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VOLUME 35 | ISSUE 25

Pressure to succeed is costing kids their childhoods Expectations have shifted over the course of generations

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As we forge forward through the 2020s, the pressure for youth to suc-

ceed is starting to impact kids as early as preschool and could be robbing of them of their childhood as societal demands create more pressure and anxiety than ever before.

Over the last 100 years, the pressure to succeed in America has mounted. Whether it is the need to live the clichéd American Dream or the requirements set by parents that children will succeed and follow the path laid out for them, kids are

taught early on that they have to not only get a high school diploma but, to be happy and successful, they must go to college as well.

A comic, created by Cartoonist Hilary Price, shows a mom lying on a table watching the sonogram of her baby. As the doctor checks things out, they start discussing the fact that it is never too early to start signing them up for sports and activities.

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Child psychologists agree that at some point over the last few decades, parents started wanting their children to succeed so badly that it became a “keeping up with the Joneses” mentality. The need to do the activities, have a flourishing child in academics and athletics and keep them busy is an obsession.

What is lost in this pressure being SEE EXPECTATIONS, P8

Backcountry headquarters, preschool project progresses Project to cost up to $8 million

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After six years of growing the Backcountry Wildnerness Area Base Camp program in Highlands Ranch, the community association is moving forward with designing the Backcountry Outdoor Center to headquarter existing and future services.

On May 9 and May 17, the Highlands Ranch Community Association Board of Directors and delegates approved moving the Backcountry Outdoor Center to the Community Involvement Mountain Vista graduates walk to their seats at the start of the ceremony. See more photos on page 20 and 28.

BUILDINGS ARE AT RISK Douglas County wildlife preparedness a concern P30

PHOTO BY RYLEE DUNN

SEE BACKCOUNTRY, P4

FARM-FRESH FARE From farm to tables, summer’s markets are open

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Briefly In Highlands Ranch Josh Turner is coming to Douglas County Tickets are now on sale to hear one of Country music’s most recognizable voices, right here in Douglas County.

Josh Turner will open the 2022 Fair and Rodeo with a concert Friday, July 29 at 7 p.m.

Find tickets at https://www. douglascountyfairandrodeo. com/p/tickets

Creating healthy eating choices By making mindful choices about the food children eat, can help reduce stress and anxiety in the household. What food choices can be made to create a calm and healthy household? What should be avoided? Children’s Hospital Colorado is here to help. Learn more by visiting the website at bit.ly/3tb3BzV.

Dear Davis Schilken, As an avid Spring Connoisseur, I always use this time of year to clean out my entire home and business. Seeing as though this comes right after Tax Season, I also take this time to review and get rid of any old or outdated documents. What are a few things I should consider when taking part in the annual ‘Spring Cleaning?’

Sincerely, Sally Spring Dear Sally Spring, Like most of us, you use your time incredibly well. Spring is always the perfect time to really clean out and reorganize. For whatever reason, the blooming of flowers and trees are always a subtle reminder to reorganize and reenergize for the upcoming year.

Always make sure to review and check your documents. This might mean checking dates, signatures, stamps, and notaries on any form within your personal life or business. Always make sure that if you are getting rid of something, it will be replaced with another that is either: 1) Identical to the previous documents; or 2) Is current or the most up-to-date document.

When it comes to your Estate Planning, I would always advise you to carefully comb through your documents and ask yourself a few questions: 1) Do I know where all of my Estate Planning documents are?

2) Have I made any changes to my Estate Planning documents within the last year?

3) Do my fiduciaries or helpers know, or have copies of any of my documents?

4) Are my documents stored in a safe and secure place?

The last thing we want to do is to destroy or “clean out” our most current Estate Plans.

That being said, when it comes to your Estate Plans, you want to make sure you do not throw away something that is current or relevant to your Estate Plans. Think about things such as codicils or amendments to your Estate Plans. You should always keep these things in chronological order within your Estate Plans. You do NOT want to get rid of these documents. They are extremely important and will likely avoid headache in the future.

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Classic car show is coming to Highlands Ranch The Classic Car Show is returning to Cherry Hills Community Church from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m on June 11.

This event is free to attend and perfect for all ages. Do you own a cool car? There is still time to register your vehicle. More information: bit.ly/ HRCA-Car-Show

Summer concert series to start soon The Highlands Ranch Community Association is just weeks away from the start of our Summer Concert Series. There is a variety this year, check out the calendar to find tickets.

More information: bit.ly/HRCA-SCS-2022 Backcountry Wilderness to host public meeting Stay up-to-date with what’s happening with the Backcountry Wilderness. Take part in the June 14 public hearing at 6:30 p.m. The meeting, to be held at the Southridge Recreation Center, will focus on the outdoor center project, which will include an education center.

South Metro provides tips on cleaning an oven for fire safety Excess grease from dirty ovens can easily cause grease fires. South Metro Fire Rescue provides tips on how to easily clean your ovens to help reduce the risk of an oven grease fire at your home. bit.ly/3yQS9gn

Volunteer for the Aging Resources of Douglas County program Whether a person has a little bit of free time or a lot - they will change the lives of older adults by volunteering with Aging Resources of Douglas County.

The program is seeking volunteers who can offer transportation, grocery shopping, or simply conversation. In many cases, your family is welcome to join along.

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TURN TO THE COLORADO SUN FOR NEWS ACROSS THE STATE The Colorado Sun is a journalist-owned, award-winning news outlet that strives to cover all of Colorado so that our state — our community — can better understand itself.

In this way, The Sun contributes to a more vibrant, informed and whole Colorado.

The Sun, launched in 2018, is committed to fact-based, in-depth and non-partisan journalism. It covers everything from politics

and culture to the outdoor industry and education.

Now, The Colorado Sun co-owns this and other Colorado Community Media newspapers as a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy. The Sun is CCM’s partner for statewide news.

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Briefly In Highlands Ranch Hiring nature camp counselors The Backcountry Wilderness is looking for people who enjoy the outdoors and working with kids to work as nature camp counselors this summer. For more information on how to apply, visit the website at bit.ly/HRCA-Backcountry-Jobs.

Memorial Day office closure Douglas County offices will be closed Monday, May 30, 2022.

Many services are available at DoItOnlineDouglas.com

Josh Turner headlines Douglas County Fair and Rodeo July 29 The Douglas County Fair and Rodeo is proud to announce the CMA, ACM and GRAMMY-nominated artist will open the 2022 Fair and Rodeo with a concert Friday, July 29, at 7 p.m. To purchase tickets visit douglascountyfairandrodeo.com

Interested in becoming a foster parent or adopting a child?

Information meetings are free, remote and open to anyone interested in learning about foster care and adoption. The next Information meeting is scheduled via Zoom on Saturday, June 4 from 9-10:30 a.m. For more information call 303.636.1KID or register online at collaborativefostercare.com and select Information Meeting.

Apply to serve on the Developmental Disabilities Mill Levy Advisory Board The county is seeking members of the public who are passionate and knowledgeable about helping those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Applications are currently being accepted for those interested in serving on the Developmental Disability Mill Levy Advisory Board.

Members of this board are the review committee for annual grant applications from organizations seeking funds for local programs supporting residents

with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Candidates for advisory board openings should live in County Commissioner District I, work with or have a family member with intellectual and developmental disabilities and be available to attend bi-weekly meetings during business hours between August – November 2022.

Apply online Friday, June 3.

Email Douglas County Grants Coordinator Steven Dodrill at sdodrill@douglas.co.us with any questions.

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

Questions about road projects in your area?

Roads are a necessity and they have to be maintained.

Here’s where you’ll find everything you need to know about them all. Visit DouglasRoadWork.com to find out what’s going on in your neighborhood.

Looking for employment or career change?

Whether you’re a young person looking for career guidance or are considering a new career path, Arapahoe/Douglas Works! provides a variety of no-cost employment assistance services. For more information and to get started visit adworks.org

Tickets on sale for Farm to Table Brunch Tickets are now on sale for the Douglas County Fair & Rodeo’s first Farm to Table Brunch. The event is July 31, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Enjoy a chef-crafted brunch, sourced from the fields of Colorado farmers, featuring seasonal and local ingredients. Held rain or shine on the fields near the fair-

grounds, please dress accordingly and bring your sense of outdoor culinary adventure. Meet local farmers, listen to the live bluegrass music of the Orchard Creek Band, and hear from local experts speak about our Colorado agriculture and the future of farming.

More information can be found on the Douglas County Fair & Rodeo’s website: bit.ly/39blx5Y

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Process to begin getting feedback.

The project outlines two phases, with the construction of a Environmental Education Center housing offices, a nature pre-school and program space in the first phase, and an indoor arena and horse corral updates in phase two.

Currently, the backcountry staff do not have a centralized office space and programs are weather dependent without any indoor space in the backcountry wilderness area. With programs mostly contained to summer months, the backcountry doesn’t have a source of year-round revenue.

Additionally, current programs can’t meet the existing demand, especially when it comes to programs for young children.

“We’ve done all of this so far without a building, which I think is pretty remarkable but it means we’ve been dependent on the Law Enforcement Training Facility,” explained Mark Giebel, director of the Backcountry Wilderness Area.

“When we have to use that building for shelter, the programs have to stop. We can’t do any lessons or games in there, so it’s not an ideal situation at all.”

Next to the backcountry Base Camp on Ron King Trail is the Law Enforcement Training Facility, which allows the backcountry programs to utilize the building in inclement weather. The space limitations have kept programs from

A map shows where the proposed Environmental Education Center would be constructed at the Backcountry Base Camp area. The center would house a nature preschool, classrooms for events and camps, and offices for the backcountry staff.

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growing to meet their full demand.

Giebel said camps started with just 100 participants and have exploded to the maximum of 1,300 children enrolled and a lengthy waitlist. The backcountry programs are also limited on the kind of childcare license they can have without a dedicated building.

“We’re not serving our biggest demographic of 3, 4, 5 and 6-yearolds,” Giebel said. “Not being able to serve that demographic is hurting us for sure. Also, we struggle to host community programs, senior programs and school programs without shelter.”

A full third of the proposed education center would be a nature preschool where children spend most of the day learning outside.

“There’s a ton of research out there showing the benefits of youth spending time outdoors and they just don’t have the opportunities we had as kids,” Giebel said. “Being able to provide these opportunities is a huge benefit to kids in our community.”

Building the Environmental Education Center is projected to cost betwen $7 and $8 million, which will be paid for through the capital improvement fund that comes from a portion of homeowners’ association dues.

The proposed indoor arena would follow the education center and allow the backcountry area to offer year-round lessons and expand camps.

“I keep on talking about these

buildings as investments, so what exactly are we investing in? For one, the future of the backcountry,” Giebel said. “We’re also investing in our community.”

With the approval of the board and delegates to start the Community Involvement Process, there will be a public meeting at 6:30 p.m.

June 14 at Southridge Community Center. The base camp will also host a kick-off party at 8:30 a.m.

June 4 to show off the planned sites for the new buildings.

Following the Community Involvement Process, the board and delegates will get a second vote to move the project into the Douglas County approval process. Construction is planned for the fall of 2023.

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YOUNG PEOPLE, THE NEED TO SUCCEED, AND STRESS In working with two high school interns from Castle View High School this year, Colorado Community Media created a semester-long project where our staff and the students worked to break down how expectations today to succeed impact students mentally and physically.

Bella Turhark and Madeline Robinson spoke directly to students in the Douglas County School District about their daily lives, and the impacts they feel from the need to succeed. They also talked to other generations, giving a glimpse of how expectations

have evolved from the World War II era through today’s Generation Z students.

In guiding the project, South Metro Editor Thelma Grimes received help from Children’s Hospital Colorado, HealthOne, Arapahoe Community Col-

lege and local medicla professionals who talked about the parental impact and the impact to society.

Finally, we also looked at how the cost of getting an education is impacting students’ stress, anxiety and choices today.

Educators reflect on expectations and pressures students face Teens burn candle at both ends in attempt to keep up

BY MADELINE ROBINSON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Douglas County School District has an 83% graduation rate across its 16 high schools. Most of those graduates have been told throughout their education that they should attend college after high school. Xandria Westergard is a Mountain Vista High School graduate who has worked in the school district for eight years at Highlands Ranch High School.

“I think that that was the prerogative, then and now, is the push for college. I think that that kind of puts everybody into a box.

They kind of feel like there’s that outside expectation, that pressure to go through with that course,” Westergard said.

With the expectation of attending college comes the feeling that a student must have an outstanding resume to show. Westergard works in the HRHS health office and sees the impact this pressure has on students’ well-being.

“I see some students, the same ones come in and over and over.

They’re just kind of burning the candle at both ends. There’s students that do sports and other activities. There’s only so much time in a day and they push themselves to the back burner. They’re not eating lunch, they’re not sleeping well, they’re staying up too late, that sort of thing. They’re not prioritizing themselves with all the other stuff that’s going on,” Westergard said.

Students’ need for performance has bled onto the field, according to Ponderosa High School’s football coach Jaron Cohen. Cohen has taught and coached high school-

Teachers in the Douglas County School District and at local colleges are seeing the pressures being placed on teenagers and young PHOTO BY MADELINE ROBINSON adults.

ers for 24 years in Connecticut and Colorado. In recent years, he has seen a shift in students’ focus during the season. According to Cohen, students have begun to place more emphasis on their personal performance over the team aspect of the sport.

“There’s just a lot more caring about their recognition. Kids are just so concerned about it. There’s more concern about their individual performance than in 1995.

At the end of the day there’s going to be kids who didn’t have a good experience because they didn’t get 10 touchdowns, ” Cohen said.

