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Paving costs, engineering changes get council nod

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Mackenzi Spendlow, 4, Fort Lupton targets the wooden flames in the window frame with small firehose Aug. 2 at Fort Lupton’s PHOTO BY SCOTT TAYLOR Koshio Park, part of the city’s National Night Out Celebration. See more photos on page 8.

Fort Lupton company ready to get dirty Luxe Offroad specializes in custom SUV work and soil science

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Fort Lupton City Council went through a night of numbers – big ones and small ones – during its Aug. 2 business meeting.

Council agreed to more than $3 million of subdivision improvements with Lupton Village Land Developers. The work covers the construction of water, nonpotable water and sanitary sewer main extensions, roadway construction, landscape and storm drainage system improvements, according to the council’s agenda.

Council’s vote was unanimous. It didn’t have questions, and the public offered no comments.

Council also agreed to a change in its agreement with Colorado Paving, increasing what the city will pay by no more than $480,000 for the repaving project at Ninth Street and College Avenue.

The two sides signed a $2 million agreement in 2021. Public Works Director Roy Vestal said the two sides reduced the size of the bid to bring it under budget. That meant no work on curbs and gutters along Ninth Street and half of the pavement work along College Avenue.

The first change order in October deleted paving along College Avenue but restored curb and gutter and sidewalk work along Ninth Street.

The second change order restored the full project for both roadways.

Staff notes said this newest change pays the contractor “additional surcharges imposed by material suppliers and additional work orders in contingency for unforeseen utility conflicts.”

The council’s approval was unanimous.

Whether it’s modifying sports utility vehicles to drive on the dirt, hiring someone to dig in the dirt or someone to test it, a new Fort Lupton business said it’s ready to do it all.

Luxe Offroad custom vehicle shop has landed in Fort Lupton, bringing an umbrella of services More money matters to the 15,000-square foot warehouse Every year before Thanksgiving, First United Methodist Church in Fort Lupton and the Fort Lupton Food and Clothing Bank provide community Council agreed to a change in its at 2369 So. Rollie Ave. The company members with food boxes.

This will be the program’s 10th consecutive year.

Above, Joe Hubert, left China Garcia and Sue Hubert with Change 4 Change, contract with Burns and McDonell specializes in custom-built jeeps Engineering Co. totaling no more and trucks, vehicle wrapping, another organization that helps with the food drive. See more on Page 2.

Luxe Offroad custom vehicle modification to a Jeep.

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Robert LaVerne Michel April 23, 1933 - July 6, 2022

Robert Michel, whom was born and raised in Brighton, CO, passed away on July 6, 2022 at the age of 89 surrounded by his loving family. In 1951 Robert graduated from Brighton High School and attended one year of college at Colorado Agricultural College, now formally known as Colorado State University.

After his year in college, Robert enlisted in the US Army, where he fought in the Korean War, also spending six additional years in the Army Reserves. When he came home from his stint in the military, Robert married Irene Windholz on July 16, 1955 at St. Augustine Catholic Church, and the two remained married for 66 years.

workaholic to say the least but he still always had time to be present with his friends and family during their get-togethers. He was an avid sports fan and passionately loved his Denver Broncos. Robert was a loving, hardworking man, and he will be sincerely missed by all of his family and friends.

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Samuel (Sam) Ruben Sandoval September 16, 1946 - July 31, 2022

Samuel (Sam) Ruben Sandoval of Brighton passed away July 31, 2022, at the age of 75. He was born September 16, 1946, in Wattenberg Colorado to Manuel and Gillerma (Sailas) Sandoval.

Robert is survived by his wife, Irene (Windholz) Michel, of Brighton, CO. By her three sons; Rick Michel of Wiggins, CO, Terry (Rhonda) Michel and Rob (Jodi) Michel, of Brighton, CO, along by 12 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

He is preceded in passing by his two brothers, Jack and Jim Michel.

Samuel is survived by his lovely wife Rachael Sandoval 59 years of marriage. His daughter Vicky (Salvador) Lerma, son Gary Sandoval.

He is survived by 6 grandchildren: Aaron (Jessica), Allen (Denise) Ruby, Sabrina Lerma, LaTanya Cruz (Tim) Abigail Sandoval. He is survived by 8 great grandchildren: Cataleya, Georgino, Yareli Lerma, Anthony Wendt, Reign Jaramillo, Malachi, Israel, Noah Cruz.

Private services will be carried out by Robert’s family at a later date.

Samuel is preceded in death by both his parents, his son Robert “Bubba” Sandoval,

and his sibling’s John, Eugene, Ron Sandoval.

Visitation, Recitation of Rosary, Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Tuesday August 16, 2022, starting 10:00 AM at Our Lady of Grace Church 1956 Grace Ave Fort Lupton (Wattenberg).

Graveside Service will be held on Tuesday August 16,2 022, following Mass at 1:00 PM at Fairview Cemetery 102 Telluride St. Brighton CO.

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Reception will be held on Tuesday August 16, 2022, following service from Cemetery around 2:15 PM at Our Lady of Grace Community Building 1956 Grace Ave Fort Lupton (Wattenberg).

Sharan Kaye (Jordan) Beeson March 16, 1947 - July 4, 2022

Sharan (Jordan) Beeson died peacefully in Brighton, on July 4, 2022.

Born in Ekalaka, Montana March 16, 1947, she was the fifth child of the late Curtis Dale Jordan and Addie Allene (Tucker) Jordan.

Sharan graduated from Ft. Lupton High school in 1965.

She is survived by her son Bobby Beeson (Lisa), daughter Lea Romero, brother Gene Jordan (Sandy), sisterin-law Ann Jordan, and many nieces, nephews, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.

For memorial and Celebration of Life service, visit crematesimply.com.

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Fort Lupton council approves service plan changes

BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

There was a certain commonality to Fort Lupton City Council’s Aug. 2 approvals of updated service plans for four developments.

All four votes were unanimous.

