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Interview: Chief led with eye toward ‘community policing’ Englewood’s John Collins exits after decades in service to city

Academic year gets underway without mask requirement

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Englewood Police Chief John Collins spent nearly all of his 45year career in law enforcement in the city — and even when he left for another job, he couldn’t stay away for long.

“I decided to leave and went to the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s Office” in 1988, said Collins, who promptly returned in January 1990 after working as an investigator for the DA’s office.

“Nothing against attorneys, but I was surrounded by them. And I really, truly missed being a cop, and so I reached back out to the city, and I was fortunate enough to be brought back.”

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BY RACHEL LORENZ SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

There are several factors contributing to the current market conditions, but mostly, it is the “California problem,” Eisenberg said.

“For a long time, the California problem stayed in California,” Eisenberg said. “But now it is coming to Colorado as people in California are saying ‘hell with it.’

The housing prices are too high,

Littleton Public Schools launched the new school year without a face mask requirement, though that didn’t sit well with some parents who spoke at a school board meeting Aug. 12.

The district’s current health and safety protocols are not enough now that the new delta variant is the dominant COVID-19 strain in Colorado, several community members who spoke at the meeting said.

“Given how delta has changed the game, I think having a low school infection rate over the last year is like saying we didn’t get any wildfires while it was raining,” one man who gave public comment by phone said.

With classrooms at full capacity, he said the two best lines of defense are masks and vaccines. Vaccines are not available for children under 12 years of age, but a mask mandate for elementary children would ensure in-person learning for as many days as possible, he said.

“I wonder what the acceptable number of infections is for those who can’t choose vaccines yet,” he said, taking a jab at the district’s oftstated goal of having 100% of LPS students ready for post-secondary education by graduation.

Earlier in the meeting, Assistant Superintendent Melissa Cooper gave

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Englewood Police Chief John Collins cuts the ribbon at the city’s then-new police headquarters in April 2019, with Mayor Linda Olson at his side. “I’m at a loss for words for what this means for the department,” Collins said at the time. “Long after COURTESY OF ADOLFSON & PETERSON CONSTRUCTION we’re gone, this building will remain.”

Families being priced out of local housing market ‘California problem’ is impacting inventory and prices

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It is no surprise that local families are feeling frustrated and burned out in the current hous-

Speakers urge mask mandate in Littleton Schools

ing market, as national economist Elliot Eisenberg says Colorado is going through a “California problem.”

In January, Eisenberg, of econ70. com, compared the Colorado housing market to a car cruising down the interstate. Before the pandemic in 2019, all signs were stable and cruise control was set at 65 mph.

In 2020, it slowed down to about 25 mph. In 2021, the market spun out of control, hitting 95 mph.

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close the door on his decades of service at the Englewood Police Department on Aug. 20, when Sam Watson, the department’s deputy chief, takes over Collins’ position.

Collins leaves behind a career that began in Yuma, Arizona, in 1976, after Collins — who grew up in New York City — moved to the Southwest with his wife and highschool sweetheart, Marion. But it wasn’t long before Collins was looking for a change of scenery.

“We had traveled through Denver on our honeymoon, and once we got to Yuma, we realized how hot it was,” Collins laughed. “So we said, you know, we fell in love with the Denver area, so I sent a bunch of applications out, and lo and behold, this is where I landed.”

Collins applied to several police departments in Colorado, and when Englewood responded, he and his wife hopped in their car and traveled to metro Denver. He joined Englewood’s police force in 1978.

Collins rose up the ladder in Englewood, moving up to the position of sergeant in 1996. He “was put on loan” to the South Metro Drug Task Force for about four years, he said. The task force, which was later dissolved, also included investigators from the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, Littleton, Greenwood Village, Sheridan and Parker, Collins said.

After it disbanded, Englewood police continued to work with other

Englewood Police Chief John Collins in front of the city’s police headquarters building.

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agencies, such as the Arapahoe County Narcotics Team, Collins said.

In 2001, Collins also attended the FBI National Academy, a 12-week leadership development course that is “held in pretty high regard for folks in law enforcement,” Collins said.

In the early 2000s, Collins was promoted to lieutenant in Englewood and then to commander a couple years later, landing an appointment to deputy chief under former Chief Tom Vandermee around 2007, Collins said. Collins was appointed chief in 2011.

‘Philosophical change’ in policing Along the way, Collins said he became guided by a passion for “community policing,” a concept that came to prominence in the

1990s. Collins started what’s called the Impact Team at the Englewood Police Department around 1996.

“Back in the day, the police department would decide if they solved your problem or not, but the biggest thing for the community is that we engage them in helping to solve the problem,” Collins said.

“That brought us outside of the silo and into the community, where we would sit down with them, and they’d be part of the solution.”

A police department could say it solved the problem by arresting a certain number of people, but “that’s really not the case,” Collins said.

“You may not have gotten to the root of the problem. You need to have that philosophical change of direction,” and Englewood police started to do that, Collins

continued.

The best example of the Impact Team’s method of solving problems may have been its policing of a house involved with drugs about five years ago, Collins said. i Stolen cars were showing up t amid a lot of drug activity, and “thei p neighborhood knew it,” Collins said. A stolen car left one night and l drove into a home, he added.

So the Impact Team — a “hand- m t selected” group of officers who go through rigorous testing — en- E E gaged the local fire department, Englewood code enforcement and c the city’s Building Division to ad- C dress the problem, Collins said.

The different city offices all had G something to offer to the situation, h such as the fire marshal condemn- p o ing the house, Collins said.

“And every year from that neigh- a borhood, we get a thank-you card, a which is special,” Collins said.

The Impact Team’s influence goese beyond making arrests: If a couple s neighbors can’t get along, the team h can also help to mediate the issue, t 4 Collins said. m c Different approaches Another effort that started under Collins is the police department’s c “co-responder” program, a collabo- p ration with AllHealth Network, a n behavioral-health service provider I that has locations in Littleton and t s other south metro areas.

The co-responder program pairs k Englewood police officers with personnel from AllHealth who are m e trained in responding to mental a health crises or challenges. The o SEE CHIEF, P3

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Englewood department examined itself in year of controversy

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After the killing of George Floyd

by Minneapolis police last year, the Englewood Police Department took steps to review its policing policies and community engagement.

“I think last summer really brought to the surface the major issues that policing is facing, and so my words to the next police chief, Sam Watson, is to never lose sight of being a visionary,” Collins said. He added: “Never get reticent … or comfortable in your role.”

The steps the department took to review its policies included a panel discussion with policing and community-engagement experts and a town-hall meeting on policing, which also included a poll and feedback from the community.

“After receiving this information, the city established a Police Reform Task Force in August 2020 to provide (city) council with recommendations regarding training, hiring and discipline, (and) use-of-force policies and procedures,” Tim Dodd, Englewood’s

assistant to the city manager, has said.

The task force met for two to three hours each week between Sept. 9 and Oct. 14, according to Dodd.

To see the city’s report on the task force’s recommendations and other information, go online to tinyurl.com/EnglewoodPoliceReform and click on the middle of the image of the document shown on the page.

“We’re actually meeting with the Englewood Police Reform Task Force (on the week of Aug. 16) to show them the steps that have been taken,” Collins said. “I believe there were about 30 suggestions that we should take on, or challenges, if you will, and we’ve made progress on almost all of them.”

Incoming Chief Watson may sit down with city council in an open meeting in the coming months to discuss progress made and what the next steps are, Collins said.

“You have to continue to strengthen the partnerships within the community. The old days of policing are long gone,” Collins added.

Police departments in past decades “were very efficient: They arrested people, they wrote tickets, but they weren’t effective.

They didn’t have an impact on crime like we do today,” Collins said.

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idea came to Collins after spotting a story about a small town in Massachusetts starting such a program.

Collins’ conversations with the local faith community — whose members play a large role in efforts to address homelessness in the Englewood-Littleton area — gave Englewood police the impetus to create the co-responder program, Collins said. “(Englewood police Sgt.) Reid McGrath, who I’m very proud of, he helped organized this co-responder program to where I think it’s one of the best in the state,” Collins added.

In June 2018, Englewood police added a mental health co-responder to the department. The program started off with a small number of hours per week, but now, it boasts two co-responders that each work 40 hours a week, along with a case manager who follows up on many cases, Collins said.

“It’s a great complement to the community because we’re able to provide that mental health service now and, in many cases, at no cost.

I’m proud of that, but I’m proud of the folks that drove that,” Collins said.

The co-responder program is a key element of the police department’s approach to people experiencing homelessness, who often are dealing with substance abuse or mental illness.

And the co-responder program is not just for people experiencing homelessness — it’s for anybody who experiences a mental health crisis in the community, Collins said.

Collins thinks that ultimately, the solution to a lot of the problems surrounding homelessness is housing itself.

“Until the municipalities and the largest cities and communities in this state really commit to that, I don’t think we’ll really be truly successful in dealing with that,” Collins said.

He added: “I think we realized back in the day that this wasn’t going to be dealt with in a couple of years, and the police aren’t going to arrest their way out of this.”