Longtime educator Sally Graham — a teacher at Castle View High School who has taught for 37 years in public and private schools across Louisiana and Colorado

— has recognized the pressure on students to attend college and be involved in school for the sake of a resume to show admissions teams throughout her career.

“Since the beginning, there has always been pressure on kids to go to college. I’m always going to advocate for that, because I think a college education is invaluable.

Even if you don’t go into a field where you need a college education, the experience of learning how to operate in that field is invaluable,” Graham said, “But, I will never tell a kid that they’re going to be less of a person if they don’t (go to college). I don’t expect my students to be anything other than who they are. There is nothing wrong with not wanting to go to college. My life experience has

shown me that that just doesn’t work across the board.”

While students may not be expressly told not going to college equates to failure, that message is absorbed by students throughout the district.

“When I first started teaching, DECA was Distributive Education,” Graham said. “It was for those kids who really didn’t want to go to college, but they wanted to have a career. You’ll find now that those classes are only offered in high schools that are older. The buildings themselves have shown a pressure toward college, whereas kids are just kids, and they want to do what they feel good at.”

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Crying can be helpful Drive to be successful must stay in perspective

BY MADELINE ROBINSON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Recently, I found a dark, quiet place in my school and I cried.

I mean, I ugly cried -- there was snot and hiccups and a wad of tissues. I cried because I hadn’t been sleeping well. I cried because I was stressed. I cried because there was too much to do and never enough time to get it done.

While sobbing at school might not sound like a success, I wouldn’t consider it a failure or something to be ashamed of. It may have been embarrassing to emerge from my school’s video broadcast studio tear-stained and sniffling, but it was a good reminder that I am human and can only do so much before I break.

When so much of my identity has been quantified by a letter grade in Infinite Campus, it can be easy to break.

I’ve always been the smart kid.

That’s the first adjective people have used to describe me since as far back as I can remember. When I started high school, I realized that being a smart kid came with certain expectations. I would take AP classes. I would get straight As. I would go to college.

If I did these things, I could be a successful “smart kid.” That narrative definitely came from other people; from my parents, from my teachers, from the state of Colorado and its Advanced Learning Plan program.

But over the years I’ve internalized those expectations and at one point I started to conflate perfection with success.

When you’re told you need to be better in order to be successful, it’s hard to feel like you’ve accomplished anything. What I’ve learned is that striving for perfection is

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an admirable goal, as long as it’s realistic. Unfortunately, realistic goals and expectations are hard to develop. I know that I cannot be perfect. Perfection is like infinity; it’s a concept, a limit that can never be reached. I’ve had to learn that success shouldn’t be measured in doing everything perfectly, but by trying my best. And in doing my best I reach my closest approximation to perfect.

My expectations can be a burden.

Sometimes I get stressed and cry.

But, my expectations are also the things that drive me. I’m a better person because I have spent so much time pushing myself to do better. The most important thing about expectations is that they are realistic and they push you to be your best rather than bog you down.

Madeline Robinson is a recent graduate from the Douglas County School District. She served as an intern with Colorado Community Media. school student to grow as a person is to have reasonable expectations.

Westergard hopes that future students can grow up in an education system that does not paint college as the only path to a successful life.

“I think there needs to be a shift in society towards two circles,” Westergard said. “There was a time where I think college was the answer. That was where all the jobs were headed. But anymore — especially with technology and how integrated that is into our lives and how students have grown up with that — I don’t know that that’s necessarily where they need to head in life. I think if we had jobs that had sustainable income, and we just had students trying for whatever, you know, gave them a good life, work balance, and they were able to live off of the pay and do something that they enjoy, I think that that would be a better push: focusing on balance and happiness.”

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tions outside of getting a degree leads students to make their high school decisions based on how helpful it will be to their ability to attend college, rather than what they enjoy.

“Less and less kids really look at it as a way to be a part of a team and all the good stuff that comes with that,” Cohen said. “There’s so many parents who pay so much money and so much time private training at a very early age. That parent pressure is bad. It’s not to make your kid have fun or be the best he can be, it’s doing it for a scholarship. Kids really look at high school football as a way to get a scholarship or get recognition.

Youth sports is crazy. Kids will play year-round and travel every weekend. Is that really fun? I don’t know, it doesn’t sound like fun to me.”

In the classroom and on the field, the best way for a high

Madeline Robinson

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What does success look like for me?

A view from Generation Z

BY BELLA TERHARK SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

My whole life I have been told I will be successful. My teachers had affirmed that my good grades and work ethic will bring me to great things. My managers at my first job saw quickly how I would grow in the workplace and contribute greatly. My parents have always assured me that I will be successful.

Even when I taught class lessons to my teddy bears and came home from school every day with a new fact I retained about animals.

Surely, this brought significant stress into my life. I need to do this, I deserve it. Can I handle it? Although it wasn’t always stressful; everything seemed to glide very smoothly until my junior year in high school.

I had it all figured out, I will go to college and get a good job.

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put on children today is childhood.

As Children’s Hospital Colorado Mental Health-in-Chief Dr. Ron-Li Liaw said, “Childhood is a gift, and we are spoiling it with expectations.”

Liaw, whose own family migrated

My junior year was when I first started seeing posts on social media of where everyone had committed to college. D1 sport commits, Boettcher scholars and more.

These things filled in my brain, what if I don’t succeed like them?

Uncertainty: Am I cut out for this? Is this feasible?

Fear: Fear of failing. Fear of never knowing how things will turn out.

Growing up, we very rarely heard about trade school or starting businesses. It was always college this or college that.

I had to stop pursuing success and start pursuing my goals — the success follows. I couldn’t let social media and pop culture define success for me anymore. People around me are 4.0 students and going into astrophysics. These are great examples of achievement.

Is it my version of success? No. My version of success is reporting, telling meaningful stories and

experiencing things to share with the world around me.

This pressure surrounding me to succeed has opened my eyes and revealed to me that everyone defines success differently. It’s difficult to accept that everyone’s story is different, and it will never look the same.

I can’t expect one’s success to be the same as my own. There is an aphorism: “Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

Growing up as the youngest child in my extended family led me to see the great successes my older, wiser and knowledgeable counterparts had achieved.

Although it took me a long time to figure out — what does success look like to me?

to the U.S. and put similar pressures and her and her brother, said children of all ages and young adults entering college today are under more pressure to sucLiaw ceed than ever before.

Unfortunately, Liaw said, this results in higher anxiety, stress, fear of failure and poor mental health.

Changes by generation During the Silent Generation, which includes those born between 1925 and 1945, students were barely pushed to get high school diplomas.

Getting a job out of high school did not necessarily require a college degree, and families could still manage.

For women, getting an education was even less of a priority during the World War II era. Golden resident Audrey Pappenbrook, 83, said her dad told her she was expected to have children and raise a family.

She was not even expected to finish high school and going to college was almost unheard of for women.

Fast forward to the Baby Boomer generation, those born between 1946 and 1964, Pappenbrook said her own daughter Audrey Brooks, 62, was told grades are important and a high school diploma was a necessity. Pappenbrook said she gave her daughter the option to use savings for a wedding or go to college. Brooks chose college and was the only female student sitting in engineering classes at a college in Illinois.

Jumping ahead to when psychologists agree that a major shift in expectations started is with the Millennials, or those born between 1981 and 1996.

Aurora resident Leah Neu described a world filled with anxiety, where coming home with a math test score of 91% meant her father wanting to know why. In her sophomore year in college, when Neu failed a math class, her father wanted to go have a talk with the professor.

Now, high schoolers and young adults, known as Generation Z, are feeling the effects of an ever-evolving wheel of higher expectations to finish college, look good on paper and succeed. The problem is for a lot of them, they are not the ones in control.

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Bella Terhark is a 2022 graduate of Castle View High School and recently served as an intern with Colorado Community Media.

The parental impact Clinical psychologist Jenna Glover, of Children’s Hospital Colorado, said a parent’s impact on the direction in a child’s life has become

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more of a “culture thing.”

“We are in a competitive world where parents want to put kids in the best possible position to succeed,” Glover Glover said. “(Parents) keep making them do more and more. Parents do not take a step back and kids don’t either.”

Liaw said instead of sending their children the message that it is “OK to just be yourself,” parents have placed a higher priority on stressing the need for the best grades, the best in athletics, the need to be involved in music, foreign languages and clubs.

Liaw said social media has only exacerbated the issues. At one time, she said, parents would compete in their circles. Once social media became common, parents started seeing what everyone everywhere is doing. That meant even stiffer competition to have perfect children, Liaw said.

“As parents, it is important to not get in the way of who (our children) were meant to be,” Liaw said. “It is not easy to navigate as a parent today.”

Glover said for kids, it means wanting to please parents by joining more, working harder and doing better.

“This has led to kids having stress, anxiety and suffering from exhaustion,” Glover said. “They are so busy in their daily lives that they are starting homework at 9 p.m. and only sleeping for a few hours. In reality, it is a really narrow route we put kids on from preschool and up.

Really, we are lacking in flexibility.

This leads to some kids getting in a situation where they fail. But they have not necessarily learned to pick yourself up and find the new avenue.”

Arapahoe Community College Dean of Students Javon Brame said policies have had to be put in place at the college level to prevent “helicopter parents” from managing SEE EXPECTATIONS, P9

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their children’s lives even after they are considered adults.

A helicopter parent is a parent who takes an overprotective or excessive interest in the life of their children. Some of the signs of a helicopter parent include excessive anxiety about their children failing, hovering rather than encouraging and being overly involved in academics, recreational activities and friendships.

Brame said the local community college has had instances where parents have tried to change their child’s class schedules without their knowledge.

The college has also had meeting with parents where administrators have to stress the student is in charge and can make their own choices regarding their education.

“We want students to have a support system and find their own way,” Brame said. “We need them to do this without their helicopter parents.”

Neu said her father comes from a medical background and expected her to follow suit. The Colorado Community Media graphic designer said she eventually had to stand up to him and make her own career choice.

Neu said her relationship with her father now is good and she does not regret standing up to him, but noted it was really tense

to go into the arts rather than medicine based on the expectations he placed on her starting at a young age.

Working at Arapahoe Community College for more than a decade, Brame said problems were starting to emerge several generations ago, but parents of Millennials have elevated the issues.

Glover said there are solutions to improving the current, fragile state of youth development today.

“I encourage parents to take a step back and reflect on what it really means to have a successful child,” she said.

Some principals to follow, Glover said, are for parents to be able to: • Be flexible • Be respectful • Be adaptable Failing to succeed The danger in the paths parents and society have established for children and young adults is the threat of failure.

Brame said students are already coming into college with the pressures and anxiety developed in high school where they had to have the right friends, make the best grades, achieve the right status through clubs and extracurricular activities.

Once in college, students start getting a taste of the real world through carrying a full class load, and working and trying to keep up with the cost of inflation to eat and pay rent.

Brame said it is not unusual

for colleges to transport students to local health institution to get mental health evaluations because they cannot handle meeting the expectations parents and society have put on them.

“For mental health and education, it’s like a third pandemic,” Brame said. “They are carrying a full workload and so much weight and anxiety on their shoulders that something as simple as a flat tire pushes them past the breaking point.”

Brame said having counseling and mental health services available to students on campus is more important now that ever before. While Arapahoe Community College is working to keep up with demand, Brame said on a national level, many institutions are behind in implementing the level of mental health care students need.

Dr. Sophia Meharena, a pediatrician serving patients in Aurora, said failure is hidden from children and youth today. Because failure is not an option, as adolescents grow, they do not know what it looks like, which means at the college level and beyond when young adults experience failure, they are not able to react.

Meharena, a Centennial resident, said parents have their own failures but tend to hide them from children, when they should be doing the opposite. Seeing a parent fail and move forward is important for children to see, she said.

Brame said without experiencing failure in their young lives,

a young adult does not have the mental capability to pick themselves up and move on, learning from failure rather than just giving up.

What are the answers?

Psychologists, school counselors and administrators agree that the struggles high schoolers and college students are experiencing are concerning and does not seem to be getting better as expectations grow with each new generation.

The answers, Liaw said, start at home with what parents should want for their children.

Instead of sending the constant message to a child that “you are not enough,” Liaw said society has to find a way to be happy when a child does their best.

During the pandemic, Liaw said parents were forced to take a step back and stop attending the local soccer leagues, cancel tutoring and music lessons and enforce a certain amount of time be spent on homework and learning.

Liaw said children really just need the basics: • Warmth • Shelter • Love • Care • Comfort “For some families, the pandemic did force a reset,” Liaw said.

“Some parents started asking what it means to be a good parent.

For parents, it is hard to feel like you are not doing enough. It’s important for everybody to just start cutting themselves some slack.”

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Hikers will get the green light to return to the beloved Hanging Lake natural area starting June 25, forest officials recently announced.

The area has been closed to the public since last July, when mudslides in the Grizzly Creek Fire burn scar washed away several bridges along the lake’s main access trail. Hanging Lake itself was spared, but the trail damage made it impossible to access safely.

“We’ve made speedy progress on repair work,” said Leanne Valdhius, a district ranger for the White River National Forest. “There’s a lot of emotion and excitement around this for a lot of people.”

Permits went on sale on May 23.

Visitors must purchase one of the $12 passes on the city of Glenwood Springs’ website before making the trek.

Roughly 600 timed-entry passes will be available each day. The city will not bring back its shuttle service to the trailhead due to safety concerns, so visitors will need to drive or bike to the trailhead themselves, said Lisa Langer, vice president of marketing for Visit Glenwood Springs.

“Because of the potential for bad weather, we’d prefer to have people here with their cars and be able to get them off the trail rather than wait for a shuttle bus,” she said. “When we get a lot of growth through the burn scar, we’ll start the shuttle again.”