There was no public comment, nor were there questions from councilors. Each contained an intergovernmental agreement between the district and the city, and each afforded a chance to explain new rules pertaining to city developments.

Jennifer Tanaka, special counsel to the city for special districts, said all metro districts have to maintain city roads, streets and parks within the developments.

“It helps defray costs to the city

and pushes them onto the developers,” she told the council.

The four service plans are for the Cottonwood Conner Metropolitan District (covering a bit more than two acres near Ninth Street and Weld County Road 31), the Cottonwood Thermo District (2.3 acres near 19th Street and WCR 31), the Cottonwood Townhomes Metropolitan District (less than a halfacre near Ninth Street and College Avenue) and the Vista Meadows Metropolitan District (152 acres of homes at build-out).

Service plans deal with the design, acquisition, construction, installation, relocation, redevelopment, and financing of public improvements that are necessary for development, according to staff notes.

Later in the meeting, council vot-

ed 5-0 to approve a final plat for the Flats at Lupton Village, a mixeduse subdivision of 120, single-family attached residential lots and one general commercial lot. All of it is at the northeast corner of South Denver Avenue and WCR 12.

The main point of contention was the maintenance of the development’s main road. Officials with Baessler Developers designed the subdivision with the idea the city would take care of the road maintenance.

“My preference would be that it stay a private road,” Fort Lupton Public Works Director Roy Vestal said.

Credit card fees at court Credit-card processing fees for municipal court will be increasing,

thanks in large part to several federal rate increases and an increase in processing fees.

The fee increases from 3.95 percent (it’s been at that level since November) to 5 percent. The city pays the difference between what’s afforded and the actual amount. So far this year, the city hasn’t been able to collect more than $1,200 in fees because of an increase in charges from its credit card company.

That’s not all.

“These fees also affect the building permits,” staff said. “The Cascade Building Permit system uses the Global Payments credit card processor. Currently, on a $1,000 building permit, Global Payments adds $39.50 to the fee, if paid with a credit card.”

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excavation services and applied sciences relating to soil testing.

“We discovered this building and we got extremely lucky, there was a company who had previously leased this building with the intent to move their operations from Minnesota down here. But for some reason, they could not find a workforce,” said Larry L. Willis, Luxe OffRoad, VP, Business Operations.

The building has offices in the center with lots of space surrounding it. One of the buildings will house the off-road end of the operation with plenty of room to modify those vehicles.

Luxe Offroad had its soft opening on August 1 but will have a grand opening on Labor Day with a soiree and a band.

Dr. William Lindsey IV founded Luxe Offroad, Luxe Colour, and the applied sciences division and also developed the company’s agriculture and soil amendment technology.

“He has enormous contacts all over the country so it enables us to almost get what we want, as in terms of supplies and machinery,” Willis said.

“He’s a genius with amazing ideas such as the applications, carbon fiber, agriculture and soil amendments. He put everything together so we can reinvent the market,” Willis said.

Three businesses under one umbrella By the end of this year, Luxe Offroad hopes to have hired at least 16 people. They have three businesses under one umbrella.

The first is the parent’s organiza-

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tion, Luxe Applied Sciences which specializes in wildfire and soil reclamation, erosion control, and soil amendments – materials used to improve soil quality. The company does excavation, grading and foundation improvements.

Another service is Luxe Colour, which prints everything from vehicle wraps to graphics, banners, window screens and wall hangings.

“If you ever see restaurants with advertising that changes each month or quarter, that is simply a wall wrap that they install, and can remove and replace within an hour, “ Willis said.

When Luxe Offroad customizes a high-end Jeep or four-by-four truck, they can also wrap the truck with their in-house wrapping units.

“We take all of our heavy machinery from the applied sciences side, and we will wrap those ourselves so that it stands out when it’s on a job

site. We currently have two heavy machinery units, a skid steer and an excavator wrapped in digital camo,” Willis said.

Luxe Offroad uses carbon fiber technology to outfit the trucks they customize rather than fiberglass.

Willis said fiberglass is very solid and sturdy but weighs a ton. It can also crack in the cold or when it’s bumped into. Carbon fiber is virtually indestructible and can repel almost any blunt force that it takes.

“We incorporate some of the carbon fiber into the trailers we don’t build. But if people come in, we can build cabinets, upper and lower cabinets, and door drawers incorporating carbon fiber into anything you can think of that is not metal,” Willis said.

Sometimes they can replace the metal with carbon fiber while retaining its tensile strength. It weighs about one-tenth of fiberglass

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or aluminum and is sturdier.

“We have a proprietary blend, where we also mix it with Kevlar.

It’s even stronger for the designs of trailers that are car haulers,” Willis said.

Willis said when they build cabinets, especially countertops, they blend magnetic powder.

“Let’s say you’ve been working in your trailer, you’re putting things away, you forget that wrench or whatever tool that’s metallic, it will magnetize to the countertop. So, when you’re driving around, it’s going to stay there,” Willis said.

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than $52,600 from the city’s utility fund.

The two sides have an almost $1.9 million agreement for the design of a

August 11, 2022 new lift station. But the agreement did not include requirements for funding application requests from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Council’s agenda packet said the utility fund budget contains $2.5 million for engineering services for

the wastewater treatment plant.

Councilors also agreed to a $15,000 service agreement with Engineering Design Consultants to help determine the proper spot for a water storage tank at a planned gun range that will be on city

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than the standard metal boxes but stand up to daily use better. The standard metal tools boxes absorb the heat from a sunny day and can get boiling hot inside while carbon fiber acts differently.

“We tested a bag of ice in a carbon fiber toolbox in the bed of his truck. We closed the lid, and after about an hour, we came back, and all there was a slight puddle of water underneath it,” Willis said. “The inside of the box was 50 to 70 degrees; it was cooled down by the ice instead of being heated by the sun. It repels the heat inside.”

Luxe Offroad custom work to a semi.

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Fort Lupton fortunate Willis said the company was fortunate to find Fort Lupton. Willis said he took over the original lease from a company that never set foot in the building.

