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Air quality group targets Colorado smokestacks

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

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

Now a secondary tier of big-name greenhouse gas polluters is facing new rules from an Air Quality Control Commission vote this month, with the goal of 20% emissions reductions from a 2015 benchmark at industrial companies like Suncor, Molson Coors, Cargill Meat Solutions and Leprino Foods.

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

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Brighton council considers state housing fund

development that well exceed this number while complying with the income limits of Prop 123.”

BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Brighton City Councilors said they have no problems enlisting in a state e ort to boost the state’s a ordable housing inventory, although they had suggestions about the peculiarities of Brighton’s market.

City Councilors told sta they did not object to opting into Proposition 123, the ballot measure voters approved last year that created the State A ordable Housing Fund, a roughly $300 million pot of state income tax revenue designated to address housing issues. Councilors will vote on the matter at a future City Council meeting.

e city needs to agree to the state’s terms and opt in to the program by Nov. 1. To opt in, the city must commit to increasing its supply of a ordable housing by 9% through 2026.

Brighton does that not now, City Manager Michael Martinez said.

“It’s my opinion that Prop 123 would be bene cial to us,” Martinez said. “It gives us some additional money to a ect a ordable housing and at this point there really is nothing of consequence if we don’t ful ll our obligation to the state.”

According to Andrew Ratchford, a consultant with Gruen Gruen and Associates, land use consultants the city hired to review a ordable housing plans, Brighton has 1,492 a ordable housing units — 1,357 units of rental housing and 135 for sale. To qualify as a ordable, rental units must cost less than 30% of the median income for the area. For Adams County, that’s about $1,200 in rent per month.

To meet the state’s guidelines for Proposition 123, Brighton would need to add 135 units of a ordable housing through 2026, about 45 units per year in 2024, 2025 and 2026, Ratchford said.

“I would not that these units do not need to be built in order to comply with the program,” Ratchford said. “ ey need to have building permits issued and it’s my understanding that you have a couple of ongoing projects and others in pre-

Ratchford said that money from the state’s A ordable Housing Fund could be used to purchase land set aside for development later on, create homeless programs, make rents more equitable, promote home ownership, pay debts and build new units.

Brighton’s housing currently is comparatively new, with 60% of all bedrooms in the city and 67% of all buildings constructed since 2000.

“One advantage the community has is that its housing stock is relatively young in comparison to the rest of the state and other communities,” Ratchford said. “Since 2010, the city’s building permit data indicates you have issued permits roughly 340 units a year. About two-thirds of this was for single-family housing, and the remainder has been multi-family apartments and a small number of Accessory Dwelling units.”

Building permits for new homes have also decreased recently, however, and the inventory of for-sale units is low, pushing the price up.

“In the Brighton area, you’ve had single-family home prices increase by some 80% since 2015,” he said, “In the last six months or so, most homes will sell for between $250 and $200 per square foot, which is a lot higher than it was ve years ago.”

Rents, too, have been increasing to about $2,100 per month in July 2023. Rents were about $2,000 per month in July 2022 and about $1,900 per month in July 2021, he said.

He also noted that Brighton has added more jobs than housing units every year since 2011.

“More than 80% if the households in Brighton today are what I would call workforce households, with at least one person in the household active in the labor market,” he said. “So while the current ratio between jobs and housing isn’t unusually high or unbalanced, over the past 12 years or so the community has added more jobs than housing,” Ratchford said. “If that trend continues, you would expect housing to become more competitive, more scarce and you’d see that upward pressure on housing prices over time.”

Brighton’s Hughes Station is one of Brighton’s newer a ordable housing developments. The city is considering opting into a state program to build more a ordable housing.

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Opting into Prop 123 should simple, council told

Celebrating Trapper Days in Fort Lupton

Annual event features parade, food and music

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Fort Lupton celebrated its annual Tomato Festival and Trappers Day parade Sept. 8 with pancakes, a golf tournament and plenty of music an activities.

Fort Lupton’s annual celebration has been going on since 1908, timed to match the annual harvest of tomatoes and folks re-enacting the Wild West trappers at the historic Fort Lupton trading post, dressed like pioneers wearing furs, carrying ri e muskets, and selling merchandise.

e event started on Sept. 8, with a golf tournament at Coyote Golf Course, bene tting the Fort Lupton Food & Clothing Bank and Chamber of Commerce.

Festivities continued the next morning with a pancake breakfast at Fort Lupton Fire Station One and proceeded with the parade—a staged setup with local dancers, the Colorado Youth Mariachi

On Denver Avenue, many merchants threw up tents selling various items and art and a beer garden with various food trucks. Wholly Stromboli hosted a pizza competition for all ages, making pizza with judges and awards. In addition, the Optimist Club had a fundraiser duck race at Coyote Creek golf course, and the museum opened its doors with activities for the kids.

Fort Lupton’s School and Public Library hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony on Sept. 1, but hosted a special second ribbon cutting for the community during the Trapper Days festival, serving cake and promoting a live wrestling match in a ring set up outside Sept. 9.

Twombly Elementary students march in the city’s annual Trapper Days parade Sept. 9. The marchers won the award for best school in the parade. PHOTOS BY BELEN WARD

The Weld RE8 School District float featured a foam cannon that blasted suds all over the street and spectators Sept. 9 during Fort Lupton’s annual Trappers Day Parade.

The Orgullo Latino Dancers Folklorico swirling the dresses dancing with music representing Mexico’s di erent regions of culture as they made thier way along Fort Lupton Trapper Days parade route Sept. 9

Governor hears success stories during FRCC visit

College’s apprenticeships and work-based training programs are changing career paths and lives

BY JANE REUTER JREUTER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Littleton resident Shea Swickle thought the master’s degree he earned in public health was the key to his career future. When he discovered demand for jobs in the eld

was limited, Swickle instead pursued training as a sterile processing technician - a behind-the-scenes professional who sterilizes equipment used during surgeries.

Today, thanks to an apprenticeship through Front Range Community College (FRCC), the 39-year-old is a sterile processing technician at AdventHealth Littleton. It’s a job he loves, even more so because he can walk there from his Littleton home.

Last week, Swickle shared that story with Governor Jared Polis, who visited with students in work-based learning programs at Westminster’s FRCC.

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“It made a di erence in my life,” Swickle said. “I have a job that actually has demand.

“A lot of us who went to college never got that job we were hoping for at the end of the rainbow. I saw that apprenticeships were where education was going. e company (you apprentice with) can tailor you to what they want you to be. You’re not just spending time in a classroom and then trying to go out and get a job.”

FRCC partners with local industries to o er apprenticeships in healthcare, manufacturing, IT and other elds. e on-the-job training dovetails with classroom learning. And many employers help appren-

tices with tuition.  at allows people like Swickle to make a career change and incur little or no debt.

Polis has taken numerous steps to support such programs. As a result, Colorado has over 300 active apprenticeship programs with more than 6,000 participants.

“Apprenticeships and work-based learning opportunities are key to creating the workforce of the future,” said Polis, who signed a new executive order Sept. 7 that further expands the programs. “But there is still more work to be done. We must expand opportunities for students

Colorado Governor Jared Polis listens to students during a Sept 8 visit to Westminster’s Front Range Community College. From left, former FRCC student Shea Swickle, Gov. Polis and FRCC vice president of Academic A airs & Online Learning Rebecca Woulfe.

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Training for the open road virtually

Aims adds big truck simulator for CDL program

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A new piece of equipment will let Aims Community College’s commercial truck-driving students get the feel of driving on the open road without leaving the classroom.

e school recently added a Commercial Drivers License simulator to the Fort Lupton campus, part of an e ort to meet the demand for new truck drivers shortage.

“ e simulator is a great tool, in addition to being behind the wheel of an actual truck, “ said Martin Rubalcaba, Aims Community College Program Director. “It gives the student con dence, knowing that they can drive a virtual truck; we see it as a tool, instead of damaging existing equipment when they don’t know how to shift the truck properly.”

Rubalcaba has been teaching for a year but was a truck driver for 14 years.

“ ey will be able to learn digitally. Hopefully, by the time they get in the truck, they will be more polished and ready for the actual truck.”

Before she got into the program, Lynette Peppler was a stay-at-home mom raising her family for 25 years. Now she has her CDL career driving semis.

“I’ve had my CDL for about four years and have been CDL training all aspects of the program, classroom, backing maneuvers on park-

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ing, teaching shifting, and on the road driving,” Peppler said.

Peppler said the program began sometime in the 1990s. e school also trains students on backhoes and forklifts at some point in time.

ere are jobs for all kinds of heavy equipment operators, she said.

“ ere have been lots of changes to management, to employees and the demand and supply of students and drivers over the years,” Peppler said. “We have equipment now, a lot better parking lots for training, and we have a lot of business partners that are ready to help get students their rst job out of school.”

Rubalcaba said the program will have about 54 students total this

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quarter and nearly 200 students in the CDL program by the end of the year.

“It’s a three-week program, sometimes it will run four weeks, depending on the student. After three weeks, it’s an accelerated career placement program. We test them in-house on our own equipment.

ey always train and test in the same equipment,” Rubalcaba said.

Once a student is certi ed, the school helps them with job placement through various local partners in the area.

e Aims CDL program o ers certi cation in CDL Classes A and B. While a Class A license allows drivers across all types of large trucks

including tractor-trailers, a Class B license is more limited and covers single-vehicle trucks like garbage trucks and cement mixers.

e training is a combination of classroom instruction and handon-the-road training with instructors who have experience in the industry.

In addition to learning about the trucking transportation industry, the student also learns safety requirements and receives a learner permit and hazardous material endorsement to gain knowledge in a eld that o ers a good income.

Drivers needed

According to the American Association of Truckers, e trucking industry is currently short an estimated 78,000 drivers and 41,000 technicians. Over the next decade, trucks will transport 2.4 billion more tons of freight than they already do today.

