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VOLUME 35 | ISSUE 33

Accountability questions could hinder school district bond success With new drought restrictions, the Highlands Ranch Metro District is working to cut water use by 20%, a difficult task with all of the community’s parks and fields.

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Metro District to cut water use by 20% to meet drought restriction requirements Highlands Ranch has 6,000 irrigation zones

BY THELMA GRIMES TGRIMES@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In response to new drought restrictions put in place by Centennial Water, the Highlands Ranch

Metro District announced it will cut outdoor irrigation water consumption by 20%.

On July 6, the Centennial Water & Sanitation District board of directors voted to impose Stage 1 drought restrictions, a step higher than the “drought watch” designation.

The restrictions apply to those living in the Centennial Water

service area, which includes the communities of Highlands Ranch and Solstice and the Northern Douglas County Water & Sanitation District.

In a July 11 announcement, officials with the metro district, which is the biggest commercial water user in the community, announced SEE WATER, P13

Views differ on whether high schools should stop naming valedictorians

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Soon after the Cherry Creek School District in Arapahoe County announced it would stop designating valedictorians in its high schools, the criticism started pouring in.

“The pursuit of excellence has suffered another blow,” wrote George Brauchler, a former Arapahoe County district attorney, in a column for The Denver Post.

“The crusade against meritocracy,

and for mediocrity, in our schools reached a new level,” the Denver Gazette news outlet’s editorial board wrote.

Cherry Creek’s decision even landed a story in national and international news outlet Newsweek, with other media coverage mentioning it too.

The practice of honoring valedictorians is one the district’s high school principals had discussed “for many years,” the principals wrote in a letter to parents.

“The practices of class rank and

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valedictorian status are outdated and inconsistent with what we know and believe of our students.

We believe all students can learn at high levels, and learning is not a competition,” the principals wrote in the letter about the policy, which will begin with the class of 2026.

Cherry Creek’s new policy took aim at “unnecessary pressure,” the letter said, a welcome change in the eyes of Dr. Anna Mueller, an associate professor of sociology who has SEE VALEDICTORIANS, P4

Poll results point to serious challenges with transparency and trust

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Transparency concerns could decide the success of Douglas County School District’s potential bond and mill levy override questions, yet school board directors have taken limited steps to address the headwinds.

Poll results presented to the school board in June showed a majority of voters wouldn’t support additional school funding in November, with many saying transparency and trust were major issues keeping them from passing an MLO and bond.

“When we ask what are the issues on the outgoing surveys, trust and transparency comes up,” Brad Geiger, a member of the MLO/Bond Exploratory Committee, said on June 7. “And if you ask who don’t you trust, every name on the board comes up.”

Colorado Community Media reached out to all of the school board directors to discuss transparency and trust in the district. Director Susan Meek was the only board member to respond to questions.

Meek said she continues to advocate for listening to and engaging with the entire community to SEE SCHOOLS, P25

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Douglas County honors outgoing veterans services director, welcomes new one Did you know Douglas County’s Veterans Service Office is staffed entirely by military veterans? Last week, the county took time to salute two men dedicated to supporting the more than 20,000 veterans and military families living in Douglas County.

After 10 years of service with Douglas County, David Maxwell, a 20-year Army veteran recently

retired as director.

A dedicated volunteer, Chris Maes, is now serving as director. Maes served 20 years on active duty for the Army and over one year as a volunteer with the Veterans Service Office prior to becoming director. He says he is grateful to serve and advocate for local veterans and their families.

Find out how the Veterans Service Office can help you: https://www.douglas.co.us/ veterans-service-office/

Strive to Thrive event The Strive to Thrive Resource Fair was created to help families who may not be able to afford back-to-school supplies and necessities?

This year’s event will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 26, at Southeast Christian Church, 9650 Jordan Road, in

Parker.

Preregistration is required for those who need school supplies and back-to-school physical exams.

Registration links are here: https://bit.ly/3aLvVmn. Transportation to the event is available by calling 720-515-8814 before 5 p.m. on Monday, July 25.

SRO team honored Douglas County Sheriff’s Office SRO team has earned the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) “Model Agency” award for 2022.

This award is the highest given recognizing this team as being the best of the best in the country when it comes to keeping our children safe. That being

said, Sheriff Spurlock and the amazing leadership and staff of the SRO unit have developed a program that is second to none.

With strong partnerships with the Douglas County School District, hard work and perseverance have developed what we believe every community should...

