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STEM rolls out Teacher Support Team Program creates problem-based learning

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Being a part of the Liberty Girls fosters friendship and support, said one member. “In the beginning, I felt kind of lost. You’re coming out of 2020 feeling really isolated and feeling alone. And then when we got together last March, we were all just crying. ... It’s much easier to tackle politics as a group, and to discern together. That really has brought us together and made this a group of PHOTO BY OLIVIA SUN/THE COLORADO SUN VIA REPORT FOR AMERICA action.”

A pilot program at STEM School Highlands Ranch to support teachers in imple-

menting non-traditional lessons in classrooms has gained traction with both educators and students so far this year.

In addition to traditional classroom lessons, STEM teachers are encouraged to create problem-based learning units that focus on having students think through and create diverse solutions to a SEE STEM, P6

County car thefts Fed-up conservatives started organizing double over two years Now they’re winning — and they don’t plan to stop

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

Loveland grandmother Mickie Nuffer grew more concerned by the day as she watched people on television shouting about “defunding the police” and later, in her own county, when businesses required proof of vaccination to enter.

In Highlands Ranch, mom and former teacher’s aide Donna Jo Tompkins was growing increasingly frustrated with mask mandates, last-minute school quarantines and the latest curriculum controversy: critical race theory.

And in Arvada, Angela Marriott was alarmed by the way people on Nextdoor pounced on any conservative sentiment, especially against masks, and was exasperated pretty much every time she watched the news. “I would turn on the news and just be enraged within minutes, watching our police being abused, properties being destroyed

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and trying to erase our history with tearing down and damaging statues,” she said.

“I just decided one day I had had it. I was going to take this negative energy and put it into something constructive, to fight for freedom and my children’s future.”

None of the three women had ever been political, but said they were compelled by the 2020 COVID shutdown and other government policies of the past two years to get involved. Similar to the way Democratic women mobilized after the election of former President Donald Trump, conservative women who never before attended a caucus or canvassed a neighborhood are organizing in living rooms across Colorado.

Tompkins formed Liberty Girls in Douglas County, which has grown from about 20 women who first gathered in her house for coffee and snacks a year ago to more than 300, all standing, she said, for God, country and family.

Nuffer is creating her own version, called the NoCo Ladies for Liberty, with SEE FED-UP, P9

Rise in car theft a metro-wide problem

BY MOLLY ARMBRISTER SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Crime statistics reported by the state show 418 vehicles were stolen in or driven to Douglas County after being stolen in 2021, an increase of about one-third from 2020 and more than double the 2019 rate of 179.

The increase in theft is less dramatic in Douglas County than in the entire metro area, where 36,392 cars were reported stolen in 2021.

Data released by the Colorado Auto Theft Prevention Authority, or CATPA, show vehicle theft in metro Denver increased by 82% over 2019.

A release from CATPA, a division of the Colorado State Patrol, indicates that more

Coloradans are personally experiencing car theft than ever before, with the most “at risk” vehicles including Chevrolet Silverado, Honda Civic, Honda Accord and Ford F-series pickups.

Of the vehicles stolen in 2021, with a total value of more than $6.5 million, 156 were recovered by Douglas County law enforcement.

Most of the stolen vehicles reported in Douglas County were driven there from elsewhere, rather than being stolen in the county itself, said Deputy Cocha Heyden, lead public information officer for the Douglas County Sheriff’s department.

Additionally, the stolen vehicles are often part of another crime, with officers finding evidence of burglary or identity theft inside. Thieves steal the cars both as a crime of SEE CAR THEFT, P5

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Seen from across the South Platte near Englewood, a man dismantles a canopy during a homeless-camp sweep.

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Aurora gets closer to passing an urban camping ban Will there be enough shelter space for the displaced?

BY TATIANA FLOWERS THE COLORADO SUN

If a new camping ban passes in Aurora later this month, people living outdoors may be removed from the sidewalks and parks where they live, as soon as April 30.

Allowing them to continue to live on the streets is inhumane, said some members of the city council who voted in favor of an ordinance making it illegal to camp on public or private property without authorization.

The unauthorized-camping ordinance passed its second reading on a 6-5 vote March 14 and is likely to pass its final reading on March 28. The ordinance would take effect about 30 days later.

Councilors who supported the camping ban, which was proposed

by Mayor Mike Coffman, said residents and local businesses have complained about sanitation and public safety issues related to encampments in the city.

But advocates for the almost 600 people who split time between outdoor tents and the 200 to 250 shelter beds available in Aurora called the proposed camping ban cruel and ineffective and said the ordinance would not solve homelessness. The city, they said, should instead focus on providing permanent housing options to create real solutions.

“I’m going to sound like a broken record, but I just want to reiterate that you’re going to still see people camping all over the place, because we’re not finding them housing,” Councilmember Juan Marcano said during the March 14 meeting. “This is going to institutionalize state violence, basically, against folks in our city who are experiencing homelessness, and

‘I’m going to sound like a broken record, but I just want to reiterate that you’re going to still see people camping all over the place, because we’re not finding them housing.’

Aurora Councilmember Juan Marcano

we need to implement real solutions, such as permanent supportive housing.”

Coffman declined an interview before the March 14 meeting, but in an emailed response to written questions, he said people living in encampments should have an alternative shelter option that is safe, has sanitation and offers other services to help them find a job and permanent housing.

There are just under 600 people who are homeless in Aurora, according to data collected in January during the point-in-time survey, when city workers and volunteers count the number of people who are homeless on a given night each year. Many encampments in Aurora are concentrated along Chambers Road, East Iliff Avenue, East Mississippi Avenue and near Interstate 225 onramps and underpasses.

Aurora has one overnight shelter with 150 beds. A few Safe Outdoor Spaces sites, with tents and pallet shelters, are set up in the city and have 90 beds, but can accommodate up to 120 people, said Jessica Prosser, the city’s director of housing and community services.

“And typically, those are, for the most part, full,” she said.

If passed, the new camping ban would require city workers to give 72 hours notice before a camp is removed and it would call for shelter beds to be available before a camp is shut down.

However, there’s no promise that those shelter beds will become available.

If the ordinance passes, Prosser’s office will work on finding additional shelter beds. The city currently activates its day resource center, and uses hotel and motel vouchers to increase shelter beds during cold weather.

Coffman, who was under intense public scrutiny last year after he told a TV station that he had posed as a homeless person, lived in encampments for seven days and that he believed addiction treatment or job training should be required for people accessing shelter services, introduced the first version of his urban camping ban last summer, but it failed in August on a 5-5 vote. His newer proposal passed on first reading on Feb. 28 in a 6-5 vote after Coffman broke the now right-leaning council’s tie.

At that February meeting, Councilmember Crystal Murillo asked SEE CAMPING BAN, P5

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Peace Officer’s Memorial Day Recently, the Colorado State Senate adopted a resolution that designates March 15 as Colorado Peace Officer’s Memorial Day and the week of March 11-16 as Colorado Police Week. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Department was excited about the news, posting on Facebook on March 15.

The resolution, which was read by Senator John Cooke, also recognized the 356 Colorado peace officers who have died in the line of duty.

Douglas County Detective Joe Pollack’s widow, Eva, joined Sheriff Tony Spurlock and Lt. Tommy Barrella in the chambers as the Senator read off Joe’s name. The department’s post about the event said, “while we all miss Joe every day, we are honored to know that his name will forever be part of history. His and all the other’s sacrifices will never be forgotten.”

STEM competes in Arizona According to the STEM School Highlands Ranch Facebook page, students recently participated in the STEM’s FRC team at the finals in Arizona.

The team finished in 19th and were selected by the fifth-place seed for Alliance Selection, joining 3853 Pridetronics and 4183 Bit Buckets.

In the quarter finals match-up the Highlands Ranch team beat the fourth place seed 2478 Westwood and their alliance members 2486 Coconuts and 4984 Bullseye moving on to semi-finals.

In semi-finals the local school faced the top-seeded 2122 Taters and their alliance members 114 Eaglestrike and 1726 NERDs, losing 2-1.

Taters alliance went on to win the competition.

The STEM School Highlands Ranch also won the Quality Award for our robot’s construction and design.”

Strive to Thrive offers hot meal and assistance The Strive to Thrive Resource Fair will be held on Wednesday, March 30 from 4-6 p.m. at the Calvary Chapel, 1100 Caprice Drive in Castle Rock. Enjoy a free hot meal and access valuable resources from more than 20 different organizations. Individuals and families are welcome to attend. For more information, visit douglas.co.us and search for Strive to Thrive.

Slash-mulch site opens April 2 The County’s main slash-mulch site, at 1400 Caprice Drive in Castle Rock, opens April 2 and will remain open on Saturdays only from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. through Oct. 29. For more information, directions and a list of acceptable items visit douglas.co.us and search Slash Mulch.

Skip the trip - motor vehicle services just a click away. Renew your driver license or motor vehicle registration and more from the convenience of your smartphone, tablet, desktop or laptop. You can also renew vehicle registrations at MVExpress kiosks. Find information at DouglasDrives.com

E-recycling: Saturday, April 9 Douglas County residents may dispose of unwanted electronics free of charge at Techno Rescue, 3251 Lewiston St. in Aurora, weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and occasional Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Proof of residency is required. For a list of acceptable items, Saturday drop-off dates and more visit douglas.co.us/community-recycling

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Lawyer responds to Douglas County School Board questions about Sunshine Laws A motion to dismiss the lawsuit is still being debated in court filings

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

An attorney involved in the lawsuit alleging Douglas County School Board members violated open meetings law has responded to some directors who said they are confused about how to comply with a judge’s order prohibiting serial meetings.

The letter came amid ongoing efforts to dismiss the lawsuit, and ahead of what could become a months-long court dispute.

In a letter to the board, open government attorney Steve Zansberg said he contacted the board’s legal representation in the lawsuit at Hall and Evans, a Denver law firm, after observing directors’ March 11 special meeting, where some board members said they wanted more clarity about a preliminary injunction in the case.

Douglas County resident Robert Marshall sued the board in February alleging majority Directors Mike Peterson, Becky Myers, Christy Williams and Kaylee Winegar broke open meetings law by using a chain of private, one-on-one

c t a i h i p A Members of the Douglas County School Board discuss trust and air differences in a Feb. 4 meeting.

PHOTO BY THELMA GRIMES c communicating to a third board offer the board a different perspeco meeting to discuss removing then tive from legal advice they might Superintendent Corey Wise. member the views expressed by two c be receiving. Directors indicated As a result of those discussions, other board members on a particu- n on March 11 that in attorney-client Peterson and Williams met with lar topic,” Zansberg wrote. “Sharing e privileged communications, the Wise on Jan. 28 and asked him to the views, positions, or thoughts of i board’s lawyers viewed the judge’s retire or resign and said a board three or more members of the board c order as “legally erroneous,” Zansmajority was prepared to remove on any matter of public business — u berg wrote. him if he did not. whether or not a decision is reached Hall and Evans attorneys did not On March 9, Judge Jeffrey K. by a majority of the board — is what a respond to requests for comment.

