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‘A great leader for the little ones looking for the love of education’ Mamie Howard works to provide all students a life of opportunity

Tuition has increased 169% between 1980-2019

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Mamie Howard puts her whole heart into her students.

“She is super passionate about what she does,” said Susanna Pasillas, a parent of two. “She wants the best for all the kids, and she advocates for them.”

Currently serving as principal resident, Howard is on the leadership team for University Prep., or more commonly known as U Prep.

The schools are tuition free public charter schools that serve kindergarteners through fifth graders. U Prep has two locations — Arapahoe Street in Five Points, 2409 Arapahoe St., which was founded in 2011; and Steele Street, 3230 E. 38th Ave. in Denver’s Clayton neighborhood, which was founded in 2016.

Howard is a founder, and will become principal of, U Prep’s Commerce City location, which is expected to open in fall 2023.

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outside Meeker — came after 145 wild horses died in an equine flu outbreak at a Cañon City holding facility.

The public land where the East Douglas herd lives is suited for no more than 235 horses, according to the BLM, yet there are 1,385

For many students attending college or preparing to start that educational journey, the cost weighs heavy.

Teenagers and young adults suffer from anxiety and struggle with mental health more than ever before and a lot of it has to do with how they can meet expectations set by society to go to college, graduate and become successful adults.

The problem, however, is that the cost of college continues to increase. When comparing today’s costs to generations before, the amount of debt students take on to complete a degree is impacting their lives for decades.

Throughout her internship with Colorado Community Media, Bella Terhark, a recently graduated senior at Castle View High School, regularly stressed about the cost of college. She said doing extracurricular activities and working hard to get the best grades was all in the hope of getting scholarships to pay for school.

Terhark looked at local schools but wanted to be more adventurous and go to school out of state. After graduating, Terhark said she will be attending a college in Wyoming and majoring in journalism.

The stress felt by students is a

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Mamie Howard works with students at University Prep. Currently serving as principal resident, Howard will become principal of the school’s Commerce City location, which COURTESY PHOTO is expected to open in fall 2023.

Feds ignore Polis’ plea to stop wild horse roundups Roundup planned on the Western Slope

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

Federal officials will begin capturing hundreds of mustangs roaming

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in far northwestern Colorado this week, dismissing a request from Gov. Jared Polis to halt roundups while the state and U.S. Bureau of Land Management find a “more humane” option for managing wild horses.

The federal agency’s announcement of its next roundup — in the Piceance-East Douglas rangeland

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mustangs on the range. The roundup was scheduled to begin June 16 with a bait-and-trap operation, in which horses are lured into a corral with fresh water and food. Federal officials plan to bring in a helicopter and horseback riders in mid-July to round up more mustangs.

The roundup was originally scheduled for September, but the BLM moved it up because the horses are so malnourished coming out of winter, officials said.

“We saw some horses really suffering in March and April,” Elijah Waters, the BLM’s northwest district manager, said in an email. “We were getting quite a bit of feedback from the public to do something, and we felt like the best option was to gather as soon as we could for the horses in poor condition and for the horses that will remain and need forage before going into next winter.”

The animals will go to a holding facility in Utah — not the pens on state prison grounds in Cañon City that were the site of the deadliest mustang flu outbreak on record.

The horse deaths, which began April 23 and stopped May 26, incited outcry from mustang advocates around the country and Colorado’s governor and first gentleman, Marlon Reis, an animal rights advocate. Polis already had urged federal officials last summer to pause wild horse roundups and work with Colorado on a gentler solution to the abundance of horses on public lands. That plea came ahead of a helicopter roundup last summer of 684 horses in the Sand Wash Basin in northern Colorado along the Wyoming border.

After the Cañon City outbreak, Polis again wrote to the BLM asking them to call off scheduled roundups.

The federal agency’s Stephanie Connolly, acting state director for the BLM, rebuffed the governor’s request in a June 2 letter, which was released to The Sun on June 14. She said that while the BLM appreciates the governor’s “engagement in managing wild horses,” the East Douglas herd is more than six times the size that the land can support. A few hundred of the horses have left the public range-

Wild horses graze on public lands Sept. 1, 2021, near the Sand Wash Basin outside Craig.

land, Connolly said, “in search of food and water on nearby private property.”

The herd has grown by about 20% each year, she said. And BLM research found that 80% of the shrubs and grasses consumed on the rangeland last year were eaten by wild horses, which is out of balance for other animals that use the land, she said. Public land managed by the federal agency is leased to cattle and sheep ranchers, as well as used by elk, deer and other wildlife.

“The situation will only grow more dire for these horses, wildlife and the environment,” Connolly wrote.

The governor’s office told The Sun that it was disappointed by the BLM’s decision to move ahead with a “costly and wasteful roundup of our wild horses.” The governor offered “numerous costeffective and humane alternative methods of management,” including birth control, but those were ignored.

“It is apparent not only that they will not seriously consider better alternatives, allowing only a few weeks for bait-and-trap methods, but that the agency truly doesn’t care to first listen to stakeholders before moving forward,” Polis’ spokesman Conor Cahill said. The

governor was particularly disappointed that the BLM announced its plans for the roundup at the same time it announced a listening session to gather public input.

The governor did get one of his wishes granted by federal officials: no additional horses are headed to the holding pens in Cañon City.

All of the horses that died in this spring’s outbreak were from the West Douglas rangeland, along the Colorado-Utah border.

The craggy, mostly inaccessible land was deemed “unsuitable” for wild horses by the BLM, and last summer, the agency announced an emergency roundup of horses and burros.

The outbreak was caused by a fairly common equine flu virus and was further complicated by a streptococcus bacteria. Most of the horses had not received a flu vaccine despite being hauled to the holding facility seven months earlier, and the BLM has said it is investigating the reasons for the delay and will release details later.

The American Wild Horse Campaign said it was alarmed by the federal plan to accelerate the roundup, calling it inhumane to send more mustangs into holding facilities that have been plagued with disease. Holding pens across the country are already crowded,

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said the campaign’s executive director Suzanne Roy. “The BLM already has a capacity crisis on its hands,” she said in an email. “The agency must not use a limited emergency as an excuse to accelerate a wholesale helicopter roundup of hundreds of wild horses and send them to a broken holding system where they are at a heightened risk of disease and death.”

Nationwide, the bureau has more than 56,000 wild horses and burros in holding pens or pastures, some awaiting adoption. That includes more than 2,000 horses in Cañon City, where prison inmates care for the animals.

The agency estimates there are about 82,000 wild horses and burros roaming rangeland in 10 Western states, but says the land is appropriate for only about 26,000 of them. In Colorado, about 1,800 mustangs remain on range, but the federal goal is 827.

