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VOLUME 94 | ISSUE 49

Breaking the ice with art Denver man shares his maze pieces to combat racial division

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Warren Stokes loves his neighborhood.

He enjoys his daily six-block walk from his home to Washington Park, where he goes to create his art.

But he has noticed that other pedestrians will often cross the street or step into the alley until he passes.

“It’s not everybody,” Stokes said, “but it’s consistently enough (to notice) — on a daily basis.”

Stokes believes it’s more than keeping a physical distance because of the virus. He believes people may be avoiding him because they might fear him.

Stokes, who is Black, is a Colorado native, born and raised in Colorado Springs. He moved to Denver in 1997 for a job, after graduating from Colorado State University.

He lived mostly in Denver’s eastside neighborhoods until February, when he moved to the Washington Park area.

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Airport donates forgotten bags to Denver Rescue Mission

BY AMANDA HORVATH ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

spots), And there’s a desire to show off Denver to the rest of the nation and the world.

Denver International Airport handles a massive amount of luggage every year. In 2019, the last full year before the COVID-19 pandemic, 69 million passengers traveled through the airport with bags in tow. Some of those travelers left their empty bags behind.

Sometimes people will throw away their luggage because they want to consolidate their things to save on baggage fees. Or, maybe a wheel or zipper breaks and they leave a suitcase at the airport. DIA collects whatever is left behind.

“Once we find that luggage that is clearly being abandoned — being set next to a trash can — we don’t want that just to be thrown away in a central landfill, especially when there is ... a higher and better purpose that it can go to,” said Scott Morrissey, vice president of sustainability for DIA. Enter Denver Rescue Mission.

The nonprofit organization works to create change in the lives of people experiencing homelessness in Denver. Part of its mission includes the

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Warren Stokes of Denver’s Washington Park neighborhood stands with one of his maze art pieces called “Ivory vs Enamel.” Stokes uses his art as a healing mechanism, PHOTO BY CHRISTY STEADMAN in his profession as a teacher and for activism.

Denver poised for World Cup bid City is one of 17 in the U.S. hoping to land part of 2026 event

BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

There are a lot of things that go into Denver’s efforts to land part of

A second life for lost luggage at DIA

the 2026 FIFA World Cup. There’s the overall interest in youth soccer. There’s a desire to be part of an expanded tournament field in 2026 (48 countries will earn

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Denver Health nurse featured in artist’s new mural Artwork appears as health workers face threats and violence

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BY KYLE COOKE AND BRIAN WILLIE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Few artists are able to capture a moment like Thomas Evans.

The artist, who paints under the name Detour, specializes in largescale public art. His murals of people like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain and John Lewis became popular landmarks over the last year and a half, especially during the racial justice movement in the summer of 2020.

But while many people may think of those nationally known figures when they think of Detour’s art, most of his murals depict community members, people he knows personally. The new mural at the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Race Street — the original location of Detour’s George Floyd mural — is no exception.

What was once a gray wall now stands a stunning, vibrant mural of Trina Fernandes, an acute care nurse with Denver Health.

“There’s nothing to describe how amazing his art is,” Fernandes said of Detour.

Their friendship dates back nearly 10 years. Fernandes met Detour when she was an undergraduate stu-

A mural of Denver Health nurse Trina Fernandes painted by Thomas “Detour” Evans.

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dent at the University of Colorado Denver. Detour was finishing up his master’s degree and working at the Student Life office.

When Fernandes remarked to him that she was impressed by the artwork at the office, Detour revealed that he had made it all.

“I just cannot say how amazing he is,” Fernandes added.

Their friendship continued, but Fernandes never expected that one day she would be featured in one of Detour’s murals.

“It is very surreal,” Fernandes explained. “Because I feel like there

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are so many people he could have showcased, but he chose me.”

In the mural, Fernandes is shown holding her stethoscope over her shoulders, similar to how a baseball player might hold a bat in the ondeck circle. With a slight smirk, she looks confident, triumphant.

When Rocky Mountain PBS arrived at the mural to record video, a man admiring the work said it looked like Fernandes had “unfinished business.”

“I see someone moving forward, who has been through something,” the man said about the mural. “I see somebody going somewhere.”

The mural was completed at a time when health care workers — who were once celebrated with flyovers and nightly applause from balconies in the early months of the pandemic — are now facing threats and violence for simply doing their jobs.

Fernandes said she knows many people who have left the health-care industry over the last 18 months.

And she doesn’t blame them. In order to take care of others, you have to be able to take care of yourself, she explained.

But Fernandes — who works 12 hour night shifts and was recently honored as Denver Health’s “nurse of the year” — is going strong, and the mural reflects that.

The flowers that once haloed George Floyd’s head are still visible in the mural of Fernandes, if a little faded. Fernandes said she was a little hesitant to have her mural painted over George Floyd.

“I don’t want to take up that space because (Floyd) is such a huge, prominent figure in what has happened within the last year,” Fernandes remembers telling Detour.

But it was never his plan for the Floyd memorial to be permanent.

On a wall adjacent to the new painting, Detour left a message on a pair of posters.

“I just want to inform everyone that I will soon be changing up the wall the George Floyd mural is on,” he wrote in July. “When (artist) Hiero (Veiga) and I first put down paint on this wall we didn’t know the journey it would take us on or how impactful street art would play in our current society.”

His message continued on another

The original photo Detour used for his mural of Fernandes. PHOTO BY THOMAS “DETOUR” EVANS

sign: “I just want to continue telling the stories of the community and will continue to do that through this wall space ... I just wanted to give a heads up because I know the community has grown close with this work.”

Detour, who has also painted murals of activists and educators over the past couple years, told Rocky Mountain PBS he prefers to paint murals of people he knows personally.

“The biggest thing for me was just being able to paint a friend; paint someone who never really had a mural but they are amazing community members and just good people,” Detour said. “It’s showing a lot of representation in the neighborhood, the city, the state — just the larger community.”

Detour told Rocky Mountain PBS that the next person he has in mind for the wall at Colfax and Race is Paul Hamilton, a Denver art collector with more than 800 pieces of African art.

As for Fernandes, she is getting used to texts and phone calls from friends saying they “saw her on Colfax.” But both she and Detour hope that even if someone doesn’t know Fernandes personally, the mural will make them think of someone they do know.

“Maybe they don’t know who I am, but I mean, as a nurse, as a first generation student that (made it) where I am, it’s something that a lot of people can relate to,” Fernandes explained.

Detour said the mural shows “it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you look like or what income level or what occupation (you have). Basically, you’re able to be celebrated on that scale.”

In that way, Fernandes noted, her mural is similar to the one of George Floyd. “There are a lot of people that don’t know (Floyd) but could relate to him because what happened to him has happened to a lot of people in this country.”

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

Used by permission. For more, and to support Rocky Mountain PBS, visit rmpbs.org.

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October 28, 2021

Camping site for homeless planned near Denver Health The new ‘safe outdoor space’ will hold up to 50

BY REBECCA SPIESS DENVERITE

Another “safe outdoor space” is slated to open at West Eighth Avenue and Elati Street on Nov. 10 in a partnership between the Denver Village Collaborative and Denver Health.

According to the city’s press release, the 12,500-square-foot gravel lot will offer a 24-hour, staffed and secure shelter for up to 50 people for about one year.

The city first began funding safe outdoor spaces in February of this year, as the effects of COVID-19 settled more heavily on shelters and service providers. The program’s first two campsites were met with general optimism and eventually won over skeptical neighbors.

The announcement of this third space coincides with the extension of the safe outdoor space at Regis University’s Northwest campus until March 2022.

What sets this newest site apart is its origin and purpose: According to the city, 9% of those experiencing homelessness in Denver are Native American, despite making up less than 2% of the city’s population.

The new site will work in partnership with organizations like Four Winds Indian Council, Spirit of the

The future location of an outdoor campsite at Eighth Avenue and Elati Street, on the PHOTO BY KEVIN J. BEATY/DENVERITE northwest corner of Denver Health’s campus, as seen on Oct. 21.