A safe and secure environment for our children to learn.

Prep classes for ACT/SAT Is your student taking the ACT or SAT this upcoming school year? Prep classes for the ACT/SAT will take place Aug.

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Inflation is not always bad

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f you were not an adult in the 1970s or even born yet, you might not have a clue what all this talk about inflation is. And even if you do remember clearly, this time is likely to be different.

Remember our new favorite word from COVID is “unprecedented.”

Most of us know that inflation is when prices go higher, but that is not always a bad thing for the economy. We want economic growth; therefore, prices will rise, along with profits and interest rates. These are not negatives unless things get out of hand. If you rely on your one economics class on supply and demand, this concept is relatively simple. However, the causes play into the effects and that is where the uncertainty lies.

Today consumers are concerned they are dipping into their discretionary spending to pay for necessities such as food, housing, and

fuel. Investors are concerned their assets are not holding their true purchasing power if everything gets more expensive but investment cycles ebb and flow with the economy.

Therefore, the denominator must Patricia Kummer be growth.

No one complains about high prices if they feel they are getting value for the money spent, or they have enough money to buy what they want without feeling a pinch.

It’s when we don’t have the wage increases, or the stock market rising that we feel things cost too much. If the economy is on a growth tear and corporate earnings are soaring, then our investments should be going up as well.

When prices increase without the underlying growth in your financial situation, then inflation feels personal. And it is …. personal.

We all have our own inflation rate. It is made up of what we like to buy, how much we earn, and how we handle periods of economic decline in light of our needs and wants.

According to Jay Weinstein, CFA ¹ most people would say inflation goes up when the economy gets too strong, or the government prints too much money. Except that was not the case in the 1970s. Nor was the opposite true between 1983 and 2007 when we had consistent economic growth and still managed two recessions and falling interest rates for 25 years.

The period from 2008 until now included the Great Recession followed by painfully slow economic growth, the Fed’s easy money

policy, and now stagflation, inflation, market corrections, slowing economic growth and a potential recession.

Economists may deem the cause of rising rates to be the result of three main contributors: Pent-up demand from COVID; reduced supply of fuel and food due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine; and supply chain shortages due to China’s lockdown. None of these would have been caused by a normal economic cycle of recessionary traits such as high unemployment and negative economic growth. Those things may come but they would not be the cause, they would actually be the effect.

So yes, I guess this is a legitimate use of the word “unprecedented.”

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studied mental health among youths in different parts of the country, including in Colorado.

“How painful and stressful academic pressure for teenagers can be is very real,” Mueller told Colorado Community Media.

‘Healthier school culture’ The decision to cut valedictorian status isn’t unheard of: One of the Colorado communities that made the move years ago is Boulder Valley School District.

Boulder Valley top official Rob Anderson didn’t oversee the decision — he started as superintendent there in 2018 — but “since I’ve been here, no one’s asked me to bring it back,” Anderson said.

Anderson also served as deputy superintendent of academics in Fulton County, Georgia, in the Atlanta area, where the high-achieving Northview High School decided to stop naming valedictorians and salutatorians “because of the additional pressures it puts on kids,” Anderson said.

“Just anecdotally, talking with parents, talking with (the) principal, it created a healthier school culture for those kids that were among the top in

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the class,” said Anderson, speaking about the Northview High decision.

In Anderson’s view, differences in grade point average, or GPA, at the top of a class can be insignificant.

The gap can sometimes be a tenth or hundredth of a point “when you’re separating highly motivated, incredibly intelligent kids who are trying to reach those types of goals,” Anderson said. “There’s not a lot of room in between.”

“Talk to (students vying for) valedictorian or salutatorian. They’re not sleeping,” said Anderson, who felt kids can be successful without the titles.

Superintendent Chris Fiedler, leader of the Brighton-area 27J Schools district, has not served in any school district where valedictorians are

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not recognized. He wasn’t sure of whether removing valedictorian designation from high schools would affect student achievement broadly.

“Do I think it drives academic performance? It absolutely does for those kids that are chasing (high rank),” Fiedler said. “I’m of the opinion that it drives competition among kids. I don’t think that’s a bad thing as long as it’s healthy.”

Fiedler previously served as superintendent of the Gilpin County School District in Black Hawk and then as superintendent of Deer Trail School District 26J in Deer Trail, according to 27J’s district website. He’s co-chair of the Denver Area School Superintendents Council.