Holmes granted a preliminary the law, and the injunction enforcingV Board President Peterson declined h injunction instructing directors to it, prohibit.” an interview for this story. follow open meetings law. Holmes’ Zansberg also argued that whethers Zansberg reiterated that Marorder said directors’ actions did not some board members believe Colo- d only violate the spirit of the law, but shall’s lawsuit never sought to rado Open Meeting Law is cumber- v prevent two board members from its purpose. some for conducting board business s Zansberg’s letter said he wanted to having legal, one-on-one conversais irrelevant. The judge’s duty is to w tions about public business. For apply the law as written, he said. local public bodies, Colorado law alZansberg said “the only approprilows school board directors to speak ate forum for such complaints and Dear Davis Schilken, about district business outside of efforts to revise the law is the genI just married the man of my dreams. However, I am worried how it will impact our Estate Plans. We open meetings, two at a time.

Gatheral assembly, not a court of law.” have both been married once before, and we both have 2 beautiful children from our prior marriage, erings of three or more to discuss ofMajority board members have bringing our new family to 6 (My husband, his two kids, my two kids, and myself). How can we fi cial business or take formal action consistently maintained they folimprove and prepare our Estate Plans to care for everyone? should be an open meeting. lowed open meeting law to the letter Sincerely, Beth Blended Family Marshall sought to stop three or and did not act illegally in meeting more directors from conducting privately with Wise or conferring business out of the public’s eye, with one another. They have repeatDear Beth Blended Family, Zansberg wrote, including through edly emphasized they only spoke Congratulations on your new marriage! Additions like that can be exciting and lead to a long and serial meetings. In that form of one-on-one. happy life together. However, there are certainly things we need to take into consideration when it a gathering, local public officials On March 11, the board debated comes to blended family. meet in twos but then relay views or for 90 minutes about how to respond Blended families can cause worry and difficulty when it comes to passing on your Estate. This stances from those discussions with to the judge’s injunction. While includes unintended inheritance, unintended disinheritance, confusion, and even fighting amongst additional board members outside some majority directors said they families. All of these things are easily avoidable with proper planning! of public meetings. did not understand the judge’s When bringing children to a new marriage, spouses should always talk about what their expectations The judge’s preliminary injuncorder, minority directors said it only are, and how they want their Estates to pass. Leaving behind old Estate Plans (both a Will and Trust) tion did just that, Zansberg wrote. required directors to follow the open without any revisions, can result in things such as an ex-spouse inheriting, or a new spouse (and their President Peterson can, for example, meetings law. children) being disinherited. Of course, this is only a short list of what can happen. You will want to meet with any single member of the Majority directors expressed make sure that your Estate Plans are updated to accommodate everyone in your happy new family. board to discuss public business, interest in appealing the order.

The list below includes just a few things you may want to change or amend: Zansberg wrote.

Peterson said an appeal could get 1. Pay on Death Beneficiaries for Cash/Investment Accounts; “Thus, so long as communications directors and other boards more between any two members of the clarity on what the injunction 2. Re-titling of Property (personal residence or other); board are not thereafter shared (in means. Minority directors empha3. Updating Fiduciaries (Powers of Attorney, Personal Representatives); person, by phone, email, text, or any sized insurance will not pay for the 4. Including new family members in your Estate Plan; other means of communication) lawsuit and DCSD would need to with a third member of the board fund an appeal process. The board 5. Excluding old family members from your Estate Plan; and — outside of a public meeting — the agreed to revisit the issue at their 6. Provide for new spouse, protect your children. injunction will not be violated,” March 22 meeting.

If your Estate Plans don’t accommodate your new family members, they may do nothing but Zansberg wrote. “It’s not a terribly Earlier in the case, the board’s atcomplicate things further. Unfortunately, just because you have previously drafted a Will or Trust difficult concept to understand and torneys filed a motion to dismiss the does not mean your documents will automatically include your new family. to abide by.” lawsuit. That motion partly argued Zansberg said majority directors an injunction would halt directors’ Contact our offices for valuable advice on all matters relating to Estate Planning with Blended have confessed to violating open ability to reasonably conduct disFamilies (303) 670-9855. meeting laws, and so did some of trict business. Zansberg told Colotheir attorneys’ court filings in the rado Community Media his client’s case. Defense attorneys wrote that deadline to respond to the request Peterson had contacted Williams “to for a dismissal is due next week, but relay” to her two other directors’ that months of litigation could folstances on Wise’s employment with low if the lawsuit is not tossed or if the district.

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opportunity and a way to get away from the scene of another crime.

“Most of these people that we’ve found in these stolen vehicles that we’ve arrested don’t live in our county, so the big question is, why are they coming down here?” Heyden said.

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city staff to draft an amendment to address how important personal items, such as cell phones and identification cards, would be handled by the city when a camp is removed. That amendment passed at the March 14 meeting.

At the February meeting, the council passed an amendment offered by Murillo instructing the city manager to provide an annual report to the council on the effectiveness of the urban camping ban and an accounting of all city staff’s time and resources used to enforce the ordinance.

Preserving personal items such as identification is crucial. But Vicky, a woman who has been homeless for more than a decade, said last week that she has been directed by Aurora workers to visit nearby food banks and food stamp offices after her camps were shut down in the past. When

many vehicle owners leave their keys in their unlocked cars, or, especially during cold Colorado winters, leave their cars running to warm up in what law enforcement refers to as “puffing.”

Victims of car theft aren’t just the owners of the pilfered vehicles, CATPA says. Because stolen cars are often used to commit other crimes, vehicle theft impacts other members of the community as well, and car thieves typically drive recklessly, creating a traffic hazard.

Vicky showed up to those human service organizations, she said there were long lines, and lots of paperwork requiring an identification card or a phone number to set up future appointments.

Her identification card, phone and birth certificate were stolen, she said, and she has had trouble replacing them ever since.

“I just go and start it up somewhere else,” she said of her camps. “You gotta have some place.”

Coffman, in an email, said he was confident there will be adequate shelter by the time the ordinance takes effect. “We only need enough for those who decide to take advantage of an alternative shelter option for the specific encampment being abated on any given day,” he wrote.

He did not provide an estimate of what it might cost to enforce the policy or house an additional 400 people, but wrote “it will cost less than the economic damage that these encampments currently do to our city.”

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Many who oppose Aurora’s ban pointed to Denver’s unauthorized camping ordinance. They said homelessness in Denver has only grown worse since its ban was instituted in 2012. The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened homelessness in the city.

Initiative 300, which would have repealed Denver’s camping ordinance, was rejected by voters in 2019, said Sabrina Allie, a spokesperson for the Department of Housing Stability.

Homelessness service providers have criticized the ordinance, saying it could increase arrests and convictions, which keep people from finding permanent housing. Camping bans are often instituted in many cities after homelessness becomes more visible, and as a result, many people who are homeless simply move on

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“We’re really disappointed to see this camping ban move forward. We know that camping bans do not work. In fact, they oftentimes make it worse,” Alderman said of the Aurora rule.

“Homelessness is going to continue, and people are just going to end up with criminal records and fines they can’t pay, which again, is just going to perpetuate that cycle for them and make it even harder for them to get into housing.”

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Recent feedback from teachers found that they needed more resources to support them in planning, creating and teaching problem-based learning lessons, prompting STEM to start the Teacher Support Team — a group of dedicated staff members that help create and coordinate problembased learning throughout all grade levels.

“The purpose of the team is we can go in and stand shoulder-toshoulder with a teacher and say ‘let me help you plan this unit,’” said Michelle Gasser, director of professional development and Teacher Support Team member. “Not only do we help the teachers come up with the ideas and the real-world problems, and how to move through that unit.”

The team is currently made up of three staff members, each of whom have areas of specialization, such as adjusting lessons for gifted students

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The team also gets assistance from industry partners, guest speakers and local mentors who volunteer their time to supplement the problem-based learning units.

Day-to-day schedules of the members of the Teacher Support Team are often unique. Problembased learning specialist Mackenzie Harper said she typically splits her time between multiple classrooms, as well as meeting with industry partners and her team.

“If there’s a big unit going on in one grade level then I’ll spend more time with them and then on the side, I’ll meet with people to start building skeletons of those units,” she said.

Several lessons enhanced by the Teacher Support Team have already appeared in classrooms, including a unit on space exploration in first grade. In teacher Susan Graham’s high school literature class, students had a unit digging into the accessibility of the American dream in connection with reading “The Great Gatsby.”

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‘There’s a lot of freedom and support to be more creative, so it’s more student-driven and the kids have more buy-in that way.’

Susan Graham, STEM School Highlands Ranch teacher

Teacher Support Team to build a lesson that let her students influence how they interact with the material.

“There’s a lot of freedom and support to be more creative, so it’s more student-driven and the kids have more buy-in that way,” Graham said. “Some kids did a podcast, some did a video with interviews, some wrote a traditional paper, and I had one student use photography.”

Fifth-grade teacher Carissa Elliott agreed she sees more engagement from students with problem-based learning units. Elliott said the support team has given her the ability to add more engaging lessons to her classroom.

“What’s so great about working with the team is that as a teacher you feel confident that you can do really innovative things with your class and you have people there to help you along in each step,” she said. “It really takes all of the scariness out of it.”

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Prior to the formation of the Teacher Support Team, STEM had coaches, who were teachers that had one period each workday to spend helping others construct problembased learning units and realize the lessons in class.

Now, the fully dedicated staff of the Teacher Support Team are working to formalize a problem-based learning model that can be adjusted by topic, student needs and teacher ideas.

“This is a brand-new concept,” Gasser said. “We’ve had to make adjustments, but our hope is that next year, we’re increasing problembased learning and … we’re raising the level of quality in our instruction by providing that differentiation.”

Ultimately, Gasser said, the goal is that the structures implemented this year around problem-based learning will be refined and replicated in other schools.

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Although it’s not the usual kind of car the business works on, the story behind a 1952 Hudson Hornet compelled the folks at Farland Classic Restoration to take on the challenge of returning it to its former glory.

“Sometimes we do those kind of cars,” said company owner Jack Farland. “We call it sentimental motors. You know, people are in love with some car for some reason and want to bring it back to original.”

In this case, in the early 1960s, the owner of the Hudson, his six siblings and their parents used to travel all over the country together in that car, Farland said.

Farland Classic Restoration, located for over 30 years in Englewood, restores vintage luxury automobiles and sports cars. With 20 employees, the 15,000-square-foot shop is one of the larger restoration businesses in the country, Farland said.

In addition to nostalgia-filled family cars, they’ve worked on Ferraris, Maseratis, Porsches — some now worth millions — that have gone onto win awards at Pebble Beach and Amelia Island’s premier car competitions.

The company also buys and sells cars. Last year, it sold 44 classic cars from its 5,000-square-foot showroom down the street. Car sales create more gross income for the business than the shop by “a fair amount,” Farland said. Although restorations are roughly 90% of what they do, margins are slim on that side of operation.

Parts, technicians, buildings, energy — it’s all expensive, he said.

“We have a big paint booth that has a million BTU gas heaters,” he said. “You turn it on and the dollar signs, they’re just rotating like a slot machine. It’s crazy.”

So managing the money is key.

“I don’t care what business,” Farland said. “You have to do a good job

Jack Farland owns Farland Classic Restoration with Trina Farland, his wife.

with the finances, or you can’t stay in business. Probably more important today than ever because everything’s so tight. Costs go up so fast.”