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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‘The cost of college is higher than ever. And the financial assistance available to students and work is not enough to cover it all anymore.

Society has to figure out this burden we are putting on students and its not the college, it’s society.’

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concern, said Arapahoe Community College Dean of Students Javon Brame. The mental health crisis teenagers and young adults are facing is like another pandemic, Brame said.

The cost to get an education is a large part of that stress, Brame said. The 10-year dean said that on campus, it is not unusual to have struggling students transported to a mental health facility for help.

“The cost of college is higher than ever,” Brame said. “And the financial assistance available to students and work is not enough to cover it all anymore. Society has to figure out this burden we are putting on students and its not the college, it’s society.”

Brame described a society where students are struggling to have fair access to higher education, calling it “academic capitalism.”

“You enter the system, and it decides how you are sorted out in society,” he said. “Class is the sorting ground.”

In the 1970s, Audrey Brooks — a member of the Baby Boom generation — paid for her first few years of college with grants and working. By her senior year, she said, she needed a loan to finish, which she estimated at about $2,000.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, a full-time student at a public, four-year institution is looking at paying more than $22,000 per year

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Colorado is average compared to other states. While most college degrees cost about $20,000, in New Jersey and Vermont students are paying closer to $30,000. On the lower end, a four-year degree in Florida is around $15,000.

In Wyoming where Terhark will begin college this fall, NCES out-of-state tuition estimates are lower than the national average at around $14,800.

According to a report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, between 1980 and 2019, the average price for college increased 169%.

Author Sandy Baum, a national expert on college tuition, financial aid and college affordability, said the price of a degree has gone up

dramatically over the last three decades while income levels have been more stagnant.

With more and more people being told by society to go to college, enrollment rates are going up along with tuition rates, Baum said.

Besides parents and societal pressures to get a degree, moving up in class is also part of the equation.

“It is hard to get a good, middleclass job without an education,” Baum said. “Now, it’s getting harder to afford it. College is must more expensive, and states need to put more into fixing the issues.”

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“Education is the gateway to everything else. Education is our opportunity to give everyone access to a life of opportunity,” Howard said. “All children should have access to a highquality education.”

Howard, 29, a mother of two, went to college with the intention of becoming a lawyer. But after taking the Law School Admission Test, Howard decided law school wasn’t the path she wanted to pursue.

She started looking for jobs and found an opportunity to become a math fellow for sixth graders at the Denver Center for International Studies at Montbello. She moved to Denver in the summer of 2014, doing a math fellowship for a year and eventually, bought a home in Aurora.

“I decided teaching was what I wanted to do,” Howard said.

“If we do education right, and if educators are not only equipped to do their job, but also positioned to do their job … if those two things exist, our future is great.”

Howard believes that with providing access to high-quality education for all children, all of society will benefit. There will be less poverty, less homelessness and “less people miserable at their job because they just didn’t have the opportunity to go after the career that they wanted,” Howard said.

In 2015, Howard got involved with the Hill Campus of Arts & Sciences, of Denver Public Schools in Hilltop.

Through a program called Denver Teach Today, which is no longer in existence, Howard was able to earn her teaching liscense and professional development training. By 2018, she became a team specialist at the school, and the following year, she assumed a position as a coach for the eighth-grade math teachers.

Howard eventually enrolled at Western Governors University — an accredited, online nonprofit university — and earned her Master of Educational Leader-

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2020 65% of all U.S. jobs required postsecondary education and training beyond high school.

Besides the cost of paying for a degree, Baum said it’s becoming harder to students to live. With rent increases, inflation rates hitting grocery bills and gasoline costs at a record high, students are struggling to support themselves.

Blame said besides investing more in counseling services to address mental health concerns in students, colleges are also open-

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She obtained a job at a charter school in Aurora and served as that school’s assistant principal before coming to U Prep.

Howard believes the best way to design a school is by getting families involved.

“Families voices should be at the table,” she said. “Working with families gives them the power to shape the school. We (educators) cannot do it alone.

Families know their kids best — they are their child’s first educator.”

Pasillas learned of U Prep because her nephews attended the school. She saw her nephews excelling — mainly because of the parent-teacher relationship, she said. She wanted her kids to also attend U Prep. Pasillas’ 2-year-old is not in school yet, but her 7-year-old attends U Prep Steele Street.

“The kids are in tremendously good hands,” Pasillas said. “(Howard) is a great leader for the little ones looking for the love of education.”

Howard’s goal is for U Prep to become the No. 1 school in the nation.

“I don’t consider myself just an educator in Denver,” she said.

“I consider myself to be an educator of our country’s children.”

Jacqueline Bass is a secondgrade math teacher at U Prep Steele Street. Howard always “goes all in,” she said.

“The joy she brings to the classroom is palpable,” Bass said. “Whether it be in the classroom or the hallways or at an afterschool meeting — she is a joy to work with.”

Like Howard, Bass believes every student deserves access to a high-quality education.

“All students deserve a life of opportunity, and they get that with a strong foundation in education,” Bass said.

But it has to be a high-quality education, Howard said, adding that low-quality education won’t get a person anywhere.

“Putting efforts toward highquality education, and making sure our schools are strong and that our schools are functioning to serve our kids is what gets our next generation equipped to be successful,” Howard said. “And that’s where our future becomes so much brighter.” ing more food pantries to make sure they are eating.

Children’s Hospital Colorado Mental Health-in-Chief Dr. Ron-Li Liaw said besides students working excessively to look good on paper, a lot of their mental-health issues are directly related to paying for college.

“Really, you have to ask how can anyone afford it. The price tag for college is really unattainable. You cannot budget for it like an electricity bill or rent or mortgage.”

With the current younger generations, Liaw said they are way ahead more than any other in terms of education, and yet due to costs and mental health, “they are still so far behind.”

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Inside the city greenhouses, a table of blue lobelia contrasts with pink, red, and fuchsia petunias, interspersed with dusty miller, a silvery foliage plant native to the MediterPHOTO BY TIM COLLINS ranean.

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for needy families and keep zoo gorillas happy with a steady supply of hibiscus flowers — one of their favorite snacks.

This spring, after two years of grappling with manpower shortages and cost issues spawned by the pandemic, the 36,000-square-foot nursery is back in business. In late May, flats of fiery-colored Indian paintbrush, pastel petunias, cascading blue lobelia and many other plants began departing their warm, steamy home, bound for Denver’s 250 city parks.