“ e last time I checked the data by the year 2030, the truck driving industry will be short by about 1 million drivers, “ Rubalcaba said.

“ ere are many causes of the truck driver shortage. ere are several primary reasons the industry is su ering, “ said Jeremy Kirkpatrick, vice president of digital and advocacy communications for the association.

Kirkpatrick said age is a factor.

e median age of over-the-road truck drivers is 46. Some sectors within the trucking industry require a higher median age. e private eet drivers have a median age of 57 years old.

“ e current age requirement to

Jacob Morey is training the truck driving simulator. It’s his first week in the CDL program. The simulator is teaching him how to drive a stick shift, trying to match the clutch movement and pedal movement on what the computer is telling him to do an order of operations. Semi-truck has a double clutch.

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Almost Home goes back to the 1990s for fundraiser

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Almost Home’ 3rd annual Concert for a Cause fundraiser returns to its roots celebrating its 30th year as a homeless shelter with a 1990sthemed show Sept. 29 at the Brighton Armory Performing Arts Center.   Almost Home is a non-pro t organization that helps people experiencing homelessness with housing and prevention. e organization o cially began operations in 1993.  is year’s fundraiser returns to that decade with live music by Total Request Live band playing a variety of genres from the 90s up to 2000.

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will serve food, providing free pizza and donating all tips to Almost Home. Also, there will be a bucket ra e to win prizes, including a getaway.

Show-goers are encouraged to pull out their plaid shirts, slip dresses and baggy pants to enter a 90sthemed costume contest with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes.

Tickets are $25 purchased at www. auctria.events/AHConcert4aCause. For questions or more information, contact Monica Schafer at 303-9187970 and at mschafer@almosthomeonline.org. For more information, visit the shelter’s website at https:// www.almosthomeonline.org/concert4acause.

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drive a tractor-trailer across state lines is 21. is means that interstate motor carriers miss out on the population between 18 and 21, “Kirkpatrick said.

“Often, these individuals, at least those that don’t go to higher education or the military, obtain employment in construction, retail, or fast food industries so they can start their careers at a younger age. e average age of a new driver trained is 35 years old.”

Kirkpatrick said women are a new targeted segment for the industry. Women now make up nearly 47% of all U.S. workers but only comprise 6.6% of all truck drivers, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

“ e share of female drivers has remained fairly stagnant, between 4.5% and 6.6% since 2000,” Kirkpatrick said. “ is is a large, untapped portion of the population for the industry. Some trucking companies have put an emphasis on female drivers, but the highest percentage of female drivers we have seen is around 20% for those eets.”

e lifestyle of being on the road, Kirkpatrick said, plays into the shortage, especially when a trucker is new to the industry; many drivers with assigned routes are on the road for extended periods – typically a week or two – before they return home.

“ erefore, it is not just a career

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Councilor Peter Padilla said Brighton should opt into the program.

“It look like all upside and no downside at this point because we do have things in the works to accomplish getting this credit, we may as well get the money that goes along with it,” he said.

But he wondered if Brighton could use state money to help alleviate other problems with housing, namely parking and water.

“ e parking challenge here is that we have multi-generational occupants in a lot of our apartments and tting those into standard parking spaces is a problem,” Councilor Peter Padilla said. “For a lot of our

but a lifestyle that does not t with everyone’s desires or needs,” Kirkpatrick said. “Eventually, drivers will move into regional or local driving positions with tenure. It’s another reason to consider drivers under 21 years old. at is the age when, in many cases, a person wouldn’t mind being on the road before starting a family.”

Kirkpatrick said regulations that impact the industry, such as changes to truck driver hours-of-service, reduce industry productivity.

“Reduced productivity exacerbates the driver shortage as it requires more trucks, and more drivers, to move the same amount of freight,” Kirkpatrick said. For more information about the CDL program at the Fort Lupton campus, visit https://www.aims. edu/locations/fort-lupton-campus or call 303-857-4022.

developments, there is no on-street parking anywhere close to them. So creating solutions to that won’t work well.”

Padilla said new developments are required to help increase the city’s water supply, so a method to set aside water rights they could purchase would also help.

Councilor Matt Johnston said he is in favor of accessory dwelling units, or ADUs. ose are small housing units attached to an existing house used for family members or to generate rental income for the homeowner.

“I”d like concentrate on having ADUs which is a major factor in multi-generational housing,” Johnston said. “Having ADUS in Brighton and having the ability to easily get those done and taking away some of that red tape, that is my thought.”

Aims Community College owns semitrucks to train the students.

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Brighton Police seek to end Community Reach contract

BY SCOTT TAYLOR STAYLOR@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Brighton Police would like to work with local mental health trauma counseling center Reaching HOPE to provide mental health counselors that would respond to police calls, replacing Community Reach Center.

Police Commander Ponce Portillo told councilors that Community Reach was unable to hire mental health professionals and the department wants to end a contract with them that began in March.

“During that time, we worked with them to create training for the police department and kick that program off,” he said.

Brighton Police received a $525,703 grant to provide mental

health co-responders in October 2022. The department signed a contract in March with Community Reach Center, the 66-year-old mental health crisis counseling agency that serves much of Adams County and Broomfield to create the city’s co-responder program.

“They have been unable to meet their part of the contract in hiring a clinician,” Portillo said. “So last month we decided to end their contract. They have been supportive in this transition and have helped us to act on this project and understand the evolution of this.” Community Reach Center representatives could not be reached for comment.

Portillo said the city is now prepared to work with Reaching HOPE.

“It’s an agency that our department already has a relationship with,” Portillo said. “They are partners and stakeholders and we have been partners with time for five years.

Reaching HOPE is a bilingual mental health trauma counseling service based out of Thornton, although 25% of its clients live in Brighton. Portillo said that half of the agency’s clients are Hispanic.

Dr. Ambra Born, the executive director of Reaching HOPE, said the agency has worked with local police in Brighton and Commerce City on sexual assaults.

“What we bring to the table is we are a doctoral training program, so we have students that are also really interested in being engaged in this

program and we have a nice hiring pool to pull from among our alumni and connections with universities,” Born said. “So we feel pretty sure that we will be able to hire for this position. And, in addition, we have a post-doctoral therapist who, in a previous life was a police officer and he is really excited to take at least one of these shifts. So we have this partially hired already and we anticipate some good luck in getting the rest of the position.” City Councilor Peter Padilla said he was on board with the change.

“I have been hearing from Community Reach about a number of different projects that are trying to reach out and they are just having a hard time getting the staffing and doing what they want to do in the community,” he said.

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Registration for Fort Lupton’s annual Community Art Show is open and available to local community artists ages 16 and up. Each artist may submit up to two eligible pieces. View submission guidelines and register on our website today, https://www.fortluptonco. gov/971/Annual-Community-Art-Show.

e Annual Community Art Show is scheduled for November!

Business Resource Fair September 19

e City of Fort Lupton’s Economic Development Department will host a FREE Business Resource Fair from 2-5 p.m. Sept. 19 at the new Fort Lupton Public & School Library.

A list of participating organizations can be found online at https://www. fortluptonco.gov/1149/2023-BusinessResource-Fair.

ose interested in participating or seeking more information should contact Michelle Magelssen at (720) 466-6119 or through email at MMagelssen@fortluptonco.gov.

Clean-Up Day is October 7

Fort Lupton’s twice yearly event for citizens within the city limits to dispose of large items not typically taken by your weekly trash service is scheduled for

Oct. 7 and the Senior Citizen/Disabled Curbside Pickup is set for Oct. 5.

e city can only pick up one “pickup truck sized” load for elderly/disabled citizens.

To sign up for an elderly/disabled pickup, please call 303-857-6694 before October 3, 2023 to be added to the list.

Severe Weather Soliciting and Scams

Fort Lupton o cials are warning that severe weather and natural disasters attract out-of-town contractors and solicitors. Not all “storm chaser” contractors are scammers but some may be.

e City of Fort Lupton does require solicitors to obtain a license before they go out and engage in sales. More information and the application for a solicitors/peddlers license can be viewed here: https://www.fortluptonco.gov/552/ Mobile-Food-Vending-LicenseSolicitorsPe?fbclid=IwAR2miHGz65HnRzy0zgs-mXikm3bANJ056VP5qgK4WZFBEfAk-T8G-dGrCk

Contact your insurance company and ask about your policy coverage and speci c ling requirements. Do your research: Find businesses you can trust and preferably local. Resist high-pressure sales. Some storm chasers use tactics such as the

“good deal” you’ll get only if you hire the contractor on the spot.

Donation time

e Fort Lupton Food & Clothing Bank is asking for donations of canned fruits and nuts, varieties of dry pasta and pasta dinners, peanut butter and canned meat such as tuna (including the pouches).

Other potential donations could include chicken, Vienna sausages, spam and salmon. e bank also needs personal items, such as toiletries and baby needs.

Drop o donations at the food and clothing bank’s back door, 421 Denver Ave., on weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Call 303-857-1096.

Walk with a doc

Platte Valley Medical Center’s cardiac rehab team and Walk With A Doc will host monthly walks with Dr. Christopher Cannon, an interventional cardiologist at Brighton Heart and Vascular Institute.

is is a walking program for everyone interested in taking steps for a healthier lifestyle. After a few minutes to learn about a current health topic from the doctor, spend the rest of the hour enjoying a healthy walk and fun talk.

Fort Lupton Police Blotter

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Here are the police reports for Sept. 2 to Sept. 8 to the Fort Lupton Police Department. Not every call made to the police is not listed on this report.

Sept. 2

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Police arrested a Platteville man, 32, at U.S. Highway 85 and mile marker 244 on a Weld County warrant for dangerous drugs. He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

Sept. 3

A Fort Lupton man, 43, reported a stolen vehicle in the 800 Block of Fifth Street.