Facing rising crime Collins also led the department through nearly the first year and a half of the coronavirus pandemic, a time when concerns about crime have risen.

“I think anyone who reads the papers or watches the news at night (knows) crime across the country took off pretty badly in the

In the early days of COVID-19’s spread in the U.S., Englewood Police Chief John Collins addresses city residents in a March 31, 2020, video on how police were addressing the pandemic.

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pandemic, and it has not slowed down,” Collins said.

The biggest trend in crime that Englewood is dealing with is auto theft, Collins said. Pushing crime rates back down will take collaboration with the community, he said.

“That’s where that community policing comes back full circle again. I don’t think any police department without engaging the community as best they can is going to be successful in solving the crime issue,” Collins said.

The chief said that Englewood Police Department already had some strong tools in its belt, including the Impact Team.

“We didn’t have to change much (during the pandemic) because we were doing a pretty decent job” with responding to crime in general, Collins said.

Grateful to city One more highlight Collins is proud of when he looks back: his wife.

“Anybody who can survive someone for 45 years in the throes of law enforcement, I have to give her a lot of credit. It’s tough,” Collins said. “That’s what wives and significant others go through — the late nights, the crazy hours and just the violence you deal with at times.”

He wants to say to the Englewood community: “Thank you for having me, and I really mean that.

“When I left the DA’s office back in ’90, when I came back, people asked me why I came back here,” Collins said. He added: “The city and the community treated me very well. I was committed. There was no other choice for me … At the end of the day, you wish you could have done more as well, but I think I left us in a good place.”

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People were lined up along the sidewalk on Aug. 15 to get Sundaymorning pancakes at the 42nd Western Welcome Week Pancake Breakfast in Geneva Park. The park was also home to two other events that morning — the Kids Games of Old and the 25th Bruce Wolf Stick Horse Stampede.

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That’s according to redistricting data released Aug. 12 by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Arapahoe County’s population rose to 655,070 last year, up from 572,003 a decade earlier, the Census Bureau said. Arapahoe is the thirdmost-populous county in Colorado, behind El Paso, home to Colorado Springs (730,395) and Denver (715,522) The county’s growth rate was slightly lower than the 14.8% growth rate of Colorado as a whole.

The new census data also showed that Arapahoe County in 2020 had a housing unit vacancy rate of 4.7%, among the lowest in Colorado and well below the state average of 9.4%.

Statewide, the fastest-growing county between 2010 and 2020 was Broomfield, with a 32.6% growth rate, the new numbers show. Broomfield ranked No. 30 among the nation’s fastest-growing counties.

That was followed by Weld County

The Census Bureau on Aug. 12 released the first local-level results from its 2020 census to give Colorado and other states the data they need to redraw the boundaries of SHUTTERSTOCK IMAGE congressional and legislative election districts.

(30.1%), Douglas County (25.4%), lightly-populated Mineral County (21.5%), Larimer County (19.8%), Denver County (19.2%), Adams County (17.7%), El Paso County (17.4%), Arapahoe County (14.5%) and Elbert County (12.9%).

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Aurora council wants Tri-County to stay together Mayor says split would be costly for taxpayers

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As Douglas County decides whether it will break up with its health department, the City of Aurora — some of which is included in that county — has come out and said it opposes the idea.

Aurora, which stretches across Adams and Arapahoe counties as well, is currently served by TriCounty Health Department in all three of those jurisdictions.

“Douglas County taxpayers, Aurora being part of it, are going to be paying more for this decision without getting better service,” Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman said.

“I just think it’s a mistake and I

hope they reconsider.”

Coffman said in the Aug. 9 city council meeting that he thinks the single health department for three counties provides economies of scale, reducing the burden on taxpayers, and that there is a “greater depth of experience” in a large organization like Tri-County.

In a letter to the Aurora City Council, Douglas County commissioners rebutted those claims.

“Part of the stated rationale for that draft resolution is that there are economies of scale and that costs will be lower for taxpayers of Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties rather than to have separate administration for each county,” according to the letter signed by all three commissioners. “We have not seen any of the data or studies on which such conclusions rely, but if you provide them, we will consider them as well.”

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A 2004 document titled “Douglas County Health Study Report” — conducted by Douglas County staff — found that “there are economies of scale associated with belonging to a multi-county health department,” according to the report acquired by Colorado Community Media through a public records request.

That same study also concluded that if Douglas County pulled out of Tri-County, Adams and Arapahoe would have to pay about 20% more for their services.

A spokesperson for Douglas County said that the information from the 2004 document was not a formal study but “an assertion.”

Background In July 2020, Douglas County commissioners notified Tri-County that they would leave the health department in a year because of what they said was a desire for more local control related to COVID-19 restrictions. A few weeks later, they began discussions with the health department on how to stay together and eventually found a compromise allowing them increased control over public health orders. They voted to remain with the health department until at least the end of 2022 but have continued exploring the possibility of creating their own organization.

Since then, the commissioners signed a nearly $145,000 contract with Health Management Asso-

ciates to conduct a community health assessment and a public health improvement plan. They also formed an 11-member citizen Public Health Advisory Committee to provide citizen input on the matter. The county plans to have an initial recommendation from the committee on steps forward by the end of 2021.

“At this time all options are on the table to provide the best health services to our residents,” according to the commissioners’ letter. “Any input Aurora wishes to provide for its Douglas County residents is welcome.”

The Aurora resolution voiced support for the health department, pointing to its work during the pandemic and its board of health’s structure. “(Tri-County’s) Board of Health, composed of three commissionerappointed representatives from each of the three member counties, and (Tri-County), recognizing the diverse needs of each of the three member counties, tailored public health policies to maximize health benefits in each county,” the resolution said.

Coffman echoed that sentiment during his meeting comments.

“I really appreciate all that they did to bring us to the point where we are now and I think it would be a big mistake to break them apart,” he said.

The council approved the resolution with only one member, Marsha Berzins, voting no.

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Tri-County Health to let COVID dial order expire; Jeffco extends it Color-coded system signaled restrictions to ward off coronavirus

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The local health agency serving Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties has announced it will let its version of COVID-19 color-coded “dial” system expire in mid-August, signaling that the last set of broad — but dormant — coronavirus requirements in a large part of the Denver metro area is ending.

But Jefferson County’s health agency says it will continue its dial order for now.

The change by the Tri-County Health Department comes as the new school year unfolds, presenting a new test for the coronavirus pandemic in Colorado: Can much of the metro area tamp down hospitalizations and deaths with no broad state mask mandate, no business restrictions, essentially no state-imposed school COVID-19 restrictions and students back in school full-time this fall?

Statewide, hospitalizations have spiked in the last few weeks, jumping from 266 confirmed COVID-19 patients on July 22 to 501 on Aug. 11. Daily deaths among those with COVID-19 in the past several weeks continued to outpace the recent lows seen in March, at times breaking

into double digits.

“We do not intend to extend the dial order,” said a statement from Becky O’Guin, a spokesperson for Tri-County Health. “We continue to factor incidence (new-case) rate, hospitalizations and deaths in all our decision-making,” O’Guin’s Aug. 11 statement added.

Many Coloradans likely didn’t know the dial system was still in effect: Because the metro area had been operating in “level clear,” restrictions on businesses had been lifted and wouldn’t have returned unless coronavirus trends had hit a certain boiling point.

Originally implemented last Sept.

15, Colorado’s color-coded COVID-19 dial was the set of restrictions counties had to follow based on the local spread of the virus. The system affected capacity at restaurants, other businesses, indoor and outdoor events, and other settings.

A promotional graphic about Level Clear.

Operating in ‘level clear’ Although the state’s dial system expired in mid-April, local health agencies in the Denver metro area extended the dial system locally as a rise in virus cases and the continued spread of COVID-19 variants kept health officials worried.

Then, as of May 16, several metro counties were operating in what they call “level clear,” generally with no local restrictions.

In Adams, Arapahoe and Jefferson counties, for example, level clear was to continue in the past few months unless hospitalizations

triggered a “snapback provision,” where restrictions would return if a county exceeded two hospital admissions per 100,000 residents, measured a certain way over a 14day period.

But hospitalizations, at least in Adams and Arapahoe, never reached high enough to bring restrictions back.

Tri-County Health announced it would let the local dial system expire in Adams and Arapahoe in mid-August. Boulder and Broomfield counties also entered level clear in May. Along with Jefferson, the counties

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Jefferson County Public Health announced plans to extend its dial order for one month, spokesperson Ashley Sever said on Aug. 13.

“The county will remain in the observation period for a bit longer,” Sever said, referring to level clear.

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was “closely watching the rapid increase in 14-day hospitalization rate in Jeffco” as the agency considered an extension, Sever said.

Denver said in mid-May through a spokesperson that it was “planning to meet level clear standards,” and the city issued a public health order that took effect May 16.

“Denver is lifting capacity limits and distancing requirements in nearly all settings,” the city said in a May 14 news release.

Denver did use the “level clear” tag at one point, but it later stopped using the dial terminology. The city’s latest public health order, dated Aug. 2, doesn’t mention capacity restrictions.