“Honestly, it is the perfect

property.

Council’s agenda packet said the analysis “will determine the ability to eliminate the existing pump station for the high-pressure zone of the potable water system.”

The vote was unanimous in favor.

Additions In other business, the council unanimously agreed to add the property at 13400 Weld County Road 10 into the Lupton Village Commercial District.

There was no discussion Aug. 2, nor was there any public input.

site for us. Trying to find something large enough that could house what we wanted to do, and how we wanted to do it, was the fun part.

This building literally fell into our laps. We were also impressed with Fort Lupton and loved the city, “ Willis said.

Willis said he was impressed with the investments in commercial infrastructure that the city and other developers had made.

He noted that his neighbors include Halliburton, the fire department, and oil and gas companies.

“They have invested to build themselves up as a city.

And we were very impressed with that commitment before anybody had signed on the dotted line,” Willis said.

New housing construction in Fort Lupton and other established companies were also part of the lure. There’s also room for expansion for growth for a lot of other companies, he said.

“The commercial market, real estate, or commercial

real estate market here in Colorado, is fragile. Because we have lots of companies moving to Colorado, we have lots of companies in Colorado that are expanding or moving locations, Willis said.

“We can see companies will be moving into the area within the next five years and we’re happy to be here first.”

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Finding roots Luxe Offroad has its footprint in Denver with plans to establish in northern Colorado. Within a year, his goal is to be statewide and then go nationwide– if not global.

“The reason we’re happy with Fort Lupton is that we can absolutely bring all of the customers from Denver.

We are not that far away from Denver and can bring our customers from northern Colorado as well,” Willis said.

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FORT LUPTON POLICE BLOTTER

Here are the police reports for July 23 to July 29 to the Fort Lupton Police Department. Not every call made to the police is not listed on this report.

July 23 Three Fort Lupton teenage boys and one Fort Lupton teenage girl were issued summonses for criminal mischief complaints in the 300 block of Harrison Avenue.

A Fort Lupton man, 59, reported a theft of his catalytic converter valued at $416.00 in the 300 block of Third Street.

Police arrested a Fort Lupton man, 30, in the 300 block of Harrison Avenue for felony menacing, protection order violation, obstructing a peace officer and resisting arrest. He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

A Fort Lupton man, 53, was taken in custody for DUI,and multiple traffic offenses. He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

July 24 Police arrested a Fort Lupton man, 23, in the 200 block of Pacific Court on a harassment charge.

He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

July 25 A Wheatridge man, 33, was arrested in the 1400 block of Second Street on DUI, possession of a scheduled II drug, driving as a habitual traffic offense and multiple warrants.

He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

Police issued a summons for a 17-year male for causing a careless driving accident at First Street & Rollie Avenue.

July 26 A Commerce City man, 24, was pulled over in the 600 block of 14th Street and issued a summons for using fictitious plates.

July 27 Police arrested a Thornton man, 31, in the 600 block of Fourteenth Street on a Douglas County warrant for distribution of a controlled substance, possession of scheduled II drug, weapons violation and protec-

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tion order violation. He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

A Fort Lupton woman, 32, was arrested on an Adams County warrant for failure to appear on the possession of a controlled substance charge. She was held on bond at the Adams County Detention Center.

Police issued a summons to a Fort Lupton woman, 20, for causing a careless travel accident at South Denver Avenue & Weld County Road 8.

July 28 A Fort Lupton woman, 44, reported the theft of tools taken in the 100 block of South Harrison Avenue.

The case was under investigation.

Police arrested a Fort Lupton man, 38 for attempted assault, criminal trespass, harassment and driving while license under restraint.

He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

July 29 An Aurora man, 46, was arrested in the 400 block of Harrison Avenue on a Weld County warrant for failure to appear in a traffic offense.

He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

Police arrested a Fort Lupton man, 41, on Weld County and Jefferson County warrants for domestic violence-related charges. He was held on bond in the Weld County jail.

A Colorado Springs man, 29, was arrested for assault on a peace office, resisting arrest, DUI, and multiple traffic offenses. He was held on bond at Weld County jail.

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Finding smoother air through the turbulence

ll of us who have flown have experienced turbulence.

Some of us experience anxiety and fear as we drive our fingernails into the armrest or the arms of the person sitting next to us. Many regular flyers have come to know and trust in the pilots and aircraft and are confident that we are okay. While some even treat the turbulence like a thrill ride or roller coaster.

On a flight from Denver to Phoenix several years ago, our plane went through incredibly intense turbulence. My seatmate was not a frequent flyer and was already anxious about the trip, and the choppy air had her holding onto the armrests with a white-knuckled death grip.

And when the plane took a tremendous jump, her fingernails left the armrest, and she immediately dug them into my forearm.

Is there turbulence in the world?

Absolutely. This is not a shock to anyone. When pilots experience turbulence, they attempt to find smoother

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air, and most times, they seek higher altitudes to see if they can get us to less bumpy airspace so we can feel better and have a more enjoyable remainder of our flight.

I have noticed throughout my life that when faced Michael Norton with turbulent or difficult times, situations, or people, looking for a higher altitude means taking the high road.

And I would have to say that by finding a higher altitude in almost every turbulent and trying situation, taking the high road has made all the difference in finding that smooth air so we can move on with a more enjoyable and safer flight through life.

Trying, challenging, and difficult times know no prejudice. We all eventually go through seasons of life that are incredibly hard, causing us great pain physically, mentally,

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and spiritually. And for so many of us, we react hastily and maybe even angrily instead of taking a moment, responding favorably as we look for the onramp to the high road. And by the way, I can share with you that when taking the high road, we never run into a traffic jam as many people would prefer to stay in the fight or keep perpetuating an argument, failing to find smoother air and peaceful resolutions.

There are undoubtedly turbulent global situations that we cannot influence at all. Yet we can still find a higher ground or a higher altitude to try and maintain order and find peace. The events, arguments, and divisiveness going on right now are causing a tidal wave of differences of opinions and creating a breeding ground for violent responses, chaos, and confusion. My encouragement is that when we find ourselves right in the middle of it, we can stop, pause, and remember to find a higher altitude and smoother air by taking the high road.

