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Historic Denver highlights 50 places worth celebrating Residents encouraged to visit sites, in-person or virtually BY CLARKE READER SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

A sidewalk ends on Josephine Street by East High School, in an Aug. 24 photo.

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Denver gets more serious about sidewalks Officials look at ways to improve, extend pedestrian routes BY DAVID SACHS DENVERITE

If you report a pothole, the Denver Department of Transporta-

tion and Infrastructure promises to fix it within three days. If you report a broken sidewalk, it could take around 50 years to get fixed, according to a report by the city

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Suncor air pollution monitoring begins Activists underwhelmed, monitoring law still to come BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

The Suncor refinery’s voluntary

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air pollution monitoring site is now live on the internet, and the Commerce City petroleum refiner will add mobile van monitoring

reports next week. The refinery, which has battled neighborhood activists and environmental groups for years over toxic air and water emissions that SEE POLLUTION, P6

Most people in the metro area are at least a little familiar with historic sites like the Molly Brown House in Capitol Hill and the Brown Palace hotel in downtown Denver. But there’s undoubtedly some who will not recognize the Rosedale House or the Wellshire Inn. The Wellshire Inn — located in the Wellshire neighborhood — was built in the 1920s as a golf club house. The Tudor building has since become an event center. “The size and architectural style are uncommon in Denver. The building is distinctive and a landmark, sitting up high above the golf course,” said Kendra Black, Denver councilmember for District 4. “The story should be told and the building and course should be preserved.” Historic Denver wants people to know more stories like these, and that’s the aim of the new 50 Actions for 50 Places campaign. The project SEE PLACES, P2

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was launched to mark the 50th anniversary of the organization. “We wanted to try to recapture the original grassroots spirit that led us to preserve places that are important,” said Annie Levinsky, Historic Denver’s executive director. “At the time, we had one of the largest memberships in the country and we want to get back to that. People often think preservation is something older people do, but it really is multi-generational.” The list of 50 places was gathered through a months-long campaign that solicited the Denver community for places and spaces that deserve to have their story told and memorialized in the coming years. Historic Denver received more than 100 nominations and selected options that recognize the full diversity of the city. The resulting list includes arts and entertainment sites, civic assets, cultural landmarks and homes. One such home is located at 780 Steele St. in the Congress Park neighborhood, which was the residence of Judge Raymond Jones, who was the first African American appellate judge in Colorado. According to information provided by Travis Leiker, president and executive director of Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods, Jones attended Harvard, was a judge for 32 years and is a member of the Colorado Black Hall of Fame. “All too often, the stories of his-

The residence of Judge Raymond Jones, which is located at 780 Steele St. in the Congress Park neighborhood, is one of the sites included in Historic Denver’s 50 Actions for 50 Places campaign. Jones was the first African American appellate judge in Colorado, and his home is being recognized as a remarkable residence.

The Rosedale House, 2199 S. Bannock St., is one of the sites included in Historic Denver’s 50 Actions for 50 Places campaign. The Rosedale House is one of the few remaining homes that were part of the town of Rosedale, which is now part of the PHOTOS COURTESY OF HISTORIC DENVER Overland neighborhood.

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covered the same was true for Judge Raymond Jones,” Leiker said. “This property, and the story of Judge Jones, represent one’s perseverance, defiance against all odds, and should be a fixture in our community today and for our posterity.” Some of the places readily welcome visitors, while others are great for walking by to appreciate the design and its history, like the Rosedale House, 2199 S. Bannock St. The Rosedale House is one of the few remaining homes that were part of the town of Rosedale, which is now part of the Overland neighborhood — not to be confused with the neighboring Rosedale neighborhood, which is just east of Overland. The modest Queen Anne home was

part of the first development built by George Timerman in 1887. People need to know that street names and cities change over the course of 100 years, said Karen Jackson, owner of the home and nominator. “The original Rosedale is now Overland and was probably beautiful for decades. Over the years, many homes fell in disrepair, but I always knew it was a diamond in the rough,” Jackson said. “I feel like the home picked me and I’m the caretaker chosen to save the home and its history.” The actions that will be embarked upon are as varied as the sites themselves, Levinsky said. Some will require research about their history; others, technical assistance; and some, recognition through state or national programs. “We’ll be working with the property owners and community members who nominated the sites to develop a plan,” Levinsky said. “We’ve raised $50,000 for the campaign, and residents can get involved by donating to SEE PLACES, P3

