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On the hunt for Colorado’s adorable pikas before climate change erases them

Colorado revives ‘cash for clunkers’

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE

Car buyers, fire up your internet and get your websites pre-loaded.

The Colorado electric vehicle cash-for-clunkers program has begun with $6,000 in extra rebates available to the first few hundred people who sign up and are willing to turn in an older fossil-fuel powered car. Those participating in Vehicle Exchange Colorado must apply the $6,000 toward a qualifying new or leased electric vehicle or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, or take $4,000 off a used EV.  Electrification rebates tend to go fast. (See: “e-bike rebates/crashed servers” in your search bar.)

Colorado has $1.8 million for the first year of the clunkers exchange rebates, and hopes to expand the budget for the next fiscal year starting in July 2024. Colorado Energy Office program manager Ed Piersa said the state expects the exchange program to last for years and ramp up financing if it proves popular.

Let’s jump right to the biggest questions about the clunkers exchange:

Why is Colorado doing this, and whose money is being used?

BY OLIVIA PRENTZEL THE COLORADO SUN

As the sun rises, its rays slowly make their way down the snowcapped peaks of Rocky Mountain National Park and on to the craggy cli s, not yet illuminating the basin. In the low light, my eyes are peeled for a brown-and-gray crit-

ter with large round ears dashing from boulder to boulder.

One of Colorado’s most resilient animals looks a lot like a furry russet potato.

Pikas, relatives of rabbits known for their piercing chirp, live in some of the state’s most inhospitable climates in boulder elds at elevations up to 14,000 feet along

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treeless slopes of the Southern Rockies. ey work for hundreds of hours across the short summer months to gather grass and wild owers to last as fuel through harsh Alpine winters. Snowpack on top of the rocky debris insulates them through spring and winter.

The Colorado program has a few goals: Promote equity in the electrification revolution in the state by using an income-qualified exchange program to make EVs cheaper to more people, while also taking older, higher-emissions fossil fuel cars off the road.

FINDING

THEIR VOICE

A pika peeks from the rocks as volunteers learn data collection methods during a Colorado Pika Project training July 24 along Trail Ridge Road, near Estes Park.

PHOTO BY KRISTI ODOM / COLORADO PIKA PROJECT / SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN

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Performances that can’t be found elsewhere in Denver

BY BRUCE GOLDBERG SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Okaidja Afroso hails from a family of storytellers and musicians from a shing village on Ghana’s west coast.

“ ey have been the sole practitioners of our culture,” said the 48-year-old musician, who plays an acoustic guitar with nylon strings and percussion instruments. “I have come to really appreciate and also maintain the culture.”

Afroso’s sound is unique — he combines ancestral traditions and contemporary African music. And he sings in his native Ga, the national language of Ghana.

“When I perform, it’s time to connect with my audience, even though they don’t understand the words I’m singing,” Afroso said. “My project is to use the language, words, names and things to re-energize my people.”

His goal is for Americans to get his message: It’s di cult for Ghanaians to retain culture and history.

“ e most important thing is to make sure my people are able to hear these songs,” Afroso said, “and also, hopefully, something can be done about some of the issues.”

Afroso is just one of the performers included in the 2023-2024 season of the Newman Center Presents series. Afroso and his ve-piece group will perform his heritage

project called “Jaka Murro” on Sept. 28. e robust lineup has something for everyone, including numerous musical performances such as jazz artists and a chamber orchestra, the spoken word, live cinema and more. e season includes 16 show dates. Opening the season is “Dog Man:

e Musical” on Sept. 8. Dog Man has the head of a dog and the body of a policeman, and “loves to ght crime and chew on the furniture.” You can imagine the rest.

On Jan. 23, a troupe of Algerian, Moroccan, Bulgarian, Italian and French dancers will perform French-Algerian choreographer

Hervé Koubi’s work.

Another highlight is “Acrobu os: Air Play” on Feb. 8. is circus-style show of two siblings is summarized as so: “Air Play transforms ordinary objects into uncommon beauty. Umbrellas y, fabrics soar over the

Okaidja Afroso will perform his heritage project called “Jaka Murro” on Sept. 28 as part of the 2023-2024 season of the Newman Center Presents series. COURTESY OF PAAPA KWAKU ODURO

New season of Newman Center Presents series has something for everyone

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e season nale is a concert by the seven-time Grammy awardwinning Maria Schneider Orchestra on May 3.

e various jazz, dance and international programs will enhance the local orchestra theme, said Aisha Ahmad-Post, executive director of the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts.

“People are excited to learn about new artists and are excited to see stu that they can’t nd anywhere else in Denver,” Ahmed-Post said.

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Grants for teachers o ered

BY ERICA MELTZER CHALKBEAT COLORADO

Colorado teachers can get up to $1,000 toward classroom learning materials. Offer good while supplies last.

Colorado Education Commissioner Susana Córdova announced the grant opportunity —a partnership with the website DonorsChoose —at Westview Elementary School in Northglenn in the Adams 12 Five Star Schools district Thursday.

The money —$11 million in total —comes from federal pandemic relief money intended to help students recover from COVID learning disruptions. In their applications, teachers will have to describe how the materials will contribute to learning recovery. Examples could include equipment for science experiments, games and puzzles to bolster reading skills, or hands-on materials that help students learn multiplication or fractions.

Córdova said she knows teachers dig into their own pockets every year —sometimes to the tune of hundreds of dollars —to make their classrooms inviting and engaging places for learning. She said this grant complements other pandemic relief initiatives that aim to make bigger changes for lots of kids, such as paying for new curriculum or tutoring. By allowing individual teachers to apply for money, the state can match federal money to local needs and know the money “would go directly into classrooms.”

The money comes from the second round of federal pandemic relief. The state has until Sept. 30 to distribute that money.

“We know this will be very popular, and the funding probably won’t last very long,” Córdova

said.

Second grade teacher Jenny Lage recalled a project she did last year in which her students used PlayDoh to build animal habitats that were displayed in a miniature art show. Her students loved it and learned a lot. They also had to make do with a single container of Play-Doh per child.

Having money to cover more materials means she can design

more hands-on learning, and students stay more engaged, she said. It even means fewer behavioral problems.

Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and Oklahoma have done similar projects with pandemic relief dollars.

To participate, teachers should go to the DonorsChoose Colorado Instruction Page. DonorsChoose will review requests. Qualifying applications will typically be

funded in two to five days. DonorsChoose will withhold its suggested donation and sales taxes from the grant amount.

The application is open now, and requests will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis until the funding runs out.

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Colorado teachers can apply for grants worth up to $1,000 to pay for classroom supplies in order to help students recover from COVID learning disruptions. The grants are backed by federal COVID relief funding.

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Colorado has pledged to get 940,000 EVs on state roads by 2030, and has also launched various rules and programs to promote environmental justice and economic equity along the way.

The money comes from new fees implemented when the state transportation department’s funding and spending were overhauled in the legislature in 2021.

PICAS

Climate change is putting all that at risk.

It has taken me hours to get to the site I was assigned to search for signs of pikas. e rst 3½ miles into the national park near Estes Park were dragged out with breaks beneath trees to wait out fat raindrops my rain jacket couldn’t handle, before setting up camp at Glacier Gorge, where I sought refuge yet again in my tent from pea-sized hail pelting from the sky.

e next morning: 3 more miles across steep terrain and up snow patches still lingering in mid-July, and route- nding over rock slabs and through boggy ground with no cairns in sight.

But reaching the quiet basin in the shadows of Rocky’s imposing peaks was merely the rst step.

As a community scientist with the Colorado Pika Project, I joined a growing cohort of volunteers who have been trained on how to collect reliable data on pikas and their habitat that will not only help land managers and researchers understand how climate change is impacting the tiny animals, but also guide them to what can be done to protect the beloved mountain dwellers.

Since 2010, the partnership between nonpro t Rocky Mountain Wild and the Denver Zoo has enlisted “pika patrollers” to survey pika habitats — measuring boulders, looking for fresh scat and

hay piles, recording temperatures and other data — across the Front Range. e project expanded to White River National Forest and Rocky Mountain National Park in 2018.

