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“Part of the function of Cameron is to be in service to the community,” said Bill Kirton of Denver, who served as the church’s pastor for about 16 years until he retired in 2008. “People love music, and we need it during difﬁcult times. EspeciallyCameronnow.”church, 1600 S. Pearl St. in Denver’s Platt Park neighborhood, hosts community bluegrass jams led by the Denver RetroGrass Jam Band every Sunday and Wednesday.OnSept.25, Cameron will host the Denver’s Largest Bluegrass Jam. This event will serve not only as a family-friendly event that the entire community is invited to, but also as a fundraiser for the church’s building fund which will support restoration of the church’s magniﬁcent stained-glass dome.

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The reductions made up for half of the cost of the program, which was started with $8.6 million from eight private investors as well as local housing resources.

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But they still died at the same rate as those who lived outside.

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“Music has been at the heart of Cameron since the beginning of time,” said Catherine Teutsch of Washington Park, a musician and member of Cameron church. “It brings something beautiful to the community, in terms of the cultural fabric.”Teutsch’s band MicroGrass will kick off the Denver’s Largest Bluegrass Jam festivities with an outdoors performance at 11 a.m. At 12:30 p.m., everyone will head indoors for the community jam to be led by the Denver RetroGrass

Catherine Teutsch plays the accordion and sings during a Wednesday evening Denver RetroGrass Jam Band jam session in August.

Previous research showed that the ﬁrst 250 participants had cost the government a total of $7.3 million per year when they lived outside and in shelters and cycled through the health care and criminal justice systems. After they were housed, researchers found a 40% reduction in arrests, a 30% reduction in jail stays, a 65% decrease in detox services and a 40% drop in emergency department visits.

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Cameron United Methodist Church is more than just a building. It serves its congregation as a faith-based gathering place, but it is also a place that welcomes all sorts of community-wide events — everything from children’s Halloween costume contests to local merchant meetings.Andbluegrass jams.

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When people who had been homeless for years moved off the Denver streets and into apartments, they were far less likely to end up in hospital emergency rooms or get locked up in jail.

That’s the grim ﬁnding from a new study of Denver’s social impact bond program, which sends outreach workers to ﬁnd the highest users of taxpayer-funded services including hospitals, detox centers and the jail. Hundreds of people who were chronically homeless have been housed through the program, which began seven years ago.

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But as those researchers, from the

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The ACLU of Colorado commissioned a poll of 1,223 likely voters in Colorado last month through the African American Research Collaborative (AARC). Ninety-five percent of the poll’s respondents were already registered voters in the state.

The poll found 80% of Coloradans consider housing affordability as either a major issue or a crisis. Also among top concerns were the economy and homelessness.“Thereisaflavor of concern of the inflation and economy that is directly tied to civil rights,” said Isaiah Bailey, a research

fellow with the AARC. He said it was encouraging that voters are understanding the connection of those ideas.

Another top concern for Colorado voters, one that is directly tied to inflation and the economy, was homelessness. Homelessness was also a higher concern for Black and Latino voters than it was for white voters, the poll found.Asyou can see in the table above, abortion rights were not as much of a concern for Colorado voters when compared to other issues. This could be due to the fact that abortion access is codified in Colorado. However, if anti-abortion politicians were to take control of the Colorado legislature, that law could be repealed.Climate change was also low on the list; only 11% of Coloradans listed climate change as one of the top three issues that elected officials should address.

To read a full overview of the poll, visit the website at https:// bit.ly/3eHfitt.

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Other poll questions stemmed from recent events and news about civil rights, including teaching the history of racism and discrimination in the United States to K-12 students, as well as providing a safe environment for LGBTQ+ students at school.

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teach the complete and accurate history of racial discrimination in the United States, even if it makes some people uncomfortable.For Bailey, he believes this “raises the question: is this bogeyman term related to K-12 education” causing true outrage from some Americans or “was it something more of a dog whistle?”The poll also paid close attention to trust and the importance of voting. The results show Coloradans do generally believe voting is essential to making change, but they also have concerns about whether elected officials truly look out for them. At the same time, Colorado voters said they trust their local leaders more than federal lawmakers.

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Eighty-two percent of those polled say they agree with the following statement: We should

In the last two years, COVID-19 has dropped from a top concern for Colorado voters to low on the list. Now at the top of that list ahead of the November election are issues like affordable housing and civil rights issues.

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Top issues found as concerns for voters. Provided by African American Research Collaborative.Also, reflected in the poll was the agency voters feel they have in the democratic process when it comes to ballot issues. On a scale from 1 to 10 — 10 meaning the issue is extremely persuasive in encouraging you to vote — the average answer was 7.48 for ballot“Iissues.think the support the state has for the generic idea of a ballot initiative as a form of direct democracy is striking,” said Henry Fernandez, the CEO of AARC.Touse a specific example, the poll asked if voters would be in support of ballot initiative #108, which would generate $270 million annually by diverting 0.1% of the taxable income from the General Fund to the State Affordable Housing Fund, according to a nonpartisan fiscal analysis. Across party lines, 77% of respondents said they would vote in favor of that initiative.

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“Thehelp.project succeeded in targeting the most vulnerable residents — not those who walked in the door and asked for it,” she said.

The other causes of deaths for those in both groups varied. Drug overdoses accounted for 2% of deaths, while injuries, liver disease, circulatory disease and alcohol use disorder each made up 1% of

deaths. Smaller fractions of the groups died of homicide, cancer, COVID, diabetes and alcohol overdose.

“Dying inside with access to services is a lot different, as opposed to dying on the street,” she said.

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“We just wanted to dig deeper into that number. It’s such a tragic number,” said Sarah Gillespie, the Urban Institute’s associate vice president of metropolitan housing

and communities policy. “People were entering the program with very signiﬁcant health challenges.”

Previous research found that 86% of people in the program were still housed after one year, and 77% were still housed after three years.

“One of those is that people want to be homeless and they are choosing that.”Out of hundreds offered housing, only a few have said no. It’s also a rare look at how intervention programs can help those who didn’t ask for

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Urban Institute based in Washington, D.C., worked on the previous study, they noticed high levels of mortality among those who were living in supportive housing, which comes not only with rent assistance but also mental health and addiction treatment.Asecond study confirmed it: the death rate among those in apartments was the same as those living outside.Theinstitute looked at mortality data for 532 people who had moved into supportive housing from 201619, then compared that to 529 people who were homeless and receiving community services through nonprofit and governmental organizations.About 10% of the housed group — 53 people — had died, a number that researchers called “extremely tragic.” Meanwhile, 9% of those who were still homeless had died. This is despite the fact that program participants had a 155% increase in office-based medical visits.

The program has provided a wealth of data and potential research on the costs of homelessness.

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The average life expectancy for someone who is chronically homeless is 54 years old, according to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless.The death rate of those housed was so high, researchers concluded, because the program is targeted toward people who have the highest chances of dying on the street. The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, the Mental Health Center of Denver and other groups create lists of people who take frequent ambulance rides and regularly spend nights in the hospital and jail. Then outreach workers visit encampments and shelters trying to ﬁnd

The conclusion was that a few years in supportive housing was not enough to reverse the long-term health effects and stress of being homeless, which often include mental health problems and addiction.

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them.Once found, they are offered a spot in the program, which is funded by government and private investments.Denver expanded the program in 2018, and in 2021, the U.S. Treasury Department offered the city $6 million in new federal funding if the program can show a drop in Medicare and Medicaid billings during the next several years. If the city can keep 125 new people housed, it will not have to pay back the money.

Seen from across the South Platte River, a man dismantles a canopy during a sweep of a homeless camp.

Not one person who was housed died of exposure, while seven people in the homeless group died of exposure, a cause of death often linked to not having shelter during extreme hot or cold temperatures. It was of some comfort to discover that people who were housed are at least not freezing to death, Gillespie said.

“We’ve been able to shine light on common myths,” Gillespie said.

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The state’s minimum wage will increase by nearly 9 percent in 2023. However, inﬂation rates continue to cause families to struggle. SHUTTERSTOCK IMAGE

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“It doesn’t offset the pain that workers were feeling this year because of prices being higher now,”

State minimum wage to increase in 2023

raising interest rates in an effort to slow price gains, but costs for many goods and services are still climbing. On Sept. 13, the U.S. Labor De-

Rocky Mountain Communities, a Denver-based affordable housing nonproﬁ t, is celebrating its 30 th anniversary with a fundraising event 6-9 p.m. Sept. 29 at the St.

