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Don’t count out Tri-County Health yet, leaders say Health chief, Adams Co. officials see collaboration possibility past 2022 BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
In a September 2020 file photo, a man dismantles a canopy during a sweep of a homeless camp along the South Platte River. PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT
As homeless camps expand, tension builds Littleton, Englewood, Sheridan adopt action plan BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN
Cyclists and joggers along the South Platte River Trail in Littleton call police on a regular basis these
days to report homeless campers. Residents also notify authorities when someone is sleeping on a sidewalk outside a storefront. And then, while officers are responding to those reports of unauthorized camping or trespassing, other Littleton residents call the police department to complain that officers are harassing the homeless. The tension is rising as Denver’s homelessness crisis creeps beyond the city and into surrounding
towns. There is no permanent homeless shelter in Littleton, Sheridan or Englewood, only motel voucher programs and a network of churches that provide warm beds on winter nights. There isn’t a day shelter in Littleton where people could get a hot meal, take a shower and sign up for job training or housing vouchers. SEE HOMELESS, P20
Victim named in 1988 Sheridan homicide Akram Bada’an was not identified until 33 years after unsolved slaying BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Sheridan police, along with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the 18th Judicial District At-
torney’s Office, have identified the victim of a 33-year-old homicide case. Akram Bada’an was believed to have been murdered at the age of 36 on Aug. 27, 1988, police said during a press briefing Oct. 27. His body was found in the 2800 block of West Oxford Avenue. Police had previously referred to the victim only as John Doe. “The most important thing in this case, aside from giving the
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victim justice, is giving the victim his name back,” said Bryan Penry, detective for the Sheridan police, who said identifying Bada’an was the “first step of many’’ in solving the case. With advances in DNA analysis, authorities were able to use genetic genealogy to trace Bada’an’s family back to Israel, who they said have been notified. SEE COLD CASE, P3
The formal bonds that hold the public-health partnership among Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties together may be loosening, but the complete demise of the TriCounty Health Department, which has served them for decades, may be less certain to happen than it has appeared. “My best-case scenario is, after a couple months, Adams County works with us and figures out they can provide what they want in terms of local control and (for their residents) in a two-county infrastructure,” John Douglas, executive director of Tri-County Health Department, told Colorado Community Media in an interview, expressing hope that Adams and Arapahoe could still work together. He also envisioned a future where Arapahoe County partners with TriCounty “as some kind of independent entity” that Arapahoe might contract with — or even that Greenwood Village-based Tri-County gets “evolved” into a department of Arapahoe County. He said he hopes that whatever Tri-County becomes could also work with Adams and Douglas counties at least in a transitional role to provide services and help them plan for what their evolution to new health agencies might look like. SEE TRI-COUNTY, P4
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Council OKs new downtown historic district Designation seeks to bring new grant funding, safeguard preservation BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Littleton City Council voted 6-1 on Oct. 26 to approve a new downtown historic district designation. Patrick Driscoll, who represents District 1, which includes downtown Littleton, was the only councilmember who voted against the proposal. The decision overhauls the current district designation along Main Street that property owners have had the option of joining since 2005. The new designation will automatically apply to all properties within the district’s boundary, which will also be expanded beyond Main Street to include Alamo Avenue and several side streets. The move is intended to better protect the downtown area, with some buildings that date back to the 1870s, from development and demolition that city staff said could threaten its community character. City staff members also believe that an all-inclusive historic designation, as opposed to the current opt-in model, will better position Littleton to secure new grant funding from the state. Before council’s vote, Driscoll
‘People love Littleton because of its historic downtown. … By expanding the historic district to include the buildings on Alamo we can do even more.’ Gale Keeley, president of Historic Littleton Inc. pushed an amendment that would have approved the new designation’s boundaries while preserving property owners’ ability to opt-in for the next five years. The amendment failed 5-2, with Driscoll and Littleton Mayor Jerry Valdes being the only votes in its favor. Driscoll had raised concerns about the all-inclusive designation following pushback from several property owners during the meeting’s public comment period. Brad Manske, who owns several properties around Littleton, includ-
Littleton’s Town Hall Arts Center, built in 1920, served as the city hall until 1976 and FILE PHOTO BY SCOTT GILBERT has been a performing arts center since the 1980s.
ing the ViewHouse on Main Street, said the district’s expansion would put new parking pressure on businesses and residences outside the boundary. Scott Wagner, who said he owns a building in the current historic district, feared that more stringent regulations on buildings could drive away business owners and called the move an “overreach.” “There are other owners of businesses in downtown Littleton that I think would have a hard time making their investment work if they had to adhere to all the requirements,” he said.
Under the new designation, 69 of 82 buildings within the expanded boundary would be considered “contributing buildings,” meaning the buildings contribute historically or architecturally to the downtown area’s character. These buildings would be subject to more stringent regulations regarding updates and renovations. Driscoll, as part of his objection to the new designation, also pointed to negative feedback from some property owners who were sent ballots by city staff to gauge their support SEE DOWNTOWN, P3
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for an expanded, all-inclusive historic district. Of the 53 ballots that were sent to various property owners, 22 were returned. Of those 22, only eight were in support of the new district while 14 were opposed. But Mayor Pro Tem Scott Melin said the 31 property owners who did not return ballots could not be disregarded and called the 22 figure a “trivial sample size.” While most property owners in attendance opposed the decision, other community members voiced their support. Gale Keeley, president of Historic Littleton Inc., a nonprofit that promotes downtown preservation by designating properties as local landmarks and recognizing preservation efforts, said the new historic district will improve the area’s identity.
“People love Littleton because of its historic downtown. … By expanding the historic district to include the buildings on Alamo we can do even more,” she said. Littleton resident Iftin Abshir said the new designation would bolster protection for downtown Littleton and called the move “just the beginning” for preservation efforts. “Historic buildings are physical reminders of what came before us and help to create a sense of culture in our neighborhood,” she said. Mike Price, a Littleton resident, said an expanded historic district would ensure that Littleton’s history is kept for generations to come by safeguarding buildings from being torn down or drastically changed. To make his point, Price brought a book with him to the meeting titled “Lost Dayton,” which chronicles the failure to preserve 25 historic buildings in his hometown of Dayton, Ohio. “I just never want to see a book that says ‘Lost Littleton,’” he said.
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Chris Wilcox, senior chief deputy district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, asks for any information on Akram Bada’an, who is believed to be the victim in a 33-yearPHOTO BY ROBERT TANN old cold case.
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Audrey Simkins, an analyst for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, said the agency has been involved with the case since 1989. In 2020, Sheridan police asked the bureau to review the case, Simkins said, which promoted more fingerprint analysis from previously preserved evidence. This led investigators to determine the victim was Israeli, a turning point in the case after decades of believing the victim was from Mexico, Simkins said. Chris Wilcox, senior chief deputy district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, urged those with information about Bada’an to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers, which is offering a $2,000 reward. Go
Akram Bada’an is believed to be the victim in a cold case dating back to 1988.
to metrodenvercrimestoppers.com or call 720-913-7867. Police did not accept any questions during the Oct. 27 briefing, citing an ongoing investigation.
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When the dust settles, he suggested, the outcome of the three counties’ transition may be that each county gains its own board of health — the policy-making body that issues public health orders such as mask mandates, for example — thus freeing them from the need to contend with the political differences among the counties when shaping health policy. And at the same time, the counties may end up with agreements to keep receiving day-to-day public health services from Tri-County Health, at least for some period of time, or they may partner with different entities. Aside from COVID-19 mitigation, Tri-County provides services such as restaurant inspections, nutrition counseling, maternal and child health services, and disease control, among other functions. Taking politics out of health After the end of 2022 — when Douglas County could end its agreement to continue receiving services from Tri-County Health and when Adams County expects to move to a new health department structure — the costs of Arapahoe and Adams counties pulling away from Tri-County could be in the millions, according to a consulting firm studying the benefits and drawbacks of the counties’ potential decisions to handle public health services alone. Douglas County’s leaders have
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wearing in public. Some of Adams County’s leaders felt frustration with Tri-County’s recent policymaking, too: Some commissioners voted to opt out of the health agency’s school mask or-
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mask — County Commissioner Eva Henry said at the time that she agreed with the intent of the order and supports mask-wearing. “It’s unfortunate, you know, that politics got into our public health system — it shouldn’t be there,” Henry told Colorado Community Media. “And that was one of the reasons I voted to opt out of the mask order, to put it back in TriCounty’s hands, to take politics out of the public health orders. Commissioners shouldn’t be making public health decisions.” Douglas told CCM that he felt the pandemic wasn’t the only factor that led to the three counties starting to split up. “I think if we wouldn’t have had COVID, I think we would have continued with a three-county relationship,” Douglas said, but he added that the counties — all of which are much more populous now that when they joined the agency — have differences that eventually may have led them to break Tri-County up anyway. But “I don’t think it would have been right now if it hadn’t been for COVID and public health orders,” he said. Adams County Commissioner Emma Pinter felt that the breaking up of Tri-County isn’t just tied to mask wearing. “I think there’s been fractures for some time between the three counties,” Pinter told CCM. “It just wasn’t as heightened until we
entered the pandemic and tried to do pandemic (policy) together.” Asked whether there are moments during the pandemic she looks back on and wishes Adams had its own health department, Henry said: “Almost weekly.” She said she wanted to have the conversation “long ago” of Adams having its own health agency. “Once a year, all the county commissioners get together and they talk about the budget,” in the three counties, Henry said. “And talk about what we’ll fund and not going to fund. With Arapahoe County’s budget restrictions they have, and Douglas County’s views, it made those decisions very hard.” Adams has different budget policies than Arapahoe County because Arapahoe is “not de-Bruced,” meaning the county has different restrictions under Colorado’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, Henry said. Adams’ industrial sites and environmental health concerns are important to that county’s leaders, one example of a unique county aspect that lends itself to being handled by local leaders alone, according to Henry. “Other counties shouldn’t be influencing the public health of another county,” Henry said. Difference in ‘consistency’ For Adams County’s Pinter, watching other counties give less support or less-consistent backing to John Douglas’ policy recommendations was part of what motivated her to want to break from TriCounty. SEE TRI-COUNTY, P6
Dr. John Douglas, executive director of Tri-County Health Department since 2013, at PHOTO BY ELLIOTT WENZLER his home.
