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13 candidates seek 4 open seats on school board Election is unlikely to shift power on the board

BY MELANIE ASMAR CHALKBEAT COLORADO

Candidates need to look forward and talk about keeping taxes low and school choice, she said. “We

Thirteen candidates have filed to run for four open seats on the Denver school board in November.

Though a majority of the seven board seats are up for grabs, the election is unlikely to shift the balance of power away from members backed by the teachers union.

The candidates include Denver Public Schools parents, graduates, and educators. Several are former Denver teachers or administrators. One candidate is the executive director of a group of autonomous schools in the district, and another works as a community liaison at a high school.

Board policy does not allow district employees to serve on the board. In the past, district employees elected to the board have resigned from their jobs to serve.

Of the four open seats, one is sought by an incumbent running for re-election: Carrie Olson, a former Denver teacher and current president of the board. Two other seats are vacant because board members Jennifer Bacon and Angela Cobián declined to run for a second term.

The fourth seat is open because Barbara O’Brien is ineligible to run

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Beginning in the mid-18th century, Americans fell in love with the graceful V-shape of elms and planted them throughout New England and the Midwest. Here the branches of a magnificent elm on the eastern side of Washington Park surge upward, formPHOTO BY TIM COLLINS ing highways in the sky.

Meet Washington Park’s loftiest residents Denver trees and the people who dig them

BY KIRSTEN DAHL COLLINS SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Entering Washington Park on a hot day, a sense of relief and well-

being creeps over you, along with a thick canopy of shade. That shade is provided by a collection of about 2,000 trees of more than 100 different species — some more than a century old.

City Park has an even larger urban forest, with about 3,000 trees and even more varieties.

The trees of both parks tower

over us, inspiring and intimidating. Once you start looking up, it’s hard to stop.

“Unlike flowers and grasses, to me, they’re just more impressive,” said arborist Neal Bamesberger, head of the Colorado Tree Coalition (CTC). “You see a tree that’s SEE TREES, P12

Can Colorado GOP’s base get past 2020 to win in 2022?

Unfounded claims of a stolen election test party’s game plan

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Kristi Burton Brown, chairwoman of the Colorado GOP, appeared

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at a gathering of Republicans in Jefferson County this summer where she talked about how the party can attract unaffiliated voters and finally win again in 2022.

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Class-action suit targets Colo. child mental health gaps Plaintiffs include hospitalized teens from Castle Rock, Northglenn

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado has lapsed on its obligation to provide mental health care for needy children, leaving them to cycle in and out of emergency rooms instead of receiving appropriate long-term care, according to a federal class-action lawsuit filed against the state Medicaid program.

The lawsuit so far includes three anonymous plaintiffs, all teenagers who have for months or years been checked into hospital emergency rooms and psychiatric facilities but then were refused step-down residential treatment because no beds are available.

The case is similar to major lawsuits filed in other states, including Illinois, which was forced to revamp its mental health system for children in a 2018 settlement.

“Colorado needs a comprehensive mental health plan of care for these children, and there are significant gaps and missing links that need to be rectified,” said Robert Farley, the attorney handling the Colorado case who also successfully sued Illinois.

“These children have legal rights to get the necessary services.”

The three plaintiffs, identified

only as A.A, B.B. and C.C., should have received intensive mental health services in their communities — an entitlement under federal law for children on Medicaid government insurance, according to the lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3, seeks class-action status to represent other children who have not received needed treatment. The children have been unfairly “institutionalized,” it alleges.

One is a 13-year-old Northglenn boy who has been hospitalized at Children’s Hospital Colorado since March because the state has refused to pay for a less-restrictive residential treatment center. The teen, who has reactive attachment disorder and other mental health issues, remains hospitalized due to the lack of other options, according to the lawsuit.

Another is a 16-year-old Castle Rock girl who has been in the emergency department at Children’s Hospital Colorado since July 31. The state has been unable to find a longterm residential program, despite looking out of state, according to the lawsuit.

The teen, who is suicidal and has post-traumatic stress disorder and reactive attachment disorder, has been admitted to an emergency room 17 times because of her mental health struggles, the suit says.

The child, who has busted open her head by banging it on the wall and tied sheets around her neck, has had to rely on emergency treatment

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while in crisis instead of receiving long-term care that would improve her mental health, according to the lawsuit.

The third plaintiff is a 13-year-old Aurora girl diagnosed with major depression and an anxiety disorder who has been hospitalized three times. She’s living at home but needs to go to a residential treatment center, which the state has not provided, according to the lawsuit.

Law creates entitlement Under federal law, children who qualify for Medicaid are entitled to receive medically necessary mental health services through a program called “Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment Service.”

The goal of the lawsuit, which names Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing Executive Director Kim Bimestefer, is to force Colorado to build a better spectrum of care so that children have more options other than emergency hospitalization, Farley said in an interview with The Colorado Sun. The state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing declined to comment, noting that it is against department policy to discuss pending litigation.

The lawsuit comes at a pivotal time for Colorado, where suicide is the leading cause of death for young people and Children’s Hospital Colorado recently sent up a flare for legislative help because its emergency room is crowded with suicidal and depressed kids and teens.

About 2,300 children received intensive community-based services through the state Medicaid department’s Children’s Extensive Support Waiver program, but in order to qualify, children must have an intellectual or developmental disability.

Similarly, 163 children received services through the state’s Children’s Residential Program, but to qualify, children had to have a diagnosed intellectual disability.

The system is discriminatory, Farley alleged, when only certain children can qualify for residential care.

Farley initiated the lawsuit after receiving various calls for help from families in Colorado, he said.

“You just can’t flip a switch overnight and create a mental health system for children,” Farley said, explaining that any changes ahead for Colorado are likely to take years.

Some families are desperate In many states, mental health treatment for children is so inadequate that families get to the point that the only safe place they can find for their child is a psychiatric hospital, he said. Each time their child is stabilized and released, the options for step-down programs, such as day treatment or residential centers, are “slim to none,” Farley said, so the child goes home until the next emergency rush to a psychiatric facility.

The situation gets so dire that some families eventually refuse to take their children home, which results in the hospital calling child welfare authorities. Under the custody of the child protection division, children receive placement in a residential treatment facility.

“It gets to the point where families become desperate,” Farley said.

“They don’t see hope. They don’t see progress. They get to the point where we have to do something.”

Farley said he knows many kids, not just his 16-year-old Colorado client, who have had more than a dozen visits to the emergency room for psychiatric problems. “That’s SEE SUIT, P3

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Downtown Denver foot traffic is still way down Reasons include remote work, less business travel

BY SARAH MULHOLLAND DENVERITE

Business travelers might picture the mountains when planning a trip to Colorado, but they’re just as likely headed downtown.

Or at least, they were, when people still traveled for business.