Moreover, the tight labor market means that a lot of service jobs are already paying above the minimum wage, she said, and the annual increase won’t affect those wages. The increase will likely be felt most in rural areas where pay tends to be lower, she said.

Elizabeth’s Episcopal School at the Mosaic Community Campus, 1800 N. Pontiac St. in Denver’s South Park Hill neighborhood.

Pegging minimum wage to inﬂation is helpful for workers, but it doesn’t help families recoup the higher costs they’ve already absorbed, according to Paula Cole, a professor of economics at Univer-

to its residents to ensure success, sufﬁ ciency and independence. To learn more about Rocky Mountain Communities, or to purchase tickets to its 30 th anniversary fundraising event, rockymountaincommunities.org.visit

partment said the consumer price index rose 8.3% in August compared to last year, dashing hopes that the reading would show inﬂation reced-

Colorado’s minimum wage will jump to $13.65 per hour next year — an 8.68% increase — amid persistent inﬂation.Thenew hourly wage will take effect Jan. 1, according to the state’s department of labor and employment. The annual adjustment, based on the consumer price index in Denver, Aurora and Lakewood, is written into the state’s constitution. In Denver, the minimum wage will rise to $17.29 per hour next year, up fromBusinesses$15.87. and consumers are struggling with the highest inﬂation in 40 years. The Federal Reserve is

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I’d hope readers gain an insight into what it feels like to be human, at least to me, from my poems. And that I’m not just spraying words on a page to be clever, but that there’s an emotional and intellectual connection between us.

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As stand-up comics say, I want to slay my readers. If the poem is funny, I want them to bust a gut reading it; if it’s sad, I want to see tears.

“Bearing the Body of Hector Home” and “A Nightmare on Horseback” will both be coming out in 2023. The former is coming out in early January, the latter in April.

What do you hope people gain from reading your poetry?

Poetry can take readers “to places they wouldn’t normally get to go,” Cooperman said. “When you get it right, there’s nothing else like it.”Cooperman, a resident of Denver’s University neighborhood, moved to Denver in 1974 to attend grad school at the University of Denver. He met his wife, Beth, who teaches ﬁnance at the University of Colorado-Denver, in a creative writing workshop. The two moved around the country for a while, and returned to Denver in 1996.

What’s next?

In what ways do you hope readers can connect to your poetry?

One thing that “The Odyssey,” the Grateful Dead and the Old West has in common is Robert Cooperman.Theseareall topics the local poet has been inspired by.

Ever since he was a child, Cooperman enjoyed reading and writing poetry, he said.

To date, Cooperman has written an estimated 8-or-10,000 poems, and has had 20 poetry collections published. “In the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains” won the Colorado Book Award in 2000. Denver’s Westword newspaper named Cooperman’s “Draft Board Blues” as a Ten Great Books by Colorado Authors in 2017.

The usual online booksellers; Apprentice House Press, apprenticehouse.com; and FutureCycle Press, futurecycle.org.

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Cooperman’s latest works were both published in 2021. “Go Play Outside” chronicles Cooperman’s “lifelong unrequited love affair with basketball,” he said. “Reefer Madness” was in part inspired by a newspaper article Cooperman read in the Denver Post that stated that the Girl Scouts of Colorado got the OK to sell Girl Scout cookies outside of pot shops, Cooperman said.

“At its best, (poetry) is a look into the human soul,” Cooperman said. “It can move us. And it’s beautiful.”

I’m (also) working on a manuscript about gun violence and politicians’ pitiful response to the carnage.

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Nate Perso plays the mandolin during a Wednesday evening Denver RetroGrass Jam Band jam session in August.

Paul Marino, a bass player for MicroGrass Band and the Denver RetroGrass Jam Band, plays his bass guitar during a Wednesday evening jam session in August.

plays the ukulele during a Wednesday evening Denver RetroGrass Jam Band jam session in August.

Because the funds raised from the jam will be a donation to the church, the donors — in this case, the jam organizers — are able to stipulate what the donation can be used for, Teutsch said. Therefore, proceeds from the jam will go to Cameron church’s building fund, which, in turn, will help the structural integrity of the building, including the leaking dome/roof, TeutschCameronadded.United Methodist Church was built in 1913, and is a designated historic site. Kirton said its stained-glass dome was created by Watkins Stained Glass Studio — which has been in business in Colorado since 1868 and today is still family-owned, located off South Broadway in Englewood, according to its website.

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about ﬁ ve or six years, Connole said.

Denver’s Largest Bluegrass Jam takes place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sept. 25 at Cameron United Methodist Church, 1600 S. Pearl St. in Denver’s Platt Park neighborhood. A suggested donation of $15 will beneﬁt the church’s building fund, which will go toward maintenance and repair of the church’s stained-glass dome.

“It is a social event,” he said, adding that he is looking forward to “giving the community the opportunity to help the church, sing some songs, play some instruments — and have some fun.”

For more information, contact Catherine Teutsch at CatherineT@comcast.net.

Tom Connole, jam leader, plays the guitar during a Wednesday evening Denver RetroGrass Jam Band jam session in August.

Jam Band. This jam, which will last until 2 p.m., will take place in the church’s sanctuary, under the stained-glass dome.

In addition to the jams, the Denver’s Largest Bluegrass Jam will feature vendors, information booths, light refreshments will be available for purchase and Swallow Hill Music — a Denver-based nonproﬁ t music school — will be bringing an instrument petting zoo.

The RetroGrass community jams also have a long, local history. They got started at Swallow Hill Music roughly 15 years ago, said Tom Connole of Denver who serves as the jam leader. When a space and noise conﬂ ict with Swallow Hill’s music classes came about, the jams relocated to a coffee shop off Broadway in Denver called Strange Grounds, Connole said. When that venue closed, Cameron church offered its venue for the jams, with rent being only that RetroGrass provides music during service four times a year, Connole said. This current partnership and agreement has been in place for

Andrew Torres plays the banjo during a Wednesday evening Denver RetroGrass Jam Band jam session in August.

Everyone and all abilities are welcome at Denver’s Largest Bluegrass Jam, Teutsch said. Every instrument is welcome, and musicians of all skill levels will be able to participate. Those who do not have instruments are encouraged to come and sing — chords and lyrics for every song will be projected.

This year is the third Denver’s Largest Bluegrass Jam. The ﬁ rst took place in 2017, and the second in 2019. In 2019, about 115 people showed up, and about $6,500 was raised for the church’s building fund, Teutsch said.

The third Denver’s Largest Bluegrass Jam was originally slated to take place in 2021, but was postponed a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Teutsch said she is “beyond excited” for the event this year.

“The cool thing about bluegrass is that it is such an accessible music for people,” Teutsch said. Additionally, Denver’s Largest Bluegrass Jam “is quite unlike any other bluegrass jam because it’s very inclusive.”

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The goal for this year’s Denver’s Largest Bluegrass Jam is to have at least 150 people participating in the jam and raise $10,000.

“It is gratifying to see the joy on people’s faces to have live music back,” she said.

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Connole echoed her excitement.

Doug King plays the dobro during a Wednesday evening Denver RetroGrass Jam Band jam session in

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That theme of community connection is captured perfectly with the Bandaloop performance. The company takes a truly unique approach to the art of dance, blending it with rock climbing technology.“The lineage the movement comes out of is the dance lineage, but it is performed in vertical spaces using rock climbing gear,” said Melecio Estrella, artistic director with the company. “The audience can look up and see a dancer performing 200 feet off the ground. We’ll be performing on a smaller building at the University of Denver, and that proximity to the audience offers more intimacy.”TheNewman Center is using

No matter what show people see as part of the season, there will be something that moves them. Audience members frequently attend performances even though they’re unfamiliar with a work because they trust that the quality will be of the very highest, Ahmad-Post said.“The good thing about our reputation is that audiences know they can walk into the room for anything we’re doing and they can trust it will be good,” she said.

The center, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., kicks off its 20 th anniversary season on Sept. 29, with a free performance from Bandaloop. It runs through May 19 with jazz vocalist Cyrille Aimée. During those seven months, audiences will get to explore everything from concerts and cinema to family-friendly theater and comedy.

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“That’s an amazing thing to hear from your audience.”