Boulder County moved out of level clear on Aug. 15, said Angela Simental, a spokesperson for Boulder

County Public Health. The policy will not be extended, she said.

The Broomfield Department of Public Health and Environment hadn’t responded for comment as of Aug. 14 about whether it plans to let its local dial expire.

Schools and virus spread In late July, the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment released new K-12 school guidelines that left the choice of whether to require masks up to school districts — and across the metro area, school mask rules now vary widely.

Some districts didn’t mandate masks, and others are requiring them for vaccinated and unvaccinated people alike.

Asked whether a lack of masks in full-time in-person classes would lead to greater coronavirus spread in the broader community, Tri-County responded: “In an environment where people (and) students are unvaccinated, CO-

VID-19 will spread. That is the nature of this virus, and the delta (variant) makes that even more concerning.

We continue to work with our school districts in Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties to prioritize inperson learning and institute prevention strategies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.”

Tri-County Health in late July announced it recommends that “all persons wear masks in school settings regardless of vaccination status and, as long as we have rising rates of community transmission, that everyone including fully vaccinated persons wear a mask in public indoor settings,” according to a news release.

In light of new data on the delta coronavirus variant, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in late July updated its guidance for fully vaccinated people. The CDC now recommends “universal indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students, and visitors to K-12 schools,

regardless of vaccination status,” according to its website.

The CDC’s change in guidance was based on surges in infection due to the delta variant in many parts of the United States, as well as evolving understanding of vaccinated persons’ ability to transmit delta infection and slowing rates of vaccination, according to the Tri-County news release.

Tri-County Health officials are “seeing promising trends in the 12-and-up vaccination rates in all three counties,” the agency’s statement said. As of Aug. 10, 72.9% of the counties’ 12-plus population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Among the 12-to-15 age group, specifically, in Adams, 47.8% had initiated or completed the vaccination process, compared with 56.2% in Arapahoe and 55.5% in Douglas, according to Tri-County data. For the 16-to-17 age group, Adams stood at 57.6%, Arapahoe at 66.1% and Douglas at 67.2%.

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he other day a teenager was approaching me wearing a black concert T-shirt with an image of Led Zeppelin on the front, and the year 1977. He happened to stop right in front WINNING of me to wait for traffic to stop so WORDS he could cross the street. So, I made a comment letting him know I liked the T-shirt and shared that I had seen Led Zeppelin perform in 1977 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Michael Norton The young man’s face lit up as he told me that it was his dad’s favorite band and how his dad had seen the concert in New York City as well. He also shared that he and his dad bonded over music and how much appreciation he had for classic rock.

Suddenly, I was noticing the words, logos and images on the people I saw walking through the streets, airports

and shops. As I was waiting to pay for a parking space, the woman in front of me turned around and she had the word “Empowered” on her shirt. I took the leap and asked her what the shirt was about. She shared that she was at a conference recently for her company and that the word “Empowered” was the theme for their event. And that it was one of her very favorite words. It’s one of mine too.

Many years ago, I happened to be traveling back from an event in Las Vegas. I was representing Zig Ziglar at that conference and I was wearing the Ziglar logo on my dress shirt.

There was a glitch somewhere in the system that created a problem for many travelers, me included. The line began to get agitated, and frustration boiled over.

At this point in my career, I had traveled more than a million miles.

And I just occupied my time reading and checking my phone knowing that there was nothing I could do other than patiently wait it out. A few groups around me were fanning

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Hold off on development An Englewood resident since 1992, I’ve witnessed lots of change to my neighborhood. Southern development such as Highlands Ranch has increased traffic on South Broadway. Aspen Grove has encroached on Carson Nature Center. River Point and light rail have transformed Oxford into a major thoroughfare.

Gigantic apartment houses, condos, pot shops and “trendy” bars are pushing their way into a small town where you could once hear church bells and train whistles. Most of unique Trolley Square was torn down to increase King Soopers parking. Cinderella City suffered from the proliferation of other malls and eventually redesigned into residences, shops and our CityCenter.

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the flames of frustration and looking for sympathizers for the misery loves company club. One woman looked at me and said something about how awful the situation was and wondered why I wasn’t upset.

Then she looked at the Zig Ziglar logo on my shirt. Then in a slightly condescending tone said, “Well you have to act calm and be positive, it’s what your company is all about.” My reply was straightforward and sincere as I shared with her that it was not just about the logo, it was about the message behind the logo.

I also shared that I was frustrated too, but at that point all I could do was decide how I wanted to respond and how I could best use my time.

Complaining was simply counterproductive. Although she somewhat dismissed my reply, I noticed others around us begin to pick up their book, open their laptop, or take out a magazine to occupy their time.

One gentleman walked up to me and said something that was so meaningful to me. He told me that Mr. Ziglar would be proud that I rep-

resented his brand so well. Honestly, I had not thought about it that way when I made my comments. Until the woman called the logo into question, I had forgotten I was even wearing it.

Whether we are wearing any type of clothing with a message or logo on it or not, our actions and words speak volumes about who we are and what our brand is as a person. Our actions and words could also very easily characterize the type of company we work for and the corporate culture we represent.

What do people see when they see you? How do you handle yourself when challenges arise? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@ tramazing.com, and when we can remember that our brand is more than just the message or logo on our clothing, it really will be a better than good week.

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Lois Angers Englewood Raccoon story raises questions (Re the Aug. 5 Englewood Herald story “Ex-councilman’s raccoon encounter causes stir”) Let me get this story straight: Steve Yates is in his backyard with his two dogs (Lighted backyard? How big are the dogs? Tiny Chihuahuas?) when two raccoons attacked his dog.

Really? Or was it the other way around? And he runs into another neighbor’s yard to kill the raccoon? Seriously? Were his dogs barking the entire time? His neighbors must, well, you wonder what his neighbors think of him.

I am so glad I did not vote for Steve Yates, again, for city council.

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Masks are a must at Arapahoe Community College Community college’s 3 campuses require face coverings for all

BY RACHEL LORENZ SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Masks will once again be required indoors on Arapahoe Community College campuses.

The change was announced Aug. 11 on Twitter and in a letter from Stephanie Fujii, ACC’s newly installed president.

Students, employees, members of the community, visitors and contractors who go to any of the school’s campuses in Littleton, Parker and Castle Rock — whether vaccinated or not — will need to be masked, the letter said. The renewed requirement goes into effect Aug. 16, and the fall semester begins Aug. 23.

Fujii had hoped to begin the academic year with the maskoptional policy the school had instituted July 24 before her arrival. However, after considering recent Fujii Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations regarding the continuing spread and infectious nature of the delta variant as well as local and national data on the virus, the school’s leadership concluded a “more cautious and proactive approach” was necessary.

“The most disruptive thing that can happen to our students is if we have to go to remote instruction,” Fujii told Colorado Community Media. “We want to avoid that at all costs.”

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an overview of the district’s strategies to mitigate COVID-19. Three speakers from the public remarked that Cooper’s report made no mention of the delta variant or of the effectiveness of past safety measures, such as hand washing and improved ventilation, on new strains of the virus.

One speaker noted that the coronavirus now affects children more than it did previously and that the data the district used in decisionmaking reflects summer conditions, when people are more likely to be out of doors. She said a universal mask mandate for elementary children would be in line with the LPS mission to “act with purpose and compassion in a safe and secure environment.”

Since the meeting took place on the first day of school, Cooper shared Arapahoe County data in her COVID-19 update. Any other data the district has is from the previous school year, she said.

The school district is following the county’s daily incidence rates for COVID-19, a rolling seven-day average of cases, for children in various age groups. Cooper reported there

ment of Public Health and Environment and Tri-County Health now recommend all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, wear a mask indoors, including teachers, staff, students and visitors. At press time, neither Arapahoe County, Douglas County, Jefferson County nor the state of Colorado had a public health order requiring masks.

ACC joins a growing number of colleges and universities in the state in making masks mandatory.

The higher education institutions on the Auraria Campus began requiring masks indoors Aug. 9.

Front Range Community College’s mask mandate went into effect Aug. 10. Like ACC, Community College of Aurora and Red Rocks Community College will require masks beginning Aug. 16.

Some caveats to the masking requirement are listed on ACC’s website.

In classes at ACC, instructors may remove masks when teaching if they are vaccinated and are comfortable doing so. Similarly, presenters may remove masks while presenting if they are vaccinated and socially distanced. However students and audiences must remain masked in these settings, according to the school’s website.

In a private office on campus, individuals may remove their masks if they are alone. Two vaccinated people meeting in a private office on campus may also remove their masks if they both are comfortable doing so. But if three or more meet, masks are required, the website says.

“We’re hoping that people will be respectful and kind,” Fujii said. “I do believe this is a community that cares about how each other are feeling and doing.” were 16 cases per 100,000 children ages 5 to 10; 15 cases per 100,000 children ages 11 to 14; and 18 cases per 100,000 children ages 15 to 18. The hospitalization rate for those 18 and under stood at 0.33 per 100,000.

“If you do the math, that’s one child hospitalized for every 300,000,” Cooper said.

