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Remembering 9/11

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BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Duty. Dedication. Sacri ce.

ose words describe the re ghters who worked to save Americans after the terrorist attacks on New York City, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.

Remembrance. Honor. Reection.

ose words describe the more than 2,000 rst responders and others who participated in the 15th annual Colorado 9/11 Memorial Climb at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Sept. 11.

Stair climb organizer Shawn Duncan of West Metro Fire Rescue told the participants they didn’t have to complete all nine laps around the amphitheater that represent the 101 ights of stairs re ghters climbed on 9/11 in the Twin Towers in New York City to rescue people trapped in the buildings before they collapsed.

“ is is not a race,” Duncan told them. “It’s OK to pause, to sit and re ect. is event is more about getting together and remembering.”

West Metro Fire Chief Don Lombardi told rst responders in attendance to be diligent and take pride in the work they do.

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A firefighter salutes during the singing of the national anthem at the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Sept. 11. PHOTOS BY

responders, public take part in 15th annual Red Rocks Stair Climb to honor fallen firefighters

Air quality group targets Colorado smokestacks

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

A series of Colorado’s largest greenhouse gas-emitting sectors have come under the regulatory knife for cuts in recent years: oil and gas producers, gasoline vehicles, large buildings, cement plants and coal- red utilities.

Now a secondary tier of big-name greenhouse gas polluters is facing new rules from an Air Quality Control Commission vote this month, with the goal of 20% emissions reductions from a 2015 benchmark

at industrial companies like Suncor, Molson Coors, Cargill Meat Solutions and Leprino Foods.

While the industries argue a 2030 timeline for those cuts is too quick and expensive, environmental and neighborhood groups say the state’s draft rules for the legislation-mandated cuts won’t actually reduce greenhouse gases for at least seven years. ey also say a trading plan to allow the 18 sites on the list to buy carbon credits to meet the rules is a game where the same side always loses: low-income and high-minority neighborhoods disproportionate-

ly impacted by decades of harmful pollutants.

e idea of a big company like Suncor buying carbon credits from a greener company instead of cutting pollution at their own facility, next to those beleaguered neighbors, is only one objection environmental groups are bringing to an Air Quality Control Commission vote at the Sept. 20-22 meetings.

e main topic for the commission’s meeting is the proposed rule ful lling a mandate from the 2021 legislature requiring 20% cuts by 2030 in the greenhouse gas emissions of a third tier of Colorado’s largest polluters. e by-far largest polluters, utilities, were targeted in previous legislation and rules, while the second tier of only four industrial sources was regulated — controversially — by rules passed in 2021.

State health department sta ers’ justi cation for regulating the next 18 industrial sources in September’s vote says disproportionately impacted, or DI, communities are well protected by the draft regulations, and will breathe easier from the carbon dioxide cuts and from drops in other pollutants that are a side bene t of attacking carbon.

e state’s rules say the next companies targeted will only be able to buy credits to ful ll their cuts if they’ve proven they’ve installed all possible cost-e ective pollution control measures.

What’s “cost e ective” when it comes to pollution is not exactly a settled question.

Groups that ght for DI communities say the whole point of environmental justice provisions embedded in climate laws is to cut pollution right where it has hurt people most. Nor does setting the “social cost” of carbon at $89 a ton account for heat exposure and high rates of asthma, heart problems and other ailments in Colorado’s industrial neighborhoods, according to rule comments by GreenLatinos, Environmental Defense Fund and others.

e EDF points out another troubling aspect of the state’s proposed rule: Because of how and when the benchmarks were set, the 18 com-

panies as a group will actually be allowed to increase their greenhouse gas emissions slightly before steeper cuts kick in for 2030.

“As a result of the in ated baseline and modest interim reduction targets, the proposed rule would allow half of the facilities to increase emissions or make no reductions, relative to current levels, for the next six years,” the EDF said. at outs the urgency of the climate change problem and state laws demanding that reductions start now, the nonpro t says.

Even the state’s draft, revised after expert comments, would let the group of 18 facilities “emit nearly 1.2 million tons more climate pollution over the decade than if pollution from these industries stayed at where they are today,” said Katie Schneer, Colorado based senior climate analyst for EDF. “ at equates to an increase of 9% above today’s pollution levels from these facilities in each year leading up to 2030, with only a 5% reduction in 2030.”

A group of state lawmakers who say they wrote and pushed through the 2021 industrial pollution legislation sent a letter to the AQCC warning the division’s draft rules would not achieve the required greenhouse gas cuts, and won’t shield the industries’ neighbors from the co-pollutants produce alongside carbon.

“ e current draft deviates signi cantly from the intent of the law we worked to pass,” said the letter, signed by Capitol leaders including Sen. Faith Winter, D-Westminster; Rep. Jennifer Bacon, D-Denver; and, Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, DGlenwood Springs, and 13 others.  e environmental groups’ redlining of state draft rules all emphasize the need for speed.

“Given the cumulative buildup of carbon pollution in the atmosphere, rapid reductions in greenhouse gases are crucial for limiting the overall amount of warming we will experience,” the EDF said.

Colorado’s Air Pollution Control Division Director Michael Ogletree

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said state sta are continuing to revise the draft rules in regard to environmental and industry comments, and will continue revisions right up to the commission’s hearing date.

e largest annual carbon emitters in the state are utilities burning coal, and their steep mandated cuts are on pace and handled in a separate series of regulations.

So what big corporations are the industrial targets in these latest climate rules? Industrial manufacturing polluters were rst targeted in a set of rules called Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Man-

agement for Manufacturing or GEMM 1.

at rst industrial phase sought carbon cuts from only four major sources in the state: ree cementmaking kilns, and Pueblo’s Evraz steel plant, each putting out more than 50,000 tons of carbon a year.

ose industries got some special breaks along with the required emissions audits and cuts, because they are considered “energy intensive and trade exposed,” meaning they can claim it’s hard to clean up their fuel source without raising expenses to a point where foreign competition puts them out of business.  is month’s vote is for GEMM

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Sacrificing to pay medical bills

thousands homeless and sleeping on the streets.

