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VOLUME 35 | ISSUE 18

STEM identifies top candidates for director School announces 3 finalist candidates

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

STEM School Highlands Ranch announced three finalist candidates for the

head role of the Douglas County charter school with a chance for parents and students to meet them this Friday.

Two of the candidates are

already serving at STEM, with Ryan Alsup, high school director and athletics director, and LynAnn Kovalesky, elementary school director and a leader in building parent trust, named as finalists. The third finalist, Leanne Weyman,

who serves as the regional vice president for ACCEL Schools in Ohio and has a PhD in education, previously spent time as the director for STEM, on top of other administrative roles at the school.

Candidates will take part

in a meet and greet at 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the STEM elementary school gym, where they’ll share about themselves and answer questions from the community.

Current STEM Executive SEE STEM, P23

Highlands Ranch senior center gets closer to fruition

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

and despite being happy with the school board’s final offer, Kane had not signed yet. Her day was instead filled with goodbyes and mentally preparing to box up her things to leave the charter school she helped found more than 15 years ago.

Most formative for Kane during her time running the DCSD charter school, comprising three campuses and serving nearly 3,000 preschool

Years of planning efforts for the Highlands Ranch Senior Center are beginning to wrap up as metro district officials prepare to bid construction out this summer with the hope of breaking ground in the fall.

Designs are in the process of being finalized for the 20,000 square foot community center for people over 55 on Highlands Ranch Parkway next to Mountainview Christian Church. The center will include space for a Douglas County human services satellite office, a fitness area, meeting rooms, a large kitchen and more.

Highlands Ranch Metro District General Manager Mike Renshaw said the goal is not to replicate existing services provided by either the metro district or the Highlands Ranch Community Association, which operates the local recreation centers, but to expand and complement those offerings.

SEE SCHOOLS, P6

SEE SENIORS, P22

Erin Kane in her American Academy office on her last day of work leading the Douglas County charter school before filling the DCSD superintendency.

PHOTO BY JESSICA GIBBS

Kane steps into new role under spotlight

DCSD superintendent brings both background and baggage

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Erin Kane sat down at her desk on her last day of work at American Academy and looked around

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the room. Dozens of photos from her career, framed diplomas on the wall, a stack of books about state education law, all sat untouched.

The packing hadn’t begun yet.

It was March 30 and Kane was poised to sign a contract that day to become Douglas County Schools’ next superintendent. The deal included a three-year term, $250,000 annual salary and a proposed start date of March 31.

Morning bled into the afternoon,

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Highlands Ranch Farmer’s Market Farmers Market kicks off this Sunday at Town Center. Stop by and support local merchants from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each Sunday from now through October.

More Information is available at bit.ly/HRCA-Merchant-Market.

Easter egg hunt on April 16 Hop on over to Northridge Park for the annual Easter Egg Hunt on April 16. Bring baskets to collect all the goodies to take home. Bring a camera because there is even a special appearance by the Easter Bunny.

It’s a family event with a hunt for children ages 1 to 9 years old.

Come early - parking is limited and the hunt begins at 10 a.m.

This event is free to the public.

South Metro works on spill in Highlands Ranch On April 3 just before 8:50 a.m.

South Metro Fire and Rescue received a 911 call reporting an

acid spill at 8980 Barrons Blvd. in Highlands Ranch.

According to the department, when firefighters arrived at Waterworks Aquatics, they blocked off the street and observed employees working to contain the spill. They confirmed that approximately 20-gallons of muriatic acid leaked inside of a mechanical room overnight and began spilling onto the sidewalk.

All employees were evacuated to safer location, two were evaluated by paramedics and did not require medical treatment.

SMFR and Douglas County Sheriff’s Office established unified command of the scene and the Hazardous Materials Team made entry into the mechanical room to verify the leak was stopped. They used sodium bicarbonate and FastAct to neutralize the acid, then scooped the paste-like substance into buckets for an environmental clean-up company to dispose of.

Haz-Mat personnel who worked in the hazard zone were all thoroughly decontaminated and medically checked before returning to duty. The incident was declared under control around noon.

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Distribution issues wipe out Denver’s supply of overdose-reversing drugs

BY KYLE COOKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

In mid-February, the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment (DDPHE) announced that Denver residents could order fentanyl testing strips and the opioid overdosereversing drug naloxone directly from the city, free of charge.

More than one month later, DDPHE has received nearly 4,500 requests for naloxone — often referred to as Narcan, a name-brand version of the drug — and fentanyl testing strips.

Distribution issues, coupled with high demand, have resulted in just a few people receiving their orders.

In an email to Rocky Mountain PBS, DDPHE officials said the department does not have any naloxone in house.

“We have placed an order for more than 4,000 kits from the distributor, but they have not been shipped which tells us they likely do not have them in stock,” said Courtney Meihls, a marketing and communications specialist with DDPHE. Meihls said the free naloxone distribution program started in September 2021 but was more publicized in mid-February of this year, including

by DDPHE. From September to mid-February, DDPHE received just 380 orders for naloxone. The department was able to fill those orders, but has become overwhelmed by the number of requests since mid-February.

“So the increase, while amazing because of the number of people who want to help their neighbors, is quite dramatic and depleted our supply in-house,” Meihls said. She could not provide an estimated date for when the city’s order would be filled.

The limited supply is a continuation of a problem that Rocky Mountain PBS reported on in November: individuals and organizations are struggling to obtain drugs like naloxone while the state’s opioid overdose crisis worsens.

From 2000 to 2020, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CPDHE) recorded 15,999

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Price receives Adaptive Sports Award Mr. Jerome Price of Rock Canyon High School is the recipient of the Tom Southall Adaptive Sports Award at the Colorado High School Coaches Association (CHSCA) Hall of Fame Banquet. Coaches who receive the award help make sure athletes with physical disabilities, intellectual disabilities, or other special needs have a place on the field, according to the Douglas County School District announcement on social media.

Douglas County School student honored Rock Canyon Senior Kira Zizzo is making headlines. She was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Colorado Student Media Association.

Gift card scam alert The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s

overdoses deaths in the state. Nearly one in five of those deaths occurred in Denver.

Drug overdose deaths in Colorado, per year, from 2000 to 2020. (Credit: CDPHE) The crisis has only gotten worse: CDPHE recorded 1,757 total drug overdose deaths among Colorado residents in 2021, a record high.

Two-thirds of those deaths involved opioids.

In Denver, the surge in opioid deaths has been driven by fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller that is “similar to morphine but about 100 times more potent,” according to the Drug Enforcement Agency. In 2021, 49.8% of drug-related deaths in Denver involved fentanyl. In 2019, for comparison, that figure was 24.9%.

Demand for the overdose-reversing drugs in Denver rose after five people died of suspected fentanyl overdoses in a Commerce City apartment in February.

Colorado has seen one of the sharpest rises in fentanyl-related deaths in the country in recent years. In the last two years, fentanyl-related deaths have increased five-fold in Colorado, according to a recent report by the nonprofit advocacy group Families Against Fentanyl. Between 2015 and 2021, fentanyl deaths increased more than 1,000% in Colorado, the report found.

“We are in the worst overdose crisis we’ve ever seen in the United States, Colorado, and in Denver,” said Lisa Raville, executive director of Denver’s Harm Reduction Action Center, in an interview with Rocky Mountain PBS last year. “There is a lot of grief happening among people who use drugs among service providers, because people we know, love, and serve are dying of preventable overdoses and it doesn’t have to be so.”

Meihls told Rocky Mountain PBS that while DDPHE’s naloxone supply is backordered, there are other options.

For immediate assistance, she recommended people visit Denver’s “Wellness SEE NALOXONE, P5

Department is warning residents to be aware when purchasing gift cards in the area.

According to the department, gift cards with fake barcodes were found at a King Soopers in Centennial. A woman purchased a $500 Visa gift card only to find there were no funds on it.

Here’s how it works: Scammers are printing out their own barcodes and placing them over the actual gift card barcode at local retailers. When the card is activated, the money is added to the scammer’s card instead of the card being purchased.

What can you do to protect yourself?

Examine the back of the gift card before you buy it and check for signs of tampering, like barcode stickers.