“I don’t believe always that the letter grade students earn in a class is always an accurate representation of what they learned or not,” Fiedler said. “Some of the classes I learned the most in I didn’t get an A in.”

Michael Mazenko, a Cherry Creek High School teacher, a former school administrator and a past gifted education coordinator, argued in an op-ed in The Denver Post that “ranking can encourage kids to avoid hard classes out of fear of losing a decimal point.”

The competition for valedictorian status and rank creates “gamesmanship” and limits students from choosing courses based on growth and

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Each year, RidgeGate teams up with the South Suburban Parks and Recreation District to provide free, guided nature hikes. These hikes are led by professional naturalists from the district, and offer insight and education into the natural ecosystems within the open space at RidgeGate. Registration is required and available at RidgeGate.com.

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interest “to instead choose what’s best to manipulate GPA,” Mazenko wrote.

On the other hand, chasing a high GPA can also push students to load their schedule with lots of Advanced Placement and honors courses.

Fiedler said both scenarios are realistic.

“Kids who were vying to be valedictorian, salutatorian, they would steer away from non-weighted classes because it would hurt their GPA. If the school has band or yearbook, valuable classes … kids wouldn’t take those classes,” Anderson said.

Anderson said pressure to reach a certain class rank encourages high-achieving students to “overload themselves.”

Those kids “not only fill up their school year but fill up their summers, take classes beyond the school year, beyond the normal course load a student would take,” Anderson said.

Asked whether the decision of whether to recognize a valedictorian affects middle- or lower-achieving students, Fiedler said: “My opinion is no.”

“I believe that there are probably 20 to 25 kids, maybe 30, maybe 35, that go into high school their freshman year with that on their mind. And after freshman year, it quickly sorts itself” and some kids stop pursuing that rank, Fiedler said.

In general, Fiedler felt that “competition is good and healthy” and that focusing on rank is a valid practice.

“I would argue that in most if not all of life, we keep score. If we’re not going to honor valedictorians anymore … are we no longer going to have state wrestling champions?”

Fiedler said, for example.

“Life is filled with competition,” he added.

‘Downplay the achievements’ Cherry Creek School District declined to make an official available for an interview with Colorado Community Media about the valedictorian policy, but district spokesperson Abbe Smith highlighted that Cherry Creek High School did not have a valedictorian process even before the district’s announcement, which came in the principals’ letter dated March 9.

“Cherry Creek High School, the district’s flagship and arguably one of the top high schools in the nation, eliminated valedictorian and ranking of students more than 30 years ago,” Mazenko, the former school administrator, wrote in the Post.

“Ranking can actually compromise and downplay the achievements of the school’s high number of extraordinary students,” he continued.

Cherry Creek district will continue to acknowledge the academic achievements of students through other methods, such as honor roll, GPA cords at graduation, and department- and school-specific awards, according to the principals’ letter.

‘Cultural shift’ Mueller, the associate professor of sociology, said academic pressure can push some young people to a concerning place.

“Some of my past research has really shown that academic pressure can play a role in making kids feel like life is not worth living — like life is unbearable and that suicide is SEE VALEDICTORIANS, P7

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Seven state Senate districts could shift control Colorado Republicans have opening to take chamber in General Assembly

BY SANDRA FISH THE COLORADO SUN

The Colorado Senate is likely where Republicans have their best shot this year of taking back some control of state government from Democrats after four years in the minority of the legislative and executive branches.

While the GOP will try to win a majority in the Colorado House and unseat Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, the odds are stacked against them in those two arenas. That leaves the 35-member Senate as the most plausible place to turn the tide.

Here’s a look at where the battlegrounds will be.

The lay of the land Democrats now hold a 20-15 advantage in the Senate.

They are guaranteed 12 seats, with 11 holdovers and one Democratic candidate, Sen. Julie Gonzales of Denver, running unopposed.

Republicans are guaranteed eight seats, with seven holdovers and one uncontested race in Senate District 1 on the deeply Republican Eastern Plains, where Logan County Commissioner Byron Pelton is unopposed.

Another five seats up for grabs in

November are considered solidly Republican, while three are considered solidly Democratic.

That leaves seven seats that are possible pick-up opportunities for the GOP, according to Cnalysis, which ranks the competitiveness of state legislative contests.

The seven critical districts The seven tossup districts are across Colorado. We have listed them out below.

(The amounts in parentheses are the amount of money each candidate had in their campaign bank account as of June 22.)