The school district is reinforcing the recommendation that people wear masks indoors, Cooper said.

The recommendation has been given by the Centers of Disease Control, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Tri-County Health Department.

But the district is also leaving the choice up to students and parents, Cooper said.

Superintendent Brian Ewert, who visited 11 Littleton schools that day, said he observed 10% to 40% of people wearing masks.

Littleton Public Schools joins several other local school districts in not enforcing a full mask mandate.

Neighboring Englewood Schools, however, does require masks for all people inside its buildings regardless of vaccination status.

“I feel like, without a choice, my children walked off to school today as one of the 10% to 40% masked,” one Littleton mother said to the board. “That’s a heavy load to leave on a first- and a fifth-grader.”

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LIFE Metro area offers lesser-known historical sites

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The grave of Richard Whitsitt in Riverside Cemetery features an angel statue with a broken arm.

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Many headstones in the Riverside Cemetery show family members buried near each other.

hile the Denver metro area is dotted with wellknown aging ranches and charming historical homesteads, some history lovers of the area may be in search of a different kind of site — one they either haven’t heard of before or that they must romp through the woods to access.

In search of these types of unusual history sites, one place to look is the National Register of Historic Places.

For each of the counties that surround Denver — not to mention all the counties in the United States — this register provides a list of historically significant sites, some of which are unique or little-known sites.

Some of these sites, like an abandoned, rattlesnake-ridden military amphitheater in Golden, aren’t available for public access.

Others, like Native American shelters in Douglas County, have a restricted location to protect them from being disturbed.

But some on the list are simply often-overlooked historical sites in the area.

The list includes bridges, farms, schools, archaeological sites and more and offers new discoveries for residents curious about all the nooks and crannies of their community’s history.

Here are a few of the Denver area’s hidden history gems from the National Register of Historic Places and beyond.

Pioneer graves in Commerce City Did you know that Denver’s oldest cemetery is mostly in Commerce City?

Riverside Cemetery, located a half-mile north of I-70 at 5201 Brighton Boulevard, was built in 1876 and registered with the national register in 1994.

While the 77-acre cemetery is surrounded by industrial properties, the cemetery itself serves as a peaceful resting place for many of Colorado’s pioneers. One afternoon in August, the giant cemetery stood mostly quiet and empty save for a few birds.

The gravesite serves as the final resting place for three of Colorado’s governors — John Evans, Samuel Elbert and John Routt. Pioneers buried there include Augusta Tabor, a Gold Rush pioneer; Barney Ford, who escaped from slavery; and Silas Soule, an abolitionist and soldier who testified against Col. John Chivington and the Colorado Cavalry after the Sand Creek Massacre and was then assassinated in the streets of Denver.

Throughout the cemetery there are dozens of unique headstones, including a log cabin replica, a giant horse sculpture, several large angel figures and a statue

of a man buried there.

An online tour brochure of the cemetery guides drivers and walkers through the historic site, which is still open for new burials. The brochure tells the stories of several of the people buried there and provides general information about the cemetery. The informational pamphlet is available at www.

FriendsofRiversideCemetery. org/visit-riverside.

A nonprofit that helps preserve the cemetery, Friends of Historic Riverside Cemetery, accepts donations to help maintain the property, which they say is “in a state of rapid decline.”

Some may notice that many of the trees on the property have died and the ground cover is mostly weeds and native grass.

“Over the fall and winter of 2008-2009, several dead trees fell and damaged nearby monuments and a historic private mausoleum,” according to the nonprofit’s website. “Many more were taken down to manage this risk, but additional trees are in danger of falling during future storms or periods of strong winds.”

The driveable and walkable cemetery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Walking among mammoths in Douglas County While many have heard of Dinosaur Ridge near Morrison, there’s more than one significant archaeological site in the area.

Lamb Spring Archaeological Preserve in Douglas County is a less well-known site but it has the highest concentration of d mammoth remains in the state. Itm l also offers free tours.

“You can go on the site and see t where they were,” said Cameron t Randolph, vice chair of the pre- T serve’s board of directors.

In 1960, Charles Lamb was ex- t panding a pond fed by a natural e spring on his property when he came upon several large bones a that were later identified as Co- n 1 lumbian Mammoth remains.

S After several excavations of the site, archaeologists found the w remains of at least five mammoths but there could be up to 30 t mammoths that died at the site. p During its life, an adult male d Columbian Mammoth could grow up to 14 feet high at its shoulder. Other remains found on the site include Ice Age horses, camels, sloths and bison.

There’s also evidence that the site was used by prehistoric people in the area as a hunting site.

If confirmed with more research, that would put humans in that area 2,000 years earlier than previously thought, Rudolph said.

Today, the site is 35 acres of protected land between Roxborough Park and Sterling Ranch. It was added to the national register in 1997.

Free tours of the site are available on the first Saturday of each month during much of spring, summer and fall. Visitors can see where the remains were SEE HISTORICAL, P15

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Show features wide range of artworks

lassically trained James McComas’ painting, “Reflections,” won the Best of Show award, chosen by juror Lorenzo Chavez in the “All Colorado at SONYA’S the Depot” exhibit, SAMPLER which was an open show and drew 908 entries from 270 artists from throughout Colorado this year. Chavez chose 95 pieces for the exhibit. (An average of 400 entries have been received Sonya Ellingboe in past years.) The exhibit includes painting, drawing, sculpture, jewelry, photography and textiles and was chaired by Littleton Fine Arts Guild members Teri Hendrix, Rebekah Griffith and Pam Roth-O’Mara. It will be at the Depot Art Gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave., Littleton, through Sept. 11. Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. See depotartgallery.org.

CGA invitational The CGA Art Student Invitational exhibit, with art and murals and ceramics by Arapahoe Community College Fine Arts Students, will run Aug. 23 to Oct. 22, with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on Aug. 19.

Gallery hours: Monday to Wednesday: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Thursday: 9

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a.m. to 7 p.m. Admission is free. Also available: the Virtual ACC Multimedia Graphic Design and Commercial Photography Show, through Dec. 31.

Go to arapahoe.edu/campus-community/art-galleries and look under “Virtual Galleries.”

Affordable Arts Festival The in-person Affordable Arts Festival on the Arapahoe Community College west lawn on Aug. 29 will benefit the ACC Foundation. All art is less than $100; 160 or more artists will exhibit their work, and we are told that a golf cart will be available if a visitor should buy more than he or she can carry! Paintings, glass, ceramics, sculpture, metal works, photography and mixed media works will be for sale and the Foundation will gain scholarship money from proceeds. See affordableartfestival. com. Each year, ACC awards over 50 privately funded scholarships from the community.

Denver modernism show 2021 Vintage cars, airplanes, decor, fashion and more at 13005 West Wings Way, at Centennial Airport, off County Line Road east of Peoria Street for the Denver Mod show. The Exploration of Flight Hangar is the site for more than 50 mid-mod vendors on Aug. 27-28. Admission: $60 advance, $70 at the door on Friday Night from 7 to 10 p.m. Mid-mod attire encouraged. For tickets, go org or their Facebook page at www.

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discovered, see a cast of one of the mammoth skulls found there and learn more about the region from the preserve’s docents. This year, the last organized tour will be Oct. 2.

The site also offers private tours.

Eventually, the organization hopes to have a museum on the site of the excavation, Rudolph said.

The preserve will also host tours and demonstrations as part of International Archaeological Day on Oct. 16 in coordination with Roxborough State Park.

Donations to the organization are welcome during tours. Residents interested in learning more about the preserve or signing up for a tour can do so by visiting www.LambSpring.

Visit a castle near Morrison For those history lovers who yearn for a workout before their history lesson, there’s Castle Trail in Morrison’s Mount Falcon Park.

The 6.7-mile, nearly 2,000-foot elevation gain loop trail leads hikers to the castle ruins of one of Denver’s early settlers and one of the area’s interesting historical characters: John Brisben Walker.

In the park are both Walker’s stone mansion, destroyed by a fire, and the cornerstone of a nevercompleted home that Walker hoped would be a summer White House for the U.S. presidents.

Born in 1847, Walker ended up in Denver 32 years later after having served as a general in the Chinese army, running for Congress, win-

‘Seeing the Invisible’ Augmented Reality works by artists including Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui and more. including several artists’ first works in AR. Premieres at Denver Botanic Gardens as one of 12 participating gardens across six countries around the world. Visitors view and experience the exhibition via an iPhone and Android app.

Participating gardens are in Denver, Jerusalem, Tucson, Tokyo, Dubai and more ... Sept. 20, 2021 to August 2022. More later on this ...

“The Neophyte,” an oil painting by Theresa Conklin, is featured in the “All Colorado at the Depot” exhibit at LittleCOURTESY PHOTO ton’s Depot Art Gallery.

will receive a link the day of performance.

Stories on Stage Stories on Stage, where actors read short stories to a rapt audience, has “forged new partnerships that allowed it to stream live shows last year, gaining a national audience.

