchins, Esq. Hutchins & Associates LLC 1999 Broadway, Suite 1400 Denver, Colorado 80202

Cynthia Kay Todd Personal Representative Margaret Pryor Todd Personal Representative c/o Stephen M. Thompson, Esq. 7061 CR 110 Salida, Colorado 81201 Legal Notice No. 81139 First Publication: July 29, 2021 Last Publication: August 12, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE

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 December 6, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jo Ann Hayes, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30993 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 12/05/2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Timothy Peach, Co-Personal Representative 2251 West Dry Creek Road Littleton, CO 80120 Anthony G. Westenhaver, Co-Personal Representative 4743 W. Moncrieff Place Denver, CO 80212

William A. Benson, Personal Representative P.O. Box 533 Palmer Lake, Colorado 80133 Legal Notice No. 81148 First Publication: August 5, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of James A. Herrera, aka James Allen Herrera, and James Herrera, Deceased Case Number: 21 PR 30871 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 December 6, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 81151 First Publication: August 5, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Peggy Jane Dent, Deceased Case Number: 21 PR 0239 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 December 6, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jennifer Jordan, Personal Representative 2485 S. Garfield Street Denver, Colorado 80210 Legal Notice No. 81142 First Publication: August 5, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Reuben Herrera, Personal Representative 2616 S. Stuart Way Denver, Colorado 80219 Legal Notice No. 81150 First Publication: August 5, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mary Andrews Chenoweth, Deceased Case No.: 2021PR31066 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, Colorado, on or before December 13, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Eva Wallin, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 31057 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 December 12, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lamaint Wallin, Personal Representative c/o Law Office of Jennifer S. Gormley, PC 6060 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., Suite 300 Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111

Stephen A. Bain Co-Personal Representative 671 Humboldt St. Denver, CO 80218 William B. Bain Co-Personal Representative 17 Sea Hero Terrace Colorado Springs, CO 80906 Legal Notice No. 81156 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch Public Notice

Legal Notice No. 81165 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of MARGO WENDELIN, Deceased Case Number 2021 PR 31003 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 December 12, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 81154 First Publication: August 12, 2021

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 November 29, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Eugene Leonard Benson, aka Eugene L. Benson, aka Eugene Benson, aka Gene Benson, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30958

Legal Notice No. 81136 First Publication: July 29, 2021 Last Publication: August 12, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Ted Wendelin, Personal Representative 2635 Wolff Street Denver, CO 80212

Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of HAROLD FREDERICK O’LEARY, also known as HAROLD F. O’LEARY, aka HAROLD O’LEARY, and HAL O’LEARY, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31009 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 December 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kathy Gingery, Personal Representative PO Box 780 Tabernash, CO 80478 Legal Notice No. 81160 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Seems like old times at Renaissance Festival

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BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After a year off due to the pandemic, King Henry and the Colorado Renaissance Festival have returned to Douglas County for the 2021 season. The festival, in its 44th year, opened July 3 continues on weekends through Aug. 22.

As in years past, visitors can experience a magical tour through time and legend. The village streets and pathways are filled with master revelers, artisans working hard to create original works of art, and let ye not forget the food and beverages.

The entertainment brings the show alive with live music, plus shows displaying a variety of talents from Cydeshow Cy swallowing real swords, to an angelic performer serves as a “live fountain.”

Food is also a popular draw. From the King’s Pantry, visitors can enjoy some steak on a stick, or the pork tails and turkey legs from Canterbury Kitchens. Throughout the entire village, there is an abundance of beer options.

It was all good vibes as the 44th Renaissance Festival is back this year after being canceled last year.

PHOTO BY THELMA GRIMES

Part of the magic of the annual festival, held in the south Douglas County town of Larkspur, is the abundance of visitors coming in full costume, engaging fully in the spirt of the past.

The festival’s final open weekend are Aug. 14-15 and Aug. 21-22. For tickets and information for the 2021 festival, visit the website at coloradorenaissance.com.

consulted with local public health officials on the decision to require masks.

“Given the current conditions and vaccination rates, and the advice of our partners at Denver Health, this masking requirement is the right thing to do for the health and safety of our students and staff,” he wrote. Marrero added that he is hopeful COVID conditions will improve “and that we will be able to relax health restrictions soon.”

Masks will not be required outdoors, the email says, nor will they be required for vaccinated staff members who are working alone in their offices or workspaces.

Denver Public Schools is the largest school district in the state with more than 90,000 students.

Denver’s policy is in line with guidance from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which said recently that all students and staff should wear masks regardless of vaccination status.

A new order from Denver Mayor Michael Hancock also requires that teachers and other school personnel be fully vaccinated by Sept. 30.

This story is from Chalkbeat Colorado, a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools. Used by permission. For more, and to support Chalkbeat, visit co.chalkbeat.org.