Farland Classic Restoration developed a system that works well for them. A customer’s money for the project is placed in an account upfront. Then Farland technicians closely track what they do and bill the account on a regular basis.

As the caretakers of vintage cars, Farland Classic Restoration needs to be familiar with the old, of course, but also the new.

For about the last five years, instead of writing down the work they’ve completed, technicians have used their phones and QR codes to track what work they’ve done on which car.

“All that information goes on to a billing software program … and all the things that are done to that one car then end up on a bill,” Farland said. “Then every week, whatever work was done on that particular car, that much money is taken out of the (customer’s) account.”

No stranger to innovation, the company recently started performing electric conversions, that is, replacing the internal combustion engines of classic cars with electric motors. These cars, such as the 1966 Porsche 912 they’re currently converting, have a very small carbon footprint when the shop’s done with them.

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Littleton-based nonprofit to host workshop featuring immigrant voices April 9 event to educate community on realities of immigration

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Littleton-based nonprofit Immigrant Pathways Colorado will host a workshop at Arapahoe Community College (ACC) April 9 during which attendees can hear first-hand stories of the immigration journey from those who have experienced it.

The event, Step into My Shoes: Conversation Circles about Immigration, will give community members the chance to “understand what immigration policies are in place and the effect they have on real people,” said former Littleton Mayor Susan Thornton, who leads the nonprofit.

Attendees will be seated at different tables in ACC’s Half Moon

Room, located on the west side of the first floor of the college’s main building. Groups will hear a mix of perspectives from immigrants who are undocumented, who are seeking asylum, who are refugees and who struggle with their professional training not being accepeted for work in the U.S. Thornton said she hopes these conversations will help address misunderstandings of the arcane immigration system.

“People say ‘why don’t they come here legally?’ Well there are lines you have to get into, and there are some lines that are 20 years long,” Thornton said. “They are here, they are part of us and we need to find ways to understand and welcome them.”

The event will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and tickets will be on a first-come-first-serve basis, according to Thornton.

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Thornton has a long history of advocacy for immigrant communities. Her nonprofit has awarded more than $100,000 in grants to immigrants throughout Colorado since it began giving money in 2010.

Thornton has also has been a strong advocate for the future of the Littleton Immigrant Resources Center, which offers low-cost civics and English lessons, test preparation and legal aid to documented immigrants but was set to be defunded by a previous city council.

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“We’ve got to reach out to these people and if we don’t reach out we risk being a divided ‘we versus they’ community,” she said. “Almost all of us are children of immigrants.”

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about 250 members in Larimer, Weld and Boulder counties. Marriott, meanwhile, started Arvada Grassroots Conservatives, which also includes men. And in the Douglas County town of Castle Rock, a group called We the Women formed last year.

The rise of the liberty mom voting bloc is the latest in a line of suburban-women influence on elections, from the middle-class “soccer moms” of the 1990s, to the “security moms” after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, to the “rage moms” exasperated by Trump and racial injustice.

Liberty Girls worked to flip Douglas County School Board Tompkins, feeling helpless about the state of the nation, logged onto a Facebook group for conservative women in Colorado and began sending private messages to women in the group who were her Douglas County neighbors. Immediately, she had 30 women who were interested.

Their first meeting last March turned into an emotional, fourhour bonding session, as women circled their chairs in Tompkins’ living room and unloaded about how the pandemic had affected their families. One woman who was pregnant with her fourth child told the group her toddler had regressed and had received no services. A Cherry Creek teacher

said she left her job because she couldn’t stand the level of politics that had seeped into classrooms.

“How are we in this place?” Tompkins recalled them asking. “How am I going to raise my kids?”

But, going forward, the group hasn’t been about venting. “I didn’t want this to be a group where we sat around and grumbled and cried,” Tompkins said. She got to work setting up workshops so the Liberty Girls could learn about the upcoming school board race, held in November, and the caucus process where voters gather by precinct in the spring to start selecting GOP candidates.

As the group grew, Tompkins, who used her maiden name in this story, vetted each person, requiring that anyone who wanted to attend first call her to answer questions about their politics. She said she does this to prevent an interloper or a mole with a hidden tape recorder from infiltrating one of their meetings.

The caution is necessary, she said, in a time when people are divided and attacks are sometimes vicious, particularly after the new conservative school board abruptly fired the superintendent, setting Douglas County parents against each other. Liberty Girl meetings are a place where “you can speak your truth and not be censored or canceled,” she said.

The meetings grew so quickly that Tompkins started placing chairs on her second floor, where a foyer with a railing overlooks the living room. They called it mezzanine seating.

Liberty Girls’ first big push was

the school board election, where four conservative candidates were attempting to flip the left-majority board that had been in power since 2018. They packed school board meetings. They knocked on doors, reaching Douglas County residents who no longer had kids in school and hadn’t kept up with school politics. They spoke of mask mandates, Zoom classrooms and 10-day school quarantines.

And they won.

In February, three months after the new board was elected, the 4-3 majority fired Superintendent Corey Wise and is now searching for his replacement.

But the Liberty Girls’ work is far from over, Tompkins said. On caucus night in early March, 60 Liberty Girls were elected as delegates, precinct committee chairs and election judges. The group has hosted candidates in a heated race to replace the county’s longtime sheriff and is working its way up the ticket toward the Republican candidates for governor and U.S. Senate.

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involved in the process. “We are really wanting to stand on our own, apart from the GOP,” Tompkins said. “We are a group of intelligent women who are getting smarter.”

Jen Masten, a Highlands Ranch mom and member of Liberty Girls, attended caucuses for the first time in her life earlier this month and was elected a delegate for the next two years, meaning she’ll attend assemblies and have a role in selecting candidates for the GOP ticket.

“I thought I was doing my due diligence by showing up and voting Republican and being on the PTO and by finding people that I really liked that were running and being behind them,” Masten said.

“What Liberty Girls has done for me is educate me, and it’s educated me without telling me what to do, but how to do it. They said, ‘Here is what caucus is. Go do your thing.’”

Masten summed up the group this way: “We’re women that love God, our family and country. We’re activists for medical freedom. We are activists for the truth. And we SEE FED-UP, P10

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want to preserve our constitution.

Everyone should carry the constitution around and know exactly what it says and know when our rights are being infringed upon.”

Her enthusiasm, and that of many others, was obvious at GOP caucuses at ThunderRidge High School, where about 150 voters met by precinct, separated into various classrooms and a computer lab.

Fired-up attendees talked about secretary of state candidate Tina Peters, calling her a “good guy” despite her involvement in an election tampering scandal, disgust over Colorado’s sex education law that requires lessons to include dialogue on consent, and anger at term-limited Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock for supporting Colorado’s red flag law that allows a judge to temporarily remove a person’s firearms. Outside the high school, one woman shouted “Red wave! Red wave!”

Stu Parker, chairman of the Douglas County Republicans, said voters — particularly women — are more engaged than they’ve been in years. “They got involved in the school board race and started to understand what’s going on,” he said. “They saw what happened in the pandemic and they are fed up and wanting change.”

Loveland group fights to preserve Christian values, against abortion Nuffer, in Loveland, said the collective energy is coming from a desire to improve life for her children and grandchildren.

She decided to start NoCo Ladies for Liberty after Sherronna Bishop, a former campaign manager for U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, interviewed Liberty Girls founder Tompkins. Bishop, who calls herself “America’s Mom,” posts her interviews with conservative politicians and activists on her website.

At first, Nuffer dismissed the idea of leading a group, telling herself she was “just a mom and Nana.” Then the 59-year-old decided not to “disqualify” herself, realizing that her status as a

‘What has happened is when we’re working a 9-to-5 job, trying to raise our children, something has had to give.’

Mickie Nuffer, Loveland grandmother

mother and grandmother was her “greatest strength and my largest ‘why.’”

“I do not want to see my family continually stripped of their constitutional rights,” she said, adding that she regrets not doing more sooner in life to “preserve our American way of life, founded on our Judeo-Christian values.”

Nuffer, who is a health coach, heard Tompkins speak on Jan. 20.

And on Feb. 10, she had 38 women in her home who came despite a snowstorm. Nuffer, who also vets attendees, wanted like-minded women to learn together in a nonintimidating environment, one where no question about the political process was too elementary.

She and a few others circulated an invitation promising “conservative community, cocktails and civics,” and invited the local GOP chairman to teach a room full of women enjoying wine and cheese about the caucus process.

A month later, 26 women from the group were elected as delegates, 16 as election judges and nine as precinct committee chairs — and that’s just among the 71 who attended the NoCo Ladies for Liberty’s last meeting.

They’re also holding forums for the local sheriff’s and state House seats, and women from the threecounty group are considering branching out to start their own groups in their hometowns. NoCo Ladies for Liberty is also working on a website to communicate with each other, since many of its members quit Facebook over the platform’s censorship policies.

And last week, Nuffer brought

a carload of women to the state Capitol, where they protested against a bill that would affirm abortion rights in Colorado. The experience was a first for many in the group, who were jarred by a person shouting in an air horn to drown out the words of the antiabortion speakers, a woman who was topless and a request by police that the NoCo group stay within the bounds of yellow tape for their own protection, Nuffer said.

Women in the group are getting involved in ways they would never feel comfortable doing alone, she said. NoCo Ladies for Liberty is restoring a lost sense of community among women, Nuffer said.

“We do better in community,” she said. “The way that our country has changed, our lives have changed, women now, many of them have to go to work. What has happened is when we’re working a 9-to-5 job, trying to raise our children, something has had to give.

It’s in large part been our social interaction with other women.”

‘A bunch of passionate momma bears’ Marriott, who has a 14-year-old daughter and 17-year-old son, has scheduled candidates for city council all the way to the governor’s office to speak to her Arvada group. Plus, the group connects via Zoom to meetings of the Liberty Girls and other groups around Colorado when a statewide candidate is speaking at a meeting, said Marriott, a property manager.

“We are just a bunch of passionate momma bears,” she said, echoing language used by Republican women all the way up the ticket.

Women are leading the GOP in this year’s statewide elections, including for governor, the U.S. Senate and secretary of state. Heidi Ganahl, a University of Colorado regent and the Republican frontrunner to challenge Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, calls herself a “mom on a mission.” Deborah Flora, who is emerging as a top Republican in the race to unseat U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, said she’s running “because I want to be able to look at my children in the eye, and yours, and we have to be able to say to them, ‘We did everything that we could do in this day to hand them the same liberty that we enjoy.’”

As Marriott’s group has grown, gathering in her house for her creamy Italian sausage pasta and another member’s now-famous soups, she’s booking candidates for various races and scheduling educational workshops. The group has held a concealed weapons class, a session on the U.S. Constitution and events on “prepping,” including how to grow microgreens and prepare in other ways for a massive food shortage. Some in the group have volunteered for election audits, analyzing Jefferson County ballots from 2018 and 2020.

They campaigned for conservative candidates for the school board, though they lost, and fought against former Jefferson County Public Health Director Dawn Comstock, who resigned last month. Marriott was particularly active in fighting against COVID-19 testing for students in order to attend sports practice.