“Part of the risk-taking this season is ﬁ nding ways to better connect our communities, and we’re doing that through the range, not just of the types of work, of stories told,” Ahmad-Post said. “What makes us unique is that being on a university campus allows us to bring best-in-class performers to Denver that can’t be found anywhere else.”

A free performance by Bandaloop, a dance group that uses rock climbing gear to perform on vertical spaces, will kick o the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver’s 20th anniversary season. Bandaloop performs on Sept. 29, and the season will run through May 19.

For a full schedule of the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver’s 202223 season, visit newmancenterpresents. com.

the event as an opportunity to get as many people involved as possible — the event will kick off an afternoon that includes food trucks and performances by the Denver-based groups Playground Ensemble, Presenting Denver and students from DU’s Lamont School ofStagingMusic. a performance like the one Bandaloop specializes in requires a great deal of planning and a site visit that includes both a feasibility and an artistic study. As Estrella explains it, each performance takes elements of the community and site history and works them into the show.

“The show is the most delightful thing in the world and is fun, interactive and speciﬁ cally-designed for young audiences,” Ahmad-Post said. “Building a schedule with more work for all ages is a great way to connect for everybody.”

Reaching the milestone of two decades in operation is an achievement that any arts organization should rightfully celebrate. But add in that it’s the ﬁ rst full season since the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Denver has a lot to celebrate.

“This season is so much bigger — last year we had around 15 shows and this year it’s around 26,” said Aisha Ahmad-Post, executive director of the Newman Center. “We’ve been thinking about how we connect with our campus and the community at large, and that has led to us taking more risks this year.”

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“The dance is informed by what’s already there, what’s moving in the spaces and what the community is going through,” he said. “I hope audiences come away dreaming up creative enterprises

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Some other performances that Ahmad-Post is excited about include A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, which is described as “a contemporary dance company galvanized by Black culture and history.” The performance will include their full-length work, “An Untitled Love,” set to the music of D’Angelo. Another is Manual Cinema presents “Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster.” Based on Mo Willems’ children’s books, the show blends projection, DIY cinema and music with enchanting results.

• 28% of Colorado businesses said they’ve fully recovered and are seeing higher monthly income today compared to before COVID. In the U.S., 23% of businesses felt the same.

The new Space Warfighting Center at the Aerospace Corporation in Colorado Springs expects to add 250 more workers in the next few years. No actual space warfighting is expected at this location, just the virtual design and research of technology for the nonprofit company headquartered in California. (Provided by The Aerospace Corporation)Don’t expect actual space wars to happen in the confines, but virtual design to develop “advanced space warfighting concepts,” according to the company, based in El Segundo, Calif.

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We were in between official government economic reports on Colorado last week, but other organizations shared their findings.Anew hiring report from small business network Alignable found that 66% of 307 small businesses surveyed in Colorado believe they’re already in a recession. And 28% would, instead, call it a depression. The survey of more than 5,000 small businesses nationwide was more upbeat, with 57% believing we’re in a recession. (We’re still not officially in one).

Companies are also moving to and expanding in Colorado. In Colorado Springs, The Aerospace Corporation, which is one of those nonprofits that operates a federally funded research and development facility, unveiled its new 90,000-square-foot Space Warfighting Center just south of the Colorado Springs airport.

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Consumer prices, i.e., inflation, were up 8.2% in July from a year ago in the Denver metro area.

However, the impact of how much of a threat a possible recession will have on operations appears much more optimistic in Colorado than elsewhere.

• 63% of small businesses in the U.S. have put hiring on hold compared to 44% in Colorado.

Small businesses are concerned about their future and America’s economy with 63% of small businesses surveyed by small-business network Alignable saying they‚Äôre putting hiring on hold. Colorado small businesses were more optimistic. Only 44% in Colorado felt the same.

Slope.“Fortunately, folks still call me for parties and I am still able to work,” she said.

The folks who took last week’s Labor Day poll dubbed “Who’s Working?” provided a glimpse into who’s still working, who isn’t and why. This is far from scientific but even a couple dozen responses shared the gamut of possibilities out there.

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“My clients don’t care how old I am,” Mann said, “and I would die of boredom if I retired.” A few others retired early but had to “unretire” as rising costs got in the way.

• Colorado is aligned with U.S. averages for laying off workers, with 10% of small businesses surveyed planning to cut staff.

Colorado gasoline prices are nearly back down to where they were a year ago, but everything else is just not quite the same, is it?There are still more than 120,000 jobs listed on the state’s job board even as new weekly jobless claims are still slightly higher than they were in 2019.

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“That means Colorado-based businesses are even more pessimistic about the state of the nation’s economy than their peers coast to coast,” said Chuck Casto,

No teenagers took the poll but several people between 65 and 74 years old and someone above 75 shared that they are working —and they work to live.

“The stock market downturn has eaten a big hole in my ‘backup’ so I will continue to work as long as I’m able,” said Sara Sharpe, who lives in Grand Junction.Sharpe had sold her bed and breakfast in Ouray in late 2019 with every intention of retiring and living off Social Security and her part-time catering business.No one needed a caterer when the pandemic hit.

Sharpe got a part-time job at a medical garment factory and as places reopened, she returned to her business, Secret Garden Catering, which serves the Western

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“I am 69 years old and plan to work until something happens to make that impossible,” said Mickey Mann, who was laid off in 2007 by IBM and found it impossible to get rehired in technology “because of rampant ageism.”Helearned new skills and has been a self-employed tax accountant ever since.

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There are already about 250 employees in the Denver and Colorado Springs region, according to a spokesperson. The plan is to hire another 250 workers for technical jobs at the new location. There are 87 openings right now for gigs like a Cyber Systems Engineer, Information Security Engineer and Astrodynamics and Space Tactics Analyst.

As other economists have chimed in in the past, some employers know how hard it was to hire people in the past two years. They’re not about to let them go now.“A lot of companies that were looking for (skilled labor), they’re not in a hurry to lay people off because there’s so much effort and cost to bring them back when the economy starts to rebound,” said Steven Byers, senior economist with Common Sense Institute, a conservative think tank in Greenwood Village. “Right now, I think there’s so many job openings nationwide and in Colorado that I don’t see (hiring) dropping off.”

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The student, Stephanie Zellers, was studying neuroscience at the University of Colorado before she followed her adviser to ﬁnish up her doctorate at the University of Minnesota. She was interested in studying the effects of substance use on the brain, but a lot of studies on the brain work the same way: you have to crack open the craniums of lab animals. That didn’t sit well with Zellers.Soshe went looking for a different method, and she found it in a massive dataset on the lives of twins born in Colorado or Minnesota.

The dataset also neatly straddled a dividing line — Colorado voters have legalized marijuana for recreational use, while Minnesota, which is otherwise similar to Colorado in a number of ways, has not.

For one, these are self-reported statistics. So it’s possible that twins living in states where marijuana use is illegal were less likely to report their true levels of use.

Using the data, Zellers looked at more than 3,400 adult twins born in Colorado and Minnesota and charted where they were living just prior to legalization. Some were still living in the state of their birth, some had moved; some pairs were living in the same state while other pairs had split and were living in separate states. The variability allowed her to effectively create a randomized controlled trial, something normally not possible when you’re talking about government policies.

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The data are longitudinal, meaning they follow the same people over long periods of time. And twins make for intriguing research subjects because they are not only genetically similar but they also generally grow up in the same household, meaning they typically share the same socioeconomic background, education experience and other social factors.

“This is the ﬁrst study to conﬁrm that the association between legal cannabis and increased use holds within families in genetically identical individuals,” John Hewitt, a professor in CU’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, said in a statement. “This makes it much more likely that legalization does, in itself, result in increased use.”Beyond the headline result, there are still a lot of unanswered questions in the new study.

Zellers said that is the subject of a follow-up study that she hopes will be published by the end of the year.

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Homebuying demand is likely to continue until the net migration switches, meaning more people leave Colorado than move to Colorado, Moye said.

A typical amount of supply for the Front Range — roughly from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs — is 24,000 houses on the market, according to Moye. But that region has about 6,000 houses on the market, she said in Insteadmid-September.ofa“screeching halt” in the housing market, Colorado is experiencing a slowdown to a more sustainable pace, Moye said.

In the long term, housing affordability in Colorado continues to be an issue of staggering proportions. Since the start of 2010 — when the median single-family home price in metro Denver was about $200,000 — the median price has roughly tripled. Statewide, it has tripled as well.