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BY SONYA ELLINGBOE AND CLARKE READER SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Pow Wow, cultural celebration returns The 32nd Annual Denver Art Museum Friendship Pow Wow and American Indian Cultural Celebration will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 12 at the Denver Indian Center, 4407 Morrison Road. A portion of the proceeds will support the Denver Indian Center. There will be Indian dance competitions and hands-on activities for the whole family. Food will be provided by Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery. Masks are required indoors and for all attendees at the Pow Wow. Information: 720-865-5000 or visit denverartmuseum.org. Denver Calling and adventure awaits History Colorado’s mystery quest in the Mile High City is back for a new season in “Denver Calling: The Lost Book of Astrid Lee (Vol. 2).” The interactive event is open to teams of any size and begins on Friday, Sept. 3, and runs through Sunday, Sept. 19. The event takes you on a self-guided, COVID-19 conscious episodic adventure where you solve puzzles in search of local history. Organized by History Colorado’s Public Programs and Events Manager Chris Getzan and creative influencer Andrew Novick in collaboration with Barry Osborne of Denver’s Swallow Hill Music, according to provided information. People must start in the first week to get the full experience. Interested

The 32nd Annual Denver Art Museum Friendship Pow Wow and American Indian Cultural Celebration will be held Sept. 12 at the Denver Indian Center on Morrison Road. COURTESY PHOTO

participants have until Sunday, Sept. 5, to register. More information can be found at h-co.org/MysteryQuest. Curious Theatre returns Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, begins its season Sept. 18 with “The Lifespan of a Fact” by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell and Gordon Farrell, directed by Christy Montour-Larson. 303-623-0524, curioustheatre.org. Go music shopping with KGNU You’ll be surrounded by people by

music collectors at KGNU’s 2nd annual Yard Bazaar, held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 4, at the station’s new Denver location at the Buell Public Media Center, 2101 Arapahoe St. in Denver. The yard sale will feature some of the station’s DJs to soundtrack the vinyl and CD shopping. Visit kgnu. org/ for all the details on donating your own items and/or the sale. While the COVID-19 pandemic continues, public events frequently are canceled or rescheduled. Check with organizers before you go.

our organization or a specific project.” Even if you’re not comfortable going out and about to see the sites in person, Historic Denver has you covered — on its website, you can virtually visit all the locations and learn something about them. “Preservation has a reputation for being reactive, but we want to get ahead of things and support these places and the people who take care of them,” Levinsky said. “Seeing these places is a great way to get to know the city.” Bringing these spaces and places more attention is what the campaign is really about, and if people can become more appreciative of what is around them, so much the better. “The home of Dr. Charles Blackwood, the first Black graduate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, was recently demolished,” Leiker said. The home was located in Denver’s Whittier neighborhood. “This is a reminder that unless we focus our efforts on preserving the buildings and the stories that go with them, our city will lose out on its unique heritage.”