BY NOAM N. LEVY KFF HEALTH NEWS

Kayce Atencio used to be haunted by a thought while working at a homeless shelter in downtown Denver.

“It could have been me,” said Atencio, 30, who lives in a small apartment with his son and daughter not far from the shelter.

It nearly was. Atencio and his children for years slept on friends’ couches or stayed with family, unable to rent an apartment because of poor credit. A big reason, he said, was medical debt.

Atencio had a heart attack at 19, triggered by an undiagnosed congenital condition. e debts from his care devastated his credit score. “It always felt like I just couldn’t get a leg up,” he said, recalling a life of dead-end jobs and high-interest loans as he tried to stay ahead of debt collectors. By 25, he’d declared bankruptcy.

Across the country, medical debt forces legions of Americans to make painful sacri ces. Many cut back on food, take on extra work, or drain retirement savings. For millions like Atencio, the health care system is threatening their very homes.

at’s proven particularly devastating in communities like Denver, where skyrocketing prices have put housing out of reach for many residents and fueled a crisis that’s left

At the Community Economic Defense Project, or CEDP, a Denver nonpro t that helps people facing eviction or home foreclosure, about two-thirds of clients have medical debt, an informal survey by KFF Health News and the organization suggests. Close to half of the nearly 70 people surveyed said medical debt played a role in their housing issue, with about 1 in 6 saying it was a major factor.

“All day long I hear about medical debt,” said Kaylee Mazza, a tenant advocate who sta s a CEDP legal clinic at the Denver courthouse that o ers aid to tenants going through eviction proceedings. “It’s everywhere.”

Nationwide, about 100 million people have some form of health care debt. Of those, about 1 in 5 said the debts have forced them to change their living situation, including moving in with friends or family, according to a 2022 KFF poll.

A growing body of evidence shows that stable housing is critical to physical and mental well-being. Some major medical systems — including several in Colorado — have even begun investing in a ordable housing in their communities, citing the need to address what are sometimes called social determinants of health.

But as hospitals and other medical providers leave millions in debt, they inadvertently undermine community health, said Brian Klausner, a physician at a clinic serving homeless patients in Raleigh, North Carolina.

“Many of the hospitals across the country that are now publicly vow-

ing to address health inequities and break down barriers to health are simultaneously helping to create these very problems,” Klausner said. “Nobody likes the elephant in the room, but the reality is that there are thousands of sick Americans who are likely homeless — and sick — because of medical debt.”

Medical debt can undermine housing security in several ways. For some, it depresses credit scores, making it di cult to get a lease or a mortgage. Last year, about 1 in 8 U.S. consumers with a credit report had a medical debt listed on it, according to the nonpro t Urban Institute.

Patients with chronic medical conditions may fall behind on rent or home payments as they scramble to keep medical debts in check to preserve access to health care. Many hospitals and other providers will turn away patients with outstanding bills, KFF Health News found.

Denise Beasley, who also assists clients at CEDP in Denver, said many older people, who typically depend most on physicians and medications, believe they must pay their medical and pharmacy bills before anything else. “ e elderly are terri ed,” she said.

For others, such debt can compound nancial struggles brought on by an accident or unexpected illness that forces them to stop working, jeopardizing their health coverage or ability to pay for housing.

In Seattle, researchers found widespread medical debt among residents in homeless encampments. And those with such debt tended to experience homelessness two years longer than encampment residents without it.

More broadly, people with medical debt are more likely to say the debt has caused them to be turned down for a rental or a mortgage than people with student loans or credit card debt, according to a 2019 nationwide survey of renters, homebuyers, and property owners by real estate company Zillow.

For Atencio, who left home at 16, his struggles with medical debt began with the heart attack. He was working at a gas station and living in Trinidad, a small city in south-

ern Colorado near the New Mexico border.

Rushed to a local hospital, he underwent surgery. e bills, which topped $50,000, weren’t covered by his health plan because he’d unknowingly gone to an out-of-network provider, he said. “I fought it as hard as I could, but I couldn’t a ord a lawyer. I was stuck.”

Atencio, who is transgender, has close-cropped dark hair and a large tattoo on his right forearm memorializing two friends who died in a car accident. Sitting on an aging couch in an apartment with bars on the windows, he’s philosophical about his long journey from that medical crisis through years of debt and housing insecurity. “We’ve pulled ourselves out of this,” he said. “But it took a toll.”

When Atencio’s credit score dipped close to 300, the lowest rating, there were few places to turn for help. Atencio’s relationship with his parents, who divorced when he was 2, had been strained for years. Atencio got married at 18, but he and his husband rarely had enough to make ends meet. “I remember thinking, ‘What kind of a start to my adult life is this?’”

ey were ultimately taken in by Atencio’s mother-in-law. “If it wasn’t for her, we would have been homeless,” he said. But getting out from the debt was agonizing.

“You end up in this cycle,” he said. “You get into debt. en you take out loans to try to pay o some of the debt. But then there’s all this interest.” With poor credit, Atencio relied at times on payday lenders, whose high interest rates can dramatically increase what borrowers owe. Many employers also check credit scores, which made it di cult for Atencio to land anything but low-wage jobs. e job at the shelter was a step up, and Atencio this year got the apartment, which is reserved for single-parent families at risk of being homeless. (Atencio separated from his husband last year.)

Atencio’s housing struggles are hardly unique. Jim and Cindy Powers, who live in Greeley, a small

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“It is imperative that you are ready like the 343 re ghters (of FDNY, the New York City Fire Department) who lost their lives,” Lombardi said.  He asked everyone to remember what the country was like after 9/11 when everyone banded together and became one.

“We can honor (those who lost their lives) by having more grace with each other and coming together as a nation,” Lombardi said. “We are strong when we are one.”