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“If you watch the votes of the duly appointed board of health members, those three Adams board of health members consistently voted together and in the interest of public health, in favor of Dr. Douglas’ recommendations,” Pinter told CCM. She added: “If you look at the votes on the board of health members of Arapahoe and Douglas, the same consistency is not true.” She added that she wants to have a board of health “that always puts the wellbeing of our residents first.” Before Douglas County exited Tri-County, the agency’s board of health consisted of nine members — three each from Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas. Christa Bruning, an Adams County spokesperson, signaled that the county plans to enter into some type of partnership for public health services in the future. “Adams County intends to contract with a local health agency for many of its public health services starting in January 2023,” Bruning said. “It’s too early in the process to know who that health agency is.” Henry said Adams County is looking at Denver’s health department model, in which Denver contracts to receive nonprofit services for “a lot of its programs.” Adams could hypothetically partner with Broomfield or Jef-
ferson counties, too, Henry said as an example. Those counties have their own public health agencies. “And if Tri-County really wanted to survive, what they could look at is becoming a nonprofit and … contracting out to the three counties,” Henry said. Douglas, the Tri-County health chief, said he has heard of the idea that his agency could become a nonprofit, but the legal ins and outs of that weren’t immediately clear. In Arapahoe County, where TriCounty’s headquarters currently sit, Douglas said that “it could be we go away entirely and they (Arapahoe) hire our staff to work for them, or we stay as some kind of independent entity and they might contract for us, or we get evolved into a department of the county.” Echoing Douglas, Pinter expressed support for leaning on Tri-County in some way as Adams transitions to a new public health structure. “I think that in that transition, we have the opportunity to use the expertise of the staff of TriCounty Health. They’ve carried us through a pandemic … we owe a great debt of gratitude to the staff,” Pinter said, noting that the staff have faced a contentious and combative atmosphere toward public health officials amid the pandemic. She said that over the next year, the county will need to think about whether it wants to contract with Tri-County for some period of time.
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‘Too early to speculate’ Arapahoe County commissioners Nancy Jackson, Nancy Sharpe and Jeff Baker declined through a spokesperson to be interviewed for this story. Luc Hatlestad, spokesperson for Arapahoe County, told CCM that Arapahoe’s leaders preferred not to “go into the political” aspects of the situation regarding the counties transitioning to new public-health structures. Hatlestad said he didn’t know whether there have been specific conversations among county leaders about the idea of Tri-County becoming Arapahoe’s health department, but that the physical headquarters being there and employees living in or around Arapahoe “would contribute to possibility of that happening.” Regarding contracting public health services with a specific county or agency, Arapahoe hasn’t gotten to the point where its leaders are planning whether to do that, but if that becomes a beneficial option, the county could consider that, Hatlestad said. Still, he emphasized that Arapahoe County isn’t at the stage where it has firm plans of how to transition to a new public-health structure. The county said in a statement that it’s “too early to speculate how things will unfold.” “Our board is going to use this an opportunity to explore whatever options we have to keep services at the level that our residents expect and deserve and also looking for ways to make intelligent fiscal decisions,” Hatlestad said. Douglas County’s elected leaders formalized the decision to leave
Tri-County in a meeting Sept. 7, opting to form their own board of health — including two of the county’s three elected commissoners — in charge of matters such as countywide public health orders. But the county decided to continue to receive all services from TriCounty through 2022, approving an agreement on Sept. 28. However, on Nov. 1, CCM reporter Elliott Wenzler reported that Tri-County Health was handing off various COVID-19 services it performed for Douglas County to the state Department of Public Health & Environment. That action came after a Tri-County official called a county order letting people opt out of mask-wearing rules “greatly concerning.” A federal judge later temporarily blocked Douglas County’s opt-out order at the request of the county school district, which had previously mandated masks inside its schools. The Adams commissioners brought forward a resolution at an Oct. 26 public hearing to provide notice of Adams’ decision to leave Tri-County. The vote was unanimous, Pinter said. Arapahoe has appeared less keen to cut ties with the health agency, saying in an Oct. 19 statement: “The Arapahoe County Board of Commissioners is saddened that our neighboring counties have chosen to end the productive 55-year partnership with the Tri-County Health Department.” “The Board intends to do what it can to support the many dedicated employees of Tri-County Health throughout this process,” the statement said.
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DIA chief: ‘Holiday season will be tough’ Security lines long amid passenger surge, labor shortage BY MATT BLOOM DENVERITE
Lizzie Johnson describes her most recent trip through Denver International Airport as “stressful, to say the least.” She’s flown in and out of the airport for decades, but this time was different. When the Denver resident arrived at DIA on Oct. 15 with her husband and two kids, the Transportation Security Administration security line wrapped all the way through the baggage claim area and beyond, she said. At one point, she and her husband got separated in the crowd and had to call each other to link back up. “There were lines and confused people everywhere,” Johnson said. “I’ve never seen it that packed.” Passenger traffic has bounced back sharply at DIA since the pandemic began, leading to record long security wait times and parking bottlenecks at the airport. The airport is currently seeing the fastest recovery of any U.S. hub, according to DIA leadership. Flight records show more than 24 million passengers passed through the airport between January and June. The numbers remain high and are projected to surpass pre-
Denver International Airport CEO Phil Washington at a Sept. 10 event. PHOTO BY JENNIFER CASTOR/ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS
pandemic levels by early next year. In a wide-ranging press conference Oct. 22, airport CEO Phil Washington asked for patience during the surge, saying DIA was struggling to meet demand due to capacity limits and labor shortages in almost every department. “We intend to make things better,” Washington said. “But we have a lot of work to do.” Washington, who took the CEO job three months ago, outlined several immediate changes to help meet projected demand during the upcoming holiday season. They include the reopening of shuttle parking lots, construction of four
new TSA security lines and the addition of more information kiosks, with workers known as “purple shirts,” to help passengers navigate the terminal. Airport staff will shoehorn the new TSA lines into the existing security infrastructure as soon as possible, Washington said. He did not offer a clear timeline for the project. Starting this weekend, the Pikes Peak shuttle lot will open on a temporary basis. The space has been closed for months due to ongoing bus driver shortages. To help with recruiting, Washington said he is looking at waiving commercial driver’s license requirements as a hiring condition. The solution would require drivers to use smaller vans to ferry passengers from the lots to the airport. “I think it should be permanent,” he said. “Because this is going to be an ongoing issue as passenger volumes increase.” Since opening in 1995, DIA has seen visitation skyrocket to roughly 70 million passengers each year. Numbers plunged during 2020 due to the pandemic, but the airport projects volume to reach 80 million by 2025 and 100 million by 2035. Many of its current challenges stem from the fact that the facility was built to serve roughly 50 million passengers each year, Washington said. Several long-term construction projects are in the works to expand capacity, but some have
hit roadblocks in recent years. “The holiday season will be tough,” Washington said. “But I see light at the end of the tunnel in terms of next year and after the holidays.” Inside the terminal Oct. 22, security lines snaked well into the baggage claim area. Passengers said they were surprised by how busy the airport was, but some noted premium options like TSA PreCheck helped them reach their flights in time. Jim Overmeyer drove to the airport from Congress Park to pick up two friends coming into town for a concert. It took him 15 minutes just to find parking, he said. Then he got lost in the terminal’s maze of construction walls. “This is crazy,” he said. “But I understand they’re doing what they have to do to stay relevant.” In late October, the airport opened the first phase of its Great Hall expansion after a series of delays. The extra space will open up the main terminal and allow for better foot traffic flow, Washington said. He emphasized passengers should still plan to at least give themselves a two-hour cushion when trying to make a flight in the coming months. This story is from Denverite, a nonprofit Denver news source affiliated with CPR News. Used by permission. For more, and to support Denverite, visit denverite.com.
