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Native artist and author shares her work, journey

Danielle SeeWalker an artist, author and activist

BY TAYLER SHAW

TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Whether it be painting captivating murals on a high school’s cafeteria wall or decorating the decks of skateboards, the versatile artwork Danielle SeeWalker creates is representative of what she wishes she had seen growing up as a Native person.

SeeWalker, a Denver resident, is Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta , which is the band that stems from Chief Sitting Bull, she said. She is a citizen of

Outreach program launched for the unhoused 5-year grant approved

BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

AllHealth Network, a mental health nonprofit with locations across the south metro region, recently unveiled a new outreach program to connect unhoused residents with mental care.

Funded for five years through a grant from the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness, or PATH, the nonprofit said it would be able to provide outreach in Arapahoe County cities such as Littleton, Englewood and Sheridan as well as all of Douglas County.

“What we know for our people that experience homelessness is that at the root of that there’s some type of mental health thing that has happened,” said Cayla Steffy, a behavioral health provider for the nonprofit.

Mental health, Steffy said, presents a systemic issue for unhoused residents. A University of Denver study, which surveyed 121 people in the Littleton, Englewood and Sheridan area found that 30% said mental health issues were a reason they became homeless. The top five reasons, according to respondents, were all economic.

While AllHealth’s PATH grant will not secure any direct funding for housing, Steffy said the nonprofit’s outreach team helps connect area residents with social programs that can lead to housing, education and workforce training.

Hometown Holidays

Danielle SeeWalker standing beside some of her artwork on display at Koelbel Library in Centennial on Nov. 10.

PHOTOS BY TAYLER SHAW

Danielle SeeWalker’s artwork will be on display at Koelbel Library in Centennial throughout November.

South Suburban unveils new public sculpture at Littleton park

Artist hopes to inspires community, playfulness

BY ROBERT TANN RTANN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Standing in sun-bathed light on a chilly November afternoon, community members gathered in Littleton’s Harlow Park for the unveiling of a new public sculpture. Dubbed “Together We Rise,” the roughly 8-foot-tall, 500-pound installation is the brainchild of Monument-based artist Jodie Bliss.

“I went with something that was bright and happy and uplifting,” Bliss said of her piece, which features three colorful steel shapes meant to represent abstract figures.

“These are, in my mind, three people lifting each other up,” Bliss said, an embodiment of the park’s spirit of a playful, communal environment. “I wanted it to be a familyfriendly, happy piece.”

Bliss’ ideas begin as sketches on paper, she said, before being moved to a computer model where it is refined. After that, Bliss and her fourperson team cut, weld and paint the metal, which is later assembled and installed. Bliss has been creating metal works for about 20 years with a portfolio that includes functional pieces such as gates, fences and doors as well as more abstract work.

“I don’t just have one type of work that I can present,” Bliss said. “The

reason that I decided to go abstract was because of the setting, I wanted it to be something that can speak to a wide range of people.”

Bliss’ work is the cumulation of a year-long search by the park’s owner, South Suburban Parks and Recreation, for a new public attraction in the area. It now joins roughly 30 other public installations across the department’s 168 parks,

according to Barbara Veatch, who chairs South Suburban’s public art committee.

Veatch said the process began with a call for artists, which led to more than 20 submissions. The committee narrowed applicants to four finalists before a winner emerged. When Veatch and other committee members saw Bliss’ design, she said she felt “joyful.”

“Right away, I get that joy and I get the sense of people coming together,” Veatch said. “Together We Rise, for me, makes a beautiful abstract statement for humanity but in a fun way, in a good way.”

Darlie LaScala, programs and facilities supervisor for South Suburban, said the department had long noticed an absence of public art in

the Harlow Park area, which sits on the western boundary of Littleton just south of Sheridan.

“We like to make sure that our artwork is spread out pretty evenly, but it’s always been more neglected out here,” LaScala said. “But we really made it a priority to say ‘we need some art out here.’”

For nearby neighbors Les and Diane Duckworth, who live feet from the park in a house off South Mabre Court, the sculpture is a welcomed addition. The couple has enjoyed the park for more than 20 years, playing soccer, walking dogs and using the nearby swimming pool.

“I love it. I think it’s beautiful, I think it’s vibrant,” said Diane Duckworth. “Public art is such an inspiration to people.”

Tri-County claims funds for Love My Air program

BY LUKE ZARZECKI LZARZECKI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Environmental Protection Agency announced on Nov. 3 that $403,996 will be awarded to the TriCounty Health Department for their community air monitoring network.

“Tri-County Health Department is excited to be awarded a grant from the EPA for $403,996 to continue and expand the Love My Air program across Adams and Arapahoe Counties,” Environmental Health Director Brian Hlavacek said.

The money comes from the Inflation Reduction Act and the American Rescue Plan. Tri-County Health Department is one of 132 air monitoring projects across the country that received funds.

According to a news release from the EPA, the chosen projects are in communities “that are underserved, historically marginalized, and overburdened by pollution.”

Hlavacek said the department

has 20 sensors that detect PM 2.5, which is particulate matter 30 times smaller than a strand of hair. With these funds, they hope to increase the amount of sensors to 26.

The pollutant lodges deep inside the lungs and causes severe health problems like asthma, chronic bronchitis and heart disease. Common sources include wildfires, construction, vehicle emissions and heavy industry.

The sensors are placed at a number of schools, libraries and parks. They track the data and those who host the sensors can use the data, possibly in programming or classes, or awareness.

They were initially funded in the fall of 2019 since air quality is a big concern. The idea was for the data to be available to residents and entities to eventually lead to informed decisions such as policy changes.

“We work regionally to try to get the education out there around air pollution,” he said.

Artist Jodie Bliss stands before her 8-foot-tall metal sculpture in Harlow Park, Littleton.

PHOTO BY ROBERT TANN

PATHShellene Martinez, a case manager for AllHealth, said staff can help navigate people through the bureaucratic process of applying for safety net programs such as SNAP (formally called food stamps) and vouchers for Section 8 housing, which is heavily government subsidized.

“What I’m finding is there’s a lot of hoops to jump through, there’s a lot of red tape even to get a free phone, even to get food stamps,” Martinez said. “There’s lots of things that people go through when they’re just basically trying to survive.”

The outreach team appears regularly at known safe spaces for the unhoused, Steffy said, such as GraceFull Cafe in Littleton, which began with the mission of letting customers pay what they can. Outreach also extends to streets where AllHealth staff can screen unhoused residents for mental health issues and substance use disorders and either provide them with treatment or refer them to another resource.

The program also makes use of what Steffy called peer support, which called a way to link unhoused residents with people who are formally homeless. This, she said, allows for greater trust and understanding.

“Peer support is such a bridge to getting someone connected to treatment,” Steffy said.

Littleton City Manager Jim Becklenberg said he was confident the cities of Littleton, Englewood and Sheridan could “integrate PATH team resources” into their multiyear action plan to reduce homeless-

ness in their region.

three cities have been working together for years on a

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Share the season with neighbors in need!

Partnering for the Holidays creates a special holiday season for individuals and families who are involved as clients with Arapahoe County Human Services. The program benefits those who may otherwise go without during the holiday season, including children and adults in crisis, victims of abuse or neglect, or those experiencing financial hardship.

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approach to address homelessness, with their first year of implementing action items coming to a close.

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In a September 2020 file photo, a man dismantles a canopy during a sweep of a homeless camp along the South Platte River. There is currently no permanent emergency shelter in Littleton, Englewood or Sheridan for those who are homeless.

FILE PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT

‘What I’m finding is there’s a lot of hoops to jump through, there’s a lot of red tape even to get a free phone, even to get food stamps. There’s lots of things that people go through when they’re just basically trying to survive.’

Shellene Martinez, case manager for AllHealth

Education leaders discuss equity, injustice

Love, culture and community highlighted

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Making the education system equitable is no easy feat, but education leaders across Colorado continue to push for positive change and share the lessons they’ve learned in hopes of creating a more just system for future generations.

Four community leaders came together in early November for a panel discussion, “Equity, Educators and Workforce Transformation,” held at the Lone Tree Arts Center.

The panel was part of a series, “Changing the Legacy of Race and Ethnicity — Conversations for One America,” presented by the nonprofit Colorado Humanities, one of 56 humanities councils across the U.S. that receive funding from the National Endowment of the Humanities.

“Each panelist brings a very specific background and skill set, and they all work in different sectors of education,” said LaNaya Butler, the conversations programs coordinator at Colorado Humanities. “I feel that everyone (is) working to fix issues in their respective areas.”

The hour-long conversation, moderated by Executive Director Janiece Mackey of the nonprofit Young Aspiring Americans for Social and Political Activism (YAAS-

PA), highlighted inequities in the education system and the methods — and need — for change.

What drew the panelists to education

One of the reasons Rosanne Fulton, the director of the Center for Urban Education at the University of Northern Colorado, was drawn to a career in education was because she grew up very poor, and in the classroom, she found there were opportunities for people.

Tim Hernández, a teacher who gained media attention earlier this year when his contract was not renewed at Denver’s North High School, grew up in the kinship foster care system in Colorado, going to seven schools in seven years.

As a young person, he realized education is one of the only sustainable systems for people who “exist in systems that are designed to be unsustainable for them.”

The conversations that Tracie Trinidad, the director of policy and partnerships for the nonprofit YAASPA, had with her parents about the injustice they received from their teachers brought her to the field, wanting to ensure no other students endure the racism her parents felt.

Natalie Lewis, the vice president of leader development at DSST Public Schools, was pulled by a desire to help her community and teach young people the legacies they come from, and not the stories they are often told in schools.

The value of love

When asked what values they bring to education, Lewis said a belief in leadership and love.

“I think the charge in education is to ensure that all know that love exists across and within different communities,” Lewis said.

Trinidad reflected on how she displays love, saying, “It’s being humble and knowing that you don’t know everything, and that you have so much to learn from the young people.”

Sometimes in the classroom setting, educators feel they need to have power over youth, she said.

“And I think through honoring youths’ lived experience and the knowledge that they already bring to the classroom is a way we can show love and the way we can really change what education looks like,” Trinidad said.

Fulton said when people develop deeper relationships with others,

Tim Hernandez speaking during the panel at Lone Tree Arts Center on Nov. 9

PHOTO BY TAYLER SHAW

they develop more love. And with that comes more energy to think outside the box to support their growth and development.

“My core values are love and compassion and sensitivity,” she said. “And, you know, spending the energy that it takes to get to know people as individuals, because when you do that, then the support that we can provide to people can be very transformational.”

Love is foundational, Hernández said, and part of that foundation is also urgency — something he brings.

“I don’t think that we have the time to wait,” he said, explaining if people are unhappy with the education system, they have to take action to change it.

“As Paulo Freire writes, school does one of two things — it either upholds a just society, or it dismantles an unjust one. I don’t think anybody in this room tonight believes that we exist in a just society,” he said.

“And if we live in an unjust society, we have to have an urgency towards love, we have to have an urgency towards community, we have to have an urgency towards responsibility to make something better,” he said.

What should be removed from the schooling experience?

Hernández has a long list of what he would like to do away with in the education system, in-

cluding standardized testing and standardized education.

Ultimately, he wants to remove “the foundational nature of education as separate from community” and “anything that is not determined by a community,” he said.

“If families and students do not want something in their education, it shouldn’t be there,” he said.

He understands people’s affinity for national standards and making sure that students can perform well, clarifying he’s not opposed to that.

Standards are part of offering students shared common knowledge, and educators have to get everybody on the same page, he said.

“But to place the idea that standardized education and the needs and wants of a community are diametrically opposed is to say that communities cannot thrive academically on their own, separate from the systems that we exist within,” he said. “And I don’t think that’s the reality.”

Building off Hernández’s points, Trinidad asked who are the “standard” and “traditional” students.

“I think, really, communities need to create their own schooling, hire their own educators and go off a curriculum that they know will support their students in being the best person that they can be,” Trinidad said.

The current education system has taught people to be more compliant than to be critical thinkers, she said.

“That’s why schooling right now is a microcosm of our larger society. It’s a battleground, and we see this as we’re voting and passing legislation about what can and cannot be taught in schools,” she said.

Expectations in the education system are one-sided, as they are determined outside of students and families, Lewis said. Moving forward, it’s important to engage families and students as part of the conversation of what the expectations should be.

Cultural responsiveness versus cultural sustainability

Fulton would remove anything in schools that does not fall under the umbrella of cultural responsiveness, which she said involves teachers forming relationships with families and making decisions together.

“I just think it’s very important for everybody to have their own definition of cultural responsiveness and then to act on that on a daily basis,” Fulton said.

Hernández, however, said he does not believe in culturally responsive education. Instead, he believes in culturally sustainable education.

“Culturally responsive education affirms the idea that culture and education are two separate entities that must respond to each other,” Hernández said. “The culture is already there. Our job is not to respond to it. Our job is to sustain it.”

Students deserve to have their cultures represented in the classroom, he said, and schools should actively sustain a student’s culture by centering cultural knowledge and expressions. Otherwise, the culture students walk into the classroom with could disappear.

“I think that every teacher deserves pre-service education, especially pre-service teachers of color, deserve (an) education that teaches

them about how to sustain culture in the classroom,” he said. “Because if we are given tools and resources to sustain culture in the classroom, those are inherent resources to sustain our own culture ourselves.”

Feeling like their culture is not being sustained is partially what drives educators of color away, Lewis said.

According to a 2021 article by the Pew Research Center, white teachers outnumber educators of other races and ethnicities by a wide margin, with 79% of U.S. public school teachers identifying as white.