A guard will be stationed at the trailhead’s parking lot entrance, and visitors without permits will be turned away, Langer said. Forest officials may institute periodic safety closures during rainstorms.

Hikers familiar with the terrain should expect to see new bridges and stepping stones along the steep, 1-mile route to the lake.

Large piles of rocks and debris from mudslides are visible from the main path.

Other than that, the famous waterfalls and vegetation surrounding Hanging Lake remain fully

intact, forest officials say.

The flash flood and mudslide that shut down Hanging Lake’s trail also mangled part of Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon, trapping more than a hundred motorists at one point and causing more than $100 million in damage. Preparations for future slides are still underway.

Forest officials had to cancel roughly 15,000 hiking reservations to Hanging Lake following the slide. Restoration work is moving along partially thanks to a public fund started by The National Forest Foundation, a federal entity responsible for funding trail projects. Great Outdoors Colorado recently awarded a $2.8 million grant of its own to support the rebuild.

Workers put the finishing touches on one of the new wooden bridges lining the path on Wednesday. Each bridge is designed to withstand moderate mud flows that may come through the area again, said Joe Murphy, a builder with Summit to Sea, the main contractor hired to do trail repairs.

“We’re shooting for this to last decades and decades,” Murphy said. “This is a really special place and we want it to be in great shape.”

Local and federal government agencies have spent more than $150,000 to get the trail into usable shape for this summer. Other work includes re-grading some of the steep inclines along the trail and removing loose boulders and rocks near the main walkway.

Design plans for a new, permanent trail are still in the preliminary stages, said Jamie Werner, stewardship coordinator with the National Forest Foundation.

“The long-term plan is going to take roughly 3 years to complete,” Werner said. “We want to make this trail as sturdy and stable as possible.”

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Graduates’ tough choices

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y nephew was one of those graduates, earning some high credits from a small high school in Florence. In high school, he flourished in band, made straight As and got about $7,000 in scholarships.

FROM THE However, in the months leading up to EDITOR his final walk across the stage in that clichéd last piece of childhood and entering adulthood, he was not always so optimistic about the future.

The fact is, as he started looking toward adulthood, he started realizing what that really means in to today’s world.

Really, students today are entering the “real world” with a lot of strikes Thelma Grimes already against them. We have inflation rates soaring — sorry, that means food, rent and life is too costly for that fast-food job to support. Gasoline prices are soaring – that means commuting to and from college classes and work is that much harder.

Now, let’s talk about college. It is frightening to see the cost of getting that secondary education. Colleges and universities are charging unprecedented amounts, making college choices really hard to figure out.

For my nephew, he was offered an opportunity at a Montana school, with some financial assistance. However, he started realizing that maintaining the GPA required for the scholarship, working and living out-ofstate might be too tough.

Instead, he started asking if he is a failure for getting general ed classes out of the way by going to a community college. I was saddened to think that he really thought looking at a community college meant failure.

I had a straight talk with him, telling him my initial degree came from a community college in Arizona.

I used grants and scholarships to pay for it, and to this day, I think the education I got in those years is still way better than the expensive one at a university where I had to get student loans to pay for a bachelor’s degree.

I still do not understand how community colleges and trade schools got such a bad rap. I had a math teacher who truly taught me something I hated doing.

I had journalism teachers who got me ready to start a career. I loved working at the community college newspaper.

I wanted my nephew to understand that he was not a failure for taking the option he thought best for him.

With his scholarship money, in the first years of education, he will get the requirements out of the way and will not be in a major amount of debt doing so.

And, frankly, our universities are not always the best option for a small-town student venturing out of their comfort zones for the first time. Starting small and then going to a university might mean he overcomes the pressures and succeeds.

I hope all of this year’s graduates do what’s best for them and not their parents, and not what society says they should.

Thelma Grimes is the south metro editor for Colorado Community Media

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Find the way out to find the way forward

t some point in our lives we all experience obstacles, challenges or barriers, things that keep us from moving ahead. And sometimes we become so fixated on the problem that we actually feel stuck. And the longer we remain stuck, the harder it is to break free or move forward. When this happens, we typically overthink the situation, leading to what is referred to as analysis paralysis.

For some of it feels like we are in a maze and each path we choose to follow leads to a dead end, forcing us to turn back the way we came. If you have ever been to an amusement park with a funhouse, you are probably familiar with the part of the funhouse that is a house of mirrors that needs to be navigated before moving on to the next part of the journey. As we step up to the challenge of the maze, we understand the problem and use reason or logic in choosing the right path, or process of elimination until we find the right one.

However, in a house of mirrors, there is another layer of complication, we see ourselves everywhere we look. And sometimes, we realize that as we look in the mirror, the challenge or the problem is that we need to get out of our own way and stop being our own worst enemy. We need to find the way out so that we can find the way forward.

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When this happens, it’s not so much fun and games anymore, is it? And sometimes we can’t even look at ourselves in the mirror, knowing that the mirror never lies.

There are a few words that receive a lot of attention when it comes to leading ourselves or leading others. Words like ownership, accountability, responsibility, setting proper expectations and building trust.

These are powerful words and when applied can transform the person or change the situation for the better. When we are willing to be open and vulnerable, and willing to own that we just might be the problem, it’s the first step in finding the way out so we can find the way forward.

As my uncle Harry used to say, “There

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A word on kids’ activities

K

ids are just so busy these days, don’t you think?

They have to have a sport, good grades, speak a second language, play an instrument and still have time to have fun.

Personally, I care more about helping my kids find their passion than anything else, that thing that fuels you to become who you are.

But I had to find mine in order to teach my kids how to find theirs.

I always thought I knew what my passions were while growing up.

But when I look back on it, I now see that they were more ambitions than passions. I was constantly striving to meet the high and wellmeaning expectations of those around me. But I never took the time to really consider what I love to do, independent of recognition or reward.

In my 30s, I was finally fed up with chasing after everyone’s expectation of me and ready to start trusting those desires and living the life that I wanted.

A while back, I listened to a speech about how to find your calling in life. Nothing the speaker said really resonated with me until this part — “Our strongest gifts tend to appear early in life, so it might help if you think back on your childhood and about how and what you played.”

As I thought about these words, my mind immediately went to my childhood basement. My parents had seven children, most of whom were not the calm, sit still, do-asyou’re-told type.

Needless to say, with that much organized chaos (as we like to call it), the basement became a black

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is nothing so bad that it couldn’t be worse, and nothing so good that it couldn’t be better.” I share this with you because it is not always a problem or challenge, it is also about wanting to improve at something where we are already achieving success. Self-reflection gives us the opportunity to assess where there is a gap that needs to be fixed or if it is a goal that needs to be reached. And in either case, what has our role been, what should we have, or could we have done differently or better? And do we own it?

There is a lot that has been written about the fact that we become what we think about most. We talk to ourselves all the time. And as

hole over the years of unfinished projects, souvenirs and clutter collected throughout the day, waiting to find a home again.

I loved being down there. I would often rummage through the boxes and piles, imagining how an item Stacey Carruth got there or what prompted my parents to buy it.

But what I was most drawn to were the books. Not the picture books or even the novels, but the nonfiction books — everything from self-help to religion to memoirs.

When I was in middle school, I remember this one particular book. It was a quote book from some wise, old author (I still don’t remember his name). It was blue with silver lettering and zero pictures. I remember reading that book for hours by myself in the shadows of that basement. I loved considering each quote as I marveled at his way of putting thoughts and ideas into such concise and clear wording.

What I didn’t realize was how peculiar it was for an 11-year-old girl to choose her stuffy basement as her form of play.

It took me 25 years to realize what I was doing — marveling at the art of writing and expressing.

And to realize how much I was attracted to that form of art.

But I discovered more clues along the way.

Like most people, sometimes we

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David Goggins said, “The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.” So, if we are going to talk to ourselves, we can certainly start with diagnosing where we are, who we are and what we are, and make the changes necessary to find a way out so we can find our way forward.

Are you facing a challenge or is there a specific obstacle standing in your way? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@xinnix. com, and when we cand find our way out and find our way forward, it really will be a better than good year.

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just can’t sleep. The usual culprits are too much caffeine or anxiety.

But what about the times where we can’t sleep when we’re too excited? Besides Christmas and my birthday, this happened often over the years. I would find myself lying awake thinking about what I would say in random scenarios.

In my head, but while desperately trying to fall asleep, I have crafted opening speeches of being voted the first woman president of the United States, what I would say to a man who kidnapped me or the better sermon I would have given than the one I just heard.

It was only when I shared this habit with a friend that I realized what it meant. Her response was, “Oh, interesting. I stay up all night thinking about what I’m going to sew the next day.”

Wait, what?

She didn’t think about words?

She didn’t dream in words?

From then on, I continued to read and to write as a form of play.

As I started exploring this creative part of myself, it unleashed a joy that I had not experienced in a long time. Life was not a to-do list, but something to fully experience.

This is what I want for my children.

I often hear parents talk about how involved or intense their kids’ activities should be. There is a lot of pressure for our kids to be the best and to do it young so they can reach their “full potential.”

My opinion is that my kids are not going to the Olympics. They’re not prodigies. They’re normal, average Janes and Joes.

And that is exactly what makes them capable of changing the world. Because the purpose of life isn’t to be the best, in my book.

The purpose of life is to live it … and help people along the way.

According to our budget and time constraints, I sign my kids up for whatever they want, for how long they want, in the cheapest way possible, even if that means I am the teacher/coach using a Youtube video I watched the night before.

And I watch.

I watch for what gives them that spark … and then I do my best to fan the flames.

Stacey Carruth is a parent with four children in Arapahoe County.

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More than a dozen farmers markets across the Front Range and metro area are opening up

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Boulter’s Urban Market Where: Lamar Station Plaza, 6715 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood.

When: May 17 to – October 29; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Website: boulters5280urbanmarket.com/ market-locations/ Cherry Creek Fresh Market Where: Cherry Creek Shopping Center, 1st Ave. and University Blvd.

When: May 7 – November 5; from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Website: coloradofreshmarkets.com/visit Notes: There is free parking during market hours.

Golden Farmers Market Where: The Golden Library on the corner of 10th & Illinois When: June 4 – October 8; 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Website: https://goldenfarmersmarket.org/ Lakewood Farmers Market Where: Mile Hi Church, 9077 W Alameda Ave. When: June 11 – September 24; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Website: denverfarmersmarket.com/ Southwest Plaza Farmers Market Where: Southeast parking lot at Wadsworth and Bowles in Littleton When: April 30 – October 29; 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Website: denverfarmersmarket.com/ Westminster Farmers Market Where: 5255 W. 98th Ave., Westminster When: June 4 – September 24; 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Website: https://westminsterfarmersmarkets.com/

Arvada Farmers Market Where: Old Towne Square, located at 5702 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada When: June 5 – September 25; 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Website: arvadafarmersmarket.com Castle Rock Farmers Market Where: Festival Park, located at 300 2nd St., Castle Rock When: May 8 – September 30; 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Website: thelocalcolorado.com/castle-rock-farmersmarket Highlands Ranch Farmers Market Where: 9288 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch When: May 1 – October 30; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Website: http://www.denverfarmersmarket.com/ Orchard Farmers Market Where: Orchard Town Center, located at 14535 Delaware St., Westminster When: June 5 – September 25; 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Website: orchardfarmersmarket.com/ MORE FARMERS MARKETS ON PAGE 15

It’s that time of the year again.

More than a dozen farmers markets are opening across the Denver metro area, bringing with them a bounty of offerings such as farm-fresh produce, handcrafted soaps and even ... giant snakes?

Some markets are already up and running, such as the Saturday market at the Southwest Plaza in Jefferson County or the Sunday market at the Highlands Ranch Town Center.

“It’s a happening thing to do,” said Bodhi Allen, social media manager for Metro Denver Farmers’ Market, the oldest collection of markets in the metro area. “The social aspects are part of the whole thrill of it.”

Formed more than 45 years ago, Metro Denver Farmers’ Market is run by a coalition of longstanding Colorado farms and includes the markets at Southwest Plaza and Highlands Ranch as well as ones in Lakewood, Littleton and Commerce City.

Each market offers more than 30 vendors and sees hundreds of patrons. Allen said the markets’ success hinges on the relationships vendors built with the community.

“People are looking for something fresher than the grocery store,” Allen said. “Over the years, customers build relationships with these farmers and these vendors, and they trust us.”

Alan Mazzotti, owner of Mazzotti’s Farm in Hudson, has been a leader with the Metro Denver Farmers’ Market group for years. His father was an original founder, Mazzotti said, during a time when the U.S. Department of Agriculture was sponsoring local farmers to push their products through more urban markets.

“I love talking with the people,” Mazzotti said. “I have customers from day one that still come to the market today.”

Mazzotti said he offers “a little bit of everything” from his roughly 80-acre farm.

But urged market-goers to be patient as much of the highly sought-after produce, such as corn and peaches, won’t come into season until later this summer, around July and August.

And while some vendors offer a variety of produce from in-state and out, Mazzotti said his items are strictly Colorado grown. That can cause some sacrifices, Mazzotti said, such as having to cut down on corn stock given this year’s already dire drought.

“The water situation is going to be a big problem,” Mazzotti said, though he is hopeful that through his partnership with other farmers there will still be enough to go around at the market.

Allen, the social media manager for Denver Metro, said it’s a reminder that market seasons are often a great unknown.

“We’re at the whim of the elements in terms of how successful the season is,” she said.