Last summer, 252 volunteers and sta members roamed Colorado’s mountains, collecting data at 145 sites. After a day of detailed training to learn complex data collection methods, volunteers go into the eld at least once each summer on hikes ranging from easy to moderate to 16-mile expeditions.

e project’s directors expect participation this season will top last season’s numbers.

e project’s mission to better understand Colorado’s pika population and how they are being a ected by climate change became even more invaluable after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service considered listing pikas for federal endangered species protection in 2010, but declined — in part because researchers said they didn’t have enough data about them.

Latest data collected through the project suggests that climate change is driving pikas from areas where they’ve been spotted before.

“We’ve identi ed a number of locations where we know that pikas used to be, but we don’t see them there right now,” said Alex Wells, former co-director of Colorado Pika Project and community conservation director at the Denver Zoo.

“Why is that happening exactly? at is something that we’re trying to dig into.”

Climate modeling by the Na-

tional Park Service suggests that by 2100, pikas may be e ectively gone from Rocky Mountain National Park as temperatures rise in higher areas of the park, resulting in less snow to provide thermal protection from cold temperatures through the winter.

“So there’s reason to be concerned about pikas, and that’s why we’re keeping an eye on them,” Wells said. “It’s a lot easier to conserve a species at the start of its decline than toward the end of it, when there’s very few left of them.”

e good news, though: Collecting data on pikas is relatively easy, compared to other animals that are far more shy and less vocal than the charismatic mammals, which emit a high octave “eep!” to warn others in their colony about intruders or protect the haystacks they strategically place under large rocks to dry that will serve as food through the winter.

ey also leave traces that are easy to nd. eir poop lasts for decades, which wildlife biologists can analyze for its DNA. Scat contains hormones that can help researchers evaluate pikas’ stress levels at a particular site, giving insight to whether it’s a good habitat or not. eir hay piles, which grow bigger as the summer progresses, are also easy to spot.

Early ndings from an ongoing study shows pika populations across the Southern Rockies are decreasing at lower elevations because it’s getting too hot. In more than 89% of the watersheds surveyed, pikas have retracted upslope by about 1,160 ft, said

Peter Billman, a University of Connecticut Ph.D. student conducting the research.

“We already have pikas at the highest elevations across the region,” Billman said of the unpublished research. “It’s simply just pikas at lower elevations dying out and not recolonizing those low sites. So there used to be populations there but there no longer are.”

In the last two years, he’s studied pikas in about 214 sites in watersheds across Colorado from the West Elk mountains, to the San Juans, to Pikes Peak.

It’s not yet clear what’s causing the decrease, whether it be heat stress or pikas deciding not to mate at lower elevations where their traditional habitats are becoming less ideal.

“We’re not sure if it’s direct mortality or if they’re just not replacing themselves by breeding, or something else like that,” Billman said. “But yes, they’re simply not moving up like a typical animal would do.”

With more boots on the ground, with a mission to collect data, the closer scientists and land managers are to understanding what exactly is going on.

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PICAS

training last summer near Independence Pass, I secured an overnight permit in Rocky Mountain National Park this year to put my new skills to use and get a glimpse into the world of studying one of Colorado’s cutest — yet imperiled — species.

But if I am being completely honest: I also pursued this trip for the unbridled joy of seeing a pika with a mouthful of wild owers in Colorado’s soothing high country. It can be rare to catch a glimpse of one collecting its summer bounty — its short limbs propelling its small round body from one large rock to another — before diving below the debris to return to their prized haystacks.

But when you do, it’s truly a sight to see.

ucked high in the basin below giant granite slabs and near gushing waterfalls, the site I was assigned to collect data is far from the crowded trails in the nation’s fourth-busiest national park, its busy parking lots and monotonous whoosh of shuttle bus doors. ough it was Sunday, I passed only ve hikers as I walked to my monitoring site.

At a wide eld of chunks of granite broken o by erosion, I set up shop, using a yellow rope to measure a circle 24 meters in diameter from the plot center I found using GPS coordinates assigned to me by the Colorado Pika Project. is part of the park, at 11,340 feet elevation, was formed by receding glaciers as the ice age gave way to a more temperate climate.

On this brilliant midsummer morning, I’m convinced these pikas live in paradise.

But come winter, they will hunker down below the rocks, seeking shelter from brutal winds and surviving o the tall wild owers, weeds and grasses they collected in the summer. What makes pikas capable of surviving in the Alpine could also be making them especially vulnerable to climate change as temperatures rise and snowpack melts earlier across the intermountain West.

e mountain dwellers are considered an “indicator species,” meaning that if climate change is starting to impact an Alpine ecosystem, pikas are one of the rst species that will show that change and can alert scientists.

Pikas are abundant across Colorado, their

habitats ranging from 8,000 feet to the summits of 14,000-foot peaks. But in some parts of the country, declines in pika populations have been tied to decreases in snowpack, said Johanna Varner, an associate professor of biology at Colorado Mesa University who has been studying pikas since 2010.

Unlike most Alpine mammals, pikas don’t hibernate during the winter.

e snowpack provides insulation for pikas and helps keep temperatures below the rocks close to 32 degrees, she said. If temperatures rise causing an area to get less snow, it could expose pikas to colder air temperatures.

“When we’re out recreating on top of the snow in pika habitat, the temperatures are almost always below 32 degrees — it’s almost always below freezing, hence the snow,” she said. “But for the pikas, once there’s a thick layer of snowpack, that thick layer of snowpack actually insulates them against those really cold winter temperatures.”

at same microclimate protects pikas on hot summer days as shade from the rocky debris, known as talus, o ers much cooler temperatures. Pikas will make up to 14,000 trips each summer to forage enough owers and grass to last them through the winter, averaging about 200 forays a day between the talus and nearby meadows. A single pika, weighing about 4 ounces on average, collects roughly 65 pounds of food every summer, Varner said.

Pikas are, as the saying goes, making hay as the sun shines.

“If you scale that into human terms, it would be like 25,000 pounds of food and you’d have to make 5,000 trips to the grocery store on every trip carrying home four heads of lettuce in your mouth,” Varner said.

But if the temperature gets too high, it could restrict pikas’ activity and in some places, they might not be able to gather enough food to last through the winter. Some pikas could withstand the temperature change by shifting their prime foraging times to dawn and dusk when the weather is cooler. But that could also make them more susceptible to predators, Varner said.

Observations collected by volunteers serve as a compass for researchers. If the pika population seems to decline in one part of the state, it gives scientists like Varner a signal to investigate further.

“ is is like a clue that

there’s something really wrong here or maybe this is a landscape that needs some additional conservation and management actions or protections,” she said. “With the basic idea that managing a landscape that’s good for pikas is going to be good for a lot of other things, too.”

Aside from climate change, researchers are looking at other possible threats to pikas, like how livestock grazing near talus elds could a ect them, Varner said. ere’s also concern over a highly contagious and fatal rabbit disease, known as rabbit hemorrhagic disease, that was rst found in Colorado in 2020.

While it’s still unknown if pikas are susceptible to the disease, pikas are closely related to rabbits and could be at risk. Rabbits living at lower elevations could shuttle the disease into the Alpine tundra, she said. Hikers could also unsuspectingly carry the disease on their boots.

It would be di cult for Jennifer Prusse, a district wildlife biologist with the White River National Forest, to collect comprehensive data on pikas across her sprawling district’s 700,000 acres.

Each summer, her small team (consisting of a technician and occasionally an intern) completes between ve to six pika surveys, using the same collection methods as Colorado Pika Project.

“We could probably cover 10% of what volunteers cover on the White River,” Prusse said. “So the work they’re doing is fantastic.”

Back in 2017, she asked the directors of the Colorado Pika Project, formerly known as the Front Range Pika Project, to expand to ll data gaps on the species, which was named as a focal species in the forest’s monitoring plan. Prusse remembered seeing sporadic pika observations across the forest, but no concrete data to illustrate the livelihood of pika populations amid climate change.

Data collected from the rst three years of monitoring in the forest show that pika populations throughout the National Forest are stable, but additional years of data are needed to conrm that, Prusse said.