Members of the Warren Tech Fire Academy class, who weren’t alive on Sept. 11, 2001, decided to participate. Warren Tech students come from high schools across Je co, and these high school juniors and seniors said they were compelled to participate to honor the re ghters who lost their lives on 9/11.

“I feel we have to be here,” Landon Hines, a Green Mountain High School student, said. “For us to walk (in the stair climb) doesn’t begin to honor their sacri ce.”

Brendan Brownlee, a student at Ralston Valley High School, added: “We are honoring heroes.”

Kara Cooper, a retired member of Genesee Fire, was a pilot on 9/11 and served on the re department for 15 years, retiring in 2018. She participates in the stair climb to honor people who try to save others, not just on 9/11. She hoped to make all nine laps around the amphitheater, adding, laughing, that she’s never tried it in bunker gear.

Mike Amdur with Foothills Fire was too young to remember the terrorist attacks.

However, he added, “9/11 is a large part of the culture of the re

service. Taking part is the best way for me to communicate with my fellow brothers and sisters in the re service. It’s a show of respect.”

Rock Canyon High School Fire Academy students in Highlands Ranch were excited to get started, and they pointed to one of their instructors, Joe Sapia, who they recently learned was a Long Island, New York, re ghter on 9/11, and he arrived at the scene just before the North Tower collapsed.

Sapia explained that his duties at Ground Zero were rescue and recovery.

“I always tell everybody that I’m not a hero,” he said.

Now, he said, his duty is to spread awareness about the responders

who have fallen ill as a result of their work on 9/11, and the subsequent rescue operations and cleanup.

“9/11 never goes away,” he said.

Now, as a re instructor for the high school program, he says his job

is to have students experience what it’s really like to be a re ghter. He doesn’t tell his students about his experiences on 9/11.

“I don’t want them to treat me differently,” Sapia said.

Battalion Chief Matt Gold with Fairmount Fire said he tries to do something each year to commemorate 9/11, and this was his rst time at the Red Rocks stair climb.

“It’s important,” he said. “It’s a way for us to remember all the lives that were lost, and it’s special for us as re ghting brothers and sisters to come together.”

Duncan reminded participants that the FDNY showed up on 9/11, knowing that day would be horri c and that some of them would not return home.

“ ere were 29 minutes between when the rst tower and the second tower fell,” Duncan said. “ ey saved 20,000 lives, a lot of them knowing they would not make it out of the Twin Towers. ey knew their re ghter brothers were lost, and they still continued to climb those stairs.”

For Evergreen Fire/Rescue Assistant Chief Stacee Martin, participating in a remembrance every year is important. She said of the 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb: “It never gets easier or old.”

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Kolacny Music on South Broadway prepares for final curtain

BY KYLE COOKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

David Kolacny does not have time to be sad. He is too busy packing.

Kolacny Music, a staple of Denver’s ever-changing South Broadway corridor, is closing its doors for good after 93 years in business. e store is o ering major discounts on instruments and accessories as they prepare to close. e doors will be locked Sept. 30.

While David’s lengthy to-do list means he is too busy to feel verklempt, generations of musicians have made the time to reach out to him.

Sitting in the side room of his expansive store in the shadow of a harp he is repairing for the Colorado Symphony, David, 68, who lives in Englewood, read an email he recently received from a former customer.

Writing about a Spanish guitar purchased form Kolacny Music in 1963, the customer wrote, “it has been to California, Washington state, Iran, Scotland, all over England and currently lives with me in France. I play it every day and treasure every scar and mark it has acquired over 50 years. I’m so sorry to hear you are closing down. My mom passed away a long time ago, but we both thank you so much. South Denver will never be the same.”

“And I’m getting tons of this. People just show up,” David said. “ ey bring their parents in.”

Asked if that outpouring of support eased the pain of closing his doors, David said that it has always been this way. Many people, including local legends like Charlie Burrell, treated the store like a hangout over the years. David is accustomed to people coming by just to say hello, if not to shop.

“It’s how I grew up, from the time I was a kid,” he said. “You assumed everyone’s business was like that.”

David’s grandfather, William J. Kolacny, opened the store in 1930. Kolacny Music’s original location was in the Barth Building in downtown Denver. e family moved the business to Englewood — the Barth Building was demolished years later — before eventually settling on the corner of South Broadway and East Jewell Avenue.

e store was passed down to David’s father, who then passed it down to David, who now co-owns the business with his wife and sister. Kolacny Music became the go-to place in Denver for local school music programs to rent and repair instruments.

“Kolacny closing is just absolutely gut-wrenching,” said Keith Oxman, a saxophonist and bandleader who

also works as a band teacher at Denver’s East High School. “When I heard about it, part of me just died. I’ve been going into that store [since] the 1960s.”

Despite the business’ longevity — they survived the Great Depression, World War II, and nearly a century’s worth of other nancial and global crises — the margins at Kolacny Music were always pretty thin.

“We never made a lot of money. My grandfather never had his house paid o ; he was always borrowing money to put back in the business,” David said. “If we made it through the month and had all the bills paid, we were pretty happy.

David explained that over time, participation in band and orchestra programs at local schools declined, meaning Kolacny’s clientele base did, too. e transition to online shopping was also bad for business. “People don’t come to a music store, necessarily, for every little thing anymore,” he said. “And the schools that have good programs are further out.”

“When we started, you could draw a circle around the store and that’s where all our customers were — the Denver Public Schools, the Englewood Public Schools,” David said. “But now you have to go look for the particular building in the particular district that’s got an administration that wants music and that hires a good teacher. So it’s spread out further and further. ere’s not that concentration of every school in the district [having] a great band.”

Oxman said that while enrollment is relatively steady in the East High School band program, “the instrumentation has gotten even worse than normal.”

“I don’t know what the future is going to bring as far as all of that goes. It’s not the heyday that it was in the 70s,” he said. “I have a concert band at the end of the school day. I don’t have any trumpet players in there. at’s never happened.”