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Parker Farmers Market Where: At the corner for Parker Road and Mainstreet, 19565 E. Mainstreet When: May 8 – October 3 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Website: thelocalcolorado.com/parker-farmers-market/ STEAD School at Reunion Farmers Market Where: 18251 Homestead Trail, Commerce City When: July 17 – September 25; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Website: denverfarmersmarket.com/tablet/index.html There’s something for everyone at a farmers market, even for a 40-pound reticulated python. Mason Stiegera, pictured, has been bringing the python, Sunny, to the Southwest Plaza Farmers Market for the past two years. Stiegera runs the Littleton-based Righteous Reptile Rescue, which seeks to find new homes for unwanted reptiles and amphibians.

Boulter’s Urban Market (Evergreen) Where: Boone Mountain Sports, 2962 Evergreen Pkwy., Evergreen, When: May 31 – September 28; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Website: boulters5280urbanmarket.com/market-locations/

Boulter’s Urban Market (Green Valley) Where: Green Valley Recreation Center, located at 4890 Argonne Way When: June 30 – September 1; 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Website: boulters5280urbanmarket.com/market-locations/ Cherry Creek Fresh Market Where: Cherry Creek Shopping Center, located at the corner of 1st Ave. and University Blvd.

When: June 15 – September 28; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Website: coloradofreshmarkets.com/visit

Sebastian Cil and Veronica Hanalwalt present their homemade paella during the first day of the Southwest Plaza Farmers Market on April 30. The day also marked Cil and Hanalwalt’s market debut.

Centennial Farmers Market Where: University Towne Center, 7424 S. University Blvd., Centennial.

When: May 4 – October 26; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Website: https://elephantrockfarm.com/ Littleton Farmers Market Where: Aspen Grove, 7301 South Santa Fe Drive, Littleton.

When: July 13 – September 14; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Carol Campbell has been making handmade soaps for 25 years. Her business, Cecolors and Company, offers a pallet of colorful and unique bath items at the Southwest Plaza Farmers Market. Campbell, who has sold at the market for years, said she enjoys the connections she’s able to make. “I get to see my regulars every week, but I also meet new people every week who then become regulars,” she said. “It’s wonderful.”

South University Farmers Market Where: 5859 S. University Blvd. Greenwood Village.

When: May 6 through October 28; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Markets, offers a variety of produce grown in Colorado as well as outside states, such as Arizona, Texas, California and Washington.

“These are all places we’ve been and met people — we have connections all over,” Becker said.

And it’s not just fruits and vegetables that customers can expect from these markets. Vendors selling artisanal items such as handmade bath products, local wine and decorative plants are also present.

Carol Campbell, whose company Cecolors and Company can be found Sundays at the Highlands Ranch Town Center market, hand-makes hundreds of bars of soap each week.

Originally a hobby of her husband’s, soap making is something Campbell fell in love with and has been doing for about 25 years. Being an artist as well, Campbell’s products, imbued with subtle spectrums of color, are each wrapped in strips of watercolor-painted paper.

“I love the farmers market,” Campbell said. “I get to see my regulars every week, and I also meet new people every week who then become regulars.”

Depending on when patrons choose to visit the market at Southwest Plaza, they may run into a 40-pound reticulated python, the largest snake in the world.

Mason Stiegera, who founded the Littleton-based Righteous Reptile Rescue, will often bring various reptiles and amphibians to the market as the weather becomes warmer. Along with just wanting them to have some fresh air, the reptiles and amphibians are also open to adopt as Stiegera’s rescue center is constantly searching for new homes.

Markets will run until mid- to late fall, with some closing as early as September and others as late as November.

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New and mind-bending at Curtis Susan Cooper restrospective runs through June 25 at gallery in Greenwood Village

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Susan Cooper is a Denver-based, nationally recognized artist, known for her large works in the realm of public art, created with media including plexiglass, steel and copper, LED lighting, concrete, polycarbonate steel, wood and bronze.

A colorful retrospective of her work opened May 14 at Curtis Center for the Arts, 2349 E. Orchard Road, Greenwood Village and will run through June 25.

It is called “Susan Cooper: Rearranging.”

It includes large works like “Corona Comfort,” created from scraps of brightly colored plexiglass saved from earlier projects.

She writes in the show’s prospectus that they were non-biodegradable and vibrant in color. Some were too huge to move and some show images from past projects.

“Forward and Back,” a particularly lively, brightly colored paper mural, is made of cut-up postcards that were printed to advertise earlier exhibits by Cooper. A companion piece, “Rearranging Retrospectionism,” is on a similar theme, but made from black-and-white postcards, which Cooper says were all she could afford at first.

Walk on into the exhibit and she surely shows an intent to play with your mind, as she messes with perspective! Chairs and tables, lamps and beds skew in various ways and angles. Some are actual furniture pieces — sort of — and others are wall-hung artworks. “Just not functional furniture,” she writes.

Bright color prevails in general, with the exception of a pair of bronze cast wall pieces, “Highwise” and “Full House,” in her Storyline Series. They call a visitor to stare at the detail.

All of these artworks show a precise attention to fine crafts-

Susan Cooper poses with her artwork “Corona Comfort,” created from scraps of brightly colored plexiglass, which is on display at COURTESY PHOTO Curtis Center for the Arts in Greenwood Village.

manship and a fascinating intellect. These works relate in my mind to surrealism — they are indeed surreal, yet include objects that are so familiar.

Cooper’s bio says she received MA and BA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and has an early major work in Denver’s City/County Building Rotunda: two high relief murals.

She has work at area light rail stations plus additional projects in Colorado, California, Florida, Missouri and Nebraska.

I think children with a creative bent would enjoy this exhibit, although I’d imagine a number of “why” questions may come forth.

A “no-touch” rule would certainly be needed, but it is stimulating to contemplate this work ...

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Tesoro Indian Market returns

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he 21st annual Tesoro Indian Market and Ceremonial Dance returns on June 4-5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the grounds of The Fort Restaurant, 19192 Highway 8, Morrison.

This is just off of Highway 285.

Admission: $10 adults; 12 and younger free. Parking is free. Native American artists sell their works, performances by costumed dancers, music, demonstrations

by Nature’s Educators, exhibits from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, food from the Fort Restaurant. Visit: TesoroCulturalCenter.org or call 303-839-1671.

We have visited this event numerous times — busy, but enjoyable day.

Public art Another family/art/outing idea: pick up the brochure of public art in South Suburban parks, perhaps pack a picnic and look for one or more works to enjoy. They start with Reven Swanson’s “Desert Art Bench” in Cornerstone Park (5150 S. Windermere St. in Englewood), include a number of works that kids will love — and can touch — and may give a family or an individual a new favorite place to hang out! Hudson Gardens (6115 S. Santa Fe Drive in Littleton) offers a number of pieces, including Stephen LeBlanc’s charming “Hangin’ Around” near the river, accompanied by a watchful mama bear at the entrance from Mary Carter Greenway.

Englewood Arts Presents Three Midsummer Matinees at 2 p.m.: June 18, Byron Hitchcock, violin, Adam Hass, piano; July 6, Claude Sim, violin, Natalie Sim, piano; Aug. 13, Lara St. John, violin, Kennedy, Sonya Ellingboe Martin piano. Concerts in Hampden Hall in the Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Ticket office opens at 1:30. Fine chamber music.

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New name Insight Colab Theatre was once Theatre Esprit Asia, TEA, and features Asian actors and stories.

“Say My Name” will tell the story of Korean immigrant Seung-Min, who is studying for her naturalization test and is haunted by ghosts of Asian women from history. It will play June 16-19 at The People’s Building, 9995 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora. Tickets $20-$30. insightcolab.org. Thursday-Saturday at 7 p.m.; Sunday at 1 and 4 p.m. Book and direction by Pang Yuan Yuan. Music and lyrics

by David Nehls.

Books Summer reading programs will start at all our local libraries in Arapahoe and Douglas counties.

The Tesoro Indian Market and Ceremonial Dance will be held June 4-5 at The Fort COURTESY PHOTO BY SARA FRANCES Restaurant in Morrison.

Check out themes and programs and sign up for lots of free enjoyment at your nearest library.

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Arapahoe Philharmonic “Stars and Stripes Forever” concert by the Arapahoe Philharmonic Orchestra will combine with food and drinks from Breckenridge Brewery in Littleton on July 3.

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Get lost in the new DMNS experience

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ATTRACTIONS And then there are experiences, like the new Mazes & Brain Games, which just opened at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.

“The Mazes Clarke Reader experience is an open-ended way to avoid the summer slump for kids who are getting off of school while keeping the brain sharp and busy,” said Kelsi Cowan, a program coordinator at DMNS. “It’s a family-friendly activity for people to do in the three months of summer they have off.”

Mazes & Brain Games, created by Minotaur Mazes, runs at the museum, 2001 Colorado Blvd. in Denver through Sept. 25.

The experience is included in a general admission ticket. While it is fun for people of all ages, it is specifically designed with children and young people in mind.

“It’s been several years since we’ve opened an experience made specifically to engage our youngest of scientists, and we can’t wait to see what mastery and ideas the experience inspires,” said George Sparks, DMNS President and CEO,

said in a statement.

According to provided information, the experience includes both 3-D puzzles and full-body games of all kinds. Some of these games include a giant Maze of Illusions, the Junior Explorer Music Maze, the Web Maze and the Puzzle Maze.

“So many of these activities require the use of the full body, but we also have finger mazes and pocket science from our volunteers,” Cowan said. “All of this is a great way to focus on brain health and attendees are actually learning, whether they’re aware of it or not.”

The experience pairs well with the museum’s other major exhibit — “Egypt: Time of the Pharaohs.” Visitors can immerse themselves in learning about one of the world’s most important civilizations and then get out their energy by solving some puzzles.

“I don’t think anyone will walk away from the experience saying it was easy to solve every single puzzle,” Cowan said. “All of these activities have been shown to enhance everything from mental process to short term memory.

So, you can have fun will helping your brain to function better.”

For information and tickets, visit dmns.org.

Inspiration is key with the LSO The Lakewood Symphony Orchestra is closing out its 2021-

2022 season at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 2 at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, with a concert titled “Inspiration is the Key!” The concert will include performances of Weber’s Overture to Oberon, Tchaikovsky’s 2nd Symphony and Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, performed by featured young artist, Rhianna Lingle.

She has been playing the violin since she was 4 years old and has held various leadership positions in both the Denver Young Artists Orchestra and the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony Orchestra. She recently participated in the Side by Side concert with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.

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Soothe the ears with fantastic jazz The Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra Sextet is bringing some fantastic jazz to both Northglenn and Lakewood with An Evening of Sass, Swingin’ and Standards featuring Marion Powers.

The group will stop at The Parsons Theatre in Northglen, 1 E. Memorial Parkway at 7:30 p.m. on June 3, and at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, at 7:30 p.m. on June 4.

According to provided information, the evening will feature classic jazz tunes and fresh arrangements by CJRO artistic director, Drew Zaremba. Powers,

an award-winning artist whose “dynamic improvisation skill and fresh and modern arranging style” has made her a draw all over the country, will join Zaremba, Eric Erhardt, Shane Endsley, Eric Gunnison, Gonzalo Teppa and Mike Marlier.

Get tickets for either show at https://www.coloradojazz.org/ concerts.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Gary Clark Jr. at Red Rocks You really can’t get past the blues. And with guitarists like Gary Clark Jr. doing their thing, why would you want to? Over the course of his albums — both studio and live — easily prove him to be one of the finest torchbearers of the genre and his live shows are absolutely not-to-be missed.

So, don’t miss Clark Jr. at at 7:30 p.m. May 30 Red Rocks, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway in Morrison. If one of the best bluesmen around isn’t enough to tempt you, he’ll be joined by Durand Jones and & The Indications, a woefully underrated R&B group that makes some of the genre’s most thrilling music.

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Rock Canyon graduates greet next chapters

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Rock Canyon High School graduates were ebulliant and acrobatic in picking up their diplomas during the ceremony to celebrate the Class of 2022 in Denver on May 19.

More than 550 seniors graduated from the Highlands Ranch high school this year and they gathered with friends and family at the Magness Arena to mark the end of their high school careers.

Rock Canyon High School Principal Megan Brown shared some details of the graduating class’s success so far, such as attending colleges and universities in 42 states and four other countries, receiving over $20 million in scholarships and seeing six graduates go on to serve in the military.

“Class of 2022 … this school will not be the same without you,” Brown said. “You revived traditions, estabMany of Rock Canyon’s Class of 2022 strutted, danced, made faces and backflipped up to get their diplomas.

PHOTOS BY MCKENNA HARFORD lishes new ones, set records, stepped to as role models to the younger classes, all the whileplanning your futures that put you on so many roads in so many directions, but that all start at the corner of Monarch and MacArthur Ranch. You reminded us what it means to be a Jag.” Graduate speakers Krish Kumar, Olivia Gallo and Allison Willner shared fond memories of their years at Rock Canyon and touched on advice for taking the next steps.

“Setting the tone of our hearts on gratitude will allow our future interactions to be full of love,” Gallo told the crowd. “Though the summer after senior year will be busy for many, I encourage you to focus on your perspective. Staying in perspective will allow you to be grateful in the present and love others well.”

The ceremony also included perfor- Rock Canyon graduates are heading off to two- and four-year mances by Ripley Coope, Elena Song, institutions in 42 states and four different countries, having reRachel Kim and the school bands and ceived over $20 million in scholarships. Additionally, six students choir. will join the military.

As students received their diplomas, they danced, backflipped, made quirky faces, hyped up the croud and patted themselves on the back. The audience was equally celebratory with air horns, rattles, bells, shouts, whistles and hollers.

Once all of the graduates’ names had been called, the black-gown crowd tossed up their caps with a cheer.

“Today marks the start of a new journey,” Kumar said in his speech.

“Now, it’s your responsibility to use your new power as high school graduates to progress the communities around you and the world.”