• Senate District 3: This Pueblo seat tilts Republican. Democratic state Sen. Nick Hinrichsen ($26,919) faces Republican Stephen Varela ($14,387), an Army veteran. Hinrichsen was appointed to the seat earlier this year after Senate President Leroy Garcia resigned to take a Pentagon job.

• Senate District 11: This reconfigured Colorado Springs district tilts Democratic. GOP state Sen. Dennis Hisey ($33,179) moved into the district after being drawn out of his old seat in the once-a-decade redistricting process. He’ll face state Rep. Tony Exum ($9,238), who won his primary contest.

• Senate District 15: Cnalysis says this district leans Republican. Incumbent Republican state Sen. Rob Woodward ($138,003), of Loveland, will face Democrat Janice Marchman ($30,531), a middle school math teacher from Loveland.

• Senate District 27: This Arapahoe County district leans Democratic.

State Rep. Tom Sullivan ($41,217), a Democrat and gun-regulation advocate, faces Tom Kim ($3,022), a business owner and former lawyer.

• Senate District 20: This Jefferson County district leans Democratic.

State Rep. Lisa Cutter ($41,254), a Democrat, faces Tim Walsh ($22,689), owner of Confluence Builders.

• Senate District 8: This Democratic-leaning district is based in northwestern Colorado. Democratic state Rep. Dylan Roberts ($124,176) faces former Eagle City Councilman Matt Soloman ($19,632), a Republican.

• Senate District 24: This is a Democratic-leaning district in northwest Adams County. Democratic state Rep. Rep. Kyle Mullica ($54,272) faces Republican Courtney Potter ($16,607), an Adams 12 Five Star Schools board member.

The money Most of the spending in these races won’t be by the candidates, but rather by the state-level super PACs supporting them.

In 2018, when Democrats wrested control of the Senate from Republicans after four years in the minority, Republican outside groups spent nearly $8.5 million compared with Democratic outside groups spending $8.3 million on five competitive races. That compared with $1.9 million spent by Democratic candidates in the five contests, while the five GOP candidates spent a total of $631,000.

And in 2020, Democratic outside groups spent $6.1 million compared with Republican outside groups’ $3.3 million.

This year, Republicans have the cash advantage through June 22.

The Senate Majority Fund had raised about $2.6 million to support Republican candidates, while All Together Colorado raised about $1.7 million to support Democrats.

The national GOPAC Election Fund contributed $560,000 to the Senate Majority Fund and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Colorado PAC contributed $160,000 to the fund.

The national Republican State Leadership Committee recently donated $200,000 to super PAC Unite for Colorado Action. That state-level super PAC spent $1.6 million in 2020, mostly on state Senate contests.

Education Reform Now Advocacy gave $290,000 to All Together Colorado, and Denver philanthropist Merle Chambers gave $250,000 to the group.

It’s likely money will continue to flow into these two super PACs and possibly others as Nov. 8 nears and the battle for the state Senate intensifies.

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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Eucker unexpectedly resigns as KOSON charter CEO

BY MCKENNA HARFORD MHARFORD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The head of charter network KOSON, which includes STEM Highlands Ranch, unexpectedly retired in the midst of efforts to open two new schools in Sterling Ranch and Denver.

KOSON CEO Dr. Penny Eucker

stepped down from her role on June 30, sending a resignation letter to the STEM Board of Directors. Eucker had been named to the KOSON CEO role earlier this year.

In a July 3 email to parents, Board President Kelly Reyna said the letter was a surprise to the board and community.

“I understand that there will

be many questions in the coming weeks, and the STEM board will work through the details in due time,” Reyna wrote.

Nicole Bostel, spokesperson for STEM, said the board named Dr. Karen Johnson to serve as interim CEO. Johnson has been with STEM for seven years and was most recently the director of curriculum

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Golden High School senior and valedictorian Ian Messa mugs it for the crowd at the 148th commencement ceremony for Golden High School held May 20 at Marv PHOTO BY DEBORAH GRIGSBY Kay Stadium.

their only escape,” said Mueller, who works for Indiana University.

Her study, titled “Adolescents Under Pressure,” underscored the importance of addressing the social causes — for example, academic pressure — of youths’ psychological pain, according to a summary on her website.

Pressure from “narrow beliefs” about what makes “good kids and good families” can constrain how kids imagine the pathway to adulthood, Mueller said.