“ ey’re basically like the canary in the coal mine for us in terms of climate change and its impacts to the Alpine zone,” she said.

“If the pika population starts to decline, then we actually need to investigate further — is this climate change? Or is there something else? … But without this information whatsoever, we would not be doing

anything really. We would just be (relying on) scienti c literature.”

But for those unable to attend training or looking for a simpler way to help scientists, Colorado Pika Patrol created an app for anyone to submit data if they see or hear a pika while roaming Colorado’s backcountry. e app collects GPS coordinates while on the trail and hikers can submit pika photos, recordings of their calls and other observations.

Sometimes experts can grow short-sighted in where they look, said Varner, who has also studied pika in Wyoming, Oregon and Utah. “But somebody who doesn’t necessarily have all that background is a little bit freer to make observations in places that we might not usually nd pikas and those kinds of unusual observations can tell us a lot about the ability of the species to sort of move through the landscape, adapt to new landscapes and use di erent habitat resources that we might not otherwise know.”

In Wyoming, for example, volunteers saw pikas living in downed trees and slash piles, she said. “It sort of led to this really new inquiry into this behavior that would never have happened were it not for that volunteer observation.”

Beyond increasing biologists’ understanding of pikas, Prusse sees the project as a refreshing way to teach people about the Alpine ecosystem and climate change through a species that could be severely impacted.

“Climate change, for some people, can seem really nebulous and (this project) actually provides a really concrete example of this really charismatic microfauna that we care about,” she said.

Planning for this trip spanned far longer than the Alpine summer, which is measured in weeks not months. I needed to secure a scienti c research permit at the national park within the short window we have with the highest chances of observing pikas and had to re-read data collection protocols, before preparing to navigate the backcountry by downloading maps and entering waypoints into my phone (and remembering to pack a backup map).

It’s amazing how much time (and sweat) it took for less than two hours of observation of one of Colorado’s cutest climate warriors.

While peering under boulders and focusing on scat, lichen and any other sign of food caches,

I recorded six pika calls, a fresh haystack and a pile of dried-up grass stashed in the rocks.

I saw only a single pika as it scurried away, plunging below the talus before I could admire its chubby cheeks.

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Best of autumn

FROM THE EDITOR

Each year, especially as I age, fall has continually been my favorite season. I know some would argue spring is the best with new blooms and colors popping up. It’s especially true in a state like Colorado where the mountains and elds are better than a painting.

However, fall is also about starting new. I love the prospects and traditions that come with the fall season.

Anyone who knows me will not be shocked to know that one of my favorite parts of fall is Friday night lights. Some know my journalism career started in a high school classroom when the instructor asked the room if anyone understood how football worked. I raised my hand.

at moment of raising my hand led to what can only be described as shaping who I am today. I had always liked writing, but it was on those elds every Friday night that I realized my true love for writing.

I started covering as much football as I could in high school, in college, and at the start of my professional career. To this day, I am still in contact with, or keep up with, some of the players I covered in those days.

e relationships I formed in those years covering the gridiron are some of the most treasured in my life and hold a special place in my heart forever.

As I grew as a journalist, I eventually began covering politics, investigative news and corruption. While similar to sports — not always as treasured. Eventually, I moved into management, which meant very little sports coverage.

Today, I still love high school football. It’s still the purest form of the sport and it’s one that truly can bring a community together in support of the local team going for state. In our own south metro area, there’s some talk that Cherry Creek has the goods. We will have to wait and see.

Besides high school football — I also love Sundays in the fall. I will watch the NFL all day. I am a Dallas fan who watched the Cowboys build a dynasty in my high school days. As an adult, after two decades, I am clear that that team is who it is, and it is not about winning. Cowboys aside — I love the game of football. e strategy, the competition and, again, the fact that it is a tradition in this country — a tradition that brings so many together at stadiums, at family dinners, and spurring so many of the traditions in my family that I love.

Fall is also the start of the new school year. My three children recently started their journeys into new grades. My daughter is now a senior. Wrapping my head around the fact that she is a senior and has turned 18 is still tough.

When my fth-grade son came in the rst week of school saying he had the “most amazing day,” it was a special moment that we only get at the start of the new school year.

I wish I could say my stubborn second-grader had the same approach — but he’s a bit more de ant and has made it clear he’s smart enough and is only going to school because I make him. Still, a good memory to have at the start of a new school year.

From new football seasons for teams across the county to the new school year and adventures for families — fall is when it all happens.

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

Reaching beyond our limitations

WINNING

Watching from the bleachers, mom and dad cheered on their son who was running a 1600 meter race. It was hotter and more humid than usual. As the race began, they worried as their son seemed to uncharacteristically take o in the lead, getting o to a hot and fast start instead of his normal pacing and picking his moments.

Finishing the rst lap, their son was easily ahead by several meters and looking strong. However, as they hit the halfway mark, he began to fall back to the pack, and very shortly thereafter, looked like he was struggling just to stay in the race. It looked like he had spent all of his energy too soon leaving nothing in the tank to nish the race. Dad looked down, feeling bad for his son. Mom, however, kept her head up, willing her son to compete. As the nal lap began and with her son in dead last, she cheered even louder. He must have felt it or maybe even somewhere in the background and blended in with his heart pumping and his ears thumping, heard her shouting for him. Somewhere he found more strength and with each stride he seemed to quickly make up ground. Halfway through the nal lap he was in third place and gaining on the rst and second place runners. As they rounded the nal turn it was a three-way tie for rst place. And nally winning by a step was their son, who somehow reached beyond his limits to not only nish the race when all seemed lost and over, but he had come back to win the race.

With one month left to go for the summer of 2023, we can make the argument that we are entering our nal lap for the year as well. Fall will be here before we know it and the race towards the nish of the year will be on. For some it has been an incredible year already with a lot more good things ahead that will give us cause for celebration. And then on the other hand, some of us have had a pretty tough year personally, professionally, or maybe both, leaving us feeling like we have already given it everything we have and can’t possibly give

any more.

is is where resiliency comes in. Resiliency is receiving a lot of attention these days as we seem to struggle, tolerate, and become challenged by the disruptions in our personal and professional lives. And many of the things that frustrate us the most, are things that are completely out of our hands. e thing is this though, we may feel like there are times where our hands are tied, and we cannot control an outcome or drive a result. Let’s challenge that thinking because when it comes to resiliency, we can dig deep beyond what we thought were our own limitations to either solve the problem or become a part of the team that does solve the problem.

Resiliency is indeed a strong and powerful word, garnering lots of attention from those who are motivating their team or their people, from those who are coaching their clients, students, or athletes, and from close friends and family members helping us to overcome a recent disruption or hardship. Many of us, if not most of us, even the strongest-willed people we know have something we refer to as a self-limiting belief system. is means that others see the resiliency and toughness in us even when we do not see it ourselves.

Just like the mom of our track star above, there is someone cheering you on, willing you to succeed. Our job is to receive that encouragement, hear our name being called out among the crowd, and to reach beyond what we think are our limitations to push forward towards victory. e encouragement is great, however we must own our resiliency and nish the race and the year strong.

Are you gearing up for a strong nish to 2023? Do you have the reserves in the tank to drive your resiliency? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can reach beyond our own self-doubt and self-limiting belief systems to overcome any challenge or disruption, it really will be a better than good life.

Michael Norton is an author, a personal and professional coach, consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator of individuals and businesses, working with organizations and associations across multiple industries.

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Creating a climate-friendly summer garden

Summers in Colorado are typically lled with extremes: extreme heat and extreme drought. is has been the year of extreme moisture; an unusual but welcome addition to the tolerant Colorado garden. Typically, once summer approaches and the heat of the high desert kicks in, the snow melt and precipitation diminish leaving a thirsty landscape with no signi cant moisture until the following winter.

Unfortunately, the unusually wet year we’ve had so far is not something to get used to, only a symptom of the continuing climate crisis. As climate change worsens and water becomes scarcer, being wise about plant choices becomes more important than ever. Choosing plants that do not need excess water to survive the extreme Colorado summers makes gardening easier on us and saves us money on watering, while helping conserve water as a precious resource.

ere are a variety of plants that thrive in the Colorado climate, from regional natives to faraway exotics from a similar climate zone. ese plants can tolerate hot, dry conditions and keep color and texture in your garden once the spring blooms have faded. e perennials listed below are great options to ll the garden with summer blooms that keep coming back year after year.