Now, the percentage of the listing price received on home purchases has dipped below 100% for the ﬁrst time since 2020, according to the report. For single-family homes, the rate was about 99% in August.

“A housing recession would mean more inventory than demand from buyers, so your supply and demand would be out of whack — it would be out of balance. And prices would be going down, not like the 11% appreciation we’ve seen so far this year, going up” in the long term, Moye added.What did shake up the market lately was the interest rate hike taking many buyers out of the running.

The coronavirus pandemic shook up the housing market partly because, amid the spread of working from home, some people had ﬂexibility in where they chose to live and drove up suburban home prices.

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“That’s signiﬁcant — that’s not expected. It is certainly expected over 20 or 30 years for that to happen, but for us, we had so much signiﬁcant (price) appreciation starting in 2013 through 2022,” Moye said, using a term for price increases.

“I see lots of my clients moving to Cheyenne and Idaho and Montana,” said Moye, who noted that with many employees able to work remotely, people are freer to move to places they can afford out of metro Denver.Businesses don’t want to locate in a place where their employees can’t afford to live, Moye said, another factor that could inﬂuence migration patterns.Homebuying has grown out of reach for many people because the rise in housing prices in recent decades far outstrips the increase in what American families earn.

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“Personally,issue.Idon’t think they’ll really be enough to make a dent,” Moye said. But to some extent, prices fall eventually, even though they will likely never come down to where they were decades ago, she added.

The Realtor association’s report uses a “housing affordability index,” or a measure of how affordable a region’s housing is to its consumers. The index is based on interest rates, median home price and median income by county. The higher the score, the greater affordability is.

As demand changed, prices have been pulled back, too. From 2015 through 2019, homes in the Denver metro area were garnering about 100% of their listing price — or close to that, according to the Realtors’ report. In 2021, that number shot up

(A “seller’s market,” as opposed to a buyer’s market, means there is more demand than supply, so homes sell quickly and the seller has more power to set high prices.)

The last time Colorado’s market scored above 100 was late 2017, according to Leprino. The last time the Denver metro area hit 100 was October 2017, he said.

When looking at housing statistics, “it’s vital that we look at historic perspectives and shift our thinking to pre-pandemic, pre-multiple offers and yes, pre-extreme price increase madness,” Leprino said in the news

But Colorado’s housing situation is still dire: This spring, the measure of housing affordability tracked by the association reached its lowest level since at least 2014 for both metro Denver and the state as a whole. While the market remains in an affordability crisis, the tracker has at least started to turn in the other direction.Thefederal government’s move in recent months to raise interest rates — the cost of borrowing money — to combat inﬂation “almost changed our market overnight,” Moye said.

Moye pointed to affordable housing programs at the city level as ways to alleviate that

Home prices see short-term drop

“A lot of times, people make the mistake of thinking we are headed right back to where we were in 2008, and that’s not true,” Moye said.

Housing sees seasonal e ect

It’s unclear how long the shortterm downturn in prices will continue, particularly because the time of year — not just interest rates — are likely playing a role in pulling prices

“It will eventually correct itself — at least to a certain degree,” Moye said.The Colorado Association of Realtors deﬁnes the seven-county Denver metro area as Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomﬁeld, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties.

release. He added: “The truth is that we have simply returned to more of a 2019 type of pace that’s simply less head spinning.”

Di erent world than in 2008

Low a ordability scores

Still, Colorado isn’t seeing what some in the industry have termed a “housing recession,” Moye said — and it remains to be seen how the market will look on the other side of typical seasonal changes.

The housing affordability index score in metro Denver this August was 55. Statewide, it was 58.

to about 105%. Earlier this year, it reached above 106%.

“Suddenly, they could afford (less) than they thought they could buy, and they ended up renting” or were pushed out of the market, Moye said.

And as families stayed home, they began looking at housing in new ways. “It was their ofﬁce, their home, their gym, their schools for the kids, and suddenly people needed way more space,” Matthew Leprino, a Realtor based in metro Denver, has told Colorado Community Media.

In December 2017, the median home price was $378,000 for metro Denver and $363,000 for the state, taking into account single-family and the condominium-townhome markets combined, Leprino said.

Longtime realtor not sold on recession talk

Prices likely won’t ever come back down to that level, said Moye, who has worked as a Realtor for three decades. But home prices in the metro area and statewide have shown some early signs that they may be breaking the pandemic-era trend of steep increases.Augustwas the fourth consecutive month of decreases in the median price for single-family homes in the metro area and statewide, according to the Colorado Association of Realtors’ most recent report. The median price was $620,000 in August in the metro area, down from $660,000 in April.And while the single-family home prices are still up compared to this time last year, the rate of year-overyear growth in prices has slowed for the last several months in the metro area and statewide.

the market had too much housing inventory, or supply, and people had loans they couldn’t afford, Moye said.

“In just a four-month period, we went from buyers … offering well over the seller’s asking price to having sellers offer them money to help pay down their interest rate payment,” Moye said.

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“Withdown.theschool year in full swing, we are experiencing a normal seasonal slowdown,” Barb Ecker, a Jefferson County-area Realtor, said in a news release from the Realtors’ association.Sheadded: “Sellers should be watching to see if more homes will be coming to the market. If not, we may see another strong seller’s market in January.”

“For buyers, there is a lot more inventory to choose from currently — however, that may not be the case for long,” Ecker said in the Sept. 13 news

Thoughrelease.prices have dropped in the short term, a “true” price decline in the housing market would occur over an annual or multi-year time period, Cooper Thayer, a Douglas Countyarea Realtor, said in the release.

Colorado’s housing market is in a “totally different place” than it was during the Great Recession, when

“The cutoff for it to be affordable is that 100 number,” Leprino told CCM in mid-September. If the score is 100, that means essentially that “the average person could afford the average house,” Leprino said.

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As the groans started to rumble loudly through the audience at the thought of a 115-slide death march through PowerPoint, the presenter allowed just enough time to capture their attention before saying, “Actually it sounds like this group is my kind of group, the good news is that I only have three slides, and we will have more dialogue today than presentation, sound better?”Withthat, his audience cheered, he had their attention, and he was off to what would be a phenomenal talk. His less-ismore approach really won them over.

Eventually, I opted to just deal with the dark thoughts and pretend to the outside world.

the sales manager took the time for some coaching, as the salesperson did win the business, because the proposal that was submitted was laser-focused on the speciﬁ c needs of the customer and nothing else. They proposed only to the value that they could deliver and clearly quantiﬁ ed that value. Again, the less-is-more approach was the much better way to go.

Soon, I started believing I really was not as good as I thought. I started down a dark road that led to some thinking that even today is hard to admit to.

Over the years, doctors would throw medications at me. None of them worked. In fact, they usually made me worse.

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My days started being ﬁlled with lying on the couch. I resented my husband for bringing me here. He was thriving and I was not going anywhere.

Today, I credit my children for keeping from doing something irreversible because no matter how much I thought I was a failure in life – I knew these people relied on me.

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Missy Franklin was the featured speaker. In listening to Missy talk about her battle with mental health, all I kept thinking was, “I was there too.” I am betting there are a lot of people out there who can say the same thing.

That meant several hours a day of being alone with my dark thoughts. I believed I had not lived up to expectations, especially the ones that I had set for myself. I believed I was a failure in my career, at home and in life. I started believing the world would be ﬁne without me.

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Many of my family, friends and co-workers know me as being outgoing, happy, friendly and a strong, driven person. However, that has not always been the case. You see, there were several dark years in my life that I have only started to admit to over the last year.

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more things we didn’t really mean or using words that we really didn’t need to use. A less-is-more approach tends to restore normalcy faster than a fl urry of babbling words.Sometimes there are situations that need to be talked through when disagreements or confl icts arise, or when we are faced with diffi cult conversations and situations. That is a healthy dialogue and not a monologue, so that is different. However, sometimes the less we speak, the clearer our points are made and the faster we come to a resolution and a best path

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other person or people around us on our side of the story. We believe that the more we say, the more persuasive we become. When in fact, it is the opposite. My experience tells me that the more we talk, the more opportunities we miss to gain consensus, to win over an audience, or apologize and reconcile fractured relationships.Howaboutyou, is it easier for you when someone speaks directly or shares information concisely? Have you ever been turned off by long-winded responses or apologies? Or have you ever found yourself as the one speaking more than listening? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@ gmail.com, and when we learn to take a less is more approach more often, it really will be a better than good life.