Sun and Lakota Way Healing Center to more directly help the Native population.

The space is also the proposed solution to another encampment that sprung up, and still operates, at the Four Winds American Indian Council, eventually dubbed the Denver Indigenous Refugee Camp.

“Safe outdoor spaces have generally been very successful when they’ve been located in places where people experiencing unsheltered homelessness are already located and already camping,” said Cole Chandler, the executive director of the Denver Village Collaborative.

“There’s been a number of people that are camped and nearby blocks and so we’ll be able to at this location reach directly out to those individuals, many of whom happen to be Native American.”

The Four Winds building only blocks away has been maintaining their small encampment by offering things like water and garbage disposal to individuals at the site.

The encampment faced multiple sweeps during the summer, according to Denver Homeless Out Loud data. One sweep on Aug. 31 drew some protesters.

“How can the city come in and

clear that area when the adjacent property owner is OK with having the people there and is still providing a maintenance?” said Ana Cornelius, an organizer for DHOL who was present at multiple Four Winds sweeps.

This new safe open space, only blocks away, is an attempt to bring services to these individuals in way that doesn’t violate the city’s Urban Camping Ban. “None of this would have happened without the grassroots leadership of unhoused Native people who started the Denver Indigenous Refugee Camp outside of Four Winds American Indian Council and decided to organize and advocate for a new Safe Outdoor Space,” said Mateo Parsons, the board chair of Four Winds American Indian Council.

Cornelis said that those currently living at the encampment would likely move to the newest safe outdoor space a few blocks away, but only “if their needs are accommodated.”

Four Winds has complained about a sweep on Aug. 31, demanding the city stop interfering with what they called a clean, orderly encampment coexisting peacefully with the community.

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Ministry Outreach Center, located in Denver’s Park Hill neighborhood.

“One part is the warehouse, the home of all of our supplies. Any non-cash donation comes through the warehouse and is received here, stored here, sorted out, and then distributed from here,” said Jesse Ludema, the director of the Ministry Outreach Center.

At the center, the abandoned pieces of luggage get a new purpose.

About every month or so, Denver Rescue Mission picks up a batch of empty suitcases and bags from DIA to distribute to the unhoused community it serves.

“For many people in the homeless community they have very few belongings,” said Ludema. “And so if you’re walking around and trying to get back on your feet, having something to store your possessions in is really important.”

This particular partnership with a focus on luggage donations between DIA and Denver Rescue Mission started about three years ago. In 2018, Morrissey said the airport donated 835 pieces of luggage, and in 2019, it gave 719 pieces.

Morrissey does say in 2020, that number was much lower, likely because the number of passengers who went through DIA dropped significantly due to COVID-19.

“Not a huge amount in the context of 69 million passengers. But they are bags that can go and have a second life and support the clients

Piles of lost luggage sit waiting, stored on a shelf at Denver International Airport. Now, the airport plans to begin donating that COURTESY OF DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT luggage to the Denver Rescue Mission.

of the Denver Rescue Mission,” said Morrissey.

So far in 2021 donations are still lower than at the start of the partnership, again with passenger numbers not quite at where they were pre-pandemic. But any donation can make a big difference in a person’s life. “[It is] a need that we don’t often think of. We think of food, clothing, the essentials, but something to carry that in is critically important.

So it is a need that is expressed often,” said Ludema.

And that need has grown even more in just the last 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 count found the number of people experiencing homelessness for the first time doubled from 2020 to 2021.

“I think anyone who has worked with the homeless community here in Denver has seen the need increase for more resources, for more items just overall,” said Ludema. “It seems like we need to find a better way to help our homeless brothers and sisters in need.”

It seems now more than ever nonprofits like Denver Rescue Mission could use the help. Thankfully, Ludema says this luggage donation partnership is just one of many beneficial partnerships. Most major grocery store chains in Colorado donate leftover food, several food banks help out regularly, and different individuals or companies often come to Denver Rescue Mission with donations.

“There’s just probably hundreds of companies that may do drives every single year or twice a year, and may say, ‘Hey, we want to get

our company together and collect coats, or we want to collect hygiene products, or what is it that you need us to collect?’” said Ludema, “I’m really blown away by people’s generosity to help.”

And that’s exactly how the relationship with DIA started. At first, it was donations of unused food from the airline flight kitchens as well as some food and beverage concessions. Then it grew into this new baggage partnership.

“You can have those conversations in real time to say, you know, `We have this product, is it something that can be beneficial to people?’

And they [Denver Rescue Mission] understand what those needs are,” said Morrissey. “It’s really important for us to find those opportunities to positively contribute to the community.”

“Just all across America in our world, there’s so many problems,” said Ludema. “And so to experience generosity firsthand, and to see people really are willing to give and help is certainly very encouraging.”

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Community-based ofrenda helps people respect the dead ‘I’m all about honoring our loved ones’

BY JULIO SANDOVAL AND VICTORIA CARODINE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

A front entryway might not seem like a typical place for an ofrenda — an altar to honor the deceased — but Denver local Christopher Jorgenson wanted his community to have the opportunity and space to commemorate loved ones who have passed.

“I’m all about honoring our loved ones, our friends, and what better way than to do it like this?” Jorgenson told Rocky Mountain PBS. “Really give them the time and respect they deserve.”

At his home in southwest Denver, at 2710 S. Irving St., Jorgenson and his partner constructed a temporary ofrenda (meaning “offering” in Spanish) for the month of October.

Unlike a typical ofrenda, which is usually intended for an individual person who has passed away, Jorgenson’s ofrenda is for everybody.

“It was cathartic for us to really acknowledge our losses, but then also give them a place to be and to be honored,” Jorgenson said. “We loved it so much and I’m kind of a social guy so I was like, ‘let’s send it around to everyone!’”

The idea for the communityoriented ofrenda came when Paul, Jorgenson’s partner, was tearing out some juniper bushes in front of

VIDEO ONLINE Watch a Rocky Mountain PBS video about this story at tinyurl.com/ RMPBSVideoOfrenda their house. While he was working, Paul thought about his father who passed away years ago. Together, Jorgenson and Paul decided to create an ofrenda instead of putting up Halloween decorations.

However, Paul, who identifies as Hispanic, suggested the ofrenda be intended for their community. In a Facebook post on Oct. 3, Jorgenson made a call out to his neighborhood to let them know about the ofrenda and how to participate.

“Feel free to stop by at any time, drop off a picture, bring a candle, whatever you feel is OK by us,” he wrote. “Know your loved ones will be safe on the ofrenda and we can return any photos when the time comes.”

During the traditional Día de los Muertos celebration — which takes place on Nov. 1-2 — ofrendas are set up in private homes, churches, and cemeteries and often include photographs, marigolds (the Aztec flower of the dead), candles, food, and images of saints.

Each evening from 6 to 9:30 p.m., Jorgenson lights the candles at the ofrenda and spends a moment thinking of each person lost. “I wish them well; wish their family well,” he said.

While Jorgenson enjoys hearing

In front of his home in southwest Denver, Christopher Jorgenson lights candles at the PHOTO BY JULIO SANDOVAL/ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS ofrenda he constructed with his partner.

the memories people have about their loved ones, he is mostly there to offer support and create space to honor the deceased.

“I’m there to talk, I’m there not to talk; whatever they feel they need to do, I want to honor,” Jorgenson said. “I really want to provide a space for a safe haven, for honoring your loved ones, for taking the time out you need to reflect on the good things in life and not the negative.

“Even though someone could be

there that you’ve lost, that you’ve loved, and it’s hard and you’re struggling. It’s just to realize that you can go through that but also see the good.”

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Denver’s growing. A new campaign seeks to lure even more Chamber’s ‘Elevation Effect’ targets skilled workforce talent

BY KYLE HARRIS DENVERITE

In the 1900s, top-notch talent moved to cities to work for companies. Over the past 20 years, companies have started moving where the talent lives.

At least, that’s J.J. Ament’s theory.