Some wonderful natives are

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wild bergamot (Monarda stulosa), butter y weed (Asclepias tuberosa), blazing star (Liatris spicata), bearded penstemon (Penstemon barbatus) and tufted evening primrose (Oenothera caespitosa ssp. marginata).

e following exotics are fantastic as well: TANAGER gazania (Gazania krebsiana), upright sedum (Hylotelephium spectibile) and torch lilies (Knipho a uvaria).

All these plants provide an array of colors from July through September, while withstanding temps reaching the triple digits and needing little water. Not only does the summer garden bring us joy as we push through the peak heat of the year but helps keep pollinators fed as the seasons change by providing nectar and pollen. Being climate friendly doesn’t mean having to cut out color, lushness or plants.

ere are plenty of plants that thrive in the extreme Colorado climate, it’s just a matter of choosing wisely and being conscious as we plan our gardens.

For inspiration on climate friendly gardens, explore the Carol Gossard Colorado Native Plant Garden, the xeric gardens by the silo and “water-smart avenue” in front of Deer Creek Schoolhouse at Chat eld Farms.

Ashley Strait is a Horticulturist with the Denver Botanic Gardens.

Wild bergamot by the silo in front of the Deer Creek Schoolhouse at the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Chatfield Farms.

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(BPT) - Did you know you can start protecting your baby against u while you are still pregnant? For pregnant people, getting a u shot is the rst and most important action you can take to protect both yourself and your baby from u and its potentially serious complications.

You may have heard that pregnant people are at higher risk of getting very sick and being hospitalized with u. is may be because of changes in the immune system, heart and lungs during pregnancy. Flu also may be harmful to a pregnant person’s developing baby. A common u symptom, fever, has been associated in some studies with adverse outcomes for a developing baby. Additionally, babies younger than 6 months are at higher risk of getting very sick from u, but they are too young to be vaccinated themselves.

FLU SHOT BENEFITS FOR YOU AND YOUR BABY

But there is some great news about u shots for pregnant people and their babies. Studies show a u shot during pregnancy protects pregnant people from u during and after pregnancy. Vaccination during pregnancy also protects the infant during the rst few months after birth when they are too young to get vaccinated themselves. One study showed fewer cases of infants with in uenza in mothers who received the vaccine compared to those mothers who were not vaccinated, displaying a high degree of vaccine e ectiveness. is is because, as a pregnant parent, you pass your antibodies on to your developing baby during your pregnancy.

WHEN TO PROTECT YOU AND YOUR BABY

A u shot can be given during any trimester of pregnancy. For most pregnant people, September and October are generally good times to be vaccinated. For pregnant people in their third trimester, however, vaccination during July or August can be considered to provide optimal protection against u for the baby after birth, when they are too young to get vaccinated. is information is outlined in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) guidance for the prevention of u through vaccination for the 2023-2024 season, which was adopted by CDC’s director as CDC policy on June 28, 2023.

GET YOUR FLU SHOT TODAY!

ere are many di erent options for you to get a u shot, including at a health care provider’s o ce, at work, a pharmacy, some stores or even supermarkets. Speak to your health care provider today to learn more about how a u shot can protect you and your baby, and to access information about the importance of all maternal vaccinations including Tdap, COVID-19 and HepB vaccines. You can learn more about u and pregnancy at cdc.gov/ u/ highrisk/pregnant.htm.

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Here’s how to protect yourself and your baby against flu

With colder months just around the corner, that means it’s time to start thinking about and preparing for the trifecta of illnesses that comes with winter. In 2022, the trifecta was a word used to describe the unseasonably high number of cases of COVID, in uenza and, on the rise in recent years, RSV, also known as a respiratory syncytial virus.

Not only has the increased number of RSV cases caused worries for health o cials across the Front Range, but the early onset of when they start seeing patients ll hospital rooms is a concern.

In 2021, from Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree to Children’s Hospital Colorado campuses across the metro area, doctors said they were seeing RSV cases in August and September, which is uncommon for a respiratory virus that is more common during what is considered u season.

Flu season generally runs between October and February, with the height of cases popping up between December and February.

RSV, usually a respiratory issue that a ects children, is also being seen in more adults over the last few years.

Dr. Ben Usatch, UCHealth emergency-room director at Highlands Ranch Hospital, said there is an RSV vaccine available this year. While noting it is not new, Usatch said attention to the vaccine has increased as more adults, especially senior citizens, are coming down with RSV.

Symptoms of RSV include runny nose, decreased appetite, coughing, sneezing, fever, and wheezing. More severe cases require hospitalization, especially for infants and toddlers.

According to the Colorado Department of Health and Wellness, since October 2022 there have been 2,597 RSV hospital admissions in

Douglas, Je erson, Arapahoe and Adams counties.

ere have been 4,174 COVID hospital admissions in the four-county stretch along the Front Range. In u cases, the state health department has tracked 1,502 admissions.

Usatch said that while he does not have any real studies to back it up, he believes when schools and society shut down during the pandemic, immune systems were weakened

Usatch said once the masks came o , immune systems were put back to work, and that could be the reason for more cases of u, COVID-19 and RSV in 2021 and 2022.

Agreeing with Usatch, Dr. Matt Mendenhall, chief medical o cer at AdventHealth Littleton, said unmasking invited cold seasons to return. During the stretch of the

pandemic when nearly everyone wore masks, colds, RSV and the u were almost nonexistent.

“Last year was a bit overwhelming since it all returned and caught like wild re,” Mendenhall said. “I have never seen an RSV season like last year. e worry this year is if RSV will overwhelm our healthcare systems again.”

Still, Mendenhall said he is optimistic about RSV in 2023, given there have been approved vaccinations for older adults, while the FDA approved Beyfortus for infants.

Beyfortus, a monoclonal antibody, is approved for infants and toddlers 24 months and younger, who are the most vulnerable to RSV.

In the upcoming season, Usatch said he believes things could be better than the last two years because disease resistance has increased as

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people have returned to ordinary living.

Usatch said the increase in tracking cases is also because doctors learned a lot more during the pandemic, meaning they are more vigilant in checking for everything. Doctors now check for COVID, u and RSV.

“Our box has become much bigger for what we are looking for,” he said.

Usatch said while the general public has seemingly moved on from COVID, cases exist and the virus still spreads quicker than other illnesses.

“With COVID continually mutating, we have to watch out,” he said.

“We have to see what other health issues come with it. Is the (new mu-

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tation) more spreadable? Is it more contagious?”

COVID continues to create issues for health o cials worldwide, as the omicron variant was more prevalent in 2022.

In March, the World Health Organization, or WHO, said the omicron viruses account for over 98% of COVID cases since February 2022. ere are now two new COVID variants worrying health o cials, with the EG.5 variant being the most dominant strain in the U.S. In August, the Centers for Disease Control estimated that the EG.5 strain makes up about 20.6% of all new COVID infections.

On Aug. 9, WHO reported that the EG.5 variant poses a low public health risk, saying it is similar to past variants.

However, EG.5 is just as contagious as past variants. Globally, WHO reported that there have been over 1 million new COVID-19 cases and more than 3,100 deaths reported since July.

Since 2020, WHO reported that there have been 768 million conrmed COVID cases and 6.9 million deaths.

When it comes to u season, Mendenhall said he is less optimistic. Each year, U.S. health o cials try to gauge u season during the summer months when it’s wintertime in Australia.

In July, Australian health o cials said this year’s u season is worse than pre-pandemic numbers in 2019 and one of the worst on record.

Mendenhall said like the U.S., Australian vaccination numbers have decreased since the pandemic, with fewer residents getting the u shot.

e controversy surrounding COVID has hurt vaccinations in other areas, Mendenhall said, stressing that politics in healthcare has created some hardships since 2020.