The organization will begin with three virtual/streaming shows from Nomad Playhouse in Boulder, then the annual “Making Merry” from both Nomad and the King Center at Auraria. On Jan. 16, Stories on Stage will return to Su Teatro in Denver, in its annual collaboration with Buntport Theater Company in “High School Confidential.” See storiesonstage.org. Tickets cost $22 or $150 for the season. All will be available for virtual screening and ticket holders

Phamaly partner Access Gallery at 909 Santa Fe Drive is partnered with Phamaly Theatre Company for some free youth-oriented workshops, coinciding with its “Alice in Wonderland” production. The gallery is a nonprofit organization that opens doors to creative, educational and economic opportunities for people with disabilities to access, benefit and benefit from the arts. “Collaging Your Inner Life” on Aug. 22 from 11 a.m. to noon will be guided by Moe Gram. (Free; bring personal items you’d like to include: photos, objects, craft materials ...) Register for workshops. See phamaly.org/get-involved/ workshops-and-classes.

ning and losing a fortune and managing two newspapers, according to Morrison Historical Society.

Once in Denver, he dabbled in agriculture and made himself a new fortune before going on to develop River Front Park, an amusement park that also held Denver’s first rodeo. He made a series of other purchases including Governor Evans’ “Swiss Cottage” in Morrison and all of what is now Red Rocks Park and Mount Falcon.

After a few years away from Colorado — during which time he bought the then-failing Cosmopolitan magazine, later sold it to William Randolph Hearst and also sponsored the first automobile race in the United States — Walker returned to Morrison in the early 20th century.

From there, Walker began working on developing the area, building

a road into town, adding a tea house and constructing hiking trails. He also built a railway to the top of Mount Morrison, making it the longest cog railway in the world at the time.

During this “period of enthusiasm” Walker also dreamed up the idea of a permanent summer home for U.S. presidents, according to the historical society. Construction began on top of Mount Falcon and the cornerstone was laid, but before it could be completed, the finances dried up and the project fizzled.

Nearby, Walker built his home, a stone mansion that was destroyed by fire in 1918.

Walker, by then a widower with a son, moved to Brooklyn and then died in 1931. Today, the remains of his home and his dream of a summer White House remain for visitors to see in Mount Falcon Park.

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Cultural venues come back to life

Events provide plenty to do around Denver metro area

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While there are so many that it takes quite a while, opening my daily emails is really a happy occupation these days, as I hear from theater companies, orchestras, dance companies, galleries, arts centers and more, with announcements of future plans for exhibits, plays, concerts ...

Littleton’s Western Welcome Week, which wraps up Aug. 22, will close with a concert by the Littleton Symphony at Hudson Gardens.

(Free, but it’s necessary to have a ticket — the orchestra hope you will choose to make a $10 donation.

To do so, choose the $10 ticket.)

Longtime conductor Jurgen de Lemos, who is soon to step down, will conduct a couple more concerts for the orchestra, as it seeks a successor. The Aug. 22 repertoire will include “Finlandia” by Sibelius; Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances, Williams: March from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and more. See littletonsymphony.org.

Littleton Town Hall Arts Center will open its new season with “The Fantasticks,” the longest-running production in American theater, on Sept. 17, while Highlands Ranchbased Performance Now Theatre Company starts off with the award-

Littleton’s Town Hall Arts Center is scheduled to open its new season with “The FantasFILE PHOTO BY SCOTT GILBERT ticks” starting Sept. 17.

winning “Drowsy Chaperone” at the Lakewood Cultural Center from Sept. 10-26, followed by “Nunsense” in January 2022.

The Cherry Creek Arts Festival, which has been a July 4 weekend arts-oriented fixture, didn’t happen last year, like most of the rest of our favorites, but will reappear Sept. 4-6 this year in a 30th season,

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giving local and out-of-state artists a chance to exhibit their creations.

There may be some startling new work out there reflecting our conflicted times.

Lone Tree Arts Center has a new director and is busy scheduling events which will include concerts by the Lone Tree Symphony and Chorale, as well as national acts like Michael Martin Murphey, Smokey Robinson, Taj Mahal and the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company.

Check their constantly growing website for more programming, including some wonderful National Geographic Live treasures like “Wild Seas, Secret Shores.” Box office hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 720-509-1000.

PACE, Parker’s usually busy arts center, has a new art exhibit, “Expressions of Interior Life,” with works from Vail International Gallery, featuring Russian artists, plus the German Ulrich Gleitner who trained in Russia at St. Petersburg’s Repin Academy and American painter Don Sahli, who has lived

and worked in Russia, apprenticed with Russian artist Sergei Bongart and trained in the Russian School of Colorism. Rose Frederick is the PACE Art Center curator, who made arrangements for this exhibit. The center box office and gallery are open Noon to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday at present, 303-805-6800.

Curtis Center for the Arts, at 2349 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village, also has an exhibit called “All-Colorado” right now and is a really sweet spot for art lovers to visit. It wil next host an exhibit by the Watercolor Society of Colorado, called “Exploration in Watermedia,” running Sept. 4 through Oct. 30, which should be a “don’t miss” on the art lover’s calendar. Curtis director Chris Stevens is busy now with planning the second and hopefully annual “Art on the Green,” an outdoor art fair, with Colorado artists only, next to Curtis in the park, on Sept. 11 and 12, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Food trucks and local musicians will be included, as will a bus tour of local nearby studios.)

Museum of Outdoor Arts’ indoor gallery in Englewood has limited hours at present and MOA is focused on getting its sculpture-filled Marjorie Park up and running at 6331 S. Fiddler’s Green Circle, Greenwood Village, with the “MOA Palooza: Wildflowers in Wonderland,” benefit, featuring music by the Petty Nicks Experience on Aug. 28. (Over 21 only.) Information: moaonline.org.

A bit farther afield: Denver Center Theatre Company will start a season in 2022, with a play series listed and selling now. Vintage Theatre, which performs in Aurora, will present a delayed “Five Guys Named Moe” through Aug. 29 and the Arvada Center stages “I Do! I Do!” Sept. 10 to Oct. 10 on the mainstage. Phamaly Theatre Company presents a bizarre “Alice in Wonderland,” with philosophical caterpillars, we are told, at Su Teatro through Sept. 5, with original music by the Wheelchair Sports Camp!

More to come! (And be sure to check closer to the dates above to find out about any COVID-caused delays or cancellations.)

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Littleton district opens two new schools Newton Middle School, Ford Elementary welcome students

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BY SHANNA MAXCY SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Two new school buildings welcomed students Aug. 12 in Littleton Public Schools — the first in 40 years.

A new Newton Middle School building and a brand new school, Dr. Justina Ford Elementary School, both located in the west Centennial part of the district, were projects that stemmed from the bond passed by taxpayers in 2018.

“It’s always fun on the first day of school, but it’s crazy when no one has been to the school before on their first day of school,” said Teresa Burden, principal at Ford.

“We had people lined up at 7:30 and doors didn’t open until 7:45. When we went out, it was like they were waiting for Disneyland.”

Ford started its school year over capacity with 660 students. It pulled enrollment from four schools: Franklin, Highland, Peabody and Lenski.

“But a lot of the kids live in the neighborhood and they were being bused to other schools because there wasn’t a school here,” said Diane Leiker, chief communications officer for Littleton Public Schools.

The media center at the new Dr. Justina Ford Elementary School includes cubbies where students can curl up to read.

PHOTO BY SHANNA FORTIER MAXCY

Building filled with amenities Some highlights of the new Ford Elementary, at 7300 S. Clermont Drive in Centennial, include an open concept media center with cubby learning spaces; two outdoor learning spaces; and a maker space.

The maker space doesn’t have an assigned teacher, rather, it is available for all teachers to design and create around what they are learning in the classroom.

The school also has a full-size gym with a rock-climbing wall and cafe-

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torium that serves as a multi-use space for lunch and assembly. The space has pull-out bleachers that seat 300 people.

Each grade level has four classrooms and is separated into pods.

Each classroom has a garage door that opens to a shared learning space to encourage cooperative learning. Flexible seating can be found throughout the school.

Ford now also hosts the district’s only autism program.

“We already know that Littleton Public Schools offers a great education to kids, so our priorities right now are building relationships with students and families,” Burden said.

“We want everyone who comes here to feel like they’re a part of our family and that they will be taken care of, and heard, and valued while they’re here. And that’s a big task with everybody being new. So we are trying to strategically be thoughtful about how to build those relationships.”

The section of the school with the gym and cafeteria can be closed off to create a community center.

Burden said she’s hopeful that the community will use the building for

events.

The community will also be invited to tour the school on future community nights.

Old building replaced The new Newton Middle School, at 4401 E. Arapahoe Road in Centennial, replaces a building opened in 1962 that had significant structural issues. While it wasn’t the district’s oldest building, it was deemed to be in the worst shape.

The main hallway of the new building is adorned with handstained wooden beams and is curved for an added safety feature.

“We can stand up here and we can’t be seen down there and if anybody’s shooting down here, bullets don’t go around curved hallways,” said Newton Principal James O’Tremba.

Safety features were highlights that O’Tremba talked about while giving a tour of the building on the second day of school.