The Arvada group has grown from 10 to about 130 people.

“It was really the moms that stood up and started to fight,” Marriott said. “It was eating me up and I thought, ‘I have to take this and turn it into something constructive.’ We have to fight for our freedom.”

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.

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ecently, a Facebook memory reminded me that 11 years ago my husband and I officially adopted two daughters, becoming first-time parents.

On a side rant, while I hate Facebook for so many things and the hate the platform is responFROM THE sible for spreading in this world, I love the days when it reminds us of milestones, EDITOR happy days, and those important moments in our lives.

For me, this 11-year anniversary made me reflect. We adopted a 4-year-old and 16-year-old. The two are sisters and came into our home from a horrible family life with parents who did so much damage to these two girls and their older two sisters.

For me and my husband, we had these visions of fixing all the damage, repairing Thelma Grimes them and living this picture-perfect life. We had this idea that we could erase the guilt by just giving them the life they deserve.

The guilt came because we felt like we should have known what was happening in their home. We should have done something to protect them.

With therapy and work over the years, we have learned what so many adoptive and foster parents have learned the hard way. These kids are who they are. They have been damaged, and love, money and time cannot erase any of it. This is true even for young children.

Our older daughter has left home and is working to make her mark on the world. That 4-year-old from 11 years ago is now 16.

When child psychologists and specialists talk about the importance of those developmental years when a child is born through the age of 4 — they are not kidding. What my younger daughter learned in those first years of life was how lying was required to survive. She learned to hide feelings and just deal with what was happening in front of her eyes.

Through therapy over the years, I have come to understand my daughter’s issues but, being human, it is not always easy to handle.

Besides the usual obstacles and insecurities that comes with being a teenager, my daughter has an attachment disorder. This means my daughter has a hard time connecting and forming meaningful relationships. She does not have normal reactions in moments of tears and emotion. She does not even have the normal side of anger and rage that teenagers have.

It also means she tends to be rough on the people doing things for her well-being. In our house, I am often a target.

The therapist explained many years ago that because I am her biggest advocate, because I make decisions in her best interests — I am the one she will resent.

Believe me, there are days where that resentment can be hard to handle. The behavior and issues are hard to deal with.

When you cry and her attachment disorder does not allow her to have a normal reaction to her mother crying — it is hard.

On the plus side, where my daughter rejects love and support from her dad and me — she has been a great big sister.

Her therapist often said it may not make sense, but she does show love and has made great progress in loving her little brothers.

In the end, I just want to give a shout out of support to other adoptive and foster parents out there. The job may be hard. The job may be thankless. But in the end, it is a job we continue to do.

Thelma Grimes is the south metro editor for Colorado Community Media. She can be reached at tgrimes@coloradocommunitymedia.com.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Let’s choose stability in schools After years of volatility for parents with school-aged kids dealing with this pandemic, it is disappointing to now see our school district embroiled in lawsuits due to the school board’s newcomers’ foolishness, rather than working hard for our kids in Douglas County.

It is troubling to think that Republicans took over school districts — like Douglas County — by playing off of the worries of tired parents. What I fear now, is what happens if this type of purely partisan “leadership” is elected to more offices?

Will “Don’t say Gay” in schools become a Colorado reality? Will we move to ban curriculum and books? Will we defund our public schools? The newcomers are beholden to such extreme partisan ideologues who would pursue such tactics.

Instead, I hope we choose stability. As a father to young kids, Governor Polis understood the gravity of the problem when COVID-19 threatened to stifle the learning

and development of our kids. By trusting local leadership and making data-driven decisions, he got kids back in school and helped parents get back to work.

The importance of steady leadership cannot be understated. Governor Polis told us that he would improve the quality of early education for our kids, creating free kindergarten and preschool for all. Three years and one global pandemic later, he has done what he said he would do — rolling out his preschool plan just this week.

Next, Colorado will make historic investments into our schools, increasing funding for public schools by nearly 10%. Knowing that he does what he says he will do, I trust our governor to leave the partisanship at the door and bring consistent leadership for our schools and for our state.

Katie Barrett, Castle Rock SEE LETTERS, P13

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And although the weather was indeed a bit strange, we quickly realized we were Michael Norton talking about all the other crazy things that are going on in the world. And that led

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A song by Jana Stanfield came to my mind, “All the Good I Can Do.” The lyric that I thought of reads, “I cannot do all the good that the world needs but the world needs all the good I can do.”

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To the women who never made the history books

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t’s Women’s History Month.

Originally, I was going to brag about all the famous women and their contributions in Colorado that have brought GUEST us a remarkable COLUMN women’s history.

For instance, did you know that we were the first state in the country to grant women suffrage by popular vote? Or about our plethora of Linda Newell famous women leaders in Colorado like Molly Brown, Madeleine Albright, Ellis Meredith, Justina Ford, Hattie McDaniel, Temple Grandin, Helen G. Bonfils, Pat Schroeder, Frances Cabrini, Chipeta, Emily Griffith, Helen Ring Robinson, and Elizabeth Iliff Warren. And that long list contains only a few! We’ve got

an incredible published history of remarkable leadership by women in our state.

But what about all those women over the hundreds of years who never made the history books or we may not even know? I think Women’s History Month is the perfect time to honor them. Some of those we may know or remember, and some we’ll never know their name.

They are also threads in the fabric of our state and our local communities. These are the women who may not have had a title, initials after their name, or even a warm place to call home. But they still have had a huge influence on how Colorado children were raised, how crops fed us, what laws govern the land, or which political candidates got into office.

Some of those women who need to be honored are the: • single mothers who fought against the odds just to get their

kids fed and schooled, • teachers who spent long hours for their students while tending to their own at night, • grocery store and post office workers who went to work to support all of us no matter the weather, • nurses, doctors, and chaplains who have served us so intimately, and the • volunteers and nonprofit crews who have selflessly nourished and sustained our communities.

These are our unsung heroes who don’t usually get awards, fancy titles, or stories in the press. But they are possibly the most important members of our society as they are the bedrock of our neighborhoods.

But we also need to remember and lift up all those women in history who, because of their gender, have experienced pain and suffering at the hands of others. For just being a woman, too many have been either ignored or targeted.

Too many have been harassed, assaulted, raped, beaten, and even murdered. And far too many of them have names or stories we will never know. They, too, have made contributions to our Colorado community and deserve our attention and appreciation as well.

In history and today, we’ve got a lot of women to be proud of in our Centennial State who have been very public leaders, unknown followers, and contributors in between. If you know one of them, thank them. If you are one of them, I hope you give yourself a big pat on the back and some self-care.

Happy Women’s History Month!

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ing in the street of Kyiv filling out another application for NATO membership in the first week of the Russian invasion but he realizes now that the membership to NATO will not be accepted So, he is appealing to us and all free nations to start a new alliance. He stated that his heart for life will stop if he cannot stop the death in his country. He feels that his life is senseless if he cannot stop the death. Let us help him. Let us join a new alliance that does not prohibit the neediest members from joining forces to prevent more evil and death from aggressors.

An organization that prohibits membership for the countries who

desperately need it is clearly not as good as it could be.

Our freedoms depend on it. If our leadership in the U.S. executive branch is slow to respond to what

is needed, then let us apply our pressure to form this new united alliance.

Jeanne S Hughes, Castle Rock

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New alliance needed Today, this morning, of March 16th, President Zelenskyy addressed our U.S. Congress. He wants the leaders of all free countries to establish a new united alliance. Because, yesterday, he publicly acknowledged that even though Ukraine had been encouraged to apply for NATO membership, he knows it will not become a reality soon enough to help his country.

He was hopeful in earlier days.

I saw a news clip of him stand-

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what they can afford and what they have to do without, and again, raising the question of what we can do to help.

As we look around there are plenty of opportunities where our generosity of time, resources and talents can be applied. So, what we mustn’t do, is to get so caught up in the things that twe cannot do or control, and rather focus on all the things that we can do. And whether that is on a grand scale or the tiniest little thing that can make a difference, we must do what the song encourages, because the world does need all the good we can do.

There are food pantries with empty shelves. Local churches have a food pantry, or they support one, so that is a good place to start. Soup kitchens, food kitchens and meal centers are also a great place to donate food or volunteer to serve. Finding the closest homeless center or rescue mission is another excellent place to start as they can always use funding, or they can let us know what they need in the way of donations.

As the war rages on in Ukraine, there are many places that are taking donations in the form of clothing, blankets, health and hygiene products, and other goods that can possibly help those who have been

displaced. And again, financial donations to the Red Cross or other charities that step in to help victims, refugees, and those left homeless by the war.

Sometimes when there are major events happening in our country or around the world, we can suffer from a sense of feeling numb or paralyzed, and we become so fixated on those bigger problems that we forget about the causes that are important to us and that need our help in any way that we can possibly provide.

Now is the time to rise to the occasion and step up to help out, and step in with our time, resources, and talents. Even forgetting the wars taking place and the pandemics, hunger, lack of shelter and clothing, poor health, joblessness, and sudden loss of life leaving family members without the means to live as they once did all create opportunities for us to do all the good that we can do.

Is there a closet that you can clean out to support a clothing drive? Is there a food pantry that you could help stock once a month? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@ xinnix.com, and when we can do all the good we can do, it really will be a better than good year.

Michael Norton is the grateful president of XINNIX, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

Former Colorado State Sen. Linda Newell is a writer, instructor, facilitator, and conflict coach. Senlindanewell@gmail.com, www.lindanewell.org, www.senlindanewell. com, @sennewell on Twitter, Senator Linda Newell on Facebook.

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Street signs can clear up confusion about what jurisdiction someone is in, but they also can reveal deeper stories about a particular area. Here’s a look at some of the eye-catching signs across metro Denver counties and what you might not know about the history behind some of them.

Street signs carry little-known history in metro Denver counties

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The sign for Shangri La Drive in Denver, pictured on March 10, sits off Leetsdale Drive near Colorado Boulevard.

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f you’ve ever sat at a red light in rush-hour traffic in the Denver metro area, you may have wondered about the meaning behind the different logos and colors on nearby street signs.

In the City of Denver, the signs are simple enough — the logo of mountains and the sky sit above the name “Denver.”

But some signs have a different logo even though they’re also in Denver.

In the southeast suburbs, drivers might think they’re in Aurora until the green signs on side streets start to look a bit different.

And in Adams County, the signs sometimes feature an American flag image to discourage people from firing gunshots at the signs.

Denver mansions In east Denver, there are many normal-sounding street names: Elm Street.

Birch Street. Cedar Avenue.

And then, there’s Shangri La Drive.

A tiny, tucked-away road that almost forms a half loop off of Leetsdale Drive near Colorado Boulevard, Shangri La Drive was apparently named by Harry Huffman, a movietheater and liquor-distribution magnate who had a mansion built on the hill.

The road was named to honor the impressive home, which was modeled after the Shangri-La lamasery — a monastery of lamas — featured in the popular 1930s movie “Lost Horizon.” That’s according to the book, “Denver Streets,” by local historian Phil Goodstein, as cited

by Denver city staff.

And that’s not the only mansion in that area.

More difficult to see from the street is the mansion known as “Cableland” on Shangri La Drive. It’s the former home of Bill Daniels, the wealthy cabletelevision businessman and philanthropist.