Police took a Fort Lupton man, 22, into custody in the 1300 block of Dexter Street on a Weld County warrant for failure to appear on tra c o enses. He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

Sept. 5

A Fort Lupton man, 32, was arrested in the 400 block of Harrison Avenue for domestic violence violation of a protection order, burglary, and stalking charges. He was held on bond at the Weld County jail.

A Frederick woman, 25, was arrested in the 2900 block of Ninth Street for DUI. She was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

A Fort Lupton man, 28, was issued a summons in the 1200 block of Second Street after causing a reckless driving tra c accident, driving an uninsured vehicle, and failing to notify police.

Sept. 7

A Firestone man, 37, was issued a summons at 25th & Grand for possession of schedule II drugs and drug paraphernalia. He also was arrested on a Mead Police Department warrant for failure to appear on a tra c o ense. He was held at the Weld County Jail. Police arrested a Fort Lupton man,

24, in the 1200 block of Fifth Street on multiple warrants out of Boulder and Weld Counties. Outstanding charges include failure to appear for identity theft, carrying concealed weapons and tra c o enses. He was held on bond at the Weld County jail.

A Fort Lupton man, 38, was arrested at Weld County Road 28 & Weld County Road 39 on a Weld County warrant for failure to comply with court orders on an attempt to in uence and menacing charges. He was held on bond at the Weld County Jail.

Sept. 8

A 15-year-old Fort Lupton male was issued a summons for shoplifting in the 1300 block of Dexter Street. Police issued a summons to a Fort Lupton man, 60, for shoplifting in the 1300 block of Dexter Street.

A Fort Lupton woman, 32, and a Denver man, 33, were issued summons for shoplifting in the 1300 block of Dexter Street.

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game where the same side always loses: low-income and high-minority neighborhoods disproportionately impacted by decades of harmful pollutants.

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

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

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

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

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

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

e EDF points out another

troubling aspect of the state’s proposed rule: Because of how and when the benchmarks were set, the 18 companies as a group will actually be allowed to increase their greenhouse gas emissions slightly before steeper cuts kick in for 2030.

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

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

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

“ e current draft deviates signi cantly from the intent of the law we worked to pass,” said the letter, signed by Capitol leaders including Sen. Faith Winter, DWestminster; Rep. Jennifer Bacon, D-Denver; and, Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, D-Glenwood Springs, and 13 others.

e environmental groups’ red-lining of state draft rules all emphasize the need for speed.

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

Colorado’s Air Pollution Control Division Director Michael Ogletree said state sta are continuing to revise the draft rules in regard

Parts of the Molson Coors brewery compound and Golden are pictured from Lookout Mountain at dawn in January 2021.

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Tips to protect child’s mental health from social media use

Social media can be a great tool to help build connections, stay informed and engage with others. However, it can become all-consuming and potentially damaging to adolescent brain development, which is a cause for concern.

A recent advisory issued by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy calls attention to the potentially harmful e ects social media has on children’s mental health. According to the report, 95% of teens ages 13-17 say they use social media, with more than a third saying they use it “almost constantly.” In addition, 40% of children ages 8-12 use social media, even though most platforms require users to be at least 13 to participate. According to a study in the report, teens who spend more than three hours a day on social media face twice the risk of experiencing mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety. Other potential issues referenced in the report include:

• Body dissatisfaction, or disordered eating behaviors

• Social comparison

• Lower self-esteem

• Poor sleep

e information in this report corroborates with the what UnitedHealthcare providers are often seeing: an increased rate of harmful comparison, limited in-person interaction, feelings of loneliness and an uptick in anxiety, depression and

other mental health issues. Dr. Donald Tavakoli, national medical director for behavioral health at UnitedHealthcare, says the amount of time children spend online a ects their overall development.

e Surgeon General’s advisory comes as youth mental health remains in a state of crisis. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1 in 5 children have a mental, emotional or behavioral disorder and only about 20% of those children receive care from a mental health provider. ese ndings may be alarming for parents and tackling the issues surrounding social media use may feel overwhelming as well. esetips may help you and your child become more informed about social media use and, in turn, reduce potential harm:

Understand and monitor social media

Having a bit of background on the latest social media apps can help parents create better limits and boundaries for their kids. As children’s brains go through dramatic developmental changes, they could develop sensitivities associated with

a desire for attention and may have undeveloped self-control, especially during early adolescence. Social channels that promote “likes” or excessive scrolling may pose issues for developing brains. Limit chat functions, especially with strangers, and restrict inappropriate content.

Create a family social media plan

Set guidelines and boundaries when it comes to your family’s social media use. is can be agreed-upon expectations of what social media use looks like to your family, including screen time limits, online safety and protecting personal privacy.  e Academy of Pediatrics has a template that can guide you through the process.

Communication is key

Initiate open and honest conversations, without judgement, with your child about their activity on social media on a regular basis. Ask them about what they see on social media and pose hypotheticals, asking how they would respond in di erent scenarios. Ensure they know the signs of cyberbullying, and how permanent an online post can be.

Create tech-free zones

It can be helpful to restrict electronic use at least one hour before bedtime and through the night. Studies show two or more hours of screentime in the evening can greatly

What’s up, world?

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

As my seatmate settled in, he looked around the airplane and

then leaned over to me and said, “ e world is either going mad, has already gone mad, or we have just been in denial and the world has always been mad.” He looked away with a smile and a shake of his head. Initially I thought to myself that this was going to be one really long ight. But then

I thought that his statement was quite the icebreaker for a conversation, so I asked him to tell me more.

He was thrilled that I wanted to keep the conversation going. en he shared that every day that he wakes up, he wants to just ask this question, “What’s up, world?” His real questions were around the polarizing world that we seem to be living in. And no matter where we turn, television, radio, blogs, podcasts, social media, or our newspapers, the divisiveness rules the day, or as my new friend shared,

disrupt the melatonin surge needed to fall asleep. Keep mealtimes free from technology and encourage in-person conversations. Encourage children to foster in-person friendships and build social skills.

Model healthy social media behavior

Children often learn by watching your behaviors and habits, so make sure you’re limiting the time you spend on social media and be responsible with what you choose to post. When you are on your device, tell your children what you’re doing. While the Surgeon General’s advisory focuses on the potential negative impacts of social media use on children and teens, it also acknowledges social media can provide some bene ts. It can be helpful in creating community connection over shared interests, abilities and identities or providing space for self-expression. Encouraging children to form healthy relationships with technology is critical.

Adults cannot a ord to wait to understand the full impact of social media because adolescents’ brains are still developing. It’s crucial that parents take an active role in helping their children safely navigate social media.

the world has gone mad. He went on to share that it seems like there is nothing that is o limits. It’s one thing when adults choose to disagree and have major di erences of opinions over the silliest of subjects, but when people start going after children, pulling them into the argument for no other reason than to just hype the polarizing situation, that is a huge problem. And that is where the world, by its acceptance of such

Dr. Kimberly Nordstrom is a psychiatrist and the chief medical o cer at Colorado Community & State UnitedHealthcare.

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practices, brought him to the conclusion that the world is going mad, has already gone mad, or that he has been living his life in denial for at each other? Is it really that we are on different sides of the aisle politi cally? Can we have a reasonable and rational conversation about cli mate change? Is it because some of us worship God and others choose

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not to believe in God? Are we going mad, have gone mad, or have always been mad about our healthcare or education systems? Whoa, do we dare mention transgender athletes competing in sports? Does he/him, her/she, they/them make our blood boil? Have the opinions and constant changes to what diversity, equity, and inclusion really means impacted the way we

It’s good to have healthy debates about the above-mentioned topics and many other topics that seem to be driving people mad. So why can’t we world? Can we shelve hostility and replace it with cour tesy? Doesn’t it make more sense to

talk and hear each other out calmly without feeling defensive or worse going on the attack? We will never completely agree on everything, there is just no chance of that. But as we figure out the answers together, we can begin to get closer to the middle even if we can’t find a place completely in the middle. There are some situations where we fight about something and where there is clearly an obvious right answer, but to who? Some one’s opinion does not mean that they are right, it just means that it is their opinion. And as my good friend Frank always reminds me, “Other people’s opinions are none

What’s up, world? Can we begin

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the long slow crawl back to normalcy? We can if we all decide to replace hostility with peace, anger with gentleness, revenge with mercy, frustration with understanding, and hate with love, the way that we have been loved. I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@ gmail.com and when we can work towards being a part of the solution instead a part of the madness, it re ally will be a better than good life.

Michael Norton is an author, a personal and professional coach, consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator of individuals and busi nesses, working with organizations and associations across multiple

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FOOD WRITER POINTS TO

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OUTSIDE THE CENTRAL CITY THAT STAND OUT

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Mark Antonation endeavored to eat at every restaurant on Federal Boulevard in Denver city limits. He started near Hampden Avenue on the south end and made his way up above 50th Avenue on the other end, north of Interstate 70.

Skipping national-chain and dollar-a-scoop joints, he ate food from one restaurant each week.

He did that for about 75 weeks.

So Antonation, the former food editor at Westword, knows a thing or two about the Denver metro area’s restaurant scene.

He had set out to capture the

spirit of the storied Federal Boulevard — with its authentic Asian and Mexican eateries — about a decade ago, but his food writing travels also took him through the suburbs outside Denver.

What makes the Denver area’s food scene di erent from other parts of the country is how the di erent cuisines are spread out and, in a way, “integrated,” he said.

“In other cities, say you want to nd a Chinese restaurant. You’re probably (going to) go to a district where there’s a high concentration of that or any other style,” Antonation said.

But in “metro Denver, especially when you hit the outskirts — ornton, Broom eld, those areas — it’s a lot more mixed,” he said.

TOP LEFT: Javier Cruz, owner of Garibaldi Mexican Bistro, sits at the restaurant on Sept. 6 in Englewood. Cruz emphasized what he says is the unique nature of his menu compared to other Mexican restaurants.