Edwina Lucero is the music instructional and curriculum specialist

with Denver Public Schools. “ e emphasis on large ensembles isn’t entirely relevant to students anymore,” she said, noting that the pandemic also interrupted the musical development for many students. “In the district, we’re trying really hard to reimagine what our music education looks like.”

Combined with changing shopping habits and the evolution — and in some cases, devolution — of local music programs, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated Kolacny’s timeline.

“We got into a big hole with the COVID thing,” David said. “We took a pretty good-sized loan with the SBA and our bookkeeper was telling us, ‘you’re never going to make enough money to pay this loan o and it’s secured by your house.’”

David and the other owners tried to sell the business, but as David put it, “nobody in the music business has the money to buy another music business.” So when a company called Alchemy o ered a fair price to buy the building and turn it into an event space, the Kolacny family accepted. e sale and impending closure has been surprisingly hard on David’s mother, who is 97. “She just couldn’t imagine,” David said. “She worked here too, for a while.”

David is not bitter or dejected about the closure. For about 40 years, he has spent six days a week at the store. He has hardly ever taken a vacation that wasn’t related to work in some way. While he’s looking forward to some much-deserved leisure, he’s not going to stop working just yet. He built up quite the rolodex of harpists who rely on him for repairs and tune-ups, and he’ll continue his services from his home in Englewood.

Lucero said Kolacny’s closure should be a “wake up call” for the music education community in Denver.

“How are we going to maintain

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building up the future of music-making?” she wondered.

“It would be so nice to live in a place where we have strong music programs and strong music stores,” Oxman concluded. “I don’t know if that’s coming back or not, but God it would be so great if it did.”

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Kolacny Music on South Broadway is closing its doors to the public September 30, 2023.

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What’s up, world?

On a recent ight from Houston, Texas to Newark, New Jersey, I had a seatmate that had a very interesting outlook on life. ere was some chaos and disruption in the boarding area that slowed the boarding process and put many people on edge. en as we were boarding the plane, the air conditioning wasn’t working yet and the plane was incredibly hot, causing some people to become further agitated and frustrated.

As my seatmate settled in, he looked around the airplane and then leaned over to me and said, “ e world is either going mad, has already gone mad, or we have just been in denial and the world has always been mad.” He looked away with a smile and a shake of his head. Initially I thought to myself that this was going to be one really long ight. But then I thought that his statement was quite the icebreaker for a conversation, so I asked him to tell me more.

He was thrilled that I wanted to keep the conversation going. en he shared that every day that he wakes up, he wants to just ask this question, “What’s up, world?” His real questions were around the

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polarizing world that we seem to be living in. And no matter where we turn, television, radio, blogs, podcasts, social media, or our newspapers, the divisiveness rules the day, or as my new friend shared, the world has gone mad.

He went on to share that it seems like there is nothing that is o limits. It’s one thing when adults choose to disagree and have major di erences of opinions over the silliest of subjects, but when people start going after children, pulling them into the argument for no other reason than to just hype the polarizing situation, that is a huge problem. And that is where the world, by its acceptance of such practices, brought him to the conclusion that the world is going mad, has already gone mad, or that he has been living his life in denial for so long, not realizing that the world has been mad forever.

So, I ask you today, “What’s up world?”

Why are we all so mad and angry

at each other? Is it really that we are on di erent sides of the aisle politically? Can we have a reasonable and rational conversation about climate change? Is it because some of us worship God and others choose not to believe in God? Are we going mad, have gone mad, or have always been mad about our healthcare or education systems? Whoa, do we dare mention transgender athletes competing in sports? Does he/him, her/she, they/ them make our blood boil? Have the opinions and constant changes to what diversity, equity, and inclusion really means impacted the way we respond?

What’s up, world?

It’s good to have healthy debates about the above-mentioned topics and many other topics that seem to be driving people mad. So why can’t we world? Can we shelve hostility and replace it with courtesy? Doesn’t it make more sense to talk and hear each other out calmly without feeling defensive or worse going on the attack? We will never completely agree on everything, there is just no chance of that. But as we gure out the answers together, we can begin to get closer to the

middle even if we can’t nd a place completely in the middle. ere are some situations where we ght about something and where there is clearly an obvious right answer, but to who? Someone’s opinion does not mean that they are right, it just means that it is their opinion. And as my good friend Frank always reminds me, “Other people’s opinions are none of your business.”

What’s up, world? Can we begin the long slow crawl back to normalcy? We can if we all decide to replace hostility with peace, anger with gentleness, revenge with mercy, frustration with understanding, and hate with love, the way that we have been loved. I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@ gmail.com and when we can work towards being a part of the solution instead a part of the madness, 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.

There’s such a thing as trail etiquette

The uppermost switchback on the Bright Angel Trail in Grand Canyon National Park is eight feet wide. Yet the last time I hiked out, I was stymied by a group of young hikers walking down shoulder to shoulder, tapping on their phones.

Even when I said, “Ahem, excuse me,” I was unceremoniously nudged out of the way — not on the cli side, but still.

It shouldn’t need mentioning, but while walking on a rocky trail where one may fall to one’s death, it is best not to be watching one’s phone. And in case you were wondering, uphill has the right of way.

I am often told that people coming downhill should have the right of way because they might lose control and can’t easily stop. Well, on a shared trail, one should not be losing control, and certainly not on a trail where a fall could lead to dying, as above.

Uphill has the right of way because it is harder to stop and restart while climbing. Yes, some hikers want to stop and rest and that is their prerogative, but if I have my uphill mojo going, I don’t want to stop.

Downhill hikers also have a much

wider eld of vision. Climbing up, I usually see only my feet, particularly if I’m wearing a sunhat. Since most injuries occur on the way down a trail, it might behoove one to slow down and pay attention, in any case.

usually step out of the way anyway.

Yet all trail users must yield to horses. I have met horses that freak out upon seeing a piece of blowing paper, so I cannot imagine how they would react to a fast-moving bike.