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Inside Denver’s reunified West High School Facility is once again a single comprehensive high school BY MELANIE ASMAR CHALKBEAT COLORADO

Principal Mia Martinez Lopez stood at the entrance of the gym on Aug. 25, her back against one side of a bright orange double door. As students streamed by, Martinez Lopez greeted them. “Good morning, good morning, good to see you,” she said. “Make sure your mask is pulled up, OK? Hi, hi, good morning. We’re going to sit with our grade, OK?” Martinez Lopez was welcoming students to the first pep rally of the school year — and the first ever pep rally of the reunified West High School. Ten years after the historic school was split into two smaller ones in an attempt to boost academic scores, the school is once again a single comprehensive high school with about 850 students spread over three stories. A new reunified middle school, West Middle School, shares the same building. At this time last year, middle and high school students were learning from home, often seeing their peers only as boxes on a video call. This year, students from the two small schools — West Early College and West Leadership Academy — are starting the year in person, together. “It’s better now that we aren’t fighting about which side is better,” said sophomore Gianna Morello, who previously attended West Early College. “We can all work as a team.” The West High reunification represents an undoing of more than a decade of education reform efforts in Denver Public Schools.

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Some of those reforms, like breaking up large high schools that served communities of color, proved deeply unpopular. At West, students advocated for reunification to quash what some saw as a rivalry between the two small schools and to resurrect a neighborhood hub with a proud history. West was founded in 1883, making it one of Denver’s oldest schools, and its current grand building dates back to 1924. Many students are the second or third generation in their family to attend. West also has a history of activism. In 1969, Chicano students held marches against the racism and discrimination they experienced in the classroom in protests known as the West High “blowout.” Students from other high schools across the city joined in. A similar high school reunification will happen next year in far northeast Denver, where Montbello High School was split into three smaller schools the year before West. West High junior Nico GomezLucero described the reunification as the breaking of an invisible barrier that divided students for a reason he never understood. Gomez-Lucero previously attended West Early College. But he’s thrilled that when he graduates next year, his diploma will say West High School, just like his mother’s diploma. “Breaking that wall opens us to more leaders and opens us to more people who have ideas and have thoughts,” Gomez-Lucero said. “That builds our community and that builds our family.” He and other students said they were nervous for the first day of school last week. Even though they’re attending school in the same building as always, they don’t know half of their classmates.

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The two small schools previously had separate classes, separate bell schedules, separate dress codes and separate traditions. Students played on sports teams and held pep rallies and dances together, but they said a de facto division still existed. Senior America Tinoco said that when she and her cousin joined cheerleading several years ago, they were the only girls from West Leadership Academy on the team. “It was always on my mind, like, `Why are there two separate schools?’” Tinoco said. Senior Erica Luzayadio, who went to West Early College, agreed. “It felt like we were always cliqued up, even playing sports together,” Luzayadio said. Both seniors are happy that West High is reunified, even if it made the first week more awkward. In a sense, all 850 students at West are like freshmen in a new school. “I like it,” Luzayadio said. The school, she said, “just feels ‘one’ now.” Back in the gymnasium, teachers directed students to sit with their class: freshmen on one set of bleachers, sophomores on another, and so on. After the hype music died down, students watched informational videos, had a basketball free throw contest, and competed in a scavenger hunt.

Students walk into the reunified West High School on the third day of school this year.

Then Assistant Principal Derek Pike took the microphone. “You’ve heard all week about West High School making history this year,” he told the students. “We are the first school in all of

Denver to unify as a campus and come together. “Make some noise for making history this year!” he said. And the students in the gym roared.

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The Suncor Energy oil refinery in Commerce City on July 18. PHOTO BY KATHRYN SCOTT/SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN

Moreno said at a community clean air conference this week. Suncor’s voluntary monitoring site can be found at ccnd-air.com, for Commerce City North Denver Air Monitoring. The upper-right corner of the web page shows realtime overall air quality monitoring numbers from state equipment, providing the Air Quality Index for a handful of communities. The map dominating the main web page gives numbered, clickable points representing the fixed monitors around Suncor’s large footprint in Commerce City. Those sites, operated by Montrose Air Quality Services, provide 60-minute averages of measured pollutants including carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, PM 2.5 particulate matter, hydrogen sulfide and volatile organic compounds. The information is available in Spanish and English.