He’s the new CEO of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, the membership-funded nonprofit that’s been trying to make Denver a business-friendly city since it was founded in 1867.

The chamber, one of the oldest businesses in Colorado, preceded statehood and was an instrumental part of speeding up the colonization of the city with a thriving economy.

One of the chamber’s first goals was to advocate for the transcontinental railroad to cut through Denver rather than Cheyenne, connecting the Mile High City to the coasts.

Over the years, the chamber has rescued Denver from economic slumps and adapted to the changing demands of an ever-shifting corporate landscape. The business — a formidable political player — has advocated for better roads, a transit system and even the construction of the Denver International Airport, to turn the city into a national hub.

These days the chamber, through its Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation team, wants to draw fresh, highly educated talent from outside the state; that’s the best way to attract new companies to the region and keep businesses here, Ament says.

“I think post 9/11, we saw a huge change,” he explains. “People took a different assessment of how they wanted to live their lives. It was reinforced during the Great Recession of ’08, and it has super accelerated here during the COVID pandemic.

‘Hang on a sec, I, as an individual, I’m gonna decide what kind of life I want to live and where I want to live.’”

Before taking his new post in September, Ament, whose family has been in Colorado for six

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generations, led the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation from 2017 to 2021, where he worked on the Chamber’s regional branding campaign that tried to name what makes this place special and encourage new people to move here — what’s now being called the Elevation Effect.

With 115,000 newcomers in the city over the past decade and regional weariness about growth, does Denver really need to go out of its way to attract more people?

There’s plenty to bring newcomers to Denver without trying to sell it.

Though the Economic Development Corporation’s research showed Denverites are less than enthusiastic about the city’s growth, the chamber’s theory is that staying competitive in attracting the biggest businesses to the area means bringing in the brightest up-and-coming workers.

Denver’s long been viewed from the outside as a destination for skiers, hikers and drinkers. Colorado Kool-Aid, aka Coors, lured people to the Front Range in the ’70s, long before the spike in trendy craft breweries over the past couple decades.

The easy-access to the outdoors have been an attraction since the early 1900s and has only grown since

highways and interstates made the mountains more accessible. Since 2012, both the relaxed cannabis laws and booming industry have also been big sells without having to promote them.

Yet the metro area can be doing much more to bring in highly skilled talent, says Ament.

Under boot-stomping rock music, the narrator of the Elevation Effect’s debut video states: “You can see that this place is more than just a pretty landscape. It’s a cutting edge community built at the forefront of innovation. From these heights, you can see how the work fuels us, how this place pushes us and how our people chase bigger horizons. From these heights, you don’t just see the elevation effect.

You experience it.”

The campaign — tailored to individuals — hints that Denver has a highly educated workforce, a solid work-life balance, great weather, world-class hiking, friendly and welcoming people, an international airport with nonstop flights to most cities nationwide, a comparatively affordable cost of living and industrious creatives who like to play as hard as they work.

As for children, there aren’t any here by the looks of the campaign.

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Leaving out kids is an odd omission for a campaign trying to attract new workers to the region and raises a big question: What kind of workforce is this city’s booming economy actually for?

The video suggests Denver’s a playground for hungry young professionals too busy working and climbing mountains to think much of future generations.

How did the Metro Denver EDC decide what should be included in its promotional materials for the Elevation Effect, and why aren’t families front and center?

Data.

Prior to this branding campaign, “We weren’t really using an evidence based approach to our brand management,” explains Ament.

“And so we decided that we were going to embark on that, and it was complicated, and it was hard. And it took two years to really be able to reach out into our community in a variety of ways.”

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“We grabbed that data to understand, ‘Who is the Colorado worker persona? Who is the Colorado business?’ in a really different and more robust way than has ever done before,” Ament explains.

By early 2020, he and his team had finally built a brand and were ready for a roll-out.

“And then, of course, COVID hit,” recalls Ament. “And we have the George Floyd murder. And we have social unrest.”

If it was authentic, the branding campaign would have to survive the mess that was 2020…and 2021 Ament and his team paused during the tumult of the past couple years to ask themselves: would the Elevation Effect still be relevant amid the seismic events?

“A brand should survive and persist through those things, whereas a marketing campaign would get blown up,” he explains. “It turns out, every indicator that we had [before] all of those events were just emphasized even more so [after] those events. So we were really reassured that we were on the right track.

“And what we were finding is that no matter who you were — race, gender, whether you lived here a long time, or whether you moved here recently — we’re all kind of saying the same thing,” he continues. “There’s just something

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about the metro Denver region and Colorado that in one way, it’s kind of hard to put your finger on. But there is just this feeling of: I can come here from somewhere else, and I’m welcome.”

But are kids welcome?

Corporations do care about how child friendly Metro Denver is — even if workers with families aren’t part of the branding campaign.

When Ament has traveled the country promoting Denver as a place for corporations to do business, human-resource departments at companies grilled him: “Is there a great place for my kids to go to school? Is the community welcoming and inclusive? Are there opportunities for good jobs? Can my kids get a good job after school without having to move away? So all of those things, I think, figure into that

Elevation Effect that we’ve talked about.”

Even if all of that’s not exactly highlighted in the campaign.

In 2018, when Denver was courting the VF Corporation — parent of The North Face, Jansport, Vans and other consumer brands — to move to the city, his team brought Denver Public Schools’ director of Choice and Enrollment to explain the city’s education system to employees.

Choice matters to Ament, a freemarket enthusiast who is quick to admit the city has flaws when it comes to being a landing spot for workers with kids.

Denver could be safer. The schools could be better. Housing could be more affordable.

“We’re not perfect at all that stuff,” Ament admits. “There are areas where we can most certainly improve — including price.”

Still, he argues downtown Denver is more family friendly than urban centers in larger coastal cities — and once COVID-19 has been managed, he imagines even the city’s center will come to life again.

“Once the health emergency passes, we can emerge,” Ament says.

“The economy will be different, but we’ll withstand. This was not an economic emergency that started all of this. There’s nothing wrong with our underlying economic systems.

Democratic capitalism, free enterprise — that was all working just like we want it to. In fact, Colorado was leading the nation in so many categories.”

So who gets to thrive in that system?

In attracting new talent to metro

Denver, the EDC and chamber are doing an especially good job attracting millennials who haven’t yet started families, Ament explains.

But, for those in their early 30s considering raising children, they see Colorado as a perfect place to do that, where they can have a house, a yard and a dog.

Compared to San Francisco, the city’s housing stock is a bargain.

Yet by the numbers, attracting people who don’t want kids also makes good sense, since more young adults have ditched the dream of traditional families. Fertility rates have been steadily declining across the United States for years. Over the past decade, Colorado’s has dropped annually.

The pandemic has only made people less likely to have children — what some are calling the COVID Baby Bust. Births, nationwide, were down by 4 percent in 2020 from 2019. Fewer kids means fewer people looking for family accommodations.

So what are people doing if they’re not raising kids?

The National Forests saw a 50% increase in use of its lands in Colorado last year. Cannabis sales boomed by 25% from 2019 to 2020.

Alcohol sales rose by 20%.

In Denver, there’s plenty do other than making babies, and perhaps a family-friendly city brand is just no longer sellable.

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Colo. hospital ICUs fill up amid COVID surge Polis: ‘Get protected.

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Gov. Jared Polis issued his most urgent plea in months Oct. 21, asking Coloradans to get vaccinated against coronavirus in order to break a continued surge in hospitalizations that left the state with only 120 available intensive care beds.

Looking into the camera that was live streaming his news conference, Polis spoke directly to unvaccinated Coloradans, saying: “We want you here. We want you to be healthy. Please get vaccinated.”

As of Oct. 21, more than 1,100 people were hospitalized in Colorado with confirmed cases of COVID-19, the highest number since last December. What is different this time, though, is the state has largely reopened, meaning hospitals are also filling up with victims of car accidents and other day-to-day events.