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Support program for moms looks to expand Strong Mama Gala set for Dec. 3 in Centennial BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
A local program aimed at helping moms who are struggling with mental health is raising funds to expand services through partnerships with local hospitals. In 2016, Nikki Brooker was working as a substitute teacher at Bear Canyon Elementary Schoo in Highlands Ranch. When a mother from the school shot herself and her two children, it rocked the community and Brooker, being a Type A personality, could not stand by and do nothing. Brooker founded the nonprofit You Are Not Alone Mom 2 Mom (YANAM2M) and never looked back, developing a community service where mothers can get help before they do something that cannot be reversed. Brooker, of Highlands Ranch, started hosting weekly meetings and assigning sponsor moms to anyone asking for help. Joan Mahoney, currently of Elizabeth, said YANAM2M helped save her from what she described as a “very dark time in my life.” Mahoney explained that she and her family had been living in Littleton when her husband lost his job, forcing them to move in with her in-laws. Add in an unexpected third
pregnancy, and Mahoney said life got overwhelming. “I started having suicidal thoughts,” Mahoney said. “I was convinced my family would be better off without me. I was evening starting to plan it. I started reaching out and reaching out. YANA was the one that reached back.” Brooker assigned Mahoney to a sponsor mom, Carol, who came from a similar situation. Mahoney said before long she learned she had that group of supportive moms, was not alone and what she was feeling is relatable. Mahoney said while she was meeting with Carol, Brooker would personally watch her children. “I didn’t have to worry and look over my shoulder to make sure they were OK,” Mahoney said. “(Brooker) orchestrated all of it just to get me out. Carol would call and check on me knowing I was not going to call them.” YANAM2M started small and has continued to grow steadily over the last five years. Now, Brooker said it is time for the program to take a step into anothefr level. Aiming to mimic the La Leche organization’s model, Brooker said she is working with local hospitals to reach moms while they are still in the hospital after delivering a baby. La Leche works with mothers to breastfeed their infants. Consultants for the program go into hospital rooms to provide support and coaching to help interested moms start the breastfeeding process as smooth-
ly as possible. Not only has the La Leche program made a difference in the lives of many mothers, Brooker said they are her model because it all started in a basement in 1956 with two mothers. Brooker said mental health is just as important to new moms as breastfeeding, and she would like to make connections with them as soon as possible. According to the American Psychology Association, in the U.S. one in seven women suffer from postpartum depression, meaning 800,000 new mothers are impacted each year. While a mother who just delivered a baby may not know if they need mental health guidance, Brooker said making the connection early to let them know YANAM2M is always there is important for future reference. Brooker said moms will continue to get follow-up calls after three months, six months, nine months and at the 12-month mark. Moms who want continued assistance will get it. Those who don’t will have their wishes respected, Brooker said. Postpartum depression does not have a timer, Brooker said. It may not start as soon as the baby is born, she said. It does not just go away at the one-month or one-year mark, she said. Women can be impacted by postpartum depression for years, she continued. Mahoney said postpartum and prepartum depression is real, and if a mom is dealing with financial and family stress, things can only get worse. Programs like YANAM2M are a valuable resource, she said. For the new program to see success, Brooker said up-front costs have to be met. Brooker said the organization relies on grant funds, but a lot of programs only want to
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provide financial support to organizations helping low-income families. YANAM2M is for all mothers, Brooker said, no matter which income class they may fall. Brooker said in the metro area, several of the mothers who have committed suicide are considered middle-class. “Depression does not know income or standing in the community,” Brooker said. “Depression can impact any mother at any time. They all need our help. Programs like this are tough to explain and understand. Mental health is not always explained through simple scientific reasoning.” To raise the funds to get the new program operating in Highlands Ranch and, eventually, at other hospitals along the Front Range, Brooker will be hosting the Strong Mama Gala fundraiser on Dec. 3. With a goal to raise $100,000, Brooker said the special event will be held at the Village Workspace, 7173 S. Havana St. #600, Centennial, with free food and drinks. With a hefty goal, Brooker said she estimates it will cost $70,000 in the first year to get the new program going. The Strong Mama Gala will begin at 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit the website at yanam2m.org.
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The Arapahoe High School choirs joined with the Colorado Saints Chorale and Orchestra for a concert Oct. 23 at St. Tim’s Episcopal Church in Centennial to raise awareness of teen suicide, something that has rocked the high school for years. Since 2013, Arapahoe High School in Centennial, a Littleton Public Schools high school, has suffered nine student suicides that included two students who took their own lives just three days apart in 2018. For Kirk R. Schjodt, director of choirs for Arapahoe High School, the concert and the preparation for it allowed for an open discussion about youth suicide that he felt was needed. “This was a really great opportunity for me as a teacher to talk with my students about some of the things that they’d experienced,” Schjodt said, “and to get students’ input on how we could use our art form to bring a powerful statement of positivity and support into a community that was really hurting.” Originally scheduled for April 20, 2020, the concert was postponed due to COVID-19. Now, more than a year later, the two student choir groups, one with 31 members and the other with 40, sang to bring awareness to a topic that is personal for them. “The students in this program, they’ve been touched by the tragedy that’s taken place in Littleton Public Schools,” Schjodt said. “They know the hurt of losing someone they care about and they know what it’s like to struggle.”
Camden Krumholz, a 17-year-old senior at Arapahoe High School who sang during the event Saturday, said she knew a fellow class member who died by suicide when she was in the eight grade at John Wesley Powell Middle School. She said the months of rehearsals that culminated with Saturday’s performance was rewarding but at times challenging as students grappled with feelings of loss. “I’ve found it’s been very emotional, personally,” Krumholz said. “It’s been kind of difficult but it’s something we’ve worked through and worked very hard on.” Working with other students as they prepared for the concert spurred overdue conversations around suicide, she said. “It’s brought up a lot of great conversations that have needed to happen for years,” Krumholz said. And the students are not alone. Lisa Comstock, president of the faith-based Colorado Saints Chorale and Orchestra, which has 75 singing members and around 50 in their orchestra, said through their participation in the concert members have opened up more about losing loved ones to suicide. “My own mom suffered with depression and suicidal thoughts,” Comstock said. “Within our organization, we’ve grieved together.” Comstock said the group is emotionally connected with the high school, where all five of her children graduated from. The group has also sung with the high school choirs in the past. The chorale and orchestra has
a long history of connecting with communities. Since 1983, it has put on various concerts throughout the Denver metro area to spread an uplifting message. “We work within the area to put on events that matter to them, that help them build relationships in the community or put out a message of hope,” she said. Hope was at the center of Saturday’s concert. One of the songs performed, titled “Please Stay,” written by Jake Runestad, ushered lyrics of belonging to remind listeners that they are welcomed, loved and valued. “It’s not a somber feeling, but it’s a celebratory feeling, it’s a feeling of intent, of meaning,” Comstock said. “We’re driven to make a difference with this concert.” The concert also featured an art exhibit by Brady Smith, a young artist whose art, previously featured at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, tells the story of the reasons why he chose not to take his own life. Comstock said that following Saturday’s concert, the chorale and orchestra intend to partner with choirs to put on suicide awareness and benefit concerts every year throughout Colorado. For Schjodt, the high school choirs director, he hopes the performance helped listeners who maybe needed the message. “The students want to share the fact that there’s hope,” he said. “Hope is real, help is real for people who are struggling … for folks who are struggling, they don’t have to struggle alone.”
Expanded outdoor dining could go on in Denver BYREBECCASPIESS DENVERITE
Extended outdoor drinking and dining options may very well become permanent public infrastructure in Denver’s near future. Mayor Michael Hancock announced Oct. 26 that multiple city agencies will work with restaurant owners to support their outdoor dining options through new permitting and zoning processes. “Extended patios have provided a crucial lifeline to restaurants through the COVID-19 pandemic, and Denver restaurants overwhelmingly support the program,” said Mollie Steinemann with the Colorado Restaurant Association. The original temporary outdoor dining program received hundreds of applications just days after implementation in May 2020. The program was extended in April so business owners could renew their temporary outdoor dining licenses all the way through October 2022. As of Oct. 26, 373 restaurants have used the policy to offer outdoor dining options, and at least 111 will continue through the winter months. A Colorado Restaurant Association survey found 68% of Denver restaurants benefitted from the program. Of the restaurants that took part in the patio program, more than half of their summer revenue came from outdoor dining, and that revenue, in turn, directly created or saved around 30% of their staff jobs, they reported.