As high school graduations continue to be held throughout the region, Rock Canyon High School beat the Rock Canyon High School Principal Megan Brown presents the Ripley Coope sings Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful snow storm, hosting the 2022 celebra- Class of 2022 to Douglas County Deputy Superintendent Andy World” at the 2022 Rock Canyon High School graduation in tion on May 19.

PHOTO BY MCKENNA HARFORD Denver on May 19.

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Congratulations Brady Barrow Ponderosa High School

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“My brother was diagnosed with cancer in 2016. Over the past few years, he has been in and out of the hospital countless times.

Because of his diagnosis, I have learned many things. Mostly I have learned two important lessons: Family is everything and life is too short not to do what you love. My family has been so supportive of my dreams, and I am eternally grateful for them. Seeing the struggles my brother has gone through has shown me that life is too short to sit by. It’s important to do what you love, which for me is comedy.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“My favorite memory from high school was my junior year production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

in which I played Logainne.

This was so fun because it was our first musical back from Covid and I got to act and sing with all of my best friends.

The musical was so funny and I am so so proud of everyone involved. The theatre program at Ponderosa is truly unmatched.

I have never been part of such an amazing and supportive group!”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“I think the defining qualities of my senior class are individuality, resilience, and openness. I have seen our class work through multiple challenges and come out of it changed. We have become more open, often connecting in ways we didn’t before. And we’ve learned that trends and standards aren’t crucial to a successful life. I think our class has learned an immense amount from the last four years and that is so wonderful!”

Kaleb Curnow Castle View High School

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“I’ve had many experiences good and bad through high school, but I’m going to choose to focus on a good one that helped me to turn my life around. Putting myself first, I know it doesn’t sound the best but it’s something you really need to do to get ahead or bounce back.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“There are lots of memories from high school that I look back on and enjoy. My favorites have to be from the time I spent in Ponderosa’s Auto class. I learned so much just from being in that class with one of, if not, my favorite teacher, Mr. Leseke. Not only did I learn but also got to spend time with like minded people looking to follow the same career path as myself.”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“I have to say although I’ve never been very fond of people, the graduating Class of 2022 is something that grows on you. In every batch of people

there will be ones that you don’t relate to and therefore don’t associate with or talk to, but within our class there’s a group of people for everyone, even someone like myself.”

Luke Dry

Highlands Ranch High School Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“A personal experience that impacted me as a person, or changed my outlook on life, was the last track meet of my sophomore year of high school. This meet was also the first, and only meet of the year, due to the restrictions brought by the pandemic.

Covid-19 affected everyone differently, and this event serves as a benchmark, and oftentimes reminds me of how precious life is, and how quickly the things we love can be taken away if we are not careful.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“It’s hard to have one specific favorite memory from high school. The past four years have been filled with defining moments, but my favorite memories have been from just normal, everyday school.

Laughing while working on a class project, quickly finishing an assignment with my

friends, or seeing something hilarious happen in the hallways are all things that happen frequently but are things I hope to never forget. Being able to go through life with the people I have surrounded myself with is my favorite thing to come out of my high school experience.”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“The Class of 2022 is the only class ever to start high school, learn online due to a worldwide pandemic, then finish high school, in person. While we are fortunate to end high school with relative normality, the past three years have required empathy, discipline, and a willingness to adapt. It is these same qualities that will help the Class of 2022 grow as we enter an ever changing and divided world. Our high school experience was not normal, and it is our experience with the abnormal that will help the Class of 2022 make the world a better place.”

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Congratulations Mandy Fleetwood Rock Canyon High School

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“Transferring high schools at the age of 15 has significantly impacted me as a person and changed my outlook on life. While transitioning to a new school, I also was faced with being held back in athletics and then later going into quarantine that soon took a year and a half from a school I was so ecstatic to come to. However, I feel it helped shape me into a more appreciative and present person going into college and the future.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“My favorite memory from the last four years was counting for Abbey Gardner in the 500 free-style at A-leagues 2021. She had been seeded first going into the meet and ended up missing the A-final by one place.

However, her club teammate was forced to scratch–giving her the outside lane at finals.

She came back and won the entire event. It was exhilarating to be the closest person to her as she experienced this moment.

Though that particular meet did not turn out how I wished, watching the success of people I care about created a powerful memory for me.”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“If I could embody the diverse RCHS senior class in one term, it would be: resilient. No matter who you come into contact with, every senior in this class of ‘22 has endured through something unique and eye opening.

These are the hardest working people I have ever met (each in different ways), and I truly believe surrounding myself with these individuals has pushed me to success.”

Jade Gromer Chaparral High School

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“It was September of my Junior year and I was waking up to do school on a screen. Looking around on my zoom call I could see the light missing from my classmates eyes. Not being able to see each other during a time of uncertainty took a toll on everyone, but it truly made me realize how fast our world can change.

Life is so fragile and we sometimes take it for granted. COVID helped me treat the moments I have with my favorite people as a gift and not a guarantee.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“The 3 Wish Week’s I have experienced in High School will forever be my most prized memories. All the love, energy and selflessness Wish Week brings represents everything I

hope to continue to create and embody in myself as a person.

Seeing the students give so much love to a child in need beyond granting their Wish truly showed me that there is so much more to people then they portray. These weeks reminded me that all it takes is a person to change your life. So thank you, Edward, Chelsea, Emma and Chase for changing mine.”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“If I could use one word to describe my graduating Class of 2022 it would be passionate.

Coming back from a year of being online and struggling with connection inside Chaparral it took grit, hard-work and most importantly passion to make Chaparral a family again. They led by example in their actions to help those around them feel heard and seen. I am so proud to stand among a class who this year put the Chap family before themselves, created a legacy that will last a lifetime, and inspired me to do the same in my next chapter of life.”

Sean Harris Castle View High School

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“A personal experience that really shaped my outlook on life was when a woman brought six kittens into my job at Hot Topic. We were really busy that day, but the entire staff (and store, for that matter) dropped everything to pet the kittens.

This made me realize that no matter how frustrating or busy your day is, it’s always important to take a rest or a quick breather to recollect yourself.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“Probably my favorite memory from all of high school was when two kids hopped into the cafeteria trash cans and had a “jousting match.” They both had someone push their trash cans as hard as possible toward each other, and when they finally collided there was an explosion of trash; security got mad at them and made them pick it up, but it was really funny. The same kids also set up a slip and slide in the cafeteria with dish soap too; these memories really illustrate how unpredictable

high school was, and I loved every second of it.”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“I have noticed that we as the Class of 2022 exhibit independence, trust, and empathy. Most kids in my class had a job in 7th-8th grade, which just goes to show how eager we are to be independent citizens! And we are loyal to those we trust because we understand the value that trust holds in our everyday relationships and interactions. Finally, I feel like most people in my class empathize pretty well, given that we know what it’s like to be sad or in a dark place. And we don’t want anyone else to ever feel that way.”

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Congratulations Sarah Hayden Castle View High School

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“Working at the senior center and interacting with the elderly so often really made me realize the importance of treating people with kindness and consideration.

You never know what struggles someone may be going through, and the most important skill I learned was to be respectful and give everyone a smile.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“My absolute favorite memory from high school took place in my Anatomy and Physiology class this school year. We were able to learn so much by dissecting our own fetal pigs, but some of us also ended up dressing our poor pigs in baby socks

and baby hats. That was just such a goofy and memorable experience and I remember having lots of fun in that class.”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“The Class of 2022 is resilient, determined, and talented.

We had to endure such a large technological shift in our education, not just during online and hybrid school but also throughout elementary and middle school when technology really started advancing and popularizing to become a larger part of our schooling.

That experience has molded us into a strong and versatile class. So many of my peers are incredibly gifted and accomplished and I am excited to see all that this class is capable of in the years to come.”

Ross Johansen Highlands Ranch High School

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“A personal challenge I faced in high school was with swimming and state. Swimming has been a part of my life for over 10 years and has been a very positive experience. During my junior season, I was extremely close to a state cut in the 100 free, however, the time evaded me for most of the season. At the final meet before state, I was able to make the cut. While I’m lucky my challenge was small compared to many others, it taught me the important lesson of positivity. I believe positivity is key to achieving goals. No matter the outcome one has to be proud of their accomplishments and look at their efforts in a positive light.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“My favorite memory from high school was the 2022 Wish Week. Wish Week is an amazing fundraising event in support of granting sick children’s wishes through the Make-a-Wish Foundation. This was the first year back since the COVID-19 pandemic and was an extremely successful year. I was fortunate enough to be a part of the

Logan Kelley Castle View High School

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“During my sophomore year of high school, I steadily fell into a depression and anxiety slump. COVID-19 covered up my parents seeing it, as I began to hardly interact with anyone at all. It became immensely difficult to do anything efficient in the day, and all I usually did was watch TV shows. Over time though, I steadily gained back socialness, my ability to do things, and so forth. It wasn’t overnight, but I was able to get help. I now know the struggle people with mental illness face, and how badly the need for help is against this.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“After finals in my sophomore year, a few friends and I got together to walk up to the local Chick-Fil-A. It was a hot day and a long walk, but it was fun to be with everyone after

stressing over our classes. At the place we had a lot of fun just chatting and chilling for hours, just enjoying the nice day. Looking back, it makes me see just how valuable having friends is, to have someone to relax with, to do things with, and to know you aren’t alone.”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“I think our best defining quality is our ability to carry that weight. In an everchanging world with tension rising, it’s difficult to remain steady, to see what you need to do to move forwards in life. Despite Covid-19, despite a divisive election, despite it all, we’ve made it through high school. For some it may have been easier or harder, but we’ve all made it through. We’ve managed to carry the weight of these issues and burdens all present in our lives, and graduate.”

planning and running of the event, and seeing the impact it had on Alayah was extremely rewarding.”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“The Class of 2022 is the COVID generation. This amazing class has fought three long years of COVID impacted schooling and come out on top.

Despite every challenge my class has faced, we continued to bring the energy and keep the Ranch spirit high.”

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Congratulations Lily Klement Renaissance Secondary

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“Voyages throughout all of my K-12 career have impacted me, but the voyages I went on in high school have been pretty awesome.

Last year, my class went canoeing and I remember sitting at the campfire at the end of the night telling stories. Voyages have been such an impactful thing for me because I have gotten to connect to nature and myself, along with growing with my crew.

I am very excited for my upcoming senior voyage where I will go white water rafting!”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“My favorite memory from high school is from junior year prom. I was doing remote learning so it was the first time that I got to see a lot of my friends in a while. I also got to see lots of staff. It was a semi outdoor venue and I had a blast dancing.”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“My senior class is a small group of students who care for one another. We spend time laughing and learning from one another. I really appreciate a small school because I know each one of my classmates and talk to them pretty regularly.”

Tabitha Reading Mountain Vista High School

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“February 28, 2019, my dad passed away. I felt defeated because my hero was gone.

My dad’s death changed me and transformed my life. It forced me to find strength inside myself. Through prayer, I decided not to let fear of the unknown destroy me but to remain steadfast in hope for a bright future and unwavering in desire to make the world a better place. Every day since, I have created beauty from my dad’s ashes and know he is proudly watching over me as I grow into a confident, fearless young woman determined to make her dreams reality.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“My favorite high school memories are the New York City and California Student Leadership trips after successful Wish Week events. Touring two of the fashion capitals of the world was a dream-come-true; however, the events that got us there were even more magical.

Every year, student leadership is blessed to plan and execute Wish Week where we raise money and grant wishes for a terminally ill child. We work hard to provide an unforgettable experience.

I am proud to say in my four years at Mountain Vista High School, we raised over $1M for Make a Wish Foundation.”

Grace Schroeder eDCSD

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“Defining qualities of my graduating class are ingenuity, teamwork, resilience, and problem solving. With the COVID-19 pandemic entrenched in two out of four years, our Class of 2022 was faced with unprecedented challenges. Although rough at times, we always found ways to make the best out of every situation… succeed in whatever circumstance and/or endeavor was presented which strengthened our community and elevated our spirit. We realized when we work together, we are unstoppable!”

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“A personal life experience that has particularly shaped me was the pandemic. That may be rather cliche, but it really strengthened and helped me decide my path in life. While I have always been interested in therapy and psychology, I was particularly guided by COVID’s effects on the brain and how that influences behavior as well as the collective mental health struggles during this time, leading me to pursue clinical psychology.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“My favorite memory from

high school was probably the night I was accepted to the University of Denver. I was exhausted from rehearsals and having a hard week, and felt very burned out from all the work I was putting in.

I was not expecting it at all that day, but getting into my dream program for research and psychology was a special memory that made all of my work in school worthwhile.”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“I think the defining quality of my graduating class really is perseverance in the face of impossibility. The ability to endure and even excel during difficult global circumstances definitely set up our class for success, despite all of that hardship.”

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Congratulations Daniel Shore Highlands Ranch High School

Sonrisa Scott ThunderRidge High School

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“While the basis of my morals has always included empathy for others, ThunderRidge’s first Grizzly Gives Week assembly truly revolutionized this passion and manifested my personal outlook on life. Through the sea of yellow t-shirts and flashing phone lights, each student sang The Climb and I was struck by the beauty of compassion and kindness. The power of togetherness and unity in a single moment changed my vision of the underlying good in the world, and the power of my generation.

The gym was not one of competition at that moment, but rather a place of home for the Grizzlies.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“My favorite memory is undoubtedly the moment ThunderRidge’s boy’s basketball team won the State Championship this year (back to back!). Following a season of wins and compelling games, the thrill of our student sections was unlike any other, one of passion and pride and excitement.