During normal times, the state’s intensive care units would operate at about 68% full, said Scott Bookman, the state health department’s COVID-19 incident commander. Now, though, Colorado’s hospital ICUs are operating at around 90% of capacity, running the risk that they could be overwhelmed if the surge of coronavirus cases continues.

Bookman said hospitals are postponing necessary but non-emergent surgeries — preserving capacity but delaying valuable medical care to patients who need it. Polis said the state is

An emergency-department patient at Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree in 2020.

ready to implement crisis standards of care plans if needed, a move that would authorize hospitals to prioritize who receives treatment when their capacity is overrun.

“We are nearing the capacity of our hospitals,” Polis said.

Bookman echoed that concern, saying, “The trajectory of hospitalizations continues to go up, making me even more concerned about what this is going to do to the capacity of our hospitals to be able to take care of patients.”

About 79% of those currently hospitalized with COVID-19 are unvaccinated, according to data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. And those who are hospitalized and unvaccinated also skew younger.

The average age of an unvaccinated person who is hospitalized in Colorado right now is 57, compared with an average age of 73 for the vaccinated.

In addition to urging unvaccinated people to get the shot, Polis also said older Coloradans should receive a booster shot. He cited newly released data from vaccine maker Pfizer showing that a booster shot of its vaccine was more than 95% effective at preventing symptomatic cases of COVID-19.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Oct. 20 approved booster shots for people who received the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, to go along with a previous approval of boosters for Pfizer recipients. At press time, an expert panel at the Centers for Disease Control and

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Since the beginning of October, about 20 people a day in Colorado have died with COVID-19. As recently as this summer, that number was around four or five people a day. More than 8,000 people in Colorado have now died due to the coronavirus.

The Oct. 21 news conference was notable for the language Polis used in hoping to prevent more deaths.

Repeatedly, he urged unvaccinated people to show care for themselves by getting the shot. Slightly less than 30% of Coloradans who are old enough to get vaccinated are not fully immunized.

“Never in my wildest imagination did I think there would be Coloradans that didn’t want to protect themselves,” Polis said, recalling the day the first vaccine doses arrived in the state.

He later added: “Show that you love yourself. Show that you support your friends and family that want you to be here for many years to come. Get protected. Get vaccinated. Get boosted.”

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Top talent talks about the importance of culture

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ere we are wrapping up the series, “The 5 C’s of Retaining Top Talent.”

Now it’s time to link connection, collaboration, change and consistency to WINNING culture. And culture, according to WORDS some top performers across several industries, was the difference maker in their decision to stay in their current role, or to leave and explore finding success elsewhere.

Michael Norton Mariann is considered one of the brightest in her organization. She is a thought leader and someone who loves coaching, mentoring and developing excellence in her team.

Every year she receives a glowing performance evaluation and an increase in her salary. When she emailed me after the first column of this series, she shared that she was regretfully leaving her job and team that she loved. Her reason was that after watching the culture of the organization deteriorate, and with empty promises to change, she ultimately resigned.

Her email was reflective of many I have received over the past few weeks. Organizations who are losing people are losing them largely because of the perceived negative, caustic, toxic, and confrontational environment they find themselves now working in.

Dave, a top performing salesperson is consistently in the top five amongst the salespeople in his company. He emailed me to say he was glad that culture was on the list. He reported that he had left a numbers driven, operations driven culture that never supported the sales team. As a matter of fact, he called them the sales prevention department. He left because he heard about the positive, high-energy, sales culture at his current company. He sought them out even though they weren’t looking for any new salespeople at the time. He says that “Luckily, and thankfully they saw me as a fit and offered me a job. The culture here rocks.”

We are living in very complex times, and it seems that no matter what we do as business owners, or executives leading a company, the diverse make-up of opinions, likes, dislikes, preferences, and

attitudes of our team members makes it almost impossible to please everyone. Right now, if you happen to be at a place where the culture of the organization is eroding and people are leaving, there is still hope. There is still time to start making changes or leading differently.

Although we are living and working with complexities, we can take what Albert Einstein said and focus on simplicity. Albert Einstein said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Sometimes we tend to complicate the uncomplicated or over-engineer a solution.

When it comes to changing culture or creating and maintaining a positive culture where people want to come to work, we can make huge advancements by focusing on the basics, some of the simplest things that our people expect from leadership, and that can go such a long way to building a thriving culture. We covered some of these over the past four weeks; connection; collaboration; change; and consistency.

Employee engagement is a very clear indicator of the health of our business. And a pretty obvious indicator of whether or not

we have a positive and thriving culture. When we look around are we seeing team members who are simply checking the box, or are they engaged and contributing at their very best? Are we being transparent with what is going on, how the company is performing, and taking an active interest in each team member? Are we working under a people-focused culture based on honesty, integrity, and opportunity? If not, people will do one of two things. Show up and check the box, or they will leave.

And with those two options, having them leave is almost always better.

How is your business doing when it comes to culture? Is it so bad that you are in duck and cover mode? Is it so good that you hope to attract more top talent to join you? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@tramazing. com and when we create a culture where people want to work and thrive, it really will be a better than good year.

Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

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At one point, he basically comLinda Newell pares conflict to a “shiatsu massage, where they dig into your body, very hard. And it is very painful. And apparently, some people throw up. But the next day, they feel great.”

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For some of us, it may actually be a physical reaction to protect us from harm. That’s a whole course of protection techniques just in itself. For others, it might be the fear of losing the argument or appearing to be incorrect, wrong, or “found out.”

But for the majority of us, we become hesitant to dig into our conflict because either we don’t have the tools to resolve it or we’re afraid of hurting (or losing) our relationships around it. But shouldn’t we be able to do both?

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Or, for training, coaching, or facilitating conflict, feel free to reach out to me for a resource relevant for you. The reward of feeling more peace in our lives, especially right now, is well worth the practice.

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“I believe that Black men carry every Black man that’s ever been seen on their shoulders. Whatever they (people) have seen in the media is what they see in me. However, you’ve got to push those stereotypes,” Stokes said. “So, I could be a Michael Jordan who can ball, possibly. But they probably see more criminals in the news, so they think I’m a threat.”

What Stokes feels is not uncommon, said Apryl Alexander, an associate professor at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology.

In fact, “a lot of Black people feel this way,” Alexander said. Black men being depicted as violent is embedded in some people’s cognitive thoughts, she added.

And “there’s nothing to debunk that if (a person) does not have a lot of experience with Black men,” Alexander said.

There are days when Stokes is able to not think about the issue, he said.

But it happens on such a scale that he started sharing his art in postcard form to “break the ice,” he said.

Stokes, 45, is an artrepreneur/ mazeologist, a father of three and a teacher.

Stokes’ forte is his maze art. He describes his creative process as “drawing a way out” of life’s difficulties. But along with using art as a healing mechanism, Stokes also uses his art to teach and for activism.

Man of many mazes Stokes began creating his maze art in 2008, and in 2012, he challenged himself to draw a piece every day for a year. As of now, Stokes has created about 1,300 mazes.

Each of Stokes’ maze art pieces is unique and varies in size. Being a dumpster diver, Stokes uses discarded materials — a broken-up dresser drawer or shelf, for example — as his canvas.

“I’m unforgivingly going to be me,” Stokes said. “But what does that mean? That means sharing my art.”

Stokes added that people’s fear of him could be because there aren’t many people of color in his neighborhood.

According to the American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2019, the estimated population of the 80209 zip code, which includes most of the Washington Park neighborhood, was 25,367. Of that, 1.3% identified as Black or African American. For comparison, Denver’s estimated population in 2019 was 727,211, with 9.2% identifying as Black or African American.

There are still many places where there’s not a lot of racial diversity, Alexander said.

Leadership roles in corporate institutions are one example. In Febhruary, Fortune magazine reported that in the history of the Fortune 500 list — first published in 1955 — . there have only been 19 Black CEOs, of the 1,800 total.

Alexander added that only a few of her students had a Black teacher or professor in their K-12 education or higher-ed studies prior to taking her class.