“If it wasn’t for the program, I don’t think we would actually be in business right now,” Simeran Baidwan, owner of Denver’s Little India restaurants, said during the Oct. 26 press conference. “Because of that expansion, we were able to keep our employees.” The restaurant did not furlough employees, many of whom Baidwan said are immigrants with families to support. Perceptions of the public right-ofway, and public spaces in general, have changed drastically during the pandemic. Restaurants have been creative and adaptive in utilizing formerly public spaces — like the grassy strip between the road and sidewalk, unused parking spaces, or even the street itself — to continue serving customers. However, not every establishment’s outdoor options will be approved as permanent add-ons. “With traffic levels returning back to normal, we won’t be able to have every dining area that has expanded seating into the public right of way to continue. I want to say that clearly,” Hancock said. “What we’re going to do is to go by a case-by-case, restaurant-by-restaurant, bar-by-bar assessment of what is possible.” The work will be split up between the myriad public agencies that govern businesses and public spaces. For example, the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure will evaluate the safety of the outdoor dining options, which include things like snow
and ice with winter just around the corner, while Community Planning and Development will launch the public process of creating new zoning laws to apply to these temporary spaces. And while the city will continue to reserve the right to revoke licenses in the name of things like public safety, these new assessments will allow restaurants to keep serving in outdoor spaces for the foreseeable future. The new October 2022 deadline gives the city and its various agencies some time to thoroughly review the applications, although the timeline to complete the project is not concrete. It’s also a collaborative process, and certain city agencies are working with innate limitations. Changing city zoning takes months and involves public hearings before the Denver Planning Board and City Council. These zoning changes likely won’t be permanent by October 2022, but Community Planning and Development says it will continue offering guidance and working with each individual business in the meantime. While nothing has been decided yet, Hancock did note that the clamor for certain streets to remain pedestrianonly has grown during the pandemic, especially around Larimer Square, the Pearl Street District and Glenarm Street. This story is from Denverite, a nonprofit Denver news source affiliated with CPR News. Used by permission. For more, and to support Denverite, visit denverite. com.
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Personal growth precedes, boosts professional growth
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ast week I had the privilege to participate in a professional development program for salespeople delivered by my good friend and mentor WINNING Bryan Flanagan. Although I have WORDS seen Bryan and many other corporate trainers deliver quality programs for more than 20 years, I still pick up something new, or a lesson that needed to be reinforced. I listened to this Michael Norton one sentence, and I was immediately transported back to hearing Zig Ziglar talk about how important it is to develop the person, not just the skill set. Here is what was said: “Personal growth always precedes professional growth.” Having spent most of my professional career in the personal and professional development industry, I know this to be an accurate statement. Working with companies of all sizes, one of the questions I receive is around guidance for a sales training program or leadership development program that can help compa-
nies accelerate growth. And before I answer, I ask a question in return, “What have you done so far to build the people in your organization?” Almost everyone will answer with a list of courses or companies that they have worked with to address or focus on a specific skill set such as sales training, time management, communication skills, customer service training, presentation skills, etc. When this happens, I pause and reframe the question. I acknowledge that those skills absolutely help develop capabilities, and then I ask them to think about some of the other character traits that can impact their people personally and professionally while still helping the company to grow. Some understand my question as they recognize that when we work on building our people, the people will in turn help us build our business. Equally, if not more important than the skills mentioned above, are the softer skills training such as confidence, developing a positive attitude, building winning relationships at home and at work, goal setting and achievement, and learning to work and live with hope. When we can instill or work to strengthen
these qualities, our people will be in a much better frame of mind to receive the other skills-based training that can further their career while contributing to their team and the organization. Having been in the people building business for most of my life, I can share with you that unfortunately many organizations miss this opportunity. This is a shame because there is so much available data that supports the fact that when we work on the personal growth aspects of our people, the professional growth always follows. Companies who overlook investing in personal development opportunities often find themselves paying substantially higher replacement costs. Sometimes we fall into the trap of believing that all the people we hire or who are already a part of our team don’t need any help in their personal growth. This is flawed thinking because each of us will go through life’s challenges, and we may not always be prepared for the impact or toll those challenges can take on our lives. Even some of our people whom we see as strong and capable may be going through a hardship that can cross over into
their professional work. We all bring our home life to work and our work life home, both the good and the bad. Self-confidence helps us to develop a positive outlook and attitude. A positive attitude contributes to building winning relationships. Confident and positive people who work well with others become goals oriented and results focused. And when we can help develop all these character traits in our people, hope abounds. And as John Maxwell says, “If there is hope in the future, there is power in the present.” Personal growth precedes and accelerates professional growth. If you have questions about how to go about this for you and your team, I would love to hear from you at mnorton@tramazing.com. And when we can live and work with confidence, a positive attitude, establish winning relationships, realize our goals, and become filled with hope, it really will be a better than good year. Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager, and motivator to businesses of all sizes.
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s you age, you may start to notice changes in your balance, or may have already experienced a fall. Noticing changes in your balance can feel intimidating or even scary at times, but it’s important to remember that you’re LIVING & not alone in this journey to mainAGING WELL tain or improve your balance. In fact, most falls are preventable. With the proper education and training for balance, you can achieve significant improvement in Sadie Schanbacher your balance and reduce your risk of falling. A common misconception about balance is that it relies mostly on your body’s strength. The truth is, balance is just as much of a challenge for your brain as it is for your body, and strength only plays a small part. There are many things that impact your balance in addition to strength, such as vision, lighting
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There are also plenty of things you can do at home to help improve your balance in your everyday routine. Try some of these helpful tips in your free time around the house: • Adjust your stance. • Every time you brush your teeth, challenge yourself to stand with your feet closer together. • Focus on your footing. • Focus on stepping from heel to toe when you’re walking. This gives your brain the information it needs to assess the walking surface. • Talk while moving. • Train your brain and body to work together by counting items around a room or carrying on a conversation. Listening to music is a great distraction as well. • Lift your feet over imaginary objects. • Practice lifting your feet over imaginary objects to prepare yourself for everyday trip hazards, such as rugs. Trip hazards exist everywhere — learning to safely and consistently step over them is better than avoiding them long-term. • Shift your weight. • Hover your hands inside a sink
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Monarch Magic comes to Butterfly Pavilion
he Butterfly Pavilion at 6542 W. 104th Ave. in Westminster, a unique Colorado facility that claims to be the first accredited, standSONYA’S alone nonprofit invertebrate zoo SAMPLER in the world, is celebrating Monarch Magic, an event that started with the release on Nov. 1 of more than 300 monarch butterflies in the Wings of the Tropics butterfly conservatory. Sonya Ellingboe Monarchs are a popular symbol in the Mexican tradition of Dia de los Muertos and are recognized for their 3,000-mile migrations from Canada and the northern United States to the oyamel fir forests in the moun-tains of Mexico, where they are expected about now. What a treat to be in the midst of these lovely creatures, who actually don’t travel here much on their own when migrating. Appreciation of all pollinators is in order. Tickets: $13, $11, $9, with some discounts available for multiple tickets. See butterflies.org, 303-469-5441. Curtis Center The Of Order and Chaos Art Collective was launched in 2019 by Richard Rodriguez, Elizabeth Rouland, Dan Oakleaf, Sascha Ripps and Kevin Weckbaugh, and the group holds its debut exhibition at Curtis Center for the Arts, 2349 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village, opening Nov. 6 with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Our note says the group originally planned to explore the visual idea of “Equalization,” working with repeated patterns and textures to find order, but has expanded to mark a journey through the chaos wrought by COVID and a year in lockdown ... The first two years of working in community weren’t as expected. Curtis hours are Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. They will be in the gallery to talk to visitors from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Nov. 13, 20, and Dec. 4, 11, 18. Admission is free. 303-797-1779.
Boulder Dinner Theater Boulder Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, is offering performances of Irving Berlin’s classic “White Christmas,” playing Nov. 13 to Jan. 8, 2022. Older readers will happily recall the early movie with Big Crosby and Danny Kaye and younger ones will know the music to this award-winning show. See bdtstage.com for reservations or call 303-449-6000. Into 2022, watch for The Glenn Miller Orchestra to appear Feb. 22-23. Formed in 1956 and touring worldwide since. Plan ahead The always-popular Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering will happen Jan 15-16 at the American Mountaineering Center in Golden. More about cowboy poets when we hear ... ‘Firekeeper’s Daughter’ author Young adult thriller author Angeline Boulley, a member of the Sault Ste. Marie tribe of Chippewa Indians and author of “Firekeeper’s Daughter,” will talk via Zoom at 6 p.m. Nov. 12. Books are available at Book Bar, 4280 Tennyson St., Denver, and will include a signed bookplate while copies last. Her talk, sponsored by Arapahoe Libraries, requires registration at arapahoelibraries.org or call 303-LIBRARY (303542-7279.) The book is about a Native teen who must root out corruption in her community. Boulley, a former director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The library can assist with information on how to access Zoom, if needed. Pop-up shows Groups of Littleton Fine Arts Guild artists will host pop-up shows at the Depot Art Gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave., Littleton, through Nov. 7: Linda Birch, Ivy Delon, Karen Shaw, Kathy Triplett, Loren Gilbert. Nov. 9-14: Teri Hendrix, Pam O’Mara, Chris Johnson, Sally Vander Kamp, Rebekah Griffith. Open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. 303795-0781, depotartgallery.org. Admission free.
Arts guild workshop Well-known area artist Victoria Kwasinski will return to lead a workshop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 20 for Heritage Fine Arts Guild members and guests at Littleton First Presbyterian Church, 1609 W. Littleton Blvd. in Littleton. The focus will be on good composition, using abstract designs and patterns, using oil pastels. Cost is $35 for guild members and $50 for non-members, with a limit of 12 students. (HFAG membership costs $40.) Visit heritage-guild.com/ membership for sign-up forms. For more information, contact Mary kay Jacobus at mkstudio@comcast.net.