Usatch said the u vaccination is vital to decreasing hospital admissions during winter months. While the vaccine is not 100% e ective, it does decrease a person’s chances of catching u or risking complications from it.

“It’s not about being a good or bad vaccine,” Usatch said. “( ose making the vaccine) consider recent

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strains and work to make the best guess for the new vaccine and hope that it covers a lot of strains. Vaccines are just great tools for people to take advantage of.”

Mendenhall said it’s important for residents to listen to their physicians and follow the science when it comes to preparing for the upcoming season.

“ e science is clear — vaccines protect from illness,” he said.

Both COVID and u vaccinations are expected in September this year.

Mendenhall said for COVID vaccinations this year, it’s important to remember that the government is no longer paying for shots. is year, residents will have to rely on insurance or themselves to pay for them.

Usatch said vaccinations are the best option to decrease cases in the upcoming season.

“You really got to start vaxing up in September and October,” Usatch said. “ ere is a new COVID vaccination this year, there is more access to RSV vaccinations, and for those who qualify, there is a pneumococcal vaccine.”

e pneumococcal vaccine is usually available to vulnerable citizens aged 65 and older. e vaccine prevents pneumococcal pneumonia.

According to the American Lung Association website, pneumococcal pneumonia is the most common type of bacterial pneumonia, with the risk increasing with a person’s age and certain chronic conditions.

Pneumococcal pneumonia can develop after a person has been infected with a viral cold or u.

Besides getting vaccinated, Usatch said the best way to combat the trifecta of viruses that can spread in and beyond the metro area is to be vigilant.

“Pay attention to your environment,” he said. “Pay attention to yourself. If you are sick, you need to respect your coworkers and stay home. We have tools and tests to do surveillance and understand what’s out there, but most importantly, you need to keep yourself protected. Keep yourself healthy.”

Mendenhall also advised parents to be cautious with children going to school. School-aged children showing symptoms of RSV, u, COVID or a cold should be kept home.

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CDC Shares Community Drug Overdose Prevention Successes in New Resources

(BPT) - Drug overdoses are preventable, yet more than one million people died from a drug overdose between 1999 and 2021. Every day, almost 300 people lose their lives due to drug overdose. Public health professionals, policymakers and communities all play a role in preventing overdose deaths. Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) is a CDC-funded program that helps state and local health departments, and the communities they serve, to get high-quality, timelier data on nonfatal and fatal drug overdoses and use those data to inform prevention and response e orts. CDC supports OD2A-funded communities in their ability to address drug overdoses by providing access to subject matter experts and tailored technical assistance, and overdose prevention resources. “ e impact of this crisis is far-reaching, touching the lives of our families, friends and neighbors in deeply personal and profound ways. By prioritizing successful prevention and response e orts and providing tailored tools and resources, we can help ensure everyone has access to the care and support they need to live healthy, ful lling lives - building stronger, more resilient communities,” says Christopher M. Jones, PharmD, DrPH, MPH (CAPT U.S. Public Health Service), Director of CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

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Sharing state and local overdose prevention and response strategies

CDC developed the OD2A Case Studies to capture in-depth information from funded jurisdictions about current and emerging practices related to overdose prevention and response. Designed for public health practitioners, these case studies share examples that can be adapted at the state and local levels. Partners on the ground asked for more relevant and applicable strategies, so CDC identi ed six key topic areas for interviews, analysis and write-ups in these case studies.

• Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are preventable, potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood (0-17 years).

• Harm reduction is a public health approach that focuses on reducing the harmful consequences of drug use.

• Linkage to care is the process of connecting people at risk of overdose to evidence-based treatment, services and support.

• Public safety-led post-overdose outreach can help identify people at higher risk of overdose by linking them to care and other overdose prevention and harm reduction e orts.

• State and local health departments are uniquely positioned to respond to the drug over-

dose crisis, with the authority to enact policies, deploy resources and coordinate various partners.

• Reducing stigma at multiple levels and creating a culture of change is important to helping people at risk of overdose.

Helping communities put effective practices to work When people’s lives are on the line, integrated data and e ective programs help communities take action to protect people from drug overdose and related harms. e overdose crisis requires prevention, treatment, recovery and harm reduction e orts that are tailored to promote optimal health for all.

Communities are demonstrating innovation in reducing overdose and are sharing compelling examples of collaboration and teamwork. CDC is showcasing these so that communities can learn from each other. Beyond promoting the critical work that continues nationwide, tools and resources like the OD2A Case Studies encourage applying solutions that work to help communities that need it most.

For additional OD2A resources or to learn more about how CDC is working to prevent overdoses and substance use-related harms visit: https:// www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/od2a/index.html/.

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Federal inflation funding poised to help Colorado energy economy

BY ERIC GALATAS PUBLIC NEWS SERVICE

This month marks one year since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the nation’s first significant investment in addressing climate change, and policymakers are working to put some of the law’s $270 billion to work addressing a multistate water crisis.

The Colorado River, which supports 40 million people across the Southwest, has been greatly diminished due to a decadeslong drought exacerbated by a warming planet.

Naquetta Ricks, D-Aurora, explained the priorities facing the

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What qualifies me for $6,000 in extra EV rebates?

ere’s a multi-part test for this answer. First, you have to be incomequali ed, meaning you make less than 80% of the median income in your county, or have already qualied for a government assistance

region.

“The funding will allow us to make significant improvements on how we use water for our farmers,” Ricks pointed out. “Everybody is using this water, so we really need to look at that.”

The measure has already spurred $400 million in new investments in Colorado and added at least 850 new jobs, according to a Climate Power report. Hesperus Primergy Solar is building a 1,900 acre solar project, and CS Wind said it will expand the largest wind turbine factory in the world, located in Pueblo. The expansion will add two new buildings and triple the workforce, rivaling the state’s steel plant.

program like Medicaid or SNAP food bene ts.

Second, you have to purchase a new or used EV that costs less than $50,000 from a dealer quali ed to be in the state rebate program. e vehicle must be zero- or ultra-low emissions, meaning a fully electric battery-only EV, or a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. Used EVs get a $4,000 rebate. New car seekers can also get the rebate applied to a lease instead of an outright purchase.

Alex Cornell du Houx, president and co-founder of the group Elected Officials to Protect America and a former state representative in Maine, said the Inflation Reduction Act will advance the nation’s security, health and prosperity. He noted the new law is spurring a slew of private investments, including a new U.S. based manufacturing plant, which will produce enough batteries to power 10 million electric vehicles each year.

“It creates a clean energy future,” Cornell du Houx asserted. “In the last eight months, we’ve seen 96 gigawatts of new clean power announced. That’s enough to power 20 million homes, or one

ird, the fossil-fuel powered car you turn in must be fully owned, and either 12 years old (2011 model year for this year’s rebate) or have failed a recent emissions test. It must be running — no “push, pull or tow” for this new program.

How is the $6,000 taken o the price?

By going through a new or used car dealer quali ed through the Vehicle Exchange Colorado (VXC, because why not make it more

in seven homes in the U.S.”

Some 283 projects in Colorado have already been identified as priorities under the Inflation Reduction Act. Ricks added the measure can also help an additional 750,000 Coloradans access affordable high-speed internet for work, school, health and other necessities.

“The digital divide is a huge issue within our state,” Ricks stressed. “16% of Coloradans do not have access to internet connectivity.”

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confusing), the $6,000 or $4,000 can be taken o the sale price “at the register,” and the dealer takes care of the paperwork.

is story is from e Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support e Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. e Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

BY JO DAVIS JDAVIS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The story of the Our Mindful Kingdom Teen Summit begins with a Black teacher in the Denver Public Schools system.

“I taught for ve years in over 50 schools in the Denver Metro area,” said Warren Stokes, co-coordinator of the summit.

During his time as a substitute teacher, Stokes said that he became vocal about something that he heard regularly in every school.

“ e kids were saying the n-word,” he said. According to Stokes, those students were corrected on the use of a word that is a slur if used outside of the Black community.

Stokes said that the majority of the speakers were not Black students. In fact, in Denver Public Schools alone, only 13.5% of students are Black.

Stokes actually took to the news about the problem in 2021, to no avail.