And there’s good news for foodies in the suburbs: With real estate becoming so expensive, a lot of new restaurants are opening in the north Douglas County area, Antonation said.

Elsewhere, around “Westminster and ornton and Broom eld, there’s a lot of Asian restaurants opening up there, Chinese and ai speci cally,” Antonation said.

“If you live in the suburbs — if you live outside the suburban area even — it’s probably going to keep getting more interesting for you,” Antonation said.

Colorado Community Media asked Antonation what restaurants outside of Denver stand out to him. Here are some of his favorites — places where you might encounter dishes that you can’t nd anywhere else.

Garibaldi Mexican Bistro in Englewood

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TOP RIGHT: Decorations hang near the counter at Garibaldi Mexican Bistro Sept. 6 in Englewood. A white board lists specials.

“We never nd this kind of food here . So when we opened this restaurant, we said we’ve got to sell this.”

Javier Cruz owner of Garibaldi Mexican Bistro

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gas right across from the Gothic eatre, you might never notice that there’s a restaurant in the same building as a Conoco convenience store.

Years ago, Javier Cruz stopped to get gas there, and a small food outlet was serving burgers at the time.

“And kids said, ‘Can we get fries?’” Cruz said, recalling how he noticed the restaurant.

Cruz spoke to someone with the business who said of the small space: “You want it? Take it,” Cruz recalled.

Di erent food outlets have come and gone at that spot — Cruz still receives mail for many other businesses, he said.

But eight years in at that location, Cruz and his family are still serving up food that he says sets them apart from other Mexican restaurants in the area. He put up a wall to separate the restaurant from the gas station part of the building, adding new paint and artwork and a new ambiance.

With heritage from Mexico City, his family felt that “we never nd this kind of food here,” Cruz said. “So when we opened this restaurant, we said we’ve got to sell this.”

He recommends the food on the “menu Azteca,” featuring dishes made with cactus that he says make Garibaldi unique.

You can nd Garibaldi Mexican Bistro on Broadway a few blocks north of Hampden Avenue in Englewood.

Chile con Quesadilla in Brighton

e Chile con Quesadilla food trucks opened on March 15, 2020, just before the response to the coronavirus pandemic intensi ed and restaurants and bars stopped sit-down service.

“We were never shut down due to being classi ed as ‘take-out’ and gained exposure at a rapid pace when many restaurants were shut down,” said Christina Richardson, co-owner of Chile con Quesadilla. “We frequently went to neighborhoods, apartment complexes, HOAs and served food to people who were staying in their neighborhoods (and) homes while on lockdown.”

Since Chile con Quesadilla started, Richardson and her husband Jason have received several local awards for their food, and they recently opened a brick-and-mortar Chile con Quesadilla restaurant location in Brighton.

“Our liquor license got approved on May 5, 2023, and (we) have been operating since,” Richardson said.

She says that Chile con Quesadilla is “not traditional in any sense.”

“We create many di erent and unique avor combinations, for a Mexican-American

fusion with a multi-award-winning green chile at the heart of a lot of the recipes,” Richardson said.

Her top sellers include birria, or beef, tacos and the BBQ bacon brisket tacos, dubbed “ e Triple B.”

“We are a quesadilla concept, but anything on the menu can be ordered in the form of quesadillas, tacos, nachos, sandwiches or a bowl, essentially turning nine menu options into 45 di erent items,” Richardson said.

You can nd the Chile con Quesadilla restaurant on Main Street in Brighton, a couple blocks north of Bridge Street or state Highway 7.

Hong Kong Station in Centennial

A bustling dinner crowd came on Sept. 6 to Hong Kong Station, a restaurant that stands out among Chinese eateries.

“It’s kind of an unusual Chinese restaurant for Americans because a lot of the food is in uenced by Europeans who settled in Hong Kong, so they have a baked rice dish that has like a pork chop and Italian-style tomato sauce,” said Antonation, the former food writer.

e restaurant also serves traditional Hong Kong-style Chinese food, but it’s well known for its Hong Kong French toast, Antonation said.

He describes that dish as two thick slices of white bread usually with peanut butter and an egg batter, pan-fried and served with a big slab of butter.

“I think it was the rst place I knew of in metro Denver that was serving this, and it’s kind of become a trendy dish lately,” Antonation said.

You can nd the restaurant at 6878 S. Yosemite St., a bit south of Arapahoe Road in Centennial.

Farmhouse Thai Eatery in Lakewood

One of Antonation’s favorite newer ai places is Farmhouse ai in Lakewood near 1st Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard.

“ eir dishes tend to, I would say, capture traditional avors, but they do a lot of interesting modern presentations or updates on traditional fare without straying too far from the canon,” Antonation said.

Wholly Stromboli in Fort Lupton

A standout Italian restaurant far north of Denver serves a Detroit-style, thick-crust pizza, Antonation said.

“And the weird thing is that the pan is rectangular and has a rectangular hole in the middle … and so the advantage is that every slice has a crusty edge, unlike a normal Detroit-style pizza where you’ve got some with a soft edge and crusty edge,” Antonation said of Wholly Stromboli.

You can nd that restaurant at 410 Denver Ave. in Fort Lupton.

People sit outside Hong Kong Station restaurant in Centennial on Sept. 6. Inside, sta were busy with dinner customers.

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Mark Antonation, right, stands at the 2022 Colorado Restaurant & Bar Show. Antonation, the former food editor at Westword, serves as communications manager for the Colorado Restaurant Association and Foundation. COURTESY PHOTO

Signs mark the outside of Garibaldi Mexican Bistro on Sept. 6 in Englewood. The restaurant sits in the same building as a convenience store at a Conoco gas station, separated by a wall.

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Kolacny Music on South Broadway prepares for final curtain

BY KYLE COOKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

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

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

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

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

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

“And I’m getting tons of this. People just show up,” David said. “ ey bring their parents in.” Asked if that outpouring of support eased the pain of closing his doors, David said that it has always been this way. Many people, including local legends like Charlie Burrell, treated the store like a hangout over the years. David is accustomed to people coming by just to say hello, if not to shop.

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

David’s grandfather, William J. Kolacny, opened the store in 1930. Kolacny Music’s original location was in the Barth Building in down-

town Denver. e family moved the business to Englewood — the Barth Building was demolished years later — before eventually settling on the corner of South Broadway and East Jewell Avenue.

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

“Kolacny closing is just absolutely gut-wrenching,” said Keith Oxman, a saxophonist and bandleader who also works as a band teacher at Denver’s East High School. “When I heard about it, part of me just died. I’ve been going into that store [since] the 1960s.”

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

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

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

“When we started, you could draw a circle around the store and that’s where all our customers were — the Denver Public Schools, the Englewood Public Schools,” David said. “But now you have to go look for the particular building in the particular district that’s got an administration that wants music

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and that hires a good teacher. So it’s spread out further and further. ere’s not that concentration of every school in the district [having] a great band.”

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

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

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

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

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

and it’s secured by your house.’”

David and the other owners tried to sell the business, but as David put it, “nobody in the music business has the money to buy another music business.” So when a com-

pany called Alchemy o ered a fair price to buy the building and turn it into an event space, the Kolacny

e sale and impending closure has been surprisingly hard on David’s mother, who is 97. “She just couldn’t imagine,” David said. “She worked here too, for a while.”

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

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

“How are we going to maintain building up the future of music-

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

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

So what big corporations are the industrial targets in these latest climate rules? Industrial manufacturing polluters were first targeted in a set of rules called Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Management for Manufacturing or GEMM 1.  That first industrial phase sought carbon cuts from only four major sources in the state: Three cement-

making kilns, and Pueblo’s Evraz steel plant, each putting out more than 50,000 tons of carbon a year. Those industries got some special breaks along with the required emissions audits and cuts, because they are considered “energy intensive and trade exposed,” meaning they can claim it’s hard to clean up their fuel source without raising expenses to a point where foreign competition puts them out of business.

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

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Suncor’s pre-hearing statements to the commission, meanwhile, said the 2024 launch time for the earliest greenhouse gas cuts are too “aggressive,” and are not required by the 2021 legislation that set up the next tier of industrial rules. Suncor, which requested an hour at the hearings to present its objections, also said the draft rules don’t offer a “technically feasible and cost-effec-

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Sacrificing to pay medical bills

on the streets.

BY NOAM N. LEVY KFF HEALTH NEWS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Many of the hospitals across the country that are now publicly vowing to address health inequities and break down barriers to health are simultaneously helping to cre-

ate these very problems,” Klausner said. “Nobody likes the elephant in the room, but the reality is that there are thousands of sick Americans who are likely homeless — and sick — because of medical debt.”

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

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

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

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

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

More broadly, people with medical debt are more likely to say the debt has caused them to be turned

down for a rental or a mortgage than people with student loans or credit card debt, according to a 2019 nationwide survey of renters, homebuyers, and property owners by real estate company Zillow.

For Atencio, who left home at 16, his struggles with medical debt began with the heart attack. He was working at a gas station and living in Trinidad, a small city in southern Colorado near the New Mexico border.

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

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

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

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

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from the debt was agonizing.

“You end up in this cycle,” he said. “You get into debt. en you take out loans to try to pay o some of the debt. But then there’s all this interest.” With poor credit, Atencio relied at times on payday lenders, whose high interest rates can dramatically increase what borrowers owe. Many employers also check credit scores, which made it dicult for Atencio to land anything but low-wage jobs.

e job at the shelter was a step up, and Atencio this year got the apartment, which is reserved for single-parent families at risk of being homeless. (Atencio separated from his husband last year.)

Atencio’s housing struggles are hardly unique. Jim and Cindy Powers, who live in Greeley, a small city north of Denver, saw their own housing dreams collapse after Cindy was diagnosed with a lifethreatening condition that required multiple surgeries and left the couple with more than $250,000 in medical debt.