While resort communities are reporting a boom in visitation, Denver doesn’t seem to be faring as well. On a weekday last month, there were about 150,000 people walking around downtown, compared to between 250,000 and 300,000 prior to the pandemic, according to data from the Downtown Denver Partnership.

It’s hard to draw an apples-toapples comparison because the data doesn’t go back to the summer of 2019, but it’s clear downtown foot

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not an unusual situation,” he said.

“It’s not just somebody falling through the cracks. If you’ve had to go to the emergency room 17 times, something is not working.”

In some cases, children are adopted from the foster care system

A pedestrian on the Millennium Bridge in 16th Street in Lower Downtown Denver, as SHUTTERSTOCK IMAGE seen on Aug. 28.

traffic is still way down.

A big part of the issue is remote work. Many companies have instituted more flexible work-

from-home policies, and others have delayed plans to return to the office because of the Delta variant.

But pared-down corporate travel is

and have severe mental disorders related to early childhood trauma, Farley said. Their adoptive parents struggle to get them help, despite having Medicaid coverage.

Residential programs, which cost about $700 or even $900 per day, have been shrinking in Colorado, leaving families and the state to seek beds out of state. Colorado needs to boost its options along the mental health treatment spectrum, includ-

ing better in-home programs and community programs with the aim of keeping kids out of residential centers and hospitals, Farley said.

In May, Children’s Hospital Colorado declared a “pediatric mental health state of emergency” and said its emergency rooms were overwhelmed by children in psychiatric crisis. Mental health emergency room visits were up 90% in April compared with April 2019 and the

also a factor.

Activity at the Denver Convention Center has picked up in recent months, but it’s still not back to where it was, according to Rich Carollo, the director of sales and marketing at the convention center.

For example, the calendar of events for much of November is bare, he said.

“It’s not a normal November for us to have that span of time where we don’t have anything,” Carollo said.

There has been a small number of recent cancellations, including a conference for the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators and a credit union that had planned a one-day event. As of now, next year is shaping up to be better, Carollo 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. hospital reported seeing three or four kids each week who had just attempted suicide.

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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Denver Art Museum’s Martin Building reopens after $150M project Tickets to the renovated north campus available Sept. 17

BY MAGGIE DONAHUE DENVERITE

For more than three years, the north side of the Denver Art Museum campus has been closed for renovation.

But soon, just in time for what is now known as the Lanny and Sharon Martin Building’s 50th anniversary, visitors will finally get to see inside the eight-floor structure designed by Gio Ponti, as well as the new Anna and John J. Sie Welcome Center.

The reimagined campus will reopen to the public with a free admission day on Oct. 24. The newly restored Martin Building offers 33,328 square feet of new gallery and public space, educational programming, artist interactions, expanded outdoor spaces, and sweeping views of the city and mountains.

It also features the new Jana & Fred Bartlit Learning and Engagement Center, which offers more than

17,600 square feet of programming space, workshop rooms, community galleries and interactive gathering spaces, including activations by artists Frankie Toan and Moe Gram.

The 50,000-square-foot Welcome Center, which connects the Martin Building to the museum’s Frederic C. Hamilton Building to the south, will offer ticketing guest services, programming spaces, an art conservation and technical studies laboratory, and two new dining spaces, including the quick-service Café Gio and the Ponti Restaurant, which features a locally sourced menu by James Beard Award-winning Denver chef Jennifer Jasinski “We are looking forward to being open for creativity, joy and wonder – welcoming our community into new, dynamic spaces this fall, to explore art, world cultures and their own creativity,” museum director Christoph Heinrich said in a press release.

Press materials also say that as part of the Martin Building’s redesign, its galleries have been updated with a commitment to inclusion. Some of those initiatives include highlighting more contemporary and

A view of construction in 2018 of the Anna and John J. Sie Welcome Center at the Denver Art Museum, with the Lanny and Sharon Martin PHOTO BY MARK HARDEN Building in the background.

community artists, as well as including bilingual art labels in both English and Spanish throughout the entire museum campus.

Some of the updated or new collection galleries include the Northwest Coast and Alaska Native galleries, Indigenous Arts of North America galleries, Latin American Art and Art of the Ancient Americas galleries, Asian Art galleries, European Art Before 1800,

Textile Art and Fashion and Photography galleries, and Western American Art galleries.

The first floor of the Martin Building, which once was used primarily as art storage, will operate as the 6,500-square-foot Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Gallery. The space will open with “ReVisión: Art in the Americas,” an exhibition highlighting about 180 works from the DAM’s Latin

American and Art of the Ancient Americas collections.

The renovations cost $150 million to build. Denver Art Museum Board Chairman Lanny Martin and his wife Sharon Martin, for whom the Martin Building is named, contributed the first $25 million. Voter-approved Elevate Denver Bonds covered an additional $35.5 million, and the museum helped cover the rest by matching public investment dollars at a three-to-one ratio.

The renovated campus will reopen to the public Oct. 24 with an opening day celebration from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. While it’s free to attend, guests must reserve tickets, which will be available starting Sept. 17. And if you’re a member and you want to check out the campus early, you can attend a Member Preview on Oct. 21, 22 or 23.

You can find more information on museum admission online at denverartmuseum.org.

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Study: 1st-time homelessness doubled in area over past year

BY KYLE COOKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Every year, the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative conducts a “Point in Time Count” to determine how many people are experiencing homelessness in the Denver area.

This year’s report found a “drastic increase” in the number of people in the Denver metro area experiencing homelessness for the first time, a surge that surveyors attributed to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

You can read a snapshot of the report online at tinyurl.com/MetroDenverHomelessness. The full MDHI Point in Time report for 2021, which will include individualized data for Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties, will be published this fall.

“In 2020 there were 1,273 people in shelters that were experiencing homelessness for the first time,” said Matt Meyer, MDHI’s executive director. “This year, that number doubled to 2,530 demonstrating the devastating effects of COVID-19 on the stability of our neighbors.”

This year’s survey was conducted on a single day in February. MDHI found that in the Denver metro area, 5,530 people were staying in shelters, about a 1,000-person increase from last year’s study, which was conducted before the pandemic started.

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Loud (DHOL) told Rocky Mountain PBS that the true number of people experiencing homelessness is probably even higher.

Dunning explained that the pandemic made counting the number of unhoused people difficult, and that because the results of the Point in Time survey are self-reported, many unhoused people do not respond to the survey and are therefore not counted.

This year, MDHI did not include the number of unsheltered people in their study because of COVID-19. In 2020, there were 1,561 people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in the Denver metro area. Advocates believe that number has increased over the past year.

“The number of folks ... that are out on the street probably tripled,” Dunning estimated.

Nearly three-quarters of the people experiencing sheltered homelessness were staying in emergency shelters. MDHI said individual sheltered homelessness increased by 27 percent over the last year.