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dams City needed three innings to dispatch Manual High School 15-0 in Commerce City Aug. 25. The Eagles scored eight runs in the first inning to make matters easy. Louise Diaz homered in the first inning, scored three runs and drove in two. Sherea Ortiz, Rilie Ortega, Leyla Jaquez and Yazmin Caldera had base hits for ACHS. Ortiz and Aubrie Welling had Adams City’s other RBIs. Jaquez was the starting pitcher. She threw a one-hitter and struck out six of the 10 batters she faced.

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to fix even though they are in the public right-of-way. Home and business owners who border Denver’s walkways are by law responsible for fixing and building them. The approach dates back to the 1950s when the city government fell in love with the automobile and sort of decided that walking was over, said Jill Locantore, executive director of the Denver Streets Partnership, the city’s foremost bearpoker on sustainable transportation issues. “And it turned out that, you know, not only is that impractical — there’s still a huge portion of the population that can’t drive — but also people like walking,” Locantore said. “Walking is a pleasant and efficient way to get around. And it makes zero sense that we should provide no infrastructure for that most basic form of human movement.” Walking is also an official climate priority of the Hancock administration, which has committed to building a city where half of all commutes are made without driving a car solo. The latest census figures put solo driving at 73% of all city commutes. That’s one of the reasons voters approved $48 million to start filling in 300 miles worth of gaps in the sidewalk network. Denver also dipped its toe into the sidewalk

game in 2018 with a law, sponsored by City Councilmember and pedestrian Paul Kashmann, that created a fund to help residents pay for their sidewalk repairs. The bucket of money was part of a sidewalk repair program that officials thought, at the time, would enforce the law and ease the financial burden on locals, sending the city’s sidewalk woes walking. It didn’t work. Denver Auditor Tim O’Brien documented as much in a biting assessment that found Denver’s slow pace and inefficiently set-up program needed serious adjustments if it was going to deliver on what was promised. And that’s just for the sidewalk repair piece. Completely building out sidewalks would take hundreds of years at the current pace, Locantore said. Kashmann, who helped develop the city’s first if inadequate permanent funding source for walkways, agreed. “We have made more progress on rebuilding our pedestrian infrastructure in the past five years than since the founding of our city,” Kashmann told Denverite. “Unfortunately, while retrofitting our city is daunting, it must be done and our pace has been far too slow.” “We need to look at how this is set up in the ordinance and where these responsibilities lie,” Williams said. He understands why members of the public are frustrated, but said the transportation department needs to thread the needle. Los Angeles set a scary precedent

Veteran finds healing and meaning through farming She’s the lavender farmer at Denver Botanic Gardens’ Chatfield Farms site BY CLARISSA GUY ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

For Zephrine Hanson, farming is healing. She believes a garden reflects your mental and physical health. “Maybe I’m not giving myself enough water. Maybe I’m not being patient with the seeds I’ve planted. Maybe I need to spend some more time getting the weeds out of my garden,” she said. Zephrine Hanson is the lavender farmer at Denver Botanic Gardens’ Chatfield Farms site, near the Jefferson County section of Littleton. While Hanson was very interested in farming at a young age, it took her a few decades to find her way to it. Hanson joined the Air Force after high school and became a photojournalist. When she left the Air Force after eight years, her passion for health, healing, and wellness — for herself and her family — became a priority. Hanson, her husband, and three children moved to Colorado, and she began talking with other veterans

about her passions. A fellow veteran shared information about the Chatfield Farms Veterans Program that helps veterans develop valuable skills for a career in farming. Hanson applied. The program consists of what Hanson calls “university work” or “bookwork” as well as hands-on work with the plants. The time spent with plants was very healing for her, “even when it’s a bit noisy,” she said, laughing as a small plane hummed overhead. During the program, the veterans worked with lavender, which Hanson already had a personal connection with: Her children had eczema when they were younger, and she frequently made them a natural body butter with the plant. While in the program, Hanson made it again as a gift — a gift of physical healing. She asked her instructors what was going to happen to all the lavender, which is primarily used for display. “They said, ‘Go ahead, Zephrine, have at it,’” she recalled. And so she became in charge of maintaining the lavandins — yes, lavandins. Lavandin is a naturally occurring hybrid of English lavender (the most well-known type) and Portuguese lavender. While there are many differences between lavandin and lavenders, SEE VETERAN, P15