Warren Stokes of Denver’s Washington Park neighborhood holds up one of his mazes titled “Dukellington Elephant.” Stokes, an artrepreneur/mazeologist, has created PHOTO BY CHRISTY STEADMAN about 1,300 mazes to date.

More institutions and organizations are incorporating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in their policies. But Alexander urges people to consider what they are doing as individuals in their day-to-day life to stand up for Black people.

People can put up Black Lives Matters yard signs, but, Alexander asked, are they valuing their Black coworkers’ thoughts and ideas as much as those that come from their white colleagues?

“It’s not just police brutality that we’re highlighting in discussing racial injustice,” Alexander said. “It’s the everyday occurrences of Black people.”

She points to a December incident in a New York hotel during which a 22-year-old white woman falsely accused a Black 14-year-old of stealing her phone. Her phone was found soon after in a ride-share vehicle.

However, the woman reportedly lunged and yelled at the teen during the confrontation. She has since been indicted on hate crime charges.

Incidents like this transcend across neighborhoods, Alexander said.

“Everybody should feel welcome,” she said. But, “how are white people communicating that to marginalized groups?”

Deeper meaning Stokes likes to think of his mazes as a metaphor for life.

“The maze is beautiful as a whole, but it’s created from several different pieces that form a journey,” Stokes said. “A journey similar to life is full of obstacles and dead ends, but contains a solution.”

Stokes has held a variety of different jobs since moving to Denver, ranging from sales and telemarketing to substitute-teaching for Denver Public Schools. He has written many children’s books and coached various athletics.

Teaching is a skill that he has, Stokes said, but art is a passion.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Stokes started a subscription service business for daycare and

assisted living facilities to purchase his mazes. He refers to them as brain gyms, inspired by his late grandmothers, who suffered from dementia.

Stokes now teaches on the online platform Outschool. His classes are geared toward preschoolers, and he uses his mazes to teach the alphabet.

For example, solving a maze that is created inside the letter helps children with hand-eye coordination, all the while keeping the letter in mind and, thus, learning the letters of the alphabet, he said.

“My goal is to be an example of what I want America to be,” Stokes said. “I’m going to show you that through my art, my stories, through the way that I treat you, through the way I walk through this neighborhood and represent.”

Alexander added that “we all have biases.” They come from experiences, or commonly, the lack of experiences, with people who are different than us, Alexander said.

Though it sounds easy to do, it’s hard for people to challenge those biases. Alexander encourages people to think about how they can be a better ally to those who are different from them.

“What are you doing in your everyday environment to challenge your biases?” she said.

Stokes uses his art.

And he wants people to not feel fear when passing him.

“Maybe a story like this can help make everyone feel better and safer,” Stokes said. “I value our community and want to make this neighborhood as open and accepting as possible.”

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Standing straight: New treatments for an old problem New surgical techniques mean faster recovery for scoliosis patients

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hornton’s Bailee White is a pretty typical sixth-grader who likes to swim and do gymnastics. Thanks to some new personalized treatments, she has a pretty good shot at continuing to get to enjoy both for the rest of her life.

Bailee was born with scoliosis and had been in and out of Denver’s Children’s Hospital since she was born. Her pediatrician noticed something was off and recommended Bailee’s parents consult with the orthopedic department.

She was diagnosed with scoliosis – an abnormal sideways curving of the spine – before she could walk, but early on Janice White, Bailee’s mom knew she didn’t want to put her daughter in a back brace.

“We decided once she was 11-years old we were going to do surgery. We were all excited, and Bailee was excited to have it done, too, before she went into middle school,” Janice said.

Bailee had her surgery on May 11 this year. She was back up on her feet and walking within a few hours and, a few weeks later, she was doing her favorite activities – including backbends.

“They discharged her with no restrictions. As soon as we went home, I had a checklist of the types of stretches she could do to get herself back to normal. Because she’s a child, they heal so fast and they’re so active, they do not give them any restrictions on bending,” Janice said.

The quick turnaround was due to some new methods, according to Children’s Hospital Pediatric and Orthopedic and Spine Surgeon Dr. Sumeet Garg.

“We used a brand-new technology, customizing rods for Bailee’s scoliosis, (which is) a three-dimensional curvature of the spine, “ Garg said. “It’s an abnormal twisting or curvature. Sometimes they are born with it, but most commonly it’s developed during the adolescent years.”

Garg, who came to Children’s from St. Louis, has been a pediatric spine surgeon since 2010, said doctors are unsure just what triggers scoliosis in adolescence.

“Most kids who develop in adolescence, we don’t know why it happened,” Garg said. “There’s a word called ‘idiopathic’. It’s a kind of a generic word that is used for a lot of medical diseases. It means no known cause, so it’s called Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.”

But they do know that it’s best to treat children, and the younger the better. Left alone, it can be disabling to an adult.

LEFT: The x-ray of the abnormal twisting and curvature of Bailee’s spine before surgery. RIGHT: Bailee’s spine after the customCOURTESY OF JANICE WHITE izing rods were placed to straighten the spine.

“The reason we treat children when they’re younger is that with anything in medicine, younger kids recover faster, “ Garg said.

“They have fewer complications or problems with surgery, we can get them straighter and back to a normal alignment much better than adults. Which is why when the curves get big enough, it’s recommended to treat them.”

Preparation versus intuition The basic type of spinal surgery has been done since the 1950s but there has been a lot of development in recent years that make it safer, with better results and quicker recovery, Garg said.

“In the past, when taking care of these kids in the operating room, the metal rod that you use to realign the spine was one long rod,” Garg said. “So while in surgery they would make measurements of the area, cut the metal rods, and use metal benders to bend it into the shape to fit the patient. The doctor had to use judgment on the length and bends of the rod. It’s how it was done for years.”

But the basic methodology changed in 2020. Doctors now use a computerized simulation based on their patient’s x-rays to simulate the correction of the spine ahead of the surgery. They can create a model of what the spine should look like and what the ideal rod

would be to hold that three-dimensionally improved shape.

“So instead of having to cut and bend the rod in surgery the metal is forged into that specific shape and length,” Garg said. “So in surgery, when it’s time to place that rod to straighten the child’s back, you already have it planned out (how) to pull the spine to the rod to get a three-dimensionally appropriate correction.”

Preparation beats intuition, Garg added.

“I believe by pre-planning it, we can do a better job than just intuition, using our experience and guessing in surgery.”

The rods stay in place as the child grows and are designed to provide support lifelong.

The metal rod is meant to be tissue-specific, so the surgeon chooses between two different metals, titanium, and a cobalt chrome alloy. How patients’ scoliosis presents and what the surgeon expects to determine what metals get used.

“With a lot of medicine, and you may see this in other fields, we’re trying more to personalized surgery, so instead of one size fits all, we are trying to customize the surgery to the patient to give them a better result,” Garg said.

For Bailee’s surgery, they used a cobalt chrome alloy, which allows for a little bit more powerful correction than titanium.

Avoiding back pain Without surgery, Bailee’s curve would have continued to worsen as she got older, even into adulthood, Garg said. Adults who have scoliosis often suffer from back pain as the curvature becomes bigger and more visually apparent.

“Their shoulders will be uneven and may develop a hump in their back, “ Garg said. “They lose selfconfidence and self-esteem. When you put those two reasons with the progressive deformity and the progressive pain – its the main reasons that families may choose to have surgery as a teenager adolescent.”

Bailee is in the sixth grade now and her favorite subjects are art and science.

“When I grow up I want to be a nurse,” she said.

“The best part about these efforts in terms of research and innovation, we are seeing our kids get back to sports quicker because it’s a big deal to have a surgery like this. It’s rewarding to see them recover and get through the hard times after surgery, but within a few weeks,” said Garg.

“The families don’t have to worry anymore, it’s a sense of relief for the families. It’s joyous to see them succeeding, excelling whether its athletics, school, arts, or drama, whatever they enjoy doing, we just want to get them back to that.”