There is a classic and great song

by Buffalo Springfield titled “For What It’s Worth.” And some lyrics should remind us of what’s happening around us and that we can find our way to being less combative, more cooperative, less angry, and more agreeable, even if it is agreeing that we can disagree. The lyrics go like this, “There’s battle lines being drawn, nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong.”

How about you? Have you experienced a smoother ride through the turbulence by taking the high road?

Or could you use a little reminder to help you find higher altitude and smoother air? Either way, I would love to hear your story at mnorton@ xinnix.com, and when we can navigate through the turbulence, it will be a better than good year.

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What advocates of nuclear must also talk about

nuclear reactor might be a nice addition to the economy of Craig, the community in northwestern Colorado. But can Colorado afford nuclear power?

Three coal-burning units at Craig will be closed between 2025 and 2030.

Those plants and associated mining provide the Moffat County School District with roughly 20% of its property tax base and many jobs that pay uncommonly well for rural Colorado.

A nuclear power plant rising like a phoenix from the ruins of coal could use existing high-voltage transmission and deliver at least some of the lost jobs.

Too, a new-generation nuclear power plant could supplement Colorado’s abundant wind and solar generation.

Utilities say they have figured out how to achieve 85%, possibly even 90% emissions-free electricity from renewables without risking reliability and raising rates extravagantly. Nobody yet has the answer for that last 10% to 15%. Nuclear could help.

The Associated Governments of Northwest Colorado, a five-county planning agency based in Rifle, has emerged as a fulcrum for this conversation. As first reported by the Grand Junction Sentinel, members met in June with State Sen. Bob Rankin, a Republican from Garfield County, to talk about the potential.

Rankin in the last legislative session tried to get fellow legislators to

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appropriate $500,000 (amended to $250,000) to study the potential for nuclear. “If we really believe that climate change is an existential threat, then how can we not look at every option?” said Rankin in introducing his bill.

Some who testified Allen Best at the committee meeting cited environmental concern. A couple of selfidentified environmentalists testified in support because, they said, nuclear does provide emissions-free energy.

More than 19% of all U.S. emissionsfree electricity comes from nuclear.

Conspicuously absent was support from the administration of Gov. Jared Polis. The bill failed 3-2 on a party-line vote.

Nuclear has a nagging problem, though. It’s expensive. Advocates rarely mention this. Costs of Georgia’s Plant Vogtle, the only U.S. nuclear power plant under construction, have ballooned from $14 billion to now $30 billion-plus. In South Carolina, investors pulled the plug on a nuclear power plant after spending $9 billion.

It has become among the very costliest of energy sources, only slightly less than rooftop solar, according to Lazard, the financial analyst.

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promoted as a way to shave costs.

Specific projects have been conceived in both Idaho and Wyoming. Bill Gates is an investor in the latter. Maybe they will overcome this cost problem.

We won’t really know for another 10, maybe 15 years.

State Sen. Chris Hansen remains skeptical. He has expertise unsurpassed among legislators. He set out to become a nuclear engineer after first laying eyes on a reactor when a high school junior from the farm country of Kansas. He got his degree but had already turned his attention to economics. He went on to earn degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, from Oxford, a Ph.D. in resource economics.

Nuclear, he told a county commissioner from Sterling in 2019, simply does not compete in cost. That was the first time I heard him answer this question. Last week, when we talked, he offered more detail.

“I think those technologies will have to prove themselves,” he said of modular nuclear reactors. “Right now, in the best-case scenario it looks like they will deliver electricity at $60 to $70 per megawatt-hour. Wind and solar are coming in at less than $20.”

The sun doesn’t always shine, the wind doesn’t always blow, and we have very little long-term storage.

“Absolutely there is extra value for a power plant that you can operate at the flip of a switch, but keep in

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mind those (coal-burning) units have high rates of unreliability because of maintenance needs and breakdowns, and some nuclear plants have had the exact same problems,” he said.

Hansen suggests that reliability may more economically be provided by less expensive alternatives. For example, he has pushed transmis sion and passed legislation to create organized markets that will allow electricity to be moved across broader geographic areas in response to consumer demands. Colorado is currently an island with limited bridges to other areas.

Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest utility, also has a wait-and-see attitude.

In June, I asked Alice Jackson, who now directs planning for Xcel Energy across its eight-state service territory, what her company must see. “Costeffective investment in construction of the new versions,” she said. Xcel, she added, will be paying attention.

Will the new generation of nuclear become cost-effective? Perhaps. We don’t have all the answers to 100% emissions-free electricity even as we expand its use into buildings and transportation. Nuclear could be an answer. But it does come at a high cost. Any serious conversation must acknowledge that.

Allen Best writes about the energy and other transitions underway in Colorado at BigPivots.com.

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Fake fire, real fun at National Night Out Fort Lupton’s Koshio Park was full Aug. 2 for the city’s 2022’s National Night Out celebration.

The annual event is marked by police and fire agencies across the country on the first Tuesday in August. It’s designed to build goodwill between police and other emergency responders and the public.

Fort Lupton’s celebration featured barbecue, games and demonstrations by local firefighters.

Fort Lupton Police Master Officer Paul Grossman doles out some hamburgers outside the police station on McKinley Avenue Aug. 2 for the city’s National Night Out celebration.

The American flag, held aloft by Fort Lupton Fire Department’s ladder truck is framed by the cloudy sky Aug. 2 at Koshio Park.

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The folks at the Fort Lupton Recreation Center’s booth at Fort Lupton’s National Night Out celebration contend goodnaturedly with sudden gust of wind that cleared their table and threatened to pop the roof of their tent off.

A bouncy housethemed basketball court drew plenty of players Aug. 2 at Fort Lupton’s Koshio Park for the annual National Night Out celebration.