Meanwhile investors also need to remain vigilant and stay the course in their financial plan designed to help them meet their goals. You don’t want to be one of those retirees who did not plan well for your less-productive years. Having the resources to support yourself despite economic turmoil is the key. The other factor, however, is we are living longer, and your money needs to last more years.

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lthough she’s healthy, Vanessa Johnston already has a plan for how she’d like

Death doulas help clients at end of life

“My ultimate goal is to help people have an empowered ending … to have a peaceful ending, whatever that looks

“She was the one that you could turn to every single time, and she’d be able to do what we needed to do,” Barr continued.About10 years ago, Smith was diagnosed with breast cancer, Barr said. She got a mastectomy and understood that the surgery was curative for her at the time, and she was put on oral medications to try and control hormones.Smithfound out the cancer was back in about 2016, and around 2019, it

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“She started to feel better with some of the symptoms, and then in February, it just didn’t seem like it was responding anymore. And that’s when her doctor was like, you know, I think that you should go into hospice,” Barr said.Smith had a tense relationship with a lot of her family members, and her parents are elderly and didn’t really understand what was happening, Barr said. Smith relied on her friend network, including Barr.

it started to change drastically and her doctor told her she needed to start injectable chemotherapy treatment.

A warm and welcome friend

“And hospice, I kind of always thought they would just be there all the time, and that’s not how it works,” Barr said, explaining the nurse came over about three times and the chap-

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Although Smith was told to go into hospice around February, afterward, Smith’s doctor said chemotherapy might actually be working, and Smith continued getting treatment. However, on May 24, Smith collapsed in a parking lot as she was headed to an appointment.Atthatpoint, Smith stopped getting chemotherapy and she began hospice, which was done at Barr’s home.

Around this time, Barr was reading a ﬁctional book, “The Book of Two Ways,” and through reading, she learned about the concept of death doulas. Her curiosity piqued, and she began Googling death doulas in Colorado to potentially help Smith come to terms with what was happening, as Smith initially was hesitant to acknowledge or accept she was dying, Barr“Whatexplained.Iwashoping to get out of it was just somebody who had experience with death that could help us in a way that wasn’t just, ‘Get your affairs in order,’” Barr said. “Somebody that could just listen to her, talk to her in her own home.”

One of her recent clients was Michelle Smith, a 52-year-old veterinary technician and beloved friend who passed away on June 4.

“I tell my clients, I can’t take away the sorrow and the sadness, but maybe with more knowledge, we can focus less on fear and anxiety and more on love and meaning,” she continued.

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She’ll be close to the outdoors, able to see the trees she loves. The smell of Nag Champa incense will ﬁll the air, and a Spotify playlist she’s created will be playing. Her friends and family will visit, writing down funny stories or memories to

Vanessa Johnston, a death doula of ﬁve years, with her dog at her home in Highlands Ranch on Aug 25. PHOTO BY TAYLER SHAW

Talking about death is hard, she said, but knowledge is power. When she works with clients, she aims to help them prepare for what’s to come and design an ending that best ﬁts with the rest of their life, rather than experiencing a “default panic mode” about

Originally, around February, Smith began working with a different death doula, but after that person had a family emergency, Smith was referred to Johnston in April.

Assembling this plan, which Johnston calls vigil planning, is part of her job as a death doula, a versatile and

“There are a lot of different names for what I do,” Johnston said, explaining other names include end-of-life doula, death midwife, exit coach and death companion. “The simplest way I can say it is that I provide emotional, spiritual and informational support for people at the end of life, and for their loved ones around them.”

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Rose Barr, a 45-year-old veterinarian at Tender Touch Animal Hospital, met Smith in 2010 through work, and the two became close friends and eventually like family to one another.

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“She was very warm and welcoming. She valued having meaningful relationships with people,” Barr said, her voice ﬁlled with emotion. “She had this beautiful laugh, beautiful eyes.”Aveterinary technician of about 20 years, Smith was great at her job — especially when it came to dealing with naughty cats, Barr said.

Karen Keeran, a death doula based in Golden, at her home o ce on Aug 24.

She offers a variety of services including offering information about the dying process, addressing worries and issues, providing emotional support and planning and helping implement the atmosphere the client would like to have as they are dying.

Crispin Sargent, an a liate member of the Colorado End-of-Life Collaborative.

As a death doula, Johnston typically works with people who are in hospice, and she’s usually contacted by the child of the person dying, she said.

“Partdeath.ofthe problem of not being willing and able to talk about something scary, like death, is it just promotes more fear and anxiety. And I really wanted to dismantle that, if I could,” she said.

them,”forlike she said.Inthe ﬁve years since starting her business, Denver EOL Doula, with EOL standing for “end of life,” she has had about 15 private clients and serves people all throughout the metro Denver area.

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body can do this work alone,” Sargent members of the collaborative can call of the members of that group have a specialty, have a passion.”

“You want to do all of your planning at a time where there can be stories that are told,” she said, explaining planning ahead of time allows for more consideration of options and for a person’s loved ones to understand the plan as well.

Michelle Smith at Niagara Falls on her birthday, May 12, 2022. Going to Niagara Falls was on Smith’s bucket list, her friend Rose Barr said.

“When she introduced it to me, what she was doing, it was really interesting. I was kind of surprised, but yet, at the same time, I was like, wow, that’s

“Duringclients.that30-year period of time, clients would come to us because of dysfunctional family, or because they had no family, or where the court made a determination that a disinterested third party was needed to serve in the role of conservator,” she said.

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The following year, Johnston established her business, which she said was a complicated process. Part of the difﬁculty was convincing people that her services were valuable and something everyone would beneﬁt from.

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Becoming a death doula

One of her ﬁrst clients was her friend, Maxine Wagoner, an owner of a yoga studio in Golden that Keeran is a member of. Wagoner said she had never heard of a death doula until Keeran approached her.

began volunteering in hospice and applied her new skills towards helping care for the man, who passed in October 2017.

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him and his wife just go through that last milestone in a way that honored his story. And I thought, ‘Well gosh, I really want to continue to do this if I can,’” she said.

“If you try and do all of that at the deathbed, your brain isn’t functioning, nothing is functioning, nothing is in place, and you don’t have that opportunity,” she said.

She has since begun a new company, Chun Hwa LLC, which focuses on offering yoga and grief counseling, she said. However, as an afﬁliate member of the nonproﬁt, she still offers services related to advance care planning and the “business of death,” as she

With this goal of educating and helping others, Keeran launched her business, Golden Heart Transition, this spring. She offers a range of services including grief support, doula services, end-of-life planning and coaching using the “best three months” model developed by the Conscious Dying Institute.

Barr said it was valuable to have Johnston around, who had been through the process before and would often reassure everyone that they were doing a great job. She said Johnston offered emotional support to people, often explaining what was happening to visitors and helping remove some fear about the situation.

“And I thought, ‘Oh, that’s what I’ve been doing.’ So it kind of gave a name to the role that I had been kind of fulﬁlling intuitively anyway, and really helped me understand what that role was,” she Johnstonsaid.decided to pursue training with the International End of Life Doula Association, which she completed in the summer of 2017. She

She began connecting with other doulas in the Denver area, and in 2020, they decided to form the Colorado End-of-Life Collaborative, a nonproﬁt membership organization. She explained it helped create a support network for the doulas and get the word out about their profession.

Prioritizing education

“We ﬁgured that our voices together would be louder than our voices separately, so that was the impetus for just, let’s get together and cultivate a community,” she said. “We want to provide a community not just for the providers who are doing this work, but for people who need these services.”

Before entering the death doula profession, Johnston worked as a high school English teacher.

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Having a death doula helped get Smith to a point where she could talk about her death and share her wishes with others, Barr said. Johnston also helped Smith’s family and friends navigate the ﬁnal days, encouraging people to talk about what was happening and to share happy memories of Smith.Johnston also helped get a lawyer and a notary to visit Smith and Barr to complete Smith’s will, something Barr said they were panicked about beforehand.Earlyinthe morning on June 4, Smith passed away in Barr’s home. Upon her passing, Barr asked Johnston to check in with Smith’s parents, as she didn’t have the emotional bandwidth to do so. Johnston also came to Smith’s celebration of life, held at Hudson Gardens.

In 2015, she was looking for a different career outside of teaching, and a friend asked if she would be interested in serving as an assistant to a man who had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a progressive nervous system disease.