The eruption of cheering and jumping was unbeatable and I will forever cherish that moment with my classmates!”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“The Class of 2022 may truly be defined by the ability to be resilient. Through environmental disasters, pandemics, political turmoil, as well as each aspect in between, my class continues to demonstrate true drive and spirit for their colors. Despite experiencing some forms of high school through a screen, each student has memorized our anthems and proudly chants words they have visibly taken to heart. Unlike any other, the Class of 2022 truly has the ability to love both the school as well as the people around them. We are proud to say, once a grizzly, always a grizzly!”

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“The pandemic really affected me personally.

My life changed so drastically, and I really had some growing up to do. The pandemic, while tough and frustrating at times, really shaped me into the person that I am today through the grit and determination that it took to better myself in every possible way through one of the hardest times in my life.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“My favorite memory from high school was our senior prom. After years of no school events and a lot of hard work, it felt really nice to finally get to go with my friends

and have a good time. As my first and last prom, it certainly was an experience I won’t forget!”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“The HRHS Class of 2022 is filled with some of the most talented and kind people I’ve ever met.

Words like resilient, passionate, and spirited are what come to mind when thinking about our class.

They all bring so much to the table to make HRHS one of the best schools in the district and it’s truly an honor to call so many great people my peers. My friend group in particular have been so amazing, they’ve supported me and my goals for the longest time and I’m extremely lucky to call all of them my friends.”

Britney Van

Mountain Vista High School Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“My childhood consisted of my parents abandoning my brothers and me to feed their gambling addiction. My parents incurred debts so large, they landed in prison and lost everything of value, including their children. I was taken in by my paternal grandparents and have been raised by them ever since. Losing everything I had made me want to succeed even more. I made a promise to myself that I would not let my upbringing hold me back from a future that I know I deserve. I immersed myself in my studies, and realized the importance of a robust education, as it will facilitate my growth to further a lifelong dream of mine, which is to work in the medical field. Because I wasn’t cared for, I empathize with people

in need and aspire to care for others. The hardships of my past challenged my limits and tested my capabilities. I am grateful for this experience, the understanding that I have gained about myself, and who I want to be in the future.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“My favorite memory of high school was Wish Week of my freshman year. It was truly a special week and experience for everyone to come together as a community to support the Make-A-Wish Foundation.”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“The defining qualities of my graduating class are ambitious and hardworking. Over the past four years, I have been able to watch my peers overcome obstacles and mature into amazing individuals who I know will make a huge positive impact on our world.”

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Congratulations Sophie Whitehead Legend High School

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“During the 2020 election cycle, even though I was not old enough to vote, I decided to volunteer for a local political campaign.

Soon after I attended weekly volunteer meetings and wrote hundreds of postcards informing constituents of our platform, I was promoted to Volunteer Coordinator.

This experience impacted me significantly because it taught me how to relate to and find common ground with people from all walks of life. I now understand the importance of civic participation and spreading voter awareness.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“Wish Week is a time at Legend when everyone comes together in order to grant the wish of a child with a critical illness. I am amazed every year at how much enthusiasm

the students and staff overflow with during this special week. Everyone dresses up, goes to the drive-in movies, sings with the teachers at karaoke night, and laughs with their friends during game stalled classes.

More importantly, we all do everything in our power in order to make sure that Wish Week is memorable for our Wish Kid!” What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“The Class of 2022 is resilient no matter what comes our way. We have had to adapt to change after change throughout high school as we went to remote school and then hybrid learning and now back to full time in-person school. We have had to learn how to use Zoom and all sorts of other platforms that we never thought we would have to use and how to work together despite being apart, and from this we have adapted and grown into stronger people.”

Zane Zakroff Mountain Vista High School

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“This year I encountered some mental health issues that severely impacted my health. While it was the hardest thing that I’ve been through, I learned so much about myself and how to live in this current life. Nothing has produced more growth in me than this experience and I am a completely different person than who I was a year ago. I appreciate the little things and live in the moment, which has been very valuable to me recently. Lastly, I am so incredibly thankful for my support system for helping me through day in and day out.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“My favorite memory from high

school was my freshman year Goldust.

Goldust is the choir program’s big concert at the end of the year that has pop or musical theatre songs, dancing, and solo acts. It was the first time I got to experience this and I had an absolute blast!

I had so much fun performing and watching everyone shine in their own light. It will be an experience I will never forget.”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“I believe that our graduating class is diverse and driven. Everyone is going on their own individual path whether that is college, the military, a trade, or getting out into the workforce.

While varied, our class is versatile and will excel in wherever they choose to go. I am so incredibly excited to be joining some of my classmates at CU, but I know no matter where people decide to go, Mountain Vista will be proud.”

Rachel Zwerenz Ponderosa High School

Describe a personal experience that you encountered during high school that significantly impacted you as a person or changed your outlook on life.

“Being a Vice President, Scenic Designer, Technical Representative, and Technical Director with Ponderosa Theatre Company has been one of the most rewarding journeys I’ve ever experienced. Not only has it given me an opportunity to grow as a leader, I’ve also grown as a designer and a technician. Over 4 years with my theatre company, I’ve developed skills that I hadn’t expected to--such as carpentry and using 3D modeling software. Not only has theatre strengthened how I see the world artistically, it’s also strengthened my analytical skills and affected how I tackle complex problems.”

What is your favorite memory from high school?

“My favorite memory from high school was the white elephant my AP Chemistry class did at the end of the school year. The class was really small, so we had formed a tight group, and after the AP test we drank coffee and traded silly gifts as our end of year celebration.”

What are the defining qualities of your graduating class and why?

“If you haven’t got anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.”

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Mountain Vista graduates class of 2022 at Red Rocks Graduation speakers highlight school’s ‘open-heartedness’ in parting address

BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Mountain Vista class of 2022 stands for the national anthem.

Mountain Vista graduates head to the stage at Red Rocks to receive their diploma.

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The scene at Red Rocks Ampitheatre during Mountain Vista High PHOTOS BY RYLEE DUNN School’s graduation.

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One man’s message about cannabis-induced psychosis Attempt to address other issues led to terrifying time

BY DANA KNOWLES, JEREMY MOORE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS

Five years ago, Ethan Andrew had what he describes as the most terrifying experience of his life.

“I had what’s called cannabis-induced psychosis. It’s a break from reality after ingesting too much high-potency marijuana. I was having schizophrenialike symptoms, like seeing things and hearing things weren’t there. I was super paranoid that people were following me,” said Andrew, who started using cannabis because he thought it would help with his anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

He said it took two months for the symptoms of psychosis to pass. But for Andrew, not knowing the difference between his dreams and reality was the worst part of what he went through.

“I had a dream that my friends and I went hiking and the next day I’d hang

Ethan Andrew, 23, talks to Rocky Mountain PBS about experiencing cannabis-induced psychosis.

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out with them and be like, ‘Guys, wasn’t that so fun?’

And they’d be like, ‘What are you talking about?’ It was such a surreal experience when you’re awake, you don’t know if you’re actually dreaming,” Andrew described.

He started smoking cannabis when he was 16, and the symptoms of cannabisinduced psychosis started when Andrew was 18, after several months of smoking what he called high-potency marijuana every day.

“For comparison, when our parents were growing

up, cannabis maxed out at like 5 to 10 percent THC, and now just the flower at the dispensary you can’t find anything lower than 20 to 30 percent,” Andrew said.

THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the main psychoactive compound in cannabis that produces the “high” a person feels after consumption. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says the amount of THC in today’s marijuana is three times higher than what it was before 1995. According to studies compiled by

the National Institutes of Health, smoking marijuana with high concentrations of THC can increase a person’s risk of experiencing psychosis.

“You just typically think more THC means a better high, you don’t think, well, what is this chemical I’m putting in my body? What is this chemical doing to my developing brain? You don’t have those questions when you’re a stoner,” Andrew said.

Now, Andrew is 23 and his life is a stable one. He hasn’t smoked in five years.

“I was so scared of getting schizophrenia or having that be ongoing and never going away that I had no temptations to go back to smoking weed at all,” he said.

These days, Andrew has a job he enjoys, a girlfriend and he is starting school in the fall to obtain his associate degree from the Community College of Denver. Regular therapy and exercise help manage his anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

“Recovery is possible.

You can heal. You’ve gotta want to do it. Initially after the first few months of psychosis the first thing I noticed was my memory was getting better, my thoughts were less foggy and I went back to school and went from getting a 1.2 (grade point average) to a 4.0,” Andrew said. “So in a way psychosis was a wakeup experience for me.”

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

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1 million Colorado buildings are threatened by wildfire Risk is higher in suburban counties, according to foundation’s analysis

BY MARK JAFFE THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado faces the largest increase in homes and businesses threatened by wildfire of any state in the nation with nearly 1 million properties — two-fifths of all those in the state — already facing some risk, according to a new analysis.

The First Street Foundation wildfire risk modeling ranked Colorado No. 7 in the country for structures facing wildfire threats. The foundation also created an online tool — riskfactor.com — that enables homeowners to plug in an address and find the fire risk for their properties.

Over the next 30 years, the model projects that an additional 447,000 homes, businesses, schools and other public buildings in the state will face an increased risk from wildfire — a 19% increase from today. Alabama had the next largest increase in risk, 14.6%.

The area with the greatest wild-

fire property risk is not Colorado’s forested region, but the Front Range’s growing suburban plains counties — El Paso, Douglas and Larimer, according to the analysis.

“If you think about it, that’s where the people are and where there are people there is more risk of someone starting a fire,” said Chad Hoffman, director of the Western Forest Fire Research Center at Colorado State University.

Hoffman was not involved in the foundation’s analysis.

That is also where most of the homes and businesses are located — potential fuel for a fast-moving fire, Hoffman said.

The archetype for future fire risk could be the Marshall fire, a one-day, grass-fed, wind-whipped wildfire on Dec. 30 that destroyed more than 1,000 homes in Boulder County.

“Those kinds of fires are clearly becoming more common,” Hoffman said. “These single-day burning periods create a problem.”

While much of the focus has been on the large-scale, intense forest fires that burn for weeks or more, a study by Hoffman and colleagues found that 70% of cumulative area burned in the Western U.S. between 2002 and 2020 were the result of the

large, single-day fires.

The First Street analysis looked at the marginal risk of wildfire, with minor risk being less than a 1% chance of being in a wildfire over the next 30 years to extreme risk, defined as a greater than a 26% chance. Annual risk assessment started a 0.03% increased risk for any given year.

In El Paso and Douglas counties, more than 80% of the homes and business properties face a minor risk of being in a wildfire this year — 32,000 and 4,000 properties respectively. In El Paso County, 32,100 properties also face a moderate risk of fire — equal to a 6% chance.

Larimer County ranked third with a little more than half of homes, businesses and public buildings — 82,000 properties — at minor risk and 4,000 facing moderate risk.

The county facing the greatest increased risk from wildfire is Broomfield, where over 30 years, properties that face some additional fire hazard risk rises 48% to 20,400 — equal to more than three-quarters of all the county’s homes, and business and public buildings.

The foundation’s model incorporates data on formation of fuels, wildfire weather and wildfire

behavior from agencies, including the U.S. Forest Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The First Street Foundation is a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based nonprofit research and technology group focused on defining climate risk in the U.S. Across the country there were 49.4 million properties with at least minor wildfire risk, led by California, Texas and Florida. There were 4.2 million properties facing severe or extreme risk from fire.

“Enhanced understanding of the specific nature and location of wildfire risk enables communities to more effectively lobby for funding for fuel treatments, prescribed burns and other wildfire risk mitigation strategies that may be used to reduce risk to houses, business and communities,” the foundation said in a statement.

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

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Colorado milk bank sees uptick in donations Formula shortage continues nationwide

BY MEGAN VERLEE COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

The nationwide infant formula shortage has caused an increase in families seeking to purchase donated milk in Colorado according to Mother’s Milk Bank, an Arvada-based nonprofit that collects and distributes donated breast milk.

However, the group has also seen an increase in women donating milk, and they’re looking for more volunteers.

“We started to say, ‘Don’t forget donated milk as a resource,’” said Jodye Whitesell, communications director for Rocky Mountain Children’s Health Foundation, which operates the bank. In response, they’ve seen “a pretty big spike in phone calls for donations.”

Mother’s Milk Bank is one of the largest of the 32 nonprofit milk banks in North America and distributes across Colorado, as well as to numerous other states.

The vast majority of its supplies go to neonatal ICUs, but it also serves around 30 to 40 outpatient families a

week, according to Whitesell.

Colorado’s Department of Human Services is partnering with the bank to encourage donations of both milk and money to help cover the processing fee for lowerincome families.

The state is also warning parents of the dangers of diluting formula or trying to make their own at home, and providing resources for places families in the WIC program may be able to turn to if they can’t find formula on store shelves.

Oversight hearing on the cause of the shortage Senior executives with the three biggest formula makers — Abbott Nutrition, Gerber Products Company, and Reckitt — will appear before a Congressional oversight committee chaired

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BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Arapahoe’s Tommy Leonard (2) runs past Owen Simmons (32) of Valor Christian during a May 18 boys quarterfinal lacrosse state playoff game held at the University of Denver. Sixth seeded Arapahoe upset PHOTO BY JIM BENTON No. 3 Valor, 6-3.

Spring weather in Colorado can be uncertain and poor weather conditions forced several prep spring sports championships to be altered.

The all-classification track meet at Jefferson County Stadium started May 19 with sunny, warm contitions but the meet was postponed May 20 because of cold, rain and snow.

Colorado High School Activities Association personnel hoped to complete the final two days of the track championships by May 22 or May 23.

The championships resumed in the afternoon on May 21, according to Plan C. Action continued on May 22.

The action on May 21 did not include 4x400 preliminaries. The 4x400 finals were run on May 22, heats against time.