“If 80% of teachers are white, those aren’t just racist conditions of teaching. Those are colonial conditions, too,” Hernández said. “It’s very important that if we exist in racist and colonial systems of education, that we have to be very honest with that — about what those systems are — with our students.”

In 2019, The Denver Post reported more than half of Denver’s public schools are as segregated as they were in the late 1960s.

“We have the power within us to demand something better from what we’re existing in,” Hernández said. “The question is not what do we want to do, it’s how long are we willing to wait to get there?”

What gives Trinidad hope is seeing how the resistance of young people has evolved, saying she’s interviewed young people who have challenged the textbooks being used in the classroom and held meetings with school leaders about what they’d like to see in schools.

“I think that’s what’s given me hope, because they, too, will be leaders and educators,” she said.

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State to receive $8.3M under privacy settlement with Google

BY OLIVIA PRENTZEL THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado is expected to receive more than $8.3 million from a settlement reached with Google over accusations that it misled users about its location-tracking practices in their settings while continuing to use the collected data to sell ads.

The settlement, worth $391.5 million nationwide, marks the largest multistate attorney general privacy settlement ever in the U.S., the Colorado Attorney General’s Office said recently in announcing the deal.

“By misleading consumers into believing they could control their location data and privacy, Google violated our consumer protection laws,” Attorney General Phil Weiser said in a statement. “Today, we are holding them accountable.”

The violations date back to at least 2014, the attorney general’s office said.

The recent settlement caps a nearly four-year investigation, prompted by an Associated Press reporting project that revealed that Google collects data through two Google account settings. Location History is “off” unless a user turns on the setting, but Web & App Activity, a separate account setting, is automatically “on” when users set up a Google account.

The state attorneys general claimed that the internet search giant gave a false impression that when users turned off location tracking services, Google was no

from them. But through other Google services and apps, Google continued to collect users’ history and location data, according to the settlement.

Under the settlement, Google must show additional information to users when they turn a locationrelated account setting on or off and make key information about location tracking noticeable for users. Google must also give users detailed information about the type of location data it collects and how it is used.

use and storage of certain types of location information and requires Google account controls to be more user-friendly.

Thirty-nine other states joined Colorado in the settlement.

Colorado will use the money received through the settlement for future consumer fraud or antitrust enforcement, consumer education or public welfare purposes, said Lawrence Pacheco, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office.

The settlement was based on outdated product policies that the

Castañeda, a Google spokesman told The Sun via email. The company has made improvements to policies and plans to add several news features to boost transparency for its users, including a way for users to easily delete their past data.

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.

Google has agreed to a settlement with Colorado over privacy issues.

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By Jason Harris of Foothills Kitchen & Bath

During the holidays, our customers are so involved with planning next year’s makeover, they often forget about the stocking stuffers. I always think hubby should go big and earn a decade of hall passes by giving his lovely bride the kitchen she’s always dreamed about, but we all know men don’t know how to wrap presents, so I think most men just rely on their natural romanticism instead.

There is one gift, however, that tucks nicely under the tree and would be worth at least a week of taking out the garbage; just be prepared for constant decla rations of, “No, I swear it’s not a toy — it’s a tool!”

Sonos.

You know you’ve hit the big time when one word says it all. Sonos was founded in 2002 with the sole purpose of creating a family of crystal clear speakers that utilize WiFi to access a virtually limitless musi cal library. Twenty years later, in the world of wireless speakers there is Sonos and then there is everyone else. A recent survey of custom integrators — professionals who design and install automation systems — found they use Sonos in 76% of their wireless audio installations, more than four times as often as the next closest brand.

Were you among those who once saw their Super Bowl commercial and thought, “I don’t get it. You walk from room to room and the lights change colors??” Close. You walk from room to room and the music changes.

And it couldn’t be any simpler. Unpack a speaker and plug in its power cord. Download the Sonos Control ler for your tablet or smartphone. Press a couple of buttons and, voila!, the speaker is now part of the

Sonos ecosystem. After a few minutes placing speak ers in more rooms, take out your iPhone or Android, and within seconds you could be listening to any song on your phone. Or maybe you’ll want to play internet radio, or local stations, or your LP collec tion, or Pandora or SiriusXM or Apple Music or….

Okay, let’s see who was paying attention. What did I forget to say during all that fine print? That’s right, I never mentioned the words “speaker wire,” because you don’t need any with Sonos; all you need is access to an electrical outlet and WiFi.

I had a friend who spent a full weekend working on what he called ‘wire hygiene’ for his Corvette. After that, I was scared straight and knew I couldn’t get away with tucking wires under a rug, so I hoisted myself into my 100º attic to try to atone for my sins. Maybe it was the contact high, because after twenty minutes of breathing spray foam insulation, I found myself hoping my wife knew where the life insurance paperwork was. But all that effort is so passé wen it comes to Sonos, because it can accomplish the wireless feat right out of the box!

Not all wireless is created equally, though, because Sonos is the super highway of wireless. You’re proba bly aware of Bluetooth. It’s particularly useful in the car, because once you hop in, your phone automati cally connects to your stereo, allowing you to hear calls via your car’s speakers.

The same thing happens in your home. Walk into the house and the song on your phone echoes through your bookshelf units. The problem is Bluetooth is limited by distance and the number of connections a device can make, so if you were to continue walking, you’d quickly be out of range and the music would

stop. Or maybe you drop the needle on your 500th bootleg of the Dead just as the phone rings. With Bluetooth, the music would go away, so you have to pay attention to your mother’s complaint that your father left all the wrapping for her to do; with Sonos, you can still absorb the essence of Jerry’s solos, while pretending to be listening to Mom.

What Sonos does is use your router to create its own SonosNet, which offers many benefits. The more speakers there are on this mesh network, the stron ger the signal becomes. WiFi sends between 10 to 75 times as many bits of data as Bluetooth, leading to a more robust sound. Most importantly, the Sonos network allows 32 hookups versus just one at a time.

Are you with me so far that Sonos allows you to play any song from any source in any room at any volume? Well, better yet, it can play multiple songs from multiple sources in multiple rooms at multiple volumes....at the same time!

Uh oh, I just ran out of room. We might have to survive this cliffhanger until we get back together in two weeks....

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Latinas in Tech

BY SONIA GUTIERREZ ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Even though Latinos make up one of the largest shares of the tech-using market, they’re still underrepresented in the workplaces creating those products.

Latinos are at the forefront of technology adoption. Nielson reports that Latinos are buying new technology and spending more time on social platforms than other groups. And yet, Latinos only make up just 8% of STEM workers.

A nonprofit called Latinas in Tech is working to change that. With 20 chapters all over the world, their mission is to connect, support and empower Latina women working in tech.

With Colorado becoming a hot spot for tech giants, Latinas in Tech decided to start a chapter here.

“We still notice that we have concerning statistics within the tech industry. And we’re here as a group to help lift each other up,” said Carolina Chavez, a Denver chapter leader for Latinas in

Latinas in Tech just started its Colorado chapter and has already seen a lot of success. This is due in large part to the fact that the nonprofit’s members come from the same backgrounds as the people they’re trying to reach.

Aimara Rodriguez is a first-generation Honduran American. She has been working in tech for 10 years and is now a platform partnership manager for Adobe’s Creative Cloud. Rodriguez is also a Denver chapter leader.

“I’m very proud to say that my dad cut grass growing up and my mom cleaned houses,” said Rodriguez.

“We have that educational background to support each other and lift each other up to not only break into tech but also once you are into tech, how can we help

you continue to move up and develop as a leader within the organization,” added Chavez.

Chavez is an account executive working in technology sales. Most of her family works in the medical field, but Chavez decided she would take a different route.

“I’m someone who likes to stay on my toes; I like constantly having to learn new things and if there’s something I can tell you for a fact is that technology is always changing so I’m never going to be a 100% expert, I’m never going to know everything, and I absolutely love that I have the ability to say that,” she said.

Today’s Latino consumers didn’t transition to the internet; they were raised with it. A 2018 report from Nielsen examined at the online lives of Latino consumers and found that 60% of all Latinos were born or grew up in the internet age.

“As U.S. Hispanics make digital gains and advances at a higher rate than the total market, they are increasingly demanding authentic, culturally relevant content and connections” read the Nielsen report.

Latinas like Chavez and Rodriguez, who have the same lived experience as the audience big companies are trying to reach, are vital to the success of any new tech product.

“I find it quite interesting that we’ll have all these meetings and all these debates about products that are trying to go to diversified demographics,” Rodriguez said, “but no one in the room, making those decisions, come from the backgrounds that we’re trying to serve.”

This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online. Used by permission. For more, and to support Rocky Mountain PBS, visit rmpbs.org.

Carolina Chavez is a Denver chapter leader for Latinas in Tech. COURTESY OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Nonprofit works to change underrepresentation in STEM jobs

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the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota.

The media representations of Native people that SeeWalker saw as a child, often depicting derogatory images, made her feel ashamed of her identity, she said.

Now, she’s working to change the narrative through her work as an artist, author and activist.

She recently collaborated with Arapahoe Libraries as part of the libraries’ featured artists program, displaying some of her artwork in the Koelbel Library in Centennial for the month of November, which is Native American Heritage Month.

To celebrate, the library hosted an opening reception at Koelbel Library in early November, attracting a large group of attendees to view SeeWalker’s artwork and hear about her journey.

“I’m excited to welcome you to our first featured artists program,” said Nicole Dumville, a volunteer services and art galleries coordinator for Arapahoe Libraries.

“The Arapahoe Libraries’ Featured Artists program showcases the work of a local artist who uses their art to shed light on diverse communities, discuss history and social justice, and spark important community conversations,” Dumville said. “Our featured artist, Danielle SeeWalker, she exemplifies all of these things.”

The power of imagery

Growing up, SeeWalker split her time between the Standing Rock Reservation and Bismarck, North Dakota, where she went to school.

It was a conservative area and there wasn’t much diversity of people other than Native people and white people, SeeWalker said. At her school, she was often the only Native child in class.

“Kids would put gum in my hair. They’d call me Medusa. They would say, ‘You’re dirty. Your parents are probably drunks,’” she said. “These are the things that I constantly had to face, these microaggressions, growing up.”

When November came at her school, students would have to make headdresses to wear during the school’s Thanksgiving celebrations.

“My family taught me the truth about Thanksgiving, and that it wasn’t something to be celebrated. It was very, very hard for our people — for Native people,” she said.

Most media representations of Native people at that time were harmful, she explained, showing examples of derogatory cartoons and representations of Native people as “savages.”

“These are the things that I had to deal with and had a big effect on me, and a lot of children my age and a lot of people my age,” she said. “Made me feel like I was stupid and … very dehumanized at times.”

Some people don’t understand the harm of something like a mascot of a Native person or a non-Native person wearing a headdress, SeeWalker said, explaining she’s heard people say they are celebrating the culture.

“But would you dress up in blackface and act this way?” she said. “We all know that you wouldn’t. So why

is this OK?”

Seeing these representations of Native people made her feel very ashamed as a child.

“Today, we’re so lucky that kids have that opportunity to have dolls, and see public art, and read about those themselves, and have representation of who they are,” she said. “That’s so important, and I wish I would’ve had that.”

A versatile artist

To cope with her dysfunctional, traumatic childhood, SeeWalker turned to creating art.

“My dad was an artist,” she said. “I come from a very talented family. All self-taught.”

Around the time SeeWalker was entering high school, she moved to Nebraska with her mom for a short period, and then to Philadelphia with her mom.

Moving from a small town in North Dakota to Philadelphia was a shock, she said. She recalled going to the Philadelphia Art Museum and seeing art in person that she’d only previously seen in books.

“I remember just crying, thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m in front of a painting,’” she said. “It was so touching for me to be able to leave that bubble and sort of experience a new life.”

Today, SeeWalker’s art takes many forms, such as beadwork done on moccasins, crafting jewelry, quillwork, making ribbon skirts, painting canvases and decorating skateboard decks.

A more recent artistic endeavor has been creating murals, which she started doing in 2020.

“I was invited by one of my friends to do a mural. They were starting a mural festival called Babe Walls,” she said. “Babe Walls is an all female, non-binary mural festival that was formed in 2020 and it was by invite only.”

Although she felt uncertain about how to approach creating a mural, she ended up helping paint an entire house and soon began looking for more opportunities, she said.

Since then, she’s done murals for the Denver Indian Center, at an Airbnb location, in the cafeteria of North High School in Denver, and on walls in the RiNo Art District, often depicting Native people or aspects of Native culture.

“A lot of the things I do is because of what I wish I had at one point,” she said about her artwork.

This year, at SeeWalker’s suggestion, Babe Walls held its mural festival at the Standing Rock Reservation.

“There’s so much talent on the reservation, but zero resources,” she said, explaining she wanted to give back to the artists there.

Twelve Denver artists paired up with 12 artists from the reservation who had zero experience with murals, SeeWalker said. The Denver artists brought the paint and collaborated with the Native artists, working together to create murals throughout the reservation.

“It’s by far probably one of the most proud projects that I’ve ever gotten to do,” she said.

She said witnessing the cultural exchange between the artists was mind-blowing.

“That was one of the highlights of my life,” she said.

People looking at Danielle SeeWalker’s artwork on Nov. 10 at Koelbel Library. PHOTOS BY TAYLER SHAW

Danielle SeeWalker’s art piece, titled “She Watched Them Disappear 2,” highlights how the population of bison decreased between the mid-1800s and early 1900s from an estimated 60 million to 325.

SeeWalker said she wishes she could go back and tell her younger self that one day she will be proud of who she is.