“I have a very signiﬁcant level of

“I feel like Vanessa gave us a lot more support than hospice was able to, and even if it was just talking and checking on us and trying to help facilitate things with visitors,” Barr said.Barr describes death doulas as wonderful people who can guide others through the dying process, whether it be navigating the paperwork, the emotional part or the physical part. She said she’s considering hiring a death doula again to help her get her own affairs in order before this year is over.

Earlier this year, she began working with her friend, Karen Keeran, who recently became a death doula. Together, they began discussing Sargent’s wishes, such as having a calm and quiet environment when she is close to passing.

“I think that it’s a great thing to help you on that part of the journey, to have a death doula,” Barr said. “I think that it can help with all of the feelings and fears and emotions.”

A main focus for Keeran, she said, is targeting education efforts toward older generations, communicating the value of putting together an end-oflife plan and exploring topics of pain, caregiving and medical aid in dying. She also helps people learn about the variety of body disposition options available to people in Colorado, such as water cremation.

Originally, Johnston said the idea was to only have a directory of doulas in the nonproﬁt, but then the members saw there was a need to also have a network of other providers, called afﬁliate members, such as people working in funeral homes, grief counselors, notaries and so on.

One afﬁliate member is Crispin Sargent, a certiﬁed grief yoga instructor who worked for 30 years as a geriatric care manager, offering services such as advance care planning and acting as power of attorney or conservator for some

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Death is a life experience, she said, and she knows from personal experience the value of planning and preparing for death before a person is close to it or is in crisis.

gratitude to her because she knows that I can be a different kind of challenge because I know too much,” Sargent said, explaining she looks at situations from every angle. “She keeps me on track.”

Choosing to become a death doula was a spiritual type of decision for Keeran.In2020, a year before she retired from her career in business, Keeran was meditating and asked the universe what she should do next. She said she woke up the next morning and it was like a light switch had been turned on — she should become a death doula.

Now, there are more than 35 afﬁliate members across Colorado, and the number is growing, she said.

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“And so I said, ‘I’m happy to do that. I have no medical experience whatsoever, but if he’s just looking for a companion, I can do that,’” Johnston said.While caring for the man, she heard about a book called “Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death.” Through reading, she learned “death doula” was the term for a person who serves as a compassionate companion to someone at the end of life.

Although Sargent had previously done the legal parts of planning and preparing for her death, she said she hadn’t thought about the actual time of death and the type of environment she would like.

She had learned about death doulas a few years ago from a friend, she said. Following her retirement in 2021, she began her six-month training with the Conscious Dying Institute, as well as began training to become a certiﬁed nurse aide. In February 2022, she also completed training through the Conscious Dying Institute as a conscious dying“Knowledgeeducator.and information, I’m a big believer in, reduces fear,” she said. “I want to be able to bring that planning to the fore and have that in place before we reach (the) end of life.”

lain and social worker each checked in once. “And so just having another support system was huge.”

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“We don’t know when we’re going to pass unless we’ve been given that kind of diagnosis. So for me, it was really powerful and … made me feel strong about it,” Wagoner said. “It’s just a very comforting feeling, and empowering yourself to be able to express what you really want, because to family members sometimes, you can’t express that.”

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“You have to put yourself in a mindset of, you have three months left to live. And then, in that three-month time, what practically do you want to accomplish?” Wagoner said. “And it was good to be able to do it without actually being in that situation.”

she remembers a time when death and grief were hardly ever talked about, especially in the My1970s.childhood

was full of death and loss,” Keeran said, explaining she was basically on her own at 19 years old. “Who I want to be now, is that person that I didn’t have, and my family didn’t have when I was growing up.”

“I’m very hesitant to get into any kind of a role in the medical care system,” she said, explaining she

“It’s this tricky thing of establishing value while providing the service, but I really think that the future of death doulas remains outside the medical care system just because that independence and ﬂexibility, I think, is how we serve our clients the best,” Johnston said.

In her current role, Johnston has maximum independence and ﬂexibility, she said. However, being outside the medical care system can hinder people’s willingness to pay for the death doula services since it’s out-ofpocket, she said.

Keeran agreed, saying she has seen how hospice nurses and aides are limited in how much time they can serve clients. She said she sees death doulas as offering specialty services, also noting that limiting death doulas to hospice care could reduce the number of people the doulas can serve.

a really unique business and a unique way to help people,” Wagoner said.

part of what I do is to normalize this for people, which it seems strange to say that this thing that happens to 100% of us needs to be normalized, but it does because we don’t ever talk about Keeranit.”said

“When somebody says, ‘That must be so depressing,’ I’m like, actually it’s the complete opposite,” Johnston said. “When you deal with death on a daily basis, it really makes you value life.”

Maxine Wagoner, left, and Karen Keeran, right, in August 2016. Wagoner said they have an organization called Earth Citizens, and they adopted a trail they were responsible for cleaning four times a year. COURTESY OF MAXINE WAGONER

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As part of the experience, Keeran gave Wagoner a map to write down what Wagoner’s wishes were so her family would know, helping alleviate some of the stress her family would experience following her death.

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While Keeran was completing her training last year, she needed people to practice her skills with, Wagoner said. Wagoner volunteered, and they did the “best three months” course.

Currently, death doulas are outside of the medical care system, and Johnston said she thinks it should stay that way.

Although working as a death doula can take a lot of emotional capacity, it’s a job Keeran and Johnston feel called“Thisto.is me doing my heart’s work now, and it’s just super exciting,” KeeranDespitesaid.what others may think, Johnston embraces life because of her job, she said.

The death doula profession has also evolved over time, Johnston said, and

worries about over-regulation. “If I were to be, like, a Medicare beneﬁt, then I would have this obligation to follow these strict rules, which really hampers my ability to meet families where they are, to serve whatever their needs are.”

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it’s inevitable, so let’s work on our approach to this inevitable thing,” Johnston said. “A big

As educators about death and dying, both Johnston and Keeran expressed the importance of changing how people discuss death and dying, such as not associating it with giving up or as a “Wefailure.know

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Littleton’s multidisciplinary Michelle Lamb, whom we met when she created the mural on the back of the city’s light rail station, writes: “I consider assemblage a form of narrative, strategically arranging objects and al-

`Recombobulation’ show runs through Oct.

“Antique Dealer” is by Susan Blosten, an artist who is exhibit works in the “Recombobulation” show at Curtis Center for the Arts. COURTESY PHOTO

vision of what craftsmen put into their anonymous vision and expression of their part in creating the Golden Age of American manufacturing.” He says he grew up in New Orleans, is mostly Cajun, part of the Tunica-Biloxi tribe from mid-Louisiana and currently lives and works in Tucson, Arizona. “But I am an artist and resident of the whole world,” he adds.Deborah

Artists included in this exhibit are: Deborah Jang, Mark Friday, Michelle Lamb, Susan Blosten, Jimmy Descant, Leigh Campbell, Floyd Tunson and Kelton Osborn.

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Jang, a University of Colorado Denver graduate, continues in a 30- year career to explore new materials and techniques. She has participated in numerous group and solo shows in the western U.S. and her works are included in corporate and private collections in the U.S. and beyond. “Each salvaged component carries its own unique history. Some remain mysterious while others offer familiar social or cultural references.” Note her “Keys to the Kingdom.”

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more than one story from some of these works, as they enjoy the detailed pieces. Allow a bit of time to look at each piece and appreciate the craftsmanship involved here, as well as storytelling.

Their announcement says: “These artists create a narrative through strategically arranging found objects and other ephemera, allowing a speciﬁcally determined amount of original patina, shape, texture or inherent iconography to provide the plot for their story.”

A group of eight established Colorado artists, who have been planning this exhibit for a year or so, opened “Recombobulation” at Curtis Center for the Arts at 2349 E. Orchard Road, Greenwood Village, which will run through Oct. 29. It should interest art lovers in the area, including younger ones, who may ﬁnd inspiration to experiment. (Note the kids’ work near the entrance, produced in Michelle Lamb’s classes there.)

“Combobulate” means to put something together. So, while one does not ﬁnd a dictionary deﬁnition of “Recombobulation,” one can assume that it speaks of putting even more things together ... The art of assemblage holds similar meaning.

Mark Friday “often starts in the middle of a piece” and adds “miscellaneous bits and pieces from the discarded, unwanted leftovers from our mass-produced world.” He writes than he joins parts together with screws, bolts and nails and usually paints or stains, sometime incorporating screen prints or pigments.