Make sure the gift card’s barcode number, visible through the window on the back of the gift card’s packaging, matches the number on the packaging itself Pick a gift card from the middle or back of the rack since they are less likely to have been tampered with.

Free Noxious Weed and Wildfire Prevention Workshop Did you know noxious weeds on your property can damage native flora and increase the risk of a wildfire spreading to your home? Learn to ID and eradicate them. Join land, vegetation and wildfire experts for a workshop from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 16, in-person or online.

Visit douglas.co.us and search Noxious Weed Education.

Your voice will help us protect your home and our community Douglas County is updating its Community Wildfire Protection Plan – a document that defines how we can proactively protect life and property. The first step in updating this plan is your input, by completing a short survey. Visit douglas.co.us/cwpp-survey to complete the survey by April 26.

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

SCFD Free Days Want to learn more about history, spend time appreciating abstract or contemporary art or get in touch with nature?

SCFD organizations have your entrance fee and cultural passions covered. For more information, including specific dates and locations, visit scfd.org

What’s happening with your County government?

Our commitment to open and transparent government includes online posting of information about public meetings at which the business of government is conducted. To view various public meeting agendas and to participate in-person or remotely visit douglas. co.us and search for Meetings and Agendas.

What would you do if you suspected child abuse or neglect?

Call 303-663-6270 or 1-844-4CO-KIDS. Visit douglas.co.us and search Child Abuse FAQs for additional information.

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Autopsies released in Franktown-area double murder case Results show victims had used drugs, sustained other injuries

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The autopsy results, recently released by the Douglas County Coroner’s office, show the victims in the double homicide in the Franktown area had bruising, shallow injuries and were shot by two different firearms.

The report shows both victims also had meth, alcohol and marijuana in their systems.

Jessica Mitchell, 32, and her boyfriend Bryan Gray, 34, were found dead in an unattached garage at their home on Russellville Road Feb. 8.

Casey Devol, Mitchell’s brother, was arrested Feb. 9 and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Devol is still awaiting more legal proceedings that are scheduled for May 24.

As of Feb. 11, Sheriff Tony Spurlock said his office did not yet have a clear understanding of the motive in the case.

Gray had six gunshot wounds and Mitchell had three, according to the autopsy reports.

Both had also been shot once with a shotgun, according to the report.

Both Gray and Mitchell also had bruises on them and “abrasions” on their faces and bodies. Douglas County Coroner Jill Romann explained that an abrasion is considered a scratching of the surface of the skin. A skinned knee, for example, would be considered an abrasion.

Romann added that these abrasions likely occurred in the immediate period before Gray and Mitchell died.

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the abrasions on her arms show a pattern consistent with her being in a shielding position at the time.

An arrest affidavit for Devol revealed that Gray had been found with a plate of food on top of him.

Mitchell had a pry bar on top of her.

Mitchell was found with a “digital recorder device,” according to her autopsy report.

The manner of death for both cases is marked on the autopsies as homicide, which Romann said means the deaths were not caused by self-inflicted wounds and don’t appear to have been accidental.

In addition to the toxicology reports, notes were made in both autopsies that each had a history of methamphetamine use.

Devol was also charged with felony animal cruelty. Authorities said a dog named Cleo was found dead at the scene.

Devol’s affidavit said that responding deputies found the home to

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have been ransacked, with drawers throughout the home open.

Deputies also discovered security footage for the home that showed someone entering the garage carrying “multiple handguns and a long gun.” After a tip from a friend of the family, investigators identified Devol as the person in the video.

Devol’s next court hearing is set for May 24 at 9 a.m.

The case has shocked the rural community of Franktown, with many people from the community commenting on the sheriff’s office’s social media accounts saying they are a friend of Devol’s and surmising there must be more to the story.

“We’re getting the same information from witnesses and people interviewed that this kind of behavior would be out of character for the suspect,” Spurlock said.

Spurlock said none of the people involved, including both victims and Devol, had anything more than “minor law enforcement contacts” in the past. There also hadn’t been calls for service or for mental health concerns at their homes. several pharmacies across Denver.

The Harm Reduction Action Center has a map of pharmacies with naloxone available http://stoptheclockcolorado.org/map/.

This story is from Rocky Mountain PBS, a nonprofit public broadcaster providing community stories across Colorado over the air and online.

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through eighth-grade students, she said, was the chance to lead both American Academy and the district as an interim superintendent.

“I have seen through the lens of a charter leader, and I have also seen through the lens of a school district,” she said. “I sort of have this 360-degree view.”

A new leader The next morning, Kane made her first official statement as superintendent of Colorado’s third largest school district, serving nearly 90 schools, 64,000 students and employing 8,600 people.

In a letter to the community, Kane promised to unveil her 100-day plan this month, capping a tense superintendent search process for the district.

Her predecessor Corey Wise was controversially fired without cause in a split 4-3 board vote on Feb. 4.

The decision was complicated by allegations from the board minority that majority directors violated open meetings by privately planning Wise’s removal, and asking him to step down in a closed-door meeting before holding a public vote.

Speculation started almost immediately that the majority had predetermined Kane, a well-known school leader in the district, as Wise’s replacement. It was fueled further when board President Mike Peterson confirmed he asked Kane if she had interest in the superin-

The Douglas County School District named Erin Kane as superintendent effective March 31.

tendency before Wise was terminated.

As the board narrowed its search from two finalists to naming Kane as its sole finalist, again in a split decision, calls ramped up for Kane and the majority to disclose more detail about a retreat the newly elected directors held after winning office in November. Kane attended.

Her opponents wanted to know why.

Asked if she took part in any conversations regarding Wise’s employment with the district, Kane’s voice raised.

“Absolutely not. Absolutely not,” she said.

She attended the retreat to present about school financials and push for funding, she said. Kane said people alleging she colluded for the job “are creating a narrative

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that isn’t true.”

“I don’t know what else to say,” she said.

Community reaction to Kane was strong, met with both fierce and passionate support for her to become DCSD’s leader, and staunch opposition from those leery of her path to secure the job.

School Board Director David Ray said the other finalist, Danny Winsor, was a unifying choice. He considered Kane to be the opposite. She is a successful leader, he said, but a divisive name that would continue to polarize the community.

Ray, who passionately opposed the manner of Wise’s firing and the superintendent search process, boycotted Kane’s hiring by refusing to attend the special meeting in which directors approved her contract.

But the embattled superintendent argues her track record tells a different story.

“I don’t think people calling me divisive makes me divisive,” Kane said.

Skeptics remain Twice now, a board president has asked Kane to consider helming the district amid a season of chaos. The most recent instance was earlier this school year when Peterson approached her. The second was back in 2016, when the then superintendent left for another job and the district needed an interim leader.

Kane felt apprehensive, she said.

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She spent two months thinking of every reason why applying to be interim superintendent was “a terrible idea,” she said. No education degree. A charter school leader?

And after a board of reform-minded board had made contentious changes in the district, such as pursuing a voucher program and changing the way teachers were paid, tensions ran high in DCSD. “The district was just a mess at the time,” Kane said.

Kane said she expected her time as interim superintendent to be brief. Six months, at most. Instead two years went by, although not without pushback.

Two directors at the time, Ray and former board Director AnneMarie Lemieux, gave Kane negative evaluations of her interim performance and voted against extending her contract in 2017.

Lemieux has remained a vocal critic of Kane’s fitness for the job throughout the 2022 search.

She said Kane lacked transparency with the board as interim superintendent, citing an example in which Kane informed school principals she was making budget cuts before talking with directors about her plan.

Lemieux said Kane is taking credit for a boost to employee morale between 2016 and 2018 when she shouldn’t be. A superintendent left.

New board members were elected.

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‘I don’t think people calling me divisive makes me divisive.’

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Those were significant factors, Lemieux said.

Lemieux worried Kane will open the door for more charter schools in the district. Of DCSD’s 89 schools, 18 are charter. Increasing the number of charter schools “takes funding out of the Douglas County School District pot,” she said.

“Her track record is an outspoken proponent of the charter school model, and she is now leading a district that needs its neighborhood schools to be taken care of.

And that’s not in her wheelhouse,” Lemieux said.

Lemieux questioned if Kane would instruct employees against best practices “because she doesn’t understand pedagogy.”