“Unlike other parts of the country where shelter space was decreased during COVID-19, our community worked diligently to meet this challenge and stood up additional shelter spaces to help ensure the safety of those who needed it most,” Meyer added. “We are incredibly grateful for the hard work and dedication of our providers in responding to increased need while crafting creative

solutions to meet the demand for those experiencing homelessness.”

Recently, the City of Denver’s Department of Housing Stability released a five-year plan to address problems surrounding housing and homelessness in the city. One of HOST’s 14 main goals is to reduce unsheltered homelessness by half.

“While the 2021 (Point in Time Count) did not include a count of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, due to the circumstances related to the pandemic, job loss experienced during the public health emergency increased the number of people living in unstable conditions and losing their homes,” the HOST plan reads.

The HOST plan also shows that there were more unsheltered homeless people in Denver last year — nearly 1,000 people in Denver County — since at least 2014.

“We know that unsheltered homelessness has become a more visible presence in Denver even as we are sheltering more people nightly than ever before,” the authors of the plan wrote.

For more information, you can read the full five-year plan online at tinyurl.com/Denver5YearPlan.

This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online.

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A new recycling service now offered in Denver Ridwell is meant to supplement the city’s existing recycling program

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Washington Park resident Elizabeth Nicholson does everything she can to reduce the waste she sends to the landfill.

She uses the city’s recycling and composting services, and on average, sends only one standard-sized trash bag of waste to the landfill every two weeks.

But “as best as I try to reduce waste,” Nicholson said, “there’s still bits and bobs that are hard to recycle.”

Then, earlier this spring, Nicholson learned that a new, membership-based recycling program called Ridwell was coming to Denver. She signed up for the service in July, which is when it launched in her neighborhood.

Ridwell’s service is meant to supplement Denver’s existing recycling program, said Ryan Metzger, Ridwell’s founder and CEO, in a news release.

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To learn more about the City of Denver’s recycling program, visit www.denvergov.org/Government/ Departments/Recycle-Compost-Trash.

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Nicholson, for one, expects to be able to reduce the already-small amount of waste she sends to the landfill by 30% with Ridwell’s service.

“There are so many things that Ridwell can recycle,” Nicholson added.

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Elizabeth Nicholson of Washington Park is hoping to reduce the waste she sends to the landfill by 30% by using Ridwell, which is a new recycling service that COURTESY PHOTO recently launched in Denver.

The four core categories are plastic film, such as single-use plastic bags and bubble wrap; household batteries; lightbulbs; and threads, such as clothing and shoes.

A fifth featured category is also offered with every pickup. The fifth category is rotated and consists of items that can be reused or recycled in the local community. A couple of examples are towels and linens — gently-used or damaged — and electronics, including cords and chargers.

Members receive an email every two weeks that announces the featured category to allow time to gather the items.

Ridwell also offers add-ons to any regularly-scheduled pickup for an additional fee. Add-ons include Styrofoam and fluorescent light tubes, for example.

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“Since curbside recycling programs are constantly shifting, residents recycle things they shouldn’t and end up contaminat-

ing the whole bin,” Metzer said in the news release. “We help fill in the missing gaps and make it easy to recycle responsibly with the knowledge that trash is finding a new purpose and staying out of the landfill.”

Ridwell prides itself on working with local partners and nonprofits for recycling ensuring that reuse items are given a new life. In Denver, current partners are: SustainAbility — an Arvadabased recycling and composting company that serves the entire metro area and values employing a diverse workforce, including individuals who have intellectual/ developmental disabilities.

WeeCycle — a Colorado-based nonprofit that collects and matches essential baby gear to families in need through partner organizations focused on alleviating poverty, homelessness, domestic violence, teen pregnancy and under-employment.

Blue Star Recyclers — an electronic waste recycling organization with four Colorado locations that creates jobs for, and employs, adults with autism and other disabilities who may not otherwise be able to obtain gainful employment.

Ridwell got its start in 2018 by Metzger and his six-year-old son who wanted a way to recycle old batteries. Ridwell now serves Seattle, Tacoma and Portland.

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have to become the party of ideas.”

But when Burton Brown opened the hotel-conference-room gathering up for questions, the crowd didn’t want to discuss her talking points.

They jerked the focus back to the past.

“The biggest issue for me is voter cheating and this whole national election, as we all know, was a setup,” a man said.

“Has there been any talk of a forensic audit anywhere in this state?” a woman asked next.

“If the Arizona audit shows the Dominion (Voting System) machines to be unreliable — and we use those machines — what’s our game plan?” another man wanted to know, referencing a Republican-led recount in the Phoenix area.

As Colorado Republicans look to 2022 with hopes of bouncing back from two election cycles of defeat, their game plan for how to move forward is clashing with an attachment among the party’s base to unfounded claims that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent. It’s not clear if the two pursuits can successfully coexist.

“The election-fraud claim does pose a special challenge, because the base is especially riled up about it and swing voters are especially turned off by it,” said Daniel Cole, who leads the Republican campaign operations for state House and Senate Republicans.

The same debate is playing out in other states, including Arizona, where a Republican audit of 2020 ballots in Maricopa County is dragging on. Trump, who continues to question his loss last year, fell short in the state by more than 10,000 votes. A previous recount of Maricopa County’s ballots found no problems.

A push from some in the Colorado GOP to cancel the 2022 primaries to cut unaffiliated voters out of the process and allow party insiders to select the GOP nominees is an extension of the baseless voter fraud anxiety. Unaffiliated voters have been able to vote in partisan primaries in Colorado since the 2016 passage of Proposition 108.

Supporters of then-President Donald Trump gathered on all four corners at University Boulevard and Highlands Ranch Parkway on Election Night, Nov. 3, 2020, waving flags PHOTO BY JOHN LEYBA/SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN and playing music.

For instance, state Rep. Ron Hanks, a Fremont County Republican who has been one of the loudest voices in Colorado when it comes to questioning the 2020 presidential election results, said opting out of the state-run primary is a step toward election integrity.

Randy Corporon, a Republican national committeeman and conservative talk radio host, has been advocating on his KNUS show for the primaries to be canceled for the same reason.

“The Republican Party can take … power away from Jena Griswold and the state by reclaiming their own primary,” he told listeners recently, referring to the Democratic secretary of state, who is Colorado’s top election official.

Priscilla Rahn, vice chair of the Colorado GOP, recently said she supports canceling the 2022 primary, calling into question Griswold’s ability to fairly oversee the contest.

“Ask yourself this: “Do you trust her to administer an honest election and not interfere against Republicans?” Rahn wrote in an Aug. 21 letter.

But Dick Wadhams, a former

chair of the Colorado Republican Party, sees major peril for his party if it continues to beat the drum on election fraud and opts out of next year’s primaries. “There is no way a Republican can win in 2022 for statewide office and, frankly, in a bunch of competitive districts around the state,” he said of the scenario.