Before he died, Daniels donated Cableland to the City of Denver in 1998, partly to serve as the official Denver mayor’s residence. No mayor has ever chosen to live there, but the mansion is used for official city events and city meetings and is made available for other events, including fundraisers and other gatherings held by nonprofits and qualified charitable organizations.

Denver’s dual logos The use of Denver’s newer logo for certain street signs — the “D” logo with a building, the sun and mountains within the D — doesn’t carry any particular meaning that’s different from the old logo, which is two red mountains outlined in white, with a blue sky and

yellow sun, all above the word “Denver.”

Denver began using signs with the “D” in 2010, according to Vanessa Lacayo, a city spokesperson. The city still has some signs with the older logo on it.

“We try to be good stewards with city dollars, so we don’t replace things that don’t need to be replaced and try to honor the life cycle of the material and replace things as they fail,” Lacayo said.

Don’t mistake Adams County A large chunk of the map directly north of Denver — roughly north of 52nd Avenue — contains buildings that may have addresses that are listed as being in Denver even though they’re in unincorporated Adams County.

“Unincorporated” means an area is not within a city or town and is generally overseen by a county government.

The addresses are marked as “Denver” because the city listed with a property’s mailing address is based on zip codes that are used by post offices rather than being based on city boundaries, said Christa Bruning, Adams County spokesperson.

In those unincorporated areas north of Denver, you’ll see street signs with the A-shaped Adams County logo.

In some parts of Adams County, street signs bear images of the American flag to deter people from shooting signs with bullets.

“American flags are placed on signs in some areas as a mitigation measure where we have experienced issues with signs being shot,” the county said in a statement. “The flags have been successful as many residents seem disinclined to shoot signs

displaying the American flag.”

A previous Adams County logo was established in 1985 and was the logo used on street signs until the current logo was designed and implemented in August 2009, according to the county.

A community with gates in Littleton If you drive far enough northwest in the City of Littleton, you’ll run into an area called Bow Mar South, near the small Town of Bow Mar. But Bow Mar South is a neighborhood, not a municipality, even though it has its own logo on street signs.

For example, the logo of a bird at Bell Flower Drive and Bowles Avenue denotes the area is within the Bow Mar South Homeowners Association, according to Tim Weaver, traffic analyst for Littleton.

“We used to put different items on signs when a neighborhood asked for them,” a statement from Littleton city staff said.

Decades ago, Littleton annexed land in Bow Mar South, meaning it brought it into the Littleton city boundaries.

Littleton annexed the area that is managed by the Bow Mar South homeowners’ association in 1973, according to Littleton city staff. A small part of the association area is outside of Littleton, including a few lots in the northwest part of the subdivision, Weaver said.

The area isn’t just another neighborhood.

It includes gates on Blue Sage Drive that close to block traffic.

Construction of the traffic gates was partly funded by the City of Littleton, and the city and HOA operate the gates together, according to city staff.

Other gates that restrict or block traffic to or within neighborhoods in Littleton sit in Coventry and The Greens, according to city staff.

Some areas in Littleton SEE SIGNS, P15

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A week of top-notch musical options

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don’t know how it happened, whether it’s just the result of musicians making up for about two years of missed touring, good karma returning or just how it crumbles, cookie-wise, but Denver and the surrounding areas are spoiled with a bevy of fantastic concert options. So many that I’m devoting my entire column to five of the best bets for an evening out.

Any live music fan will tell you that there’s nothing like a good homecoming show. The atmosphere is always a bit more electric when the audience recognizes the performers as their people.

It’s been six years since the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra (CJRO) played the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., but that time afield ends at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 26 with Back by Popular Demand: The CJRO Returns.

“We got our start at the Lone Tree Arts Center and were there for about two-and-a-half years,” said Art Bouton, the bandleader who founded the orchestra in 2012.

“In that time, we’ve turned from a one-person shop to an organization that has a payroll that can pay the best professional musicians to perform.”

The reintroduction show will feature classic big band numbers like “Take the `A’ Train,” “You Make Me Feel So Young,” “Moanin,” and “More Today Than Yesterday,” as well as some new arrangements featuring the work

of artistic and music director Drew Zaremba. Vocalist Marion Powers will be featured in the concert, which Bouton said will show how much the orchestra’s skill has grown.

“It means a tremendous amount Clarke Reader to come back to Lone Tree, especially because on the jazz side, we’re the professional equivalent of the Colorado Symphony,” he said. “If you’re a lover of classic big band or jazz of any time, you’ll really be pleased with this concert.”

Tickets can be purchased by calling 720-509-1000 or by visiting www.coloradojazz.org/concerts or call the LTAC box office at 720-5091000.

COMING ATTRACTIONS

John Mayer at the Ball Arena John Mayer is one of those artists we just take for granted these days, which he seems to enjoy.

He’s embraced all his influences and interests, channeling them into the simultaneously sincere and winking 2021 album, “Sob Rock.” But don’t let all that make you forget he’s also a scorchingly good guitarist, who weaves blues, folk and pop into his work.

After several years touring with Dead & Company (and some COVID-related delays), Mayer is

back hitting the road in support of his solo work and stops by the Ball Arena, 1000 Chopper Circle in Denver, at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 27.

Get your tickets at www.ticketmaster.com.

Tyler, The Creator and Vince Staples at Ball Arena Over the last 15 years or so, Tyler the Creator and Vince Staples have been making some of the most adventurous, forwardlooking rap in the genre, and in 2021, both shared top-notch albums.

Tyler’s “Call Me If You Get Lost” is one of his best and most beautiful records yet and Staples’ selftitled latest effort showcases his lyrical power while using beats both skeletal and haunting.

People looking for an example of hip-hop mainstays who are still evolving and getting better as a result, shouldn’t miss Tyler, Staples, Kali Uchis and Teezo Touchdown at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29 at Ball Arena, 1000 Chopper Circle in Denver.

For information and tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com.

Nation of Language at the Bluebird Theater New York’s Nation of Language are one of the best modern purveyors of the kind of new wave music that made some of the best music of the 1980s. But there’s nothing derivative about

their music and the way they use synths is both propulsive and groovy.

On both of their two albums - including last year’s stellar “A Way Forward” - the group has produced collections of songs that are so good they both sound like greatest hits records. They’re stopping by the Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29, which is the perfect venue for their tunes. Get tickets at www.ticketmaster.com.

Beach House at the Mission Ballroom I’m not sure when the exact point is that a band turns into a hall-of-fame band, but with nearly 10 albums in about 15 years, Baltimore’s Beach House work like they’re racing to build one of the best discographies in indie rock.

The duo - Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally - have consistently explored the fuzzy, reverb-drenched reaches of their sound and, in the process, created some startingly lovely music.

In February the band released “Once Twice Melody,” one of their most luminous albums yet.

You can catch them at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30 at the Mission Ballroom, 4242 Wynkoop St. in Denver.

Secure tickets at www.axs.com.

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

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have street signs that are white and include the City of Littleton logo.

Littleton first began installing the white street signs with the logo in 2015, according to staff.

The city decided to install the white street signs with the logo in an effort to help people tell which areas are in the city and which are not, Weaver said.

The new signs were also rolled out in an effort to “show our new branding,” Weaver said.

Similar to the case of Denver addresses popping up in Adams County, it can be confusing to tell what is and isn’t in Littleton because many properties’ mailing addresses in south Jefferson County are listed as being in “Littleton” even though Littleton is mostly contained within Arapahoe County.

Asked whether Jefferson County has considered putting its county logo on street signs in unincorporated areas to help clear up that confusion, the county said in a statement: “The county has the capability of putting logos on street name signs; however, there is a significant cost in terms of material and labor to this effort. Each of the cities within Jefferson County utilize logos on their street-name signs, helping a traveler to know when they are within a municipality within the county or within an unincorporated area within the county.”

A crowd gathered at night at the mansion known as “Cableland” on Shangri La Drive in Denver. The building is the former home of COURTESY OF DANIEL BECK VIA CABLELAND WEBSITE Bill Daniels, the wealthy cable-television businessman and philanthropist.

Arapahoe County distinguishes land It can also be difficult to tell when you’re in Centennial and when you aren’t. Centennial’s boundaries twist and weave throughout much of the city to create a complex map.

Parts of east Centennial are sandwiched between parts of Aurora, and some portions of unincorporated Arapahoe County sit in that area too.

Some streets that sit outside of city boundaries have been getting marked with the county’s logo,

generally in recent years, said Luc Hatlestad, county spokesperson.

“There may have been logos on signs here and there prior to 2012, but putting logos on street signs wasn’t county procedure until around 2012,” Hatlestad said.

‘Identity’ in Englewood Englewood updated its official city logo in recent years from the green circular symbol to the new symbol with leaves — a change that led to some street signs in the city having

the new logo and some still having the old one.

“The current logo was adopted in late 2015 following input from the 2014 citizens survey and from citizen input received through the Englewood Forward process,” said Christopher Harguth, city spokesperson.

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Young dancers present ‘Cinderella’

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orty-four ballet students from Littleton schools performed in Littleton Youth Ballet’s performance of “Cinderella” at the Lone Tree SONYA’S Arts Center on March 19 and 20.

SAMPLER Included was ballerina Alana Linley, now freshman at Metropolitan State, who postponed her graduation from Littleton Youth Ballet so she could perform in “Cinderella.” Students are Sonya Ellingboe happily returned to weekly dance classes, including freshmen from Littleton, Heritage and Arapahoe High School.

Jazz orchestra The Lone Tree Arts Center will host an evening of big band jazz by the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra on March 26 at 7:30 p.m., which will return after several years of performances throughout the metro area. Fans can expect to hear standards such as “Take the A Train,” “You Make Me Feel So Young,” “Moanin,’” as well as some new arrangements. Jazz vocalist Marion Powers will be featured, as well as solo instrumentalists. The band was founded in 2012

by Art Bouton and has attracted SEE SAMPLER, P18

Dancers portraying the fairy godmother and Cinderella performed with Littleton Youth Ballet in three recent shows at the Lone COURTESY PHOTO Tree Arts Center.

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and open space, and transportation.

“Results indicated many residents were looking for an updated community identity,” Harguth said.

Updating the city logo on overhead street signs, such as those on traffic signals, will be complete in 2022, and the updating of all the ground-mounted streets signs was completed in 2021, according to Harguth.

One of the notable areas with street signs that don’t bear a local government’s logo is the Arapahoe Acres neighborhood in Englewood, which has wooden street signs that are unique to that neighborhood.

A sign near traffic signals, pictured March 14, says “Blue Sage closed when flashing.” The Bow Mar South area includes gates that close in order to block traffic.

PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD

A small exception in Centennial Drivers in the east Centennial area may notice another area that could add to confusion about boundaries — the Greenfield neighborhood along Smoky Hill Road.

The neighborhood has its own logo on street signs even within Centennial’s city boundaries.

The signs are connected to the local metro district, according to Anna Bunce, Centennial traffic engineer.

“The original street signs installed with the construction of this neighborhood (or) metro district, which included the kites (logo), predate the city’s incorporation. Our best guess is that the signage was installed around 1996 (to) 1998,” Bunce said.