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Bailey Elora signs on with Sony

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNINTYMEDIA.COM

Bailey Elora, 22, is a small-town Colorado girl with a powerhouse voice.

Now, she’s a small-town Colorado girl with a music distribution deal with Sony Music subsidiary The Orchard.

Elora said her music distribution deal gives her some of the benefits of having a label without being tied to all the label’s rules. She can continue to operate as an independent artist under her own self-named Elora label.

“I will release a handful of songs this year starting with a new song, ‘Love Like This,’” Elora said.

David R. Navarro, Elora’s manager, said the deal lets The Orchard distribute Elora’s music while she develops as an artist and builds a following. The company has a year to produce music and then extend the contract. They start the musician in small venues or radio to get a feel for their music and see if the audience likes it.

“It been a good journey and we look forward to Bailey having new music coming out starting in August,” Navarro said.

Elora said she’s hoping to eventually be able to record and release more music. She is currently working on something more upbeat.

“I’ve got a lot of music with sultry vocals and want to move more into the more alternative raw sound,” Elora said.

Bailey Elora

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Singing to recording Elora grew up in the Hudson/ Keenesburg area and graduated from Weld Central High School. She has been singing since she was eight and started singing professionally with the Youth on Records.

Elora said she was inspired to audition for the children’s chorus in a production called Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat at the University of Northern Colorado Greeley music school.

She entered the Denver student music non-profit group called “Youth on Record’ at age 14.

The program hires experienced musicians to teach the students aged 14 to 21 years old. The students have access to a complete recording studio to participate in labs and are taught spoken word poetry and music theory.

It was through Youth on Records that Elora started doing actual stage performances. She joined a women’s female group called “SenPowered” that got to sing at Michelle Obama’s

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everything. She kept busy, however.

“During COVID, I did a lot of songwriting,” Elora said.

Westword Music Showcase But Elora’s big Denver music scene break came in 2019 when she was invited to perform during Denver’s 25th Anniversary Westworld Music Showcase. She also received a nomination for the prestigious “Best Singer-Songwriter “ voted by the public.

“The Westword showcase was mainly luck. They didn’t even announce it or tell me,” she said. “I found out that I was a part of the lineup of people that I could get an award. I went on to vote for one of my friends and saw my name on the list. I thought, cool!”

“They choose who gets to perform at the showcase based on who’s got the most votes so it was luck and I hard work,” she said.

Elora said she also received the Youth on Records Real Rock Star Award for a Music Ambassador and has been a part of multiple fellowship groups. Also, she has been a dedicated and active artist with Youth on Record for over seven years.

Elora’s genre is Alternative-Rock and sings with her band lead guitar Alfredo “Freddy” Zamora, guitar Isaac Zamora, guitar Dillon Jeffries, bass Geoff Orwiler and James Romine on drums.

They continued to play at local venues around town until February 2017. And then COVID hit, delaying

Future She and the band would love to continue to be doing more festivals and would like to go out on the road, she said.

“I’ve never done like a legit like tour, I think it’d be fun and cool,” Elora said.

For the time being, Elora and her band are playing a lot of small local venues. She recorded her new music with music industry professionals Glenn Sawyer and Rich Veltrop at The Spot Studios in Evergreen. She also has new music coming out this year with Jason Cave of Beat Hogs Production Company in Loveland, Colorado.

Elora not only sings in English she has crossed over to singing and writing in Spanish. She has performed with Denver Latin rock band, iZCALLi for about a year. Elora has written five songs so far with lead singer, Miguel Avña.

Two of the songs, “Pasa el Tiempo” and “One Last Time” are on their new album, Rebirth. “Pasa el Tiempo” was Bailey’s first song that she has written, performed and sang in Spanish. This is a big deal since Bailey doesn’t speak Spanish.

The Bailey Elora Band be performing at The Roxy on Broadway in Denver for a Coastless Creatives concert with Bennett Lamaster on Saturday, September 10th. The show starts at 9:00 p.m.

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Immersive art has found its place in Denver, bringing audiences through the screen and onto the stage

BY ANDREW FRAIELI AFRAIELI@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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eethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” is immersive, drawing the listener into a carefully crafted soundscape of strung-out emotions and mountains crashing. Salvador Dali’s “Melting Clocks” is immersive, transporting the viewer to a surreal world of heat and time amuck. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” is immersive, throwing the reader into an age of bootlegging, jazz and prosperity before the Great Depression.

Any great work of art is immersive — what differentiates these classics from today’s definition of immersive art is a matter of purpose and choice. An audience chooses how they interact with the art, the art giving them the agency to act on that and what that art, this medium, can impress onto the audience because of it.

“We wanted to give [the audience]

agency, but also to create a contextualized experience so they aren’t just sitting in the dark half of a theater, but are part of the event, because they are moving their eyeballs and ear canals in the world,” said Patrick Mueller, Denver-native, and artistic director at Control Group Productions, a production company based out of Lakewood.

The company’s most recent project, “The End,” came to a close in Denver last month after bringing its audiences far from a darkened theater, forcing them to smell the refineries in Commerce City and walk around fallen bricks in an abandoned hideout, all on a Mad Maxesque bus touting other survivors in a post-apocalyptic climate change warning story.

The goal, according to Mueller, was to give “an experience of what it feels like at the precipice of a de-civilizing moment, something

falling apart in a serious way.” But to impress that weight on the audience, he said the immersion was “crucial.”

Audience becomes involved “It feels like people are looking at it in the face at this point, but they still aren’t figuring out how to change behavior,” he said. Really, he elaborated, the show allows people to be involved, to see themselves inside this crisis in a way that screen or theater cannot do, a way that forces people to look it in the face and “not having it be this virtuosity that is celebrated by distancing and elevating it onto the stage.”

But Mueller sees the style doing even more than that single project’s goal: “We can offer what people are most hungry for, if they actually think about it — a rich experience that they’re part of, a social interaction for people that may spend their

whole day working from home — being out in the world and experiencing it really differently.”