Unaffiliated voters made up 43% of registered voters in Colorado at the end of July, compared to Republicans at 26% and Democrats at 29%.

“They keep talking about how these unaffiliated voters are going to defile our process because they are going to be nominating a bunch of moderates and liberals,” Wadhams said. “I read that kind of stuff, I listen to it, and I’m thinking: ‘Any Republican candidate for statewide office who doesn’t think about the unaffiliated voters during their primary isn’t serious.’”

Wadhams said it would be disastrous for Republicans if questioning the 2020 presidential election results becomes a litmus test for primary candidates.

Burton Brown, who hasn’t taken a public stance on the question of whether to cancel next year’s GOP primaries, appears to agree, urging Republicans to move on from last year.

“The more we talk about the past, the more we talk about what happened instead of what we are going to do in 2022, the more our candidates are put at a disadvantage,” she said at the Jefferson County Republican event, “because we are focusing on something we cannot control.”

Still, she said, questions about election integrity are posed “all around the state.”

The Colorado GOP is encouraging people who are concerned about the state’s voting processes to “get involved” and “get your eyes in the room” by becoming poll watchers and election judges. But she said there has been no proof of mass fraud in Colorado and that the only sure way for Republicans to lose in SEE GOP, P14

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A deli with a 35-year history in the community has reopened in a new location with new owners.

Zaidy’s Deli & Bakery, now located at 600 S. Holly St. in Denver’s Washington Virginia Vale neighborhood, got its start by original owner Gerard Rudofsky. It became a local mainstay for matzo ball soup, potato latke sandwiches, pastrami and other New Yorkstyle Jewish comfort foods.

“After we closed, we got some beautiful notes from customers about how they felt about Zaidy’s and the food,” Rudofsky said in

a news release. “It made me feel great because I wanted Zaidy’s to be something that the community would really appreciate.”

Max Appel, his son Joel Appel and Beth Ginsberg are the new ownership team of the deli.

“We wanted to bring the heritage of Zaidy’s forward in a fresh new way for the next 35 years,” Joel Appel said in a news release.

“It’s important to our community, so we are giving it a new life in a new location. Zaidy’s will continue to be a treasure for everybody who loves delicious Jewish deli food.”

Zaidy’s will continue serving

classic deli sandwiches such as reubens, pastrami and corned beef on rye. A new feature to the restaurant is an in-house bakery, and new additions to the menu include a classic avocado toast on a homemade bagel, flights of mini bagels, a variety of nutritionpacked salads, specialty cocktails and other unique new recipes.

“Thousands of people over the 35 years have made life memories at Zaidy’s,” Ginsberg said in a news release. “It was a part of the heritage of the whole city.”

To learn more about Zaidy’s Deli & Bakery, visit www.zaidysdeli. com.

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Doings at the Kirkland Denver’s Kirkland Museum will virtually host “Join US Dresser Fest 21, a Five-Legged Chair; a Day of Learning,” on Sept. 18, 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. — an international festival.

Also, the museum hosts “Truth, Beauty and Power: Christopher Dresser and the Aesthetic Movement” through Jan. 22, 2022. Free, registration required. Donations

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Regis faculty’s got talent Every four years Regis Fine and Performing Art Department’s professors host the Regis College Art Faculty Exhibition to show just what its teachers can do.

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he new priorities of the United States Postal Service will be the end of our momand-pop business.

Last summer, packages that our business shipped GUEST via USPS began to go missing or took COLUMN months to reach their destination.

Over the last year, we have spent a massive amount of time and expense tracking down packages, sending out replacements, filing claims forms Alexa Metrick online or by phone, and communicating with frustrated customers. Boxes being shipped internationally are even worse, as they sometimes disappear into limbo for up to half a year, assuming they turn up at all.

My parents own and operate a small business called Sopris Unlimited. Calling it a small business is a misnomer; it is literally a mom-and-pop operation. In 1982, my dad designed one of the first frame pack saddles for llamas and, three years later, he and my mom launched the family business.

Our line of llama pack equipment is used by customers throughout the United States and across the world, from Norway to Australia, from Israel to Argentina. Although we started the busi-

ness in Carbondale, we are now based in the little mountain town of La Veta.

We are not, nor have we ever been, a brick-and-mortar store; we started out with mail-order print catalogs, covers emblazoned with candid photos of my brother and me out on the trail with llamas. We now receive the majority of our orders through our website. But if you call our 800 number, my dad answers the phone, answers your questions, and takes down your order the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper.

As you might imagine, the customer base for llama pack saddles is not large, and we are one of only a half-dozen sources for this type of equipment. Eleven years ago, we expanded our line to include gear for all of the smaller pack animals (including alpacas, goats, sheep, reindeer, yaks, and donkeys), but that still puts our annual receipts at $41,450,000 less than that of the average firm in our mail-order industry as designated by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

And although the SBA doesn’t have a standard number of employees listed for the industry, I’d imagine we’re on the low end; over the decades, various members of one Old Order Amish family in Iowa have manufactured our product line by hand.

This business has been a daily

presence in my parents’ lives for nearly 40 years. So it seems just a bit ironic that, of all the volatile market forces that have threatened it over those decades, our demise might come about because of poor management of the government agency that has consistently been ranked as America’s favorite by Gallup.

The USPS is a vital service to rural America. Unlike our national postal service, private corporations such as United Parcel Service and FedEx are not federally mandated to deliver all mail to every address, no matter how remote, nor to do so for the same price as a delivery to an address in an urban distribution hub.

The accessibility and affordability of the USPS is especially relevant to our business, as our employees and our customers are overwhelmingly rural.

The future of the United States Postal Service has been under threats of privatization before Louis DeJoy was appointed Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer, but the last year with him at the helm might be what finally does our family business in.

Longer delivery times, higher prices, reduced hours, and closed stations are bad enough, but the number of packages we’ve had go missing over the last year has been devastating to our bottom line.

DeJoy intends to make pack-

age delivery the main product of the USPS over the next 10 years, and yet it is that very service that has failed our business, over and over again, during the last year and a half. We are inching nearer and nearer to the red because of mistakes made by the USPS; mistakes that rarely, if ever happened before 2020.

When DeJoy’s new 10-year-plan, with its focus on cost-cutting at the expense of delivery performance, forces my parents to close down their business, I’m sure Wall Street won’t notice. No economic indicators will be affected and there won’t be a flood of unemployed workers looking for new jobs.

But anyone who ships their products directly to their customers, from artists to inventors to llama pack saddle manufacturers, are being adversely affected. It will be that much harder for those of us who exist in niches to make a living at them.

Alexa Metrick, of Golden, is a corporate librarian who does occasional contract work for the family business. This opinion piece is from The Colorado Sun, a journalistowned 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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again due to term limits.