Denver Art Museum Opening Nov. 14 at the Denver Art Museum: “Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France” with more than 100 artworks from 1855 to 1913. This exhibit is curated by Timothy Standring, curator emeritus at the Denver Art Museum and presented on Level Two of the Hamilton Building. Through March 13, 2022. 720-865-5000, denverartmuseum. org.
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Littleton-area resident Adrian Evangelista practices target-shooting archery on Oct. 15 at Bear Creek Archery near Englewood.
Castle Rock’s Chris Treloar, a staff shooter at Quick Draw Archery in Highlands Ranch, draws his bow while target-shooting at Quick Draw’s indoor range on Oct. 15. Treloar started practicing archery about three years ago and has competed in tournaments across the country.
Conifer-area resident Dave Cenedella, right, looks to buy a new compound bow at Bear Creek Archery near Englewood on Oct. 15. Cenedella has been practicing archery for about six years and made a range in his yard.
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a V rchery is more than how Katniss Everdeen won the p Hunger Games. s It’s whatever the archer wants it to be — a friendly competi- c tion; a therapeutic outlet for one’s a a frustration; a challenging, physical exercise; a mental game; a way s to hunt; a way to make friends; a discipline; a skill; a sport; and much s a more. s Littleton-area resident Adrian Evangelista said shooting every day s s at Bear Creek Archery, in unincorporated Arapahoe County near Englewood, is a way to get out of the w p house. t “(Archery) teaches you how to a manage your frustration … and learn from your mistakes,” he said. U “ … Life could be boring without sports.” As the weather turns colder and s the days get shorter, many archers p r have moved indoors for targetshooting and tournament season, o c which runs until March. Archery in general has become more mainstream in recent years, w and its popularity has grown during b the pandemic because it’s a “COVID a friendly” activity, Bear Creek Ar- M chery owner Dave Marsh said. Kevin Lewis, who owns Quick Draw Archery in Highlands Ranch, said the sport usually sees an uptick in interest after the Summer Olympics. But, Hollywood is also responsible for archery’s increasing popularity, especially among girls. After 2012’s “The Hunger Games” movie came out, Lewis said everybody wanted to be like Katniss. He also wondered whether Disney’s upcoming “Hawkeye” TV show will likewise generate interest in the sport. Evangelista, who started archery in 2013, recommended people give it a shot at least once, saying, “If you like it, you like it.”
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shooting, archery requires selfreliance, he continued, but it doesn’t impact one’s hearing like rifleshooting does. “It’s super-challenging,” Cenedella said of archery. “There are so many variables, and you have to do everything the same way every time.” Right now, Colorado’s best archers are preparing for this February’s Vegas Shoot, the annual indoor “Super Bowl of archery” in Las Vegas. Castle Rock’s Chris Treloar, a staff shooter at Quick Draw Archery, said the tournament world is a lot of fun. He’s competed in indoor and outdoor competitions, winning several across Colorado. Treloar also enjoys the ritualistic side of archery. The state has a huge archery community, with lots of shops and organizations, so there’s something going on every night, he said. Fellow staff shooter Rick Typher, who lives in Highlands Ranch, appreciates how archery is therapeutic and a mental game, stating, “It’s a battle against yourself.” Un-bow-lievable fun Whether archers only recently started shooting or have been practicing it for years, local indoor ranges have something for everyone, including private lessons and classes for all experience levels. Many rent out recurve bows, which are generally easier to draw but harder to hold, local professional archer Steve Marsh explained. Meanwhile, compound bows are
Littleton’s Nathan Hartford, 14, takes aim while target-shooting at Quick Draw Archery’s indoor range on Oct. 15. Nathan and his PHOTOS BY CORINNE WESTEMAN dad, Ben Hartford, started practicing archery a few months ago.
individualized and end up being harder to draw but easier to hold, he said. “You can’t expect to master (archery) overnight,” he said. Marsh, who works at Bear Creek Archery and shoots for the Matthews Archery team, described how he started archery at age 8 but didn’t become proficient until he was 20. Littleton’s Ben Hartford and his son Nathan, 14, started archery
Castle Rock resident Chris Treloar, a staff shooter at Quick Draw Archery in Highlands Ranch, pulls arrows out of his target while shooting at Quick Draw’s indoor range on Oct. 15.
earlier this fall. Ben used to do it at camp, and revisited it when his cousin gifted him a bow. Since then, he and Nathan have been practicing how to sight their targets. “It’s a skill,” Hartford continued. “The more you do it, the better you get.” Isaac Smith, a college student from Highlands Ranch, started five or six years ago and described it a fun hobby that he revisits whenever he can. He enjoys both indoor and
outdoor archery, and likes setting up makeshift ranges whenever he goes camping. “It can be relaxing if you don’t stress about it,” he said. Madison Myles, who lives in the Parker area and started archery when she was 10, also has an outdoor range at home and tries to shoot at least once a week. “I like the joy of it — the adrenaline rush,” she said. “It’s fun. Just try it out.”
Parker-area resident Madison Myles, foreground, and Highland Ranch’s Isaac Smith shoot a compound bow and a recurve bow, respectively, on Oct. 15 at Quick Draw Archery. The business features a 20-yard indoor range and retail for archery supplies.
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Church keeps arts scene lively Nov. 19 free concert will feature Colorado Chamber Orchestra String Quartet BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The Colorado Chamber Orchestra String Quartet will give a free concert at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 19 in Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St. Members are, clockwise from top, Naomi Smith, Summer Rhodes, David Short and Javan Carson. COURTESY OF LITTLETON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
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Seven really happy-looking musicians swung into “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” on Oct. 22 as pianist Purnell Steen and the Five Points Ambassadors presented the first concert of Littleton United Methodist Church’s Fine Arts Series, a local treat that has been sorely missed around here since the entertainment world stopped spinning, in our area and just about everywhere! The audience enjoyed a piano, bass, two guitars, drums, sax and trumpet, as well as a vocalist. Steen, a member of a musical Denver extended family, was last heard at LUMC when he played at a memorial service for longtime friend and jazz fan Charlie Carroll, an active member of this church. Church members have contributed over the years to bring a series of free concerts to LUMC and we’ll hope they can be extended. At present the Master Artist Series includes the Steen group plus the Colorado Chamber Orchestra String Quartet, which will perform “two monuments of chamber music by Beethoven and Mendelssohn” in a free show at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 19, according to David Kates, the church’s director of Music and Fine Arts Ministries. The professional chamber orchestra has been directed by Thomas Blomster and has appeared as a group in the metro area at various venues over past years. We’ll hope to see more of it in the near future. In the meantime, the upcoming evening with the principal string players will be a “don’t miss” for classical music lovers. Next Fine Arts Series supported listing will be at 10:30 a.m. on Dec. 12 with the LUMC Choirs and Orchestra: “A Festival Service of Carols.” The final listing at present is “Close n’Counter” at 2:30 p.m. January 30, 2022, which presents an eclectic guitar trio playing favorite standards with a blend of steel and gut strings. We’ll watch and hope for additions, and are thrilled to find lots
to report now. Also programmed at this busy church are a number of other concerts ... LUMC is home base for the Littleton Symphony Orchestra, which played a sold-out concert on Oct. 15, featuring pianist Katie Mahan performing “Rhapsody in Blue.” On Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. the symphony will perform a holiday concert: “Vivaldi, Dvorak and Other Favorites” with violinist Laura Anderson. These are ticketed at reasonable prices, but no tickets will be sold at the door, due to COVID restrictions, so buy in advance! Longtime LSO Maestro Jurgen DeLemos, who plans to retire, will conduct a New Year’s Eve concert at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 31. The orchestra will host guest conductors in the new year as it searches for a new leader on Feb. 18 (David Brussel), April 8 (Scott O’Neill) and May 20 (Bill Hill). Also planned in the new year (Feb. 7 and March 18) are a pair of concerts by Voices West, which was once the Littleton Chorale, started by the late Bud Nicholson. Dr. Michael Todd Krueger is director and we will look for more information about these performances soon. The February concert will be a benefit for Littleton Public Schools’ music program, which the chorus has long supported, and the title for the March event is “Sing Out My Soul,” a time to “remember, mourn, celebrate and sing ...” On April 23-24, the Littleton UMC Arts Festival will return with visual art, music and hopefully theater. A newly commissioned work by internationally recognized choral composer Thomas Keesecker will be performed. Watch for more information on this festive weekend. While we have listed the LUMC events we are aware of at present, we will remind as we hear more about these programs and add anything else we hear about as we move into a new year at this community treasure. We hope readers will enjoy and support wonderful music of all sorts. Littleton United Methodist Church is located at 5894 S. Datura St. in Littleton. The phone number is 303-794-6379 and the website is littletonumc.church. While the COVID-19 pandemic continues, public events frequently are canceled or rescheduled. Check with organizers before you go.