“I ended up blackballed from teaching in DPS because I went to the news,” Stokes said.  en, toward the end of the 2023 school year, Stokes’ son, Brandon, came home hurt because a White student had called him the n-word.

“I was ready to ght,” Warren Stokes said. “But I had to do something else.” at’s where the summit comes in.

Warren Stokes partnered with Tosha Anders, founder of Our Mindful Kingdom, a nonpro t group dedicated to programming that helps Black teens and families with mental health topics.

Anders and Stokes came together with the help of a grant from the Colorado Health Foundation to create a space for Black teens in the Denver Metro area to have their voices heard. e 2023 African American Teen Summit took place Aug. 11 at Denver’s Central Park.

Warren Stokes said that he hopes to make it an annual event, as Black students need somewhere to let out the thoughts and feelings that have been pent up.

He said that this realization came from seeing the emotions Brandon went through after being called the n-word by a White student, who had a history of bullying Brandon. Warren Stokes said that his son was angry, sad and then frustrated about the incident.

At the Our Mindful Kingdom Teen Summit, Brandon spoke about the incident and how he felt. He was not alone. e one-day event included Anders’ children and others who came to speak about their experiences at various Denver Metro area schools.

And they had a lot to say.

During a breakout session, the teens discussed their frustrations with school. In many cases, the students were one of a handful or the only Black student in their classes.

Warren Stokes’ other son, Markus, also shared that his appearance made his non-Black peers in school react negatively before they got to know him.

“You always have to prove yourself,” Markus said.

Other teens explained how they felt invisible in school, only seen when they are feared, belittled or reprimanded.

According to summit participant Jayden Anders, the situation is compounded for him, because he is also a disabled student.

Anders added that the teachers were unprepared to meet his needs as a Black student.

“If the school doesn’t teach us, we have to nd someone else to do it or learn on our own,” Anders said.

e summit was more than just a space to talk about those experiences.

Warren Stokes not only guided the students through exercises to help them get in touch with their feelings and experiences, but he also helped them channel that into actionable community-building steps.

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is was the second half of the summit, which came after a break for dancing, pizza and communing amongst the teens present. Stokes said that he intended for the summit to be fun.

e community building portion began with the students discussing their fears, recognizing threats (mental health and peer-related, not just the violence) and turning those into positive moves. ey also spoke about their strengths and weaknesses.

Stokes explained that these exercises were designed to help the students get to know themselves.

“You are doing things today that grown people, adults, cannot do,” he said, and congratulated the teens on facing some deep parts of themselves.

Malya Anders was another student who shared that her con dence was something that she needed to work on. However, she revealed that speaking at the summit was actually helping her with con dence already.

Her brother added they need to talk more about “purpose and how to be a positive change.”

“We can’t just talk about it,” Lashayla Sloan said. She urged the group to consider action to go with their words.

Warren Stokes added that words are not a reason to react negatively.

“All of you have been called names and disrespected. But unless they put hands on you, it doesn’t matter,” he said. Instead, he urged the students to use some of the tools they learned that day.

e summit concluded with a re ection on not just the space they occupied, but the state they all live in.

“Denver is a special place, a unique place,” Warren Stokes said.

He described the natural activities, open spaces and winter sports. He added that Denver was a progressive place.

“But there’s still racism,” he said.

He told the students that they could no longer sit and su er in silence. ey needed to form a community and use that collective voice to speak their truth to adults at school, at home and to the government.

Warren Stokes guided the discussions and breakout sessions at the Teen Summit, while allowing students to voice their concerns. COURTESY OF MARKUS STOKES

Brandon Stokes was one of the catalysts for the summit concept. He was called a racial slur by a White student at his school. COURTESY OF MARKUS STOKES

The teen participants worked in groups to diagram their thoughts into a series of questions and issues presented by summit host and co-founder Warren Stokes.

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1. TELEVISION: Which animated series stars a precocious toddler named Stewie Gri n?

2. GEOGRAPHY: Where are the Diomede Islands located?

3. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Former President Jimmy Carter served in which branch of the military?

4. LITERATURE: Which 20th-century novel featured a character named Boo Radley?

5. U.S. STATES: What animal is featured on California’s state ag?

6. HISTORY: Which U.S. state was the last to remove a ban on interracial marriage?

7. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a group of sharks called?

8. AD SLOGANS: Which products were advertised with a slogan that called them

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9. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What shape has been used in U.S. stop signs since the 1920s?

10. PSYCHOLOGY: What irrational fear is represented by the condition called alektorophobia?

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1. “Family Guy”

2. e Bering Strait, between Alaska and Siberia

3. Navy

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Plaintiff: Andrew Larson

v.

Defendant: Paul Joseph Madrid; Janice Evelyn Madrid

Case Number: 23CV443

DISTRICT COURT CIVIL SUMMONS

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT:

Paul Joseph Madrid; Janice Evelyn Madrid

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to file with the Cle'rk of this Court an answer or other response to the attached Complaint. If service of the Summons and Complaint was made upon you within the State of Colorado, you are required to file your answer or other response within 21 days after such service upon you, If service of the Summons and Complaint was made upon you outside of the State of Colorado, you are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after such service upon you. Your answer or counterclaim must be accompanied with the applicable filing fee.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within the applicable time period, the Court may enter judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint without full her notice.

/s/ District Court Deputy Clerk

JUL 14, 2023

/s/ Andrew Larson, Signature of Plaintiff PO Box 94512

Address of Plaintiff

Las Vegas, NV 89193-4512

Plaintiff's Phone Number: 424-781-7947

This Summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4, C.R.C.P., as amended. A copy of the Complaint must be served with this Summons. This form should not be used where service by publication is desired.

WARNING: A valid summons may be issued by a lawyer and it need not contain a court case number, the signature of a court officer, or a court seal. The plaintiff has 14 days from the date this summons was served on you to file the case with the court. You are responsible for contacting

the court to find out whether the case has been filed and obtain the case number. If the plaintiff files the case within this time, then you must respond as explained in this summons. If the plaintiff files more than 14 days after the date the summons was served on you, the case may be dismissed upon motion and you may be entitled to seek attorney's fees from the plaintiff.

TO THE CLERK: If the summons is issued by the clerk of the court, the signature block for the clerk or deputy should be provided by stamp, or typewriter, in the space to the left of the attorney's name.

Legal Notice No. 82379

First Publication: August 17, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch

Misc. Private Legals

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS:

In re Receivership: ULTRA DESIGN CENTER, LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company; FLOW WHOLESALE, LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company; and MODERN HOLDINGS, LLC, a Colorado Limited Liability Company. Case number:2021CV33551. All persons having claims against the above-named Receivership Estate are required to file or present them to the Receiver on or before the Bar Date, September 22, 2023, set or the claims may be forever barred. The Receiver Group, LLC, PO BOX 101343, Denver CO 80250 or Fairfield & Woods, PC, Jack Tanner #16233, Attorney for Receiver, 1801 California St. Ste. 2600. Denver, CO 80202.

Legal Notice No.82389

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald - Dispatch

Public Notice

CITY & COUNTY OF DENVER, DISTRICT COURT

COLORADO CIVIL COURT

Denver City & County Bldg. 1437 Bannock St., Rm. 256 Denver, CO 80202

Plaintiff: Cenco Building Services, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company, v.

Defendants: H+L Development, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company and Bryant W. Long, an individual

NOTICE OF LEVY OR SEIZURE

Case Number: 22CV30744

Sheriff Sale No. 22004964

STATE OF COLORADO COUNTY OF DENVER

TO THE JUDGMENT DEBTOR

BRYANT W. LONG:

Notice is hereby given that on May 9, 2022, a judgment against Bryant W. Long from the District Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, entered in favor of CENCO BUILDING SERVICES, LLC, in the original amount of $36,522.62, and that on July 19, 2023, the Clerk of the DENYER County District Court issued a Writ of Execution commanding the Sheriff of DENVER County to levy, seize and take into possession the following real estate, to wit:

LOT 22 AND SOUTH ONE-HALF OF LOT 23, BLOCK 31, MCCULLOUGHS ADDITION 3RD FILING TO DENVER, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO.