According to Denver’s Horticulture and Open Space Manager Julie Lehman, the parks’ ornamental beds will be planted at 100 percent this year — a joyous change from all the bare soil on view during 2020 and 2021. Many parks, including Washington, City and Alamo Placita, will offer especially dramatic floral displays.

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a seemingly endless expanse of grow benches support the 250,000 seedlings that emerge every spring.

The hothouses nurture not just flowers, but enough vegetable starts to generate 13,000 pounds of tomatoes, peppers, cabbages, kale and eggplant.

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flowers and other plants that nourish the soil and require less water.

Vastly outnumbered by their leafy charges, Lehman and her staff of four rely on 20 freelance master gardeners and 40 horticulturalists, who pitch in to get the parks planted every year.

Lehman reviews all designs personally, taking many factors into consideration. Agastache and chocolate daisies, for instance, thrive in the sandy soils of eastern Denver, whereas asters and showy pink echinacea, also known as coneflower, prefer the clay soils of western neighborhoods like Capitol Hill and Washington Park.

Lehman, who grew up on a ranch in Nebraska, still cherishes a fondness for prairie flowers, including purple prairie clover, agastache, Indian paintbrush and penstemons.

Many of these are also native to Colorado and have a nice habit of giving more than they take from the soil. She is also partial to those chocolate daisies, a Southwestern native that enjoys hot, dry conditions. Look for them on sunny traffic medians in eastern Denver and if you get the chance, inhale. They aren’t called chocolate daisies for nothing.

This year, it’s been a challenging spring, with unseasonable heat forcing many seedlings to jump and flower too early, according to Lehman, who has been on the job for a decade. She said Denver has

Tim Edens trims back a plectranthus seedling before it leaves the greenhouses for a Denver park. Commonly known as spurflower, plectranthus is valued by gardeners for its decorative foliage and festoons of blue, purple, pink or white flowers.

Greenhouse staff spend their workdays nurturing flowers like blue salvia and Dakota Gold helenium. Pictured left is Tim Edens, seasonal member of the parks horticulture staff, parks horticulturalists Corey Harris and Jason Smith, and utility worker part of the PHOTOS BY TIM COLLINS seasonal staff, Alex Cordova.

a short growing season because of its wildly variable weather, sudden freezes and limited water supply — all exacerbated by climate change.

Despite the hurdles, Lehman observed with pride that Denver has a long history of horticulture. The City Greenhouse began as a Victorian-style palm house, built in 1892.

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Xcel Energy wants customers to pay for plant shutdowns Public Utilities Commission officials want more study

BY MARK JAFFE SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN

The Colorado Public Utilities Commission on June 10 balked at approving a billion-dollar price tag to shut down Xcel Energy’s five remaining coal-fired generating units — to be paid by customers — and instead is seeking more detailed financial analysis.

The proposed closing costs were part of a settlement agreement between Xcel Energy, the state’s largest electricity provider, and a group of state agencies, local governments and labor and environmental groups.

The commission, however, wanted more scrutiny of the finances. “We’ve expressed concern over understanding these costs,” Commissioner Megan Gilman said. “We owe that to the ratepayers.”

At issue is the financial method Xcel Energy is proposing to recover the closure costs. The commission said it wants Xcel to analyze a range of options, particularly using securitized bonds, which are seen as a potential cheaper financing mechanism.

“It is incumbent upon the company to model securitization and other options,” Commissioner John Gavan said. “We will need to take this off to a separate proceeding.”

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— which forecasts the utility’s electricity demand for the next four years and the generating resources to meet it — and its Clean Energy Plan, aimed at cutting the utility’s greenhouse gas emissions, Xcel Energy is moving to close all its coal-fired plants.

The plan is to close the utility’s five remaining units — in Craig, Hayden, Fort Morgan and Pueblo — between 2027 and 2031 at a cost of a little more than $1 billion.

The bulk of that figure — $732 million — is for shutting the 750-megawatt Comanche 3 unit, in Pueblo.

The $1.3 billion plant only went into operation in 2010 and will be the last to close at the end of 2030.

The plant has been beset with operating, equipment and financial problems, leading to more than 800 days of shutdowns. Initially, Xcel proposed running the plant until 2040 and

then under pressure cut the closure date to 2035 and eventually 2031.

The commission also asked for more detailed data on project operation and maintenance costs for Comanche 3, while it is still in use. “We have seen escalating unexpected costs in terms of unit 3 maintenance,” Gavan said.

Xcel Energy is proposing using securitized bonds to finance the Comanche 3 closure which includes $690 million to pay for the unamortized part of the utility’s investment in the unit, $32 million in cleanup costs and $10 million in bond costs.

The securitized bonds are linked to a guaranteed revenue source from the utility and as a result can be offered lower interest rates, reducing overall costs.

For the three other units, however, Xcel Energy proposed, in the par-

tial settlement of its resource plan submitted to the PUC, using other financing mechanisms, such as accelerated depreciation and a so-called regulatory asset.

A regulatory asset is a financial device in which all the costs associated with closing a coal-fired unit would be gathered in one place and paid off by customers over time — with Xcel Energy also getting an interest payment on the account.

The PUC move may be a concern for the settling parties, said Gwen Farnsworth, a managing senior policy advisor for environmental group Western Resources Advocates, which signed on to the agreement.

One of the goals of the settlement was to close the coal-fired plants as quickly as possible with Pawnee closing its coal-fired unit and switching to natural gas in 2025, followed by the Hayden 2 unit in 2027, and Hayden 1 and Craig closing in 2028.

Breaking the retirement costs off to a separate proceeding could delay the closure process and even lead to knock-on-effects in delaying the acquisition on new, clean resources, Farnsworth said.

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n June 19, we celebrated Father’s Day. For me, I always honor two important guys in my life.

My dad and my husband.

In driving my dad to the VA for several appointments over the last year — I am often shocked at how much I have learned about him, often shocked that I did not know everything already. Learning the difficult job he had in Vietnam. I am in my 40s and just now learning about this time that has had a lifetime impact on him.

Beyond knowing my dad on a more vulnerable scale this year – I have always been close to him. I respect him for so many reasons.

FROM THE Being the only daughter with three older brothers, I will admit I got a EDITOR little extra attention from my dad.

My dad has worked with his hands his entire life — he would definitely not be classified as clean cut. His hands and arms are stained and rough from decades of plumbing.

However, on my wedding day, he agreed to wear a tuxedo. I will bet money this will be the first and last Thelma Grimes time he will wear a suit.

The only time I can recall my dad ever going to a movie theater is when I was young and begged him to take me to see “Three Men and a Baby.” It’s special to me, because I know he only did it for me.

Over the years, my dad has never turned away from family, paying electric bills when his brother couldn’t. Helping raise many of my cousins over the year.