“It’s alarming because she’s not qualified for the position,” Lemieux said. “This is the third largest district in the state and a deep understanding of the diverse educational needs of the students has to be a No. 1 consideration. And someone with no educational background doesn’t have the qualifications. I’m not being mean, I’m being honest.”

Where it all started Kane went to college at the University of Colorado in Boulder, earning a degree in applied math and computer science. Her sophomore year, Kane said, she was hired as the university’s only undergraduate teaching assistant.

“I’m a math girl, and so I started teaching math classes at the univer-

Erin Kane, superintendent of Douglas County Schools

The new superintendent of Douglas County Schools, Erin Kane, officially started the job on March 31.

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sity for arts and science students who didn’t like math,” she said.

She was 19 and getting her first go at helping run a classroom. Kane recalled the feeling of students have a lightbulb moment, clicking with a subject that did not come easily for them.

“It really, I think, lit an early fire in me for caring about getting that lightbulb to come on,” she said.

Her first group of students gifted her a card and teddy bear at the end of their course, which Kane has kept to this day.

She landed her first job out of college at the technology company IBM, working on positioning global satellites, or GPS. It was 1994 and the technology had yet to make its way into cellphones. People still bought separate GPS devices, Kane said.

“I used to program telemetry,” she said.

From IBM, Kane moved to the private sector and worked for a business intelligence company in D.C., specializing in data science.

She and her husband returned to Colorado in 2000, settling in Castle Pines North to start their family af-

ter the birth of their first daughter.

There, Kane raised her three children. She worked a few more years in high technology before spending a brief stint as a stay-athome mother. In that time, she also tutored district students in pre-calc SEE SCHOOLS, P8

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and trigonometry.

“Nerdy. I’m very nerdy,” she said Also during that period, Kane formed the idea of starting a charter school. The district had great schools, Kane said, but she envisioned an education model that prioritized science, technology, engineering and math.

“STEM was literally not even an acronym in 2004,”she said.

Kane helped found American Academy in 2005. Opening with 391 students, the school launched at a strip mall in Lone Tree. Parents and staff painted the 20,000 square feet of warehouse space, carpeted the floors, and watched as a waitlist began to form.

“Concrete playground and all,” Kane said.

The county and district was undergoing a phase of growth, she said, and American Academy helped absord that. As enrollment climbed, the charter school moved to Castle Pines North, opening its first building in 2009. That same year, the school’s director left.

American Academy’s board asked Kane to step in “for just five minutes,” she said, while it sought new leadership.

A board member at the time, and still dabbling in the engineering field, Kane recalled feeling reluctant. She knew she did not have experience as a principal, she said, but she agreed.

“I stepped in for five minutes, and that was 14 years ago,” she said.

An emulated leader Mark Middlebrooks, the specials department director for American Academy, oversees art, music, technology and physical education for the school. He’s one of the charter school’s employees to have joined

its staff in 2005, and never leave.

He recalled a culture of camaraderie, and a vision for the school that drew people in despite the “less than desirable” facility it opened in. People joined because “of what we sensed was a really great thing happening.”

“It wasn’t perhaps the most glamorous of roles in which to get started,” he said, “but there was such a sense of purpose about it.”

In interviewing for the job, Middlebrooks said he wanted to try new, emerging strategies in music education such as music workstations for each child, and found receptive leaders at American Academy willing to let him innovate.

He met Kane while she was still an American Academy board member and not yet its director. Roughly 17 years later, he holds her up as someone innately skilled at building a covetable work culture.

“I would characterize her leadership style as one that I strive to emulate,” he said.

She fosters innovation, and lets staff takes risks to do so, he said.

“One of her tenets of leadership is building a culture where individuals feel comfortable to take risks and to try new things, and to sometimes make mistakes,” he said.

Kane has said her approach to managing COVID-19, such as allowing optional masking in times when district-run schools were not doing so, did not make everyone in her school community happy. Kane did her best to support starkly polarized views on the pandemic, she has said.

Supporters pointed to her prowess for data as crucial in managing pandemic response. The board’s conservative majority praised her as someone who has pushed back against policies the four found too progressive.

To Middlebrooks, Kane has “this uncanny ability to zoom out” on an issue and look at the big picture, he

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Her dedication to the district and teachers has been evident in her advocacy for the 2018 bond and mill levy override, he said. Kane helped pave the way for the ballot measure’s passage, he said, and she “was true to her word” at American Academy regarding how she would distribute the funds if the initiative was successful at the polls.

“They were distributed directly into staff salaries,” he said. “It was just a huge boon to staff morale, and it was an obvious and outright indication of the value that is placed on staff members and teachers by Erin.”

Middlebrooks described feeling ambivalent about Kane’s departure as American Academy’s director, because while “I simply love working with her,” he said, he’s also celebrating for the district.

“Point blank my reaction was that, and I follow the district fairly closely I think, and knowing some of the challenges in our school district, I don’t know that I could imagine anyone better positioned and better equipped,” he said.

Looking ahead Today Kane holds a master’s degree in public administration and points to her time as interim for evidence she is the right leader for DCSD. In those two years, turnover decreased significantly, grades improved and an annual spending deficit was eliminated, according to

the district.

Kane said she worked fervently to bring the community together between 2016 and 2018. She vowed to do the same now.

She described herself as a listener, and reasonable. Someone who puts “kids at the front, all the time.”

Political rhetoric doesn’t have “any place in a school district,” she said.

When it comes to the district’s hotly debated equity policy — which sparked accusations of critical race theory in schools but hope among its supporters for a greater focus on equity in DCSD — Kane said she wants to conduct more community outreach. She’ll seek to understand in detail how people want the policy to be implemented, she said.

“If we can provide clarity around that for people, I think that we will see a lot less rhetoric,” she said.

Kane said one cause of division in the community — the COVID-19 pandemic — is fading into the rearview mirror, leaving her optimistic toward a more unified future for DCSD. She repeated a mantra of hers throughout the selection process, emphasizing her belief the community has more in common that it may realize. The district community “can’t let the 5% fringe define us,” she said.

“I think I can bring people together,” she said. “Our kids need people who are willing to step up and walk into the fray.”

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Douglas County to see millions in road construction this year Biggest project is widening of stretch of Highway 85

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Douglas County commissioners received an update on March 29 on a number of road projects happening in the area to address growth.

Of the millions of dollars in construction planned, this year’s biggest project is widening Colorado Highway 85 from four lanes to six lanes from Highlands Ranch Parkway to C-470, which is expected to total around $105 million.

The cost of the project will be heavily shouldered by Douglas County, though the Denver Regional Council of Governments is contributing $26.2 million and the Colorado Department of Transportation is paying $7.6 million.

Construction has been delayed by the need to relocate a City of Englewood water line. Douglas County Project Manager Art Griffith said Englewood officials are negotiating a permit with the Army Corps of Engineers for moving the water line.

“It is essentially the last thing that prevents us from bidding the project,” Griffith said, adding he still hopes to bid the project in May. Another project that will consist of multiple phases and upgrades is the work identified on Lincoln Avenue from Park Meadows Drive to Oswego Street, known as Advancing Lincoln Avenue in Lone Tree.

Griffith said project staff are currently evaluating six different options for the Havana Street intersection and 12 alternatives for the Interstate 25 interchange.

Concrete is poured on Colorado Highway 85 between Louviers and Sedalia in March for a project to widen the highway from C-470 to Meadows Parkway. Douglas County is gearing up to start widening the portion of the highway from C-470 to Highlands Ranch COURTESY COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Parkway.

“There are 72 options on the table, so we’re going through the screenings and once we (finish screening), we’ll do detailed traffic analysis on the top four and move forward with one preferred alternative,” Griffith said.

Pre-construction work for Advancing Lincoln Avenue is slated to be finished this December in preparation for final designs,

which are planned for 2023 or 2024.

Nearby in Lone Tree, the city and county are also partnering on a future Lone Tree mobility hub off I-25 near Sky Ridge. Griffith said the project aims to improve existing Bustang operations in the area.

Similar to the Lincoln Avenue work, project managers are in the process of choosing the best of three location options for the

mobility hub, which will need bus stations on both sides of I-25.

For the $20 million hub, CDOT is putting up half of the funds, while the county and city hope to contribute $1 million each, with the remaining money coming from the Denver Regional Council of Governments.