Otherwise identified or referred to as 2127 High Street, Denver, CO 80205 (the "Property").

You have legal rights that may prevent all or part of your money or property from being taken. That part of the money or property that may not be taken is called "exempt property." Notwithstanding your right to claim the property as "exempt," no exemption other than the exemptions set forth in C.R.S. Section 13-54-104(3), may be claimed for a Writ. The purpose of this Notice of Levy is to tell you about these rights.

If the money or property which is being withheld from you includes any "exempt property," you must file within 14 days of receiving this Notice of Levy a written claim of exemption with the Clerk of the Court, describing what money or property you think is "exempt property" and the reason that it is exempt.

You must act quickly to protect your rights. Remember, you only have 14 days after receiving this Notice of Levy to file your claim of exemption with the Clerk of Court. Your failure to file a claim of exemption within 14 days is a waiver of your right to file.

Now therefore, you BRYANT W. LONG take notice that within fourteen ( 14) days from the date of service hereof, if served within the state, or if served by publication, within fourteen (14)dates after service hereof, exclusive of the day of service, you may file with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court, a written claim of exemption which you may have under the statutes of the State of Colorado; and in case of your failure to make and file such written claim of exemption with the Clerk of said

Court you shall be deemed to have waived your right of exemption under the statutes of this state.

Elias Diggins, Sheriff DENVER County, Colorado

/s/ Deputy Sheriff Sergeant Line

CERTIFICATE OF LEVY

Case Number: 22CV30744

I, Elias Diggins, Sheriff of Denver County, State of Colorado, do hereby certify that by virtue of a certain Writ of Execution to me directed, from the Denver County District Court, State of Colorado, in favor of Cenco Building Services, LLC, and against Bryant W. Long and H+L Development, LLC, jointly and severally, Defendants, dated July 19, 2023, I did on this 24th, day of July 2023, levy upon the following real estate, to wit:

LOT 22 AND SOUTH ONE-HALF OF LOT 23, BLOCK 31, MCCULLOUGHS ADDITION 3RD FILING TO DENVER, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO.

Otherwise identified or referred to as 2127 High Street, Denver, CO 80205 (the "Property"). Situate in the City and County of Denver, Colorado.

Elias Diggins, Sheriff City and County of Denver, Colorado

/s/ Deputy Sheriff Sergeant R. Line CITY & COUNTY OF DENVER, DISTRICT COURT Denver City & County Bldg. 1437 Bannock St., Rm. 256 Denver, CO 80202-0000

Plaintiff: Cenco Building Services, LLC,

Defendants: H+L Development, LLC, et al

Case Number: 22CV30744 Div.: 280

WRIT OF EXECUTION

Original Judgment Amount: $36,522.62

Revived Judgment Amount: $.00

Judgment Status: UNSATISFIED

Judgment Date: May 9, 2022

Judgment Date:

Additional Remarks: JUDG ENTERS IN FAVOR OF PLAINTIFF AND AGAINST DEF IN THE AMOUNT OF 36,522.62 WITH INTEREST AT THE RATE OF 10% PER ANNUM, JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY.

Public Notices

Debtor(s): HAND L DEV LLC

BRYANT W LONG

Creditor(s): CENCO BLDG SERV LLC

Balance of Judgment to Date: $36,522.62

To the Sheriff of Denver County, You are commanded to satisfy the above judgment plus interest and costs executing against any property legally subject to levy of the above-named judgment debtor(s) and to return this execution within 90 days from the date of issue, unless sale is pending under levy made.

Nikolaus Zender, Clerk of Court DISTRICT COURT, DENVER COUNTY

/s/ Deputy Clerk

Date: July 19, 2023

Legal Notice No. 82373

First Publication: August 10, 2023

Last Publication: September 7, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles

Public Notice

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

1) 2005 Ford F150 red A56726

2) 2001 Pontoon boat trailer A10028

3) 1994 Ski boat trailer 000124

4) 1983 Camp trailer cream 006996

5) 1978 Camp trailer White 8S4799

Legal Notice No. 82411

First Publication: September 7, 2023

Last Publication: September 28, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Notice to Creditors

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Arthur Lloyd Martinez, Deceased

Case Number 2023PR030859

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 8, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Rose M. Pendell, Personal Representative

1810 73rd Avenue Greeley, CO 80634

Legal Notice No. 82416

First Publication: September 7, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Robert E. Laster, a/k/a Robert Earl Laster, a/k/a Robert Laster, a/k/a Bob Laster, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30801

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 2, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Cary Laster, Personal Representative

13303 Langtry St San Antonio, TX 78248

Legal Notice No. 82406

First Publication: August 31, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of William J. Cooper, Deceased

Case Number: 23 PR 30884

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 30, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Melissa Hart, Personal Representative 2631 US Highway 285 N Monte Vista, CO 81144

Legal Notice No. 82401

First Publication: August 31, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Jack Mills, aka Jack William Mills, aka Jack W. Mills, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30865

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert Mills, Personal Representative c/o Sigler & Nelson LLC 390 Union Blvd., Ste. 580 Lakewood, CO 80228 303-444-3025

Legal Notice No. 82387

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: September 7, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Christine Cardinell, aka Christine P. Cardinell, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30961

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 8, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Zachary Pytko, Personal Representative

5551 Hudson Circle

Thornton, CO 80241

Legal Notice No. 82421

First Publication: September 7, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of James R. Lott, Jr., also known as James R. Lott, also known as James Robert Lott, also known as James Lott, also known as James Robert Lott Jr., Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030872

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the enver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 2, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Trevor James Loiselle Personal Representative 2628 Bauer Drive Denton TX 76207

Legal Notice No. 82403

First Publication: August 31, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of GILDA S. LOMBARDI, aka Gilda Smeralda Lombardi, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030869

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 31, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

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

Legal Notice No. 82404

First Publication: August 31, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Theresa Ann Schiavone, a/k/a Theresa A Schiavone, a/k/a Theresa Schiavone, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30874

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to pres-

ent them to the personal representative or to the Denver County Probate Court on or before December 24, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Thomas Schiavone

and/or Dr. Edward Goldson

Co- Personal Representatives 6306 E. 6th Avenue

Denver, CO 80220

Legal Notice No. 82384

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: September 7, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of ERMA LEE LINDSEY, aka ERMA L. LINDSEY, aka ERMA LINDSEY, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30890

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 31, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Victor L. Brandon, Personal Representative c/o Nicole Andrzejewski 5347 S. Valentia Way, Ste. 335 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 82395

First Publication: August 31, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Mary Ann Dooley, aka Mary A. Dooley aka Mary Dooley, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30921

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 8, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Melissa A. Crews, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203

Legal Notice No. 82410

First Publication: September 7, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Minnie Ruth Upton, a/k/a Minnie R. Upton, a/k/a Minnie Upton, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30805

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to pres-

Public Notices

ent them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sherry Ann Upton, Personal Representative

c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C.

1120 Lincoln St., #1100 Denver, CO 80203

Legal Notice No. 82392

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: September 7, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of William A. Moore, a/k/a William Arthur Moore II, a/k/a Bill Moore, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30882

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 24, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lorna G. Moore, Personal Representative

171 N. Franklin Street Denver, CO 80218

Legal Notice No. 82383

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: September 7, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Eileen E. Larsen, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR336

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 31, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Susan Lutz, Personal Representative

646 Dexter Street Denver, Colorado 80220

Legal Notice No. 82399

First Publication: August 31, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of David John Weimer, a/k/a David J. Weimer, a/k/a David Weimer, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030913

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 2, 2024, or the claims

may be forever barred.

Maria Ware, Personal Representative

c/o Mollie B. Hawes, Miller and Steiert, P.C. 1901 W. Littleton Blvd. Littleton, CO 80120

Legal Notice No. 82405

First Publication: August 31, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of BARBARA ANNE CHERINO, aka BARBARA A. CHERINO, aka BARBARA CHERINO, Deceased Case Number : 2023PR30823

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 7, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Burt A. Avila, Personal Representative

c/o 5347 S. Valentia Way, Ste. 335 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 82412

First Publication: September 7, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of WILLIAM EMMETT KELL, a/k/a WILLIAM KELL Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030878

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 2, 2034, or the claims may be forever barred.