Public Notices Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Michael W. Parks, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR030902 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 November 29, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kim Diggs, Personal Representative 5105 S Ceylon Street Centennial, CO 80015 Legal Notice No. 81134 First Publication: July 29, 2021 Last Publication: August 12, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Arthur Matthew Buder Jr, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31113 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to Denver Probate Court, Denver, Colorado on or before January 5, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Charlene Musick, Personal Representative 13800 E. Marina Dr., Unit 510 Aurora, CO 80014 Legal Notice No. 81163 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Constantinos Mavrocefalos, Deceased Case Number 2021PR30938 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 December 6, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Eleni Mavrokefalos Personal Representative 2903 South Columbine Street Denver, Colorado 80210 Legal Notice No. 81144 First Publication: August 5, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Michelle DeNieu, aka Michelle Christine DeNieu, aka Michelle C. DeNieu, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31020 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 December 13, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Timothy D. DeNieu, Personal Representative

c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 81155 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mario Rivoli, Deceased Case Number: 21 PR 30856 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 November 29, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Horsley, Personal Representative P.O. Box 201003 Denver, Colorado 80220 Legal Notice No. 81127 First Publication: July 29, 2021 Last Publication: August 12, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JOAN ANNA-MAY CORYELL, Deceased Case Number 21 PR 30886 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 December 13, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Margaret A. Caldwell Personal Representative 11807 E. Atlantic Ave. Aurora, CO 80014

Case Number: 2021PR31004 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 December 13, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Janet L. Lunnon, Personal Representative c/o Keith L. Davis, JD Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 81167 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Angelina Antonia Valverde, a/k/a Angelina A. Valverde, and/or Angelina Valverde, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30909 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 December 13,. 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Estate of Angelina Antonia Valverde Stanley J. Valverde, Jr., Personal Representative c/o Branaugh Law Office, P.C. 8700 Ralston Road Arvada, CO 80002 Legal Notice No. 81157 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of BONITA J. BOEX, a/k/a BONITA JEAN BOEX, a/k/a BONITA BOEX, a/k/a BONNIE J. BOEX, a/k/a BONNIE BOEX, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR030977

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of HOMER LUVOIS TIREY, JR., a/k/a HOMER L. TIREY, JR., a/k/a HOMER TIREY, JR., AND H.L. TIREY, JR., Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30997

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 November 29, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 6, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Edwin J. Baker, Jr., Personal Representative 2495 S. Quebec Street, No. 50 Denver, Colorado 80231

Legal Notice No. 81153 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Amber T. Wingate, Personal Representative 9607 Summer River Drive Richmond, Texas 77406 Legal Notice No. 81149 First Publication: August 5, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Donald E. Lunnon, a/k/a Donald Eugene Lunnon, Deceased

Legal Notice No. 81141 First Publication: July 29, 2021 Last Publication: August 12, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

may be forever barred.

Denver, CO 80203

Persons Giving Notice: Lambert Cadwalader Bunker 1055 S. Fillmore Way Denver, CO 80209

Legal Notice No. 81159 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE

Jeanie Cobb Bunker 14640 W. 90th Street Lenexa, KS 66215

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Henry Marquez, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30738

Legal Notice No. 81130 First Publication: July 29, 2021 Last Publication: August 12, 2021 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 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Lucas Paul Hardy, also known as Lucas P. Hardy, and Luke Paul Hardy, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31022 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 December 13, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gregory Diez Marquez Personal Representative 2217 Valrico Forest Drive Valrico, Florida 33594 Legal Notice No. 81143 First Publication: August 5, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Name Changes

Blair Niles Taylor, Personal Representative 2028 Glencoe Street Denver CO 80207 Legal Notice No. 81161 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on July 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child was filed with the Denver District Court

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of CHRISTEL L. SZCZESNIAK, a.k.a. CHRISTEL SZCZESNIAK, Deceased Case Number 2021 PR 30913 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver County Probate Court, Denver, Colorado, on or before December 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

TIMOTHY D. GOOD, Personal Representative 5105 DTC Parkway, Suite 315 Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111 Telephone: 303-773-9889

The Petition requests that the name of Gabriella Yvette Evans-Velazquez be changed to Gabriella Yvette Velazquez Case No.: 20 C 00713 Terrie Langham, Clerk of Court By: Deputy Clerk Redated: July 30, 2021 By: Judge Legal Notice No. 81166 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 12, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Legal Notice No. 81158 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice is given on August 3, 2021 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the County Court, City and County of Denver.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Carol Ann Bronder aka Carol A. Bronder, aka Carol Bronder, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 31049

The Petition requests that the name of Sirat Al’Abeed Ben Tai Salim be changed to Sirat Al B. Salim Case NO. 21C00497

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Emma C. Bunker, Sr., a/k/a Emma Cadwalader Bunker, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30925

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 December 13, 2021 or the claims may be forever barred.

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before November 29, 2021, or the claims

Sean D. Flannery, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. Personal Representative 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100

By: K. Lees Clerk of Court/Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 81162 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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