School board elections are held tevery two years, with the number of open seats each election varying from three to four. Since a historic “flip” in 2019, when three union-backed candidates won, members aligned with the union have held a 5-2 majority.

The two board members not backed by the union, Cobián and lO’Brien, will be leaving this year.

The three union-backed members elected in 2019 — Tay Anderson, Scott Baldermann, and Brad Laurvick — will remain on the board for another two years.

If even just one of four open seats this year is won by a unionendorsed candidate, union-backed members will retain their majority. In past elections, union-backed candidates have faced off against candidates favored by education reform organizations, which are more supportive of independent charter schools and school choice than the union.

Board members are elected to four-year terms, and the next four years in Denver Public Schools will be important. The new board members will oversee a relatively new superintendent, Alex Marrero, who took the top job in July.

The board will also write a new strategic plan for the district after the previous one, the Denver Plan 2020, expired last year.

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And it will oversee ongoing efforts to improve education for Black students in Denver and to redefine school safety and discipline after the removal of police officers from some middle and high schools.

In addition, the board will be responsible for signing off on how to spend millions of dollars in federal coronavirus relief money, approving new autonomous charter or innovation schools, and reviewing existing ones. Decisions about charter and innovation schools have long been controversial.

That’s likely to continue, though charter expansion has slowed in recent years.

State had no fatal crashes over Labor Day weekend, CDOT reports STAFF REPORT

Colorado normally sees several highway deaths over the long Labor Day weekend each year, but not this year, the Colorado Department of Transportation reports.

According to preliminary CDOT data released Sept. 9, the state avoided any fatal crashes this year hover the final holiday weekend of the summer.

“This marks the first time in . recent history that no deaths occurred on state roads over Labor Day weekend,” a CDOT release said.

That’s despite the fact that

Labor Day weekend is usually one of the deadliest holiday periods of the year on Colorado roads. Over the last 15 years, Labor Day weekend road fatalities have ranged from three in 2022 to 16 in 2016, CDOT said.

Overall, there were 412 traffic fatalities on Colorado roads at the time of CDOT’s Sept. 9 report, a 6% decrease from this time last year. Of those, 153 were related to impaired driving, the Colorado State Patrol reported.

For 15 years of CDOT statistics on fatal holiday crashes across Colorado, go online to tinyurl. com/HolidayFatalCrashes.

Denver Public Schools is Colorado’s largest school district, serving about 90,000 students. About 52% of students are Hispanic, 25% are white, 14% are Black, and 3% are Asian. More than 60% qualify for subsidized meals, and 36% are learning English as a second language.

The district’s annual budget is about $1.2 billion, and it employs about 15,000 people.

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Ballots will be mailed to voters Oct. 8. The deadline for voting is Nov. 2.

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100-200 years old, and a petunia can’t hold a candle to that.”

State Champions Each fall, the CTC, a volunteer group working to preserve community forests, confers the title of State Champion on the biggest and tallest trees in Colorado, selecting from among 750 species.

Washington Park is home to a number of State Champions, including a 90-foot high black cherry, a 70-foot high Kentucky coffee tree and two honey locusts ranging from 76 to 84 feet tall.

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A former board member of the Friends and Neighbors of Washington Park (FANS), she also wrote and illustrated the eloquent “Washington Park Tree Guide,” a book that has nearly sold out at its brick-andmortar location inside the Wash Perk coffee house.

Seven years ago, John partnered with the Denver Botanic Gardens to create the annual Tree Diversity Conference, with the mission of protecting urban forests from disease and climate change.

To accomplish that, cities must plant more diverse species. And if those species are going to survive in Denver’s harsh, high-desert climate, they’d better be tough. When Denver was first settled, there were no trees — except the cottonwoods lining rivers and creeks.

True to the vision of the Tree Diversity Conference, John is impressed by hardy trees — such as the Osage oranges in the southwest section of Washington Park.

“The ones that survived are looking great,” she said.

The Osage orange species ought to be tough. It’s been around since prehistoric times. When mammoths roamed the earth, they chomped on the tree’s distinctly weird-looking, softball-sized, wrinkled, green fruit.

The park’s honey locusts and Kentucky coffee trees are also ancient species dating back to the Pleistocene. They produce bizarre-looking oversized seed pods, which were popular snacks for giant sloths and other Ice Age behemoths.

The storybook elms John said her Wash Park favorites also include “the grand old elms.”

A grove of these magnificent, Vshaped trees welcomes visitors into the park at the Mississippi Avenue and Franklin Street entrance.

Standing under these American elms is awe-inspiring. Their mighty branches darken as they surge upwards, crisscrossing and form-

Denver forester Ben Rickenbacker pauses near one of his favorite trees, an 80-foot Northern Red Oak in the park’s northwestern sector. Oaks can live for hundreds of years and were revered

by Native Americans, who ground the acorns into flour and used the bark and leaves to treat various ailments.

He plucks an elliptical leaf off a young hardy rubber tree and tears it in half.

“See these stretchy strands,” Rickenbacker asks. “That’s silica.”

Passing a honey locust with feathery, compound leaves, he points out vicious, two-inch-long thorns sprouting from a scar on the trunk.

“Thorns were bred out of them for ornamental purposes,” Rickenbacker said, “but sometimes when they lose a branch, they revert to their natural state.”

Like his great-grandfather, the World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, the Denver forester has spent plenty of time aloft — but mostly in trees. As a child growing up in Kentucky, Rickenbacker avidly climbed around the woods in the local park and savored the views from his backyard tree house. More recently, he cycled in the annual Tour des Trees marathon to raise money for tree science research.

ing highways in the sky for squirrels and other small creatures. The only thing these storybook trees are missing is a small wooden door for a resident gnome.

After the ravages of Dutch elm disease of the 1950s, it’s surprising that elms are here at all. Only a few thousand remain in Denver. But Denver Forestry says the trees are carefully monitored and pruned, and happily, there have been very few outbreaks of the disease in more than a decade’s time.

An insider’s view Ben Rickenbacker, Denver’s forestry operations supervisor, is another person who lives and breathes trees.

Rambling through Washington

Park with Rickenbacker is a bit like hanging out with a small-town mayor. He knows everybody. He has an insider’s view of his lofty green citizens, including their age, behavior and eccentricities.

Although Rickenbacker’s official beat is City Park and northeastern Denver, he greets each member of Washington Park’s urban forest like family. He knows all their habits — good and bad.

Passing a small hawthorn tree near the center of Wash Park, he warns: “Don’t plant one of these under your bedroom window.”

Hawthorns, Rickenbacker explains, produce pretty white flowers in June but their odor is akin to cat urine.

Wildlife flock to dead trees Periodically, elderly or storm-damaged trees in the park have to be cut down and hauled away.

But “only as a last resort,” Rickenbacker said, adding that trees are cut down only for public safety reasons.

And not all dead trees are removed from the parks.