for governments when it said they would bear responsibility for sidewalks. In the 1980s, L.A. used federal grants to start the work but when the money dried up, it got sued for $1.4 billion. The fix lies in making the public right-of-way a responsibility of the public sector and actually funding it — with city dollars, Locantore said. “We’re asking them to take over responsibility for sidewalks, but also establish a sustainable funding source so that you can in fact build out the network and not end up in a situation like Los Angeles,” she said. Transportation officials are looking into a permanent and significant stream of money to build and maintain sidewalks — just like the streets department uses taxpayer dollars to handle roads, Kashmann said. “I do believe that we need to have a system in which people pay a small amount each month, or quarterly, so when their sidewalks need repair, they are covered. Because eventually, all property owners will need to repair their walks,” Kashmann said. “And yes, we certainly need to address missing walks, and I don’t know if it’s fair to expect property owners to install walks on their property when for decades we’ve ignored the issue. Those bills are far too steep for many homeowners.” Kashmann and his colleagues have been mulling sidewalk taxes and fees since 2018. More recently, Kashmann, along with city councilmembers Chris Hinds and Jolon Clark, have been discussing next

steps with Mayor Michael Hancock’s transportation department. But the councilmember also said the transportation department has canceled the last two meetings. “I do not minimize the complexity or cost of this task, but it is simply one that we have to begin addressing methodically, efficiently and fairly,” Kashmann said. “I hope our agency partners will redouble their efforts as willing partners. We can try to force things on our own, but I think things get done better as a more collaborative ‘we.’” Williams, with the Hancock administration, said everything is on the table. Some options include fees, others don’t, he said. Wherever the streets department lands, it plans to get things rolling at the end of this year. But there’s another major wrinkle. The city’s initial assessment of the sidewalk system was dire, with a cost of $1.3 billion to fix and an estimated 40% of streets with either missing or subpar sidewalks, according to the Denveright Pedestrian & Trails plan. Williams said that while the city does not have new figures, its experiment with the sidewalk repair program made clear that DOTI underestimated the breadth and depth of the problem. “The conditions are worse than we initially anticipated,” he said. This story is from Denverite, a nonprofit Denver news source affiliated with CPR News. Used by permission. For more, and to support Denverite, visit denverite.com.

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A music writer’s online resource captures pop music’s roots

BY KEVIN SIMPSON THE COLORADO SUN

he cardboard storage boxes form a chronological grid, left to right, on an entire basement wall — stacked five tall and 10 across, starting with the 1970s on the top left. They contain artifacts spanning generations of musical acts: press kits, publicity photos, notes and writings that chronicle an era and chart a collision course with history. In the last several years they’ve become G. Brown’s creative lodestar. The 67-year-old longtime fixture in Colorado’s music media — he has chronicled the scene both in print and on the radio since his high school days — has channeled his professional life toward preserving and cataloging the state’s popmusic legacy. “My gift — the luck — was that I was writing for a major daily newspaper, when that meant something,” says Brown, whose work appeared for 26 years in the pages of The Denver Post from 1977 to 2003. It was a period when a few major record labels ruled pop music, and a vinyl album release — and the attendant buzz over cover art and liner notes — fueled much-anticipated tours and fed a music writer’s hunger for the big interview. “It’s really hard to think of just how many generations don’t even know about the hard goods, just that idea of someone’s records coming out and caring about the liner notes and all that,” Brown says. “But that was my life. And I got to see everything.” Brown’s late-career passion project pours the contents of all those basement boxes, and all that he saw and heard, into a digital platform that didn’t even exist when many of the artists performed at the height of their talents. In his two-year-old nonprofit, the Colorado Music Experience, he’s building what he envisions as a highly inclusive online historical archive at colomusic.org. The site features profiles, podcasts, videos and photos of artists whose connection to the state ranged from memorable performances to visits to deep-rooted institutions like the legendary Caribou Ranch in west Boulder County, where many performers sought high-altitude inspiration and round-the-clock access to a recording studio. Profiles feature stars like Earth, Wind & Fire’s Philip Bailey, a Denver East High alum and one of the many who recorded at Caribou. Videos celebrate acts like country-rock group Poco, whose musical family tree flourished far and wide. There’s