Centennial was legally established as a city, or “incorporated,” in 2001.

In general the city of Centennial started installing Centennial-logo street signs that are blue rather than green in

2013, according to Bunce.

When asked why the city made that change, Bunce said, “This predates existing (city) staff, but our best guess is related to more effective branding and differentiation for Centennial. With the nature of Centennial’s boundaries, this is an effective way to communicate and reinforce where someone may be in terms of jurisdiction.”

Douglas County adds logo Douglas County had no logo on street-name signs prior to an in-house competition for a new Douglas County logo that occurred in the early to mid1990s, according to Wendy Holmes, county spokesperson. The winning logo was the early “DC” and “ribbons” design seen in the county’s logo today.

“We place logos on most of the street-name signs in unincorporated streets and roads maintained by Douglas County,” Holmes said. “Logos on street-name signs are also useful as they indicate ownership of the roads for law enforcement personnel and road maintenance crews throughout the metro area and Douglas County.”

Different in Weld Weld County doesn’t typically put a logo on road-number signs in unincorporated Weld County, according to Jennifer Finch, spokesperson for the county.

“However, some of the signs — older signs — are a particular shape and will say ‘WCR’” and a number, Finch said. “There are county logos, specific to the project, found on some Highway 85 signs — also called the Centennial Highway in Weld County — and there are signs with the Weld County Road 49 logo along that road as well to commemorate that special project.”

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Museum gallery closes as mission changes Museum of Outdoor Arts leaves Englewood space, says it is shifting focus

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Museum of Outdoor Arts, which has operated an indoor exhibit and programming space in Englewood’s Civic Center since 2000, as well as an exhibit of outdoor sculptural artworks, has announced a renewed focus on its outdoor spaces and discontinued operation of the indoor space in Englewood.

In a news release from the city of Englewood, MOA stated that it “has submitted a proposal for the outdoor collection to remain on display in Englewood.”

There are about 40 artworks on public display within the downtown Englewood area, many near the light rail station and Civic Center — stated to be about half of the MOA’s outdoor collection.

The remainder of the collection is primarily located in Marjorie Park and around the Greenwood Plaza business area. The new MOA headquarters address is 6331 Fiddler’s Green Circle, close to MOA’s primary asset, Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre.

Marjorie Park, which was recently renovated by MOA, reopened in 2021 and will be an outdoor museum and events venue, where more than 40 artworks are featured. It is named for the late Marjorie Madden, who co-founded the MOA in 1981 with

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fine musicians from throughout Colorado, with many, like Bouton, engaged in academic careers as well as being performers. There have been a number of well-known guest musicians who have been featured with the band as well, as the band performed arrangements and pieces by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday, Stan Kenton, Miles Davis, Buddy Rich and more, as well as original arrangements

by CJRO composers and other artists. LTAC is at 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Tickets start at $38 and can be purchased at coloradojazz. org/concerts or by calling the box office at 720-509-1000.

Abstract artist’s workshop Heritage Fine Arts Guild presents Littleton abstract artist Krista

Artwork installed by the Museum of Outdoor Arts outside Englewood Civic Center.

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her husband, commercial real estate developer John W. Madden Jr., and their daughter, Cynthia Madden Leitner, More than 150 pieces are included in the MOA collection, 85 of them installed outdoors.

The MOA has provided a number of indoor exhibits and programs, including its Design and Build, which provides opportunities for young artists to work with arts professionals and in keeping with the objective of “Making Art a Part of Everyday Life.”

Indoor exhibits have featured

local and national professional artists whose work is contemporary, as well as annual exhibits

by Design and Build students in earlier years.

There have been more than 200 indoor art exhibits and installations, multimedia performances, as well as hundreds of youth art classes in the Englewood facility, as well as artst-in-residence arrangements.

It has also provided studio space and exhibit attention for prominent area arts professionals.

Funding for collaborative exhibits and programs came from Colo-

rado Creative Industries, National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Englewood and the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).

Englewood Mayor Othoniel Sierra is quoted as “excited at the possibility of a continued relationship with the MOA through the display of their publicly accessible artwork and art outreach support and community placemaking projects.”

We will watch for notice of mission-related changes as this unique organization enters a new phase in its remarkable existence.

Falkenstein, who has focused on abstract painting for over 40 years.

The workshop will be held at First Presbyterian Church of Littleton, 1609 W. Littleton Blvd., from 9 a.m. to noon on April 16. (Students are asked to arrive 15 minutes early for set-up.) There is parking on the north side of the church. Cost is $30 for Heritage Fine Arts Guild members and $35 for non-members.

Membership costs $40 per year and new members are welcomed. See heritage-guild.com/membership for registration forms and list of materials.

tory Theatre in repertory: “The Liar,” “Animal Farm,” and “Stick Fly” through May.

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Arvada Center The musical “Kinky Boots” will open at the Arvada Center’s Main Stage Theatre on March 25, playing until April 24. arvadacenter. org, 720-898-7200. Plays Tuesday to Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday matinees at 1 p.m., Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Also in Arvada Center’s Black Box Reper-

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Call for artists The Depot Art Gallery in downtown Littleton will host the annual “All Colorado” exhibit from July 19 to August 27, with entries to CaFE — callforentry.org. Size limited to no more than 30 inches in height and width. The call will close when 150 submissions have been received or May 15 — whichever comes first.

All artwork must be for sale and created by Colorado artists within the last three years. The Depot Art Gallery will retain 30% commission on sales. Entries cannot have been accepted in previous All Colorado shows. The entry fee is $35 for up to three images. Notice of invited and not-invited entries will be sent by email by June 17. Up to three images accepted. Juror is Doug Dawson.

Boulder Dinner Theatre Boulder Dinner Theatre presents “The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes” through April 23 — a tale of an ordinary guy who is dropped into a musical. Music

by Producing. Artistic director is Seamus McDonnough, who delivers bands, cats, opera singers and Declaration-signing rappers. Call 303-449-6000 or visit bdtstage.com.

Music by Michael Kooman and lyrics by Christopher Dimond.

There is a related Cabaret Concert Series as well. Glad to hear that

CORE “Friends Like These” will be exhibited at CORE New Art Space, 6501 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood with an opening April 1 from 5 to 10 p.m.

CORE members have invited an artist friend to exhibit with them through April 17. Hours: Friday: 5 to 10 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. This gallery will be moving to 6501, Studio C in a couple months — stay tuned. (Also in that neighborhood/shopping CenterCasa Bonita. (Am told there will be seven galleries involved there in an older building.) coreartspace.com.

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Company will be presented by the Denver Gay Men’s Chorus in two places: Dancers will perform with the chorus in “Motown and More.”

March 27: St. Andrews United Methodist Church in Highlands Ranch; April 1-2: Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver. DGMC.org or 303-325-3959.

History Adventures History Adventures from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Littleton Museum, 3028 S. Gallup St., Littleton (12 per session) — June 14: Discovering Nature (7-11); June 28: Life on the Farm (ages 8-12); July 12: Art and History (7-11); July 26: Military Day (9-12); Aug. 9: Cow Camp (8-12). littletongov.org/city-services/citydepartments/museum.

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Lawmakers seek to fix rejected conservation easements Bill to spend millions compensating canceled easement holders is back

BY MICHAEL BOOTH THE COLORADO SUN

Persistent state legislators are once again hoping to compensate Colorado landowners whose conservation easement tax credits were rejected and clawed back years ago, this time with a bill whose price tag to the treasury would be about $155 million.

The effort by Sens. Faith Winter, a Westminster Democrat, and Cleave Simpson, an Alamosa Republican, revives a years-long effort to repay family ranchers and farmers who say they signed conservation easements in good faith only to have them rejected by state revenue officials who determined they were overvalued. The sponsors say they have put in more conditions since last year’s failed $149 million payback bill, including new limits on the easements’ value and who can still claim them.

“We’ve been down that road,” Simpson said. “So let’s try to focus this in a little different direction.”

Last year, when a similar bill flew through the Senate and died in a House committee, Winter said, “members still had concerns around these guardrails and making sure that we’re really addressing the family farms and ranches and not the speculators.” And this year, Winter said, the legislature has more revenue to work with.

“So I think we’ll be more successful,” she said. The new bill, Senate Bill 119, will first appear at the Senate Finance Committee on March 16.

Mark Weston, a prominent critic of the past payback attempts said this year’s bill does appear to have meaningful changes “preventing some of the worst abusers from qualifying” for repayment of credits.

Changes include a requirement that families need to have owned the land for three years before applying for the initial tax credits, and capping tax credits at 250% of the purchase price of the land. That will cut out some speculators who tried to manipulate the system to get lu-

Conservation easements, such as those that protect the Trinchera Blanca Ranch in southern Colorado, are intended to protect open space valuable for wildlife habitat or scenery. A conservation easement of 81,400 acres on the ranch protects the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo range between La Veta and Fort Garland, including Mount Lindsey and Mount Blanca.

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crative tax credits, without any real interest in the land or its conservation value, said Weston, an appraiser who opposes repayment and who reviewed many of the denied claims as the first director of the state Division of Conservation.

It’s important for legislators and taxpayers to understand, Weston said, that “these credits were not disallowed arbitrarily by the Department of Revenue, but were scrutinized by a governor-appointed expert commission, qualified appraisal staff within the Division of Real Estate, along with the number crunchers in the Department of Revenue.”

Fixing past mistakes The 2022 bill is the latest attempt to restore controversial easement tax credits issued from 2000 to 2013, some of which investigators called spurious and the Colorado Department of Revenue denied after reviews by teams of appraisers.

The conservation easements were originally intended to protect natural spaces while compensating family farmers and other longtime landowners for giving up their rights to develop the property. An appraiser estimated the value of the land and development rights, and the state issued tax credits that allowed the landowner to offset other taxes or get paid cash by investors who bought the credits.

But the revenue department and

many in the appraiser community said that in some cases unscrupulous investment advisers created partnerships or family groups to claim lucrative, overvalued credits for development that never would have happened. In one disputed case, a piece of land near Lamar that sold for $776,000 appeared to qualify for easement credits of $8 million.

Some farming and ranching families have for more than a decade protested that they signed up for the earliest iterations of conservation easements in good faith to help save their family business and pay tax bills. They emphasize that the federal Internal Revenue Service allowed the tax credits even when state officials denied them and demanded repayment.

The disputes eventually involved more than 800 cases and hundreds of millions of dollars in contested credits. Some families say paying back the credits or being confronted by investors who bought the rejected credits has ruined their lives. The fiscal note for the new bill says the total of disallowed credits from 2000 to 2013 is now about $177.7 million.

Some cases have been resolved or settled.

This year’s bill calls for a newly created ombudsman in the state Division of Conservation to resolve disputes between parties who may be claiming the same credits.

The bill would spend $5.8 million

in the first year to hire about 17 full time positions to administer the credit disputes. Based on the percentage of credit holders expected to apply, restoring the credits would cost the general fund another $66.6 million the first year, and up to $88.8 million in the second year.

The Colorado system for conservation easement tax has been tweaked multiple times since the period when officials say it was abused and families said they were unfairly denied. Last year, the legislature passed a bill sought by conservation groups that increased the amount of tax credit on new easements to 90% of the donated value, and added water conservation groups and others among those who could apply for credits.