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

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

In and around Denver, elected ofcials, business leaders, and others have become increasingly concerned about medical debt as they look for ways to tackle what many see as a housing crisis.

“ ese things are deeply connected,” Denver City Council member Sarah Parady said. “As housing prices have gone up and up, I’ve seen more and more people, especially people with a medical issues and debts, lose housing security.”

Parady, who ran for o ce last year to address housing a ordability, is helping lead an e ort to get the city to buy and retire medical debt for city residents.

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

Perhaps nowhere is Denver’s crisis more visible than on the streets.

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

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

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

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

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

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

ere’s a security guard by the front

door and long, linoleum corridors painted institutional blue and brown.

Atencio’s family is settling in, along with four pet rats — Stitch, Cheese, Peach, and Bubbles — who live in a large cage in the living room. “ is feels like freedom,” said Atencio.

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

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

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

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Pettersen proposes expanded access to overdose drug

Naloxone, also called Narcan, reverses opioid overdoses

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

With thousands of Americans dying each year due to opioid overdoses, health professionals and a Colorado Congresswoman are working to change federal law so that more hospitals are reimbursed for giving people an antidote — naloxone.

Naloxone, commonly referred to as Narcan, is a medicine that reverses an opioid overdose, according to theNational Institute on

Drug Abuse.

It is the most powerful tool to prevent opioid overdose deaths, said Don Stader, an emergency and addiction medicine physician at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood and the executive director of e Naloxone Project.

For too long, many people struggling with addiction have had to go to a pharmacy to get naloxone, he said.

“We have a miraculous drug that should be in everyone’s hands,” Stader said. “But what we’ve done for too long is we’ve said, ‘Let’s hide it in a place further away.’”

Only one naloxone prescription is dispensed for every 70 high-dose opioid prescriptions, according to

From left to right: Ricky Dhaliwal, representing the American College of Emergency Physicians, watches as U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen speaks about the Hospitals As Naloxone Distribution Sites (HANDS) Act on Aug. 31. Standing to the far right is Don Stader, the executive director of The Naloxone Project.

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Stader said less than 2% of people fill a prescription for naloxone after an overdose.

Hoping to increase access to naloxone, Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen, of Colorado’s District 7, introduced the Hospitals As Naloxone Distribution Sites (HANDS) Act on National Overdose Awareness Day, which was Aug. 31.

The bill aims to require Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE to cover hospital providers physically handing naloxone to patients upon discharge if they are identified as at-risk of an opioid overdose.

“We’re taking this work at the national level to make sure that, across the country, that people who are the most vulnerable for an overdose actually have this life-sav-

ing medication,” Pettersen said.

Bringing Colorado’s work to a national level

Stader has been working on expanding access to naloxone for years.

In 2021, he created The Naloxone Project with the goal of getting all hospitals, labor and delivery units, and emergency departments to distribute naloxone to at-risk patients.

As reported byThe Colorado Sun in December 2022, all 108 hospital emergency departments in Colorado agreed to offer take-home doses of naloxone to any patient treated for an overdose, and 14 out of 48 labor and delivery units in Colorado committed to do so as well.

Stader also helped lead an effort to change state laws surrounding insurance reimbursement and regulation, per The Colorado Sun.

Passed in 2020, House Bill 1065 mandated coverage by private

insurers in Colorado for dispensed naloxone from hospitals, according toThe Naloxone Project.

In 2022, the passage of House Bill 1326 mandated coverage by Colorado Medicaid for dispensed naloxone from hospitals. It also made it so that hospitals may dispense naloxone with “less regulation or threat of penalty for not complying with board of pharmacy regulations,” per the project.

Stader said Colorado had to change its rules to provide better care to patients, and now, the rules need to be changed across the country.

“We have to create the payment mechanism to actually send people home with the drug, so that we’re not asking hospitals to just do this for free,” Stader said. “While hospitals are charitable, they’re not charities, right? They’re businesses, and we should be reimbursing them to provide high level care.”

On top of creating the pay-

ment mechanism, Stader said the HANDS Act asks the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA,mto strip away some regulations he says have “made it impossible to do this in many communities.”

Across the country, medicine is regulated by the board of medicine, the board of pharmacy and hospital regulations, and too many of them say hospital providers cannot give out naloxone, Stader said.

He said a lot of the obstacles make sense when it comes to other drugs. For example, hospital providers should not give antibiotics to everyone because it will lead to resistant bugs to antibiotics. Other drugs like chemotherapy drugs should also be tightly regulated, he said.

“Naloxone has only one purpose and has very little side effects. This is not a drug that we should shackle,” Stader said. “This is a drug that

Help for Colorado parents to pay for preschool

BY ANN SCHIMKE CHALKBEAT COLORADO

Starting this fall, Colorado is o ering 10 to 15 hours of tuition-free preschool to all 4-year-olds as part of the state’s universal preschool program. More than 40,000 families have already applied, but the application process is still open and will be available throughout the year.

But what if you need more class time for your child than just 10 to 15 hours a week?

ere are several ways to get nancial help for those extra hours. e universal preschool program will pay for up to 30 hours of preschool a week for some children. ey must be from low-income families and fall into one of the following categories: English language learner, homeless, in foster care, or have a special education plan. Simply being from a low-income family is not enough to qualify for 30 hours.

We’ve compiled a list of other programs that may help cover extra hours of preschool, including Head Start, the Colorado Child Care Assistance Program, and, for Denver residents, the Denver Preschool Program. Summit County also o ers tuition assistance for preschoolers, through its Summit Pre-K Program, though the application window generally runs from May 1-31.

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Military families may be eligible for nancial help through the Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood program, which is for families who can’t access military-operated child care programs because of waitlists or the distance from their homes.

Finally, it’s worth asking your child’s preschool if they o er scholarships or discounts

that could help lower the cost of care.

For questions about universal preschool or adding extra hours, contact the universal preschool help desk at 303-866-5223 or the local group in your county that is helping run universal preschool.

Here’s a quick look at some of the programs that can be combined with universal preschool to provide students with full-day classes.

What is it: A state program that helps lowincome families pay for child care, including preschool. Parents must be working, looking for work, or attending school.

Who’s eligible: Families whose children are citizens or legal permanent residents and whose household income is 200% to 270% of the federal poverty line. at’s $60,000 to $81,000 for a family of four. Each county sets its own income criteria, so check here for details based on where you live.

Financial aid: CCCAP covers most of the cost of child care for qualifying families, with the amount varying based on how much care a child needs above their universal preschool hours. Families who qualify also have to pay a parent fee — a co-pay that varies based on income, family size, and the number of children

Colorado’s new universal preschool program mostly pays for half-day preschool, but several programs o er financial assistance for families that need more hours of care.

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in child care.

How to apply: Online in English or Spanish, or contact your county’s department of human services.

What to know about combining with universal preschool: Only some preschools participate in the Colorado Child Care Assistance Program. Ask the universal preschool provider you selected if they take CCCAP, or find the provider name in the universal preschool application and click on the “View More Information” link. A pop-up box will tell you more about the provider, including if they take CCCAP or offer other financial help.

Some families who qualify for CCCAP may not receive assistance because of funding shortfalls — particularly once federal COVID

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we should free and make sure that there’s no regulation standing in front of what would be great policy, great action that will save the lives of thousands of Americans.”

More than 100,000 drug overdose deaths in 2022

Drug overdose continues to be a major public health issue in the U.S., theFDA saidin July.

The predicted number of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2022 was 109,680, according to theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly 83,000 were predicted opioid-involved drug overdose deaths.

Like many people, Congress-

stimulus dollars run out in 2024.

What is it: A Denver program that provides sliding-scale tuition help for 4-year-olds in preschool regardless of family income.

Who’s eligible: Denver residents who have 4-year-old children attending preschool regardless of immigration status.

Financial aid: Tuition credits range from $36 to $1,227 a month for up to 12 months, and are paid to the school on the family’s behalf. Use the Denver Preschool Program’s tuition credit calculator to estimate your monthly tuition credit. Credits are based on family size, income, and the quality of the preschool selected.

How to apply: Online any time in English or Spanish, or contact the Denver Preschool Program at (303) 595-4377 or info@dpp.org. Applications in PDF form are available in Chinese/Mandarin, French, Russian, Vietnamese, Somali, Amharic, and Nepali.

What to know about combining with universal preschool: Apply to universal preschool first and once your child is enrolled in a preschool, apply to the Denver Preschool Program. This is necessary because the Denver Preschool Program application requires that families list the preschool their child is attending. Most Denver preschools participating in universal preschool also participate in the Denver Preschool Program, but there are a few that don’t. Check here to find preschools participating in the Denver Preschool Program.

What is it: A federally funded program that provides free preschool, health services, and family support to children from lowincome families, regardless of immigration status.

Who’s eligible: Children who are 3 to 5 years old in families with a household income at or below the federal poverty guideline. That’s

$30,000 a year for a family of 4. Children who are homeless, in foster care, or whose families receive public assistance are also eligible regardless of income.

Financial aid: Head Start is a free preschool program that provides part-time or full-time hours to the children it serves.

How to apply: Search here for providers near you and contact the center directly to apply. For help finding a Head Start provider, call 866-763-6481.

What to know about combining with universal preschool: Only certain preschool providers offer Head Start. The universal preschool application also shows whether providers participate in Head Start. For help, contact the Head Start provider you’re interested in or the local group that helps run universal preschool. Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.

woman Pettersen has been impacted by the opioid epidemic.

When Pettersen was around 6 years old, her mom was prescribed opioids after a back injury. Her mom became addicted and she eventually started using heroin, Pettersen said.

As fentanyl came into the drug supply chain, Pettersen’s mom, who has now been in recovery for about six years, started overdosing “at a very high rate,” Pettersen said.