“As I’m painting, or creating, or writing, or talking, I think about my ancestors and how they fought so hard for me to be here. I’m their wildest dreams coming true,” she said. “I shouldn’t even be here.”

SeeWalker said her grandmother was born before Natives were considered American citizens, and her dad was born before all Natives were allowed to vote.

“That’s why I say I’m my ancestors’ wildest dreams, because I was born with all these privileges that everybody else has. And I’m, sort of, now thought of as human,” she said.

The Red Road Project

With a desire to show people the beauty and resilience of Native culture and people, SeeWalker and one of her best friends, a professional photographer, decided to combine their talents to tell those stories.

Thus began the Red Road Project, a photo and film documentary project that started in 2013.

“We just started talking to people, and documenting them, and started telling the stories of these people and giving (an) accurate portrayal of what Native people look like today and how we are,” she said. “Showing that we are successful, contributing members of society in our communities.”

Some of the depictions she loves to show is how Native people walk in two worlds, she said, such as showing how Native people may wear traditional regalia but they also wear sneakers and baseball caps.

Currently, SeeWalker is researching the Indian Relocation Act in the 1950s and 1960s when the government enticed Native people to move off reservations and come to cities like Denver, she said.

She also documents Native traditions and ceremonies, the connection people have to the land and stories from Native elders.

A lot of people will lump together all Native people, she said, but there are more than 570 different tribes that are unique to one another.

“Learning from my counterparts and peers in different tribes is so — it’s so important, and enlightening and healing for my own identity,” she said.

In 2020, the Red Road Project work came to a halt as travel restrictions went into place, she said. A book publisher reached out to her and asked if she’d be interested in writing something on a Native topic.

“I had a lot of time to reflect on a lot of learnings from the past decade, and I had the time to sit at home and write,” she said, explaining her book stemmed from her work with the project.

Her book, “Still Here: A Past to Present Insight of Native American People and Culture,” was published in 2020 and is currently in Arapahoe Libraries’ collection.

Legislative work

Shortly after moving to Colorado in 2018, SeeWalker, whose day job is working in business for a Fortune 500 company, applied to the Denver American Indian Commission.

The commission is a group which advocates on behalf of Denver’s American Indian community, the city’s website states, and for the past two years, SeeWalker has served as the co-chair of it.

She loves being a part of it and said it puts her in a position to participate in legislative efforts, such as helping get Senate Bill 22-150 passed this past summer.

The act created an office of liaison for missing and murdered Indigenous relatives. It also requires the department of public safety to improve the investigation of missing and murdered Indigenous relative cases, according to the Colorado General Assembly.

Teaching others

In her work to create accurate and insightful representations of Native people, SeeWalker welcomes questions from others.

“I want people to feel like they can ask questions in a safe environment,” she said, explaining one of her favorite parts of the event was engaging with people. “Because if we don’t, and we’re not talking about it, then that’s a form of erasure.”

Ellen Theis, a Highlands Ranch resident, said she has always been interested in Native American culture and art of all forms.

Wanting to get out of the house and get inspired, she decided to at-

tend the event after learning about it through Arapahoe Libraries’ newsletter.

Theis described the event as wonderful and inspiring, saying SeeWalker’s artwork was beautiful. She also learned a lot from it, she said.

“It is a different perspective, and we need different perspectives,” Theis said. “It allows us to connect, to feel empathy, to understand someone’s point of view, why they are the way they are.”

“Especially in today’s climate, we really need to be understanding where people are coming from,” she said. “I think it’s just a really great opportunity to come and learn.”

Those interested in learning more about SeeWalker’s work can visit SeeWalker.com.

Danielle SeeWalker speaking to a crowd of attendees at Koelbel Library on Nov. 10.

PHOTO BY TAYLER SHAW

March election focuses on petition rules

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A months-long effort to change the rules for petitions and certain election timelines in Littleton has come to a head after city council voted unanimously to hold a special election on the issue this March.

The special election, slated for March 7, is the culmination of a citizens’ petition that had been circulating since mid-summer, seeking to ask voters to align the city with certain aspects of Colorado election law. In essence, approval of the measure could significantly lower the signature threshold needed for citizen petitions to a minimum of 5% of the registered electors in the last municipal election. It would also reduce the timeline for when elections based on those petitions must be held.

Several council members voted begrudgingly to hold the March election during their meeting Nov. 15. With city residents exceeding the signature threshold of 3,628 it forced city council to set a date for the vote even as some members lambasted the effort.

“I am adamantly opposed to this,” said District 3 Councilmember Steven Barr. By seeking to reduce the amount of signatures

needed to trigger a city election, Barr said, the measure “diminishes the powers of the voters and the city and this council whom were elected, all seven of us elected, by far higher number of individuals throughout the city to make the decisions that are being put forward.”

Mayor Kyle Schlachter said he was “appalled” by yard signs he had seen promoting the measure, with language that accused city council of “stealing your vote.” He suggested that some residents involved in the petition process used “blatant lies and fear tactics” to secure signatures.

“To say that the city is restricting voting rights for people is an absolute utter disgrace here in Littleton,” Schlachter said. “I think this is an underhanded and disingenuous attempt to manipulate the democratic process.”

The effort was born out of a backlash to the fallout of Aspen Grove, a shopping center in southwest Littleton that had been rezoned last year by city council to allow for new housing. Earlier this year, a mobilized group of residents formed a campaign, “Say No to Aspen Grove,” which succeeded in gaining the thousands of signatures necessary to force a referendum on the rezoning.

Those petitioners wanted a special election on Aspen Grove within months, citing a Colorado law that requires elections of that nature be held within 60 to 150

days after a petition is certified. Littleton, being a home-rule municipality, is allowed under state law to break from that requirement. That gave city council the ability to make the referendum part of the Nov. 8 ballot, which they said would save money and boost voter turnout.

Littleton resident Linda Knufinke, also a lead petitioner for the Aspen Grove referendum, sued the city in February for not hosting the election sooner. An Arapahoe County judge ruled against Knufinke in July.

Meanwhile, new redevelopment plans for Aspen Grove moved forward under a new land code that had been passed by the city in October of last year. Those plans, which were mainly preliminary, have been approved and the next stage of the application process is currently pending.

With a separate redevelopment plan on track, the Nov. 8 Aspen Grove vote became a moot point as its outcome would have no bearing on the site’s current proposal.

Frustrated with this, some residents from the original petition began a group called “REvision Littleton” which has promoted opposition to high-density housing projects like Aspen Grove. It was this group that began the second petition to change the rules that stymied their original efforts to overturn the redevelopment of Aspen Grove.

Knufinke said changing election rules “is fair, giving Littleton citizens the same rights envisioned by state law.” John Marchetti, another Littleton resident who also helped with both petitions, said voters’ rejection of the Aspen Grove plans in the November election showed

support for their cause. “Voters were given a chance to decide, and they chose to protect what they love about Littleton,” Marchetti said.

While some council members took issue with the petition question as one that could allow a minority of residents to hold immense power over issues in city, others expressed unease with the cost associated with a special election.

According to City Clerk Colleen Norton, a special election in March could cost the city $165,000 or more to run. Inflation and supply shortages — such as the cost and supply of paper — have dramatically increased potential operating costs, Norton said. In comparing costs to the city for the 2022 election to the 2021 election, Norton said there has been a 300% increase.

“If this does pass, I have a feeling that we’re going to see more special elections throughout the year and that’s going to cost the city,” said District 4 Councilmember Kelly Milliman, who asked City Manager Jim Becklenberg if it would mean other areas of the city budget would have to be cut.

“We would want to be very conscious of that potential,” Becklenberg said.

City Attorney Reid Betzing said if voters should approve the March election question, the city could likely see more costly special elections in the future.

“What it does is it reduces the threshold of votes depending on what someone is trying to do,” Betzing said. “So it’s probably going to be more likely than not that we are going to have more special elections than we normally would.”

An Arapahoe County ballot drop box seen outside a county facility in Littleton.

PHOTO BY ROBERT TANN

What parents should know about RSV

As RSV cases continue to spike across parts of the U.S. — with some areas nearing seasonal peak levels — those typical “bugs” your child brings home may have you feeling on edge. With so much swirling around these days, it can be difficult to know what’s behind a constant cough, especially if your child is very young.

RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, can include symptoms similar to a common cold. However, the virus can develop into something more serious. RSV can infect people of all ages but is most severe for older adults and young children.

Usually almost every child under the age of 2 has been exposed to RSV, but due to all the pandemic response over the last few years, kids have not been exposed as much to RSV. That is one of the reasons why we are seeing such a spike this year, as well as RSV in children older than 2.

Symptoms

RSV symptoms may vary and typically begin four to six days after infection. The most common symptoms might include:

Runny nose

Low appetite

Coughing Sneezing Fever

Wheezing

For young infants with RSV, they might be irritable, sluggish or find it harder to breathe.

Your pediatrician will be able to figure out whether it’s a common cold, COVID-19 or RSV, if you have concerns about symptoms your child is showing. They might perform tests, like chest X-rays, to see if pneumonia has developed.

When should you call a doctor?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes an increase in RSV-associated emergency room visits. However, most cases will go away on its own in a week or two. Symptoms are typically at their worst on days three to five of infection. Only 3% of children with RSV will require a hospital stay.

If symptoms become severe, contact your pediatrician right away. This may include:

Symptoms of bronchiolitis

Symptoms of dehydration (only one wet diaper in 8 hours or more)

Difficulty breathing Gray or blue lips, tongue or skin

A significant decrease in ac-

tivity or alertness

Even though RSV is common, and it might seem difficult to figure out how severe it will become, there are some risk factors parents should be aware of.

Children who are born premature or are 6 months old or younger are most at-risk for RSV complications. Children with chronic heart or lung disease, or a weaker immune system, can also be susceptible to RSV.

Treatment

There’s currently no vaccine to prevent RSV and no specific treatment for the infection. As stated, most cases will resolve on their own. However, there are a few things you can do to help relieve the symptoms:

Manage pain and fever with over-the-counter medications (consult your pediatrician for guidance and never give aspirin to children)

Drink plenty of fluids

Nasal saline to help with breathing

Cool-mist humidifier to help break up mucus

Talk to your health care provider before you give any over-the-counter cold medicine to your child.

How it spreads

RSV is typically spread through coughs and sneezes, but can spread when someone touches a surface that has the virus on it and then touches their face, before washing their hands.

The following tips may help reduce your family’s risk:

Cover your coughs and sneezes with a tissue or your arm, not your hands.

Avoid close contact with others, especially those who are sick.

Wash your hands frequently.

Don’t touch your eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.

Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces at home.

If you’re sick, stay home.

The best way to avoid transmission of RSV is what we have been doing very well over the last few years: Scrupulous hand hygiene with washing our hands frequently with soap and water, and cleaning the surfaces small hands get to, like doorknobs and handles. Also, wear a mask if you have any respiratory symptoms.

With the knowledge of what RSV may look like — and how it is different from other viruses — you’ll be able to take steps to keep your child as healthy as possible all year round.

For more information, visit the CDC website.

Dr. Matthew Husa is the chief medical officer of UnitedHealthcare of Colorado & Wyoming.

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Missing tradition

As Thanksgiving approaches and plans are being made regarding who is hosting, who is coming and what to expect — this year has a bit of a gloomy feel.

EDITOR’S COLUMN

Growing up, Thanksgiving was a total family holiday. We had our family of six, and multiple others came regularly. From the food, the laughter, the family football game to watching the Dallas Cowboys – I treasure those memories.

In a recent call with one of my brothers, whom I am closest with as an adult, he can’t come this year. Plane tickets are too much, he has had some unexpected bills and just paying for gas to fill up his truck these days is a stretch.

While the daily realities of a struggling economy are hitting my brother particularly hard, for me, it was the idea that he won’t be here this year playing with my sons, which may not always be parent approved, but has become a tradition that my boys look forward to with uncle Brian.

My other two brothers rarely make appearances on holidays these days. They live elsewhere, have separate lives and just can’t make the get-together.

We no longer have the football games in the yard as much. Even when they do, they do not carry the magic those traditional ones as a kid do.

Then, there’s the tradition of holiday television shows.

Every year, growing up, the night before Thanksgiving we would watch “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.” My brother reminds me of Charlie Brown and I am not surprised it’s one of his all-time favorite characters.

Now, there is no waiting until the night before for the show to come on a cable channel. Today, the show can be easily found and watched any day of the year if one chooses. The same goes for those traditional Christmas holiday favorites such as the Grinch, and the Charlie Brown Christmas special.

As technology has advanced, the world became busy — we no longer look forward to some of those traditions because they really are not traditional anymore.

As an adult, while I try to instill the importance of family and family traditions in my children, I have to admit, being busy and being always on the go, takes away some of that.

I am thankful for those holidays I had growing up. I can’t imagine the person I would have become had I not had those close family relationships as a kid. I am very much devoted to my family now. I am always available in the emergencies and bad days. But I miss being together and enjoying the feeling of coming together for the happy ones.

Maybe this year, or in the near future, putting more emphasis on valuing family traditions and creating more memories for my current household will become a priority. Looking to next month — maybe that will be a New Year’s Resolution for 2023.

That goal will start with watching Charlie Brown the night before Thanksgiving this year with a smile.