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Homelessness: How can metro Denver grapple with problem? CU Denver and a think tank offer ways to help BY TATIANA FLOWERS THE COLORADO SUN
Homelessness is pervasive and costly, and has worsened and grown more complex in metro Denver, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s no single solution to resolving the crisis affecting more than 6,000 people in the seven-county metro region, according to researchers who spent months interviewing formerly homeless people and the leaders of organizations that serve them. Expensive housing, a shortage of paid human services staff and mistrust in the system are among the factors making the homelessness problem even more intractable, researchers said. A major recommendation by the researchers studying homelessness in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties is adding more affordable housing options. The report cited Denver’s Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative, which has provided housing and case management services to about 300 people experiencing chronic homelessness, who were frequently involved with police, jails, courts and other emergency services. When those people were offered
People clean up their encampments along Lincoln Park in Denver ahead of its closure by authorities in January 2020, because of PHOTO BY JESSE PAUL/THE COLORADO SUN public health concerns.
housing and wrap-around services, they remained housed and interacted less frequently with costly emergency services, according to an analysis published on the city’s website. The report includes several other ideas that researchers at the Common Sense Institute and University of Colorado Denver identified as successful in other communities and
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short-staffed, yet offer critical support to people who are homeless or at risk for homelessness. Amplifying awareness of providers and their work can help achieve that goal, and encouraging formerly homeless people to become entrepreneurs, who offer peer services in the system, can also help address the crisis, study leaders said. Mistrust in the system can steer some people away from accessing the services they need, so finding new ways to build trust in the system is also crucial, researchers said. Clarifying eligibility requirements can help achieve that goal. The process to receive services often involves many forms and complex structures that make it difficult for homeless people to navigate, extending the amount of time before people in need can get help. More self-navigation tools could reduce the time spent during the process, researchers said. The report said it’s critical to improve access to online or electronic information for homeless people who don’t have reliable phone and computer devices. SEE HOMELESS, P19
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Homeless people can often miss vital connections to information related to their health, employment, housing, transportation and financial needs because they lack consistent access to the internet, electricity, phones or computers. As a result, providers often struggle to deliver services to their homeless clients, the report said. “The issue of homelessness in our communities is an incredibly complex and challenging one, and requires a clear understanding of the ways to both prevent people from experiencing homelessness in the future, and providing faster ways to recover from homelessness now,” said Dan Griner, director of design, innovation and strategy for the CU Denver Inworks Innovation Initiative, a collaborative of leaders working to solve humanity’s most pressing problems, according to the organization’s website. Metro Denver’s population has grown by 21% over the past decade, and grew by 1.6% in 2019, alone. Denver’s growth rate is higher than that of the state, which saw a 15% increase in population growth from 2010 to 2019, according to the report. The number of people experiencing homelessness in Denver grew by 25% from January 2017 to January 2020. While the number of homeless people likely grew in the last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is unknown by how much. Metro area leaders typically count the number of homeless people on a
single night each year. But the annual point-in-time survey, or PIT count, did not occur this year because of the pandemic. The state has a housing deficit of more than 175,000 homes since 2019, the report said, and while Colorado is “a fairly progressive state” at implementing new initiatives, the housing shortage in Colorado means it’s ranked the fourth worst in the nation behind Washington, D.C., Oregon and California. One affordable housing real estate developer interviewed in the report said zoning challenges and community pushback have prevented them from moving forward any new projects in Colorado in seven years. Similarly, a Denver Department of Housing Stability leader said it costs more than $300,000 to develop a new single unit for affordable housing in the metro Denver area. With rising rental costs and a housing shortage, many voucher programs are unable to close the gap between current prices and what people can afford, according to the report. The report said a major precursor for homelessness is vulnerability — the possibility of being attacked or emotionally or physically harmed. Vulnerable people experiencing mental illness, family instability, substance use disorders, repeat experiences of incarceration or domestic violence, for example, are at higher risk for losing their housing and may need immediate shelter services. Many people who are currently or formerly homeless are considered vulnerable, and the perception of vulnerability is often considered a risk factor by many landlords or
A homeless encampment in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood on Aug. 26. PHOTO BY ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS
rental agencies, who can be reluctant to lease to them because of that factor, according to the report. One service provider included in the report framed the issue of homelessness as “a loss of community.” “When homelessness is a result of loss of community, then finding ways to welcome individuals into a new community is necessary,” the person said. Although CU Denver and the Common Sense Institute have completed their research for this homelessness project, at least for now, leaders from both organizations said they hope to continue working toward solutions. “The providers in this space and many of the people who are working in this every day — this is common knowledge for them, as to how these
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Instead, the library is adapting to the reality that many of their patrons come to take a nap and wash up in the bathroom. A downtown cafe famous for cinnamon rolls and providing hot food to anyone who can’t afford to pay for their breakfast has become the de-facto place for people to ask for homeless services. Littleton, Sheridan and Englewood joined together a few years ago to begin addressing the growing number of camps and confrontations between business owners and people who are homeless. The three cities now have an official homelessness action plan. And on Oct. 21, as Colorado Community Media’s Robert Tann reported, leaders from the city of Littleton, the police department, the school district, the library, businesses, churches and nonprofits gathered for a panel discussion on homelessness that drew a crowd of nearly 200. The goal is to gather the patchwork of grassroots efforts that have sprouted in recent years — from GraceFull Cafe in Littleton and Cafe 180 in Englewood to the faith-based community centers and government programs — and launch a cohesive response to homelessness. Their list of needs is decades behind Denver, where there are multiple night shelters, day shelters and one-stop places to sign up for services — and also where tents line sidewalks north and south of downtown and around the Capitol.
In a January 2019 photo, a Sheridan city sign that reads, “Camping prohibited” is seen along the South Platte River near the city’s PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD border with Englewood.
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to calls involving mental health and, often, people who are homeless. The cities’ action plan includes no call to build a homeless shelter, but proposes a “navigation center” where people in need of housing, food and jobs could check in for help. A proposal to build a homeless shelter in Littleton would go nowhere, predicted Littleton Police Commander Hal Mandler. “The community would reject it,” he said. “Everyone wants to help homeless people, but not right next to them. They want to help the homeless people, but they are nervous when the homeless people are around their house.” When Littleton announced on Facebook recently that an Arapahoe County housing navigator is now available to help folks at the city’s Bemis Public Library on Monday afternoons, the first commenter on the post asked why the city wanted to attract “MORE homeless to the library.” “This is why neighborhood kids don’t feel safe,” he wrote. Police and nonprofit groups in south metro communities said they’ve noticed that when Denver ramps up its cleanups of homeless camps and parks, more homeless
folks show up in their cities. The influx leads to an increase in police calls from people who aren’t comfortable seeing homelessness in their neighborhoods, Mandler said. “When Denver aggressively starts pushing the homeless out, the homeless people are going to move,” he said. “They are going to go to those immediate cities right outside of Denver and then they’re going to see, ‘Am I going to get hassled by Englewood? Am I going to get hassled by Sheridan? Where can I go where I’m not going to be contacted?’ All they want to do really is be left alone but be close enough to get resources.” The difficulty is that the resources in the suburbs are not equipped for the influx, which leads to tension at the library and elsewhere. At Bemis Library in Littleton, rules have changed in recent years to decrease the conflicts. Sleeping in the library is no longer against the rules, a switch that occurred after staff realized they were waking up homeless patrons, but not others who dozed off in the library. “We don’t wake a gentleman in the corner who was reading the newspaper,” said library systems SEE HOMELESS, P21
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supervisor Rich Allen. “We don’t wake that toddler up. Is this really an equitable policy in our library? Is this discriminatory against some in our community?” The three cities’ homeless action plan, approved this fall, calls for $705,000 in service upgrades to help the homeless and prevent people from becoming homeless. The document proposes a “proactive” outreach team that would respond to citizen concerns and contact people without homes in order to connect them to services. The cities also want to create a regional homlessness office that would set policy, review data and communicate with the public. And they are creating a central point of entry to access local services, called the South Metro Community Foundation. Some at the Oct. 21 Littleton event suggested a center similar to The Gathering Place in Denver, a day center for women that links people to food, job training, shelter and housing programs. Some seek help at GraceFull Cafe in Littleton or Cafe 180 in Englewood. Giving Heart Englewood, a Christian community center, provides connections to services and “at-risk youth” can find showers, meals and groceries at Movement 5280 in Englewood. But the three cities want to tackle homelessness with a more coordinated effort, a central spot that keeps track of need as well as avail-
City workers dismantle a homeless camp along the South Platte River in September 2020.
able services, said Mike Sandgren with Change the Trend, a group formed in Englewood in 2017 to brainstorm about how to decrease homelessness and create a network of service providers. In recent years, and especially throughout the pandemic, suburbs have seen more homelessness as people leave Denver, Sandgren said. “The first-tier suburbs are in the process of trying to identify the right way to respond to the issue as it’s becoming more and more visible, especially in the last year and a half,” he said. The timing is critical, too, because state and local governments are determining how to spend federal
coronavirus aid, which could go toward housing, mental health and homelessness services. Paula McFadden, who has been homeless on and off in Littleton and participated in the panel discussion, said she has struggled to pull herself out of the situation. A “life event” caused her to lose her home and “everything got taken away,” said McFadden, who for 21 years had a career in a dental office. “You don’t know where to turn or where to start once you have lost everything,” she said. She understood that Littleton and other suburbs aren’t ready to ask the community to build a shelter.