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Nor does this apply only to hikers. On a four-wheel drive road, the driver coming down must pull over for the driver coming up.

In mountain biking, uphill has the right of way as well, partly because if the uphill rider has to stop, they will likely be walking up the rest of the hill.

Standing at the top of a steep hill and yelling “Clear!” before bombing down is not su cient. Perhaps that is why more and more trails around Arizona have signs posted warning riders that if they cannot comply with the rules, the routes will be closed to bikes.

Mountain bikes are supposed to yield to hikers, but since I know how hard it is to stop and start on a bike, I

Regarding those annoying downhill hikers and runners who say they “need” the right of way, I have not done the study, but I would bet they never yield no matter which direction they are heading. ey have important things to do and places to go, and maybe a phone to check.

As absorbing as it is to walk handin-hand with your sweetie, or arms linked with your BFF, you probably would not force people o the sidewalk into tra c just to keep your bestie right there. So why, on a trail, would you force other hikers to give way?

Faster hikers overtaking another party should politely make their presence known. A curt “on your left” as you elbow them out of the way does not su ce. Neither does stepping on their heels until they nally acknowledge you.

Speaking for myself, I often fall into a reverie while hiking, and I do not always notice someone dogging my footsteps. So please say something.

I’ve been startled more than once by a runner brushing against me as they sped past, sometimes on a trail narrow enough that had I stepped (or tripped!) to the side, I would have knocked the runner o the cli . People are allowed to periodically pause on their treks. I was berated recently because I was standing with my pack facing the trail. I was informed hotly by an approaching runner that he had to slow down to pass me, and next time would I please move out of the way? I did not realize I was upsetting his Best Time Ever.

More and more it seems, we must share our wilderness with all sorts of users.

Yes, we all get hot and sweaty and cold and tired and exhausted and hungry and thirsty, but we can still be polite. To paraphrase the immortal Robert A. Heinlein, politeness is what characterizes a civilization.

Marjorie “Slim” Woodru is a contributor to Writers on the Range, writersontherange.org, an independent nonpro t dedicated to spurring lively conversation about the West. She is an educator in the Grand Canyon.

National Black Legacy Project highlights Denver musicians

BY CHANCY J. GATLIN-ANDERSON

In September last year, Denverbased musician and songwriter Martin Gilmore attended a roundtable conversation with fellow musicians, representatives from local organizations and nonpro t leaders. ey met at the historic Shorter AME Community Church near MLK Jr. Boulevard in Denver — the same church that was burned by the Ku Klux Klan nearly 100 years earlier. Together, this group talked about signi cant civil rights events in the Denver area and Black-White relations in and around the city. ese conversations were the springboard for the Denver leg of the Black Legacy Project.

e Black Legacy Project is a multi-dimensional, national project produced by Music in Common, a nonpro t that strengthens, empowers and connects communities through the universal language of music. e Black Legacy Project is a musical celebration of Black history to advance racial solidarity, equity and belonging. e project will culminate in an interactive tour of a full-length album, which includes 24 songs recorded in seven di erent communities across the country.

“We conceptualized the Black Legacy Project in 2020 as we were seeing the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor on the news and on social media, and after seeing the level of reckoning and polarization that was erupting in the country around the legacy of racism and anti-Black racism in the U.S.,” said Trey Carlisle, program coordinator for Music in Common. “At this time, Todd Mack (founder and director of Music in

Common) and I were listening to songs from the ‘60s and the Civil Rights Movement. We were struck by how resonant their lyrics are today, as if they were written today.” For the main component of the project, producers and leaders from Music in Common traveled to communities across the country to engage Black and White community members in roundtable discussions about topics, themes and songs that are centered around race relations in the United States. From those conversations, they engaged local Black and White musicians in creating present-day interpretations of those songs, reimaginations those songs, and co-writing original songs to provide tangible steps that advance greater solidarity in the community and the nation as a whole.

“I have always been inspired by history, and I love hearing people’s stories and ideas,” said Gilmore, who lives in Englewood. “I developed a deep love for history and the complexity of people. A lot of my songs explore historic themes. I’ve recently been trying to write more personal songs, or at least explore more personal or social themes.”

Denver was chosen as one of the seven locations for the Black Legacy Project because of its unique place in history. Known as the “Harlem of the West,” Denver’s Five Points neighborhood was the home and hub for iconic Black musicians,

philanthropists and civil rights activists — in spite of the Klu Klux Klan’s dominant presence in the state during the early to mid-20th century. e rich local history of Black excellence and interracial solidarity is what drew the Black Legacy Project to Denver, states the Black Legacy Project’s website. e Denver portion of the Black Legacy Project took place during the course of a week for the roundtable, writing and recording at di erent locations in Denver and Boulder. Much of the writing took place at Denver’s Swallow Hill Music, and recording took place at eTown in Boulder.

“We collaborated as a nity groups and reimagined songs that were recorded by Denver folk music legend Walt Conley,” said Gilmore. Gilmore especially enjoyed working with the other Denver musicians, which included Dzirae Gold, Lee Clark Allen and Sarah Rose Reynolds.

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The Black Legacy Project, Vol. 1 COURTESY OF MUSIC IN COMMON

The album will be available on all major streaming platforms Sept. 22

The co-directors of the Black Legacy Project in Denver work on the original song, “Let Me Walk In Your Shoes,” at Swallow Hill in September last year. COURTESY OF SIMONE ALYSE

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sages, or claircognizance, simply knowing the message.

BY LILLIAN FUGLEI SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

On a quiet street corner, a neon sign promises psychic readings, fortunes told for a small fee. Some signs advertise crystals, tarot, reiki or clairvoyance, a never-ending list of tools to peer into the other side.  Denver hosts a wide variety of psychics across the metro area. ough their work is often unseen, each practitioner brings their own set of skills to help give insight to their clients.

Starting out

Littleton-based practitioner Jen Welte grew up in a haunted house. She said her rst connections to the other side were the ghosts that lived in the home with her.