More than just attitude of gratitude

WINNING

She worked hard on her presentation and had practiced several times before she had to stand in front of a large audience and share her thoughts and insights. She even woke up extra early to be at the venue hours before she would be speaking. She had asked the audio/video technician to meet with her to make sure everything would be perfect before she took the stage. Before she left, she took the time to sincerely thank the technician for coming in early to meet with her. As the technician received her gratitude, he smiled and nodded in

His smile wasn’t just any smile, and his nod just not any nod, there was something heartfelt in his body language. So, she asked him if he was OK. He looked at her and said that he has been an audio/video technician for many years, and he has worked behind the scenes for many speakers including some very big and well-known names. He also shared that he loved the work that he did as it brought him great joy to know he was responsible for people receiving a powerful message, training or motivation. But he also shared that very few, hardly any, even took the time to thank him in such a sincere way as she had. After her presentation she went backstage to remove the microphone and collect her things. As she turned to leave, she found the technician and said, “Thank you again, the videos

I shared were flawless and the sound levels were just perfect. You helped make sure that everything I said and shared were received, and hopefully a few people walked out having learned something.” His eyes glistened as he smiled warmly, nodding with appreciation while patting his hand gently against his heart.

Two words, “Thank you,” make all the difference, don’t they? Is the story I shared above our story? Do we say thank you enough? How many times do we simply take for granted that it is someone’s job to serve us or help us, and we forget to tell them how important they are and just how grateful we are for their service? If we thought about it, probably too many.

I learned the concept of the attitude of gratitude from my mentor and boss Zig Ziglar. One of Zig’s many famous quotes is this, “It’s your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.” And we all know he was the master motivator, the greatest provider of hope and encouragement, and just an allaround amazing man. For Zig, it was always more than just the words he spoke or that he wrote in his books, it was more than just having a positive mental attitude, it was about living out that attitude of gratitude.

As we go through these times of change in our country, economy and in business, and as we try and hold on to the talented people on our team, so they do not wish to leave, allow me to share a lesson that I learned from Zig Ziglar when it came to appreciating the people in the company. When Zig wasn’t traveling,

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Practice good skin health even in winter

November is Healthy Skin Month, so this is a great time of year to emphasize the importance of good skin care and share some advice on maintaining healthy skin. Here are some tips that can help Coloradans adopt healthy skin habits to care for our skin year-round.

As the weather gets cooler, we turn on our furnaces and prepare for the cold, dry winter months. This drier weather and lack of humidity can wreak havoc on our skin. Those with eczema or other dry skin conditions may notice that their skin worsens, and even those without a predilection to dry skin may notice the occasional dry crack or painful fissure.

The best way to combat the dry weather is with good gentle skin care. Showers and bathing should be kept short and use lukewarm water, as either too hot or too cold

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can dry out the skin. I recommend using a gentle hydrating cleanser that is free of harsh soap that can strip the skin of its natural oils and moisture.

The most important step is to moisturize every day, sometimes multiple times daily if necessary. Choose a thicker cream or ointmentbased moisturizer over a lotion, as these will be more hydrating. Apply immediately after a bath or shower while your skin is still damp to lock in the moisture.

You may even want to consider running a humidifier in your bedroom at night, as this can also help to improve skin hydration. Applying petroleum jelly to fingertips and cuticles can also be helpful for those who struggle with brittle nails or fingertip splitting.

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As we go through this Thanksgiving week, there is no better time to do a self-assessment when it comes to our own attitude of gratitude. And more than just having an attitude of gratitude, recognizing how we are demonstrating our appreciation for others in our lives. I would love to hear your gratitude story at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we remember to always give a sin-

Although most Coloradans may not be thinking about their sun exposure as much during the winter months, it is a great time to remind ourselves of the risks of skin cancer as we prepare to hit the slopes.

It’s important to remember that Colorado’s higher elevation and our love of outdoor activities means Coloradans are exposed to a higher UV incidence than the rest of the country.

Although it may not seem as sunny, it is still just as important to use our sunscreen when skiing and enjoying other outdoor winter activities. Choose a sunscreen that is SPF 30 or higher and make sure to reapply every two hours while hitting the slopes, and don’t forget to use a lip balm with SPF in it as well.

After getting home from a fun day in the snow, it may also be a good time to get into the habit of using a

cere, “Thank you,” it really will be a better than good life.

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nightly retinoid. Retinoids are helpful in reducing wrinkles and fine lines, as well as improving overall skin tone, preventing pores from clogging, and helping to combat some of the skin aging effects from chronic sun exposure. Side effects of retinoids can be redness, irritation, and sun sensitivity, so it’s always a good idea to start with the lowest strength initially and work your way up. Starting slowly (only a few nights per week) and using a good moisturizer can help to mitigate these side effects. And don’t forget to continue to use your sun protection during the day.

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In 1928, two Black dancers in a dance marathon in Harlem — George Snowden and Mattie Purnell — broke away from each other to throw in some solo freestyling. With that, they started the process of creating one of the most popular swing dances ever: Lindy Hop.

It obviously spread from Harlem, and today exists across the country, including in Denver. The dance — along with swing music itself — has ebbed and flowed in popularity

over the last few decades, but the fast-paced swing-outs and stomping beats have held onto Denver, developing a small community that’s easy for beginners to start in and experts to explore.

“I think there’s a lot of room for growth to provide many opportunities for people that want to dance,” said Kenny Nelson, founder of Swingin’ Denver — a swing school and local dance party hoster.

Nelson himself has experience teaching

around the world, but the last eight years he’s been teaching Lindy Hop across Denver and hosting social dances from the Mercury Cafe to the Savoy.

The current big three places for Lindy Hop in Denver, according to Nelson, have been the Mercury Cafe, the Savoy and the Turnverein as they are what have survived the ebb and flow.

“The Mercury Cafe got its start in the ‘90s when neoswing was happening, and they’re the one place that remained when everyone else was gone…it kind of all fizzled out,” Nelson explained. “I mean, it went with the ebb and flow of popular music. The pop bands tried to grab that sound and it lasted for a bit, but it didn’t last.”

The Mercury Cafe now hosts the teaching and partyhosting group Swing Nights twice a week, every Tuesday and Sunday evening, with Ceth Stifel teaching many of the classes from beginner to intermediate. “The Merc,” as it’s also called, has a live band almost every Sunday as well.

The Turnverein, a 5,280 square foot ballroom, hosts a broader range of dance classes from many different teachers like argentine tango and general ballroom, but also a free Lindy Hop class at 7 p.m. every Friday and a dance right after.

Nelson himself found a home at the Savoy near Five Points in the city, where he teaches beginner and intermediate classes and hosts a live band and dance on the first Wednesday of every month.

Music is, of course, a central aspect. The right variation in tempo, a swinging sound that will convince dancers onto the floor, mixing songs from well-known to gems — all harder than it may seem.

“Swing dancing is inevitably tied to the music, having some music that is really good and swinging, and DJs that are paying attention to the dance floor is very crucial for having creative dancing,” Nelson said.

He describes a talent loss around 2008 and 2012 though, in DJing, dancing, and teaching, but has seen it start improving since 2013.

“I really feel like, in certain areas, live music

has stepped up, and it’s great, whereas DJing definitely hasn’t come back,” Nelson said. He references some of the bands that he’s hosted before like La Pomp, that play “swingin tin-pan standards” and “soulful originals” according to their Instagram, putting them in a category “of the new current bands, with younger members, who are really talented and really hard-working.”

In terms of the stability of the scene now, it’s hard to tell.

“It’s kind of hard to get the complete pulse postpandemic on the scene here. It certainly feels like it’s getting more stable,” Nelson said, pointing to venues having live music again as a promising step.

The dance’s history as a Black dance is a focus Nelson tries to give when he teaches.

“There’s been a lot of international conversations around the role of teaching, how we ought to be teaching, and how we can best respect the fact that we are teaching a Black dance — how can we best provide solid representation and appreciation for the dance,” he said. “I still think there’s lots of room for improvement there too.”

Specifically, the idea that the dance had a “revival” is what is pushed back on. As Nelson puts it, it “presents a whitewashing of the current popularity of swing dancing - i.e. it paints a picture of an activity ‘saved’ from extinction by white people, rather than a living art form still practiced within Black communities.”

Within Denver though, it is far from extinction or needing to be saved. Tuesday nights at “The Merc,” Friday nights at the Turnverin, and Sunday nights back to “The Merc” again, Lindy Hop is going strong in the city and welcomes beginners, experts and intermediates all alike.

Take a hop, skip and a jump into the city and see what you can do to the tune of “swingin tin-pan standards.”

Dancers at a social dance at the Mercury Cafe on a Tuesday night.

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More than 120 decorated holiday trees will be dressed up with stories. From Nov. 19 to Jan. 7, all Douglas County Libraries branches will have a “forest of stories” — trees filled with references to favorite children’s books and a related scavenger hunt with prizes. Families may need to go on tour to check these out during the holidays! DCL.org/forest-of-stories.

Art and gift market

Holiday Art and Gift Market is open at The Depot Art Gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave. in downtown Littleton from Nov. 22 to Dec. 31, while Littleton Fine Arts Guild members also offer gift ideas nearby at Town Hall Arts Center’s Stanton Gallery, 2450 W. Main St., with the Affordable Art Show.

Koelbel Library art exhibit

Danielle See Walker’s art will be exhibited during November, Native American Heritage Month, at Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly St., Centennial. Walker is Hunkpapa Lakota and a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She has recently published a book: “Still Here: A Past to Present Insight of Native American People and Culture.”

Symphony concert

Littleton Symphony Holiday Concert is at 7:30

p.m. Dec. 2 at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton.

Musical fairy tale

“Disney’s Beauty and the Beast” plays Nov. 25 to Dec. 31 at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Tickets start at $56. An American Sign Language interpreted program will play at 2 p.m. on Dec. 30. arvadacenter.org. 720-898-7200.

‘Newsies’

Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St. in downtown Littleton, presents Disney’s “Newsies” through Dec. 30. Tickets: $35, $44, $50. 303-794-2787. townhallartscenter.org.

‘Labyrinth’

“Labyrinth” is the title for the 2022 Own an Original Art Exhibit at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton.

Farm evening

The Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., is also the venue for the festive annual “Holiday’s Evening at the Farm,” presented by the Friends of the Library/Museum with wagon rides, food, music and costumed interpreters. Dress warmly — it’s all outdoors with candlelight. 5:30-8 p.m.

‘Brrlesque’

Wonderbound dance presents “Brrlesque” from Dec. 8-18 at 3865 Grape St., Unit #2, Denver. New work by Garrett Ammon and Sarah Tallman.

Pottery sale

‘Forest of Stories’ comes to libraries SONYA’S

The Arapahoe Ceramics Guild at Arapahoe Community College will hold its annual pottery sale in the Summit Room, Littleton Campus, Dec. 1 and 2 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Dec. 3 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Great for holiday shopping.

Sand Creek

New at History Colorado Center, 1200 N. Broadway, Denver: “The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal that Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever.” Audio Guides in four languages,

Nutcracker

Colorado Ballet will hold a sensory-friendly adaptation performance of “The Nutcracker” at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 27 at the Ellie Caulkins Theater. Tickets: $20 to$40. 303-837-8888 ext 2.

Central City Opera

Central City Opera presents “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 16 and 17 and 2 p.m. Dec. 18 at Trinity Methodist Church, 1820 Broadway, Denver. Tickets $12, kids; $42, adults.

Chorale

Cherry Creek Chorale presents “Ring in the Season” at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9 and 10 at Bethany Lutheran Church, 4500 E. Hampden Ave., Cherry Hills Village. Tickets: CherryCreekChorale. org or at the door.

‘Her Brush’ illustrates women’s world from Japan

Denver Art Museum exhibit runs through May 13

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

“Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection” just opened at the Denver Art Museum, introducing more than 100 works from a lesser-known and really rich realm of Japanese culture: women artists from 16001900. “Her Brush” is an introductory peek at the collection, more than 550 artworks recently donated by Drs. John Fong and Colin Johnstone. Painting, calligraphy and ceramics are included in this exhibit at the Ponti Building.

Kiyohara (Kano) Yukiroba (16431682) was taught by her father and by the Kano School, based in Kyoto

IF YOU GO

The Denver Art Museum is located at 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway (Hamilton Building) and to the north across 12th Street is the Ponti Building. Parking garage. Adult entrance is ticketed unless a member. Children are admitted free. denverartmuseum.org. 720-865-5000.

and run by her uncle, a famous artist. He is said to have merged the brushwork tradition that came from Chinese art with the color and pattern of Japanese style. She managed to layer her own style into those traditions. Her painting of “The Goddess Benzaiten and Her Lute” (The Goddess of Love) is outstanding.

An art career was rare for a woman, but her father is said to have taught her and encouraged her. She also managed to fit a marriage to another artist into her life. Her

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art often depicted legendary and historical women, painted on silk scrolls.

The exhibit was curated by Andrew L. Maske, professor at Wayne State University, and co-curated by Einor K. Cervone, associate curator of Asian art at the Denver Art Museum, and will continue until May 13, 2023.

This beautifully presented exhibit is a subtler, quieter experience than the rousing “Saints, Sinners, Lovers and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks” that opened recently in the Hamilton Building and would probably cause visual overload if one tried to do both in a day, but perhaps out-of-town art lovers will try it with a lunch break!

These women came from different backgrounds according to curatorial staff.

Wealthy families produced daughters who studied the “Three Perfections,” painting, poetry and calligraphy, which theoretically prepared them to be proper wives. Some, such as the multi-talented Kiyohara Yukiroba, managed a multifaceted lifestyle.

Talented women from artistic families established themselves as professional artists.

Buddhist nuns had a sort of freedom from society’s expectations and could travel more freely and train as artists.

Entertainers: geisha, musical performers, actors and sex workers at times became recognized artists as did literati society members: intellectuals and art enthusiasts.