Nowadays, he is better known as “Papa” and to my children, he is the best. He is the best because his nickname is the “Sugar King.” He sits in his chair and happily passes out candy to my sons, their friends and anyone else around.

My dad has a laugh that can light up a room and a kind heart despite that rough exterior.

Now, on to my husband. You see, becoming a dad for my husband didn’t happen the normal way. In fact, a tragedy in my family pushed us both into parenthood. He, without hesitation, adopted two daughters, and like me, had to learn to become a parent very quickly.

Now, we have added two sons to the mix. My husband works hard, sometimes not cutting himself a break, at being the best dad he can be.

He has taken teaching our daughter how to drive with open arms. I have yet to sit in the car with her.

Thank goodness he has the patience to do what I cannot.

Given that I am a rule follower, scheduler keeper and a little over-organized at times, my husband provided balance in our lives. We call it “Grimes Time” because being on time is not his strong suit. But he teaches our kids it is OK to let loose a bit even when mom is going overboard with managing every minute of the day.

My husband cooks, cleans and serves as a partner in a household that is oftentimes chaotic and tiring.

He is an example I hope my children continue to follow into adulthood because the amount of sacrifice he has given has been incredible in our more than 23 years of marriage.

SBA helps with disaster recovery

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olorado is no stranger to disasters, both natural and man-made. The state has a long history of natural disasters including flooding, wildfires, tornadoes and drought. The recent Marshall Fire in Boulder County is an example of this problem. It is more important now for residents and small businesses to remember that the best course of action to limit damage from natural disasters is preparing before the disaster hits.

The Biden administration and SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman have been at the forefront of ensuring that small businesses and nonprofits, as well as individual homeowners and renters, impacted by natural disasters around the nation have the support and recovery relief that they need, and the tools to build resilience.

Natural disasters are not just more devastating; they are also coming faster, more frequently, and are often rapidly changing in their complexity and scope. In 2020, the United States suffered 22 separate billion-dollar disasters — the most in our history — but experts in the space expect that number to continue to climb. As the anchors of our communities, small businesses rely on resilient neighborhoods for their customers and their employees, and the SBA’s disaster relief loan programs help communities recover swiftly.

SBA’s disaster loan program is the only federal assistance program that provides private property owners an affordable way to mitigate disaster impacts and protect their homes, families, businesses, employees, and livelihoods against the next disaster.

SBA disaster loan funds can be used to cover insurance deductibles, refinance an existing mortgage, pay for mitigation and protective upgrades, relocate to a safer and lower-risk area, and more. These loans have fixed interest rates amortized over 30 years for low monthly payments and offer an affordable way for property owners to fully repair/replace their disaster losses not covered by other resources.

Thelma Grimes is the south metro editor for Colorado Community Media.

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The best way to mitigate the effects of a disaster is to create a disaster continuity plan.

This plan should discuss how you will contact family, friends, employees and first responders following a disaster. You should also review your insurance coverage to make sure it is current and covers all necessary costs. Most importantly, practice and evaluate your plan with family members, managers, and staff to make sure it works.

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Is it better to build bridges, or burn them?

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he origin of “burning bridges” has its roots in ancient Rome. And we see where they were not only burning the bridges, but also burning the boats. In some cases, they burned the bridges and the boats so the enemy could not pursue them. And in other cases, they burned both bridge and boat so they enemy could not flee.

Throughout our journey in this life, we have all heard the expression or received guidance around burning bridges. It’s interesting because sometimes we are encouraged not to burn the bridges, and other times people may suggest that we burn the bridges behind us. In a recent conversation this topic came up and it was fun, but also a bit polarizing for the group as there were very strong opinions.

In doing a little research on the topic I stumbled onto a page with some audacious quotes about burning bridges. The list of quotes started out with some very strong feelings about why we should burn the bridges behind us. “Sometimes burning bridges isn’t a bad thing.

It prevents you from going back to

a place you should never have been to begin with.” — Anonymous While others support not burning bridges such as the person who anonymously made this statement, “The bridge you burn today may be the one Michael Norton you have to cross tomorrow.”

For me, if at all possible, I prefer not to burn the bridges behind me.

I do agree where there are times when moving ahead and never looking back makes sense. But before I do that, I would really rather preserve the opportunity to save a relationship, resolve a conflict, or just maintain the potential for a better outcome in the future. Just because we disagree today, doesn’t mean we will disagree tomorrow.

The intensity of opinions has created a heightened state of awareness when it comes to burning or not burning bridges. And unfortunately, sadly, it has escalated into not just burning bridges and

WINNING WORDS

burning the boats but leaving nothing but scorched earth behind when conflict or disagreements arise. I always wonder why there is a need to take this route. I understand that people have very strong feelings and opinions, and those feelings and opinions may not line up with our own. However, if there is no room to find middle ground on a given topic, there could be an opportunity to work together or to help one another in the future.

The song, “It’s a Small World (After All)” was written in 1963. If you have visited Disney, you have probably taken a ride through the attraction named after the song, and you probably couldn’t get the song out of your head for the rest of the day. There was no internet in 1963, nor was there any social media.

Access to information was limited to what we saw in the newspaper, watched on television, or listened to on the radio. Today, we have instant access to information and can reach people in a matter of a few clicks, creating a very small world.

This is important when it comes to burning bridges because when we burn a bridge, the boat, and leave

scorched earth behind us because of one person, group of people, or company, we could also be burning bridges with everyone that is associated or connected to someone else that we may want to get to know, or a place where we are hoping to work, or even a referral where we are trying to make a sale. I am not suggesting that anyone compromise their integrity or their position just to appease others. What I am suggesting is that perhaps we can try an alternate approach because we, or someone we know, may really need that bridge again one day.

Romans 12:8 — “Do all that you can to live at peace with everyone.”

How about you? Do you prefer to burn the bridges or build the bridges? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@xinnix.com, and when we realize that when we leave roads, bridges, and doors open for the future, it really will be a better than good year.

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

Sweet sounds on summer nights

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rab a quick picnic and a blanket or folding chairs (perhaps a summer music “kit” will have a place in the car rather than schlepping every time). Summer concerts outside are a special treat on Colorado’s lovely summer evenings.

Perhaps readers have a neighbor who performs or a favorite nearby park location, but you may find that a favorite performer is playing across town and be drawn to visit. Most are free concerts and some require tickets in our communities from Castle Rock up to Lakewood.

Take a bit of time to fill in the calendar. Kids can learn the joy of music as the sun sets and parents and grandparents already are aware. Perhaps visiting relatives will also be entertained.