“I believe that everywhere that we’re at has spirits around us all the time,” Welte said. “It’s just that I was able to see them. So when I was 5, 6 years old, I would see the spirits walking up and down my hallway.” ough Welte had an early connection, it wasn’t until she attended a mediumship development class in 2016 that she began to hone her skills. A friend was going to the class, so Welte tagged along, not knowing what the class was for.

“I was just kind of her wingman because she was nervous to go by herself,” Welte said. “It was a mediumship development class. I had no idea there were classes for stu like this, I didn’t even know that I was a medium at this point. I just thought that I knew things and saw things.”

Mediumship is the practice of enabling communications between the living and the dead. Mediums may have messages conveyed in a variety of ways, such as clairaudience, hearing messages, clairvoyance, seeing mes-

Welte continued to learn, taking classes from another local psychic — Kim Moore — and then a year-long mentorship with another psychic — Anthony Mrocka. Her mentorship occurred in 2020, which gave her the time to focus on developing her skills.

“I mean, the whole country was shut down,” Welte said. “I had no other responsibilities... So I took a year-long mentorship with Anthony. And he really, really helped me to re ne my abilities.”

For Broom eld-based practitioner Andarta, the spiritual path started with tarot card readings as a teenager. She continued to learn, receiving training to become a Reiki Master and becoming a Druid in the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids — a spiritual organization based in England.

Reiki is a form of energy work that facilitates healing. Practitioners guide energy through a client’s body to help them heal.

Andarta’s spiritual and academic paths have been connected, primarily through becoming a Priestess of Avalon.

“I’ve done a lot of studies on more of the Avalon path,” Andarta said. “Because that is not only my spiritual interest, but also my PhD is in medieval literature. What got me into medieval literature to begin with was my interest in the Arthurian legends, and Avalon and, and all of that, so I’ve really sort of crafted a lot of my own classes around that just my own personal studies, both from my academic background as well as my spiritual.”

Lakewood-based practitioner Lizanne Flynn’s path was shaped by her time volunteering in an animal shelter. After taking several years o from working to raise her children, Flynn wanted to see what returning to work would look like for her. at desire led her to volunteer at Table Mountain Animal Shelter — now known as Foothills Animal Shelter.

“It was a good experience for me,” Flynn said. “What I didn’t expect was that when I went through the doors of the shelter, is that I would start to hear

the animals. I would start to feel the animals.”  She would hear animals — particularly those that had been surrendered — asking for their families and homes.

“It was like there was an extra room and I had been given the keys to the door of that room that I could walk into,” Flynn added. “ ere was this telepathic communication with animals that was available to me, it still feels like that to this day.”

Getting to work

Welte — who started her business online during the pandemic — then applied to work with Discover Your Spiritual Gifts when she saw an opening for a reader.

“It is an amazing little shop,” Welte said. “I really enjoy being able to work there and (meeting) the people that have come in.”

Welte does tarot and psychic readings, but the main focus of her work is mediumship.

“What I want to do the most is be able to deliver to people without a shadow of a doubt information that there is life still beyond this, and that their loved ones are not in some tortured, horrible place there,” Welte said. “ ey’re right there with us.”

As a former college professor, Andarta’s switch to full-time work as a psychic was recent. ough she had been working part-time while teaching, she transitioned out of higher education this summer.

“ e fact that my psychic business is more stable than higher education, I think is a pretty crazy idea for our society,” Andarta said. “Sometimes there’s a struggle of adapting, complete career change is a little scary. And yet, I feel that there is more of a call in our society for alternate spiritual practices, and di erent beliefs, especially earth-based religions.”

Flynn’s work began with animal communication in 2008, but soon after that, she added a physical touch. Flynn became licensed as a canine massage therapist. Canine massage is similar to massages performed on humans, helping to relieve tight muscles and stress in dogs. Flynn combines the techniques, communicating with the animals as she massages them.

She felt that the universe continued to push her towards new methods, such as Reiki, and incorporating them into her practice.

“ is is such a classic example of the universe going, ‘OK. Here’s your next step. Just go here,’” Flynn added. Her work now includes a wide variety of practices, including animal communication, mediumship, Reiki and more.

As a Master Healer, Flynn resisted the title that goes with her work for a while. However, she came around to it once she realized the value of being a healer.

“ e actual de nition of a healer that I really vibe with is someone who holds space,” Flynn said. “A healer is someone who opens the door, they might turn on the light for you. But they’re not going to necessarily tell you where to look. ey’re not necessarily going to tell you what to do.”

The impact

For Welte, working as a medium has given her an opportunity to connect people, both living and dead.

“I love my work, I love helping people,” Welte said. “My main goal is just to help and let people know that we’re really not alone, that we really are all connected and that we really will get through this a lot easier if we’re just kinder to each other and more loving and more compassionate.”  Welte added that she wants to be a place people can come to heal through her work.

“For me personally, it’s very, very heart-centered,” Welte added. “I will sit there and I will cry with my clients, I will check on my clients, I will bend over backward because it truly comes from a place of love.”

Similarly to Welte, Andarta’s work is geared towards giving clients a space to heal.

“I call them clients, and yet I still see them as souls,” Andarta said. “I have great compassion for people. I think that people really resonate with that, that they know that I am there to try to help them.”

In addition to providing readings, Andarta teaches several classes related to spirituality. Her work as a teacher often means empowering her clients to engage in the services Andarta typically provides without her.

“What happens a lot of the times is that I have clients that work with me for quite a while, and then they’re like ‘Hey, I’m good,’” Andarta said. “I’m like, ‘ en go, go do it (yourself).” is is not just to keep milking people for money,” Andarta added.

For Flynn, her work gives her an opportunity to give animals a voice, speaking for them and communicating with their owners. She emphasized the importance of simply asking animals what they’re feeling — and listening to what they say.

“Inside my animal communicator, self is going, you could just ask,” Flynn said. “I think (animals) would be happy to tell you, (for example) the life of the bee and how that works.”