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“There’s a similar mobility hub concept at US 36 and McCaslin,” Griffith said. “So essentially you have parking and direct connections to the buses.”

In Parker, the town and county are working on extending Dransfeldt Road from the Twenty Mile Road intersection to connect with Motsenbocker Road, north of Salisbury Park. Final designs for the $18 million construction are expected this month with construction following next year.

“It helps provide a more resilient transportation network with less

reliance on (Colorado Highway 83),” Griffith said.

Highway 83 will see its own updates this summer, with just under $700,000 to be spent improving signage, striping and traffic signal modifications. Another $50 million in intersection improvements have been identified, but not all of the funding has been dedicated.

A roundabout is also in progress at the intersection of Highway 83 and Palmer Divide Road.

Douglas Forum Transportation plans to recommend that these projects, as well as the Crystal Valley Interchange, further widening on Highway 85 and a study of a portion of Colorado Highway 86, take priority in future CDOT planning at a meeting on April 6.

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ast week, an important issue came out thanks to Hollywood. No. I am not talking about Will Smith ridiculously slapping Chris Rock.

Instead, I am talking about the news that Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with aphasia. This hit home for me because just a few months ago I would have had the same reaction that many others did to FROM THE this news. I would have wondered what the heck is aphasia.

EDITOR When his family made the announcement that Willis has now quit acting, I knew why because my dad was diagnosed with aphasia several months ago.

While the VA doctors are not completely sure what the cause is, they know my dad’s recent issues in communicating are due to this condition.

Aphasia is an inability to comprehend or formulate language because of damThelma Grimes age to specific brain regions. The major causes are stroke and head trauma. Aphasia can also be the result of brain tumors, brain infections, or neurodegenerative diseases.

In looking at my dad’s brain scans, doctors showed me a dark area in his brain where speech is impacted. There is no fix for this, which means family and friends must be more patient and understanding.

Getting past all the scans, and Webster’s definition of aphasia, there is a person this condition impacts and it must be incredibly frustrating.

After my dad’s diagnosis I researched it and became a lot more sensitive to the struggles he is going through.

The inability to express a thought even though he is thinking it. The struggles to understand conversations happening around him. It must be incredibly tough to go through day-to-day activities with an important part of your brain not functioning correctly.

Another person who has publicly talked about the impacts of aphasia has been former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. In my early days as a journalist in Arizona, I got to know Giffords well. She survived being shot in the head, but not without some lasting effects.

One of those conditions is aphasia. Through social media, Giffords often describes what aphasia does to a person. She is open about how the idea is there, but she can’t get the words out to express it.

Giffords will always be someone I admire, and seeing her still speak in public engagements and work as hard as she does to make a difference in the world is impressive.

I also love that she continues to bring more awareness to this condition that can impact a range of reading, writing and speaking.

With my dad, we continue to learn patience. We have worked to slow down when we are speaking. We are understanding when he says something that may not make a lot of sense to us, but he is trying.

For those who may encounter someone dealing with aphasia, understand it is more frustrating for the person living with it than it is for us. It is important to practice patience and understanding for this condition just like we would with any other medical condition a person is working through.

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young man stood by the side of the road waiting for a bus. The rain was pouring down and he was doing his best to stay dry. He was dressed for success, a nice suit and tie, and carried an expensive laptop bag in the hand that was not holding the umbrella. A car came racing by and drove very close to the curb where the young man was standing. The splash from the car drenched him. No visible sign of anger, no words came from his mouth, he just did what he could to minimize the damage.

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He was speaking my language.

I asked him where he was headed, and he shared that he was catching the bus to downtown Denver. I let him know that I was on my way to Denver and offered him a ride. He gratefully accepted and we began our journey. As we drove, I learned that he was going downtown to interview for a job. And he was laughing because now he was going

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An unsolved math problem on the Colorado River

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pring runoff last year in the Colorado River Basin was a bust, with snowpack of almost 90% of average reduced to a 30% BIG PIVOTS inflow at Lake Powell.

Nobody yet predicts another bust this year. While we wait, water managers talk about “the math problem.”

The gap between water flows and Allen Best demands in the Colorado River is enormous and likely to widen. The dysfunctional equation begins with 20 million acre-feet, the average annual flows assumed by the Colorado River Compact that was crafted 100 years ago by delegates from the seven basin states.

This cheerful assumption was based on early 20th century flows.

It was made with almost willful disregard of evidence available even then of the river’s lesser flows during the prior half-century. The delegates who met at a lodge near Santa Fe in 1922 were determined to yoke all irrigable acres into agricultural production.

In this math problem, another key number is 12.3 million acre-feet.

That’s been the river’s average flow in the 21st century. Some of this reduced flow seems to be entirely natural, what we call drought, if exceptional in duration.

Something else has been going on.

Temperatures have risen 3 degrees Celsius altogether since 1970. By some estimates, half or more of the reduced flows can be attributed to this global warming effect. This

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to show up soaking wet.

As I asked him what kind of job he was looking for and the company that he was interviewing with, it turned out that I had many connections within the company and knew the woman who he was meeting for the interview. I didn’t tell him that. And as I dropped him off, I sent a text message to the woman, my friend, and let her know how he handled the day and his approach to giving and receiving grace. I advised her that even if his resume or experience didn’t qualify him as a great candidate, his character certainly would. He got the job.

Look, we all fall short, we all fail from time to time. There are things we wish we could have done better, there are words we wish we could take back, and there are certainly moments in time where our actions were inappropriate as we either overreacted or underreacted under times of stress. And when we think about our own misgivings and the errors of our ways, I am sure that we can also remember the people who gave us grace, and who demonstrated love and forgiveness, no matter how big or

warming explains the grand larceny in the Colorado River, decent snowpacks reduced to a shrug in the Utah desert because of evaporation but also because plants need more water. Too, baked soil sops up water.

We can’t flip the switch on global warming and it’s almost certain to worsen, the temperature rise doubling or tripling, as Colorado State University’s Brad Udall warns.

He describes what is occurring as aridification. Unlike drought, it’s not temporary.

Dismal forecasts This brings us to another number for this Colorado River Basin math problem: 11 million acre-feet.

That’s the number cited last week at a University of Utah conference about future flows of the Colorado River.

“The best climate scientists in the world say we will be lucky to have 11 million acre-feet,” said John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the agency serving Las Vegas.

To recap this math problem, the Colorado River Compact assumed 20 million-acre feet, the reality has been 12.3 in the last two decades, and we’ll end up with 11 millionacre feet—or conceivably less.

“Every new use will have to be mitigated by someone, somewhere, using less water,” Entsminger added.

That’s not entirely right either.

We all will have to use less water.

Keep in mind that not one drop of the Colorado River gets to the Sea of Cortez.

Cinching of the water belt has been underway from Mexico to

small our mistake may have been.

Perhaps, as we look upon our family, friends, community, and workplace, there are circumstances where we have a chance to offer such forgiveness and grace. Each time we receive grace from others should be seen as a deposit in our own bank account of love, forgiveness and grace. We just need to be reminded that we must make withdrawals from time to time and give that same grace to others.

There is enough division and conflict going on in our world today, we don’t need to add any more or pile on. Instead, we should look at the events, the statements, and the actions that were obviously a mistake or that could have been handled better, as an opportunity to love and forgive.

Unconditional love and forgiveness sound idealistic, yet we know when we live with and apply this philosophy that the outcome is decisively better. I would love to hear your story of grace at mnorton@xinnix.com. And when we can learn to give and receive grace, 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.

Colorado. It’s not happening as rapidly as needed, though. Consider the rapidly emerging walls of Glen Canyon and the dam that creates Lake Powell. Despite emergency releases from upstream reservoirs in Colorado and Utah last summer to bolster Powell, the water levels last week dipped below 3,525 feet.

That elevation is arbitrary but a loud warning that a further decline of 35 feet leaves Glen Canyon unable to generate electricity. Recent modeling by the U.S. Geological Survey shows a 25% risk. If — or perhaps when — that happens, municipalities and cooperative members who get power from Glen Canyon will still get electricity from elsewhere, but it will cost more. That includes Holy Cross Electric.

Long term, this worsening situation of subpar runoff in the Colorado River matters to well more than 90% of Colorado’s population.