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feel safe coming in here. We want kids to feel safe in the environment, but we want it to be a welcoming environment that isn’t just lockdown like you’re going to jail every day.

And I think we’ve been able to do that here with all the safety features, yet it’s very warm and inviting.”

Much like Ford, the new Newton is broken up into grade-level pods.

Each pod has a communal space with furniture specific to that grade level. And each classroom has a garage door. Every pod has two classrooms that can open to the outside. And each pod is equipped for a maker space.

All pods have staff and genderneutral restrooms.

“We have a gender-neutral student,” O’Tremba said. “I just met with the mom and student the other day and they were very happy that we have that access.”

Cafeteria has stage The Newton cafeteria has built-in “learning stairs” that can be used for seating and a stage as well as a variety of seating and tables including alcoves. Two large garage doors open during lunch to give students access to a large outdoor space.

The outdoor space includes a large grass field, a baseball field, a basketball court and picnic tables.

Some additional highlights include a STEM lab, an R-and-D lab and custom-designed sound panels in the band and orchestra room.

Newton also houses the NOVA

Students eat snacks in one of two outdoor learning spaces at Dr. Justina Ford Elementary School.

program, which is a day treatment center for K-12 students with special emotional needs.

A new professional development space for the district also is housed at the new Newton building.

“We’ve never had anything like this before,” Leiker said. “This is new for the district to have a place like that and we really needed it.”

But the most impressive wing of the new Newton building is the athletic center. The oversized gym houses three full-size courts; a twolane, 1/10 of a mile running track; a state-of-the-art climbing wall with eight lanes plus practice lanes; and garage-door access to the outdoor fields.

O’Tremba said the additional

practice court will allow them to cut down the length of activities. For example, volleyball games will be able to start more quickly because teams will have a space to practice while a game is being played.

Adjacent to the gym is a fitness center that hosts brand-new Technogym equipment and heart-rate monitoring systems similar to Orange Theory. It also has its own sound system, Wi-Fi system and garage doors that can open to allow for circuit training.

The athletics wing has its own separate entrance that allows access to the lobby, gym and restrooms but not the rest of the building.

“I think tax dollars went to a great building that is designed for kids to

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learn in and teachers to teach in,” O’Tremba said. “It’s not just a place for kids to go to school. And it was built under budget and on time.”

A new junior stadium will be built on the site where the old Newton campus sits. It will provide additional playable surfaces for students in both district-sponsored junior varsity and varsity sports as well as club sports in the community. The old Newton building is currently undergoing abatement prior to demolition.

Littleton Schools Superintendent Brian Ewert said, “These are beautiful, state-of-the-art schools that will provide improved learning environments and opportunities for our students for decades to come.”

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‘South Park’ creators agree to buy Casa Bonita Deal for Lakewood icon not final until bankruptcy litigation concludes

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Art imitates life, imitates art?

In a virtual press conference with Governor Jared Polis, Trey Parker

and Matt Stone, creators of the animated series, South Park, confirmed they’ve reached an agreement to buy Casa Bonita.

The legendary Lakewood Mexican restaurant has been shuttered since early in the pandemic. Its owner, Summit Restaurant Group, declared bankruptcy earlier in the year.

Even before Friday’s announcement, South Park and Casa Bonita would have forever been linked in the annals of pop-culture history

after the restaurant was featured in a now-classic episode of the series.

Parker and Stone said they’re aware of recent community efforts including a GoFundMe campaign to save the restaurant.

“We’re excited to work with everybody to make it the place we all want to make it,” Parker said.

They said they’re also aware the quality of the food could be improved a little — or a lot — and hope to do just that. Parker relayed

a story of his then 4-year-old daughter’s less-than-enthusiastic reaction to her meal after a visit.

“If a kid can’t stomach it (the food), it’s pretty bad,” he said.

Recently, in lieu of being open for business, Casa Bonita has been giving guided tours, to comply with lease provisions. Just weeks ago, Robert Wheaton, CEO of Summit Family Restaurants told Denver’s Channel 7 that he planned on reopening Casa Bonita in September.

Underground Music Showcase is live again Annual three-day festival will feature performances by more than 100 live bands

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Claire Heywood expects she will be singing her heart out at this year’s Underground Music Showcase.

“Speaking for myself, playing a festival represents a needed chance to release some pent-up energy from 2020,” Heywood said. “After so long without a space to play, I hope to sing my heart out and get a few

things off my chest.”

Heywood, a singer/songwriter of Denver, will be performing at UMS this year with a full backing band comprised of other local musicians. UMS will be their first fullband show since March 2020, and UMS-goers can anticipate hearing new material, including the song “Crushed Lemons,” which won’t be released until Aug. 27.

The 2021 UMS will consist of more than 100 live musical acts performing during the three-day music festival, which takes place Aug. 27-29 across more than 12 indoorand-outdoor venues in the stretch of Broadway between Alameda and Sixth avenues.

“I’m excited to see people who were distant or tangential friendly faces before the pandemic,” Hey-

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This year’s UMS will be the second time for The Barlow, a Colorado country band from Arvada, to play the music festival.

“We’re excited to put on the best show we can,” said Shea Boynton, a singer and guitarist with The Barlow. “We’re bringing the twang and a bunch of new songs off our latest album, ‘Horseshoe Lounge.’”

The Barlow has been out performing live recently, but the band is particularly looking forward to UMS because “there’s always an unknown factor to festivals that make them exciting,” Boynton said.

Tyler Imbrogno, a vocalist who also plays keyboards and guitar in Englewood’s Eldren — a psych-pop/ alternative band that formed in 2011 — is looking forward to reconnecting with old friends, meeting new fans and discovering new artists at this year’s UMS. “It means a lot to us to be back,” Imbrogno said, “because playing UMS has served as an introduction to tons of friends, artists and venues through the years.”

He added that this year will be the fourth or fifth UMS that Eldren has played.

Eldren recently released an album of cover songs titled “Separation Sessions,” which the band recorded remotely during quarantine.

Claire Heywood will be performing at this year’s Underground Music Showcase with a full backing band composed of other local musicians. The live music festival takes place Aug. 27-29 along Broadway in Denver.

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“We had a blast doing it and were able to experiment with songs we loved, sometimes doing totally different versions,” Imbrogno said.

“Who knows, we may even bust one of those out.”

Otherwise, UMS-goers who attend Eldren’s set can expect “some old familiar tunes, as well as a couple new ones and surprises,” Imbrogno said.

Eldren hasn’t performed live since February 2020, so the band is very much looking forward to performing at UMS, Imbrogno said.

“I think everyone can expect an emotional and energetic show,” he added.

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HOUSING

August 19, 2021

Arapahoe County housing prices continue to soar

FROM PAGE 1

taxes are too high, the cost of living is ridiculous. They are jumping ship and heading to Denver.”

The problem, Eisenberg said, is that Colorado was already falling behind in building enough homes.

Add in a continually growing population and the market becomes a problem, he said.

According to the Denver Metro Real Estate Market Trends Report for July, Colorado’s population increased by about 50,000 people between July 2019 and July 2020.

From 2010 to 2020, the state grew by about 760,000 people, the eighthhighest growth rate in the U.S. Jill Schafer, a member of the Denver Metro Association of Realtors (DMAR) and agent for Kentwood Real Estate, said there is an incredible lack of inventory across the Denver metro area’s 11-county market, which includes Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas, Elbert, Gilpin, Jefferson, and Park counties.

Schafer said with population increases, local families are being forced to “drive until they find something they can afford.” Schafer explained a ripple effect, using her son as an example. He and his family could no longer afford the increased cost of homes in Denver, which meant driving south. He was lucky to land in Castle Rock, Schafer said, but by the time he moved in, his home value had already increased by tens of thou-

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In July, there were just over 3,000 w o homes up for sale.

A Zillow report estimates home m values along the Front Range have f increased by an average of 20% c from the same time last year. In Douglas County, the median home a price is $656,281, a 20.1% increase $ from 2020. In Jefferson County, the d median home price is $584,544, a s 21.8% increase. Arapahoe County has the lowest increase, with the median home price of $490,501, a 16.3% increase.

Espinoza said the problem with the reports listing median home prices that seem reasonable is that there is not enough inventory to sustain those numbers. Espinoza said in Castle Rock alone, homes are being scooped up so quickly and above asking, that there are few choices in the $600,000 range.

Espinoza represents Courtnee Lamb in Castle Rock. Trying to sell her current family home to move into a bigger home with extra property has been a nightmare, Lamb said.

“We put our home up for sale and it is at two weeks on the market,”

Graphic by Kayla Cornett/Colorado Community Media

sands of dollars.

Shawn D., who requested that his last name not be used for workrelated reasons, said his family of five are currently living in a rental home in Highlands Ranch. Shawn said the “insane” housing market along the Front Range has him and his wife questioning their move to Colorado from Florida two years ago.

Shawn said they sold their

Florida home for $280,000, making him feel like they had a good down payment and would be fine in moving to Colorado. Instead, they have been met with one letdown after another. Shawn described a market where they get on waiting lists for new housing developments that only become a lost cause.