Colorado Music Experience founding director and author G. Brown poses for a portrait June 10.

even an extended nod to early 20th-century artists like Elizabeth Spencer, Colorado icon Glenn Miller and others. More than two dozen (and counting) podcasts feature superstars like Graham Nash sitting down in a local studio. Overall, the podcasts trace the arc of Brown’s experience writing about not only classic pop performers, but also newer Colorado-centered artists like The Fray and the Lumineers. The exploration of Brown’s personal archives also gave birth to another, more conventional historical project. He’s already three volumes into an ambitious 21-book series called “On Record,” which eventually will tell the year-by-year story of pop music in America from 1978 to 1998. Each book features roughly 350 pages of bite-sized historical perspective gleaned from his archival interviews and photos. Though not a Colorado-centric undertaking, proceeds from the books’ sales go back to the nonprofit Colorado Music Experience. “I’ve got a passion for this stuff,” Brown says. “I did not start it out of spite, or to compete with anyone. But no one’s doing this work, OK? So it’s on me and that’s what I should be doing.” The gig that catapulted him to prominence and allowed him to accrue decades of pop music history ended abruptly in 2003, when he resigned from the Post in the wake of the discovery that one of his concert previews contained sentences lifted from another article. That triggered an investigation of his previous year’s work that found 12 more passages from other publications. Brown maintains his mistakes were unintentional but that he should have been more careful in

his writing. He calls the episode “the worst time of my professional life.” “I read voraciously, everything I could, to be well-informed,” he says. “It bit me in the ass and I got sloppy. I’ll definitely cop to that. But I don’t think that the people who disparaged my work get to define my legacy. I worked too hard for that to happen.” Brown immediately moved to a radio job at KCUV, a Denver-area progressive rock station where he helped build a small but loyal following. But ownership pulled the plug five years later, citing low ratings and the faltering economy. Brown shifted his focus to helping launch the Colorado Music Hall of Fame — he served seven years as a founding director — and also drew on his vast inventory of music history to tackle multiple book projects. All paths ultimately led him toward the Colorado Music Experience. Initially, Brown imagined the wide-ranging historical reach of the Colorado Music Experience not as a website, but as a bricks-and-mortar, physical space where patrons could eat and drink while immersed in Colorado music artifacts. He imagined a partnership with a brewery or dispensary or even a coffee shop. “But bottom line, I didn’t want to get into the bar and restaurant business.” Then a friend asked Brown if he knew how to podcast. For someone who had extensive experience in radio, worked as a tuxedoed ring announcer for pro wrestling in the late 1980s and once hosted a Saturday morning cartoon show as “Uncle G,” podcasts weren’t a big leap. “So, instead of the bricks and mortar,” he says, “we focused on building that archive of people in