The Colorado River and its tributaries deliver half of Front Range water. Even the easterly flowing rivers in Colorado that pass through more distant, less citified places, Sterling and La Junta, carry water augmented by diversions from the

Colorado River.

Much remains to be worked out.

Within Colorado, agriculture uses 80% to 90% of all water. Farmers and ranchers who own the more senior water rights, not subject to compact limitations, have served emphatic notice that their water will not be the answer to the math problem.

Another problem is the compact clause that puts the upper basin states—Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming—on the hook for diminished flows. It says they “will not cause” the flows at Lee Ferry, just below Glen Canyon, to be depleted below 75 million acrefeet of water over a rolling 10-year average. The upper basin states cannot do this alone. The risk must be shared.

This sounds gloomy. That said, the seven basin states, Mexico, and the sovereign tribes who collectively own about 20% the basin’s water have yet to throw rocks at each other. They are talking. They just haven’t solved this math problem.

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Gail Lapham Butters Gail Lapham Butters died peacefully in her sleep on March 10th 2022; she was 87 years old. She is survived by her three children, Leslie Butters Wallace, Andy Butters and Dana Butters Berger, her sons-inlaw, grandchildren and nephews. She was predeceased by her brother, Gary Lapham of Durham, NH, and her beloved grandson Elijah Butters.

and was passionate about sharing her love of history and art with them.

In her 40’s, Gail earned her Pilots License and flew all over New England. She had a lovely sense of humor and a vibrant appreciation for life’s beauty and delights.

Gail loved Nantucket Island and owned a small beach cottage in the village of Gail was an enthusiastic alumna of Wellesley Siasconset. She loved to take long walks, was involved in the Historical Society High School in Massachusetts, Endicot and supported many local artists. She was Junior College and Syracuse University. Gail was a graphic artist by profession, at one point generous sharing her cottage with family and friends. owning her own graphic arts company. She loved children and over the years also taught Gail grew up in West Concord, MA, where pre-school and high school art. her father’s side of the family had deep roots.

As Gail wished, she will be laid to rest in Gail was an adventurous and generous person; a caring friend and loving mother. She the Lapham family plot in Sleepy Hollow was an artist and loved the arts. Gail traveled Cemetery, in Concord. all over the U.S. and Europe visiting many Gail will be missed. museums and historic sights. During the 80’s Her family sends deep appreciation and she traveled behind the Iron Curtain to the Soviet Union and was amazed by the culture thanks to all of the wonderful care workers who helped Gail during recent weeks, months and history. She went on many adventures with her children both together and separately and years.

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Marsha Elaine Hutfliess, 79, passed away on February 23, 2022, after a short battle with cancer. Marsha Hutfliess, was born September 4th, 1942, in Kansas City, MO. She was the daughter of Francis and Genevieve Dole. Marsha graduated from North High School in Denver, Colorado and soon embarked in a 22 year career at TWA, as an airline stewardess.

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There’s nothing abandoned in Colorado,” proclaims Melanie Roth from a set of wooden steps outside a cabin in St. Elmo — a ghost town in Chaffee County.

Roth’s assertion is a bold one considering the setting — a dead-silent main street consisting of 150-yearold buildings that haven’t been inhabited since the 1950s gives way to the towering foothills of Mount Princeton and the Collegiate Peaks.

Here, over a hundred miles from the bustling cityscape of metro Denver, it’s easy to feel isolated — yet not entirely alone.

St. Elmo is perhaps the most well preserved of Colorado’s many ghost towns — remnants of a bygone era when mining, agriculture and railroad routes largely governed where people lived.

While many of these settlements have been decimated by years of weathering — and in some cases, vandalism — a small group of dedicated historians have worked to preserve them as markers of Colorado’s history.

“Two things make Colorado ghost towns different than any other state,” said Lee Dahl, a member of the Ghost Town Club of Colorado.

“First of all, the setting; a lot of them are up in the mountains, that kind of makes them a little remote, off the beaten path, not a lot of people knew about it for a long time.

“The other thing is that a lot of those ghost towns had a huge infrastructure where you’d have a mine shaft, and a milling building, some rather large structures that were built rather stoutly for the industry.

That made them interesting, also made them sturdy, so they’d withstand time,” Dahl continued.

At a 1958 meeting of Colorado historians in Golden, a man named John Farr stood up after a presentation on ghost towns and said, ‘We ought to start a club.’ The Ghost Town Club of Colorado was formed shortly thereafter and remains active in educating and preserving Colorado’s towns of yesteryear.

Ethan Knightchilde, a documentary filmmaker and member of the Ghost Town Club, said that many of Colorado’s ghost towns followed a

COURTESY OF KATHY HEICHER

A building in Dearfield, Weld County, slated for historic preservation.

COURTESY OF COLORADO’S MOST ENDANGERED PLACES

The St. Elmo General Store, which still operates during the summer months.

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similar trajectory; a discovery was made, followed by a boom, then a bust — then, the town went “ghost.”

“When a town no longer had a reason to exist, it ceased to exist, in short. And so, a lot of the mining towns were built around a single commodity, whatever ore was in the ground. It’s a limited resource; when it ran out, the people left,” Knightchilde said.

Joan Fields, a member of the Ghost Town Club since 1979, explained the difference between the two main types of ghost towns commonly found in Colorado.

“It depends on where the ghost towns are. Because there are ghost towns out on the Eastern Plains, and a lot of those were based upon agriculture. The mountain towns, of

course, if the minerals ran out or it wasn’t a particularly prosperous mine, oftentimes the towns would disappear,” Fields said.

In the roughshod days of the American West, settlers moved like locusts across the country, building up towns around a single commodity with little regard for maintaining anything for the next generation, according to Knightchilde. Most of the settlers were men looking for work in mines or on farms, which begat a largely nomadic population, according to Fields.

“A lot of communities didn’t have families. A lot of women didn’t move out west until they knew SEE GHOST TOWN, P15

A store and post office in St. Elmo that doubled as the home of Annabelle and Tony Stark, the town’s last original PHOTO BY RYLEE DUNN residents.

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things were going to be settled, or there weren’t children involved. So, you’d pack your frying pan and your mule, you’d pack your things, and you’d just go,” Fields said.

Sometimes, according to Knightchilde, the difficulty of moving an entire household’s worth of possessions down a treacherous mountain pass made the task insurmountable, and settlers would simply move to the next town and start over.

Sometimes, the towns would become something else entirely.

“They’d become what we call ‘ghosts of their former selves,’” Dahl said.

Ghosts you see, ghosts you don’t “Technically, towns like Georgetown and Silverton are ghosts,” Knightchilde said. “You’d never want to say that to a resident — they will take offense. But they are shadows of their former selves in terms of size, and their continued existence is because they no longer make a living off of what started them.”

In a way, Knightchilde has a point — Georgetown today largely subsists as a tourist destination, far from its roots as a silver mining camp. When faced with the prospect of going ghost or reinventing themselves, towns of their ilk have been forced to find new ways to get by.

Other historic settlements haven’t been as lucky as the roadside mountain towns.

“In the old days, you’re traveling by horse and wagon, to travel 10 miles a day was a good trip,” said Ed Bathke, a member of the Ghost Town Club since 1961. “So, there were a lot of little towns that were about 10 miles apart.

“Today, you can go much greater distances in an auto pretty quickly, so therefore a lot of these little towns that were really supply points, business centers for their surrounding community, are now essentially ghost towns because people don’t need a supply point that close,” Bathke said.

“What would happen to Georgetown if I-70 wasn’t there, or had not gone through? Or before that, (Route) 40?” Knightchild wonders.

Towns that can’t reinvent themselves run the risk of falling by the wayside entirely.

Cotopaxi was a community established along the Arkansas river by primarily Russian-Jewish settlers in the 1880s. When the colony failed, most of its residents scattered to other parts of the country, leaving little of the original settlement in place, according to Bathke.

Uravan was a uranium mining town in Montrose County that went bust in the 1980s as the United States began sourcing uranium elsewhere.

Due to radioactive contamination, the town’s buildings were burned, and everything else was thrown in a pit and buried there, according to Fields and Dahl. Nevertheless, the town’s history isn’t entirely forgotten.