Allow time to contemplate the life stories presented here and to enjoy the cherry blossoms!

“The Floating World” is a descriptive name sometimes given to this somewhat dreamy Japanese scene.

“The Goddess Benzaiten and Her Lute” is a painting by Kiyohara Yukinobu from the 1600s. It is part of the exhibit “Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection” at the Denver Art Museum.

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Is cloud seeding a potential solution to Colorado’s drought?

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

They say that everyone complains and yet no one ever does anything about the weather.

But Colorado is actually trying very, very hard to do something, possibly a quite large something: Expanding decades of cloud seeding to an eighth campaign to combat the 22-year drought by wringing more snow from every storm tantalizing the biggest river basins.

The next time promising snow clouds gather over the St. Vrain basin west of Longmont, newly placed silver iodide guns will shoot the chemical high into the gloomy skies in the hope of coaxing an extra 10% to 15% of snowpack from the atmosphere.

The new St. Vrain Creek effort joins existing blasts of silver iodide targeting heavy snow clouds for decades above the upper Colorado River, the North Platte, the Gunnison, and Grand Mesa. Another study is underway to see if cloud seeding could boost flows in the Yampa and White River basins in northwestern Colorado.

The high-tech rain dances are paid for by an intriguing combination of thirsty customers. State governments want to boost water

resources and tourism. Ski areas seek the deepest possible powder. And downhill states like Arizona and California pay up as they choke on new federal restrictions on Colorado River water use, with climate change quickly altering reality for 40 million snowpackdependent Westerners.

Colorado spends millions of dollars on the ground- and aerialbased cloud seeding programs because it works, state water officials say.

“We typically like to say, on an average storm, we can increase it 8% to 12% of the snow-water equivalent,” said Andrew Rickert, weather modification program manager for the Colorado Water Conservation Board.

“If we have a storm coming through that’s going to give us 10 inches, we can get another inch out of that storm,” Rickert said. “But over the duration of an entire winter over hundreds of thousands of square miles, we can add hundreds of thousands of acre-feet of water to spring runoff.” For perspective, federal officials have warned the seven Colorado River Basin states need to find 2 million to 4 million acre-feet of cuts to water use for 2023 because of drought soaking up historic river flows.

An island emerges from seasonal low water levels at Dillon Reservoir Thursday morning in Summit County. The Denver Water’s reservoir diverts the water through the Harold D. Roberts Tunnel under

the Continental Divide into Colorado’s Front Range. (Hugh Carey, The Colorado Sun)

The St. Vrain and Left Hand Water Conservancy District is enthusiastic to be the latest Colorado region to come on board with snow-boosting science. Their legal “Notice of Intent to Modify the Weather” hit local newspapers in September, and said the cloud seeding will begin this month above 6,500 feet. The new territory could send silver iodide shooters anywhere from Larimer County to Park County and points in between.

The St. Vrain district doesn’t deliver water to consumers, but its mission is to enhance water resources for all users in the area that the creek drains, from Longmont and Lyons water agencies to Front Range farmers to snow recreation in Boulder and Larimer counties. In developing a new longterm water plan, St. Vrain basin residents made it clear they did not want massive new storage in the form of a dam and reservoir on the relatively free-flowing creek.

Long established cloud seeding programs provide the kind of “holistic, sensible approach” to water supply that can “do it in a way that marries up with the values of our community,” district Executive Director Sean Cronin said.

Gauges for the cloud seeding device near Williams Fork Reservoir, Nov. 3, 2022, outside Kremmling.

Those community values included a clear look at the environmental science of cloud seeding, and any potential dangers of introducing silver iodide into the atmosphere above the St. Vrain. When shot or dropped into clouds full of promising moisture, tiny silver iodide particles form a nucleus that encourages droplets to condense and become snowflakes.

Environmental groups have not raised serious objections to the cloud seeding programs on contamination issues, experts say. The silver emitted in cloud seeding barely registers as trace amounts.

“If you take silver iodide by the spoonful, yes, it’s not very good for you,” said William Cotton, professor emeritus of meteorology at Colorado State University. “But in the amounts on the ground in snowpack, it takes extremely advanced instrumentation to even detect it.”

That doesn’t mean everyone agrees on whether it works. “Notice to Modify Weather?” Some don’t notice.

But cloud seeding has not been proven effective in boosting the available water supply, said nonprofit Western Resource Advocates water policy analyst John Berggren.

“Some of the studies we’re aware of suggest cloud seeding may be able to increase precipitation 5% to 15%, but it’s unclear how that translates into streamflow and water availability,” Berggren said.

“We believe there are numerous other proven and legal ways for communities to increase water security, namely conservation and demand management.”

CSU’s Cotton isn’t even so sure about those studies showing “5% to 15%” enhancement. The “sometimes desperate” search for water in the West is understandable, but “might not be as promising as people wish” in delivering extra snowpack, Cotton has written for science websites.

One early cloud seeding study that CSU participated in, often cited by weather modification proponents, claimed to find 10% to 15% enhancement when done well, including shooting silver iodide from the highest possible altitudes and finding the best wind and moisture conditions, Cotton said.

“So that really excited people and everything,” Cotton said.

But more recent studies using specialized cloud radars and aircraft sampling, in Wyoming and Idaho snow basins, show “more like 1% to 2% increases in precipitation,” he said.

“The amounts still are really questionable. A few percent makes it really hard to be cost effective. Five to 10% would really be more cost effective,” Cotton said. The method that appears to be most effective, spraying silver iodide into the clouds from airplanes, is also the most expensive.

Cloud seeding can’t create storms where only drought skies exist. To be most effective, silver iodide has to be shot into heavy clouds loaded and ready to go with moisture, that just need tiny dust or ice particles to form good snow.

Only about a dozen storms during a winter season meet the

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criteria for good cloud seeding results, experts say.

A 2005 study the state water conservation board posts on its website describing weather modification concludes that year’s model produced “very small differences between seed and control precipitation predicted by the model,” and that the results were “very disappointing and not expected at the onset of this project.”

All but one of Colorado’s cloud seeding programs use groundbased devices to hit the clouds from below. Jackson County, touching the Wyoming border, has a dual aerial and ground program to try to add water to the North Platte River.

The seven previously existing programs cost about $1 million a year to run statewide, according to Denver Water, which is one of about 40 organizations that help fund the seeding. A coalition of Front Range consumer water providers, from Denver to Aurora to Pueblo to Northern Water, have sponsored cloud seeding for the Central Colorado Mountains River Basin program, though not every water agency joins every year.

The central program covers four remote control generators at high elevations, and over 20 manually operated seeding machines, Denver Water said. The seeding targets clouds passing over Eagle, Grand, Pitkin and Summit counties. The Front Range water providers own

rights to water on the west side of the Continental Divide in the Colorado River basin, and bring it through the divide into the Arkansas and South Platte river systems for consumer use.

St. Vrain is calling its initial entry a pilot program. The district will pay about $50,000 for operations, while the state covers $86,000 for the generators and installation, Cronin said.

Cronin and his engineers believe the most recent studies offer good proof of the concept. The St. Vrain basin generates about 80,000 acrefeet of water a year, Cronin said, meaning a 3% to 10% enhancement could bring up to 8,000 additional acre-feet. An acre-foot can serve the water needs of about two typical households for a year, according to most estimates.

The $136,000 cost is a fair investment in search of a “rising tide that lifts all boats” of basin water users, Cronin said.

But does cloud seeding here steal water from where it would otherwise fall, over there?

That’s always the second question after “Does it work?”, cloud seeding proponents say. Western Resource Advocates raises issues about whether it does in fact do that, rob Peter to pay Paul’s water bills.

“If cloud seeding is used ‘upstream’ of another basin with senior water rights, would that be in violation of prior appropriation? Could the ‘downstream’ basin sue or ask for a compact call? If you start quantifying the savings from cloud seeding, you could run into thorny legal issues,” Berggren

said.

Those issues have not come up, according to Rickert and other seeding proponents. The programs are in fact sponsored by water users “over there,” in the form of California, Nevada and Arizona water officials helping to pay for cloud seeding where their supply is largely stored, in the Colorado high country snowpack.

St. Vrain engineer Scott Griebling said a typical storm drops less than 10% of the water available in that set of clouds. If cloud seeding manages to boost that small number by 10%, that’s only taking 1% more of the total water.

“There’s still plenty of water left in the cloud,” he said.

For true water geeks, and in Colorado there are plenty, the next question is inevitably, “Who owns the new water?”

The answer is imprecise, but comes down to who really “owns” the entire state water pool.

St. Vrain calls statewide cloud seeding “raising the dam” for all of Colorado, backing up new water through a virtual reservoir. Any

“new” water from cloud seeding accrues to the benefit of water rights holders from that basin who, because of drought or holding a more junior appropriation, have lately been right on the cusp of losing their full share.

The additional water also makes it easier for Colorado and various conservancy districts to meet compact calls from other states, like Nebraska demanding its share from the South Platte, or Nevada policing uses on the Colorado River.

“This is the only way to physically add water to a basin,” Rickert said. “Whoever has the senior water rights is still going to be able to pull their water, but we’re just trying to add more to the system as a whole.”

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Republicans have to wait for 2026 for shot at power

No statewide o ces up for grabs

BY JESSE PAUL, DELANEY NELSON AND SANDRA FISH THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado Republicans were shellacked Tuesday night, which means, starting next year, the GOP will no longer have any statewide elected officials. And the party will have to wait until 2026 before they get a chance to change that.

That’s because there are no statewide offices up for reelection in 2024.

Additionally, the GOP was on track Wednesday morning to fall even further into the minority in the Colorado Senate — so far so that they won’t realistically have a shot at taking back the chamber in 2024. A Republican majority in the Colorado House is also largely seen as out of reach for the foreseeable future.

Democrats have never held this level of sustained power at the state or congressional levels in Colorado.

“It’s just super depressing if you’re a Republican,” said George Brauchler, a conservative talk radio host who ran unsuccessfully for attorney general in 2018. He called his party’s 2022 losses “epic.”

Brauchler spoke to The Sun on Tuesday night at the Colorado GOP’s watch party at the DoubleTree Hotel in Greenwood Village, which was perhaps the saddest place

in the state. It was not even 10 p.m. when the ballroom had almost fully cleared out, following concession speeches from U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea, secretary of state candidate Pam Anderson, treasurer candidate Lang Sias and John Kellner, who ran for attorney general.

A band played Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” to an audience of mostly reporters busy digesting the GOP’s stunning defeats.

“The outcome is a tough pill to swallow,” O’Dea said in his concession speech to a hushed crowd at about 8:30 p.m., when early returns showed him trailing Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet by 18 percentage points. “But that’s life in the big city.”

O’Dea, a first-time candidate and Denver construction company owner, ran as a moderate in the hopes of winning over voters in a state moving increasingly toward Democrats. It didn’t work — in a big way. (O’Dea was trailing Bennet by 12 percentage points on Wednesday morning.)

Heidi Ganahl, a University of Colorado regent who was the only statewide elected Republican, lost her bid Tuesday to unseat Democratic Gov. Jared Polis. The contest was called by Fox News, playing in the DoubleTree ballroom, minutes after the polls closed. Ganahl was trailing Polis by 18 percentage points on Wednesday morning.

Former state Sen. Greg Brophy, an Eastern Plains Republican, was predicting a good night for Republicans heading into Election Day. On Wednesday morning he was in disbelief.

“I’m blown away,” he said. “In shock.”

Kristi Burton Brown, chairwoman of the Colorado GOP, said Tuesday’s results show where Colorado “really is” politically “and whether or not Colorado has become a state more like Washington or California.”

Republicans, she said, will now have to focus district by district on legislative races and on local elections — school board, mayoral and city council contests, for example — until they get another shot at statewide office. U.S. House races, which are decided every two years, will also be a major focus for the

party.

“If it’s district by district,” she said, “we’ll go fight district by district.”

Burton Brown said the GOP’s next big focus will be in Aurora, where they hope to keep a Republican in the mayor’s office in Mike Coffman and a GOP majority on the City Council. (Aurora’s municipal races are technically nonpartisan.)

And then there’s the 2024 presidential race. But no Republican presidential candidate has won in Colorado since George W. Bush in 2004.

In the Colorado Senate, where Republicans hoped to win a majority and be able to stop Democratic Gov. Jared Polis’ agenda, the GOP needed to win six of seven competitive races this year to secure the gavel. On Wednesday morning they were losing in all seven races.

While Republicans were hoping to ultimately win in a few of the seven districts once the vote count is complete, the party was bracing for the reality that they may fail in all of the races.

If Democrats ultimately prevail in the seven competitive contests, the party’s majority will expand to 23-12 from 21-14. There are only two Democratic seats the party is at a real risk of losing in 2024, which means their future majority doesn’t appear in doubt until at least 2027.

Republicans may have lost seats in the House his year, as well, where they were already outnumbered by Democrats 41-24.

“We as a party have self-imploded in Colorado,” Ben Engen, a Republican political consultant and data analyst, said Nov. 9.

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.

Exciting classes in theater, music, art, science, culinary, dance, technology, and STEAM for all ages!

Republican Jaylen Mosqueira, running to represent House District 38, at the opening the state GOP’s Hispanic Community Center in Thornton Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022.

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Welcome the holiday season to the Denver area

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!

COMING ATTRACTIONS

At this time of year, people are constantly searching for fun ways to explore the metro area and all it has to offer — maybe you have family in from out of town and need to entertain them, or perhaps you’re just looking for an alternative to the typical holiday fare.