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Fan Expo Denver reunites fandoms for fun

BY CLARKE READER SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

When it was announced back in December that Pop Culture Classroom was cancelling the 2021 Denver Pop Culture Con, it appeared that it was going to be two full years before fans of all things comics, science fiction and fantasy were able to get together.

But like Thanos himself once said, fandom is inevitable.

Now, “Fan Expo Denver: Special Edition” is here, thanks to a partnership with Pop Cultural Classroom, an organization that uses pop culture to increase educational opportunities, inclusivity and diversity, and Fan Expo HQ, the largest comic con producer in the country.

“We’ve all stayed inside, supported our health care heroes, and done our part to keep our communities safe, and now, we’re thrilled to finally come back together, stronger than ever,” said Adam Kullberg, interim Executive Director of Pop Culture Classroom, in a

provided statement.

“Fan Expo Denver: Denver will give our community a chance to come together and celebrate creativity and pop culture in ways we haven’t been able to for a while.

We’re overjoyed to be able to bring that connection back to Denver this October.”

Fan Expo Denver will run from Friday, Oct. 29 through Sunday, Oct. 31 at the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St. in Denver.

The event is open from 4 to 9 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Attendance at the event will be 75% of the size of the normal event, but will still include vendors and artisans, workshops and panels and celebrity and creative guests.

Tickets and information can be found at www.fanexpodenver.com.

At press time, scheduled celebrity attendees include: • William Shatner - Star Trek and real-life space traveler.

• Christopher Eccleston - “Doctor

Who” and “The Leftovers.”

• Giancarlo Esposito - “The Mandalorian” and “Breaking Bad.” • Billie Piper - Doctor Who and “Penny Dreadful.”

• Zachary Quinto - Spock in the recent Star Trek movies and “Heroes.”

• Michael Rooker” - “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “The Walking Dead.”

Masks are mandatory when attending the event, and an approved mask is required to be worn always covering the nose and mouth, except while eating and drinking when stationary. This applies to all people age 2 and older. According to provided information, approved masks must have two or more layers of breathable fabric, completely cover the nose and mouth, fit snugly against the sides of the wearer’s face and have no gaps.

Other COVID-19 rules: Guests should stay home if they’re not feeling well; attendees should wash or sanitize their hands often; and when possible, keep a safe distance for other guests.

Denver Film Festival returns with features, experiences Screenings set for various venues

BY CLARKE READER SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

The latter half of the 2010s saw increased involvement in national and local elections, with more women running -- and winning -- than ever before. While national figures drew a lot of eyes, filmmaker Rebekah Henderson turned her eye -- and camera -- to campaigns happening right here in Denver.

“The film is really a love letter to the activist community and my friends,” Henderson said. “People do not know how hard local races are … and I wanted to tell a local story that is universal.”

The resulting film, “Running With My Girls,” follows the 2018 races of Shontel Lewis and a cohort of candidates who ran as a group -- Lisa Calderón, Candi CdeBaca, Shayla Richard and Veronica Barela.

“If you live in any city in America and are a Black or brown person who is paying to attention, you’ll see yourself in this film,” Henderson said. “It’s very much a reflection of my experience. I never stopped rolling because I didn’t want to miss anything.”

The film is part of the 44th annual Denver Film Festival, which runs in person and online from Wednesday, Nov. 3 through Sunday, Nov. 14.

All films will be screened in various theater settings (the SIE FilmCenter, AMC 9 + CO 10, the Denver Botanic Gardens Sturm Auditorium and Ellie Caulkins Opera House) and about 50 will be available for streaming at home on Denver Film’s virtual platform.

The festival will feature about 233 films, including 140 featurelength films, shorts, music videos and episodic content, according to provided information. Some major highlights (and award-season contenders) include “Spencer,” featuring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana; Will Smith’s “King Richard”; and “Jockey,” which stars

Clifton Collins Jr., who will be in attendance to receive the 2021 John Cassavetes Award.

Attendees can also put themselves in the world of film thanks a range of virtual reality and immersive experiences taking place at the Festival Annex at the historic McNichols Civic Center Building.

For local filmmakers like Henderson, being part of the home film festival reflects the importance of community -- not only as it applies to filmmaking, but as it applies to improving the lives and future of those around you.

“The film is really community made, and shows that when we band together, we have this power,” she said. “I want people to see it. I want people to get inspired by it.”

For information and tickets, visit tinyorl.com/denverfilmfest2021.

Denver Film will require all festival patrons, guests, employees and volunteers entering venues or host sites to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 with an FDA- or WHO-approved vaccine.

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Still Museum celebrates a decade The Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St. in Denver, has opened a new exhibit called “A Decade of Discovery: Clyfford Still in Denver,” which celebrates a decade of the museum’s operation and the discoveries that have been made over the years.

According to provided information, the museum “has made countless discoveries as the staff invento-

ried and assessed the Museum’s vast art and archival holdings, worked to better understand visitors’ interests and evaluated the artist’s legacy in an ever-changing world.”

The exhibition runs through March 6, 2022, with numerous events hosted throughout. Visit www.clyffordstillmuseum.org for more information.

Phamaly Theatre Phamaly Theatre will present three staged readings under the heading of “Theatre as Sanctuary,”

exploring the idea of sanctuary: “The Christians” by Lucas Hnath, directed by Monica Holt, Oct. 2930 at the Antonia Brico Stage at Central Presbyterian Church, 1660 N. Sherman St., Denver; “And in this Corner: Cassius Clay,” directed by donnie betts; Nov. 12-13 at the Phamaly Theatre Company Offices, 3532 Franklin St., Denver; and “My Name is Asher Lev” by Aaron Posner, directed by Ben Raanan, Nov. 20-21 at Temple Emanuel, 51 Grape St., Denver. Pay what you can, $20 is suggested, at phamaly.org.

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WORLD CUP FROM PAGE 1

“This will be 10 times the size of the Euro Cup,” said Manny Rodriguez, the co-chairman of the committee making the bid to bring the World Cup to town. “It’s the world’s biggest sporting event. It drew 3.5 billion viewers in 2018. Our biggest sporting event is the Super Bowl, and 150 million people tune in.

“Soccer is the world’s game.”

Three North American nations – Canada, the United States and Mexico – are bidding to host part of the World Cup. In the U.S., 17 cities are expected to submit bids. Ten will make the first round of cuts.

Eventually, three cities will win out, organizers said.

Matthew Payne, the executive director of Denver Sports, said Denver has hosted other big-time sporting events, including this summer’s Major League Baseball all-star game.

“We have the infrastructure. We have the stadium, the hotels, the arenas,” he said. “We’ve hosted high-capacity matches at Empower Field at Mile High (where most of the matches would take place). It’s a global city. When people visit, businesses often end up here.”

Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City has hosted World Cup qualifying events, including a snowstorm-laced contest in 2013 between the United States and Costa Rica. But the home of the Colorado Rapids isn’t part of Denver’s bid.

“It’s not large enough,” Payne

Trophy of the FIFA World Cup and official ball of FIFA World Cup 2018.

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said. “With the anticipated crowds, we’d need a place that seats above 50,000 people. The average attendance in 1994 (the last time the U.S. hosted a World cup) was 70,000.

Dick’s could be used as a training site.”

Rodriguez said the economic benefit to the area could approach $360 million from hotels, restaurants, lodging and tourism-related activities.

“We have 52,000 hotel rooms and

12,000 in the downtown core,” Payne said. “Most are within walking distance of the stadium. Think of the number of hotels that weren’t here four years ago. Then think of the number of hotels that will be built between now and when the World Cup comes.”

“In 2026, the field expands to 46 teams. Folks who travel to see their teams play have economic power,” Rodriguez said. “They come for days at a time. Some come for weeks.”

Area taxpayers won’t have to foot a bill, other than buying a ticket of admission.

The altitude isn’t as big a problem as one might think. Rodriguez said three cities in Mexico are higher in elevation than Denver. The weather could work to Denver’s advantage, too.

“Denver has unique things to offer,” Rodriguez said. “We have the best airport in the world. If you think about some of the coastal cities in New York, Miami, they have higher humidity. Our average temperature is in the 80s. It doesn’t rain a lot in the summer here.”