“The people of that area have an annual reunion — they still get together, the people who worked there, especially the descendants of those

Main Street in St. Elmo, a well-preserved ghost town in Chaffee County.

people,” Bathke said.

Some places don’t receive the same treatment. Dakan, a shortlived mining camp in Douglas County, is largely invisible to the naked eye.

“If you go out there today and look, you’ll see a pasture. There is no sign of it whatsoever,” said Larry Schlupp, president of the Larkspur Historical Society. “There were numerous mines out there at one time — it was a gold town. “ Despite the many challenges surrounding the task, efforts to preserve ghost towns have gained steam in recent years.

Dearfield, a historically Black settlement in Weld County, was in danger of seeing its few remaining buildings disintegrate before Colorado’s Most Endangered Places — an initiative of Colorado Preservation, Inc. — stepped in and listed the site on its “priority saves” list in an effort to raise funds and organize preservation efforts.

In doing so, one of the state’s earliest markers of Black independence will live on for future generations to learn from and experience. “(Dearfield) was a colony founded by pioneering Black settlers who understood that having some independence and owning land and maybe farming and building a town was a greater way to achieve independence — freedom — in society,” said Kim Grant, director of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places.

“They actually prospered there for 20 years, and then the Dust Bowl came, and climatic factors intervened that nobody really foresaw and it just ruined the farm economy for nearly everybody. And the town just died away,” Grant continued.

While the town largely died off with its founder, Oliver Toussaint Jackson, in 1948, a few buildings — including a gas station, a diner and Jackson’s homestead — remain in rough shape. Now, with the help of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places, the buildings will be restored as tangible historical artifacts.

A modern-day ghost Unique even among the colorful history of Colorado ghost towns is Gilman, a modern-day ghost that

couldn’t survive its own reinvention.

Early settlers arrived in Gilman around 1879, as overcrowding in Leadville forced miners to try their luck elsewhere. The town was formally settled in 1886 amid the Colorado silver boom. Gilman was initially named “Clinton” after John Clinton, a judge and speculator from nearby Red Cliff, but was later renamed in honor of Henry Gilman, a foreman of the Iron Mask Mine.

Like many towns on Battle Mountain, life in Gilman revolved around mining. By 1890, the town had a growing population and a newspaper, the Gilman Enterprise. Then, the silver crash hit.

“With the silver crash of 1893, a lot of the town was abandoned,” said Matthew Mickelson, the local history librarian for Eagle County.

“It went from a population of well over 1,000 down to 400 at that point.

Soon after that was when they started mining for zinc.”

Faced with similar prospects of other boomtowns of the era — reinvention or abandonment — Gilman chose the latter and became a profitable zinc mining outfit that was purchased by the New Jersey Zinc Company in 1912 with designs of turning the settlement into a company town.

“It was considered a model company town — a good one,” said Kathy Heicher, president of the Eagle County Historical Society and local history author.

Heicher added that during this time, Gilman had a hospital, a store and even a bowling alley. New Jersey Zinc had a reputation for taking care of their workers, and wages and accommodations in Gilman were good throughout much of the 20th century.

The population of Gilman hovered between 300-500 residents, with booms occurring around both world wars as demand for zinc increased.

By the 1980s, however, natural resources in the mines were becoming depleted, and the town was growing less profitable.

On April 11, 1985, residents of Gilman received a letter from the Battle Mountain Corporation — the name of the company that owned

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and operated the town at the time — stating that they would need to vacate the premises by June 30.

The terms of the departure notice were severe.

“We would like to offer rent-free living until your departure from the premises. In addition, we would like to offer Joe Trujillo’s assistance with packing your belongings, if necessary,” stated the letter from Battle Mountain Corporation.

In an instant, Gilman — a mountain town that had prospered for almost a century — was gone. However, its story as a ghost town was just beginning.

When the Battle Mountain Corporation abandoned the town, the property was completely abandoned, and the water pumps were shut off. Battle Mountain — which Heicher describes as a catacomb of mines — soon felt the impact of Gilman’s abandonment.

“They shut off the electricity that had been pumping the wastewater out of the mines, and the mines started filling up with water and it got decades of toxic waste in there,” Heicher said. “The water started flowing out into the Eagle River. The Eagle River was flowing orange. You wouldn’t, in the 1980s, eat a fish that you caught in the Eagle River.”

In 1986, the mine was declared an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site and work began on quelling the contamination from the runoff. Cleanup work on the site was declared completed in 2001, but spikes in pollutants occur to this day, making the decontamination process ongoing.

The pollution at the site has put a damper on plans to revive the area.

Various proposals to make Gilman into a ski resort or additional housing for Vail workers have stalled because of the contamination.

The town was annexed into nearby Minturn in 2008 with the hopes of bringing a ski resort plan to fruition, but the developer backed out shortly thereafter in 2009.

Today, Crave Real Estate Ventures owns the townsite, which has become victimized by vandalism SEE GHOST TOWN, P16

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What could be more beautiful than an excursion to the San Luis Valley to see thousands of big, graceful sandhill cranes, as they make a rest stop en route from their winter home to the northwestern U.S. and Canada, where they nest.

The sky was blue and endless, the surrounding mountains were capped with a skiff of fresh snow, fields were greening and the sun was shining.

That valley is a protective spot for cranes and those who love to watch them.

They winter in the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, near Albuquerque, New Mexico and start arriving in the San Luis Valley in February to feast on barley in the fields at the valley’s Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge and nearby San Luis Lakes State Wildlife Area.

It’s located 15 miles west of the Great Sand Dunes National Park, so one can spend a splendid few days with nature at its finest.

It’s a beautiful drive from our south area on Highway 285, which goes through Bailey, Fairplay, Buena Vista ... (We like to make a brunch/lunch stop at one of the latter two.) Turn west in Monte Vista to the refuge.

Overnight stays are available at the Movie Manor Motel in Monte Vista (kids love the two big screens they can watch from the window). Or, we

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in recent years. Trespassers on the property are frequently cited.

Nevertheless, remnants of Gilman’s heyday can still be found at the site.

“They left in such a hurry, the people who have snuck into town say they went into the doctor’s office and there were X-rays lying around. One woman, whose dad had worked at the mine, was able to find his old paystub in the mine offices. That’s why people are really intrigued by it,” Heicher said.

Heicher added that the “boom or bust” nature of Gilman’s history is representative of larger trends in Colorado history.

“It was once a thriving, kind of utopian community, and people liked living there. Colorado is a boom and bust place. Whether it’s oil or whatever, it’s like a classic example of boom and bust,” Heicher said.

‘Take only photos, leave only footprints’ According to Knightchilde, the biggest threat to ghost towns isn’t time, or weather, or even pollutants — it’s people.

“A century and a half of weathering can bring a building down, but people have had a disastrous effect on what remains of these towns,” Knightchilde said.

Sandhill cranes fill the sky at Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge in Colorado’s San COURTESY PHOTO BY KATE MIYAMOTO / U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE Luis Valley.

had a pleasant B&B this trip.

The Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge has lakes, fields, a wetland area and a number of large parking places set aside at the edges of the refuge, so that families can get out of the cars with binoculars and cameras to watch and wonder at these large, long-legged birds with a six-foot wingspan.

Cranes mate for life, but in the spring, they repeat a courtship ritual that includes dancing and bowing — and communicating with a sound I’ll never forget ... some pairs will have last year’s chick, now a teenager, with them in the field as it learns how to be

a grownup ...

Hope to see flocks in the air mornings and evenings as well as watching them in the fields.

They spend the night in the wetlands, which is closed Feb. 15 to July 15 for nesting season.

Our information says there are 250 species of birds found in the Great Sand Dunes Park and Preserve, which is right next to this refuge, so pack in a bird identification book or two along with those binocs.

We spent about four hours en route, including a brunch stop, and it’s scenic all the way from Red Rocks Park to the valley.

Knightchilde and his Ghost Town Club compatriots rattle off examples of this problem — Lamartine was robbed of its wood, the Lee Mansion in Capitol City was dismantled for its bricks, Carson has nary a plank of wood without someone’s initials echoed into it, Caribou’s buildings have been tagged heavily with graffiti.

Human interference is not a new phenomenon — as Colorado’s even best-preserved ghost town can attest.