“I had been to the hospital so many times with my mom, and we were never talked to about our options for naloxone,” Pettersen said. “I didn’t even know that this was an option.”

For a long time, naloxone was a prescription drug, said Robert Valuck, the executive director of the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention.

Now, it is an over-the-counter drug, he said.

TheFDA approvedtwo nonprescription naloxone products, both of which are nasal sprays, earlier this year.

“It’s not a new drug,” Valuck said. “We’ve just been hiding it for too long.”

Ricky Dhaliwal, an emergency medicine physician representing the American College of Emergency Physicians, said there is no question that naloxone saves lives.

“The data is clear — providing naloxone to patients when they leave the hospital is much more effective than providing prescriptions,” Dhaliwal said.

The American College of Emergency Physicians issued aletter of supportfor Pettersen’s proposed legislation, saying that preemptively providing naloxone to patients who are at risk of an opioid

overdose helps reduce overdose deaths.

“Your legislation will ensure that naloxone or other overdose reversal agents are covered under Medicare, Medicaid, or TRICARE at no cost to patients at risk of overdose,” the letter stated. “By eliminating financial barriers to this lifesaving drug, we can provide our patients who have overdosed or who are at risk of overdose with the opportunity to continue on their path to recovery — an opportunity they may not otherwise have had.”

Pettersen said she hopes the legislation will be bipartisan.

“It is very important to me that this is a bipartisan bill,” Pettersen said. “This is something that we have to come together on. Whether you’re Republican or a Democrat, this impacts every community across the country.”

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1. U.S. STATES: Which state is home to a giant sequoia tree named General Sherman?

2. ANIMAL KINGDOM: Is a rhinoceros an herbivore, omnivore or carnivore?

3. GEOGRAPHY: Which city in India is home to the Taj Mahal?

4. MOVIES: What is the title of the rst James Bond movie?

5. TELEVISION: What was the product featured in the rst TV advertisement?

6. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Which French fashion designer is credited with inventing the Little Black Dress?

7. FOOD & DRINK: What does it mean to julienne vegetables?

8. GOVERNMENT: What does the acronym GDP stand for in economic terms?

9. LITERATURE: What is the cat’s name in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”?

10. SCIENCE: Who is considered the father of the atomic bomb?

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1. California, Sequoia National Park.

2. An herbivore, a plant eater.

3. Agra.

4. “Dr. No.”

5. Bulova watch.

6. Coco Chanel.

7. Cut into short, thin strips.

8. Gross domestic product.

9. Grimalkin.

10. J. Robert Oppenheimer.

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1. Who wrote and released “I Can See Clearly Now”?

2. What was Billy Paul’s only No. 1 single?

3. What are the names of the Bee Gees brothers? Which one was never part of the musical group?

4. Who released “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me”?

5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “Lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea, To the open arms of the sea, yeah, Lonely rivers sigh wait for me, wait for me.”

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* Use an empty paper towel roll to store plastic grocery bags. Just stuff to capacity. These “bag sticks” are easy to store in a drawer or even mounted on the side of a trash can with double-stick tape.

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1. Johnny Nash, in 1972. The reggae sounds are likely due to Nash having worked with reggae master Bob Marley.

2. “Me and Mrs. Jones,” in 1972. Legend says that when Paul served in the Army, he was stationed with Elvis Presley. He tried to get Presley to join a music group he was forming, and Presley turned him down, preferring to be a chauffeur.

3. The brothers were Barry, Robin, Maurice and Andy.

Baby Andy was born after the group was already active.

4. Culture Club, in 1982.

5. “Unchained Melody,” by The Righteous Brothers, in 1965. It was released as the B-side to “Hung On You” but DJs preferred to play “Unchained Melody.”

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The Brighton Housing Authority (BHA) is preparing its annual submission of the Moving to Work (MTW) Supplement and is seeking public comment and feedback. The draft plan will be available for review on BHA’s website at www. brightonhousing.org with a 45-day comment period beginning on September 1, 2023 and ending on October 17, 2023. A copy of the draft plan will also be available for public inspection at BHA offices at 22 S. 4th Avenue, Suite 202, Brighton, CO 80601. Comments regarding the supplement may also be emailed to info@brightonhousing.org or mailed to 22 S. 4th Avenue, Suite 202, Brighton, CO 80601 Attn: Andrew Dall, Deputy Director.

The public hearing will take place at BHA offices located at 22 S. 4th Avenue, Brighton, CO 80601, on October 19, 2023, at 3:00 P.M. Immediately following the public hearing for the Moving to Work activities, there will be a public hearing to review the 2024 MTW Supplement.

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Pursuant to the liquor laws of the State of Colorado, Lupitas Mexican Restaurant Group LLC d/b/a Lupitas Mexican Restaurant, applied for a Transfer of Ownership of a Hotel and Restaurant (city) liquor license at 75 W Bridge Street, Brighton CO 80601. The public hearing will be held on October 4, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. at City Hall in Council Chambers located at 500 S 4th Avenue, Brighton, Colorado, 80601. Any interested parties may be present and heard.

The application was filed with the City Clerk’s Office on September 1, 2023. The applicant is a private individual: Jose Bryan Resendiz-Trejo, 3060 E Bridge Street, Lot# 106, Brighton, CO 80601. Any petitions or remonstrance letters pertaining to this application should be directed to the City Clerk’s Office, for additional information please call 303-655-2031.

Dated this 21st day of September, 2023.

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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BRIGHTON, COLORADO, AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF ARTICLE 3-40 OF THE BRIGHTON MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING THE LODGING TAX ADVISORY COMMITTEE

WHEREAS, the City of Brighton (“City”) created a Lodging Tax Advisory Committee consisting of two members from Brighton Economic Development Corporation, two members from the Brighton Cultural Arts Commission, one city council member, and two members who are representatives of lodging providers located within the City limits; and

WHEREAS, the City Council created the Lodging Tax Committee to advise the City Council on the use of revenues from the lodging tax fund and the annual allocation and budgeting of the funds, and each year the funding has primarily been to the organizations who are members of the committee; and

WHEREAS, the City Council desires to amend the Brighton Municipal Code to repeal the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee to assure there is no perception of a conflict of interest and to directly allocate to the Brighton Economic Development Corporation and to the City’s Communications and Engagement Department to be used for the approved purposes and being authorized to provide grants to the community; and

WHEREAS, the City Council finds these changes to the Municipal Code are in the best interests of the public and serve a public purpose.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BRIGHTON, COLORADO, AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. Sections 3-40-50 (b) and (c) are hereby amended as follows:

(b) The revenue, interest and investment income from the lodging tax, less applicable administrative expenses incurred by the City for the administration thereof, shall be placed and maintained in a Lodging Tax Fund, allocations therefrom shall be used for the purposes set forth in Subsection (a) hereof, and the allocations from the Lodging Tax Fund shall be made by the City Council solely for those purposes in the budget adopted by the City.

(c) Lodging Tax funds shall be allocated each year in the following percentages: Fifty percent (50%) to the Brighton Economic Development Corporation and Fifty percent (50%) to the City of Brighton Communications and Engagement Department to promote, support, develop, and organize cultural arts events and activities. The funds may only be used for the purpose of supporting economic development, especially any events or activities that promote tourism or market the City of Brighton, and to support special events and cultural arts facilities and activities. Each of the direct recipients of Lodging Tax funds are authorized to create a grant process to further distribute funds to community organizations that meet the purposes set forth for Lodging Tax funds.

Section 2. Section 3-40-170 is hereby repealed and reserved for future use.

Section 3. As provided in City Charter Section 5.9(A), this Ordinance, either as presented or as amended, shall be published in full as it was adopted prior to taking final action. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect five days after its final publication, as provided in City Charter Section 5.8, except as may be otherwise set forth herein.

INTRODUCED, PASSED ON FIRST READING

AND ORDERED PUBLISHED THIS 12th DAY OF September, 2023.

CITY OF BRIGHTON, COLORADO

/s/ GREGORY MILLS, Mayor ATTEST:

/s/ NATALIE HOEL, City Clerk

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

/s/ ALICIA R. CALDERÓN, City Attorney

Legal Notice No. BSB2676

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Metropolitan Districts

Public Notice

NOTICE OF VACANCIES

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly, to the electors of the Blue Lake Metropolitan District No. 3, Town of Lochbuie, County of Weld, Colorado (the “District”).

NOTICE IS GIVEN that four (4) vacancies have occurred on the board of Directors of the District (the “Board”). Four directors may be appointed by the Board to serve until the next regular election of the District in May 2025.

Any eligible elector of the District may submit a letter of interest to the offices of the District’ s management company, Community Resource Services of Colorado, LLC, 7995 E. Prentice Ave., Suite 103E, Greenwood Village, CO 80111-2710. Letters of interest meeting the requirement of § 32-1-808 C.R.S., must be returned within ten (10) days of the publication of this Notice, which date is 10 days from the date of publication.

Blue Lake Metropolitan District No. 3

By: /s/ Community Resource Services of Colorado, LLC

Legal Notice No. BSB2673

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Metro Districts

Budget Hearings

Public Notice NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET AND NOTICE

CONCERNING 2023 BUDGET AMENDMENT BLUE LAKE METROPOLITAIN DISTRICT NO.3

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the BLUE LAKE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3 (the “District”) Town of Lochbuie County of Weld, State of Colorado, will hold a special meeting (the “Meeting”) at 2:00 PM on September 26, 2023. The District requests that members of the public join and participate in the Board meeting via Zoom, telephone and/or video conference. The telephone conference may be joined by dialing +17207072699,,87562300735# US (Denver), Meeting ID: 875 6230 0735, Passcode: 681014. The zoom audio/video conference may be joined using high speed Internet connection to: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87562300735?pwd=c

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FURTHER, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed budget has been submitted to the District for the ensuing year of 2024. A copy of the proposed budget has been filed in the office of Community Resource Services of Colorado, 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Ste 103E, Greenwood Village, CO, where the same is open for public inspection. Such proposed budget will be considered at the meeting of the District to be held at 2:00 PM on September 26, 2023. Any interested elector within the District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2024 budget.