The timing of games that start in the Mountain Time Zone may not matter to people who love their soccer.

“If a country is playing at 4 a.m., people will get up and watch. Or they will record it,” Rodriguez said.

“People in some countries will stay up regardless of what time it starts.”

Rodriguez said soccer is the No. 1 participatory sport in the state, thanks in part to youngsters who take part in youth soccer.

“Youth soccer could grow exponentially,” Rodriguez said. “This community is diverse. Soccer is going to grow with people who love the game more and more.”

The target months for the 2026 World Cup are sometime in June or July. The 2022 World Cup will take place in about a year in Qatar, owing to the extremely hot summers in that part of the world. Rodriguez said next year’s event will be the first to be contested outside the summer months.

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Seasonal LeafDrop program underway Denver residents are invited to drop off their leaves for free through Denver Recycles’ seasonal LeafDrop program.

The leaves dropped off are turned into compost, which is sold to Denver residents at the Mulch Giveaway & Compost Sale each May. Weekday drop sites are open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday until Dec. 3. Weekday drop site locations are: • Central Platte Campus: 1271 W. Bayaud Ave., 80223, Valverde neighborhood • Cherry Creek Transfer Station: 7301 E. Jewell Ave., 80231, Indian Creek neighborhood • Havana Nursery: 10450 Smith Road, 80239, Central Park neighborhood Weekend drop sites are open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays until Nov. 14. Weekend drop site locations are: • Bruce Randolph High School:

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The purpose of this application is to request $1,300,000 to develop 253 units of rental or homes for purchase at 5909 38th Ave. The request of funding from DOH is to benefit persons with low and moderate incomes by increasing the availability of affordable housing in Denver. It is not the intent to cause displacement from any existing housing; however, if persons are displaced from their existing residences reasonable housing alternatives shall be offered.

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Public Notice NOTICE AS TO AMENDED 2021 AND PROPOSED 2022 BUDGETS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the amended 2021 and 2022 proposed budgets have been submitted to the Board of Directors of Denver Rock Drill Metropolitan District for their consideration.

A copy of such proposed budgets has been filed in the offices of the District Manager, Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc., 550 West Eisenhower Boulevard, Loveland, CO 80537, where the same is open for public inspection. Such amended and proposed budgets will be considered at a special meeting of the Board of Directors to be held via videoconference on Friday, November 19, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. Virtual meeting attendance information is posted at least 24-hours prior to the meeting at http://denverrockdrillmd.net/. Any interested elector of Denver Rock Drill Metropolitan District may inspect the amended and proposed budgets at the office of Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc., 550 West Eisenhower Boulevard, Loveland, CO 80537 and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the budgets.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: DENVER ROCK DRILL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ Kieyesia Conaway, Administrator Legal Notice No. 81269 First Publication: October 28, 2021 Last Publication: October 28, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for the City and County of Denver, Colorado, Case No. 21-08-0108P. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) solicits technical information or comments on proposed flood hazard determinations for the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report for your community. These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway. The FIRM and, if applicable, the FIS report have been revised to reflect these flood hazard determinations through issuance of a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR), in accordance with Title 44, Part 65 of the Code of Federal Regulations. These determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to adopt or show evidence of having in effect to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. For more information on the proposed flood hazard determinations and information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, please visit FEMA’s website at https://www.floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/BFE_Status/bfe_main.asp , or call the FEMA Mapping and Insurance eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877FEMA MAP (1-877-336-2627).

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Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jay Leon Colonius, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31216 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 February 14, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

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By: Nicole Menor, Personal Representative Nicole Menor 5851 Quail St Arvada, CO 80004 Legal Notice No. 81253 First Publication: October 14, 2021 Last Publication: October 28, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Eva Sue Peters Brady, also known as E. Sue Peters Brady, aka Sue Peters Brady, aka E. Sue Brady, aka Sue Brady, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31355 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 February 14, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

First Publication: October 21, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Chi Hung Chan, aka Hung Chi Chan, aka Hung Chan, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 443

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JASON GEORGE WRITER, also known as Jason G. Writer, Deceased.

Case Number: 2021PR31427 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 February 28, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

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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 February 28, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Helen Chan, Personal Representative Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203 Legal Notice No. 81271 First Publication: October 28, 2021 Last Publication: November 11, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bruce Meyer, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 31406

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of: Jack Curran Moore, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31218 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Denver County, Colorado on or before February 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dated this 8th day of October, 2021.

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 February 28, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

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Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Marvin Spector, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31181

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All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before February 14, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Betty Christine Madonna, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR031455 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 March 1, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. s/Jeffrey M. Villanueva Jeffrey M. Villanueva, #10001 Attorney for Personal Representative 1755 Blake Street, Suite 225 Denver, Colorado 80202 Telephone: 303-295-7525 E-mail: jeff@jmvpclaw.com

Leslie Block Kaye, Personal Representative c/o Timothy J. Parks, Esq. Hutchins & Associates LLC 1999 Broadway, Suite 1400 Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No. 81245 First Publication: October 14, 2021 Last Publication: October 28, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JAMES ALLEN LONG, A/K/A JAMES A. LONG, A/K/A JAMES LONG, A/K/A JIM ALLEN LONG,

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Public Notices A/K/A JIM A. LONG AND JIM LONG, Deceased Case Number: 21 PR 31358 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the PROBATE COURT OF CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO, on or before March 4, 2022 or the claims may be forever barred.

Luke Travis Long, Personal Representative 1389 Jefferson Street #B506 Oakland, CA 94612 Legal Notice No. 81261 First Publication: October 28, 2021 Last Publication: November 11, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Ilse O Alcon, deceased Case Number: 21PR421 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 February 28, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Roxanna S OConnor Personal Representative 5021 S Field Way Denver, CO 80123 Legal Notice No. 81267 First publication: October 28, 2021 Last publication: November 11, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of: PATSY RUTH MAXFIELD, AKA PATSY MAXFIELD, AKA PATSY R. MAXFIELD, Deceased Case Number: 2021-PR-31182 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Denver County, Colorado on or before February 14, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dated this 6th day of October, 2021.

ANITA L. MAYFIELD Personal Representative to the Estate 321 S. Krameria Street Denver, CO 80224 Phone: (720) 371-4121 Legal Notice No. 81248 First Publication: October 14, 2021 Last Publication: October 28, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Lorraine Rothchild, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31365 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court on or before February 28, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

John Rothchild, Personal Representative 4436 Westpark Court Ann Arbor, MI 48108 Legal Notice No. 81268 First Publication: October 28, 2021 Last Publication: November 11, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of RALPH DEVINE HARRIS, SR., a/k/a RALPH D. HARRIS, a/k/a SR. RALPH D. HARRIS, a/k/a RALPH HARRIS, SR. and RALPH HARRIS, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 31339 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 February 28, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ralph D. Harris, Jr. Personal Representative

4122 Orleans Ct. Denver CO 80249 Legal Notice No. 81273 First Publication: October 28, 2021 Last Publication: November 11, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of LAHOMA JEAN OSMENT, a/k/a LAHOMA J. OSMENT, a/k/a LAHOMA OSMENT, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30734 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court, 1437 Bannock Street, Room 230, Denver, Colorado 80204 on or before February 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ronald W. Servis, Esq, Special Administrator 11616 Shaffer Place, Unit S-102 Littleton, Colorado 80127 303.237.5020 Legal Notice No. 81257 First Publication: October 21, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Raisa Gomolyaka, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31124 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before November 20, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

George Gomolyaka, Personal Representative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Legal Notice No.81250 First Publication: October 21, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of HELEN LOUISE NASH, aka HELEN LOU NASH, aka HELEN L. NASH, aka HELEN NASH, aka LOUISE NASH, aka LOU NASH, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31346 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 February 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Craig D. Johnson, Atty. Reg. #: 11902 CRAIG D. JOHNSON & ASSOCIATES, P.C. 8 Garden Center, Unit 2 Broomfield, CO 80020 Phone Number: 303-466-2335 FAX Number: 303-466-6342 E-mail: cjohnson@cdjlaw.com Legal Notice No. 81255 First Publication: October 21, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Aletha Carlene Bennett, aka Carlene Bennett, aka Aletha Carlene Siekierski, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 031288

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Lawrence E. Runge, a/k/a Lawrence Edward Runge, a/k/a Lawrence Runge, a/k/a Larry Runge, a/k/a Larry E. Runge, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR031231 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 Monday, February 14th, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Yvonne D. Runge, Personal Representative 5001 W. Tufts Avenue Denver, CO 80236 Legal Notice No. 81247 First Publication: October 14, 2021 Last Publication: October 28, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of: Mary M. Gallegos, a/k/a Mary Gallegos, a/k/a Maximana Galleggos, a/k/a Maxima Gallegos, a/k/a Maxine Gallegos, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31024 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Denver County, Colorado on or before February 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dated this 8th day of October, 2021.