By 1957, St. Elmo’s population had dwindled to just two residents — siblings Tony and Annabelle Stark. Urban legends detailing the Starks’ descent into madness became fodder for campfire circles, but their true fate was far more insidious.

“They weren’t (mentally incompetent) at all — they weren’t,” Roth said on the cabin steps.

“They might have been up here by themselves and they had a neighbor telling everybody they were loony tunes, and so they were declared mentally incompetent and removed.

“Before the ambulance reached Nathrop, all of their valuable possessions were stolen by the person who promoted their insanity and commitment,” Roth continued.

The town eventually was bequeathed to Marie Skogsberg, a family friend of the Starks, who passed down the legacy of preserving St. Elmo to her granddaughter — and Annabelle Stark’s

goddaughter — Melanie Roth.

Roth’s efforts have preserved St. Elmo as a snapshot of Colorado’s history, replete with sturdy buildings, historical exhibits and a general store that operates in the summertime. Organizations like the Ghost Town Club and Colorado’s Most Endangered Places have worked to preserve similar sites throughout the state.

“We formed a preservation committee; we raise funds throughout the year and then at the end of each year we will present grants to deserving historical organizations in the state,” Bathke said of the Ghost Town Club. “Typically, they have to be 501(c)(3), so we avoid giving to an individual and we avoid any tax problems.”

Knightchilde said that preservation efforts have galvanized recently, spurred in part by damage incurred by urban development in the late 20th century.

“Preservation efforts have strengthened over the years.

It’s not just ghost towns. During America’s love affair with urban renewal during the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, we lost a lot. And that probably was galvanizing for preservation movements of all kinds,” Kightchilde said.

“You have beautiful historic theatres that were bulldozed for parking lots. And you have people that love those types of buildings SEE GHOST TOWN, P21

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that can only see so much of that before they band together to do something about it,” Kightchilde continued.

Members of the Ghost Town Club said that part of their mission is to educate people on the history of ghost towns, which they hope will in turn instill respect among visitors for the historic sites they go to. Fields said that one of the taglines of the Ghost Town Club is “Take only photos, leave only footprints.”

“One of our challenges is getting the word out. We get so many people that come into our mountain towns on their ATVs and all they want to do is run up and down the road as fast as they can,” Fields said.

Knightchilde said that traffic at ghost towns has been on the rise.

“The signs are there that they are increasingly being visited. If you are that interested, you will do some research, the way I did, the way everyone I’ve spoken to who has a love for these places did. And in doing so, you’ll gain respect for them. My hope is that once you’ve done that, you’re jazzed to go see the place in person, you know something about its history, and you have a respect for it. You’re not going to run roughshod over it,” Knight-

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“There is that haunting feeling that the building is looking back at you. It’s almost like it’s beckoning you to know its history.

A NIGHT IN People came under unbelievable odds to get to this place and they brought their hopes, their dreams, their fears. They lived and died in these places. There’s this weight of history surrounding you,” Knightchilde said.

“It’s part of our history. Many of us like to preserve our history,” Bathke added. “They say, ‘If you ignore your history, you’re only going to repeat the mistakes that were made in the past.’

There’s always that longing to go back to our roots, and that’s all part of it.”

Members of the Ghost Town Club understandably bristled at the mention of vandalism. � � makes � � my � �blood � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � “Vandalism boil because that just shows someone that’s completely lacking in any kind of sensitivity,” Kngihtchilde said.

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A draft floor plan for the Highlands Ranch senior center, which will house human services, art and skills classes, fitness sessions IMAGES COURTESY OF HIGHLANDS RANCH METRO DISTRICT and resources for people over 55.

A draft rendering of the Highlands Ranch senior center, which hopes to break ground this fall.

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“The goal is not to duplicate, so we’re not going to have a fitness center where you walk and see a bunch of weight machines because the community association already does a great job providing that,” he said.

Feedback from local seniors point to the demand for a variety of activities, including classes on new skills, conversational groups, crafts sessions, potlucks, fitness classes, indoor and outdoor games, special interest clubs and events.

HRMD’s Director of Parks, Recreation and Open Space Tammy Tucker said the activities at the center will be heavily influenced by user requests, as well as addressing social, mental and physical wellbeing. Support groups, referrals for health care, caregiver services and health screenings round out the offerings.

“When thinking about why we need (a senior center), it’s the idea that you don’t put preschoolers in a middle school,” Tucker said. “On a basic level, it’s a place for person to person interaction and the value of that and taking that up a level, it becomes skill-based.”

Roughly 2,000 square feet of the facility will act as the Douglas County satellite office, providing Medicaid assistance, SNAP and food assistance, adult financial programs and an accessible place to pick up an EBT card.

“It helps us get eyes on seniors in the community and … get them the supports they need when they need them,” Tucker said.

Demand for senior-oriented services is only increasing in Highlands Ranch, as the number of people over 55 has grown to 20% of the population as of 2019. Renshaw said demand has been building over the last 10 to 15 years.

Survey results from 124 Highlands Ranch seniors indicate that 95 of them would visit the center one to three times per week.

Planning for the senior center officially started in 2017 with site evaluation. Renshaw said the site on Highlands Ranch Parkway was chosen for a number of reasons, including its central location in the community and the cost-effectiveness for building there.

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Director Penny Eucker said the school received applications from highly-qualified applicants, which made narrowing down the 16 viable candidates difficult, but ensures the school will have a quality director.

“We are an exceptional school and I know that we will choose an exceptional leader to work with me and our highly-talented Leadership Team,” Eucker said in a statement.

Originally, STEM had identified just one top candidate on Tuesday and planned to offer the job to that person, but they withdrew their name from consideration citing family matters, according to STEM officials.

Now, STEM officials said public feedback from the meet and greet will help make the final decision since the finalists are all similarly qualified.

Alsup, who received a Masters

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recreation centers or district offices.

“Highlands Ranch Parkway is a major arterial and it fronts a major arterial, so I think all things considered, I think we’re honoring the intent of the (master plan),” Renshaw said.

An unintended perk of the location, Renshaw said, is that it may actually improve stormwater qual-

in education and administration from the University of Phoenix, has a lengthy career in administrative positions, including principal, assistant principal and administrative dean at schools in Colorado and Alaska. He also previously taught social studies at STEM. Kovalesky also served in numerous administrative positions prior to moving to STEM in the spring of 2019, such as associate principal of Marana Unified School District in Arizona, as well as teaching experience at DeGrazia Elementary School in Arizona. She received her Masters in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University.

Weyman has taught in schools in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio, on top of serving as principal for STEM middle school and assistant principal for STEM. Additionally, she is a faculty member at the American College of Education.

Ultimately, one of the finalists will take over the job from Eucker, who has been in the role since 2012 ity with the added treatment tanks that come with constructing the facility.

“By holding the water and treating more of it up by Highlands Ranch Parkway … we’re going to be able to treat it to a higher quality before releasing it,” Renshaw said.

As for the trail already running through the property, Renshaw explained it will only see a slight realignment.

As of February, the metro district was still estimating the project to total around $12 million, though

STEM School Highlands Ranch has developed a new program aimed at creating COURTESY PHOTO problem-based solutions for students.

and was instrumental in improving curriculum and instruction at the school. Eucker is stepping out of the executive director position to take on a new function as the head of STEM and replicated schools.

“As I transition into my new role of CEO of KOSON Schools this summer, I want to ensure that our flagship campus is in solid and se-

cure hands to ensure that we stay on mission, that our students and staff are cared for, and that our community has trust and confidence in our school,” Eucker said.

Eucker and select Board of Education members who took part in the application process for the new executive director will make a decision following Friday’s meet and greet.

Renshaw said he’s working to get a guaranteed maximum price before going to bid, which could impact the cost.

Funding for the project will initially come from the metro district’s collected System Development Fees, which are paid by developers, while operations of the center will be funded with user-generated revenue and property taxes.

Details on an exact membership structure are still in the works, but Tucker said there will likely be day passes, punch cards and an-

nual membership options for both residents and nonresidents of Highlands Ranch, since the facility will be open to the public.

She envisions the center as a key resource to helping adults age in place.

“The mood and the tone of what the senior center provides for the community is an outlet for people that keeps them mentally well,” Tucker said.