The girls lacrosse title game with top-seeded Colorado Academy facing No. 2 Valor Christian in a rematch of last season’s title game was rescheduled for May 22.

Boys lacrosse semfinals

were moved to May 23 with the finals scheduled for May 27 at the University of Denver.

Broomfield and Grandview will play for the girls soccer state title on March 25 at Dick’s Sporting GoodsPark.

Class 5A regional state baseball qualifying tournaments were slated for May 21 but some were switched by the host schools to May 22 and May 23.

Girls soccer Quarterfinal matches in the girls state soccer playoffs were held May 16 and top-seeded Valor Christian was the lone south metro school to advance to the semfinals.

Valor senior Peyton Parsons scored twice while juniors Jo Sees and Addison Whitehouse each had three points with a goal and assist as the Eagles downed Cherry Creek, 4-0.

Valor goalie Jaidin Kinch made seven saves.

Rock Canyon lost 2-1 in overtime to secondseeded Broomfield. Reagan Kotschau scored the gamewinning goal on a penalty kick in the 85th minute. Junior Ava Todd had scored for Rock Canyon on a free kick to tie the match with 7:27 remaining in regulation time.

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BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Riley Stewart did not win four titles this season at the CHSAA State Track Championships.

The Cherry Creek senior only won three events at the weather-delayed championships on May 19-22, but she and fellow senior Kinsey Christianson helped the Bruins capture the Class 5A girls state team title.

Valor Christian junior Drew Costelow also won three state titles and was another of the key performers in the meet that had one day postponed because of a spring snow storm on May 20.

Stewart is going to compete at Stanford in college but ended her high school career by capturing the 1,600 and 3,200 meter runs, plus she ran a leg on the title 4x800 relay team.

She repeated in the 1,600, 3,200 and the relay but did not win the 800 as senior teammate and Iowa State commit Christianson won that race on May 21.

“Just to end like this, I could not be happier,” said Stewart who was also a three-time state cross country individual champion. “If I had to lose the 800, it was great that it was to a teammate. I couldn’t be happier for her.”

Stewart won her second consecutive state 3,200 meter run in dominating fashion on a sunny morning on May 19. At times she was a least 100 meters in front of other runners. She was timed in 10:24.02. Arapahoe’s Emily Lamontagne was second in 10:42.82.

She also ran the anchor leg on Creek’s 4x800 relay team on May 19. Kinley Wolfe, Addison Laughline and Shelby Balding were the

other members on the title team that won in 9:12.63 for its second consecutive title.

In the 1,600 run on May 23, it was the same story as Stewart ran away from the rest of the runners.

“There’s only one (state track title) in our whole school history,” she pointed out. “We all needed to get our points and do it as a team It’s pretty amazing. It was a crazy meet with the weather delay and stuff. I’ve always loved running. I do it for my team, my family and it’s just an amazing thing for me to do.”

Stewart now has five individual state track titles and two others as a member of a championship relay teams.

Cherry Creek finished with 112 points with Cherokee Trail coming in second with 70.5 points. Regis Jesuit was seventh.

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Cherry Creek’s Riley Stewart (1) was all alone for most of the 3,200 run on May 19 and she won her second consecutive state title in 10:34.02. Arapahoe’s Emily Lamontagne was second.

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pion Broomfield edged Columbine, 1-0, in overtime. Grandview needed two overtimes before finally ousting Valor, 1-0.

Boys lacrosse Top-seeded Regis Jesuit, Mountain Vista and Arapahoe collected quarterfinal wins on May 18 in the boys lacrosse playoffs.

Regis scored five times in the fourth quarter to edge Kent Denver, 11-9. Mountain Vista held off Colorado Academy, 6-5, while sixth-seeded Arapahoe got three goals from Jack Paulson in a 6-3 upset over third-seeded Valor Christian. Poudre School District earned a 9-8 overtime win over second-seeded Cherry Creek.

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Christianson also won three events. She took the 800 meters in a personal best time of 2:07.25 and the 400 meters in 55.43. She ended the meet by helping the Bruins win the 1,600-meter relay as she teamed with Iris Wang, Kel McDavid and Lily Esmas to post a victory time of 3:51.75 on May 22.

In the 5A boys team competition, Grandview captured the state crown with 92 points with Valor Christian -third. Cherry Creek was sixth and Mountain Vista 10th.

Costelow, a transfer from Cedar Grove High School in Greenwood, Indiana, won 3,200 on May 19 with a time of 9:19.18 which edged teammate Dane Eike. He was first in the 800 on May 21 with a time of 1:52.11 and won the 1,600 on May 22 by coming from behind on the last lap to win his third race of the meet in 4:13.09.

“The best part is I did it with all my friends,” said Costelow. “Holy cow, I got all three. It feels great. I can’t put it into words. I came in with the goal of getting all three, the 800, two mile and this. A triple

Girls lacrosse In the girls lacrosse semifinals played May 17, second-seeded Valor Christian and top-seeded Colorado Academy moved onto the finals.

Valor rallied to notch a 15-14 win over Fairview. Eagles junior Reagan Digby scored with two seconds left in regulation time to send the game into overtime and Tess Osburn won the game with a goal 37 seconds into the OT. Valor sophomore Eliza Osburn had six goals and two assists in the game.

Cherry Creek senior Molly Threlkeld had three goals but it wasn’t enough for the Bruins in 9-7 setback to Colorado Academy, which has won six straight state titles.

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crown.”

Costelow had to close fast on the outside during the final leg of the 1,600 race.

“I didn’t know if I have it or not on the last lap but I guess I found that extra gear and put it into motion,” he said.“I know I had a pretty decent kick left because of my 800 speed so I knew I could close well. Now I have to come back next year and defend my titles. I’m already thinking about next year.”

There were several other state title winners from south metro schools.

Legend senior Jackson Wray won the 5A pole vault with a 15-6 effort on May 19. Chaparral’s Quentin Rivera won the boys 110 meter hurdles and Cherry Creek’s Brennan Smith took the triple jump title. Castle View’s Ace Malone won the 400 meters and Taylor Nichols of Douglas County was first in the Class 5A shot put.

In Class 3A, Lutheran’s Jonah Beard was the 1,600 meter champion and also the 400 dash titleist. Lutheran’s Tony Ciccio won the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 39.02.

Peyton Holmes of Valor Christian sprinted first in the girls Class 5A 100 meter dash and Ponderosa’s Ryan Kennett was the Class 3A 100 meter hurdles winner.

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Excellent benefits including dental, vision, and medical insurance. Flexible scheduling with the opportunity to complete some work at home. May be eligible for Sign On Bonus! May also be eligible for loan forgiveness. Use of a car or mileage reimbursement. Questions contact Tracy (719) 775-2342, ext. 101. To apply for this position, please visit our website ecboces.org and click on the “Jobs” page, click on the job you are interested in & then click on the grey button “Apply Online”, located at the bottom of the job listing. EOE Educational Audiologist East Central BOCES is looking for a FT or PT Educational Audiologist for the 2022-23 school year CDE Special Services and Colorado Audiologist licensure required; CCC’s or AAA certificate; knowledge of current technologies in Audiology including HAT systems and cochlear implants preferred. Experience with children 0-21 preferred. Complete evaluations, provide direct services, and consultation services, manage hearing equipment and oversee hearing screening program. Benefits include: a signing bonus, mileage reimbursement. Flexible scheduling with some opportunity to work from home.May be eligible for a loan forgiveness program. Ph.D. Salary $51,450-$60,550. For Questions, please contact Tracy at tracyg@ ecboces.org or 719-775-2342 ext.

101. To apply for this position, please visit our website ecboces.org and click on the “Jobs” page, click on the job you are interested in & then click on the grey button “Apply Online”, located at the bottom of the job listing. EOE HIRING: handyman/painter, $18/ hr. Part time - full.

Call 303-319-9901.

Speech-Language Pathologist or SLPA FT & PT Speech-Language Pathologist or SLPA Positions Available for 2022-23 School Year! Open to School Internships. Able to provide supervision for CFY hours.

Join our dynamic, multi-disciplinary team of professionals. Administer assessments, provide direct, indirect & consultation services for students PreK-12th grades.

Competitive salaries: SLP - $44,100-$56,000 & SLPA- $36,050- $44,450, both commensurate upon experience.

May be eligible for a Sign On Bonus! May also be eligible for loan forgiveness! Excellent benefits, including full health benefits & mileage reimbursement. Flexible scheduling with the opportunity to complete some work at home.

Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101 or email tracyg@ ecboces.org.

To apply for this position, please visit our website ecboces.org and click on the “Jobs” page, click on the job you are interested in & then click on the grey button “Apply Online” at the bottom of the job listing. EOE School Social Worker East Central BOCES is seeking a Full-Time and 2.5 Day a week School Social Worker to join our dynamic, multi-disciplinary team of professionals for the 2022-23 school year. Colorado licensed or eligible for a license. Grades Pre-12 assessment, direct counseling & consultation services in our East and Central Areas. May be eligible for loan forgiveness, benefits include a signing bonus and full coverage insurance. Flexible scheduling with the opportunity to complete some work at home.

Questions contact Tracy (719) 775-2342, ext. 101. To apply for this position, please visit our website at ecboces.org and click on the “Jobs” page, & follow instructions to create an account or login. EOE LEGITIMATE WORK AT HOME No Sales, no Investment, No Risk, Free training, Free website. Contact Susan at 303-646-4171 or fill out form at www.wisechoice4u.com

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SERVICE DIRECTORY ADS

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Teacher of the Visually Impaired/

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Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Orientation and Mobility Specialist East Central BOCES is seeking a Part-Time (3.5 days/wk) Teacher of the Visually Impaired/Orientation and Mobility Specialist for the 2022-23 school year - This position requires working with multiple administrative units including East Central BOCES, Ft. Morgan, Santa Fe Trails BOCES, South East BOCES, North East BOCES and Sterling. Option to work 1 day a week for East Central BOCES only, if preferred. Requires Colorado Teaching License with an endorsement in Visual Impairment and Orientation and Mobility Specialist. Responsibilities include completing assessments, providing direct and indirect service & attending IEP meetings as needed.

Opportunity for some services to be provided remotely. Salary: 3.5 days/wk-$31,018-$38,505, 1 day/wk $8,120-$10,080. Excellent Benefits, including Signing Bonus & mileage reimbursement or use of a car. May be eligible for loan forgiveness.To apply for this position, please visit our website ecboces.org and click on the “Jobs” page, click on the job you are interested in & then click on the grey button “Apply Online”, located at the bottom of the job listing. Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext.

101. EOE

Registered Occupational Therapist/COTA Full-Time and part-time Registered Occupational Therapist/COTA for East Central BOCES - OTR must have, or be eligible for appropriate Colorado licensure. Provide Pre-12 intervention, assessment, direct & indirect services just east of Denver on I-70, Bennett, Strasburg Byers & Kiowa areas. COTA Needed for Limon & Surrounding Areas.

Support from an experienced COTA is available for OT. Full Time Salary range for OTD: $49,350-$60,550.

Part-Time Salary prorated based on the number of days employed. COTA Salary range $34,650-$43,050.

Excellent benefits, including Sign On Bonus, full health insurance & access to a company vehicle or mileage reimbursement. May be eligible for a loan forgiveness program! Flexible scheduling with the opportunity to complete some work from home. To apply for this position, please visit our website ecboces.org and click on the “Jobs” page, click on the job you are interested in & then click on the grey button “Apply Online” at the bottom of the job listing. Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext. 101 or email tracyg@ecboces. org EOE

Driver CDL HAZMAT DRIVER WANTED

by Spring Valley Gas, Inc., family owned; 20 year old company, seeking local propane delivery driver with customer service experience.

Join our team! Salary based on certification and experience. Class A or B with hazmat endorsements. Full time position. Propane experience preferred but not required. Clean MVR with no DUI or drug history. On call pay, holiday pay, paid industrial training, and paid time off. Call for interview: 303-660-8810.

Full-Time Early Childhood Special Education Teacher and Child Find Coordinator For East Central BOCES for the 2022-2023 school year -Duties include: Complete assessment & provide direct and indirect services with preschool children in rural school settings. Requires a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Special Education Can be hired with a Bachelor’s Degree in a Related Field if willing to enter into a Master’s degree program in Early Childhood Special Education upon hire. Salary Range BA-$34,650 to $42,350 and MA $39,900-$47,600 dependent on experience. Excellent benefits, including full health benefits, and use of a car or mileage reimbursement & Sign On Bonus! Flexible scheduling with the opportunity to complete some work from home. May be eligible for loan forgiveness!

Financial support may be available through grants if required to enroll in a Master’s degree program.

Questions contact Tracy (719) 7752342 ext. 101 or tracyg@ecboces. org. To apply for this position, please visit our website ecboces.org and click on the “Jobs” page, click on the job you are interested in & then click on the grey button “Apply Online” at the bottom of the job listing. EOE

Teacher of the Visually Impaired/ Orientation and Mobility Specialist East Central BOCES is seeking a Part-Time (3.5 days/wk) Teacher of the Visually Impaired/Orientation and Mobility Specialist for the 202223 school year. This position requires working with multiple administrative units including East Central BOCES, Ft. Morgan, Santa Fe Trails BOCES, South East BOCES, North East BOCES and Sterling. Option to work 1 day a week for East Central BOCES only, if preferred. Requires Colorado Teaching License with an endorsement in Visual Impairment and Orientation and Mobility Specialist. Responsibilities include completing assessments, providing direct and indirect service & attending IEP meetings as needed.

Opportunity for some services to be provided remotely. Salary: 3.5 days/wk-$31,018-$38,505, 1 day/wk $8,120-$10,080. Excellent Benefits including mileage reimbursement or use of a car. May be eligible for loan forgiveness and sign on bonus.