Shawn, who works in downtown Denver when he is not working remotely, wanted to buy in Highlands Ranch. When that became too difficult, they started driving all over.

Shawn said they have put offers on homes in Castle Rock, Evergreen, and anywhere else they could in the Denver metro area. They even considered homes in Bailey, which were also overpriced, he said.

Adrian Espinoza, a Coldwell Banker real estate agent in Lakewood, said inventory is the biggest issue for clients looking for a first home, or families and couples looking to upgrade.

Espinoza said on any given day across Front Range, there are 5,000 homes up for sale. In a normal market, he said there should be between 20,000 and 30,000 listings.

The lack of inventory cuts options for clients and drives prices higher.

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she said. “No one expected that, which means when we are putting contingency offers for homes we want to buy. Sellers do not want to because a bigger cash offer will likely come later.”

Lamb described a market where she and her husband submit an offer $40,000 above asking price one night, only to be outbid by someone offering $80,000 above asking the next morning.

Lamb said they like Castle Rock and want to make sure their children remain in the same school, but the housing market is driving them to look in Elizabeth, Franktown and Colorado Springs.

Espinoza said he advises his clients to wait if they can, hoping something will become available in the area where families want to live. But he admitted the current market is creating a lot of stress and frustration.

Shawn said one of the most frustrating parts of trying to find a home is that it feels like families like his are no longer welcome in the Denver metro area.

Eisenberg said Shawn is not wrong. As Californians make a lot of money selling their homes and move to Colorado, they have the funds to spend.

“You have really rich people coming to a market where prices are great and spending an extra $80,000 above asking price is no big deal. It means nothing to them,” he said.

It is hard to buy new and existing homes as inventory is scooped up quickly across the Denver metro area.

As Californians keep moving to Colorado and other states, the housing market is changing, Eisenberg said. That means the drive to affordability for current families means shifting to housing searches farther south in Pueblo or heading out of state to Kansas or Idaho, he said.

Shawn said he signed another one-year lease on his rental home, noting that it came with a 3% increase. In the next year, Shawn said if his family cannot find a suitable home along the Front Range, they will leave the state.

“I definitely feel like I have been priced out of my ability to grow and make this a longtime home,”

he said. “If this market stays this way, people are going to leave. It is unhealthy, unstable growth.”

Eisenberg said there are other factors driving prices and inventory.

Eisenberg said citizens fight growth. They want to preserve open space and push for less housing developments. However, that means not enough homes are going up to stabilize the market, he said.

“The Denver housing market has become one of the most expensive markets in the country,” Eisenberg said. “Politicians want to keep their jobs, so they don’t push for more housing. But the only solution is to build more homes.”

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Schafer said another factor is people are staying in the homes they have. Families see the market and decide to stay put. Older couples who would normally downsize are staying put because they cannot afford the rising cost of a townhome or condo.

Eisenberg said when the average cost of a townhome or condo goes above $350,000 older couples cannot scale down and single young professionals and couples cannot move into the buyer’s market.

In the end, Eisenberg said the reality is current Coloradans will start relocating to places like Boise because it is considered the new Denver.

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SPORTS

Douglas County volleyball player Hollis Hanson.

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Hollis and Shane Hanson, in a photo used in their flyer for Palmisano Pastas.

Volleyball player aims way high Studying astrophysics, trip to Mars are among hopes for athlete

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Hollis Hanson is a volleyball player at Douglas County High School in Castle Rock and is an

interesting person who is involved in much more than volleyball.

Hanson wants to study astrophysics, visit Mars someday, is writing a paper on special relativity and general relativity and started her own business with her brother Shane.

There might be a better word other that interesting to describe Hanson but for now let’s start with volleyball and her hopes for the upcoming season.

Hanson played in 34 sets last season as a junior middle blocker and had 42 kills, 33 blocks and 15 service aces for the Huskies, who will be trying to follow up on the Huskies’ boys volleyball team that won the state championship last spring under coach Jason Fitzpatrick — who is also Douglas County’s girls volleyball coach.

“We are really hoping to make it to state,” said Hanson. “I’m super excited because we have a couple

first team all-league (Continental) players. That would be Amaris Smith and Caity Clancy. It’s a big goal but I really want to get there.

“The boys put a little bit of pressure on us to keep a winning record for our coach but a little bit of acceptance too because they were a very physical team with a mastermind behind hitting hard and the court position.

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Michel Agostinho, boys soccer coach at Parker’s Legend High School, describes his 6-foot senior goalkeeper Jaden Robertson as a very humble and quiet individual.

Robertson, however, doesn’t fit the mold of a typical keeper.

Keepers are aggressive and vocal to keep their teammates in front of them organized.

“Off the field I’m definitely not super outstanding,” said Robertson. “I kind of stay in my own lane and do what I need to do as the day goes by.

“But I understand my position and my role a lot better. I know that I need

to communicate and really kind of guide my team from the back and help set them up.”

Agostinho said Robertson is “a quiet leader but when he gets in between the pipes he changes. He is very humble and likable. He definitely shows up in big games.”

Robertson was 6-1 with a 1.286 goals against average in seven matches last season as a junior during a season that was moved from the fall and didn’t start until March.

And Robertson wasn’t the starting keeper at the start of the spring season.

“We were getting into our tryouts and we were told our season had been delayed which was kind of a slap in the face for me,” recalled Robertson. “It kind of mentally reset me. I took those six or seven months we had in between and I did a lot of skiing which wasn’t a great idea and did a lot of other activities instead of soccer.

“When we came back, I thought I had played good in

our preseason but I had obviously kind of shot myself in the foot and let myself get behind the other goalie. I was told I wasn’t starting for the first game of the season.

It really became something that I knew I wanted and I worked hard for it.

“I got my opportunity in the third game and we ended up winning the game.

It wasn’t a good game for me and I wasn’t starting again but my opportunity came when my opposition got quarantined. I performed to show that I earned that spot.”

Robertson has set goals and is anxious for this season.

“Last year my main improvement point was goal kicks,” he said. “It has really improved and became a lot better. This year it is high balls and catching balls high above my head. My goal is just judging the flight of the ball and being able to jump through traffic to catch it and prevent a header.

Jaden Robertson

“My goals this season are mostly just win. I want to get better and better each year I play in high school.

My sophomore year wasn’t a horrible year but not one I dreamed of. And then my junior year I was a lot better with a winning record. This year I’m hoping to do even better with a full season and hopefully produce more clean sheets than I have before.”

And being a goalkeeper, Robertson has learned how

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to accept the bad along with the good.

“It goes both ways,” Robertson explained. “If you get scored on everybody kind of looks towards you because you’re the last man. But if you have a great game and don’t get scored on, then everybody kind of praises you. You kind of have to overcome the bad parts of getting scored on and taking the blame for that to get to the good parts and the celebration.”

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VOLLEYBALL FROM PAGE 24

Douglas County volleyball player Hollis COURTESY OF HOLLIS HANSON Hanson.

homemade pasta from our kitchen and it spread by word of mouth.

A lot of people from all different parts of Colorado asked, like from Salida and we had a couple people from Wyoming were asking for pasta.

“We sort of grew up around pasta,” she continued. “Palmisano Pastas is after my grandmother (Nina Palmisano). She was born and raised in Italy. We sell it by the pound and each pound takes about 20 minutes to make. One of our busier days we made 95 meals, about 23 pounds of pasta. We go and deliver it in the afternoons. It was nice to go and deliver it to get out of the house.”

Besides volleyball, right now Hanson is writing a paper for her IB class.

“I am currently writing a paper on special relativity and general relativity,” she said. “I am writing about time travel.”

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“Now that will be coach Fitzgerald’s thing and we have to step it up with our physical ability and coming together as a team. That will be the biggest challenge for us.”

Another challenge will be for Hanson to continue to follow astrophysics in whichever college she decides to attend. Right now she is leaning toward Rochester Institute of Technology.

“Absolutely everything about it appeals to me since I was in third grade when I wanted to go into astronomy,” added Hanson. “I forget what grade I was in but I went to a space camp in Hunstville, Alabama through NASA and that’s when I decided on astrophysics.

Just studying not only why but how the universe works the way it does.”

Mars is another interesting place than Hanson would like to study.

“Just because Mars is a little bit different,” she explained. “I say a little bit different, it’s a lot different. Visiting would be such a cool thing to do, just studying the things we would not necessarily expect.

“Like for example something we weren’t expecting when we sent the rover was the fact that the wind there was so strong that it took out the system in the rover. If a person was to go, we could find out some real cool things, helpful or not.”

She and her brother also found a way to keep busy during the pandemic and be helpful by making and selling pasta under the name of Palmisano Pasta. They still have the business but it does not have a website because they were concerned it might be considered an actual commercial kitchen.

“It is still up and running,” she said. “My brother and I opened a business making and selling fresh homemade pasta to locals. We started making pasta, gave some to a friend and it was really good.

I guess it was better than they expected it to be.

“We started making and selling

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Historic Greenland post office being restored

BY LIAM ADAMS LADAMS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Douglas County hopes it can revive the memory of a once-bustling Greenland town site when it finishes restoring the Greenland post office this fall.