While Andarta, Flynn and Welte’s practices

di er, they all stressed the same idea — their talents are not unique.

“Every single human who has a physical body on this planet can do the work that I do,” Flynn said. “Absolutely everyone.”

For Andarta, Flynn and Welte, being able to do their work is simply a matter of practice and training.

“I feel like everybody has a connection to the other side, or whatever you want to call it,” Welte said. “Everybody has a connection to spirit and that we are all connected.”

LEARN MORE

Jen Welte is Littleton-based and o ers readings remotely and in-person at Discover Your Spiritual Gifts in Littleton on the second and fourth Sundays of the month. Her website is https://www.jenmoonlightmystic.com/

Andarta is Broomfield-based and o ers readings remotely. Her website is https://psychichealersofavalon. com/denver-colorado/

Lizanne Flynn is Lakewood-based and o ers readings remotely. Her website is https://lizanneflynn.com/

Andarta’s practices combine both her spiritual and academic background, following the Avalon Path. COURTESY OF ANDARTA.

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“We all come from such di erent places, and it’s inspiring to see how everyone comes at music di erently,” Gilmore said. “I think it’s challenging sometimes for artists to allow other creative

ideas into their work, but this situation required it, and I think the project was better because of it.”

Gilmore and the other Denverbased artists with the Black Legacy Project collaborated to reimagine songs and create new songs that are relevant to the history of the Black legacy in Denver.

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Legal Notice No. 82414

First Publication: September 7, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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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

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Estate of ROBERT ARMAND LUZIETTI, aka ROBERT A. LUZIETTI, aka BOB LUZIETTI, aka ROBERT LUZIETTI, Deceased

Case Number : 2023PR30962

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, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dian Thieme, Personal Representative

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

1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO, 80203

Legal Notice No. 82426

First Publication: September 14, 2023

Last Publication: September 28, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Estate of Keith Loren Williams

a/k/a Keith L. Williams

a/k/a Keith Williams, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 030858

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 22, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert Williams

Personal Representative

2844 South Teller Street Denver, CO 80227

Legal Notice No. DHD104

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: October 5, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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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

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Estate of DAVID CRAIG BRUNT, aka DAVID C. BRUNT, aka DAVID BRUNT, Deceased Case Number 2023 PR 319

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 14, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Aniceto Lopez, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, PC

1120 Lincoln St. #1100 Denver, CO 80203

Legal Notice No. 82432

First Publication: September 14, 2023

Last Publication: September 28, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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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

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Estate of Stanley Michael Dowdy, a/k/a Stanley M. Dowdy, a/k/a Stanley Dowdy, and Stan Dowdy, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30952

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

Denver Probate Court City and County of Denver, Colorado 1437 Bannock Street, #230 Denver, CO 80202 on or before January 15, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Luke Dowdy, Personal Representative c/o Law Office of Byron K. Hammond, LLC 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 960 Denver, CO 80246

Legal Notice No. 945980

First Publication: September 14, 2023

Last Publication: September 28, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Estate of JAMES RICHARD TERHUNE, (a.k.a. JAMES R. TERHUNE), Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30936

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative (KARA SLOAN) or to DENVER

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PROBATE COURT (1437 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80202) on or before JANUARY 15, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

/s/ Leona Hauschild

LEONA HAUSCHILD, Esq.

Attorney for Personal Representative

1801 California Street, Suite 2400 Denver, CO 80202

Legal Notice No. 82423

First Publication: September 14, 2023

Last Publication: September 28, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Estate of Bruce Allen Gestner, a/k/a Bruce A. Gestner, and Bruce Gestner, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR31045

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 and County of Denver, Colorado

1437 Bannock Street, #230 Denver, CO 80202

on or before January 21, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kenneth Frank Gestner

Personal Representative

c/o Law Office of Byron K. Hammond, LLC 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 960 Denver, CO 80246

Legal Notice No.82438

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: October 5, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Estate of Kody Wayne Simmons, a/k/a Kody W. Simmons, and Kody Simmons, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30955

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

Denver Probate Court City and County of Denver, Colorado

1437 Bannock Street, #230 Denver, CO 80202

on or before January 15, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kory Bryan Simmons

Personal Representative

c/o Law Office of Byron K. Hammond, LLC

4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 960 Denver, CO 80246

Legal Notice No. 82429

First Publication: September 14, 2023

Last Publication: September 28, 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

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Estate of Clarence Broussard, Deceased

Case Number: 23 PR 31000

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, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Christopher Gordon, Esq

Attorney to the Personal Representative

Stewart & Gordon

3650 S. Yosemite St., Suite 214 Denver, CO 80237

Legal Notice No. 82428

First Publication: September 14, 2023

Last Publication: September 28, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Estate of Jacob Ryan Kramer, aka Jacob Kramer, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR415

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before February 1, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Hunter Rone, Personal Representative 677 Gayla Court Loveland, Colorado 80537

Legal Notice No. 82427

First Publication: September 14, 2023

Last Publication: September 28, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch

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Estate of THEODORE WRIGHT BRIN, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30925

A llpersonshaving c laim s againstthe 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 22, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Taina Brin, Personal Representative

Estate of Theodore W. Brin

2509 S. Fillmore Street Denver, CO 80210

Legal Notice No. DHD100

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: October 5, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Estate of ANN C. AMTER, also known as ANN CAROL AMTER and ANN AMTER, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 30997

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 22, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

Attn: Clare R. Ceplecha

MAC C7300-11 M 1700 Lincoln Street, 11th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203

Legal Notice No. DHD103

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: October 5, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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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

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Lowell Howard Hansen, a/k/a/ Lowell H. Hansen and Lowell Hansen, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30996

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 22, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Susan H. Hobbins

Personal Representative c/o Poskus & Klein, P.C. 303 East 17th Avenue, Suite 900 Denver, Colorado 80203

Legal Notice No. DHD102

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: October 5, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Denver Probate Court City and County of Denver, Colorado Court Address: 1437 Bannock Street, Room 230 Denver, CO 80202

In the Matter of the Estate of: TYLER FRANCES GORRELL, Deceased

Case Number: 2018PR31106

Attorneys for Teryl and Mary Beth Gorrell: Richard G. Kiely, #43682 Carol Warnick, #21521 Holland & Hart LLP 555 Seventeenth St., Suite 3200 Denver, Colorado 80202

Telephone: (303) 295-8000

Fax No.: (303) 295-8261

Email: rgkiely@hollandhart.com

cwarnick@hollandhart.com

NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR DETERMINATION OF DEATH OF TYLER FRANCES GORRELL

city north of Denver, saw their own housing dreams collapse after Cindy was diagnosed with a life-threatening condition that required multiple surgeries and left the couple with more than $250,000 in medical debt.