To apply please complete a Certified Application, located on our website at ecboces.org under “Jobs” at the bottom of the page. Once completed, application can be sent to Tracy at tracyg@ecboces.org,.

Questions contact Tracy at (719) 775-2342, ext.

101. EOE

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Social hours for all areas of Metro Denver.

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Garage and Estate Sales Garage Sales

Garage Sale / Estate Tool Sale Fri., May 27 & Sat., May 28, 9 a.m.

- 4 p.m., 11583 N. Settlers Drive, Parker. Cash only.

Huge Annual Antique, Collectible & Horse Drawn Farm Equipment Sale

Horse Drawn Farm Equipment, Wood Wheel Wagons, Buggy, Steel Wheels, Misc. Farm Tons of Collectibles. Gas Pumps.

Thurs-Sun June 2nd - June 5th 8:00am-4pm 10824 E Black Forest Dr Parker 80138 720-842-1716

Save the Date!

Gigantic Garage Sale in the Pradera Golf Community Subdivision Friday & Saturday, June 3rd and 4th 8am-4pm Numerous homeowners in the Pradera community will be participating in this event Major cross streets into Pradera are Bayou Gulch and Parker Road, Parker 80134 Call Dotson Skaggs, Kentwood Company, 303-909-9350 for more information.

Huge Moving Sale!

Everything goes!

Friday and Saturday May 27th & 28th 9am-3pm 281 October Place Castle Rock 80104

Merchandise Firewood

Split & Delivered $350 a cord Delivery $50. Stacking $50 Call 303-647-2475 or 720-323-2173

Lawn & Garden Craftsman lawn mower Starts on the 1st pull every time period $60.Call 720-314-0319

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Real insurance - not a discount plan. Get your free dental info kit!

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Medical Attention oxygen therapy users!

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To place a 25-word COSCAN Network ad in 91 Colorado newspapers for only $300, contact your local newspaper or email Colorado Press Association Network at rtoledo@colopress.net AT&T WIRELESS DIRECTV DIRECTV for $79.99/mo for 12 months with CHOICE Package. Watch your favorite live sports, news & entertainment anywhere. First 3 months of HBO Max, Cinemax, Showtime, Starz and Epix Included! Directv is #1 in Customer Satisfaction (JD Power & Assoc.) Some Restrictions apply.

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American Standard Walk-In Tubs. Buy from a brand you trust. Patented Quick-Drain® technology. 44 hydrotherapy jets. Lifetime warranty on tub and installation!

FREE in-home consultation at your convenience. Limited time offer - $1,500 in savings includes FREE right-height toilet.

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Scrap Metal, Batteries, Appliances, Wiring, Scrap Plumbing/Heating, Cars/Parts, Clean out Garages/Yards, Rake, Yard work done w/chainsaw, Certified Auto Mechanical / Body Work & paint available Also can do inside or outside cleaning 303-647-2475 / 720-323-2173

Wants to purchase minerals and other oil and gas interests. Send details to P.O. Box 13557 Denver, Co. 80201

Pets Dogs

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100% tax deductible. Call 1-800245-0398 DISH TV $64.99 190 Channels + $14.95 High Speed Internet.

Free Installation, Smart HD DVR included, Free Voice remote. Some Restrictions apply. Promo Expires 1/21/23. 1-866-479-1516.

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LeafFilter, the most advanced debrisblocking gutter protection. Schedule free LeafFilter estimate today. 15% off Entire Purchase. 10% Senior & Military Discounts. Call 1-833-6101936

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Call Ramona 719-980-1054

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Concrete/Paving

On The Level • Elder Care/Home Health Care/Personal Assistant • Housecleaning /Organizing /Meal Prep • Errands/Shopping /Downsizing /Companion Work • Pet/House Sitting /Childcare • Gardening

I Care About All Your Family’s Needs Call For An Estimate • No Job Too Big or Too Small

303-875-7271 • allisonfultoncares@yahoo.com Bathrooms

Concrete All types of Concrete Work

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Call us today, for a free design consultation.

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We do driveways, garage floors, walkways, front porches, steps, back patios, and always provide free estimates. Fully insured, local and perform quality work.

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Carpet/Flooring

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Heating/Air Conditioning

AC, Furnace andRange Boilersince Specials Serving the Front 1955 Serving the Front Range sinceHeaters 1955 Furnaces • Boilers • Water

Spring Cleaning Special 20% off

Rooftop • Mobile Water HeatersHVAC • Rooftop HVAC •Furnaces Commercial Commercial Residential • Install •• Residential Repair • Replace

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Heating/Air Conditioning Was Just Told She Would Have to Wait 10 DAYS Before the A/C and Furnace Company Could Get Her New System Installed!

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Call L & L for a FREE ESTIMATE!

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Financing Available W.A.C. Licensed • Insured

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Lawn/Garden Services

CONTINENTAL INC. Commercial and Residential

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BEST PRICES 30+ years experience Clem: 303-973-6991

FREE ESTIMATES

Handyman

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DEPENDABLE, RELIABLE SERVICE Over 30 Years Experience Licensed & Insured

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UTDOOR

ESIGNS, INC

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• Drywall • Painting • Tile • Trim • Doors • Painting • Decks • Bath Remodel • Kitchen Remodels • Basements & Much More!

We Never Mark Up Materials Saving you 25%-35% All Work Guaranteed • A+ BBB Rated

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Hauling Service

Cut Rate Hauling Cowboy Fencing is a full service fence & gate company installing fences in Colorado for 23 6 years.

Residential/Commercial/ Farm & Ranch Fencing Low rates, Free estimates

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OUTDOOR SERVICES TREES/ SHRUBS TRIMMED

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LAWN SERVICES C.Y.  FREE ESTIMATES  SIZE OF YARD MOW & TRIM MULCH & TRIM AERATION POWER RAKING

SMALL $25 $25 $30 $75

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RAKING LEAVES  FERTILIZING I have all my own equipment.

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Landscape & Garden

Sod, Rock, Mulch, Retaining Walls, Sprinklers, Sprinkler Repair, Flagstone, Fence Repair, Power Rake, Fertilize, Aeration, Yard Clean-Ups, Shrub Trimming/Removal, Rock Removal, Weed Control, Trash Hauling and Much More!

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Lawn/Garden Services

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Accounting Assistant and Legal Advertising Specialist Colorado Community Media is hiring a detail-oriented administrative specialist to assist in posting receivables and to schedule legal notices. The job would be full time in our business office reporting to the Business Manager.

Job responsibilities include: • Post payments in our ad management software (will train in Account Scout).

Create and maintain daily files.

•Assist customers with questions on their balances and/or payments.

•Take in orders for legal notices to publish in our weekly publications. Format and schedule orders properly for production and record-keeping purposes using ad management software.

•Flow ad files onto pages for insertion into weekly publications using design software (will train in InDesign) •Proof pages to ensure accuracy •Act as customer service representative for both AR and legal notice publishing process Preferred skills: •Experience in accounts receivable preferable •Superior attention to detail •Ability to build and maintain solid customer relationships with professionalism and speed •Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs Once the candidate is fully trained this job can be performed part in-office (in Englewood) and part remote. Starting pay $15.00-$17.00/hour.

Applicants please send your resume to Audrey Brooks at abrooks@coloradocommunitymedia.com

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Highlands Ranch Herald 39

May 26, 2022

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE Littleton NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0035 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/25/2022 2:56:00 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: DON M. ROOT Original Beneficiary: Athas Capital Group, Inc., a California Corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee for Verus Securitization Trust 2020-2 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 11/19/2019 Recording Date of DOT: 12/4/2019 Reception No. of DOT: 2019082796 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $377,500.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $369,658.88 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower’s failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

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

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 261, STERLING RANCH FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 8181 Saint Vrain Avenue, Littleton, CO 80125 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, July 13, 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: 5/19/2022 Last Publication: 6/16/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/28/2022 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 #: CO11455 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0035 First Publication: 5/19/2022 Last Publication: 6/16/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0027 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/1/2022 8:31:00 AM 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: TRENT R. RINKER AND PAMELA L. RINKER Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR GREENPOINT MORTGAGE FUNDING, INC.

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE FOR LEHMAN XS TRUST, SERIES 2006-GP4 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 5/15/2006 Recording Date of DOT: 5/22/2006 Reception No. of DOT: 2006042822 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $566,400.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $375,049.30 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 353, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 122-Y, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 11087 Shadowbrook Circle, 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, June 22, 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: 4/28/2022 Last Publication: 5/26/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/1/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: ANNA JOHNSTON Colorado Registration #: 51978 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, DENVER, COLORADO 80204 Phone #: (303) 350-3711 Fax #: Attorney File #: 00000009422411 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0027 First Publication: 4/28/2022 Last Publication: 5/26/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0032 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/18/2022 3:22:00 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: KIET NGUYEN Original Beneficiary: FIRSTBANK Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: FIRSTBANK Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/19/2012 Recording Date of DOT: 6/20/2012 Reception No. of DOT: 2012044234 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $626,500.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $496,224.64 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 by the Deed of Trust and related loan documents and other violations of the Note 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.

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Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 19, HIGHLANDS RANCH – FILING NO. 118-N, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 10499 Sunshower Place, 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, July 6, 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: 5/12/2022 Last Publication: 6/9/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 3/18/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: TREVOR G. BARTEL Colorado Registration #: 40449 1601 19TH STREET, SUITE 1000, DENVER, COLORADO 80202 Phone #: (303) 623-9000 Fax #: Attorney File #: 230403-00385 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0032 First Publication: 5/12/2022 Last Publication: 6/9/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0030 To Whom It May Concern: On 3/14/2022 11:40:00 AM 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: LARA M. NARDELL AND KEVIN L. NARDELL Original Beneficiary: MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CHERRY CREEK MORTGAGE CO., INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, f/k/a The Bank of New York, successor in interest to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as Trustee for Structured Asset Mortgage Investments II Inc., Bear Stearns ALT-A Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-5 Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 3/17/2005 Recording Date of DOT: 3/22/2005 Reception No. of DOT: 2005024601 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $280,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $293,360.19 Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-38-101 (4) (i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower’s failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

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

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 37, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 84-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 2105 E Weatherstone Circle, 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 contin-

ued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 6, 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: 5/12/2022 Last Publication: 6/9/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 8th day of September 2022 unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 26th day of May 2022 /s/ David Gill County Treasurer of Douglas County Legal Notice No. 942160 First Publication: May 26, 2022 Last Publication: June 9, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED

Dated: 3/14/2022 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 #: 15-008779 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0030 First Publication: 5/12/2022 Last Publication: 6/9/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

City and County PUBLIC NOTICE PURSUANT TO THE LIQUOR LAW OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, POSTINO WINE CAFE

To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to: MERRION FAMILY PARTNERSHIP AKA MERRION FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP - MCCULLISS OIL & GAS INC - FIG CO19 LLC - OCCUPANT - MERRION FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AKA MERRION FAMILY PARTNERSHIP - REGISTERED AGENT J GREGORY MERRION MERRION FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP - GENERAL PARTNER MICHAEL K MERRION MERRION FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP - GENERAL PARTNER RITA V MERRION MERRION FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP - GENERAL PARTNER T GREGORY MERRION AKA THOMAS GREGORY MERRION MERRION FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 1st day of November 2018 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to MCCULLISS OIL & GAS INC the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit:

1497 PARK CENTRAL DRIVE, LLC d/b/a POSTINO WINE CAFE has requested the Licensing Officials of Douglas County to grant a Beer and Wine Liquor License at the location of 1497 PARK CENTRAL DRIVE IN HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO 80129. The Public Hearing on this application is to be held by the Douglas County Local Liquor Licensing Authority at 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, 80104 on Tuesday, JUNE 7, 2022 at 1:30 p.m.

TR IN NE1/4 14 & IN SE1/4 11-7-66 2.87 AM/L

Date of Application: MAY 5, 2022

That said MCCULLISS OIL & GAS INC on the 26th day of December 2022 the present holder of said certificate, has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 8th day of September 2022 unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 26th day of May 2022

Officers: LAUREN BAILEY, MANAGER Legal Notice No. 942161 First Publication: May 26, 2022 Last Publication: May 26, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to MCCULLISS OIL & GAS INC. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2017. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of MERRION FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP for said year 2017

/s/ David Gill County Treasurer of Douglas County

Public Notice NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May Concern, and more especially to: BRUCE T KAJI, SETSUO ITO, STAN ROLLINS, STANFORD ROLLINS & MARGUERITE KYLE - OCCUPANT - MCCULLISS OIL & GAS INC COTA RESOURCES INC - BRUCE T KAJI AKA BRUCE T KAJI SETSUO - SETSUO ITO AKA SETSUO D ITO AKA SETSUO N ITO AKA SETSUO T ITO AKA ITO SETSUO - STAN ROLLINS AKA STANFORD ROLLINS - MARGUERITE KYLE - JOHN E CAVEY JR AKA JOHN EDWARD CAVEY AKA JOHN EDWARD CAVEY JR You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 1st day of November 2018 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to MCCULLISS OIL & GAS INC the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit: 1/2 MIN INT IN S1/2S1/2 17-6-66 TOTAL = 160 AM/L MIN INT = 80 AM/L and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to MCCULLISS OIL & GAS INC. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2017. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of BRUCE T KAJI, SETSUO ITO, STAN ROLLINS, STANFORD ROLLINS & MARGUERITE KYLE for said year 2017 That said MCCULLISS OIL & GAS INC on the 26th day of December 2021 the present holder of said certificate, has made request upon the Treasurer

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Legal Notice No. 942159 First Publication: May 26, 2022 Last Publication: June 9, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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