That bill was initially hailed as a companion to last year’s attempt at restoring credits to past denied credit holders. But the creditrestoration bill died in its second House committee vote on party lines dominated by Democrats, in what rural supporters called “pulling the football” after months of negotiations.

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New app aims to help Colorado teens make friends off their phones The Nod app was piloted across eight school districts

BY ERICA BREUNLIN THE COLORADO SUN

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Barely out of bed and still waiting for the fog of sleep to lift, Ameera Sierra used to start her mornings staring at an endless stream of selfies, tweets and Snapchat stories. It was almost a ritual for the 17-year-old: Roll over, turn off the alarm, grab the phone and begin scrolling, the glow from her screen the first light of her day.

And it came with a pang of loneliness, particularly as she saw effortlessly happy lives portrayed on social media.

“Sometimes when I see that and I’m not living that particular life, it makes me feel like I’m doing something wrong or that I’m more alone,” she said. Now Ameera, a senior at Mountain Range High School in Westminster, is carving out a new relationship with her smartphone, thanks to a new app aimed at providing Colorado teens with a sense of connection and support, free of the noise of Facebook, Twitter and TikTok. For the past few weeks, the teen has has turned to a new smartphone app designed to help Colorado teenagers relearn how to talk to their peers, form meaningful friendships and navigate lingering feelings of loneliness amid a twoyear pandemic.

The Nod app, which is being introduced this semester at Mountain Range and schools in seven other districts, gives teens a way to track their sense of well-being, hone strategies to improve their mood when stressed or discouraged and rebuild social skills like giving others compliments or having deeper conversations.

“Students feel a lot less confident in their skills because they haven’t practiced them as much or they’ve been so comfortable engaging in online learning or chatting with people over digital platforms,” said Stacy Stansbury, a school psychologist at Mountain Range High School.

Common social skills aren’t so common anymore The app was originally developed for college students by Grit Digital Health, a Denver-based technology firm focused on mental health, and the nonprofit Hopelab of San Francisco, which serves as an incubator for projects that address the mental health of youth and young adults.

It was adapted for use by high school students with the help of the nonprofit Colorado Education Initiative, and rolled out to participating school districts through a $490,000 grant from The Upswing Fund for Adolescent Mental Health, which supports organizations addressing student mental health.

Social skills that Stansbury said were “common knowledge” when she was in high school — such as striking up a conversation to rec-

ommend something to a classmate or following up on something a peer said the day before — are “not so common anymore.”

Even as teens can connect to one another instantly through their phones or social media platforms, they belong to “the loneliest living generation,” said Nathaan Demers, vice president of clinical programs and strategic partnerships and a clinical psychologist at Grit Digital Health.

He characterizes loneliness as “the gap between the relationships that I have and those which I desire.”

Loneliness among young people stems partly from a decrease in face-to-face interactions as technology has changed how people communicate — everything from the way friends stay in touch to the way people find out what time a movie is playing. Social media often doesn’t help. When a person simply scrolls through social media liking posts and leaving comments, they’re not truly fulfilling their need for connection, Demers said. Instead, they’re “social snacking,” meaning they’re feeling a sense of connection in the moment but one that quickly evaporates.

And loneliness among teens has grown exponentially during the pandemic. That places young people at a higher risk for other struggles, such as anxiety, depression, substance use, suicide and dropping out of school, Demers said.

The app encourages users to branch out and practice skills pertaining to five different focus areas — forming deep relationships, expanding social circles, connecting over shared interests, feeling more confident and exploring opportunities after graduation.

For instance, for students looking to broaden their social circle, the app might direct them to smile at five people in a day or sit next to someone they don’t know in the cafeteria and start a conversation.

Confronting overwhelming feelings instead of escaping them Grit Digital Health and Hopelab discovered how much high school students could benefit from the Nod app after they opened it up to anyone during the pandemic and ended up attracting many high schoolers, Demers said.

Colorado Education Initiative helped recruit schools to take part in a pilot project. Their students’ feedback helped shape the app’s development, said Marcus Bratton, the nonprofit’s director of implementation and partnership.

The organization will again check in with users at the end of the semester and consider whether to make any other tweaks.

As students continue exploring the app, the hope is that it will help them develop skills to manage their emotions before significant depression, substance abuse, truancy or other challenges interfere with their lives, Bratton said.

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Construction starts on $70M mixed-use project The View becomes latest in downtown development

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARDFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Construction on the $70 million mixed-use project known as the View in Castle Rock kicked off March 9 with a groundbreaking ceremony.

Project developers and community members gathered near the site on Wilcox Street to share details about the View. Included in the project are 221 apartments, more than 14,000 square feet of office space and roughly 5,000 square feet of retail space.

“It will be a beautiful class A-plus, A-plus-plus, I’ll call it, property right in the heart of downtown Castle Rock,” developer Banks Floodman said at the ceremony.

On top of the retail, residential and office space, the building will offer luxury amenities, such as a dog park, a lap pool, a gym and golf simulators. The View is replacing an existing storage unit facility, which will be razed.

Developers break ground on the View, a mixed-use project on Sixth and Jerry Streets in Castle Rock. The project is expected to be complete in COURTESY PHOTO spring 2024.

The six story building will also come with 432 parking spaces, including 133 public spaces in the garage and on the street.

Castle Rock’s town council approved a redevelopment agreement for the View that waives $3 million in fees and kicks back tax revenues to the developer up to certain amounts or until 2038, whichever comes first.

Up to $3.25 million in property tax and $1 million in sales-tax revenue will be shared with the developers. Additionally, the town is providing up to $100,000 in Intermountain Rural Electric Association credit for underground utilities and will allow the developer to impose a 1% public improvement fee on taxable transactions until 2038,

which is estimated to bring in $225,000.

In total, town officials estimate public investment at $7.6 million and private investment at $62.4 million.

Revenues from the project are predicted to be around $6.2 million by 2038, of which 45% would go into the town’s special fund for downtown initiatives.

In a January meeting, the

town council approved an extended deadline for the project with the occupancy deadline slated for May 2024.

The developers of the project are Castle Rock View Investors, which consists of Block Real Estate Services, Sunflower Development Group and First Construction. CT Design is the architect and Vertix Builders is the General Contractor.

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Colorado has recovered 98% of jobs lost in pandemic Unemployment rate drops to 4.1%

BY TAMARA CHUANG THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado’s economic recovery is going better than expected state labor officials said Monday, reporting that 98% of jobs lost when COVID struck have returned.

However, January’s 4.1% unemployment rate, the lowest since the pandemic began, is still higher than the 2.8% in February 2020, the month before the first COVID-19 cases in Colorado were confirmed.

“That was historically low.

That was after the end of a very long economic expansion,” Ryan Gedney, senior labor economist at the state Department of Labor and Employment, said during a news conference on Monday. “As long as these trends hold … I could see the state reaching that 3% level in one or two years for sure.”

His confidence is based on how many Coloradans are now part of the state’s labor force, which is larger than ever with more people employed or looking for work. The state’s labor force participation rate was 68.5% in January, or onetenth of a percentage point higher than in February 2020.

“Colorado’s labor force grew by over 17,000 in January. And since A hiring sign hangs in the King Soopers deli department at the 58th and IndepenJuly of 2020 the state has added PHOTO BY JENNIFER LEDUC dence location in Arvada. over 180,000 individuals to the labor force,” Gedney said. “On an annual basis, Colorado’s labor force participation rate increased from 67.4% in 2020 to 68.2% in 2021.

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Byers is among economists keeping an eye on rising inflation and its impact on small businesses and consumer spending habits.

“One other thing that we are kind of concerned about, though, is the house prices have just gotten exorbitant,” he said. “The question would be, is it just going to end up being a disadvantage to Colorado employers being able to lure people here and bring them in from out of state? That’s an area that is of concern as well.”

But Colorado’s pandemic economy hasn’t fully recovered yet, said Kathy A. White, executive director of Colorado Fiscal Institute, an organization that also focuses on fiscal policy.

“Colorado has recovered all but 5,500 jobs lost during the pandemic, but it needs another 38,100 jobs in order to keep up with the 1.4% growth in population that the state has experienced in the 23 months since the recession began,” White said in an email.

“Also, the fastest job recovery happened in industries with high income earners and lagged in industries with lower pay. poor quality jobs,” she added. “Those industries tend to have a higher percentage of women and people of color, who again, entered the pandemic with higher rates of unemployment and lower earnings.

In short, the recovery has been uneven, despite these broad indicators, and so policymakers should be targeting resources and aid to the people who need it the most.”

There’s also uneven recovery in certain parts of the state. Strong job growth in Grand Junction and Colorado Springs amounted to job recovery rates of 124% and 113%, respectively. But the Greeley region has recovered just 44% of the jobs lost in the early pandemic.

That’s due to Greeley’s high concentration of oil and gas, an industry that hasn’t recovered as fast as the leisure and hospitality industry or the professional and business services field, Gedney said. But Greeley’s a small part of the state. It lost roughly 11,700 jobs at the start of the pandemic and has regained 5,100. The Denver area lost 199,600 and has recovered 196,100.

“The state’s recovery rate is going to trend pretty closely with Denver’s, as that (region) represents over half of the state’s employment,” Gedney said.

He added, “There’s still some room in the unemployment rate, but I think the unemployment rate is going to drop relatively quickly in 2022 as there’s still a huge demand for labor and for filling jobs.”

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Winter sports players of the year named Colorado Community Media honors athletes in five categories

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Teams and indivduals from south metro schools did well during the recently concluded Colorado High School Athletic Association’s 2021-22 winter sports season.

Heritage won the Class 4A girls swimming championship and Cherry Creek captured the 5A state title. ThunderRidge won the boys state basketball crown.

There were several other teams that came close.

Valor Christian was the state runner-up in both ice hockey and girls basketball. Ponderosa came in second in the boys state wrestling tournament.

Several individuals excelled during the season, and here are the Colorado Community Media’s winter sports Players of the Year.

Noah Fekete, Valor Christian.

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Mary Macaulay, Heritage.

Hockey Junior center Noah Fekete of Valor Christian averaged 1.3 points a game during the season and finished with 16 goals, 13 assists for 29 points.

Fekete was the team captain in hockey. He also plays lacrosse and was on the Eagles tennis team as a sophomore.

Boys wrestling Ponderosa senior Murphy Menke compiled a 34-6 record during the season and one of his wins was in the 160-pound state championship match.

Menke, who has committed to wrestle at Bucknell, was a state placer all four years of his high school career.

Murphy Menke, Ponderosa.

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Girls swimming Mary Macaulay, a junior at Heritage, earned the top honor as Swimmer of the Year as she shined late in the season.

She won state titles in the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke and also swam a leg on the state champion 200 and 400 freestyle relay teams.

Boys basketball Chaparral’s 5-11 senior Luke Williams showed his value in the playoffs and was named Player of the Year as he edged out Zach Keller of ThunderRidge.

In four state playoff contests, he averaged 23.7 points and made seven of eight three-point attempts.

He also pulled down 28 rebounds and had 11 assists.