When the Powers declared bankruptcy, the settlement protected their home. But their mortgage was sold, and the new lender rejected the payment plan. ey lost the house.

Lindsey Vance, 40, who moved to Denver ve years ago seeking more a ordable housing than the Washington, D.C., area where she was from, still can’t buy a house because of medical debts. She and her husband have a six- gure income, but medical bills for even routine care that she’s struggled to pay since her 20s have depressed her credit score, making it di cult to get a loan. “We’re stuck in a holding pattern,” she said.

In and around Denver, elected ofcials, business leaders, and others have become increasingly concerned about medical debt as they

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whose facilities put out 25,000 tons or more of carbon. It’s a list of familiar companies: JBS Swift, Western Sugar, Suncor, Molson Coors, Cargill, Anheuser-Busch, Leprino Foods. Together, the 18 put out about 2.4 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, while Colorado’s overall carbon output across all sources was about 126 million tons in 2020.

look for ways to tackle what many see as a housing crisis.

“ ese things are deeply connected,” Denver City Council member Sarah Parady said. “As housing prices have gone up and up, I’ve seen more and more people, especially people with a medical issues and debts, lose housing security.” Parady, who ran for o ce last year to address housing a ordability, is helping lead an e ort to get the city to buy and retire medical debt for city residents.

Fueled by skyrocketing prices and rising interest rates, the cost of buying a home more than doubled in Denver from 2015 to 2022, according to one recent analysis. And with rents also surging, evictions are rocketing upward after slowing during the rst two years of the pandemic.

Perhaps nowhere is Denver’s crisis more visible than on the streets. e city’s downtown is dotted with tents and encampments, including one that stretches over several blocks near the shelter and clinic where Atencio used to work. By one count, metro Denver’s homeless population increased nearly 50% from 2020 to 2023.

CEDP, which was founded to help

“We oppose trading schemes and cost thresholds that allow corporations to avoid improvements that will improve the local environmental quality for the communities that surround them,” said Ean Tafoya, Colorado director for GreenLatinos. “We are especially concerned that the Colorado Energy O ce is backing an industry proposal to pay to pollute in communities rather than protect communities like the Environmental Justice Act requires.” Suncor’s pre-hearing statements to the commission, meanwhile, said the 2024 launch time for the

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TO TYLER FRANCES GORRELL AND ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

A one-hour hearing will be held on the Petition for Determination of Death and For Order for Issuance of Presumptive Death Certificate at the following time and location or a later date to which the hearing may be continued.

DATE: October 31, 2023

TIME: 9 a.m.

COURTROOM: Denver Probate

Curt City and County of Denver

ADDRESS: 1437 Bannock Street, Room 230 Denver, CO 80202

Submitted this 13th day of September, 2023.

Original Signature on File

s/Richard G. Kiely

Richard G. Kiely, #43682

HOLLAND & HART LLP

Attorney for Jamey L. Moss, Personal Representative

Legal Notice No. DHD101

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: October 5, 2023

Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

residents with housing challenges sparked by the pandemic, this year joined other Colorado consumer and patient advocates to push the legislature for stronger protections for patients with medical debt.

And in June, Colorado enacted a trailblazing bill that prohibits medical debt from being included on residents’ credit reports or factored into their credit scores, a move that put the state at the forefront of e orts nationally to expand debt protections for patients.

A few other states are considering similar steps. And in Washington, D.C., consumer and patient advocates are pushing for federal action to limit medical bills on credit reports. In most states — including many with the highest rates of medical debt — patients still have no such protections.

For his part, Atencio is hoping the new apartment marks a turning point.

e home is modest — a small unit in an aging concrete tower.

ere’s a security guard by the front door and long, linoleum corridors painted institutional blue and brown.

Atencio’s family is settling in, along with four pet rats — Stitch,

earliest greenhouse gas cuts are too “aggressive,” and are not required by the 2021 legislation that set up the next tier of industrial rules. Suncor, which requested an hour at the hearings to present its objections, also said the draft rules don’t o er a “technically feasible and cost-e ective alternative” for some industries, and do not create a stable or liquid trading market for the carbon credits.

“ e commission needs to carefully consider the design of the proposed rule to ensure that it does not negatively impact Colorado’s fuel

Cheese, Peach, and Bubbles — who live in a large cage in the living room. “ is feels like freedom,” said Atencio.

He’s tried to give his children, who are 5 and 11, a sense of security: home-cooked meals and the space to play or hang out in their own bedrooms. Like parents everywhere, he frets over their screen time and rolls his eyes when they critique what’s for dinner. ( ey didn’t like the potatoes he put in a pot roast.)

ey are all full-time students: Atencio, who left his job at the shelter, is working on a master’s in social work. His son just started kindergarten, and his daughter is in middle school. “I have big plans and big goals,” he said.

And with several thousand dollars of medical debt still to pay o , Atencio said he’s careful not to take his kids to an out-of-network hospital or physician. “I won’t make that mistake again,” he said.

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supply, Colorado’s asphalt supply, and consumer prices,” Suncor said.  Colorado residents can follow the public comments and commission debate online during the AQCC’s meetings Sept. 20-22.

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