And for Zach Martens, co-founder of OddKnock, that is practically the goal of the production company’s work.

“Coming through the pandemic, everyone has been isolated and gotten very used to it, and gotten used to spending a lot of time in front of Netflix,” he said. “People are being trained to sit still and isolated, and those are the two things that I think will destroy humanity the fastest.”

OddKnock’s latest project (which also closed in Denver last month) was “From on High,” an absurd satire that brought the audience into an ‘80s office full of co-workers with an almost religious fervor for profits, and an obsessive work ethic.

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ART the co-workers become more and more unhinged.

But people are free to explore the office and interact with their “coworkers” and fellow audience members alike. As people are dragged left and right for different tasks, audience members have those close interactions with strangers and are pushed to involve themselves.

To Martens, it’s a “massive win for us, because then you go home and realize you really felt something. For that brief moment a complete stranger touched me, patted my hand and made me do something, and that just doesn’t happen anymore,” he said.

He added that people disengage with the world around them until they decide otherwise.

“And I think we’re saying, ‘Engage, engage, engage,’” he said.

The show itself gives people choices, he explained. To not be a cog in a machine like it may feel like in everyday life, even if the show is a stringent office setting.

“But by putting them in that position we’re saying, ‘Do you like this?

Do you feel this? This is what you do every single day of your life,’” Martens said. “We’re just saying, ‘Look, this is the world we’re living in, do you agree? Do you want this? If you don’t, make a choice about it.’”

These choices, this interaction, this is what the immersive art does, according to Martens. “That’s why we do what we do: You can’t smell or touch or taste anything that’s happening on a Netflix show.”

Body movement a major element In both shows, interpretive dance was a vessel of emotion, a push to the plot, and another way of pushing the audience through the screen and into the show. It makes the audience realize “all the things that our bodies can do in action, because we’re right there, we can see the hair follicles, and the sweat beads, and maybe even smell the person,” according to Mueller.

“I think as an immersive audience member, it reminds me of my own body’s capacities,” he continued, an ideal shared by Martens.

More than just reminding the audience of their body’s capabilities, though, there’s also the mind’s capabilities.

“We want to create spaces that allow people to see their creative potential and how much they are a creative being,” said Chadney Everett, senior creative director of Convergence Street at Denver’s Meow Wolf and lead designer of House of Eternal Return at Meow Wolf Santa Fe. “...not only being a creative being, but also how necessary they are to the environments they create.”

At Meow Wolf, artists create environments, Everett said. Worlds that “really allow you to feel like you’ve been transported to another place, and therefore free you to express yourself in a different way in that space.”

The immersion allows a “mar-

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The outside of Meow Wolf in Denver by Justin DeCou.

A retro computer setup in Denver-based OddKnock productions’ “From on High.”

The logo of the fictional company “BANR” in Denver-based OddKnock productions’ “From on High.”

riage” of the audience and what they created, creating something new and better, he explained. Like a tree falling in the forest with no one there to hear it, the art — the environments — don’t “exist until the audience comes and interacts with it, and brings it to life with their unique perspective,” he said.

The start of Denver’s immersive art scene is before Meow Wolf, OddKnock and Control Group Productions came to town, according to Mueller.

“There was a really particular point in time that immersive had a big moment of entering public consciousness in Denver, and there were a lot of factors involved in that, but specifically, Charlie Miller’s Off-Center production of ‘Sweet and Lucky,’” he said.

“Sweet and Lucky,” in which Mueller was a cast member, premiered in 2016 by Third Rail Projects and was commissioned by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Off-Center program. Created by Zach Morris, “Sweet and Lucky” was an immersive theatrical piece described by Westword at the time as “designed to take you out of your everyday reality and deposit you in a shifting, dreamlike world where memories come and go and you occasionally find yourself doubting your own senses.”

“It’s had a big effect on the fact that Denver is now a fairly major hub for immersive art and performance,” Mueller continued.

This exiting of reality had been a running thread through these immersive pieces since.

“But I think a lot of the impulse that is driving the local scene is the fact that Coloradans are highly active people,” Mueller said. “They spend a lot of time outdoors, have a very socially focused recreational lifetime around breweries and distilleries and food and nightlife.”

With no deep tradition of live theater, according to Mueller, immersive is a way of bridging the gap between “that feeling of it’s for grandma, or snooty New Yorkers.” It brings the audience shoulder to shoulder with the performers, who rely on the audience’s reaction to propel a scene.

Meanwhile, a gallery may be the perfect setting for paintings, Everett explained.

“The white walls ask me to focus on that piece — taking away all other information around it is exactly right for that thing.”

Everett also is a writer, musician and painter, who says of those art forms: “They do all work, but in different ways. They each serve their own function.”

Really, immersive art should be used because it’s the best tool for the job, according to Mueller.

Even within immersive art, there is a difference in approaches and goals. But the main difference that Mueller sees between the types of projects is their purpose.

“I definitely find a different value in work that talks about the human condition in a way that addresses social ills and social justice,” he explained. “I’m interested in art that makes people do and be better in their world.”