Starting close to home for me will be the Littleton Museum concerts sponsored by the Friends of the Littleton Library on Wednesdays on the lawn. If the weather is questionable, call 303-795-3950.

Mask wearing is encouraged here.

6:30-8 p.m. on June 22 —Juice O’ The Barley — with concerts running through Aug. 3.

Castle Rock Band: 2:30 p.m.

July 4 in Festival Park, Castle Rock.

Highlands Ranch Concert Band and its smaller group, Swing Shift: no schedule posted yet — check online. They performed in May, and we’ve enjoyed Sonya Ellingboe listening at the park in past years.

New members are welcome here if you’ve moved to Highlands Ranch recently and have a horn in the closet! See hrconcertband.org.

Not band music, but enjoy the performances June 23-26 of “Jesus Christ Superstar” at Littleton United Methodist Church. See littletonumc.church.

Lone Tree Arts Center has Tunes on the Terrace. See lonetreeartscenter.org.

Englewood Arts Presents: (Ticketed at 2 in the afternoon in Hampden Hall): July 9, Midsummer Matinee, Susan Paik and Teddy Niedermeyer; July 28, Krueger Brothers; Aug. 13, Bravo Cellos. Outdoors in the City

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‘I learned not only golf, but I learned how to be mentally strong, and how to stay true to myself. As a minority, I thought I’d be looked at differently. I thought I would have to change myself in order to fit in. But everyone was very open and nonjudgmental.’

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t was barely a year ago when 16-year-old Layla Duong first put her hands on a golf club.

Back then, she knew nothing of the sport.

“Golf is for the rich,” she thought. “Golf is boring.”

But in April 2021, through a friend’s encouragement, Duong applied for, and obtained, a job with First Tee-Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Today, Duong serves as a First Tee junior coach and works directly with about 40 youth as their mentor. She plays golf on South High School’s varsity golf team and, being the first in her family to play golf, she is teaching them how to play the sport so it becomes something they can do together.

“I have a deep passion for the sport now,” Duong said. “I will continue (playing) golf my whole life.”

Though Duong has fallen in love with golf, it’s not just the sport that she enjoys so much — it’s being involved with First Tee. “I learned not only golf, but I learned how to be mentally strong, and how to stay true to myself,” Duong said. “As a minority, I thought I’d be looked at differently. I thought I would have to change myself in order to fit in. But everyone was very open and non-judgmental.”

First Tee is a national for-youth nonprofit organization that was established 25 years ago. Youth get to play golf, but moreover, the organization creates learning experiences that build inner strength, self-confidence and resilience.

“What First Tee does is use golf as a tool to educate youth, socially, academically and physically,” said Paula Purifoy, CEO of First Tee-Colorado Rocky Mountains. “We do a lot of mentoring — it’s so much more than golf.”

The organization does this by instilling nine core values related to golf, which can be carried through a youth’s development.

The core values are: Honesty - This encourages youth to honestly self report scores and penalties.

Integrity - This pushes youth to be responsible for their own

Layla Duong

Layla Duong practices her swing at the grand opening event of First Tee - Colorado Rocky Mountains’ junior course at the Overland Park Golf Course in Denver.

PHOTO BY CHRISTY STEADMAN

actions on the golf course, even when no one is looking.

Sportsmanship - A value that teaches youth to observe the rules of play, and win or lose with grace.

Respect - To show respect for oneself, playing partners, competitors, the golf course and traditions of the game.

Confidence - Through being positive, this core value focuses on youth being more confident.

Responsibility - The lesson is to allow youth to learn and take responsiblity for their own actions.

Perseverance - Pushing youth to succeed in golf where players must continue through bad breaks and their own mistakes.

Courtesy - Starting and ending a game of golf with a handshake among competitors.

Judgment - Deciding strategy, and when to play safe and when to take a chance.

Daniel Reeves has been with First Tee for 20 years, starting when he was 19. Today, he serves as the executive director of the local chapter.

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Harold Feldman assists his grandson, Henry Reeves, 2, who is the son of First Tee-Colorado Rocky Mountains’ executive director, hold his golf club during the May 12 grand opening event of the First Tee – Colorado Rocky Mountains’ junior course at the Overland Park Golf Course PHOTO BY CHRISTY STEADMAN in Denver.

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the relationships,” Reeves said, adding he enjoys seeing the youth grow up, become successful and, “creating as big of an opportunity as possible for others to help others.”

First Tee-Colorado Rocky Mountains offers two primary programs — on course and in school/after school.

The on course program runs for six weeks. It is a fee-based program, but scholarships are available.

The on course First Tee program is offered at 28 facilities across the state, with eight of them being in Denver, Purifoy said.

The in school/after school program is free to families. Part of this program entails working with physical education teachers to provide the training, equipment and lesson plans for their students.

First Tee’s school program is probably best known for its Read `N’ Swing. Aiming at continued education, a student reads with a First Tee staffer or volunteer, then after quality reading time, students participate in a golf activity.

Read `N’ Swing got its start at Columbine Elementary School, a Denver Public School located at 29 th Avenue and Columbine Street, when the school was rated one of the lowest in the entire country for reading, Purifoy said.

The program saw so much success that it has now been expanded to 55 schools in the Denver-metro area, Purifoy said.

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Happy Haynes, executive director of Denver Parks & Recreation, holding the giant scissors, and Layla Duong, 16, a First Tee junior coach, cut the ribbon during the May 12 grand opening event of the First Tee – Colorado Rocky Mountains’ junior course at the PHOTO BY CHRISTY STEADMAN Overland Park Golf Course in Denver.

Park Golf Course in Denver, First Tee-Colorado Rocky Mountains is one of about 150 chapters located across the U.S. There are also some chapters abroad.

First Tee-Colorado Rocky Mountains is celebrating its 20 th anniversary this year.

“In the beginning, (First Tee) served about 200 kids at City Park,” Purifoy said.

The program has grown since 2002. Citing 2019, Purifoy said, about 10,000 youth across the state are involved with First Tee annually.

On May 12, First Tee celebrated the grand opening of the Overland Park Junior Course — an event that was postponed for two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Prices, of Parker, attended the celebration. Their son, Judson, 10, has had golf lessons in the past, but it was not a favorable experience, Sandra Price said.

The family is now thinking about getting Judson involved with First Tee. “I like the fact that everyone is so engaged,” Sandra Price said. “And I like the community involvement.”

The Overland Golf Course was established in 1895. For adult and more experienced golfers, the course boasts challenges to players of any skill level.

Now with the junior course, Overland will be able to serve at least 500 youth, said Happy Haynes, executive director of Denver Parks & Recreation, at the May 12 event.