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Enter the historic schoolhouse gallery and turn left to ﬁnd works by Jimmy Descant, who describes himself as a “Severe ReConstructivist.” He writes: “I see in the parts found at thrift stores and ﬂea markets my own

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Apothecary, completing the collective.

“Every person who has walked through our doors, whether it be the Corner Beet, Rooted Heart of Balanced Root Apothecary, has been an integral part creating this collective,” Hazamy said. “When you ﬁnd balance, you ﬁnd healing, and we hope The Roots Collective can be exactly that for you.”

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Nikki Hazamy is the owner of The Roots Collective, which consists of three

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The Roots Collective consists of three businesses located in Capitol Hill’s 1400 block of North Ogden Street that are owned by Denver resident Nikki Hazamy. The businesses are: The Corner Beet, a vegetarian restaurant that opened in August 2014; Rooted Heart Yoga & Wellness, which was established in November 2018; and Balanced Root Apothecary, which had its soft opening in March.

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os, man’s inhumanity to man, mortality and the vastness of the unknown. From another direction, the human condition seems like a magniﬁcent, orderly evolution of extraordinary beauty.”SusanBlosten, also from Littleton, writes that “one or two objects can spark her to create a scene in which they feel comfortable. Or a painting can dictate what added objects will complete the subject.” As a longtime antique dealer, she has collected fabrics, buttons and many objects that lead her into a ﬁnished work. Her “Room with a View” combines painting and the addition of small pieces of this and that.

The apothecary offers organic, handmade products made by local small business and vendors.

Kelton Osborn says his works include marks and images that relate to past experiences. “I do not work in a linear process, but rather in a spiral that allows inﬂuences from multiple sources ...” Note his “Dead Fish and Debutantes” on a pedestal in the middle of the gallery.

Hazamy moved to Denver from Detroit in 2013. She started out selling juices on the corner of 14th and Ogden when the current building’s current landlord approached her and offered her a quaint corner space to house the juices. This led the way to establishing The Corner Beet. Hazamy continued her vision of offering holistic health to the community with the opening of Rooted Heart Yoga & Wellness and Balanced Root

Longtime Denver artist Floyd D. Tunson writes of his pleasure in learning. “Along the way, I have become a Janus. Looking at life from one direction, I see the terror of cha-

lowing a speciﬁcally determined amount of the original patina, shape, texture or inherent iconography to provide the plot for my story. Making trash into treasure is an alchemy more noble than the ethical necessity of recycling.” Her “Chronocalcula” has an air of mystery with a hand marked with astrological signs.

The Roots Collective is celebrating its grand debut with a metaphysical fair from 6-9 p.m. on Oct. 8.

Leigh Cabell says: “each of my creations is made from things we discard. Gum wrappers, twist ties and cereal boxes, just to name a few. I take small pieces of each, sometimes the whole if it is small enough, and sew them together without altering the original color ...”

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To: KEYONDRE CRAIG: You are notified that you have 10 days after publication for this notice of levy to file your claim of exemption with the District Court of Denver County, 1437 Bannock, Room 256, Denver, CO 80202 in Case 2021CV031817 entitled: NORTHARROW, LLC v. KEYONDRE CRAIG $1069.70 garnished at Huntington Bank f/d/b/a TCF Bank, 4100 W 144th Ave., Broomfield, CO

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Estate of MARGOT G. HACKSTAFF, also known as Margot Grater Hackstaff, and Margot Hackstaff, Deceased. Case Number: 2022PR31072

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Attorney to the Personal Representative 8055 East Tufts Avenue, Suite 1350 Denver, Colorado 80237

Public Notice

Complete details of the operations are available upon request from: North American Weather Consultants, Inc. 8180 So. Highland Dr., Ste. B-2, Sandy, UT, 84093 or from Andrew Rickert, Colorado Water Conservation Board, 1313 Sher man St. Room 718, Denver, CO 80203.

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Last Publication: September 22, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

Estate of GREGORY GERARD SAUBER, a/k/a GREGORY G. SAUBER, a/k/a GREGORY SAUBER, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31125

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 81843

0 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta par escrito en esta carte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una liamada telefonica no Ia protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formate legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en Ia corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de Califomia (www.sucorte. ca.gov), en Ia bibioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas Cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuote de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corta que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso par incumplimiento y Ia corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Last Publication: September 22, 2022

Legal Notice No. 81837

Section 36-20-112 CRS requires that this notice be published in counties adjacent to the Target area, this includes the following: Jackson, Grand, Summit, Lake, Chaffee, Fremont, El Paso, Elbert, Arapahoe, Denver, Adams, Broomfield and Weld

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Attorney for Co-Personal Representatives Burns, Figa & Will, P.C. 6400 S. Fiddlers Green Circle, Ste. 1000 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Last Publication: October 6, 2022

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral servlce. lf you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the Callfornia Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifomia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

Last publication: September 29, 2022

Greg Alan Co-PersonalAmbleRepresentative of the Estate of Gary Martin Amble 2701 S. Jefferson Ave. Sioux Falls, SD 57105

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Legal Notice No. 81835

First Publication: September 22, 2022

Hammond Law Group, PC 2955 Professional Pl. Ste. 300 Colorado Springs, CO 80904

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

DeNae Wagner, Personal Representative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

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First Publication: September 8, 2022

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Broncos Towing, 303-722-3555 (office) will be applying for title to the following vehicles, abandoned.

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 5, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

The intended effect of the weather modification operations is to increase snow pack on the east slope of the Rocky Mountain Range as a mean of increasing spring runoff in designated water networks.

First publication: September 15, 2022

Last Publication: September 29, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE

First Publication: September 22, 2022

Last Publication: September 22, 2022

CASE 30-2021-01220598-CU-BC-CJCNUMBER

Estate of Harold Wayne Jensen, also known as Harold W. Jensen, Deceased Case Number 2022PR31127

Last Publication: September 29, 2022

First Publication: September 8, 2022

Jeremy P. Cohen, Esq., Atty. Reg. #:15942

NOTICE OF INTENT TO MODIFY WEATHER

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 January 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 81838

AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a

Gary Kurtz, Law Office of Gary Kurtz, Inc., 30101 Agoura Ct, Ste 118, Agoura Hills, CA 91301 818-884-8400

Last Publication: October 6, 2022

John Kim, Personal Representative c/o Solem, Woodward & McKinley, P.C. 750 W. Hampden Ave, Ste 505 Englewood, CO 80110

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Lorraine A. Perea, Deceased Case Number: 22PR379

The initial Target Area for the five-year Weather Modification Permit is defined as: The St. Vrain Watershed including primary tributaries located at or above 6,500 ft in elevation. The primary focus of this program is to seed the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, and besides the St. Vrain Wa tershed, seeding may occur in Larimer, Boulder, Gilpin, Clear Creek, Park, Jefferson, Douglas, and Teller counties at or above 6,500 ft. Counties that may be affected by seeding operations on the western slope are Jackson, Grand, Summit, Lake, Chaffee, and Fremont counties.

Estate of MARCUS ANDREW STAERKEL, aka MARCUS A. STAERKEL, aka MARCUS STAERKEL, Deceased. Case Number: 2022 PR 31166

Catherine LeDuke, Personal Representative 11651 W. 44th Avenue Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

First Publication: September 22, 2022

Legal Notice No. 81837

Phone Number: (303) 796-2626

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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First Publication: September 15, 2022

First Publication: September 1, 2022

Legal Notice No. 81845

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Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomandable que LLame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede LLamar a un servicio de reision a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con las requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de Califomia, (www.sucorta.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales, AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los gastos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Paul G. Arevian, a/k/a Paul Gregory Arevian, and Paul Arevian, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31119

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

First Publication: September 8, 2022

Gari Wayne Jensen Personal Representative 4965 E. Missouri Ave. Denver, CO 80246

Last Publication: October 6, 2022

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch

Estate of Richard J. Bernick, deceased Case Number: 21PR0454

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Last Publication: September 29, 2022

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 23, 2022 or the claims may be forever barred.

Notice is hereby given that North American Weather Consultants, Inc. (“NAWC”), is filing with the Director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board an application for a Permit to conduct a weather modification program within the State of Colorado. NAWC shall conduct this program for the St Vrain and Left Hand Water Conservancy District.