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07/26/2022 72001 HALO BRANDED SOLUTIONS INC 186.45 07/26/2022 72002 HUMANA HEALTH PLAN INC 86610.53 07/26/2022 72003 J.P. COOKE COMPANY 153.50 07/26/2022 72004 JESSICA HANSEL 120.00 07/26/2022 72005 JOSEPH OLIVAS 450.00 07/26/2022 72006 KONE INC 140.80 07/26/2022 72007 LANDMARK MONUMENTS LLC 100.00 07/26/2022 72008 LEXIPOL LLC 685.27 07/26/2022 72009 PETTY CASH-REC CTR 194.59 07/26/2022 72010 PINNACOL ASSURANCE 18713.94 07/26/2022 72011 RACHEL WILLIAMS 70.00 07/26/2022 72012 REBECCA SECOR 60.00 07/26/2022 72013 SYMMETRY ENERGY SOLUTIONS LLC 3645.53 07/26/2022 72014 SYNERGETIC STAFFING LLC 952.01 07/26/2022 72015 THE CONSOLIDATED MUTUAL 164.19 07/26/2022 72016 TODD HODGES DESIGN, LLC 9476.73 07/26/2022 72017 UNITED POWER 3623.91 07/26/2022 72018 UNITED SITE SERVICES 575.10 07/26/2022 72019 VICTORIA MIRAGLIA 74.67 07/26/2022 72020 WASTE CONNECTIONS OF COLO, INC 137.86 07/26/2022 72021 WELD COUNTY PUBLIC SAFETY IT 64.12 07/26/2022 72022 WELD COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE 178.26 07/26/2022 72023 WILLIAMS AND WEISS CONSULTING 3255.00 07/25/2022 72024 UNITED STATES TREASURY 306.90 07/29/2022 72025 ADAMS COUNTY CLERK OF COURTS 282.69 07/26/2022 72026 AFLAC 2300.34 07/26/2022 72027 AMERITAS LIFE INSUR-

ANCE CORP6372.56 07/26/2022 72028 COLONIAL LIFE 105.96 07/28/2022 72029 STANDARD INSURANCE CO. 5628.02 08/02/2022 72030 ADT SECURITY SYSTEM 138.95 08/02/2022 72031 ADVANCED URGENT CARE AND OCC MED 105.00 08/02/2022 72032 ANACONDA NETWORKS INC 2692.20 08/02/2022 72033 BRANDING BY BRE 2750.00 08/02/2022 72034 BUCKEYE CLEANING CENTER 1734.33 08/02/2022 72035 CARIBOU VENTURES GROUP LLC 3343.00 08/02/2022 72036 CEM SALES & SERVICE INC 855.00 08/02/2022 72037 CESAR PEREZ AGUIRRE 300.00 08/02/2022 72038 CESARE INC 273.00 08/02/2022 72039 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 12.00 08/02/2022 72040 CINTAS FIRST AID & SAFETY 143.37 08/02/2022 72041 CITY OF FORT LUPTON 200.00 08/02/2022 72042 COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 100.00 08/02/2022 72043 COLORADO DEPT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT 13920.00 08/02/2022 72044 COLORADO DEPT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT 115.00 08/02/2022 72045 COMCAST BUSINESS 2097.26 08/02/2022 72046 COMCAST CABLE COMM, LLC 474.29 08/02/2022 72047 DIGETEKS, LLC 16200.00 08/02/2022 72048 FIESTA TIME INC 1717.50 08/02/2022 72049 GERARDO CONCRETE 5040.00 08/02/2022 72050 GLASS GORILLA 2282.57 08/02/2022 72051 INSIGHT AUTO GLASS 945.00 08/02/2022 72052 MAXINE BROOKS 266.00 08/02/2022 72053 MEANDERING WITH MARY 140.00 08/02/2022 72054 NEOGOV 7603.83 08/02/2022 72055 PUSH-PEDAL-PULL 1372.22 08/02/2022 72056 STERICYCLE 63.89 08/02/2022 72057 SYMMETRY ENERGY SOLUTIONS LLC 3311.01 08/02/2022 72058 TOSHIBA FINANCIAL SERVICES 2376.36 08/02/2022 72059 UNITED SITE SERVICES 1434.99 08/02/2022 72060 WARD ELECTRIC COMPANY 3000.00 08/02/2022 72061 XCEL ENERGY-GAS 122.09 07/29/2022 DFT0001994 BANK OF COLORADO -100.00 07/29/2022 DFT0001995 VALIC_1 34346.03 07/29/2022 DFT0001996 IRS 66899.71 07/29/2022 DFT0001997 CO DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE 12346.00 07/29/2022 DFT0001998 IRS 328.65 07/29/2022 DFT0001999 CO DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE 42.00 07/29/2022 DFT0002000 IRS 443.87 07/29/2022 DFT0002001 CO DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE 67.00 Legal Notice No. 669 First Publication: August 11, 2022 Last Publication: August 11, 2022 Publisher: Fort Lupton Press

City of Ft. Lupton

September 6, 2022, at 6:00 P.M. or as soon as possible thereafter.

The public hearings shall be held at the Fort Lupton City Hall, 130 S. McKinley Avenue in Fort Lupton, Colorado. In the event that there are City Hall closures at the time of the hearings, the public hearings will be held remotely, accessible to the public by phone and internet. Information on how to attend the hearings will be provided in the agenda as posted on the City’s website, www. fortluptonco.gov ALL INTERESTED PERSONS MAY ATTEND LEGAL DESCRIPTION A PARCEL OF LAND IN THE CITY OF FORT LUPTON, COLORADO, LOCATED IN THE SW 1/4 SECTION 10, T1N, R67 OF THE 6TH P.M. AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 1 OF THE ZADEL MINOR SUBDIVISION Legal Notice No. FLP671 First Publication: August 11, 2022 Last Publication: August 11, 2022 Publisher: Fort Lupton Press

Metropolitan Districts PUBLIC NOTICE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (Notice by Publication) §§ 1-13.5-501, 1-§§ 1-13.5-501, 1-13.5-303, C.R.S. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the eligible electors of the Cottonwood Townhomes Metropolitan District (the “District”), City of Fort Lupton, Weld County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an organizational election for the District will be conducted by independent mail ballot on November 8, 2022. At that time three directors may be elected to serve until May 2025, and two directors may be elected to serve until May 2023. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on a board of directors may obtain Self-Nomination and Acceptance Forms by sending a request to the Designated Election Official (“DEO”) of the District. Such requests may be sent by email to SpecialDistricts@ mdavislawoffice.com.

The deadline to file a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form with the DEO, or a letter that meets the requirements of § 1-13.5-501, C.R.S., is 5:00 p.m. (“Close of Business”) on Friday, September 2, 2022. If the DEO determines that a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form or letter is not sufficient, the eligible elector who filed the form or letter may amend the form or letter prior to Close of Business on September 2, 2022. Early filing is encouraged as the deadline will not permit curing an insufficient form after this date and time.