“We’re creating new leaders in this community,” Haynes said.

“Through the game of golf, kids are growing in every way you can think of.”

To learn more about First Tee-Colorado Rocky Mountains, visit firstteecoloradorockymountains.org.

The organization hosts open houses for members of the community. There are a number of them scheduled

through June and July. To register or to find an open house in a nearby Denver neighborhood, visit the website above and select `get involved.’ Then scroll to `open houses’ and click on it to open the link.

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Denver Municipal Band returns with free concerts in the park

BY DIANNE BLOMBERG SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

With the cost of everything going up, does the word free get your attention?

The Denver Municipal Band has been performing free concerts for the Denver-metro area since 1861.

“This year we are back to a full schedule, performing more than six concerts in a month. Last year we only offered about three each month due to COVID restrictions,” said Tami Matthews, volunteer marketing director for the DMB. The DMB 2022 season kicked off in City Park on June 3 with an ice cream social. The performance schedule continues through midSeptember.

For an organization more than 200 years old, changes are inevitable.

“For the past five years, we have made decisions to include more diversity,” Matthews said. “This is reflected in our band members, the volunteers, even the music we play and our venues.”

For example, the band performed at the Westminster Latino Festival in 2019, and in 2018, the DMB was broadcast in Ethiopia for the Taste of Ethiopia as they played live in Denver.

Band manager Dan Leavitt said, “at one concert we performed a waltz from Venezuela and there was a couple in the crowd who grew up singing that song. They were clearly emotionally moved by our piece.”

For some, a municipal band conjures thoughts of John Philip Sousa marches, small town main streets and the Andy Griffith show. That’s way off base. Attending a DMB concert, it’s possible to hear funk, jazz, Big Band standards, orchestral pieces, soul and yes, even marches. The music is selected by the artistic director, Dr. Joseph Martin and Leavitt.

“We are constantly evaluating what we play and where. We want to bring our music to the vast cultural spectrum that makes up

‘We learn from the community, and we hope the community can be enhanced by the music we share.’

Dan Leavitt, band manager of the Denver Municipal Band

The Denver Municipal Band performs at Mayfair Park in east Denver in a past year. The band recently announced that its free summer concerts in the park will take place in COURTESY OF DENVER MUNICIPAL BAND locations throughout the metro area this year.

the Denver area … we are very intentional about putting the community first. We learn from the community, and we hope the community can be enhanced by the music we share. What can be better than that for a communitysupported arts organization?” said Leavitt.

The DMB is comprised of professional musicians, which are paid positions, even though the concerts are free. Many of the performers belong to other professional ensembles like the Colorado Symphony, the Queen City Jazz Band, the Central City Opera and more. This variety of backgrounds supports the many elements of the band. The DMB is made up of a 40-piece orchestra, a 20-piece jazz band, a brass quintet and smaller ensembles. Flexibility is the band’s hallmark.

When asked about the challenges he faces, Leavitt said, “funding.

It’s always funding. We serve the community for free. So, we have no ticket sales revenue. For me, this makes the Denver Municipal Band a very special part of the entire Denver-area citizenry and not just for those who can afford a ticket.”

In addition to public concerts, the DMB, a nonprofit, serves the public through education and enrichment of children’s musical talent and enjoyment.

Looking to the future, Leavitt hopes for even more. One goal is for more performance opportunities.

The public enjoys nationally known musicians who regularly join the DMB. This year, you’ll listen to Shane Endsley, a trumpeter, drummer and composer who

is an active leader and sideman with New York jazz ensembles.

In the past, prominently known bassist Charles Burrell, the first African American to be a member of a major American symphony, played with the band.

These are rain-or-shine performances.

“The only time we cancel is when something like hail or lightening threatens the safety of our performers or the public.

Other than that, we’ll even play in the rain,” said Matthews.

Matthews encourages public participation.

“People should attend these free concerts to enjoy our beautiful parks, gather with friends and get to know their community,” Matthews said. “Many entire families show up and we watch the kids dance and play to the music. It makes for a special summer event when people pack picnics and relax while enjoying professional musicians as the Colorado sun sets.”

To learn more about the Denver Municipal Band, visit denvermunicipalband.org. Its summer concerts are scheduled from June to September. Most are free concerts, and they take place across the city. Visit the website and click on ‘calendar’ to view a full schedule.

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High 5 Plumbing is a familyowned and operated business co-owned by Levi and Cassi Torres.

The small business serves customers across the greater metro area out of its main location in north Denver, 850 E. 73rd Ave. Unit 4, and its Littleton location at 8000 S. Lincoln St. Unit 3.

“For us, this is a community award,” Levi Torres said in a news release. “Without the support from the community, there would be no High 5 Plumbing. We truly appreci-

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CAUSE NO. 1 DOCKET NO. 220500095 TYPE: GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICE OF HEARING H&A Mineral Holdings, LLC (“H&A”) and South Weld Holdings, LLC (“South Weld”) (“Applicants”) filed an Application with the Commission pursuant to Rule 503.g.(10) for an order to deny nine Form 2, Applications for Permit to Drill (Form 2) for nine horizontal wells, filed by Verdad Resources LLC (Operator No. 10651) (“Verdad”), to be drilled from an existing location in a drilling and spacing unit established by Order No. 407-2473, on lands identified below. This Notice was sent to you because the Applicant believes you may own oil or gas (“mineral”) interests within the unit.

APPLICATION LANDS Township 1 North, Range 65 West, 6th P.M. Section 29: S½ Section 32: All DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION OF HEARING (Subject to change) The assigned Hearing Officer will hold a hearing only on the above referenced docket number at the following date, time, and location: Date: August 3, 2022 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Place: Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission The Chancery Building 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 801 Denver, CO 80203 PETITIONS DEADLINE FOR PETITIONS BY AFFECTED PERSONS: July 5, 2022 Any interested party who wishes to participate formally must file a written petition with the Commission no later than the deadline provided above.

Please see Commission Rule 507 at https:// cogcc.state.co.us, under “Regulation,” then select “Rules.” Please note that, under Commission Rule 510.l, the deadline for petitions may only be continued for good cause, even if the hearing is continued beyond the date that is stated above.

Pursuant to Commission Rule 507, if you do not file a proper petition, the Hearing Officer will not know that you wish to formally participate in this matter and the date and time of the hearing may change without additional notice to you. Parties wishing to file a petition must register online at https://oitco.hylandcloud.com/DNRCOGExternalAccess/Account/Login.aspx and select “Request Access to Site.” Please refer to our “eFiling Users Guidebook” at http://cogcc/documents/reg/Hearings/External_ Efiling_System_Handbook_December_2021_Final.pdf for more information. Under Commission Rule 508, if no petition is filed, the Application may be approved administratively without a formal hearing.