“If they are not dangerous,” Rickenbacker said, “we usually try to leave them.”

This policy is in line with recent discoveries about the importance of preserving dead trees in forests — and not only for the nutrients they return to the soil. Wildlife love them. Why? Because those bleached tree skeletons attract insects and offer plenty of hollows for nesting.

Indeed, a dead willow on the southern shore of Grasmere Lake has become a virtual high-rise condo for park birds, complete with an ongoing bug buffet. Come fall, squirrels may use the holes as storage bins for acorns. Out in the middle of Grasmere, on Monkey Island, the whitened branches of another skeletal SEE TREES, P13

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Washington Park is home to a number of State Champions, including this 70-foot tall Kentucky coffee tree. The tree, which is an ancient species dating back to the Pleistocene, produces large pods containing dark brown seeds that resemble coffee beans. Early settlers used them to brew a rather dangerous coffee substitute — unless the seeds are roasted first, they are toxic to humans.

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willow provide night herons and other fishing birds with unobstructed water views.

Even more reasons to love trees As we learn more about trees, it seems there are even more reasons to love them.

According to Psychology Today magazine, “new research shows that the sight of trees allows the parasympathetic nervous system to gain an edge, calming the entire body.”

Trees, it appears, can also calm, cool and oxygenate an entire city.

In a recent story, The Colorado Sun described the findings of a study by the US Forest Service: “Urban trees can help reduce groundlevel ozone levels — and in turn improve air quality by reducing air temperature and absorbing pollutants.”

Clearly, trees are emerging as an important way to mitigate climate change.

In 2021, Denver Parks and Recreation doubled its tree-planting budget in an effort to lower the increasing temperature of Denver’s many heat islands. These highlypaved urban areas run hotter than neighborhoods with more trees

A 9-year-old Washington Park visitor examines a hatching cicada he discovered on the bark of a white willow bordering the eastern shore of Grasmere Lake. The willow is far older than the boy — it likely dates back to the lake’s construction in 1907.

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and grass.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s website, “buildings, roads and other infrastructure absorb and re-emit the sun’s heat more than natural landscapes.”

Trees, or the lack thereof, are even revealing social injustices that were once ignored. According to The Colorado Sun story, “A recent analysis

by American Forests highlights Denver’s shady divide: neighborhoods of color and areas with higher poverty rates have fewer trees than those that are predominantly white and more affluent.”

On a larger scale, groundbreaking research by Canadian scientist Suzanne Simard has revealed the invisible but powerful connections between forest trees. Simard found that in old, established forests, different species of trees and fungi communicate, pass nutrients back and forth and essentially depend on

each other.

Many tree lovers instinctively feel that clear-cutting old forests and replanting them with one or two species is wrong. Now we know why.

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2022 is for the party’s voters not to show up on Election Day because they think their vote won’t count.

Election security was not explicitly on the list when Burton Brown and other top Republicans recently this month rolled out a 10-point “Commitment to Colorado” aimed at attracting unaffiliated voters and serving as the party’s 2022 platform.

State Rep. Dave Williams, a Colorado Springs Republican, thinks the GOP shouldn’t shy away from election integrity issues and that it needs to push for policy reforms.

“It does no one any good to stay out of the fight or not engage,” said Williams, who favors canceling the 2022 primaries. “We need to be able to secure our elections but also prepare for 2022 with the fundamentals — find and recruit candidates, set them up. We can’t ignore one or the other.”

He thinks both can be addressed simultaneously — and he also thinks that unaffiliated voters care about election integrity.

Even if there are Republicans who want to move on, 2020 continues to dominate the spotlight.

Most recently, that’s because of Tina Peters, the GOP clerk and recorder in Mesa County who is under criminal investigation after election system passwords and a copy of a voting equipment hard drive were allegedly taken from her office and then leaked online.

Peters’ case has generated head-

Rally attendees listen to speakers from the lawn of the Colorado state Capitol during a pro-Trump rally on Jan. 6, the same day as the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol in PHOTO BY ERIC LUBBERS/THE COLORADO SUN Washington.

lines in Colorado for weeks. She has cast doubt on the 2020 presidential election results, allying herself with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump supporter who has peddled conspiracy theories about last year’s contest.

Seth Masket, who leads the Center for American Politics at the University of Denver, suspects that election integrity questions will persist.

“If you make that (stolen election) argument, it’s pretty hard to pivot away from,” he said. “It’s kind of a difficult place that Republicans have painted themselves into.”

Ryan Winger, a pollster with

Louisville-based Magellan Strategies, thinks the divided focus among Republicans is “symptomatic of a larger problem.”

“Many in the GOP fail to understand unaffiliated voters and consequently fail to grasp why they lose elections,” he said. “Sure, making election integrity a major focus will likely scare off unaffiliated voters who didn’t vote for Trump and who the GOP needs to win over, but in a world where there is no dispute about the 2020 result, unaffiliated voters still aren’t flocking to Republican candidates.”

Others, like state Rep. Colin

Larson, a Ken Caryl Republican who is eyeing a 2022 congressional bid, doesn’t see election integrity as being the main focus of GOP voters.

He’s bullish on his party’s chances next year.

“It’s not something I’m inundated with,” he said about election security questions. “The vast majority of people in my district are talking to me about school issues right now.

And then after that it’s crime.”

Cole, the strategist leading election efforts for Colorado’s legislative Republicans, thinks that even if there is an election integrity focus among the GOP base “it poses a … familiar challenge.”

“How to appeal first to the base in the primary election and then to swing voters in the general election?” he said. “This is an issue every cycle on both sides of the aisle. And there are always voices who think Republicans can’t hold the base and the middle together. In 2016, Jeb Bush said: ‘You have to lose the primary to win the general.’ But it turned out he was wrong.”

The Colorado GOP’s central committee will decide whether to cancel the party’s 2022 primaries on Sept.

18.

Colorado Sun staff writer Daniel Ducassi contributed to this report.

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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.

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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.

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Attorneys for Petitioner and Plaintiff Saskia Sarah Aevum: Brian R. Reynolds, #29493 brian@trialcolorado. com Patrick Gillette, #42848 patrick@trialcolorado. com REYNOLDS GILLETTE LLC 1735 N. Lafayette Street Denver, CO 80218 (720) 442-8100 Case Number: 2020PR30201 Division: 3 SUMMONS THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT, BENEDICT KIKOMEKO: 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.

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This is an action to quiet title to and partition the following two real properties: 1. Lot 8, together with an undivided 1/10th interest in Lot 11, EAST SEVENTH TOWNHOUSES, a Subdivision of Lots 20, 21, 22 and 23, Block 181, Fletcher’s Capitol Hill Addition, City and County of Denver, State of Colorado APN: 05023-26056-000 Also known as: 805 East Seventh Avenue #8, Denver, Colorado 80218 2. Lot 3 in FOX HOLLOW SUBDIVISION NO. 1, as amended by Surveyor’s Statement recorded October 28, 1983 in Book 3797 at Page 768 and November 5, 1984 in Book 3936 at Page 49, County of El Paso, State of Colorado APN: 7436222035 Also known as: 50 1st Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80906 Dated this 27th day of August, 2021. s/Patrick Gillette .