In late June, the county started its bottom-to-top refurbishing of the post office, one of two remnants from Greenland’s former life as a railroad hub. Not only does the post office retain qualities of its 19thcentury self, but it was a symbol of community togetherness, and the county would like to preserve that spirit.

“From the history of the post office and what it served for the Greenland town site, it was kind of a central gathering point for that community,” said Kati Rider, the county’s assistant director of planning resources. “So, it’s always served as that symbol for the Greenland town site.”

Greenland was most active from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century. It was located right next to the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, which transported 24 passenger trains and 20 freight trains a day,

according to the county’s virtual history museum. The goods most commonly transported on the trains were lumber, grain, clay, potatoes, milk, cheese and cattle.

With the commerce, Greenland became home to two general stores, two saloons, blacksmith and wagon making shops, and the post office.

“When the town site was active, the post office is where people came to get their news, it’s where the people came to connect,” said Rider.

The post office operated from 1873 until 1959.

Along with the post office, the rest of the town site dissolved into inactivity. Douglas County designated what it calls Greenland Townsite as a historic property in 2011. The school and post office are the only two buildings still around.

However, the school has changed over time and was once modified as a home, meaning it has lost some of its historical integrity, said county curator Brittany Cassell.

The county has known for a while that it wanted to restore the post office and preserve it for years to come. In 2019, the State Historic Fund awarded the county a $156,000 grant, which required a 25% cash

The Greenland post office was the community hub for the once-bustling railroad town. By restoring the building, Douglas County hopes to preserve that symbolic significance.

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match from the county, or about $52,000.

The county has commissioned more minor, aesthetic restoration projects at the post office in recent years. However, the current project, which is specifically what the county received the state grant for, is rebuilding the foundation. Rider said erosion over the years has significantly weakened the foundation.

Another goal of the current project is to stabilize the walls, although it’s unclear if they will be restored to the original condition. The siding

is made of asphalt, which “is pretty unique to this structure,” Rider said. “During that time, people who lived in the area used materials that they could find to build buildings, to restore them, to keep them up.” The county doesn’t know yet if the same asphalt siding can be replicated.

The county needs to complete the current restoration by October. It doesn’t know when or how it will open the post office to the public yet.

Rider said, “the primary focus right now is stabilization of the structure.”

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0030-2021

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On June 4, 2021, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) A Happy House Design, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company Original Beneficiary(ies) Weinberg Servicing, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Weinberg Servicing, LLC Date of Deed of Trust January 27, 2021 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 29, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) E1015585 Original Principal Amount $635,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $635,000.00 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Lot 9, Block 4, Cherrywood Village, Filing No. 1, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

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THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 10/06/2021, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 8/12/2021 Last Publication: 9/9/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 06/04/2021 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Amy K. Hunt #37160 Timmins LLC 450 East 17th Avenue, Suite 210, Denver, CO 80203 (303) 592-4500 Attorney File # 2352 EAST LONG AVE The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO. 0030-2021 First Publication: 8/12/2021 Last Publication: 9/9/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE On the 16th day of August 2021, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 37 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER SIERRA BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 16, CHAPTER 2, SECTIONS 1(E)(1)(2)(3) 2, 7(B) (1)(2), 7(H)(2)(3), 7(I)(2), 20(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)(G)(H)(I)(J)(K)(L)(M) (N), 9(F)(2) TITLE 16, CHAPTER 3, SECTIONS 2(B)(3)(4)(5), 2(D)(4), TITLE 16, CHAPTER 5, SECTIONS 2(C)(9), (D)(3), 4(C)(2)(b), TITLE 16, CHAPTER 6, SECTION 1, (C)(4) AND TITLE 16, CHAPTER 6, SECTION 14 ALL OF THE ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE 2000, REGARDING UPDATES TO THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE OF THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO, AND THE ADOPTION OF THE ENGLEWOOD TRANSIT STATION AREA SPECIFIC PLAN AS A SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATORY DOCUMENT REFERENCED IN TITLE 16, UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE. Copies of the aforesaid council bill are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

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BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 35 SERIES OF 2021 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 2, CHAPTER 8, OF THE ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE 2000 PERTAINING TO THE NAME CHANGE FOR KEEP ENGLEWOOD BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION TO THE NEW TITLE, ENGLEWOOD SUSTAINABILITY COMMISSION (Council Bill No. 33) Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 301104 First Publication: August 19, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

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INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SOUTH PLATTE RIVER IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT IN ARAPAHOE COUNTY, MANAGED BY THE URBAN DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT AND TITLED “AGREEMENT REGARDING A RIVER IMPROVEMENT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR THE SOUTH PLATTE RIVER IN ARAPAHOE COUNTY” REGARDING THE FINAL DESIGN OF IMPROVEMENTS TO THE RIVER CORRIDOR BETWEEN DARTMOUTH AVENUE ON THE NORTH AND BREWERY LANE TO THE SOUTH, PURSUANT TO AGREEMENT NO. 18-11.01 BETWEEN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, THE URBAN DRAINAGE AND FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY OPEN SPACE, THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, THE SOUTH SUBURBAN PARKS AND RECREATION DISTRICT AND CITY OF LITTLETON. Copies of the aforesaid council bill are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 301101 First Publication: August 19, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice Call for Nominations for School Directors Sheridan School District No. 2 Arapahoe County, Colorado

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 38 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ANDERSON BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE “OFFICIAL ZONE DISTRICT MAP” OF THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO. Copies of the aforesaid council bill are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 301105 First Publication: August 19, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Bids and Settlements Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT On or about August 31st, 2021 the City of Englewood will make final payment to: Singing Hills Landscape, Inc. 16797 E. 2nd Avenue Aurora, CO 80011 For construction of: Romans Park Improvements Phase I

At this election 3 directors will be elected representing director districts A, C and E for a term of office of four years. To be qualified, a candidate must have been a registered elector of the school district for at least 12 consecutive months before the election and a resident of the director district which will be represented. A person is ineligible to run for school director if he or she has been convicted of committing a sexual offense against a child.

Legal Notice No. 301093 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Board of Education of Sheridan School District, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado has caused this call for nominations to be given this 10th day of August, 2021.

Legal Notice No. 301100 First Publication: August 19, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

Jackie Loh Director of Finance & Administrative Services City of Englewood, Colorado

Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Charles E. Farr, a/k/a Charles Elbert Farr, Deceased Case Number: 2021-PR-30681 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before December 6, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

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NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE

BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 34 SERIES OF 2021

On the 16th day of August 2021, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of THEODORE DENNIS TORMEY, a/k/a TED TORMEY, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30806

AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT (IGA) BETWEEN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER AND CITY OF ENGLEWOOD FOR THE BUFFERED BIKE LANE PROJECT ON SOUTH ZUNI STREET (Council Bill No. 31)

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 32 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER WINK

Legal Notice No. 301102 First Publication: August 19, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE On the 16th day of August 2021, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 34 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER WINK A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING A FIRST AMENDMENT TO AN

Copies of the aforesaid council bill are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 301106 First Publication: August 19, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE On the 16th day of August 2021, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

Legal Notice No. 301091 First Publication: August 5, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald

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Legal Notice No. 301084 First Publication: August 5, 2021 Last Publication: August 19, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald

On the 16th day of August 2021, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, adopted on final reading the following Ordinance:

Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Alice S. Morais PO Box 209, Mead, OK 73449

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

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO AND THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO PERTAINING TO THE JASON PARK AMENITY IMPROVEMENTS

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the co-personal representatives or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado or on or before December 6, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

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Any claims relating to this contract must be filed with Jackie Loh – Director of Finance & Administrative Services, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110-2373, (303) 762-2416, prior to August 30th, 2021.

Nomination petitions may be obtained at Sheridan School District Administration office located at 4150 S. Hazel Ct., Sheridan, CO 80110. Office hours are 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Completed petitions shall be submitted to Polly Plancarte no later than 2:00 p.m. on August 27, 2021.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jacque Pierre, aka Jacque Pierre Bahuchet, aka Jacque Bahuchet, aka Pierre Bahuchet, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR322

Co-Personal Representatives: Nicole A. Bayless 1516 Wollacott Street Redondo Beach, CA 90278

The Board of Education of Sheridan School District in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, calls for nomination of candidates for school directors to be placed on the ballot for the regular biennial school election to be held on Tuesday, November 2, 2021.

A person who desires to be a candidate for school director shall file a written notice of intention to be a candidate and a nomination petition signed by at least 50 eligible electors who are registered to vote in the regular biennial school election.

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All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before December 12, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Cherie Renee Tormey Personal Representative c/o RBS Law LLC, 5610 Ward Road, Ste. 300 Arvada, CO 80002 Legal Notice No. 301094 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JONATHAN ALLEN BRIGGS, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR030875 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before December 12, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Elroy A. Briggs, Personal Representative c/o M. Lisa Clore, Esq. Lisa Clore, LLC 5500 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., Suite 130 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 301095 First Publication: August 12, 2021 Last Publication: August 26, 2021

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