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OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO By: Mimi C. Larsen, Commission Secretary Dated: May 24, 2022 H&A Mineral Holdings, LLC South Weld Holdings, LLC c/o Steven Louis-Prescott Morgan L. Simpson Hamre, Rodriguez, Ostrander, & Dingess, P.C. 3600 S. Yosemite Street, Suite 500 Denver, CO 80211 303-779-0200 sprescott@hrodlaw.com msimpson@hrodlaw.com Legal Notice No. 81693 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: July 14, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Monty Lee Lackey Personal Representative 1438 Great Shoals Circle Lawrenceville, Georgia 30045 Legal Notice No. 81672 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Irene R. Banas, aka Irene Rosemarie Banas, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30231 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 October 9, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kimberly Langston Personal Representative c/o Timothy J. Parks, Esq. 1999 Broadway, Suite 1400 Denver, CO 80202 Legal Notice No. 81678 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of LESLIE DIANE SIMMONS, aka LESLIE D. SIMMONS, aka LESLIE SIMMONS, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30716 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 October 9, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Domenica Lam, Personal Representative c/o 3i Law LLC 2000 S. Colorado Blvd.

Tower 1, Suite 10000 Denver, CO 80222 Legal Notice No. 81667 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of MICHAEL A. GONZALES, aka MICHAEL ANTHONY GONZALES, aka MICHAEL GONZALES, Deceased Case No. 2022PR30752 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 October 21, 2022 , or the claims may be forever barred.

Tiffany Rose Gonzales Personal Representative 2245 W. 46th Ave. Denver, CO 80211 Legal Notice No. 81690 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of DAVID WALTER PETERS, a/k/a DAVID W PETERS, a/k/a DAVID PETERS, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30676 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 October 27, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Judith B. Peters Personal Representative 1011 S. Valentia St., Unit 89 Denver, CO 80247 Legal Notice No. 81709 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ELENA LARISSA NAD, a/k/a ELENA L. NAD, and ELENA NAD, Deceased Case Numbe: 2022PR30773

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 10/23/2022, 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 the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before October 25, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Eugene Stan, Personal Representative 3700 Quebec Street 100-285 Denver, Colorado 80207

Michael Anderson Attorney to the Personal Representative 711 S Public Rd Lafayette, CO 80026 Legal Notice No. 81703 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE

Legal Notice No. 81706 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Scott Henry Craig, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30496

Public Notice

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before October 17, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of James Ray Misken, a/k/a James R. Misken, a/k/a James Misken, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30723 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Probate Court of Denver County, Colorado on or before October 23, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

By: /s/ Daniel Rex Misken Daniel Rex Misken Personal Representative 4186 S Wolff St Denver, CO 80236

Andrea Lauren Clayton Personal Representative 2601 N. Clayton Street Denver, Colorado 80205 Legal Notice No. 81689 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Delores Moore, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR030728

Legal Notice No. 81700 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before November 20, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of RUSSELL CARL PREHN, aka RUSSELL C. PREHN, aka RUSSELL PHREN, aka RUSS PREHN, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR030751 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 October 11, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Anastasia Fainberg Attorney to the Personal Representative 3600 S Yosemite St Suite 670 Denver, CO 80237 Legal Notice No. 81696 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE

Neal K. Dunning, Attorney to the Personal Representative Brown Dunning Walker Fein PC 2000 S. Colorado Blvd., Tower Two, Suite 700 Denver, CO 80222

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Kathryn Utschinski, a/k/a Kathryn M. Utschinski, a/k/a Kathryn Mary Utschinski, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30681

Legal Notice No. 81677 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 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 October 24, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Maureen J. Coufal, a/k/a Maureen Josephine Coufal, Deceased Case #: 2022PR030548

Rodney C. Atherton Attorney to the Personal Representative 6870 W. 52nd Ave. #203 Arvad a CO 80002

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Probate Court of the City & County of Denver, Colorado or on or before October 17, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 81701 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Catherine D. Hickey, a/k/a Catherine Donaldson Hickey, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30591

Diane Mathahs, Personal Representative 3270 S. Oneida Way Denver, CO 80224 Legal Notice No. 81687 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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 October 16, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mary Sue Kellum, aka Mary O. Kellum Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30289 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 October 24, 2022 or the claims may be forever barred.

Ronald Kellum, Personal Representative 8033 Sunset Blvd., #933 Los Angeles, CA 90046

Attorney for William Curran Hickey and Edward Christian Hickey: K. Michelle AmRhein, Esq. Coan, Payton & Payne, LLC 103 W. Mountain Ave., Ste. 200 Ft. Collins, CO 80524 Legal Notice No. 81685 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Stephen A. Banas, Jr., aka Stephen A. Banas, aka, Steve Banas, aka Steven Banas, aka Steven A. Banas, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30232

Legal Notice No. 81711 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Ann Sheble Rinkenbach, aka Ann S. Rinkenbach, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR030720 All persons having claims against the above

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 October 9, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

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Public Notices Legal Notice No. 81679 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Thomas W. Jackson, a/k/a Thomas William Jackson, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30735 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 October 10, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Joan R. Jackson and Thomas M. Jackson Co-Personal Representatives c/o Keith L. Davis, JD Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 81682 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Stanley Mollerstuen, aka Stanley Arnold Mollerstuen, aka Stanley A. Mollerstuen, aka Stan Mollerstuen, aka S. A. Mollerstuen, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30730 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 October 23, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Spencer Mollerstuen Personal Representative c/o Mollie B. Hawes, Miller and Steiert, P.C. 1901 W. Littleton Bvd. Littleton, CO 80120 Legal Notice No. 81705 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of GERTIE FECHT ABKES, a/k/a GERTIE F. ABKES, a/k/a GERTIE ABKES, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR030722 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 October 10, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

THOMAS N. SCHEFFEL & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorney to the Personal Representative 8301 E. Florida Ave, Suite 600 Denver, Colorado 80210 Legal Notice No. 81681 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Ruth E. Ruybal, a/k/a Ruth Eufelia Ruybal, a/k/a Ruth Ruybal Case Number: 2022PR21 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 October 9, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jerome A. DeHerrera Attorney to the Personal Representative 146 W. 11th Avenue Denver, CO 80204 Legal Notice No. 81670 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of GEORGE G. VAUGHT, JR., a/k/a GEORGE GRAYSON VAUGHT, JR., a/k/a GEORGE VAUGHT, a/k/a GEORGE G. VAUGHT, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30688 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 October 16, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Amy Vaught Earls, Personal Representative c/o Timothy J. Parks, Esq. Hutchins & Associates LLC 1999 Broadway, Suite 1400 Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No. 81697 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of CHARLES LOUIS SHOM, a/k/a CHARLES L. SHOM, a/k/a CHARLES SHOM, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30598 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 October 9, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Susan Shom, Personal Representative Sandelsgatan 30 11534 Stockholm, Sweden Legal Notice No. 81674 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

and as Bill Falkenberg, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30702 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 October 10, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ruth E. Falkenberg Personal Representative 3463 Blake Street, Suite 100 Denver, Colorado 80205 Legal Notice No. 81680 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