Patrick Gillette, No. 42848 REYNOLDS GILLETTE LLC Attorney for Plaintiff Saskia Sarah Aevum Legal Notice No. 81197 First Publication: September 16, 2021 Last Publication: October 14, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

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Misc. Private Legals Public Notice Denver Probate Court City and County of Denver, Colorado 1437 Bannock Street, Room 230 Denver, CO 80202 In the Matter of the Estate of: JEAN-MICHEL ELIE HASSAN, aka JOHN-MICHEL HASSAN, aka ELIE HASSAN, aka JEAN-MICHEL ELI HASSAN, aka JEAN MICHEL ELIE, aka JEAN MICHEL SPAR HASSAN, aka JEAN-MICHEL ELIE-HASSAN, aka JEAN HASSAN, aka JEAN-MICHEL SPAR-HASSAN Deceased Plaintiff: SASKIA SARAH AEVUM, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Jean-Michel Elie Hassan v.

Defendants: S U S A N S PA R ; B E N E D I C T KIKOMEKO; EAST SEVENTH TOWNHOUSE ASSOCIATION, a Colorado corporation; and ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO MAY CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS ACTION

To holders of recorded mortgages or deeds of trust on Units in the WEST VILLAGE TOWNHOMES AT LOWRY community (“West Village”), Academy Bank, NA 10000 College Blvd Overland Park, KS 66210 All Western Mortgage, Inc. 8345 W. Sunset Rd. #380 Las Vegas, NV 89113 American Financing Corp.

3045 S. Parker Rd. #B-100 Aurora, CO 80014 American Neighborhood Mortgage Acceptance Company LLC 700 East Gate Drive #400 Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 Amerifirst Financial, Inc. 1550 E. McKellips Rd. #117 Mesa, AZ 85203 Cherry Creek Mortgage Co., Inc. 7600 East Orchard Rd. #25-N Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Citywide Home Loans 4001 S. 700 East #250 Salt Lake City, UT 84107 Cornerstone Home Lending, Inc. P. O. Box 2026 Flint, MI 48501-2026 Elevations Credit Union P. O. Box 9004 Boulder, CO 80301 Embrace Home Loans, Inc. 25 Enterprise Center Middletown, RI 02842 ENT Credit Union 7250 Campus Dr. Colorado Springs, CO 80920 Finance of America Mortgage LLC 3010 Lava Ridge Court #220 Roseville, CA 95661 First California Mortgage Co. 1435 N. McDowell Blvd. #300 Petaluma, CA 94954 First Centennial Mortgage Corp.

2471 W. Sullivan Rd. Aurora, IL 60506 Flagstar Bank FSB

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5151 Corporate Dr. Troy, MI 48098-2639 Gardner Financial Services LTD Dba Legacy Mutual Mortgage 3503 Paesanos Pkwy.

San Antonio, TX 78231 Teryl R. & Mary Beth Gorrell 760 High Street Denver, CO 80218 Guaranteed Rate Affinity, LLC 1800 W. Larchmont Ave. Chicago, IL 60613 Intercontinental Capital Group Inc. 265 Broadhollow Rd. #220 Melville, NY 11747 New Residential Mortgage LLC 1345 Ave. of the Americas 45th Floor New York, NY 10105 Movement Mortgage, LLC 8024 Calvin Hall Road Indian Land, SC 29707 Prosperity Home Mortgage, LLC 14501 George Carter Way #300 Chantilly, VA 20151 Provident Funding Associates, LP 10011 South Centennial Pkwy. #305 Sandy, UT 84070 U.S. Bank, National Assoc.

425 Walnut Street Cincinnati, OH 45202 United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC 585 S. Blvd. E Pontiac, MI 48341 West Village is located in the City and County of Denver, State of Colorado, subject to the Condominium Declaration for West Village recorded on December 18, 2003 at Reception No. 2003262438 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder for the City and County of Denver County, State of Colorado and all amendments and supplements thereto (“Declaration”).

The Board of Directors for West Village Townhomes at Lowry Community Association prepared an Amendment of the Declaration for West Village (“Amendment”) to amend Section 8.13(a) of the Declaration to impose leasing restrictions for Units within the community.

The Unit Owners approved the Amendment pursuant to Article 11 of the Declaration, the Board and the Unit Owners recommended that the lenders also approve the Amendment. A copy of the Amendment may be obtained from the Association address below.

West Village Townhomes at Lowry Community Association, Inc. c/o WestWork Corp.

P. O. box 270665 Littleton, CO 80127 Objections to the Amendment must be sent to: Tobey & Johnston, P.C. 56 Inverness Drive East, Suite 103 Englewood, CO 80112 Legal Notice No. 81198 First Publication: September 9, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Telecommunications Public Notice Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to build a 33.3-foot public light telecommunications structure at the approx. vicinity of 1171 N Race St, Denver, Denver County, CO 80206. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Danielle Bausch, d.bausch@trileaf.com, 1515 Des Peres Road, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63131, 314-997-6111.

Legal Notice No. 81207 First Publication: September 16, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles 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 9/29/2021 at 12:00 PM. Jonathan L Kelley unit #22; Hayley Mann unit #28; Jerome W Krause unit #39; Duraine L Przybylski unit #69; Surreyyah Damissalaam unit #75; Debora Fernandes unit #91; Jason Sovaiko unit #103.

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

Legal Notice No. 81201 First Publication: September 9, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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.

Notice to Creditors Public Notice

DeVon Marie Lentzner Personal Representative 6007 Trailhead Road Highlands Ranch, CO 80130

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

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 STEVEN ROBERT ABEYTA, AKA STEVEN R. ABEYTA, and ROB ABEYTA, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30941 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative: Lynne Abeyta, C/O Jo Lauren Seavy, Sullivan Green Seavy LLC, 2036 E. 17th Avenue, Denver, CO 80206, or to the Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, 1437 Bannock Street, #230, Denver, CO 80202 on or before January 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bernice Jaffe, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30239 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 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lynne Abeyta, Personal Representative C/O Jo Lauren Seavy, Attorney for Personal Representative Sullivan Green Seavy LLC 2036 E. 17th Avenue Denver, CO 80206

Robert E. Jaffe, Personal Representative 55 Bellaire Street Denver, Colorado 80220

Legal Notice No. 81211 First Publication: September 16, 2021 Last Publication: September 30, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 81208 First Publication: September 16, 2021 Last Publication: September 30, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bradford William Greene, aka Bradford W. Greene, aka Brad W. Greene, aka Brad Greene, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31174

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Joella May Melhorn, aka Joella M. Melhorn, aka Joella Melhorn, Deceased Case Number: 21PR31153 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

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 16, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Matthew Manes Jr., Personal Representative 1111 Button Rock Ct Longmont, CO 80504 Legal Notice No. 81206 First Publication: September 16, 2021 Last Publication: September 30, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Michael Timothy Reitzell, a/k/a Michael T. Reitzell, a/k/a Michael Reitzell, a/k/a Mike T. Reitzell, a/k/a Mike Reitzell, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31149 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.