Sabrina Salazar Personal Representative to the Estate 4473 Yates Street Denver, CO 80212 Phone: 720 266 3144 Legal Notice No.: 81252 First Publication: October 21, 2022 Last Publication: November 4, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch

Name Changes Public Notice Denver County, Colorado 1437 Bannock Street Denver, Colorado 80202 In the Matter of the Petition of: Parent/ Petitioner: Drinker, Dwight For Minor Child: Derick Nehemiah Breaux To Change the Child’s Name to: Derick Nehemiah Drinker Case Number: 21CV351 NOTICE TO NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT BY PUBLICATION Notice to: Erica N. Breaux, non-custodial parent.

Notice is given that a hearing is scheduled as follows: Date: December 13, 2021 Time: 2:30 p.m.

Location: 1437 Bannock Street, Courtroom 316 Denver, Colorado 80202 For the purpose of requesting a change of name for Donavan Jeremiah Drinker At this hearing the Court may enter an order changing the name of the minor child.

In the Matter of the Petition of: Parent/ Petitioner: Drinker, Dwight For Minor Child: Donavan Jeremiah Breaux To Change the Child’s Name to: Donavan Jeremiah Drinker Case Number: 21CV352 NOTICE TO NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT BY PUBLICATION Notice to: Erica N. Breaux, non-custodial parent.

Notice is given that a hearing is scheduled as follows: Date: December 13, 2021 Time: 2:30 p.m.

Location: 1437 Bannock Street, Courtroom 316 Denver, Colorado 80202 For the purpose of requesting a change of name for Donavan Jeremiah Drinker At this hearing the Court may enter an order changing the name of the minor child.

To support or voice objection to the proposed name change, you must appear at the hearing.

Date: 9.30.21 Dwight Drinker 8760 E. Chenango Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80237

relationship, YOU MUST: • Request and then return a “Reply Form to Notice of Anticipated Expedited Relinquishment” to Adoption Options at the above address or to Grob & Eirich, LLC, 12596 W. Bayaud Ave., Suite 390 Lakewood, CO 80228 by Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, no later than twenty-one (21) days after the date of this notice or before the birth mother’s relinquishment petition is filed with the court, whichever occurs later. The date of notice shall be considered the date of the first day of publication in the newspaper.

OR • Request and return a “Reply Form to Notice of Anticipated Expedited Relinquishment” in person to Adoption Options, at the address indicated above, no later than twenty-one (21) days after the date of this notice or before the birth mother’s relinquishment petition is filed with the court, whichever occurs later. The date of notice shall be considered the date of the first day of publication in the newspaper. You should bring photo identification with you for in-person submission.

YOU MUST ALSO: • File a claim of paternity pursuant to Article 4 of Title 19, Colorado Revised Statutes and notify Adoption Options pursuant to C.R.S. § 19-4-105.5.

This claim of paternity must be filed no later than twenty-one (21) days after the date of this notice or before the birth mother’s relinquishment petition is filed with the court, whichever occurs later. The date of notice shall be considered the date of the first day of publication in the newspaper.

5. You may also waive your right to contest the termination of parental rights and doing so will likely result in a termination of any parental rights you may have to the child. If you do not believe that you are the father of this child, please check the appropriate box on the reply form.

Legal Notice No. 81262 First Publication: October 28, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Children Services (Adoption/Guardian/Other) Public Notice Adoption Options 1355 S. Colorado Blvd., Suite 501 Denver, CO 80222 (303) 695-1601

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED THAT IF YOU FAIL TO PROPERLY REPLY TO THIS NOTICE IN A MANNER DESCRIBED ABOVE, YOU ALSO WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO ANY FURTHER NOTICE RELATED TO THE ANTICIPATED EXPEDITED RELINQUISHMENT PROCEEDINGS AND YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS, IF ANY, WILL LIKELY BE TERMINATED BY THE COURT. Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely, Seth A. Grob Kathryn A. Stafford Grob & Eirich, LLC Attorneys for Adoption Options

Seth A. Grob Kathryn A. Stafford Attorneys for Adoption Options Grob & Eirich, LLC 12596 W. Bayaud Ave., Suite 390 Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 679-8266 NOTICE OF ANTICIPATED EXPEDITED RELINQUISHMENT OF THE PARENT-CHILD LEGAL RELATIONSHIP TO: Any and All Unknown Fathers, Respondents YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED, PURSUANT TO C.R.S. § 19-5-103.7, AS FOLLOWS: 1. You have been identified by Malia Lee Nash as the possible birth father of her child, Edgar Lee Nash, who was born on September 8, 2021 in Colorado.

2. Ms. Nash plans to relinquish her parental rights to the child on an expedited basis in the Jefferson County District Court, State of Colorado, where the adoption agency has an office, pursuant to C.R.S. § 19-5-103.5 in order to make the child available for adoption.

Placing a child for adoption requires termination of the birth mother and alleged birth father(s) parentchild legal relationships. Termination of parental rights means that pursuant to a court order, all rights powers, privileges, immunities, duties and obligations existing between a parent and a child are permanently severed, except for inheritance rights, which will be severed at the time of the final decree of adoption. Upon termination of parental rights, a parent shall: (a) no longer have the right to custody of, or parenting time with the child; (b) no longer have the right to any information concerning the whereabouts, activities, health, or well-being of the child; and (c) have no say in any further decisions concerning said child.

Legal Notice No. 81260 First Publication: October 28, 2021 Last Publication: October 28, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS

BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA JOHNSTON COUNTY In the District Court 21 SP 1372 – Bradley Edward Redmond, father of the adoptee, Lily Grace Hardy, a female child born 12/30/2012 to Jenna Leigh Hardy (Hopp): Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled Special Proceeding. The nature of the relief being sought is an Adoption of Minor Child by Stepparent. You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than forty (40) days and upon your failure to do so the party seeking service against you will apply to the court for termination of any parental rights you may have to the child. This notice is given pursuant to N.C.G.S. 1A-1.

Cameron V. Reed Associate Attorney Spence & Berkau P.A. 212 South Second Street | PO Box 1335 Smithfield, NC 27577 Tel. (919) 934-1149 | Fax (919) 934-3635 cameron@sst-law.com

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All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before February 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Leif A. Nelson, P.C. Attorney for the Personal Representative 29029 Upper Bear Creek Road, Suite 202 Evergreen, Colorado 80439 Legal Notice No. 81254 First Publication: October 21, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

To support or voice objection to the proposed name change, you must appear at the hearing.

Date: 9.30.21

Dwight Drinker 8760 E. Chenango Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80237

Legal Notice No. 81263 First Publication: October 28, 2021 Last Publication: November 25, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

Denver County, Colorado 1437 Bannock Street Denver, Colorado 80202

Facts do not cease to exist b because they are re ignored. ignored.

- Aldous Huxley

3. A birth parent of a child has the right to contest the termination of parental rights.

Legal Notice No. 81264 First Publication: October 28, 2021 Second Publication: November 4, 2021 Third Publication: November 11, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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