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READ (AND HEAR) MORE ONLINE To read a longer version of this story, including highlights from G. Brown’s career, and to listen to a top 50 playlist of Colorado songs, visit tinyurl.com/GBrownStory. Colorado music history who have a story to tell. And it was very liberating to be inclusive instead of exclusive — which is what a Hall of Fame entails. That’s all political — who goes in, who goes out. I want to do things on merit.” In addition to the site’s catalog of podcasts, there’s a robust selection of videos. Brown earlier had worked on what were essentially mini-documentaries that served as tribute videos for Hall of Fame inductions. He expanded on that model to add visuals to dozens of other artist profiles. “I spent the last two and a half years just building it up to where I think it’s a pretty compelling, and entertaining, repository for Colorado music history,” Brown says. “The Colorado Music Experience is one of those passion projects,” says Jon Rizzi, editor of Colorado Avid Golfer and a collaborator with Brown. “And it’s kind of a cliché, but G.’s enthusiasm is totally contagious. Not only is he a very good student of the genres that he covers but he’s also just a fan. He loves music. And you have to love something to really be a connoisseur.” This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Summons and Sheriff Sale Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: 1437 Bannock Street Denver, CO 80202 Plaintiffs: PETER R. SCHWARZ, JR. and JANELLE ELISE SCHWARZ. v. Defendants: 1. THE ESTATE OF CHARLES R. WILSON; 2. THE ESTATE OF CAROL ELAINE WILSON; 3. WENDY LOUISE ALEXIS; and, 4. BRIAN CHARLES WILSON. Attorney: Robert W. Smith, Attorney for Plaintiffs 3900 East Mexico Avenue, Suite 300 Denver, CO 80210 Phone Number: (720) 506-9218 Email: BobSmith@rwsmithlaw.com FAX Number: (303) 927-0809 Atty. Reg. #: 9513 Case Number: 2021-CV-31811 Courtroom 269 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: The Estate of Charles R. Wilson. You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court. If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice. This is an action to obtain a declaratory judgment that Plaintiffs are the sole owners of property they purchased in the City and County of Denver that is commonly known as 4891 South Garrison Street. Dated: August 20, 2021. /s/ Robert W. Smith Attorney for Plaintiffs (This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(g), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure. This form should not be used where personal service is desired.) (TO THE CLERK: When this summons is issued by the clerk of the court, the signature block for the clerk or deputy should be provided by stamp, or typewriter, in the space to the left of the attorney's name.) *Rule 12(a), C.R.C.P., allows 35 days for answer or response where service of process is by publication. However, under various statutes, a different response time is set forth; e.g., §38-6104, C.R.S. (eminent domain); §38-36-121, C.R.S. (Torrens registration). Legal Notice No. 81181 First Publication: September 2, 2021 Last Publication: September 30, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch

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Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of MARGIE ANN BEASLEY, a/k/a MARGIE A. BEASLEY, a/k/a MARGIE BEASLEY, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31118 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 January 3, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Reginald Lamont Beasley, Personal Representative 28227 E. Benders Landing, Blvd. Spring, Texas, 77386 Legal Notice No. 81186 First Publication: September 2, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Soffia S. Frangos, a/k/a Soffia Soter Frangos and Soffia Frangos, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31120 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 27, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. Niki Frangos Tuttle, Personal Representative 27 Cherrymoor Drive Cherry Hills Village, CO 80113 Legal Notice No. 81173 First Publication: August 26, 2021 Last Publication: September 9, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jeweldine Edwards Blair, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30838 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 January 9, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Deborah Blair-Minter Personal Representative c/o Rocky Mountain Elder Law 651 Garrison Street, Suite 240 Lakewood, Colorado 80215 Legal Notice No. 81193 First Publication: September 2, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Peggy L. Miller, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 031100 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 January 3, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