Marie E. Donnelly, Personal Representative 1695 Saint Charles Street Jasper, IN 47546 Legal Notice No. 81200 First Publication: September 9, 2021 Last Publication: September 23, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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 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

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.

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

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

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Peggy L. Miller, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 031100

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

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

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Lone Tree resident’s book headed for space Arts commission member illustrated book about NASA mathematician

BY MADDIE BROWNING SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Dow Phumiruk, Lone Tree resident and member of the Lone Tree Arts Commission, has illustrated 15 children’s books including “Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13.”

This book, written by Helaine Becker, was recently chosen for Storytime From Space — a project of the Global Space Education Foundation that sends children’s books to the International Space Station.

Astronaut Megan McArthur will read the book from space, and a recording will be made available on the Storytime From Space website.

The book details the story of Katherine Johnson, an African American mathematician who worked for NASA during the space race. Her backup procedures and charts helped save the Apollo 13 crew after their mission to the moon was aborted.

“It was the space race at that time, so they’re like ‘Whoever wants to help us beat everyone else to the moon come sign up.’ And back then, because we didn’t have any real computers like machine computers, they hired people to do the calculations,” said Phumiruk.

“And men actually thought that that was too boring and too tedious,

Dow Phumiruk

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so they gave it to the women to do.

And there were probably about 200 Black women that worked for NASA at the time, which is amazing because we’ve never heard about any of them until recently.”

The original book was published in 2018. A second edition was published in the UK the following year for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

Among other awards, the book

won The Cook Prize from the Center for Children’s Literature and the UK LA Literary Association Inaugural Information Book Award.

Phumiruk also stated that around 100,000 copies have been sold in the U.S. and UK. Phumiruk wasn’t always a professional illustrator. She explained that she enjoyed art as a child, but becoming a stay-at-home mom to her daughters from 2002 to 2006 was

what led her to pursue art again.

“Being home with the kids, I really had an opportunity to really explore my artistic side, and I realized that that’s such a big part of me. There’s no way I could ever leave that part behind. In fact, it’s taken over,” said Phumiruk.

Phumiruk started learning on her own and researching techniques.

In 2011, She joined the Society for Children’s Book Writers.

“That’s where I really took off with my art, because I went to the conferences and got to know some other artists in the neighborhood and had a critique group going, and I got an agent maybe four years after joining that organization,” said Phumiruk.

Phumiruk previously worked as a pediatrician, taught part time at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine and worked on illustrations. She quickly realized that this was too overwhelming.

Phumiruk said, “I came to a crisis of, I can’t do it all. I can’t raise the children, be a doctor, teach medical school and all that, and I ended up choosing to just teach and do the art.”

She expected to return to pediatrics, but then was picked up by her agent and started working on paying projects.

Phumiruk’s newest book, “Hello, Tree” was written by Ana Crespo, who is also from Colorado. It follows a little girl who finds friendship in a tree during the Black Forest Fire near Colorado Springs that took place in 2013. “Hello, Tree” will be released on Sept. 14.

Public Notices be forever barred.

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 Agnes S. LaBella, aka Agnes Susan LaBella, and Agnes LaBella, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 31050 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 10, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Anna Marie Duncan Personal Representative 15630 Coquina Drive Monument, Colorado 80132-6018 Legal Notice No. 81196 First Publication: September 9, 2021 Last Publication: September 23, 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 JOSEPH WENDALL ROE, AKA JOSEPH ROE, AKA JOE ROE, AKA JOSEPH W. ROE, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR229 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 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Juanita Roe, Personal Representative 10230 Berry Hill Lane Tomball, TX 77375 Legal Notice No. 81212 First Publication: September 16, 2021 Last Publication: September 30, 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 Public Notice

Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before January 3, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Designated Representative 7000 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 150 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Reginald Lamont Beasley, Personal Representative 28227 E. Benders Landing, Blvd.

Spring, Texas, 77386

Legal Notice No. 81204 First Publication: September 9, 2021 Last Publication: September 23, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 81186 First Publication: September 2, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS RHETT CHRISTOPHER BIEHL, A/K/A RHETT C. BIEHL, A/K/A RHETT BIEHL, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR031106 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to Denver Probate Court, State of Colorado on or before January 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Shelley Thompson, Esq. on behalf of the Personal Representative for the Estate of Rhett Christopher Biehl Burns, Figa & Will, P.C. 6400 S. Fiddlers Green Circle, #1000 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (303) 796-2626 Legal Notice No. 81209 First Publication: September 16, 2021 Last Publication: September 30, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Orville William Geisler, also known as Orville W. Geisler, and Orville Geisler, Deceased Case Number: 21 PR 31112

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 10, 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

Baysore & Christian Fiduciary Services, LLC, Personal Representative

By Roby Scott Christian,

Children Services (Adoption/Guardian/Other)

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bridget Dealy Volz, aka Bridget D. Volz, aka Bridget Volz, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31189

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA

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 18, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

John W. Gollub Attorney to the Personal Representative 351 S. Pennsylvania Street Denver, Colorado 80209

ADRIANNE M. GILLIS, ESQ. P.O. BOX 3464, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA 32085

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.

Legal Notice No. 81193 First Publication: September 2, 2021 Last Publication: September 16, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

NOTICE OF ACTION TO: TENRA M MIHELARAKIS LKA: 1600 GLENARM PLACE APT. 1103 DENVER, CO 80202 YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action for ADOPTION has been filed against you, and you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to the petitioner/petitioner’s attorney, whose name and address is:

Legal Notice No. 81210 First Publication: September 16, 2021 Last Publication: September 30, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Deborah Blair-Minter Personal Representative c/o Rocky Mountain Elder Law 651 Garrison Street, Suite 240 Lakewood, Colorado 80215

IN RE THE ADOPTION OF: DAWN M WALTZ, vs. TENRA M. MIHELARAKIS, CASE NO.: DR21-0704 DIVISION: 58

on or before OCTOBER 1, 2021, and file the original with the clerk of this court either before service on plaintiff or immediately thereafter; otherwise, a default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint or petition.

WITNESS my hand and the seal of this Court on this day, 27 August, 2021.

BRANDON J. PATTY As the Clerk of the Court By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 81199 First Publication: September 9, 2021 Last Publication: September 30, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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