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The first layer is a day shelter, perhaps a place to store backpacks and belongings, said McFadden, who spends some of her days in the warmth of the Littleton library. “I don’t want money. I just want blankets and food,” she said. “Just kindness. I don’t want to be here. It just happened and I’m here and I’m trying to crawl my way out.” This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.
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Riley Stewart of Cherry Creek High School won another Class 5A girls individual cross country title
and Tanner Brown of Parker-area school Chaparral captured his first 5A boys championship on Oct. 30 at the Norris Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs. In the 5A team competition, Centennial school Arapahoe won the girls title and Mountain Vista edged crosstown Highlands Ranch school Valor Christian by two points to take home the boys title. Arapahoe, a runner-up to Cherry Creek in last season’s girls state
meet, reversed places with Creek’s Bruins as the Warriors had 42 points while second place Cherry Creek finished with 60 points. The 5A boys team chase was close as Vista had five runners in the top 20 to garner 59 points. Valor’s fifth runner was 22nd and the Eagles had 61 points. Stewart won her third straight individual title and couldn’t say if anybody pushed her during the race, which she won with a time of
17:20.9. Valor Christian’s Brooke Wilson was second in 17:47.4 with Emily Lamontagne of Arapahoe finishing third with a time of 18:01.3. Aidyn Woodall of Castle Rock school Douglas County was sixth. “It feels amazing,” said the Stanford-bound Stewart. “The conditions were nice. It was nice and cool and there wasn’t a lot of wind. This title was pretty amazing because it was a SEE COUNTRY, P23
Arapahoe misses chance against Grandview Warriors come out of loss with three-way tie for regular-season top spot BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Arapahoe High School, of Centennial, had an opportunity to outright win the Centennial League football regular season championship on Oct. 28 in a game against Grandview, of Aurora. However, the Arapahoe Warriors started slow and nothing much went much better in a 32-13 loss to the Wolves at Legacy Stadium in Aurora. Both Arapahoe and Grandview finished the regular season with 8-2 records and tied for first place in the Centennial League with 4-1 records. It wound up being a three-team tie
for first place after two-time defending state champions Cherry Creek, of Greenwood Village, beat Aurora school Smoky Hill 35-10 on Oct. 29. Arapahoe surrendered an 81-yard touchdown run to Grandview sophomore quarterback Liam Szarka on the Wolves’ third play of the game. Then a snap over the punter’s head and a blocked punt produced safeties that pushed Grandview ahead 11-0 in the first quarter. The teams played even until Grandview’s Moosah Alsafarr, who rushed for 134 yards, scored on a 1-yard run in the third quarter to increase the Wolves’ lead to 25-7. Arapahoe scored late in the third quarter on a 12-yard run by DJ Montoya but any comeback hopes were exhausted when Grandview’s Kahden Rullo scored on a 10-yard run after a recovery of a muffed punt runback with 70 seconds remaining in the game. Pyreese Miller tallied Arapahoe’s
other TD on a 22-yard run with 41 seconds left in the first half. First-year Warriors coach Joe Nuu praised Grandview before getting into the mistakes by his own team. “They were just the better team tonight,” he said. “They played great. We felt like we could do some things. You can’t give up a blocked punt, a missed field goal and think we’re going to win the game. “Even at the end when they stripped the ball from us. It should have been a lot tighter game than it was.” Arapahoe now awaits to see whom it will play in the playoffs “We’re in the playoffs,” said Nuu. “We just don’t know if we will be in the top eight. The kids are not happy when I told them that. They’ll get over it. We’re 8-2. Holy cow. It’s a great record. We’ll come back but we held our own destiny in our hands.”
Arapahoe’s Pyresse Miller (10) tries to turn the corner against the Grandview defense in the Oct. 28 game. Miller scored on a 22-yard run later in the second quarter but the Warriors wound up losing the game, 32-13. PHOTO BY JIM BENTON
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Arapahoe High School boys soccer coach Mark Hampshire is well aware how the games and preparation change once the regular season ends and the state playoffs begin. Playoff games have more emotion and intensity and the Class 5A firstround state playoffs games were held Oct. 27. “Playoffs are remarkably different,” said Hampshire. “The first 15 games of the season you want to give yourself an opportunity to get into the playoffs. You start figuring out players, what players can do, what systems can do, but the playoffs start and mentally everything shifts because you know you are one and done. If you don’t win, you don’t get another chance. The emotions are higher. “This is year 30 for me,” Hampshire continued. “There are things through the later part of the regular season we hope we can do when we get into the playoffs. We back off a lot in the amount of time we train, we target specific things we need to work on in our training. At this point, the kids own it. We can do a little bit of the chess game and that kind of thing as coaches. We want the kids to have fun and experience this and own whatever happens.” Arapahoe, of Centennial, owned Parker-area school Chaparral in its first-round match, scoring early and often in a 7-0 victory at Littleton Public Schools Stadium. The Warriors scored in the first 14 minutes of the contest and tallied three goals in an eight-minute span to
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way to finish my high school career before I head to college.” Wilson was the closest runner to Stewart but her dreams didn’t come true. “In my dreams I was hoping to compete with her but I was really happy with where I was compared to her,” she said. “I was really happy with my race. Everything that I was planning before all kind of fell into of what actually I wanted it to be.” Brown, a sophomore, ran in a time of 15:44.7 to edge Valor Christian’s Ty Garrett who was second in 15:48.3. Brown exceeded his hopes. “I came I here hoping to get a Top 5 but I was feeling good and able to keep up with the pack until the end,” said Brown. “Going up that final hill into the stadium, I knew I could take it because I’ve always felt so strong on that hill when we would come down to practice and in last year’s race. I felt great. It was the best race I’ve run.” Arapahoe’s girls had their five scoring runner place in among the top 18 individuals. “We won freshman year but we
Arapahoe’s Marshall Gueller races off the field after scoring a goal in the Warriors 7-0 first round playoff win over Chaparral on Oct. 27. Clark Roe (16) and Gabe Haughton (3) PHOTO BY JIM BENTON follow Gueller.
take a 5-0 halftime lead. “Chaparral is a good team,” said Hampshire. “Because we jumped on them so early, all of a sudden it was hard for them. Their boys battled and they continued to battle. “Down the stretch of the season they did some great stuff against Mountain Vista (5-1 win) and against Regis (3-2 win) so we just played extremely well. We needed to because the last three games we did not play well. This was good for us. It was a really good game for us offensively. Once you score goals it relieves a little pressure off our defense.” Senior Caleb Ballard led the way for Arapahoe with two goals and two assists for six points to give him 35 points for the season. Will Grauberger had two goals while Ramzi Maalout, Blake D’Agostino, Clark Roe and Marshall Gueller each scored once. Goalie Alex Bissett had to make just two saves as he notched his ninth shutout of the year. have improved a lot since then,” said the Warriors’ Emily Lamontagne. “As a whole we had a really good team. We were definitely hoping for a good showing down here. We definitely wanted to run the best that we could.” Lamontagne’s third-place finish led Arapahoe with Ava Mitchell coming in fourth, Anna Bridges 11th, Ava Escorcia 16th and Karli Holmes 18th. The 5A boys team chase was close as Vista had five runners in the top 20 to garner 59 points. Valor’s fifth runner was 22nd and the Eagles had 61 points. Vista’s boys knew they had come in either first or second but didn’t know they had won until it was announced over the public address system that Valor was second, which set off a celebration among the Golden Eagles athletes. It was the third straight title for the Golden Eagles and seventh overall boys cross country state championship. Vista’s Jayden Nats was fifth in the individual race with a time of 16:01.6, Tyler Downs was eighth, Benjamin Anderson 11th, Luke Urban 20th and Aaron Yoccom 21st. “We knew it was close,” said Nats. “I was nervous. When I finished I looked back and saw Valor was just alternating finishes. I had faith in
At press time, Arapahoe was slated to face Colorado Springs’ Rampart in the second round on Nov. 2. In other first-round games involving south metro teams, second-seeded Valor Christian’s Zac Brooks got the goal in a 1-0 win by the Highlands Ranch school against Doherty, of Colorado Springs. Rock Cayon’s Owen Barnett had a goal and three points in the Highlands Ranch school’s victory over Poudre, of Fort Collins. Matt Relijanovic and Bailey Voit scored for Castle View, of Castle Rock, in a 2-0 triumph over Chatfield, of Jefferson County. Mountain Vista, of Highlands Ranch, used goals by Kyle Atkinson, Tristan Larsen and Diego Ramirez to down Aurora Central, 3-1. Cherry Creek, of Greenwood Village, lost a shootout 4-1 against Fossil Ridge, of Fort Collins, after the game ended in a 1-1 tie. Luke Williams scored in the second overtime period to lift Grandview, of Aurora, to a 2-1 win over Regis Jesuit, also of Aurora.