William J. Bourke

Attorney to the Personal Representative 1099 18th Street, Suite 2600 Denver, CO 80202

Legal Notice No. 82402

First Publication: August 31, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of RUTH WILHELM, a/k/a RUTH STECKLER WILHELM, Deceased

Case Number: 2023-PR-30792

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael W. Reagor, Attorney for Personal Representative 8400 E. Prentice Ave., Suite 1040 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 82382

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: September 7, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Joseph E. McElroy, a/k/a Joseph McElroy, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30969

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 8, 2024,, or the claims may be forever barred.

Betty L. Wilcox, Personal Representative 2312 W. Ridge Road Littleton, Colorado 80120

Legal Notice No. 82417

First Publication: September 7, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Julia Alice Neumeyer, aka Julia A. Neumeyer, aka Julia Neumeyer, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030912

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 2, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michele L. Herman

c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, PC

Attorney to the Person Representative 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Address Denver, CO 80203

Legal Notice No. 82400

First Publication: August 31, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Anthony Gerald Seganti, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30803

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 26, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Schaffer

Personal Representative

c/o Steven M. Weiser, Esq. Foster Graham Milstein & Calisher, LLP

360 S. Garfield St., 6th Floor Denver, Colorado 80209 (303) 333-9810 sweiser@fostergraham.com

Legal Notice No. 82385

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: September 7, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of George Lee Westerberg, also known as George L. Westerberg, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30658

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 2, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kimberly Ann Rike

Personal Representative 9614 S. Golden Eagle Pl. Highlands Ranch, CO 80129

Legal Notice No. 82407

First Publication: August 31, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Gilbert Ray Rivera, a/k/a Gilbert R. Rivera, a/k/a Gilbert Rivera, Deceased Case No. 2023PR30916

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 2, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Angelina Rose Rivera-Malpiede Personal Representative 2365 W. 32nd Avenue Denver, CO 80211

Legal Notice No. 82396

First Publication: August 31, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Margaret June Blakley; a/k/a Margaret J. Blakley; a/k/a Margaret Blakley, Case Number 2023PR30503

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 24, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Baysore & Christian Fiduciary Ser-

Public Notices

vices, LLC

Personal Representative

By: Teri Hayes, Designated Representative

7000 E. Belleview Ave., Ste 150 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 82388

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: September 7, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of BETTY DOROTHY PAUL, aka BETTY D. PAUL, aka BETTY PAUL, fka BETTY DOROTHY GRAHNERT, fka BETTY DOROTHY HUNT, fka BETTY DOROTHY COLMER, fka BETTY DOROTHY CONN Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030780

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 7, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gregory Mark Colmer

Personal Representative

c/o 3i Law, LLC

2000 S. Colorado Blvd. Tower 1, Suite 10000 Denver, CO 80222

Legal Notice No. 82419

First Publication: September 7, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of MAUREEN KAY LANGLAS, aka MAUREEN K. LANGLAIS, Deceased

Case Number: 23PR031052

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 8, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Zachary Michael Langlais

Personal Representative

c/o 6060 Greenwood Plaza Blvd #200 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 82415

First Publication: September 7, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Matter of the Estate of: DEANNA LEE GERLACH, aka DEANNA L. GERLACH, Deceased

Case Number: 2023-PR-30487

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to pres-

ent them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court, Denver County, Colorado on or before January 8, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dated this 28th day of August, 2023.

DANIEL E. GERLACH

Personal Representative to the Estate

660 S. Osceola Street Denver, CO 80219

Phone: (303) 934-0399

Legal Notice No. 82414

First Publication: September 7, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

Denver Probate Court City and County of Denver, Colorado Court

1437 Bannock Street, Room 230 Denver, Colorado 80202

In the Matter of the Estate of: Donald Robert Wynn, a/k/a Donald R. Wynn

Attorney: Hilary B. Bloom, Esq. Fox Rothschild LLP

1225 17th Street, Suite 2200 Denver, Colorado 80202

E-mail: hbloom@foxrothschild.com

Attv. Reo.#:36330

Phone Number: 303-383-7622'

FAX Number: 303-292-1200

Case Number: N/A

NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO§ 15-10-401, C.R.S.

To: All unknown heirs of Jacob W. Wynn and all unknown heirs of Christy Anne Myrtle Wynn Last Known Address, if any N/A

A hearing on Petition for Formal Probate of Will and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative for the Will of Donald Robert Wynn a/k/a Donald R. Wynn to be admitted to probate and Jennifer Ravenell to be appointed as personal representative of the Estate of Donald Robert Wynn a/k/a Donald R. Wynn. will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued:

Date: Tuesday. October 10, 2023

Time: 8:00am

Courtroom or Division: Room 230

Address: 1437 Bannock Street, Room #230, Denver, Colorado 80202

The hearing will take approximately 30 minutes.

Legal Notice No. 82418

First Publication: September 7, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of JOHN JOSEPH LAMMERTZ, also known as: John J. Lammertz, and John Lammertz, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30854

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to:

The Denver Probate Court, City & County of Denver, Colorado on or before Sunday, December 24, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

John M. Lammertz, Personal Representative

3349 West 33rd Avenue

Denver, Colorado 80211

Legal Notice No. 82391

First Publication: August 24, 2023

Last Publication: September 7, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Rosalie P. Jaramillo, aka Rosalie Pamela Jaramillo, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30594

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 2, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Victor Jerome Ramshur Personal Representative

2732 South Grove St Denver, Colorado 80236

Legal Notice No. 82398

First Publication: August 31, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Children Services

(Adoption/Guardian/Other)

Public Notice

DENVER PROBATE COURT STATE OF COLORADO 1437 Bannock Street, Room 230 Denver, CO 80202 Phone: 303-606-2303

In the Interest of:

GRISSY JULIANNA SITTING BEAR

Attorneys for Petitioner: Terry Ehrlich, #13213 Arnold & Arnold LLP

7691 Shaffer Parkway, Suite A Littleton, Colorado 80127 Ph: 720.962.6010 / Fax: 720.962.6011

Email: terryehrlich@arnoldarnold.com Case No. 2023PR030227

NOTICE OF GUARDIANSHIP HEARING

Please be advised that this matter has been set for a Guardianship Hearing upon the Petition of Corina Sitting Bear for the guardianship of Grissy Julianna Sitting Bear on Wednesday, September

20, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. in Courtroom 300 of the Denver Probate Court located at 1437 Bannock Street, Room 230, Denver, CO 80202.

Dated this 1st day of August, 2023.

Respectfully submitted, ARNOLD & ARNOLD, LLP Attorneys at Law

By /s/ Terry Ehrlich

TERR EHRLICH, #13213

Attorney for Petitioner

Legal Notice No. 82368

First Publication: August 10, 2023

Last Publication: September 7, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

DENVER PROBATE COURT STATE OF COLORADO 1437 Bannock Street, Room 230 Denver, CO 80202 Phone: 303-606-2303

In the Interest of:

RRARIELLE CARLINA CHRISTINA SITTING BEAR

Attorneys for Petitioner: Terry Ehrlich, #13213 Arnold & Arnold LLP 7691 Shaffer Parkway, Suite A Littleton, Colorado 80127

Ph: 720.962.6010 / Fax: 720.962.6011

Email: terryehrlich@arnoldarnold.com

Case No. 2023PR030232

NOTICE OF GUARDIANSHIP HEARING

Please be advised that this matter has been set for a Guardianship Hearing upon the Petition of Corina Sitting Bear for the guardianship of Grissy Julianna Sitting Bear on Wednesday, September 20, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. in Courtroom 300 of the Denver Probate Court located at 1437 Bannock Street, Room 230, Denver, CO 80202.

Dated this 1st day of August, 2023.

Respectfully submitted, ARNOLD & ARNOLD, LLP Attorneys at Law

By /s/ Terry Ehrlich

TERR EHRLICH, #13213

Attorney for Petitioner

Legal Notice No. 82369

First Publication: August 10, 2023

Last Publication: September 7, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch ###

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