With the following four options as a starting place, I hope you’ll find a great way to kick off the season.

Return to the moon at the DMNS

With interest in space exploration on the rise all over the world, it is difficult to imagine a more fitting time to take a look back than right now. And that’s just what visitors can do at “Apollo: When We Went to the Moon,” which is running at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science , 2001 Colorado Blvd. in Denver, through Monday, Jan. 23.

The exhibit takes visitors back to the space race leading up to the moon landing in 1969 and features more than 100 artifacts from the U.S. Space and Rocket

Center’s archives, according to provided information.

With more than 400,000 individuals contributing to the success of the American space program, there was a huge range of materials to go through for the exhibit. Visitors can explore the development of the Saturn V rocket, get up close and personal with the Apollo A7L spacesuit and learn just some of the stories behind the people who made it all possible.

Find tickets and information on the exhibit at www.dmns.org.

Immerse yourself in the holiday season at the Cherry Creek Holiday Market

One of the great joys of the holiday season is spending time outside with a warm drink, festive atmosphere and surrounded by great people. For all that and more, you won’t want to miss the Cherry Creek Holiday Market .

Now in its third year at Fillmore Plaza , 105 Fillmore St. in Denver, the market has built up a reputation as one of the best shopping experiences in the metro area. And it is easy to see why: it features more than 50 vendors, including artisan creators who make puzzles, tabletop campfires and high quality tea products; live music Wednesday through Sunday; and a topnotch bar program that showcases local companies like at st, The

Family Jones and Uncle Tim’s Cocktails. Once you add in some beautiful light features, it is difficult to go wrong.

The market runs through Saturday, Dec. 24. All you need to know can be found at www.cherrycreekholidaymarket.com.

Explore a brewing winter wonderland

LUKI Brewery , 14715 W. 64th Ave., Unit A and B, in Arvada, has all manner of activities scheduled for the holiday season, but one of the most appealing must be its Cirque Du Snow Winter Wonderland Wednesdays events.

Held from 3 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 30, Dec. 7, Dec. 14 and Dec. 21, the festivities begin with a cookie decorating kit from Elevated Pastries (which includes six plain sugar cookies in classic holiday shapes, icing and sprinkles) and from their brewers serve beer using the Bierstacheln tradition. According to provided information, “this German process involves heating beer with a hot poker and caramelizing the complex sugars from the malt-forward varieties on tap.” Finally, Classic Holiday Movie Bingo begins at 6 p.m.

There will also be holiday markets, live holiday music and even a “a paint your pet” event.

Check out www.lukibrew.com to get all the details and to make your plans.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Wild Pink at Globe Hall

Over their four albums, New York’s Wild Pink have somehow managed to get better with each new record. Their most recent album, “ILYSM,” might be their best yet, and that could very well be because it is their most personal. At 34, lead singer John Ross received a cancer diagnosis that would rock back any person, and he used that experience as the ultimate muse. The resulting album is searching, funny, sad and expansive - all descriptions that equally apply to the story of a human life.

In support of the album, Wild Pink will be performing at the Globe Hall , 4483 Logan St. in Denver. They’ll be joined by indie rock/folk favorites Trace Mountains and Knuckle Pups.

As we head into the final stretch of the year, this is the perfect show to look back at what we’ve all endured and case a hopeful glance to the coming horizon. Get information and tickets at https://globehall.com/.

Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. He can be reached at Clarke. Reader@hotmail.com.

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Creek swimmer puts in the hours

Senior is especially strong underwater

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Lexi Greenhawt admits that hard work is the backbone for any successful high school swimmer but also confesses that putting in that extra effort can sometimes be difficult.

Greenhawt is a senior at Cherry Creek and a defending Class 5A state champion.

“It is definitely hard,” Greenhawt said when asked about the hard work. “We have morning practices twice a week. When the alarm goes off at 4:45 (a.m.) it is never easy to get out of your warm bed and hop into a cold pool.

“I tell myself that this is what makes me stronger, this is how I get better, this is what is going to help the team.”

Last year Greenhawt won the l00 backstroke state title, finished third in the 100 butterfly and swam a leg on Creek’s state champion 200 medley relay team.

“I’m excited for the season,” said Greenhawt. “I’m ready. It’s my last season so I’m ready to go out with a bang. I’m hoping we (Creek) win

again but that’s really hard.

“We like to be really positive, we have each other’s back, support each other, uplift each other and that helps. A happy swimmer is a fast swimmer. We’re definitely happy on the Creek team, not to mention there is a lot of depth. We still have to practice hard, put in the work and give it our best shot.”

Greenhawt is working to improve the underwaters in her events.

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Looking back at years of hockey

George Gwozdecky coaches at Valor after decades in game

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

George Gwozdecky remembers his fi rst season as Valor Christian’s hockey coach and now can look back on how high school hockey in Colorado has improved.

The 60-year-old Gwozdecky has seen and coached plenty of hockey.

He is the only person to win an NCAA championship as a player (Wisconsin in 1977), an assistant coach (Michigan State in 1986) and as a head coach (University of Denver in 2004-2005).

Gwozdecky will be starting his eighth season as Valor Christian’s hockey coach and he has guided the program to a 111-29-5 record and two state championships in the previous seven campaigns.

“The thing that is easiest to see is the level of hockey, at least every year that I have witnessed and experienced, is rising at the high school level,” said Gwozdecky. “Teams are more competitive and more kids that were on the fence years ago are now playing high school

hockey.

“The fall season just wound up with championship overtime game between Valor and Monarch. In the fall season, there were multiple overtimes. Cherry Creek, Denver East, Monarch all went into overtime games and there were some upsets. To me that’s a great indicator as to how close, hard fought and challenging the upcoming CHSAA season is going to be.”

who has been a coach for 42 years including 19 at

Gwozdecky,

Lexi Greenhawt of Cherry Creek

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Valor Christian hockey coach George Gwozdecky.

PHOTO BY JIM BENTON

‘I tell myself that this is what makes me stronger, this is how I get better, this is what is going to help the team.’

Lexi Greenhawt, Cherry Creek senior

‘Teams are more competitive and more kids that were on the fence years ago are now playing high school hockey.’

George Gwozdecky, Valor Christian hockey coach

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DU, claims Denver’s declaration as a hockey championship city has helped the sport at the high school.

The Colorado Avalanche won the NHL’s Stanley Cup, the University of Denver captured the NCAA title and Denver East took the national high school championship last season.

“Everybody was wrapped up in the Avalanche, their Stanley Cup playoff run and winning the Cup,” added Gwozdecky. “And obviously DU. At every level they have reconized the national champions.

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FROM PAGE 26

Improving the underwater phase is a key to swimming faster. It isn’t about spending the lon-

Not only was it tremendous boost for hockey in this area to have Denver East as part of the Stanley Cup parade and to recognize high school hockey that way and I don’t know if there is any better way to help advance high school hockey.

“You still see the banners around, the city of champions. From my standpoint I really appreciate what the Avalanche has done in their success by winning the Cup.”

Valor’s senior center Noah Fekete welcomes the added attention.

“It was really cool to be living in Colorado when that happened and to be playing high school hockey,” he said. “It just brings a lot of recognition to the game. More

gest time underwater. It’s about using the time underwater to gain distance off the walls quickly, while retaining as much speed as possible.

Coach Karin Olmsted points out that Greenhawt, who will swim next season for the University of

people are going to have their eyes on Colorado at all levels.”

Gwozdecky is enjoying the depth he has on this season’s team but it hasn’t always been that way.

“That fi rst year we had 14 hockey players,” Gwozdecky recalled. “One of them was a goalie, 13 skaters and they all liked hockey and without being condescending, we didn’t have any hockey players. But those kids that were on that team were the building blocks for what is to come. And it was a challenge for us.

“So a lot has developed over the years. When I think back to seven years ago and that fi rst team and some of our fi rst practices and some of the things that occured that year, I just kind of chuckle

Michigan, is a silent leader.

“Lexi is a quiet leader on our team in that she lets her swimming and racing do the talking,” said Olmsted. “But I know she is looking forward to bringing the underclassman and her team along with her this season.

now because it’s been fun to be part of the growth.”

The top seven scorers of last season’s Eagles team were all juniors returning this years including Fekete, who led the team with 16 goals and 29 points. Owen Walsh, who had nine goals and 23 points, is also back and will also be one of the team leaders.

“For me I’m big on encouragement and letting players know they are doing the right thing,” said Walsh. “That’s really important and just kind of guiding them when I see things that they can do better.”

“While racing, her strength is her powerful and fast underwaters. Some of the things she does in practice underwater rival that of Division 1 athletes. I am excited to see what she, along with our extraordinary group of seniors, do this year.”

Valor Christian hockey player Aiden Owen

PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON Valor Christian’s Noah Fekete

W S S

U P Z Z

Early-season snow o to good start in high country

researcher, wrote in an email.

BY CHRIS OUTCALT THE COLORADO SUN

Snowpack on the Western Slope is off to a good start, but experts caution it’s difficult to draw many meaningful conclusions from snow-covered, high-country peaks this early in the season.

“It’s kind of like leading a football game by a field goal halfway through the first quarter,” Jeff Lukas, an independent climate

As of early November, the statewide snowpack was 140% of the median from 1991 to 2020, and 142% in the Colorado River headwaters area specifically, according to SNOTEL data compiled by the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The averages were slightly higher elsewhere on the Western Slope.

Still, there’s a long way to go. Typically, on Nov. 9, Colorado is about 8% of the way to achieving statewide median snowpack, Lukas said. Right now, the state is about 12% of the way there, he said. But, Lukas cautioned that there’s very little correlation

A fox ventures through the snow on Conifer’s Shadow Mountain.

PHOTO COURTESY OF DEBBIE FORD

Too soon to get excited, but snowpack is 140% of average

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COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION

CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0479-2022

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On September 9, 2022, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and De mand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Jacqueline K. Drinkwine

Original Beneficiary(ies)

U.S. Bank National Association ND Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

U.S. Bank National Association Date of Deed of Trust

October 13, 2000

County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 20, 2000

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B0150921

Original Principal Amount $50,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance $48,018.30

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 13, BLOCK 7, COLUMBINE HEIGHTS - FIL ING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 11 GLENVIEW DR, LITTLETON, CO 80123.

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, 01/11/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 11/17/2022

Last Publication: 12/15/2022

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 09/09/2022

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) rep resenting the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423 Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP

7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-22-941248-LL

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Re vised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. 0479-2022 First Publication: 11/17/2022 Last Publication: 12/15/2022

7, CHAPTER 1A, SECTIONS 7-1A-5, 7-1A-9, AND 7-1A-16 OF ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING ANIMAL IMPOUNDMENT.

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

Legal Notice No. 301676

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

PUBLIC NOTICE

CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING AN APPLICATION FOR A HOTEL & RESTAURANT LICENSE DECEMBER 7, 2022

Notice is hereby given that the Centennial Liquor Licensing Authority will conduct a public hearing on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at 10:00 a.m via Virtual Meeting, to consider an application for a new H&R License.

Applicant Information: Corazon de Maiz LLC Venalonzo’s Mexican Grill 6830 S. Yosemite St. Centennial, CO 80112

Public comment will be heard at the virtual hearing or written communications regarding the issuance of this license may be submitted to the Liquor License Administrator, via email at clovelace@ centennialco.gov by no later than December 6, 2022 at 5:00 PM.

By order of Christina Lovelace, Deputy City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530807-60807

First Publication: November 24, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

PUBLIC NOTICE

CITY OF CENTENNIAL

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, November 21, 2022 the Centennial City Council passed on first reading:

ORDINANCE NO. 2022-O-32

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO AMENDING CHAPTER 12 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE (LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE) CON CERNING ROOFTOP GREENHOUSES

The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. The full text of the ordinance is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com.

/s/Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530806-60806

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice

CITY OF SHERIDAN

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On the 14th day of November, 2022, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, ap proved on first reading the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. 14 SERIES OF 2022

AN ORDINANCE

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. 301668

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public

Notice

CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Centennial, Colorado will conduct a public hearing on Monday, December 5, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. regarding ORDINANCE NO. 2022-O32, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO AMENDING CHAPTER 12 OF THE MUNICI PAL CODE (LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE) CONCERNING ROOFTOP GREENHOUSES. The public hearing will be held at the Centennial Civic Center, 13133 E. Arapahoe Road, Council Chambers, Centennial, Colorado 80112. Copies of Ordinance No. 2022-O-32 are available for inspection by the public on the City’s website: www.centennialco.gov. Interested parties may file written comments with the City Clerk, at: councilcomments@centennialco.gov or by mailing them to City Clerk, 13133 E. Arapa hoe Rd, Centennial, CO 80112 any time prior to December 5, 2022. Any written comments received will be provided to City Council prior to the Public Hearing and made part of the record.

/s/Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530802

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE

On the 21st of November 2022, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 70 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER

A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 7, CHAPTER 6C, SECTION 7-6C-6 OF ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADD AND REMOVE CITY FACILITIES FOR OPEN CARRY OF FIREARMS ON CITY PROPERTY.

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

Legal Notice No. 301678

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE

On the 21st of November 2022, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 37 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER

A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 11, CHAPTER 1B, SECTIONS 11- 1B-1 AND 11-1B-2 OF ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING TRAFFIC PROCEDURES, DEFINITIONS.

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

Legal Notice No. 301675

First Publication: November 24, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE

On the 21st of November 2022, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 63 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER

A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF LITTLETON AND THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD REGARDING COSTSHARING FOR REVISING SEWER CONNEC TOR DISTRICT AGREEMENTS.