A person who wishes to be a write-in candidate must file an Affidavit of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate with the office of the DEO by Close of Business on September 5, 2022.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that information on obtaining an absentee ballot may be obtained from the DEO, and applications for an absentee ballot must be filed with the DEO no later than Close of Business on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.

COTTONWOOD TOWNHOMES METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. FLP675 First Publication: August 11, 2022 Last Publication: August 11, 2022 Publisher: Fort Lupton Press

PUBLIC NOTICE

PUBLIC NOTICE

CITY OF FORT LUPTON NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (Notice by Publication) §§ 1-13.5-501, 1-13.5-303, C.R.S.

Notice is hereby given to the residents and tax payers of the city of Fort Lupton that the Fort Lupton Urban Renewal Authority will consider a supplemental appropriation to the 2022 budget at a meeting on Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. at the City Administration Building at 130 S. McKinley Avenue. Any interested citizen may inspect the above-mentioned budget during normal office hours. Any citizen may appear at the public hearing and will be given the opportunity to comment on the said budget if they so desire.

Legal Notice No. FLP672 First Publication: August 11, 2022 Last Publication: August 11, 2022 Publisher: Fort Lupton Press PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF FORT LUPTON NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the City of Fort Lupton is in receipt of an application for a site plan known as the County Road 19 LLC. Investments Site Plan located approximately 0.02 miles east of County Road 19 and approximately .12 miles north of County Road 10 in the ‘I-1’ Light Industrial Zone District pursuant to the City of Fort Lupton Municipal Code Notice Requirements.

The public hearings are to be held before the Planning Commission on August 25, 2022, at 6:00 P.M., and before the City Council on

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the eligible electors of the Cottonwood Conner Metropolitan District (the “District”), City of Fort Lupton, Weld County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an organizational election for the District will be conducted by independent mail ballot on November 8, 2022. At that time three directors may be elected to serve until May 2025, and two directors may be elected to serve until May 2023. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on a board of directors may obtain Self-Nomination and Acceptance Forms by sending a request to the Designated Election Official (“DEO”) of the District. Such requests may be sent by email to SpecialDistricts@ mdavislawoffice.com.

The deadline to file a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form with the DEO, or a letter that meets the requirements of § 1-13.5-501, C.R.S., is 5:00 p.m. (“Close of Business”) on Friday, September 2, 2022. If the DEO determines that a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form or letter is not sufficient, the eligible elector who filed the form or letter may amend the form or letter prior to Close of Business on September 2, 2022. Early filing is encouraged as the deadline will not permit curing an insufficient form after this date and time.

A person who wishes to be a write-in candidate must file an Affidavit of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate with the office of the DEO by Close of Business on September 5, 2022.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that information on obtaining an absentee ballot may be obtained from the DEO, and applications for an absentee ballot must be filed with the DEO no later than Close of Business on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.

COTTONWOOD CONNER METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. FLP673 First Publication: August 11, 2022 Last Publication: August 11, 2022 Publisher: Fort Lupton Press PUBLIC NOTICE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (Notice by Publication) §§ 1-13.5-501, 1-13.5-303, C.R.S. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the eligible electors of the Cottonwood Thermo Metropolitan District (the “District”), City of Fort Lupton, Weld County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an organizational election for the District will be conducted by independent mail ballot on November 8, 2022. At that time three directors may be elected to serve until May 2025, and two directors may be elected to serve until May 2023. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on a board of directors may obtain Self-Nomination and Acceptance Forms by sending a request to the Designated Election Official (“DEO”) of the District. Such requests may be sent by email to SpecialDistricts@ mdavislawoffice.com.

The deadline to file a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form with the DEO, or a letter that meets the requirements of § 1-13.5-501, C.R.S., is 5:00 p.m. (“Close of Business”) on Friday, September 2, 2022. If the DEO determines that a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form or letter is not sufficient, the eligible elector who filed the form or letter may amend the form or letter prior to Close of Business on September 2, 2022. Early filing is encouraged as the deadline will not permit curing an insufficient form after this date and time.

A person who wishes to be a write-in candidate must file an Affidavit of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate with the office of the DEO by Close of Business on September 5, 2022.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that information on obtaining an absentee ballot may be obtained from the DEO, and applications for an absentee ballot must be filed with the DEO no later than Close of Business on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.

COTTONWOOD THERMO METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. FLP674 First Publication: August 11, 2022 Last Publication: August 11, 2022 Publisher: Fort Lupton Press PUBLIC NOTICE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (Notice by Publication) §§ 1-13.5-501, 1-13.5-303, C.R.S. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the eligible electors of the Vista Meadows Metropolitan District (the “District”), City of Fort Lupton, Weld County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an organizational election for the District will be conducted by independent mail ballot on November 8, 2022. At that time three directors may be elected to serve until May 2025, and two directors may be elected to serve until May 2023. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on a board of directors may obtain Self-Nomination and Acceptance Forms by sending a request to the Designated Election Official (“DEO”) of the District. Such requests may be sent by email to SpecialDistricts@ mdavislawoffice.com.

The deadline to file a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form with the DEO, or a letter that meets the requirements of § 1-13.5-501, C.R.S., is 5:00 p.m. (“Close of Business”) on Friday, September 2, 2022. If the DEO determines that a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form or letter is not sufficient, the eligible elector who filed the form or letter may amend the form or letter prior to Close of Business on September 2, 2022. Early filing is encouraged as the deadline will not permit curing an insufficient form after this date and time.

A person who wishes to be a write-in candidate must file an Affidavit of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate with the office of the DEO by Close of Business on September 5, 2022.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that information on obtaining an absentee ballot may be obtained from the DEO, and applications for an absentee ballot must be filed with the DEO no later than Close of Business on Tuesday, November 1, 2022.

VISTA MEADOWS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. FLP676 First Publication: August 11, 2022 Last Publication: August 11, 2022 Publisher: Fort Lupton Press

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