Without further delays, Renshaw said the doors could open as soon as the end of 2023.

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Vista beats Arapahoe with big fifth innning Defending state champions remain undefeated

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Arapahoe starting pitcher Easton Marks allowed four hits in four inning and had seven strikes. He also hit a solo home run but the Warriors suffered a 12-1 loss to Mountain Vista on the chilly afternoon of PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON March 30.

Mountain Vista’s baseball team warmed up in the fifth inning of a chilly March 30 contsest against Arapahoe on the Warriors’ diamond.

Vista, ranked second in the March 28 CHSAANow. com Class 5A state rankings and the defending state champions, scored nine runs in the fifth inning in a 12-1 route over Arapahoe.

Mountain Vista remains undefeated at 7-0.

In the big inning, the Golden Eagles had four hits, coupled with three walks, a wild pitch and a Warriors’ error.

“Our bats came alive and we capitalized on a few mistakes,” said Golden Eagles Coach Ron Quintana. “It’s still early and we have a lot to work on and we still have some first-year varsity guys.

It’s a good group of guys and they play hard for each other.”

Mountain Vista collected eight hits in the five-inning affair and junior Zeke Borel went 3-for-4, scored twice, had three runs batted in and stole a base.

“I just wanted to come out and help my team,” said Borel. “They had a starter who threw hard and I just wanted to help my team out as much as possible.”

Senior Tyler Mejia, the Golden Eagles’ leading hitter, went 2-for-3, with three runs and had an RBI. Senior Anthoney Urbani was Vista’s starting pitcher and was on the mound all five innings. He gave up three hits, one run and fanned 10 batters.

“We are really starting to get it going and we starting to get it together,” said Borel. “We are starting to feel each other. I saw that feeling in thelast couple innings in our dugout, once we get rolling, we get going.

“It takes energy. We have to make sure we’re playing like it’s the state championship in every game.”

With the loss, Arapahoe fell to 1-3 for the season.

Easton Marks was the ringleader for the Warriors.

The senior went 2-for-2 and clubbed a solo home run to lead off the second inning.

Marks was also the starting Arapahoe pitcher and in four innings of work, he allowed four hits, three runs and struck out seven batters.

“Easton is a great player who commanded the zone well and is an offensive threat,” said Arapahoe coach James Dollaghan.

Jaguars squeak by Ponderosa Manning scores game-winning goal

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Rock Canyon girls soccer coach Mat Henbest was pleased despite the close score.

The Jaguars, ranked second in the March 28 CHSAANow.com state 5A soccer poll, beat Ponderosa, 2-1, in a March 31 Continental League game at Halftime Help Stadium.

“In the end it would have been fantastic to score four or five goals but facing a little bit of adversity is also a good challenge,” said Henbest. “Every game you are working different parts of the mental game.

I’m pleased with the win but the close games are good. Hopefully that kind of experience willbe good for us down the road.”

Sophomore Grace Rossner scored for Rock Canyon 15 minutes into the contest but Ponderosa’s Fallon Anderson scored on a 48-yard shot to tie the game five minutes later.

Senior Josie Manning got the game-winning goal for Rock Canyon with 15:53 left in the first half.

“I was really happy with the way we played,” said Henbest. “The other team stayed really compact and tried to make it difficult for us to break it down.

We still have some great opportunities but their keeper played well.

Henbest said Rock Canyon had some players that were in newer positions.

Ava Todd, who was played mid, did a nice job, Henbest said, adding that the entire back line was especially good.

Abby Schecter came out of the back line and the SEE JAGUARS, P25

Rock Canyon’s Ava Todd (9) tries to get around Ponderosa’s Julia Francis (4) during the March 31 game.

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Grace Rossner (7) of Rock Canyon launches a shot towards the Ponderosa goal during the March 31 game. Rossner scored the first goal of the game in Rock Canyon’s 2-1 vicPHOTO BY JIM BENTON tory.

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girls that scored certainly came through, Henbest saied.

Henbest said Josie just came off the bench and, “stepped up right away.”

The win improved Rock Canyon’s record to 3-0.

“We hope we can be there near the end,” said Henbest. “This is a good group and a good team. We hope to have good luck continue

to go our way and be in the conversation at the end.”

Ponderosa dropped to 1-3 for the season but coach Jim Engels is encouraged.

“We played really well against Rock Canyon,” he said. “I have six seniors, one junior, six sophomores, and eight freshman on varsity. I am really proud of my team. The fact my team competes with these much bigger 5A Continental League teams is pretty impressive. Our game plan was to defend and win 1-0 on a set piece.

It almost worked.”

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0013 To Whom It May Concern: On 2/4/2022 2:16:00 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: MICHAEL P. HEFFERNAN Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR AMERICAN ADVISORS GROUP, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 5/11/2020 Recording Date of DOT: 5/18/2020 Reception No. of DOT: 2020041320 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $675,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $133,304.81 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: This is a Home Equity Conversion Deed of Trust or other Reverse Mortgage. Borrower has died and the property is not the principal residence of any surviving Borrower, resulting in the loan being due and payable.

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 5, BLOCK 2, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 11, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 8834 S Blue Mountain Pl, 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 25, 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: 3/31/2022 Last Publication: 4/28/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 2/8/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: 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 #: 22-026229 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0013 First Publication: 3/31/2022 Last Publication: 4/28/2022 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. 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 PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0009 To Whom It May Concern: On 2/4/2022 12:08:00 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: CYNTHIA WIEST Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR R M K FINANCIAL CORP. D/B/A MAJESTIC HOME LOAN, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: THE MONEY SOURCE INC. Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/23/2014 Recording Date of DOT: 8/4/2014 Reception No. of DOT: 2014043599 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $332,352.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $296,856.85 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.

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The property described herein is all of the property encumbered by the lien of the deed of trust.

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 3, PARCEL 2, HIGHLANDS RANCH - FILING NO. 109-D, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 8618 Canongate Lane, Highlands Ranch, 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, May 25, 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: 3/31/2022 Last Publication: 4/28/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 2/8/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: DAVID R DOUGHTY Colorado Registration #: 40042 9800 S. MERIDIAN BLVD. SUITE 400, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (303) 706-9990 Fax #: (303) 706-9994 Attorney File #: 22-026260 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0009 First Publication: 3/31/2022 Last Publication: 4/28/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0011 To Whom It May Concern: On 2/4/2022 1:31:00 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: GYSBERTHA A. VANDEGRAAF AND DONALD R. VANDEGRAAF Original Beneficiary: MOUNTAIN PACIFIC MORTGAGE COMPANY Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 1/25/2007 Recording Date of DOT: 1/31/2007 Reception No. of DOT: 2007009181 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $462,555.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $227,516.09 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: This is a Home Equity Conversion Deed of Trust or other Reverse Mortgage. Borrower has died and the property is not the principal residence of any surviving Borrower, resulting in the loan being due and payable.

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 47, HIGHLANDS RANCH - FILING NO. 118-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 10072 Sage Sparrow Court, 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 25, 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: 3/31/2022 Last Publication: 4/28/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

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 #: 22-026248

ANNA JOHNSTON Colorado Registration #: 51978 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700 , DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 350-3711 Fax #: Attorney File #: 00000009280918

Legal Notice No. 2022-0001 First Publication: 3/10/2022 Last Publication: 4/7/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Bids and Settlements Public Notice INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #008-22 SURREY RIDGE HORSE ARENA PROJECT

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0011 First Publication: 3/31/2022 Last Publication: 4/28/2022 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.

Dated: 1/13/2022

The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

*YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/

Dated: 2/8/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

First Publication: 3/10/2022 Last Publication: 4/7/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee

The Douglas County Department of Open Space and Natural Resources, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests bids from responsible and qualified vendors/contractors for the provision of the purchase and/or installation/ construction of a horse arena near Surrey Ridge.

The successful bidder shall provide all materials, machinery, and labor necessary to complete this project. The Surrey Ridge Horse Arena doesn’t have a specifically designated address; however, the adjacent lot address is: 9980 Heather Drive, Castle Rock, Colorado 80108.

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. 008-22, Surrey Ridge Horse Arena Project” 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 3:00pm on Friday, April 22, 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. 941842 First Publication: April 7, 2022 Last Publication: April 7, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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