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

Legal Notice No. 301677

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

PUBLIC NOTICE

CITY OF CENTENNIAL

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, November 21, 2022, the Centennial City Council approved the following ordinance on second and final reading:

ORDINANCE NO. 2022-O-27 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO, APPROVING A FRANCHISE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLO RADO, AND PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF COLORADO (“GRANTEE”) TO PROVIDE GAS AND ELECTRICAL SERVICES WITHIN THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL AND AMENDING AR TICLE 5 OF CHAPTER 5 OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL CODE

The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk and is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennial colorado.com. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324.

(First published November 10, 2022)

By: Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530803

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Public Notice

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On the 21st of November 2022, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance:

BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. SERIES OF 2022

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE TO ESTABLISH MUNICIPAL CONTRACTING PROCESSES. (Council Bill 69)

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

Legal Notice No. 301673

First Publication: November 24, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE

On the 21st of November 2022, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 73 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER

A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE TITLE 1, CHAPTER 4, SECTION 1-4-4 CONCERNING THE COLLECTION OF UNPAID AND OVERDUE TAXES, DEBTS, FINES, FEES, RESTITUTION, BOND FORFEITURES AND CIVIL PENALTIES IMPOSED BY ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE AND ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL COURT.

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

Legal Notice No. 301680

First Publication: November 24, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE

On the 21st of November 2022, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 72 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER

A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SEC TIONS 1-4-1, 1-7-2, 7-6A-5, 7-6B-10, 7- 6C-1, 7-6C-2, 7-6C-3, 7-6D-1, 7-6D-10, 7-6D-12 OF ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW, CUR RENT PRACTICES.

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

Legal Notice No. 301679

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

CITY OF CENTENNIAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Centennial, Colorado will conduct a public hearing on Monday, December 5, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. regarding ORDINANCE NO. 2022-O29, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COUNCIL OF THE CENTENNIAL, COLORADO, AMEND ING SECTION 8-1-30 OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL CODE TO SET THE MAXIMUM DEFAULT SPEED IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS AT TWENTY-FIVE MILES PER HOUR. The public hearing will be held at the Centennial Civic Center, 13133 E. Arapahoe Road, Council Chambers, Centennial, Colorado 80112. Copies of Ordinance No. 2022-O-29 are available for inspection by the public on the City’s website: www.centennialco. gov. Interested parties may file written comments with the City Clerk, at: councilcomments@centen nialco.gov or by mailing them to City Clerk, 13133 E. Arapahoe Rd, Centennial, CO 80112 any time prior to December 5, 2022. Any written comments received will be provided to City Council prior to the Public Hearing and made part of the record. /s/Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530805-60805

First Publication: November 24, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Public Notice

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On the 21st of November 2022, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance:

BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. SERIES OF 2022

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 4, CHAP TER 7, SECTION 4-7-3 OF ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING WASTE TRANSFER SURCHARGE (Council Bill 67)

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

Legal Notice No. 301671

First Publication: November 24, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On the 21st of November 2022, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance:

BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. SERIES OF 2022

AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AN INTERGOV ERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD AND AURORA-SOUTH METRO SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER TO PERFORM SMALL BUSINESS SEMINARS, ONE-ON-ONE CONSULTING, AND WORKSHOPS IN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD. (Council Bill 71)

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

Legal Notice No. 301674 First Publication: November 24, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

CITY OF SHERIDAN

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On the 14th day of November, 2022, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, ap proved on final reading the following Ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. 13 SERIES OF 2022

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR OF 2023 AND APPROPRIATING SUMS FOR DEFRAYING THE EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2023 AND ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2023 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. 301670 First Publication: November 24, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

CITY OF SHERIDAN

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On the14th day of November, 2022, the City Coun cil of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. 12 SERIES OF 2022

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN AMENDING A BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR OF 2022 AND APPROPRIATING SUMS FOR DEFRAYING THE EXPENSES AND LI ABILITIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2022 AND ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2022 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STAT UTES 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. 301669

First Publication: November 24, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Englewood Herald

PUBLIC NOTICE

CITY OF CENTENNIAL

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Monday, November 21, 2022 the Centennial City Council passed on first reading:

ORDINANCE NO. 2022-O-29

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COUNCIL OF THE CENTENNIAL, COLORADO, AMEND ING SECTION 8-1-30 OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL CODE TO SET THE MAXIMUM DEFAULT SPEED IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS AT TWENTY-FIVE MILES PER HOUR

The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324. The full text of the ordinance is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com.

Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk

By:

Legal Notice No. 530804-60804

OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO ESTAB LISHING THE SALARY FOR THE MUNICIPAL COURT JUDGE

Public Notices

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Public Notice

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On the 21st of November 2022, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance:

BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. SERIES OF 2022

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 7, CHAP

TER 6 ARTICLE F, OF ENGLEWOOD MUNICI PAL CODE REGARDING SHOPLIFTING AND PRICE SWITCHING. (Council Bill 68)

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

Legal Notice No. 301672

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Metro Districts Budget Hearings

Public Notice

NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2023 BUDGET AND HEARING COLUMBINE WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed budget has been submitted to the COLUMBINE WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT for the ensuing year of 2023. A copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of the District, 8739 West Coal Mine Avenue, Littleton, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection. Such proposed budget will be considered at a hearing at the special meeting of the Columbine Water and Sanitation District to be held at 4:00 P.M., on Thursday, December 8, 2022. The meeting will be held at Columbine Country Club, 17 Fairway Lane, Columbine Valley, Colorado. Any interested elector within the Columbine Water and Sanitation District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2023 budget.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: COLUMBINE WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

By: /s/ ICENOGLE | SEAVER | POGUE A Professional Corporation

Legal Notice No. 530811

First Publication: November 24, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Summons and Sheriff Sale

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO

Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac St., Centennial, CO 80112 Case No.: 2022CV30161 Division: 204

Plaintiff: AURORA AT CROSS CREEK CON DOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation vs.

Defendants: CORY DON JENSEN; NAVY FED ERAL CREDIT UNION; and PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR ARAPAHOE COUNTY

SHERIFF’S COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE

This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to an Order for Judg ment and Decree of Foreclosure dated April 25, 2022, and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq. by AURORA AT CROSS CREEK CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIA TION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation, the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on JUNE 17, 2005 at reception no. b5089613, in the records of the office of the clerk and recorder of Arapahoe County, Colorado.

UNIT 102, BUILDING 3, AURORA AT CROSS CREEK CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RE CORDED ON JUNE 17, 2005 AT RECEPTION NO. B5089613, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE DEC LARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF AURORA AT CROSS CREEK CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED ON JUNE 17, 2005 AT RECEPTION NO. B5089614, IN SAID RECORDS, TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE LIMITED COM MON ELEMENT GARAGE BAY 19, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

It is also known by street and number as 23451 E. 5th Drive, Unit 102, Aurora, CO 80018.

Record owner of real property: Cory Don Jensen Association/Foreclosing Entity/Holder of Debt Foreclosed: AURORA AT CROSS CREEK CON DOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC.

Interest foreclosed: Statutory lien for unpaid as sessments per C.R.S. § 38-33.3-316, as perfected by the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions of Aurora at Cross Creek Condomini ums, recorded on June 17, 2005, at Reception No. B5089614 in the Clerk & Recorder’s Office for the County of Arapahoe, Colorado (“Declaration”).

More accurately defined in the Order for Judg ment and Decree of Foreclosure, issued by the Court on April 25, 2022, a certified copy of which was recorded on May 12, 2022, at Reception No. E2053063 in the Clerk & Recorder’s Office for the County of Arapahoe, Colorado (“Order”).

Amount of judgment entered on April 25, 2022: $12,444.98 with post-judgment interest at 21% per annum. The amount of the foreclosed lien is not stagnant.

Amount of foreclosed lien as of September 15, 2022: $14,488.75

Attorneys for Association: Moeller Graf, P.C.; Associate Attorney Gail R. Gudder, Reg. No. 17820; ggudder@moellergraf.com; 385 Inverness Pkwy., Ste. 200, Englewood, CO 80112; Phone: (877) 279-4499.

THE PROPERTY TO BE SOLD AND DE SCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN DESCRIBED ABOVE.

THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The covenants of said Declaration have been violated as follows: failure to pay assessments that have come due, more accurately described in the Order.

NOTICE OF SALE

THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Civil Unit of the Sheriff’s Office for the County of Arapahoe, Colorado, will sell the real property described above and the improvements thereon at 10:00 AM, on the 19th day of January 2023 at 13101 E. Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, to the highest and best bidder. The Association and its attorney do not make any warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connec tion with this sale.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT THE TIME OF SALE.

Date signed: October, 18, 2022 Tyler S. Brown, Sheriff County of Arapahoe, Colorado

By: Sgt. Trent Steffa Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 530720

First Publication Date: December 1, 2022 Last Publication Date: December 29, 2022 Published in the: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225, Englewood, Colorado, 80110

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO Case No.: 2022CV030824 Div: 202

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY PLAINTIFF: AMERICANA TOWNHOME ASSOCIATION, INC. v.

DEFENDANTS: ALLYCE M. MANNINGS; AJAX MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2020-C, MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES, SERIES 2020-C, BY U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIA TION, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE; AMERICANA MASTER ASSOCIATION; and ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice:

You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Unit of the Sheriff's Office of Arapahoe County, Colorado at 10:00 O’clock A.M., on the 29th day of December, 2022, at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, phone number 720-874-3845. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.

**BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COV ER THE MINIMUM BID AT THE TIME OF SALE.**

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORE CLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Judgment is in the amount of $13,543.39.

This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceed ing has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to Order for Default Judgment and Order and Decree for Judicial Foreclosure dated August 17, 2022 and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq. by Americana Townhome As sociation, Inc. the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on November 16, 2015 at Reception No. D5131367 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The foreclosure is based on a default under the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions of Americana Townhomes recorded on 03/24/1983 at Reception Number: 2259795 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The Declaration establishes a lien for the benefit of Americana Townhome Association, Inc. against real property legal described as follows:

Lot 38, Block 1, Americana Filing No. 1, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.;

Also known as: 478 S Memphis Way #A, Aurora, CO 80017.

The attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is: Kate M. Leason, Reg No. 41025, Altitude Community Law P.C., 555 Zang Street, Suite 100, Lakewood, Colorado 802281011, 303.432.9999

DATED in Colorado this 21ST day of September, 2022.

Tyler S. Brown Sheriff of Arapahoe County, Colorado

By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 560669

First Publication: November 3, 2022

Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225 Englewood, Colorado, 80110

Misc. Private Legals

Public Notice

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PINAL JAIME R VALENZUELA, Plaintiff v. JUANITA S DAWDY and HEIRS, MICHAEL P McCORD, PINAL COUNTY TREASURER JOHN AND JANE DOES I-V and UNKNOWN HEIRS, LEGATEES OR SUCCESSORS OF INTEREST, Defen dants Case No. CV202200437

Judge: CHRISTOPHER O'NEIL AMENDED SUMMONS

Plaintiff allege as follows: TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(s) JUANITA S DAWDY and HEIR PHILIP DAWDY W TRUST

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend, in the above entitled action within TWENTY (20) days, after the service of the summons and complaints upon you, exclusive of the day of served. if served outside the State of Arizona, you shall appear and defend within THIRTY (30) days, exclusive the day of service.

In order to appear and defend, you must file a proper response or answer in writing with the Clerk of the Court accompanied by the required filing fee. Failure to so appear and defend will result in a judgment by default being rendered against you for the relief requested in the complaint a copy of the Complaint.

A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the Pinal County Clerk of the Superior court 971 Jason Lopez Circle, Building A, PO Box 2730, Florence, Arizona 85132.

Requests for reasonable accommodations for persons with disability must be made to the division assigned to the case by parties at least three (3) judicial days in advance of our scheduled court processing.

You are required by law to serve a copy of your respond or answer upon the plaintiff(s) addresses as follows:

JAIME R VALENZUELA 2329 E ALIDA TRL CASA GRANDE ARIZONA 85194

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL OF THE COURT; 03/23/2022

Rebecca Padilla, Clerk of Superior Court

Legal Notice No. 530774

First Publication: November 10, 2022 Last Publication: December 1, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Notice to Creditors

Public Notice

District Court Arapahoe County, Colorado, 7325 S. Potomac St., Centennial, CO 80112, Phone: 303-645-6600.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of George E. McVehil, Deceased September 13, 2022, Case Number: 2022PR561.

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before March 25, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeffrey G. McVehil, Personal Representative, 13598 Via Varra, Unit 402, Broomfield, CO 80020, Phone: 949-375-9891.

Legal Notice No. 530801

First Publication: November 24, 2022 Last Publication: December 8, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Janet Elaine Schulcz, aka Janet E. Schulcz, aka Janet Schulcz, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 30690

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 January 30, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert J. Dillon Personal Representative 3450 N. Winslow Dr. Tucson, AZ 85750

Legal Notice No. LI102

First Publication: November 10, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

District Court

Arapahoe County, Colorado Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, CO 80112

In the Matter of the Determination of Heirs or Devisees or Both and of Interests in Property of: Ruth Rosendale, Deceased David Rosendale, Deceased Herman J. Rosendale, Deceased Elizabeth Bess Rosendale, Deceased Richard E. Rosendale, Deceased Dorothy Ann Rosendale aka Dorothy Dyer, Deceased Marshall L. Dyer, Deceased

Attorneys for Helen Melba Dryden and Lance Dryden, Petitioners Molly Zwerdlinger, Atty. Reg. # 46224 Walter M. Kelly II, Atty. Reg. # 6061 Gary Clexton, Atty. Reg # 17419

MILLER & STEIERT, P. C. 1901 W. Littleton Blvd., Suite 100 Littleton, CO 80120

Phone Number: (303) 798-2525; FAX Number: (303) 798-2526 E-mail: wkelly@m-s-lawyers.com; mzwerdlinger@m-s-lawyers.com gclexton@m-s-lawyers.com Phone Number: 303-798-2525 FAX Number: 303-798-2526 Case Number: 2022PR31238 Division: 12

NOTICE OF HEARING WITHOUT APPEAR ANCE BY PUBLICATION TO INTERESTED PERSONS AND OWNERS BY DESCENT OR SUCCESSION PURSUANT TO § 15-12-1303, C.R.S.