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Michael W. Miller, Personal Representative 1499 Blake Street, No. 7G Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No. 81192 First Publication: September 2, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ANDY LEE COLLIER, JR., a.k.a. ANDY L. COLLIER, JR., a.k.a. ANDY COLLIER, JR., Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30969 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 January 2, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. CURTISS ALBERT COLLIER and RALPH LEE COLLIER Co-Personal Representatives 3106 S. Washington Street Englewood, Colorado 80113 Telephone: 720-429-0014 Legal Notice No. 81170 First Publication: August 26, 2021 Last Publication: September 9, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of GEORGE LOUIS GORE, III also known as GEORGE L. GORE, III and GEORGE L. GORE, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31084 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 27, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. Sarah E. Gore, Personal Representative 4033 S. Wisteria Way Denver, CO 80237 Legal Notice No. 81174 First Publication: August 26, 2021 Last Publication: September 9, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Robert Lee Carter, aka Robert L. Carter, aka Robert Carter, aka Bob Lee Carter, aka Bob L. Carter, aka Bob Carter, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 31114 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 January 2, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Janice M. Carter, Personal Representative 3045 N. Cook Street Denver, Colorado 80205 Legal Notice No. 81188 First Publication: September 2, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Richard Ron Cramer, a/k/a Ronnie Cramer, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31082 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 January 2, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Sarah E. Cramer, Personal Representative 2201 S. Clayton Street Denver, CO 80210 Legal Notice No. 81182 First Publication: September 2, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of HALISE DENKTAS, aka REYHAN DENKTAS, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR030970 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 27, 2021 or the claims may be forever barred. NADYA VECCHIET-LAMBERT, ESQ. Attorney for Serif O. Denktas, Personal Representative 6855 S. Havana St., Suite 370, Centennial, CO 80112 Legal Notice No. 81176

First Publication: August 26, 2021 Last Publication: September 9, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice Notice to Creditors Estate of Brad Lorentz, a/k/a Bradley Lorentz, Deceased Case No.: 21PR0367 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before January 2, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 3, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Rachel Melhorn, Personal Representative 4843 West Hayward Place Denver, CO 80212 Legal Notice No. 81187 First Publication: September 2, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

Michele DeBlieck, Personal Representative, 11616 West Shaffer Place, Unit S-102, Littleton, Colorado 80127 Legal Notice No. 81189 First Publication: September 2, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Glenn William Hartzell, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 030866 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 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. S. Blake Harris, Esq. #45942 Attorney to the Personal Representative 1660 17th Street, Suite 120 Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No. 81169 First Publication: August 19, 2021 Last Publication: September 2, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Anita Hernandez, deceased Case Number: 2021PR344 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 Jan 02, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Patricia Archuletta, Personal Representative 770 S Canosa Ct Denver, Colorado 80219 Legal Notice No. 81184 First publication: September 02, 2021 Last publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Janet Kay Lentzner, also known as Janet K. Lentzner, and Janet Lentzner, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31103 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 January 3, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. DeVon Marie Lentzner Personal Representative 6007 Trailhead Road Highlands Ranch, CO 80130 Legal Notice No. 81183 First Publication: September 2, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of James M. Sutton, a/k/a James Maxwell Sutton, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31064 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 26, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. Person Giving Notice: Deborah Ann Sutton 2555 E. Alameda Circle Denver, CO 80209 Legal Notice No. 81178 First Publication: August 26, 2021 Last Publication: September 9, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mark A. Netzel, aka Mark Alden Netzel, aka Mark Netzel, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31132 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 27, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. Joseph M. Netzel, Personal Representative 5234 W. Lake Place Littleton, CO 80123 Legal Notice No. 81172 First Publication: August 26, 2021 Last Publication: September 9, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Dorothy M. Van Dusen, aka Dorothy Mae Van Dusen, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 031138 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 January 3, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Thomas D. Van Dusen and Susan D. Dyer Co-Personal Representatives 107 Rose Drive Florence, Colorado 81226 Legal Notice No. 81180 First Publication: September 2, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Robert H. Lipscombe, aka Robert Hilliman Lipscombe, aka Rob Lipscombe, and Robert Lipscombe, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 31125 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 28, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. Mary Ellen Burdick-Felling Personal Representative c/o Kristofer M. Simms Caplan and Earnest LLC 3107 Iris Avenue, Suite 100 Boulder, Colorado 80301 Legal Notice No. 81175 First Publication: August 26, 2021 Last Publication: September 9, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Vasio Desiniotis, Deceased Case Number: 21PR30861 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative Eleni Cummings or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 2, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. c/o Steve Prager, Attorney for the Personal Representative Robinson and Henry 11080 Circle Point Road Suite 140 Westminster, CO 80012 Legal Notice No. 81194 First Publication: September 2, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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