FURTHER, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed amended budget has been submitted to the District for the fiscal year of 2023. A copy of the proposed amended budget has been filed in the office of Community Resource Services of Colorado, where the same is open for public inspection. Such proposed amended budget will be considered at the meeting of the District to be held at 2:00 PM on September 26, 2023. Any interested elector within the District may inspect the proposed budgets and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2023 budget amendment.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE BLUE LAKES

METROPOLITAN DISTIRCT NO. 3

/s/ COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES OF COLORADO, L.L.C.

Legal Notice No. BSB2660

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Public Notice

NOTICE CONCERNING

2023 BUDGET AMENDMENT AND PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all interested parties that the necessity has arisen to amend the Village at SouthGate Metropolitan District (“the District”) 2023 Budget and that a proposed 2024 Budget has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the District; and that copies of the proposed Amended 2023 Budget and proposed 2024 Budget have been filed at the District’s offices, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado, where the same are open for public inspection; and that adoption of Resolutions Amending the 2023 Budget and Adopting the 2024 Budget will be considered at a public meeting of the Board of Directors of the District to be held Wednesday, October 25, 2023, at 11:00 AM. This District Board meeting will be held via Zoom.

Zoom Information: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86267550643?pwd= V3RnRGRtWkRyUlZZc1VMWTJFZjFHdz09

Meeting ID: 862 6755 0643

Passcode: 987572

Dial In: 1-719-359-4580

Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the Resolutions to Amend the 2023 Budget and adopt the 2024 Budget, inspect and file or register any objections thereto.

VILLAGE AT SOUTHGATE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By

/s/ Peggy Ripko

District Manager

Legal Notice No. BSB2677

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade Public Notice

NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET AND NOTICE CONCERNING 2023 BUDGET AMENDMENT BLUE LAKE METROPOLITAIN DISTRICT NO. 2

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the BLUE LAKE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2 (the “District”) Town of Lochbuie County of Weld, State of Colorado, will hold a special meeting (the “Meeting”) at 11:00 AM on September 28, 2023, at 7995 E. Prentice Ave., Suite 103E, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 for the purpose of conducting such business as may come before the Board. The District requests that members of the public join and participate in the Board meeting via telephone and/or video conference. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83931067565?pwd=r xJSYJpz8h74xwxj4LjSWdVAtlNUZU.1

Meeting ID: 839 3106 7565 Passcode: 205603

One tap mobile +17207072699,,83931067565# US (Denver) +17193594580,,83931067565# US

FURTHER, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed budget has been submitted to the District for the ensuing year of 2024. A copy of the proposed budget has been filed in the office of Community Resource Services of Colorado, 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Ste 103E, Greenwood Village, CO, where the same is open for public inspection. Such proposed budget will be considered at the meeting of the District to be held at 11:00 AM on September 28, 2023. Any interested elector within the District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2024 budget.

Public Notices

FURTHER, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed amended budget has been submitted to the District for the fiscal year of 2023. A copy of the proposed amended budget has been filed in the office of Community Resource Services of Colorado, where the same is open for public inspection. Such proposed amended budget will be considered at the meeting of the District to be held at 11:00 AM on September 28, 2023. Any interested elector within the District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2023 budget amendment.

Dated: September 13, 2023.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE BLUE LAKES METROPOLITAN DISTIRCT NO. 2 /s/ COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES OF COLORADO, L.L.C.

Legal Notice No. BSB2675

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Summons and Sheriff Sale

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ADAMS COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2018CV031781, Division/ Courtroom C

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY (Publication Notice)

RIVER RUN FILING NO. 4 HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, v. DEBBORAH BURKHALTER; NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC; COLORADO DIVISION OF HOUSING, AN INSTRUMENTALITY OF GOVERNMENT; MIDLAND FUNDING LLC; and SUSAN ORECCHIO AS PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR ADAMS COUNTY, et al. Defendant(s).

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 Division of the Sheriff’s Department of Adams County, Colorado at 9:00 O’clock A.M., on the 16th day of November 2023, at 1100 Judicial Center Drive, 1st Floor, Brighton, CO 80601, phone number 303-655-3272. 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 COVER THEIR HIGHEST BID AT THE TIME OF SALE.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Judgment is in the amount of $14,306.21.

First Publication: September 21,2023

Last Publication: October 19, 2023

Published In: Brighton Standard Blade

This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to Court Order dated March 22, 2019 and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq. by River Run Filing No. 4 Homeowners Association the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on September 8, 2016 at Reception No. 2016000074848 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Adams, State of Colorado. The foreclosure is based on a default under the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for River Run Filing No. 4 recorded on 12/27/2001 at Reception#C0905481 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Adams, State of Colorado. The Declaration establishes a lien for the benefit of River Run Filing No. 4 Homeowners Association against real property legal described as follows:

Lot 4, Block 2, River Run Subdivision Filing No. 4, County of Adams, State of Colorado.

And also known as: 11252 Ironton St., Henderson, CO 80640

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.

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 80228-1011, 303.432.9999

Legal Notice No. BSB2678

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: October 19, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Notice to Creditors

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of THEODORE E. CASELLINI, a/k/a THEODORE ELVY CASELLINI, and a/k/a THEODORE CASELLINI, Deceased

Case Number: 2023 PR 30655

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before January 8, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Tanya McPherson

Personal Representative

c/o Jessica L. Broderick, Esq. Sherman & Howard L.L.C. 675 Fifteenth Street, Ste. 2300 Denver, Colorado 80202

Legal Notice No. BSB2652

First Publication: September 7, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Glenn Alan Petterson, a/k/a Glenn A. Petterson, a/k/a Glenn Petterson, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30687

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before January 15, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Paul G. Petterson

Personal Representative

11616 Shaffer Place, Unit S-102 Littleton, Colorado 80127

Legal Notice No. BSB2661

First Publication: September 14, 2023

Last Publication: September 28, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of DAWN MARIE BLOHM, a/k/a DAWN M. BLOHM, a/k/a DAWN BLOHM, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30651

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before January 8, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sandra Kuffel

Personal Representative

2956 S. 49th Street

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53219

Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles

Public Notice

T&R AUTO REPAIR IS SELLING 303-659-6747

2019 KIA SOUL VIN ENDING IN 632398

Legal Notice No. BSB2670

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Public Notice

Abandoned vehicle sale Tri-County Auto Recovery LLC 720 298-7466

2000 Acura RL 003078

2002 Chevrolet Silverado 132449

2004 Chevrolet Tahoe 170115 2007 Volvo S60. 618188

Legal Notice No. BSB2674

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Legal Notice No. BSB2649

First Publication: September 7, 2023

Last Publication: September 14, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Carlos V. Banuelos a/k/a Carlitos Banuelos , Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 298

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado on or before January 15, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dolores G Palomo

Personal Representative

3834 Sandoval St.

Brighton, CO 80601

Legal Notice No. BSB2662

First Publication: September 14, 2023

Last Publication: September 28, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade Public Notice

In the Matter of the Determination of Heirs or Devisees or Both and of Interests in Property of: RANDALL HAYNES HILL

HILL A/K/A RANDALL H. HILL A/K/A RANDY

HAYNES HILL, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30679

Division: T1

NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION

TO INTERESTED PERSONS AND OWNERS BY INHERITANCE PURSUANT TO §15-121303, C.R.S.

To All Interested Persons and Owners by Inheritance:

Rosie Ann Hill, and all unknown parties who may claim an interest in the property

A Petition has been filed alleging that the above Decedent died leaving the following real property interests in Weld County, Colorado, and concerning the descent or succession of the same:

Undivided one-half of the interest formerly owned by Robert D. Hill a/k/a Robert Dee Hill at the time he died, if any, in and to all oil, gas and other minerals in, on, under, or that may be produced from the following lands in Township 1 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado:

a.Section 7: SE/4SE/4, including all that part of the HKS Addition, datedNovember 24, 1975, according to the plat thereof recorded at File 14, Map235, Reception No. b004411 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder ofAdams County, Colorado (“County Records”), lying therein; and

b.Section 8: SW4, including all that part of the following subdivisions lyingtherein:

i.HKS Addition, dated November 24, 1975, according to the platthereof recorded November 28, 1975, at File 14, Map 235,Reception No. b004411 in the County Records;

ii.HKS Addition, Third Filing, dated January 24, 1978, according tothe plat thereof recorded February 10, 1973, at File 14, Map 380,Reception No. 1978020117086 in the County Records;

iii.HKS Addition, Fourth Filing, dated August 11, 1978, according tothe plat thereof recorded September 7, 1978, at File 14, Map 424,Reception No. 1978020153979 in the County Records; and

iv.HKS Addition, Fifth Filing, dated August 24, 1979, according tothe plat thereof recorded January 24, 1980, at File 14, Map 618,Reception No. 1980020245551 in the County Records, as set forth in that certain Personal Representative’s Deed dated January 19, 2023, and recorded January 20, 2023, at Reception No. 2023000003821 in the County Records.

The hearing on the Petition will be held at the following time and location:

Date: November 17, 2023

Time: 8:00 a.m. Division: T1

Address: 1100 Judicial Center Dr., Brighton, CO 80601

Mailing Address: 1100 Judicial Center Dr., Brighton, CO 80601

Note:

*If you object to the descent and succession of Decedent’s property proposed in the Petition,you must appear and object to the Petition on or before the hearing date and time specifiedabove.

*All objections to the Petition must be in writing and filed with the Court, the filing fee mustbe paid on or before the hearing date and time, and the objection must be served upon thePetitioner.