To all interested persons and owners by descent or succession (List all names of interested persons and owners by descent or succession): Helen Melba Dryden and Lance Dryden Joanne Rosendale James Dyer

John Dyer

A petition has been filed alleging that the above decedent(s) died leaving an interest in the fol lowing property (including legal description if real property):

Description of Property / Location of Property Property 1 Lots 1-5 & N 7 ft Lot 6 Ex rear 8ft, Block 15, Aurora, (aka 10660 Colfax Ave, Aurora, CO) Arapahoe County, Colorado

Property 2 Lots 7 and 8 except the rear 8 feet of Block 15 Aurora; (aka 1462 Iola Street, Aurora, CO) Arapahoe County, Colorado

The hearing without appearance on the petition is scheduled for the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued:

Date: December 30, 2022 Time: 8:00 Courtroom or Division: 12 Address: 7325 S. Potomac Street, Centennial, CO 80112

The hearing will take approximately -- N/A

Note:

You must answer the petition on or before the hearing date and time specified above.

• Within the time required for answering the peti tion, all objections to the petition must be in writing, filed with the court and served on the petitioner and any required filing fee must be paid.

• The hearing shall be limited to the petition, the objections timely filed and the parties answering the petition in a timely manner. If the petition is not answered and no objections are filed, the court may enter a decree without a hearing.

Legal Notice No. 530768

First Publication: November 10, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Elena Sakas-Sluder, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30962

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 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Casey Breese, #51448

Attorney to the Personal Representative 675 15th Street, Suite 2650 Denver, Colorado 80202

Legal Notice No. 530794

First Publication: November 17, 2022

Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

In the Matter of the Robert J. Piccinelli Insurance Trust dated November 19, 1999 and of the Pic cinelli Survivor Life Trust dated November 19, 1999, Case Number: 2022PR030769

NOTICE BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT

TO § C.R.C.P. 4(g)(2)

Jeffrey S. Piccinelli, Trustee of the Robert J. Piccinelli Insurance Trust dated November 19, 1999 and of the Piccinelli Survivor Life Trust dated November 19, 1999, filed a Petition for Ap proval of Trust Modifications pursuant to C.R.S. § 15-5-412 with the Arapahoe County District Court on June 28, 2022. The Petition requests to modify the dispositive provisions of each trust affecting beneficiary, Paula M. Barker, a/k/a Paula Madison, a/k/a Paula Piccinelli. Paula M. Barker, a/k/a Paula Madison, a/k/a Paula PiccinellI is instructed to contact Trustee, Jeffrey S. Piccinelli before December 1, 2022.

Person Giving Notice

Jeffrey S. Piccinelli, Trustee, c/o Guillen DeGeorge, LLP 9222 Teddy Lane, Lone Tree, CO 80124

Legal Notice No. 301645

First Publication: November 3, 2022

Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Publisher: Englewood Herald PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Ina Nadine Vlgil, a/k/a Ina N. Vigil, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR031222

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 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Krystal J. Harms, Personal Representative 16185 County Road 356 Buena Vista, Colorado 81211

Legal Notice No. 530797

First Publication: November 17, 2022 Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of John Dennis McWhirter, also known as John D. McWhirter, and John McWhirter, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31157

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 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Susan Ann Suter, Personal Representative 7824 S. Windermere Circle Littleton, CO 80120

Legal Notice No. 530782

First Publication: November 17, 2022 Last Publication: December 1, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Georgia Ann Livengood, a/k/a Georgia A. Livengood, Deceased Case Number 2022-PR-30574

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 10, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Christopher P. Seerveld, Attorney for Co-Personal Rep 8400 E. Prentice Ave., Suite 1040 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 301650

First Publication: November 10, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Eugene Derl McComas, a/k/a Eugene D. McComas, a/k/a Eugene McComas, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31215

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 March 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Nicole D'Arpa, Attorney for Merely A. Mccomas, Personal Representative 1880 Office Club Pointe, Suite 201 Colorado Springs, CO 80920

Legal Notice No. 310663

First Publication: November 17, 2022 Last Publication: December 1, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Issa G Saba, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR541

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 10, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Guillermo G Saba

Personal Representative 14665 Mission Walk Loop Parker CO 80134

Legal Notice No. 530767

First Publication: November 10, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Marcia Madelaine Collin, a/k/a Marcia M. Collin, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 31143

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 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kelly A. Fischer, Dahl Fischer LLC

Attorney for the Personal Representative 2000 S. Colorado Blvd. Suite 2-430 Denver, CO 80222

Legal Notice No. 530779

First Publication: November 17, 2022

Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Betty Mae Sims, a/k/a Betty M. Sims, a/k/a Betty Sims, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31232

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

between mountain precipitation in October and early November and the final totals across an entire snow season.

In about a third of the past 35 years, early-season snow totals looked something like they do so far this year, Lukas said. The seasonending snowpack across those 12 years, however, runs the gamut, from a handful of average years to a very good 1995 and a dismal 2012.

Nevertheless, it’s better to have snow on the ground than not, he said.

“Every little bit helps. Just like a field goal early in the first quarter,” he wrote. “But it needs to be followed up with a lot more scoring.”

Given the challenges facing the Colorado River, water managers across the region will be watching the snowpack especially closely this year. More than 40 million people rely on the snow that accumulates high up in the mountains in the Colorado River Basin and then flows into the river and its tributaries. The water is also used to irrigate millions of acres of farmland. However, a

series of subpar snow years and dry soil conditions paired with sustained water use has drained the country’s two largest reservoirs — Lake Powell and Lake Mead — and strained the entire Colorado River system.

So far this year, the biggest in-state beneficiary of the early-season snow has been southwestern Colorado and the San Juan Mountains, a region that has been hard-hit by drought and dry soil conditions the past few years. The southwestern part of the state registered 217% of the median snowpack as of Nov. 10.

“We’re in the best shape we’ve seen for about five years — it’s a good start for sure,” said Ken Curtis, general manager of the Dolores Water Con servancy District, which manages the Dolores Project.

In addition to the early snow, a steady pattern of monsoonal rains throughout the summer helped southwestern Colorado quite a bit, Curtis said.

“Depending on how you feel about trends or odds or statistics, we are looking better, and you might say we’re due,” Curtis said.

In 2021, farmers and ranchers who rely on water from the Dolores Proj ect received a 10% supply. This year, the project operated on a 35% supply.

Public Notices

Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before March 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Douglas F. Sims, Personal Representative

Paul R. Danborn (24528)

FRIE, ARNDT, DANBORN & THIESSEN P.C. 7400 Wadsworth Blvd, Ste. 201 Arvada, CO 80003

Phone Number: 303-420-1234

Attorney for Douglas F. Sims Personal Representative

Legal Notice No. 530789

First Publication: November 17, 2022

Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of LINDA LOUISE PERRY, a.k.a. LINDA L. PERRY, a.k.a. LINDA PERRY, Deceased Case Number 2022PR30974, Division 12

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County District Court, Centennial, Colorado, on or before March 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

COURTNEY CLARK

Personal Representative

11926 Norfolk Court Commerce City, Colorado 80022

Telephone: 303-330-1342

Legal Notice No. 530761

First Publication: November 10, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Thomas Scott Valaski, aka Tom Scott Valaski, aka Thomas S. Valaski, aka Tom S. Valaski, aka Thomas Valaski, aka Tom Valaski, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 31069

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 10, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Zachary Jaden Valaski

Personal Representative

12233 West Cross Drive, Unit 302 Littleton, CO 80127

Legal Notice No. LI110

First Publication: November 10, 2022

Last Publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Carol Kaye Murphy, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31251

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 24, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Julie Murphy Seavy, Personal Representative

c/o The Law Office of Jennifer S. Gormley, PC

6060 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., Suite 300 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 301667

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Last Publication: December 8, 2022

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Doris Froehlich Wisson, aka: Doris F. Wisson, aka: Doris Wisson, deceased Case Number: 2022PR031142

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 3/10/2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jacqueline Rowley, Esq. Nadya Vecchiet-Lambert, Attorney-at-law, LLC

Attorney for Personal Representative Jonathan Wisson 6855 S. Havana St., Ste 370 Centennial, CO 80112

Legal Notice No. 530758

First Publication: November 10, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Mary Alice Blythe, aka Mary A. Blythe, aka Mary Blythe, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31224

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 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Bradley K. Blythe, Personal Representative 11769 Jasper St. Commerce City, CO 80022

Legal Notice No. 301664

First Publication: November 17, 2022 Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Betty J. Egnew, a/k/a Betty Jean Egnew, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31205

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before March 17, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Pamela S. Savageau, Personal Representative c/o Keith L. Davis, JD Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. 530798

First Publication: November 17, 2022

Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of MARGARITA D. CARRERAS, aka Margarita Diaz Carreras,

Becky Bollinger, the assistant state climatologist, said it’s good to get a head start on snowpack now so that the state is less reliant on big storm after big storm during the heart of the winter.

“For me, seeing these storms kick off and that we’re a little ahead on snowpack is good,” said Bollinger, who is part of Colorado State Univer sity’s Colorado Climate Center. “In general, I feel pretty positive about this.”

The snow in the high country this week was especially nice, she said, because the next week or so looks like it’s going to be drier across the state. However, temperatures

are likely to remain cooler, which is good, Bollinger said. “What that means is that while the snowpack isn’t going to accumulate, it’s prob ably not going to melt in those midto-high elevations,” she said. “When you have those cold temperatures, that will help support the snowpack that’s already there.”

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Last Publication: November 24, 2022

aka Margarita C. Carreras, Deceased Case Number 2022PR30945

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 Friday March 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

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

Legal Notice No. 530800

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Last Publication: December 8, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of RICHARD DUANE MEYER, SR., a/k/a RICHARD D. MEYER, SR., a/k/a RICHARD MEYER, SR., a/k/a RICHARD DUANE MEYER, a/k/a RICHARD D. MEYER, a/k/a RICHARD MEYER, a/k/a RICK DUANE MEYER, SR., a/k/a RICK D. MEYER, SR., a/k/a RICK MEYER, SR., a/k/a RICK DUANE MEYER, a/k/a RICK D. MEYER, a/k/a and RICK MEYER, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR30978

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 10, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Richard Duane Meyer, Jr., Personal Representative c/o Brian Hedberg, Esq., 7350 E. Progress Place, Suite 100 Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111

Legal Notice No. 530763

First Publication: November 10, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Barbara Ann Bush, aka Barbara A. Bush; aka Barbara B. Bush, aka Barbara Bush, Deceased Case Number: 2022 PR 31206

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 17, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jonathan D. Bush, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203

Legal Notice No. 301662

First Publication: November 17, 2022

Last Publication: December 1, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Marvin C. Hein, Deceased Case Number: 22PR31175

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 March 10, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Persons Giving Notice: Bradford Teal Hein Co-Personal Representative 5290 E. Yale Circle, Suite 103 Denver, CO 80112

Amanda Hein Wakimoto Co-Personal Representative 5290 E. Yale Circle, Suite 103 Denver, CO 80112

Legal Notice No. 530775

First Publication: November 10, 2022 Last Publication: November 24, 2022 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Georgia Erb Sipes, deceased Case Number: 2022PR528

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 March 24, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Heather Romero aka Heather J. Sipes Personal Representative 1620 N. Grant St. #311 Denver, Colorado 80203

Legal Notice No. 301666

First publication: November 24, 2022 Last publication: December 08, 2022 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Name Changes

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public Notice is given on October 24, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Noah Michael Williams be changed to Noah Michael DeMarsico Case No.: 22C100722

By: Arapahoe County Clerk of the Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530770

First publication: November 10, 2022

Last publication: November 24, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on October 28, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Bichnhi Lana Nguyen be changed to Lana Bichnhi Oung Case No.: 22 C 100740

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530779

First Publication: November 10, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on October 31, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Daniel Steven Drake be changed to Daniel Steven Pingol-Drake Case No.: 22C100739

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530781

First Publication: November 17, 2022 Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on October 28, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Kaelyn Iris Nieto-Parker be changed to Kaelyn Iris Nieto Case No.: 22C100723

By: Colleen E. Clark County Court Judge

Legal Notice No. 530780

First Publication: November 17, 2022 Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on November 7, 2022, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Shandon Douglas Toliver be changed to Shandon X Case No.: 22 C 100734

By: Judge

Legal Notice No. 530810

First Publication: November 24, 2022

Last Publication: December 8, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

Public Notice is given on October 25, 2022 that

a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Arapahoe District Court.

The Petition requests that the name of: ADELLE VALENTINE BULTEMA be changed to ADELLE VALENTINE FERRIS Case No. 2022CV31989

CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT /s/ CTR

By: Division 21 Clerk

Dated: November 8, 2022

Legal Notice No. 530790

First Publication: November 17, 2022

Last Publication: December 1, 2022

Publisher: Littleton Independent