Estate of MARY KATHRYN MALLOY, aka MARY K. MALLOY, aka KATIE MALLOY, aka KATHRYN MALLOY, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30704

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Samuel George Stoxen, also known as Samuel G. Stoxen, also known as Sam George Stoxen, also known as Sam Stoxen, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30448

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 October 16, 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 the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before October 17, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Regis Paul Malloy, Jr. Personal Representative 3175 E. Jewell Ave. Denver, CO 80210

Holly Ann Cook, Personal Representative 3350 Depew St. Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80212

Legal Notice No. 81688 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Emma Marin, Case Number: 2022PR30236 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 October 9, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 81698 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Hubert John Jones, Deceased Case Number 2022PR30487 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 October 10, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jerome A. DeHerrera Attorney to the Personal Representative 146 W. 11th Avenue Denver, CO 80204

James Kaferly, III, Personal Representative c/o Colton D. Craft, JD Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 81671 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 81675 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of LANORA LUCILLE BILLAPANDO, a.k.a Lucille Billapando, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR030671

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Dorothy J. Harvey, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30543

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 October 16, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Tammy Conover, Conover Law, LLC Attorney to the Personal Representative 6161 S. Syracuse Way, Ste. 270 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 81695 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Harry Howell Mang, aka Harry H. Mang, aka Harry Mang, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30790 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 October 24, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Peter B. Mang, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 81708 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice Estate of Dawn Taylor Kraemer, Deceased Case Number 2021PR031602 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 September 29th, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Scott Jackson, Personal Representative c/o Gendelman Klimas, Ltd. 517 E. 16th Avenue Denver, CO 80203 720-213-0687 Legal Notice No. 81704 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of William S. Falkenberg, also known as William Falkenberg,

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 October 10, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Richard B. Harvey, Personal Representative 2479 S. Clermont St., #456 Denver, CO 80222 Legal Notice No. 81666 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Donald W. Roth, Deceased Case Number 2022PR30488 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court, City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before October 24, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Therese M. Roth, Personal Representative 758 S. Elizabeth St. Denver, CO 80209 Legal Notice No. 81702 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: July 7, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice Denver Probate Court Denver County, Colorado Court Address: 1437 Bannock St., #230 Denver, CO 80202 In the Matter of the Estate of: Charles Edward Ensler, aka Charles E. Ensler, aka Charles Ensler, Deceased Attorney for Paul Peregrine: Justin W. Blow, Esq. #41085 Colorado Estate Matters 3000 Youngfield St., Suite 100 Wheat Ridge, CO 80215 Phone: (303)-713-9147 E-mail: justin@coestatematters.com Case Number: 2022PR30804 NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO § 15-10-401, C.R.S. ****** Attendance at this hearing is not required or expected. ******* To: Unknown or Unascertained Heirs of Charles Edward Ensler, aka Charles E. Ensler, aka Charles Ensler, deceased.

A hearing without appearance on the Petition for Formal Probate of will and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative, for a probate of the Last Will and Testament of the Charles Edward Ensler

and appointment of Personal Representative, will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued: Date: July 22, 2022 Time: 8:00 a.m.

Address: 1437 Bannock St., #230, Denver, CO 80202 ***** IMPORTANT NOTICE***** Any interested person wishing to object to the above Petition must file a written Objection (Objection form JDF722) with the court on or before the hearing. If no objection is filed, the court may take action on the Petition.

Legal Notice No. 81699 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Estate of Alan Campbell, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 185 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 October 10, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Baysore & Christian Fiduciary Services, LLC by and through its designated representatives Roby Scott Christian and/or Stephanie Lambert, either of whom may act independently 7000 E. Belleview Ave., STE150 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 81676 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Shannon A. Driskell, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30597

Children Services

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 October 9, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

(Adoption/Guardian/Other)

Rory Driskell: Personal Representative c/o Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111

Upon the Petition of: JESSICA MICHELLE ROMERO Case Number: 2022JA30001 Division: 2E

Legal Notice No. 81668 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

TO THE RESPONDENT(S) AND ALL INTERESTED PARTIES:

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sharon Coleman, also known as Sharon K. Coleman, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30760 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to 00Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before October 16, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kristi Radosevich, Attorney for Personal Representative PO Box 2708, Elizabeth, CO 80107

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Alfonso Augustine Ruybal, a/k/a Alfonso A. Ruybal, a/k/a Alfonso Ruybal Case Number: 22PR030135 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 October 9, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jerome A. DeHerrera Attorney to the Personal Representative 146 W. 11th Avenue Denver, CO 80204 Legal Notice No. 81669 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Dillon Emerson, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30386 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 October 16, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Emerson Personal Representative c/o James E. Fogg, Esq. OGBORN MIHM, LLP 1700 Lincoln Street, Ste. 2700 Denver, CO 80203 (303) 592-5900 Legal Notice No. 81686 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Juliana May Hand, a/k/a Juliana M. Hand, a/k/a Juliana Hand, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30507 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 October 10, 2022 , or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Failure to appear at the hearing may result in the court terminating your parental rights and the court granting the petition for adoption.

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Legal Notice No. 81683 First Publication: June 9, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

You are hereby notified that the above-named Petitioner(s) has/have filed in Denver Juvenile Court a verified Petition seeking to adopt a child.

The petition alleges that you have abandoned the child for a period of one year or more and/or have failed without cause to provide reasonable support for the child for one year or more. An adoption hearing has been scheduled for August 1, 2022 at 2:00 pm in Division 2E of the Denver Juvenile Court. You may appear in person at the hearing, or you may appear virtually by using this link: https:// judicial.webex.com/meet/courtroom2e.

Legal Notice No. 81710 First Publication: June 23, 2022 Last Publication: June 23, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 81694 First Publication: June 16, 2022 Last Publication: June 30, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Scott R. Hand, Personal Representative C/O Jennifer R. Bailey, Esq ROBINSON BAILEY PC 7100 E. Belleview Avenue, Suite 101 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

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