The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): Orange County Superior Court 700 W Civic Center Dr. Santa Ana, CA 92701

Judge Nancy E. Zelt:zer (Ndmsro dsl Csso):

First Publication: September 8, 2022

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the co-personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City & County of Denver, State of Colorado on or before January 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Legal Notice No. 81840

First Publication: September 22, 2022

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of GARY MARTIN AMBLE, A/K/A GARY M. AMBLE, A/K/A GARY AMBLE, A/K/A MARTY AMBLE, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR031198

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Last Publication: September 22, 2022

Last Publication: October 6, 2022

First Publication: September 22, 2022

Comfort Dental Denver patients:

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Legal Notice No. 81846

Philip Bernick, Personal Representative 2021 S. Ventura Dr. Tempe, Arizona 85282

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Estate of Shayne N. Tennyson, aka Shayne Naomi Tennyson, aka Shayne Tennyson, aka S.N. Tennyson, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31066

Last Publication: October 6, 2022

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Comfort Dental Denver 4450 W 38th Ave, Suite 110 Denver, CO 80212 (303) 455-2273

Legal Notice No. 81825

Rosemary Bryant Personal Representative 6459 W. 5th Avenue Lakewood, Colorado 80226

Estate of WILLIAM T. CANIGLIA, a/k/a WILLIAM CANIGLIA, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR031187

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this sum mons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call wlll not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo. ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

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.

Last Publication: October 6, 2022

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 15, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

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 5, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Last Publication: September 22, 2022

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First Publication: September 22, 2022

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Legal Notice No. 81848

Public Notice

First Publication: September 22, 2022

Notice to Creditors

Legal Notice No. 81854

W. Douglas Hoak, Reg. #43148

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Probate Court for the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 23, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Diana Gates, Personal Representative 5041 W. Portland Drive Littleton, CO 80128

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Estate of Margaret Serafina Purchatzke, a.k.a Margaret S. Purchatzke, a.k.a Margaret Purchatzke, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31080

Public Notice

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Last Publication: October 13, 2022

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Neil Houston, Personal Representative 375 S. Gilpin Street Denver, CO 80209

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A public hearing on this application for a permit to conduct this weather modification program will be held on September 30th, beginning at 1:00pm. This meeting is open to the public and can be joined remotely via zoom. Contact Andrew Rickert at andrew.rickert@state.co.us to gain Zoom ac cess information.

Last Publication: October 6, 2022

Estate of Lucille Bernadette Stanaway, a/k/a Lucille B. Stanaway, a/k/a Lucille Stanaway, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31077

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

DATE: 09/13/2021

Public Notice

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 81851

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

First Publication: September 8, 2022

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 Monday, January 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kathleen A. Arevian Personal Representative P.O. Box 6665 Denver, CO 80206

DAVID H. YAMASAKI, Clerk of the Court (Fecha) (Secretario) . H. MeMasten

Attorney to the Personal Representative 8055 East Tufts Avenue, Suite 1350 Denver, Colorado 80237

FAX Number: (303) 796-2777

First Publication: September 15, 2022

Legal Notice No. 81834

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Channary Om Cheng, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR282

First Publication: September 8, 2022

Estate of MARCUS ANDREW STAERKEL, aka MARCUS A. STAERKEL, aka MARCUS STAERKEL, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 31166

Estate of Margaret E. Crandell, also known as Margaret Crandell, and Peggy Crandell, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31123

Michael A. Smith, Personal Representative 1150 S. Saint Paul Street Denver, Colorado 80210

Public Notice

W. Douglas Hoak, Reg. #43148

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All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 15, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiffs attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es):

Publication: October 6, 2022

persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the co-personal representative’s or to Denver Probate

Kathy

Voorhis aka Kathleen J. Voorhis, Rich Nicholas and Rich Phillips aka Richard M. Phillips, Co-Personal Representatives c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203

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Colorado adds water quality protections for South Platte, Clear Creek

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

First Publication: September 15, 2022

persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver County Probate Court on or before January 15, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 81835

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The Colorado Water Quality Control Commission unanimously reversed a controversial 2020 decision and added new pollution protections for the South Platte River and Clear Creek through metro Denver, citing a “compelling” campaign by environmental justice advocates who demanded theTherepeal.vote on Sept. 13 adds new defenses for urban streams and culminates a two-year campaign by a broad coalition of conservation groups, racial and economic justice advocates and local, state and federal ofﬁ cials to overturn the 2020 ruling. That year’s ruling had said existing polluters could discharge more waste into the urban streams without new state anti-degradation reviews.

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First Publication: September 22, 2022

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“This is a historic moment for Colorado. To my knowledge this is the ﬁ rst successful petition from an environmental or environmental justice group” to a state health agency, said Ean Tafoya, GreenLatinos Colorado state director. “Impacted communities are empowered, organized, and partnered with allies. We are committed to using every procedural tool and in every venue available to us to achieve environmental justice.”

worsening the conditions of a stretch of river is an unavoidable part of an important economic development or civic improvement.

Jennifer Bock

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They must offer this proof even if the given stretch of water is already better than EPA water quality minimums. The state rules effectively raise the ﬂ oor of quality as a stream improves, and says those waters can’t be “degraded” below the new ﬂ oor.

Ann Studer, Personal Representative c/o CHAYET & DANZO, LLC 650 S. Cherry St., #710 Denver, CO 80246 (303) 355-8500

“I am offended that a company that makes its proﬁ t and markets its brand off the clean water of this state would work so hard

TO CREDITORS Estate of Thomas W. Metzler, aka Thomas Wilbert Metzler, aka Thomas Metzler, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31094

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Estate of Anne Dolores Finnefrock, a/k/a Anne D. Finnefrock, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 31113

Notice

Denver Herald 23September 22, 2022

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

Decades of intense and expensive cleanup efforts on urban streams like the South Platte, including by Metro Wastewater, have improved water quality and given the river a chance at more ﬁ sh, wildlife and recreation, the environmental advocates say. The state’s job is to keep pushing for even cleaner water, the environmental coalition who brought the petition said, not to clear the way forThebacksliding.commissioners Tuesday also scolded Molson Coors and others who had spent the hearing arguing against the new protections for stretches of Clear Creek, which passes the Golden brewery, and the South Platte River north of the Denver boundary.

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Environmental sampling specialist Patrick Maes samples water from the South Platte River at Metro Water Recovery on April 6, 2022, in Denver. Metro Water Recovery is the largest wastewater treatment facility in the western U.S. and treats up to 130 million gallons of water daily.

Last Publication: October 6, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Publication: October 6, 2022 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 23, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

cited “compelling” testimony in favor of stronger protections that came Monday during the ﬁ rst day of a two-day hearing, from metro residents who use the South Platte River and Clear Creek for ﬁ shing, boating and cycling.

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Now those permitted polluters, including Metro Water Recovery and Molson Coors, will have to prove any new actions won’t further damage the Denver-area streams, where aquatic life is already troubled by runoff, pollution discharge and high temperatures.The hearings this week were the result of the commission previously agreeing to review arguments from its own staff and the outside coalition, including Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, that their 2020 decision had essentially written off urban streams as hopeless.

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have equitable access to clean water.”Theinitial 2020 decision, and a commissioner’s statement at the time that higher protections were reserved for “pristine mountain waters,” infuriated a coalition of dozens of conservation groups and local governments, from Colorado GreenLatinos to Trout Unlimited to Denver City Council members. They wrote to Gov. Jared Polis last year arguing that the statewide commission was “prioritizing industrial proﬁ ts over the safety and well being of residents who have been historically disproportionately affected byWhenpollution.”thecommissioners late in

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to prevent protections for that clean water,” Commission Chair April Long said, before the ﬁ nal unanimous vote to upgrade the stretches of stream to “reviewable”Commissionerwaters.

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Those users joined with the environmental coalition to argue the urban streams were abused for decades by polluters and developers who paved and contaminated the waterfront. The waters are now recovering and can come back even further if afforded the right protections, and neighbors of the streams say they deserve that“Thechance.Water Quality Control Commission’s decision highlights that no river is beyond repair. These protections recognize decades of work to restore water quality on the South Platte and Clear Creek from the impacts of industrial pollution,” said Josh Kuhn, Conservation Colorado water campaign manager. “This is an important step toward ensuring all of Colorado’s communities

on or before January 23, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred.

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Anti-degradation rules that will now apply to the stretches of the South Platte River and Clear Creek put those waters into the “reviewable” category. That rule says polluters seeking a new or renewed water quality permit must make a compelling argument that

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