For the season, Williams was a gifted scorer averaging 16.7 points a game. He also filled up the stat sheet by pulling down 5.9 rebounds, dishing out 3.7 assists per game and averaging 1.7 steals.

Valor Christian senior center Raegan Beers, 42, forces Mountain Vistas Grace Roscoe, 42, to take a jump shot in the second round 5A girls playoff game on Feb. 25.

Beers had 16 points, 12 rebounds and five blocked shots as the top-seeded Eagles rolled to a 61-15 victory.

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Girls basketball Raegan Beers, a 6-foot-3 senior at Valor Christian, was a dominant player. She averaged 19.6 points and 13 rebounds a game to earn Player of the Year honors.

Beers will be playing at Oregon State next season and wrapped up her high school career by averaging 22.5 points and 10.2 rebounds in four state playoff games.

Basketball player of the year Luke Williams, Chaparral.

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Creek takes team title in Dick Rush meet

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Boys swimming team tallies 592.5 points at Thornton aquatic center

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Cherry Creek senior Thomas Sutherland was second in the 200 freestyle and helped the Bruins win the Dick Rush Memorial Coaches Swim-Dive Invitational on March 19 at the VMAC in Thornton.

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Raiders winning 200 medley relay foursome. Teammate Gio Aguirre captured the 100 freestyle and was on the winning 400 freestyle relay team.

Arapahoe’s senior captain Luke Brill was the winner of the Hoyt Brawner award based on academics, citizenship and athletic achievement.

Cherry Creek is the defending state champion team, which makes the Bruins a target for other swimming teams.

“That is definitely a perspective for us this year and an attitude we try to share as a program,” said Loftis.

“Anything counts and we can’t be complacent.

“Our youth today shined. We have a lot of freshmen, sophomores and underclassmen and they’re brand new. And because of COVID, we’ve never experienced anything like this meet and they are stepping up which is good. This meet kicks off a good season of dual meets into a fun invitational season and then the championship season.”

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Cherry Creek boys swimming coach Chris Loftis was not happy with his team during the morning preliminaries of the Dick Rush Memorial Coaches Invitational meet on March 19 at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton.

His team changed the mind of their coach in the meet finals and Creek won the team title in the season’s first big boys meet with 592.5 points.

Regis Jesuit was second with 539 points. Arapahoe finished fifth with 194 points. Heritage was eighth, Highlands Ranch ninth, Ponderosa 11th and Douglas County 18th.

“We had an average performance in the prelims that we needed to address and we did,” Loftis explained.

“We challenged are guys and we had a great final session. We came together as a team and found some weaknesses that we can address.”

Senior Cade Martin paced the Bruins by winning the 100 backstroke in 51.76 and placing third in the 100 butterfly. He also swam a leg on the 200 medley relay team that was a runner-up.

Creek’s Thomas Sutherland, another senior, was second in the 200 freestyle and was on the 200 freestyle relay team that came in third.

Freshman Trevor Boodt added to the Bruins’ point total with a secondplace finish in the 100 breaststroke.

Other individual winners from south metro schools included Ponderosa’s Tanner Braunton, who racked up 571.10 points to win the diving by edging out Collier Dyer of Arapahoe.

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connection for our young people,” he said, particularly as teens often struggle to feel understood, recognize they’re not the only ones facing loneliness and hesitate to exert themselves for fear of being rejected.

Stansbury introduced the app to Mountain Range High School students toward the end of last month and said she’s found comfort in being able to equip students with a

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“I think you can see the increase in anxiety and depression and suicidal ideation that’s happening everywhere,” she said, “and sometimes it feels like you don’t have anything to recommend, and now it feels like we do have something they could actually use … that will teach them ideas and strategies of how to reach their personal and social goals while building their confidence and social connections.”

Senior Jarett Benedict has been using the app here and there

to start his day with a focus on his mood, putting a name to his feelings and considering ways to improve them if necessary. For instance, when he said he’s between “stressed and unhappy,” the app will nudge him to think about “the small positives” that occur throughout the day or try to shift his perspective.

The app has helped Benedict, 18, develop more self-awareness and has improved his mental health and sense of confidence.

“I was stressing on my grades so much that it felt like that was really the only thing I could focus on all year long,” Benedict said.

Ameera has also turned to the Nod app to start her mornings with a better grasp of her emotions, instead of visiting Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, which she said at times had created a “negative bubble in the beginning of my day surrounding how I looked in the morning.”

The pandemic transformed her from “an extremely extroverted person” to “an introverted over-

thinker” bombarded by news and social media posts about COVID’s grip on the globe, she said.

“Every morning just seeing negative things in any form of timelines that I was on was definitely a lot to deal with,” Ameera said.

She now uses the app to reflect on her behavior and try to shift her mood and mindset, taking five minutes to pause, listen and reflect so that she can be more cognizant of her actions throughout each day.

“It helps allow me to better understand my emotions and better grow as a person,” she said. “I can just be the best version of myself automatically right off the bat every morning.”

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Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2021-0046 To Whom It May Concern: On 12/28/2021 1:11:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: CORY H HATCH AND LORI A HATCH Original Beneficiary: WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, FA Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, not individually but as trustee for Pretium Mortgage Acquisition Trust Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 4/13/2007 Recording Date of DOT: 4/24/2007 Reception No. of DOT: 2007032602 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $321,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $262,500.21 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower's failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 11, HIGHLANDS RANCH NO. 75-C COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9235 Ashburn Court, Littleton, CO 80130 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. 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.

First Publication: 2/24/2022 Last Publication: 3/24/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 12/28/2021 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ALISON L. BERRY Colorado Registration #: 34531 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 21-025990 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2021-0046 First Publication: 2/24/2022 Last Publication: 3/24/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0001 To Whom It May Concern: On 1/12/2022 2:09:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: PERRY D. THOMAS AND PAULA D. THOMAS Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE

FOR RYLAND MORTGAGE COMPANY Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR RCF 2 ACQUISITION TRUST C/O U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 8/25/2003 Recording Date of DOT: 9/4/2003 Reception No. of DOT: 2003132993 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $322,700.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $409,830.75 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 25A, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING 122-R, FIRST AMENDMENT, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 10830 Hickory Ridge Street, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 4, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. 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.

First Publication: 3/10/2022 Last Publication: 4/7/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 1/13/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ANNA JOHNSTON Colorado Registration #: 51978 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700 , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 350-3711 Fax #: Attorney File #: 00000009280918 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0001 First Publication: 3/10/2022 Last Publication: 4/7/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0005 To Whom It May Concern: On 1/27/2022 12:26:00 PM the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in Douglas County.

Original Grantor: Lisa Dewberry and Richard Dewberry Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as beneficiary, as nominee for Cardinal Financial Company L.P., its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 5/6/2015 Recording Date of DOT: 5/13/2015 Reception No. of DOT: 2015030782 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $290,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $265,379.00 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: FAILURE TO MAKE TIMELY PAYMENTS AS REQUIRED UNDER THE EVIDENCE OF DEBT AND DEED OF TRUST.

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THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 85, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO, 113A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 101 Sylvestor Pl, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at the Public Trustee’s office, Philip S Miller Building Hearing Room, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, I will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law. 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.

First Publication: 3/24/2022 Last Publication: 4/21/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 2/1/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: AMANDA FERGUSON Colorado Registration #: 44893 355 UNION BLVD SUITE 250, LAKEWOOD, COLORADO 80228 Phone #: (303) 274-0155 Fax #: Attorney File #: CO11132 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0005 First Publication: 3/24/2022 Last Publication: 4/21/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Bids and Settlements Public Notice REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) #018-22 GRANT WRITING SERVICES Douglas County Government respectfully requests information from experienced and qualified individuals and/or firms to provide professional grant writing services.

The RFQ documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com.

The RFQ documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website.

RFQ responses shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “RFQ #018-22, Grant Writing Services” prior to the due date and time.

Electronic and/or faxed responses will not be accepted. RFQ responses will be received until 4:00 p.m., on Monday, April 18, 2022 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Responses will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any responses so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all responses, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said response and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items and/or services with the successful firm.

Please direct any questions concerning this RFQ to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor at 303660-7434 or criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No. 941757 First Publication: March 24, 2022 Last Publication: March 24, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice INVITATION FOR BID (IFB)

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#017-22 PURCHASE & APPLICATION of DUST SUPPRESSANT The Department of Public Works Operations of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests bids from responsible qualified companies for the provision of the Purchase and Application of Dust Suppressant, as specified.

The IFB documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com.

IFB documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website.

While the IFB documents are available electronically, Douglas County cannot accept electronic bid responses.

Bid responses shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “IFB No. 017-22, Purchase & Application of Dust Suppressant” and mailed or hand-carried to the address shown below prior to the due date and time. Electronic and/or faxed bid responses will not be accepted. Bids will be received until 11:00am on Friday, April 8, 2022 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Bids will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any bids so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said bid and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so.

Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items/services with the successful bidder.

Please direct any questions concerning this IFB to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor, 303-6607434, criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No. 941748 First Publication: March 24, 2022 Last Publication: March 24, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to: NORMA A STALEY & TRENTON J STALEY AKA TRENTON JAMES STALEY - OCCUPANT - BUFFALO PLAINS 22 LLC - MISSION VIEJO COMPANY A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION C/O COLORADO SHEA HOMES LP - KEVIN P MURPHY VICE PRESIDENT COLORADO DIVISION MISSION VIEJO COMPANY A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION C/O COLORADO SHEA HOMES LP - JAMES B BORGEL ASSISTANT SECRETARY MISSION VIEJO COMPANY A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION C/O COLORADO SHEA HOMES LP You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 2nd day of November 2017 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13, LLC the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit: LOT 29 BLOCK 5 HIGHLANDS RANCH # 5 .094 AM/L and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13, LLC. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2016. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of NORMA A STALEY & TRENTON J STALEY for said year 2016 That on the 17th day of November 2021 said FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13, LLC assigned said certificate of purchase to BUFFALO PLAINS 22 LLC. That said BUFFALO PLAINS 22 LLC on the 17th day of November 2021 the present holder of said certificate, has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 30th day of June 2022 unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 17th day of March 2022 /s/ David Gill Douglas County Treasurer Legal Notice No. 941690 First Publication: March 17, 2022 Last Publication: March 31, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to: KYLE DEAN COLLINSWORTH & JEANETTE NADINE COLLINSWORTH - OCCUPANT BUFFALO PLAINS 22 LLC - ANNE-MARIE FRISZELL & STEVEN J FRISZELL AKA STEVEN JAMES FRISZELL You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 2nd day of November 2017 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13, LLC the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit: LOT 18-A PERRY PARK 1 PER LLAC 2020072726 0.889 AM/L and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13, LLC. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2016. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of KYLE DEAN COLLINSWORTH & JEANETTE NADINE COLLINSWORTH for said year 2016 That on the 17th day of November 2021 said FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13, LLC assigned said certificate of purchase to BUFFALO PLAINS 22 LLC. That said BUFFALO PLAINS 22 LLC on the 17th day of November 2021 the present holder of said certificate, has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 30th day of June 2022 unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 17th day of March 2022 /s/ David Gill Douglas County Treasurer Legal Notice No. 941651 First Publication: March 17, 2022 Last Publication: March 31, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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