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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0053-2021
To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:
On August 24, 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) JonPaul Aragon and Patricia J. Aragon Original Beneficiary(ies) Colorado Credit Union Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Colorado Credit Union Date of Deed of Trust January 02, 2015 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 06, 2015 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D5002461 Original Principal Amount $27,599.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $26,776.00
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 4, Block 14, Southglenn, Third Filing, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.
Also known by street and number as: 6730 South Downing Circle West, Centennial, CO 80122.
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, 12/15/2021, 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.
of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. 8 SERIES OF 2021 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN AMENDING A BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR OF 2021 AND APPROPRIATING SUMS FOR DEFRAYING THE EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2021 AND ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2021 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATUTES OF THE STATE OF COLORADO AND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado. Legal Notice No. 301193 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 1st day of November 2021, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, adopted on final reading the following Ordinance: BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 52 SERIES OF 2021 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 12, CHAPTER 2, SECTION 3, SUBSECTION B, OF THE ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE, AND ESTABLISHING WASTEWATER (SANITARY SEWER) RATES IN ACCORDANCE THEREWITH. (Council Bill No. 51) 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. 301197 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 1st day of November 2021, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, adopted on final reading the following Ordinance: BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 53 SERIES OF 2021 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 12, CHAPTER 2, SECTION 8 OF THE ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE 2000 REGARDING WASTEWATER (SANITARY SEWER) CONNECTION AND COLLECTION FEES. (Council Bill No. 52)
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NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 25th day of October, 2021, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. 10 SERIES OF 2021 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN ENACTING ARTICLE XXXI. - ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS OF THE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE CHAPTER 56 – ZONING Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado. Legal Notice No. 301194 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 1st day of November 2021, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, adopted on final reading the following Ordinance: BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 54 SERIES OF 2021 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 7, CHAPTER 1, ARTICLE A, SECTION 7-1A-3 OF ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE AUTHORIZING OFF-LEASH DOG PRIVILEGES AT CERTAIN LOCATIONS DURING ESTABLISHED HOURS (Council Bill No. 49) 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. 301196 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice SHERIDAN SAFE STOPS: STATE HIGHWAY NO. 88 & CITY STREETS, PROJECT NUMBER: STU M 201-005 (CN 23440) The City of Sheridan, CO is seeking bids for Sheridan Safe Stops located in the City of Sheridan. The project includes upgrading a total of 14 bus stops, 6 of which are located on Federal Blvd., a CDOT ROW, requiring CDOT permitting. The project is a local agency federal aid project requiring Davis-Bacon wages and DBE goals. The project includes: sidewalk and miscellaneous removals; erosion control; minor landscape restoration; concrete and asphalt pavements; benches and trash receptacles; construction traffic control and other miscellaneous work.
First Publication: 10/21/2021 Last Publication: 11/18/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent
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.
Plans and specifications are available and will be emailed as the size of the combined files are approximately 15MB. Please email EST, Inc. at ChuckD@estinc.com. Paper copies of the 11” x 17” plans and the specifications will also be available at Sheridan City Hall at 4101 S. Federal Boulevard, Sheridan, CO at a cost of $25. Sealed proposals will be received by the City of Sheridan at City Hall, 4101 South Federal Blvd, Sheridan, CO 80110 until 10:00 a.m. on November 23, 2021.
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;
Legal Notice No. 301199 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald
Legal Notice No. 301201 First published: Nov. 4, 2021 Last Published: November 18, 2021 Published in: Englewood Herald
DATE: 08/24/2021 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:
Harry L. Simon, P.C. #7942 Harry L. Simon, P.C. 10200 East Girard Avenue, Building B, Suite 120, Denver, CO 80231 (303) 758-6601
Attorney File # 6730 S DOWNING CIRCLE W 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.
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Legal Notice NO. 0053-2021 First Publication: 10/21/2021 Last Publication: 11/18/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent
City and County Public Notice CITY OF SHERIDAN NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE
On the 25th day of October, 2021, the City Council
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CITY OF SHERIDAN NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE
NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 1st day of November 2021, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, adopted on final reading the following Ordinance: BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 51 SERIES OF 2021 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING STORM WATER UTILITY AND ENTERPRISE FUND USER FEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH TITLE 12, CHAPTER 5, SECTION 4, SUBSECTION E, OF THE ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE 2000. (Council Bill No. 50) 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. 301198 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF SHERIDAN
On the 25th day of October, 2021, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. 9 SERIES OF 2021 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR OF 2022 AND APPROPRIATING SUMS FOR DEFRAYING THE EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2022 AND ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2022 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATUTES OF THE STATE OF COLORADO AND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado. Legal Notice No. 301195 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald
Metropolitan Districts Public Notice
NOTICE OF MEETING RELATING TO THE INCREASE OF DISTRICT FEES, RATES, TOLLS, PENALTIES OR CHARGES FOR WATER AND SANITARY SEWER SERVICES VALLEY SANITATION DISTRICT ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO
Summers Construction, Inc. 3490 Helena St Aurora CO, 80011 For construction of: S Acoma Ph1 Drainage Improvements
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Valley Sanitation District (the “District”), Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson Counties, Colorado, will meet on Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at The District office located at 8739 W. Coal Mine Ave., Littleton, Colorado, 80123 at 8:30 a.m. At such meeting, the Board of the District will consider the increase of District fees, rates, tolls, penalties and/or charges related to water and sanitary sewer services. The Board will also take up such other business as may come before the Board. The meeting is open to the public.
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 November 4th, 2021. Jackie Loh Director of Finance & Administrative Services City of Englewood, Colorado Legal Notice No. 301185 First Publication: October 28, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald
This notice is given by order of the Board of the District, and in accordance with Section 32-11001(2)(a), C.R.S.
Notice to Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE
/s/ BOARD OF DIRECTORS VALLEY SANITATION DISTRICT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Monique Elizabeth Madison, deceased Case Number: 2021PR031025
Legal Notice No. 301188 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald
Metro Districts Budget Hearings Public Notice NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED BUDGET Notice is hereby given that a proposed budget has been submitted to Sheridan Sanitation District No. 2 for the ensuing year of 2022. Copies of the proposed budget have been filed in the office of the City Clerk at Sheridan City Hall, 4101 So. Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado 80110, and at the offices of the District, c/o Dryden Broyles, Water Resources Engineering Co., 6901 So. Yosemite St., Ste. 104, P.O. Box 3864, Englewood, CO 80112, where the same is open for public inspection. The proposed budget will be considered at a regular meeting of the Board of Directors of Sheridan Sanitation District No. 2, to be held at 6:00 P.M. on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, in the Sheridan Recreation Center, at 3325 West Oxford Ave., Sheridan, Colorado 80110. Any interested elector within Sheridan Sanitation District No. 2 may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the budget, file or register their objections at the office of the District, or at the regular meeting on November 10, 2021. Dated: October 13, 2021. SHERIDAN SANITATION DISTRICT NO. 2 By:/s/ Donald S. Douglas
All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before February 21, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Eva Staley, Personal Representative 600 17th Street, Suite 2800 S Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No. 301166 First publication: October 21, 2021 Last publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Lewis Matthew Grogan, aka Lewis M. Grogan, aka Lewis Grogan, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 31047 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 March 4, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Marna Leigh Arnett, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203 Legal Notice No. 301191 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald
Donald S. Douglas Assistant Secretary of the District
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Legal Notice No. 301200 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 4, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of: Margaret Ann Estes, aka Margaret A. Estes, aka Margaret Estes, aka Maggie Estes, aka Margaret Reid Estes, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR031161
Public Notice NOTICE OF 2022 PROPOSED BUDGET HEARING VALLEY SANITATION DISTRICT ARAPAHOE AND DENVER COUNTIES, COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to §29-1-106, C.R.S., as amended, a proposed Budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Valley Sanitation District for calendar year 2022. A copy of said proposed Budget is on file at the office of Platte Canyon Water and Sanitation District, 8739 W. Coal Mine Avenue, Littleton, CO 80123, where the same is available for inspection by the public Monday through Friday during normal business hours, (i.e., 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the Board of Directors of the Valley Sanitation District will consider the adoption of the proposed 2022 Budget at a public hearing to be conducted during a regular meeting of the Board of Directors to be held on Wednesday, December 8, 2021, at 5:00 p.m. at Platte Canyon Water and Sanitation District, 8739 W. Coal Mine Avenue, Littleton, CO 80123. Any interested elector of the Valley Sanitation District may, inspect the proposed 2022 Budget and file or register any objections or comments thereto. Dated this 28th day of October, 2021. VALLEY SANITATION DISTRICT
All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before March 4, 2022, or the claims may be forever barred. Rose Zapor, Esq. Attorney to the Personal Representative Lakewood Legal Center 7475 W 5th Ave., #202 Lakewood, CO 80226 Legal Notice No. 301192 First Publication: November 4, 2021 Last Publication: November 18, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of June Greene Wood, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR31137 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before February 28, 2022,or the claims may be forever barred.
By: Board of Directors of Valley Sanitation District
Ann L.W. Mullen, Personal Representative 4225 South Forrest Circle Englewood, Colorado 80113
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