*The hearing shall be limited to the Petition, the objections timely filed and served, and, if noobjections are timely filed and served, the court may enter a decree without a hearing.

s/Daniel W. Jones Attorney for Petitioner

Daniel W. Jones 1711 61st Avenue, Suite 100 Greeley, CO 80634

Legal Notice No. BSB2679

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: October 5, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE

of Adams County, Colorado on or before January 15, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kurt R. Hammond Personal Representative

2335 Forrestview Road Evanston, IL 60201

Legal Notice No. BSB2663

First Publication: September 14, 2023

Last Publication: September 28, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Name Changes

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 15, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Adams County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Yariel Xaiden Hernandez Gonzalez be changed to Yariel Pascual Gonzalez

Case No.: 23 C 405

By: Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. BSB2658

First Publication: September 14, 2023

Last Publication: September 28, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Children Services (Adoption/Guardian/Other)

Public Notice STATE OF COLORADO IN THE DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF ADAMS Division D1 No. 23JV30125

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO IN THE INTEREST OF:

James Owen Ray Davis, Winter Dawn Davis A Children, and Concerning

Chelsea Dawn Chambers, AKA Chelsea Dawn Phares, Evan Davis

Respondents:

S U M M O N S

To the parents, guardian, or other respondents named above, GREETINGS: Chelsea Dawn Chambers, AKA Chelsea Dawn Phares

You are hereby notified that a verified petition has been filed in the above named Court in which it is represented to the Court that said child are alleged to be dependent and neglected; for the reasons set forth more fully in said petition, a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference for greater certainty.

You are further notified that the parent-child legal relationship may be terminated by this action, if prayed for in the petition.

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court

You are further notified that the Court has set said petition for hearing on the 4th day of October, 2023 at the hour of 11:10 a.m. You are hereby notified to be and appear, at said time, before this Court located at the Adams County Justice Center, 1100 Judicial Center Drive, Brighton, CO 80601.

FRCC VISIT

and workers of all ages to get the training they need to start or build careers that support them and their families.”

FRCC offered its first apprenticeship in 2018.

“We’ve grown by leaps and bounds, so much so that we were the first college in Colorado to be designated a US Department of Labor Apprenticeship Ambassador,” said Rebecca Woulfe, FRCC’s vice president of Academic Affairs & Online Learning. “Thanks to Governor Polis and the Colorado General Assembly, FRCC also now offers 30 degrees and certificates in high-demand fields — at zero cost to students.”

This semester, more than 1,500 FRCC students are enrolled in nocost programs supported by state funding. About a dozen of them

shared their stories with the governor during his Sept. 8 visit.

Bennett Gaibler graduated from FRCC’s surgical technology program, and now works at UCHealth. The program helped him save money that he’s tagging for a future home.

“I was able to get paid for my clinicals; that was definitely a huge plus,” he said. “I still live at home, and I’m trying to buy a house.

“I have been at my job over a year now, and I’m loving it. I’m doing surgeries every day. I’m helping people, and it’s lots of fun.”

Sarah Enochson, 52 of Longmont, lost her long-time job as a writer at a greeting card company in 2020. She enrolled in graphic design classes at FRCC to expand her skillset.

“I caught the bug,” she said. “It brought out a side of me that was obviously there all along, but hadn’t been developed.

“I’ve had moments of self-doubt

Public Notices

Witness my hand and seal of said Court this 11th day of September, 2023.

Alana Percy Clerk of the District Court

Legal Notice No. BSB2672

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Public Notice

STATE OF COLORADO IN THE DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF ADAMS Division D1 No. 23JV30050

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO IN THE INTEREST OF:

Araya Kelso, Arrick Thostenson, Amora Thostenson

A Children, and Concerning

Jennifer Grasso, Kenneth Grasso, John Doe

Respondents:

throughout because it’s hard to start over at this point in life, but I’ve had encouragement all the way through.”

Much of that came through an internship at a graphic design agency on FRCC’s Boulder campus.

“That’s an opportunity I would not have had in a classroom,” she said. “It gave me the opportunity to deepen my understanding of graphic design and grow as a leader. It’s given me something to put on my resume that shows a breadth of experience and ability, and exposed me to different paths within the graphic design field.

“I have three college-aged kids. And I’m encouraging all of them to get any paid experience they can. It puts you at an advantage over all the other students that don’t have that experience. It makes you a known entity to someone. And often, it leads to your job. It’s as important as any of the classes you take.”

Polis spoke little during his visit, instead asking the students questions and listening to the students.

He said the administration is pursuing an apprenticeship tax credit for businesses and taking other measures designed to ramp up participation.

Polis and several Colorado business leaders recently visited Switzerland to learn more about their apprenticeship program. Apprenticeships are deeply rooted in Swiss society, providing a wellestablished career pathway and contributing to a low youth unemployment rate and low student debt.

“They have the apprentice model really ingrained into everything they do there,” he said. “We took major employers with us to Switzerland … so they can see what that looks like in a place where it’s well established.

“It’s newer to America. It’s a little bit of an education process here. We want to grow it here.”

are hereby notified to be and appear, at said time, before this Court located at the Adams County Justice Center, 1100 Judicial Center Drive, Brighton, CO 80601.

Witness my hand and seal of said Court this 11th day of September, 2023.

Alana Percy Clerk of the District Court

Legal Notice No. BSB2671

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023 Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade

Public Notice STATE OF COLORADO IN THE DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF ADAMS Division S No. 23JV30074

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO IN THE INTEREST OF:

London Amelia Jacobs A Child, and Concerning

You are further notified that the Court has set said petition for hearing on the 4th day of October 2023 at the hour of 10:50 a.m. You are hereby notified to be and appear, at said time, before this Court located at the Adams County Justice Center, 1100 Judicial Center Drive, Brighton, CO 80601.

Witness my hand and seal of said Court this 7th day of September, 2023.

Alana Percy Clerk of the District Court

Legal Notice No. BSB2668

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ADAMS COUNTY, COLORADO

Court Address: 1100 Judicial Center Drive Brighton, CO 80601

Child: Avianna Romero

Respondents: Ashley Ann Trujillo, Dominick Joseph Romero

Adams County Justice Center, 1100 Judicial Center Drive, Brighton, Colorado, on the 9th day of , October 2023, at the hour of 1:30 pm, at which time the Petitioner must prove by clear and convincing evidence

1) It is in the best interests of the child, that the parent-child legal relationship which exists between you and the child be terminated and severed;

2) That the child was adjudicated dependent or neglected;

3) That an appropriate treatment plan has not reasonably been complied with by the parent or has not been successful; 4) That the parents are unfit; 5) That the conduct or condition of the parent or parents is unlikely to change within a reasonable time; OR 1) That the child have been abandoned by their parent or parents in that the parent or parents have surrendered physical custody for a period of six months and during this period have not manifested to the child, the court or to the person having physical custody a firm intention to assume or obtain physical custody or to make permanent legal arrangements for the care of the child and 2) That it is in the best interests of the child that the parent-child legal relationship which exists between the child and the respondents be terminated and severed.

child legal relationship.

If you have any questions concerning the foregoing advisement, you should immediately contact either your legal counsel or the Court.

Done and signed this 4th day of August, 2023.

BY THE COURT: District Court Judge/Magistrate

Legal Notice No. BSB2669

First Publication: September 21, 2023

Last Publication: September 21, 2023

Publisher: Brighton Standard Blade ###Legals Notice to Creditors

Public Notice

S U M M O N S

To the parents, guardian, or other respondents named above, GREETINGS: John Doe

You are hereby notified that a verified petition has been filed in the above named Court in which it is represented to the Court that said child are alleged to be dependent and neglected; for the reasons set forth more fully in said petition, a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference for greater certainty.

You are further notified that the parent-child legal relationship may be terminated by this action, if prayed for in the petition.

You are further notified that the Court has set said petition for hearing on the 15th day of November, 2023 at the hour of 2:30 p,m. You

Melinda Jacobs, Charles Spahn, John Doe

Respondents:

S U M M O N S

To the parents, guardian, or other respondents named above, GREETINGS: Charles Spahn

You are hereby notified that a verified petition has been filed in the above-named Court in which it is represented to the Court that said child are alleged to be dependent and neglected; for the reasons set forth more fully in said petition, a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference for greater certainty.

You are further notified that the parent-child legal relationship may be terminated by this action, if prayed for in the petition.

Special Respondent: Blue Avila

Case Number: 2022JV76 Div: S Ctrm.:

ORDER OF ADVISEMENT

NOTICE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPON-

DENTS: Ashley Ann Trujillo and Dominick Joseph Romero

YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED that the Petitioner, has filed a Motion to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship which now exists between you and the above-named child;

YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED that the Motion has been set for hearing in Division S of the District Court in and for the County of Adams,

The Court, before it can terminate the parent-child legal relationship, must find that a continuation of the relationship is likely to result in grave risk of death or serious injury to the child or that your conduct or condition as a parent renders you unable or unwilling to give the child reasonable parental care.

YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED that you have the right to have legal counsel represent you in all matters connected with the Motion to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship.

If you cannot afford to pay the fees of legal counsel, you are advised that the Court will appoint legal counsel to represent you at no cost to you upon your request and upon your showing of an inability to pay.

YOU ARE FURTHER ADVISED that a grandparent, aunt, uncle, brother or sister of the child must file a request for guardianship and legal custody of the child within twenty days of the filing of the motion to terminate parent/

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of ARLENE VIOLA TAKSAS-MARTIN, aka Arlene Taksas-Martin, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030493

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of WELD County, Colorado, on or before JANUARY 16, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

JENNIFER K. WELHAM, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE

1221 DEXTER STREET BROOMFIELD, CO 80020

Legal Notice No. FLP3001

First Publication: September 14, 2023

Last Publication: September 28, 2023

Publisher:Fort Lupton Press ###

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