“It makes failures that much more intense because it seems like absolutely everything is on the line,” Mueller said. “If you fail that one test or fail that one class or get a C on that one class … it’s this much bigger, existential thing of ‘I’m not going to be able to do X, Y, Z long-term goals.’”

She added: “If we’re going to encourage people to push their academic limits, or their athletic limits or their nerd limits, we have to make it OK to

and accountability.

Bostel said Johnson will continue to focus on the efforts to open two new schools.

“Dr. Eucker has led STEM from the brink of closure in its infancy, to become one of the top schools in the state. She leaves STEM in great hands,” a statement from STEM said.

fail.”

While Mueller doesn’t think ending valedictorian designation will change everything about that type of pressure, she thinks it’s “the sort of policy that’s a step in the right direction.”

It could act as “a symbol to the larger community of ‘let’s make this cultural shift,’” Mueller said. But, she added, such a shift would have to also be supported by other school policies, by parents and by kids themselves, and by teachers.

One source of pressure that exists outside the reach of high school policy: the cost of paying for college.

Part of what puts pressure on students is the pursuit of merit scholarships, which are more competitive than merely getting into college, Mueller said. She argues students don’t need to attend a “highly selective university” to receive a good education.

“I would actually argue if we could take some of the pressure off parents for paying for college and students for paying for college, I think that would (benefit) our nation’s mental health,” Mueller said. “Probably parents and students.”

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Not many business owners carry bags of homemade garlic knots to local businesses, treat their workers and customers like family, and spread love and positivity from table to table — besides Lasinda and Jimmy Crane, owners of Cranelli’s on Park Meadows Drive.

Their story began 27 years ago on a blind date set up by their best friends. Since then, they have worked in the restaurant industry both together and apart to pave the way for Cranelli’s.

Twenty years ago, their friends asked them to help open an Italian restaurant named after Jimmy called Jimmy C’s Pizza and Pasta in Lakewood. Lasinda and Jimmy developed the menu, later influencing Cranelli’s half and full portion choices.

They also hosted a “marinara party” at the restaurant where they tasted nine of Jimmy’s different marinara sauces to determine the best one. The winner is still used today at Cranelli’s.

Jimmy C’s expanded Lasinda’s and Jimmy’s skills from serving, managing and cooking to restaurant ownership. “We got to learn how you build a restaurant, how you get your guests in there, how you keep them in there, so many learning moments,” said Lasinda.

Lasinda and Jimmy moved on

to flipping an Indian restaurant in Castle Pines into a steakhouse about two years later. Lasinda said, “We came in, and the kids slept on the bar. We were immersed in it.”

Jimmy’s Steakhouse, also named after Jimmy, flourished under Lasinda’s and Jimmy’s management. They hosted a fashion show and Christmas events in the restaurant, but eventually left when their job to flip the restaurant into a successful business was completed.

Jimmy went on to help open Brio Tuscan Grille in Park Meadows while Lasinda became the general manager at Nordstrom eBar. After several years, Lasinda found Cranelli’s space on Craigslist and decided their chance to open their own restaurant was “now or never.” They took over the lease and began building the popular Italian restaurant, which opened in 2013. Lasinda said, “I knew this was our second home.”

To grow their connection to the community, Lasinda passed out bags of garlic knots and attended business openings like Kaiser Permanente. She also became a board member of the Lone Tree Chamber of Commerce to learn more about Lone Tree and give back.

Lasinda runs the front of the house at the restaurant, making sure customers are satisfied and learning more about their lives, while Jimmy cooks in the back.

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one day that I wish I wasn’t going to work,” said Lasinda.

The restaurant has regulars who come in once a week, but also receives about 40% new customers every day. Lasinda said they have gathered this statistic through servers interacting with customers. She wants to establish a community within the restaurant where everyone gets to know each other.

“I tell my servers, ‘This is your house, and when people come to your house for a party, what do you do? You talk to them,’” said Lasinda. “‘You make sure your house is clean. You make sure your house is organized. You make sure that the food is fantastic.’”

The hardest lesson Lasinda had to learn is that not everyone will love Cranelli’s. She said she tries to fix the experience for unhappy customers in the moment but isn’t always successful.

“I can pick up on it. I can see when food is still left in the bowl.

I can see when their demeanor is not happy, but sometimes people will not say a word,” said Lasinda. “Then they will go and leave the worst review.”

Cranelli’s responds to every online review, good or bad, to acknowledge everyone’s experience.

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Lasinda said Cranelli’s will never be a trendy restaurant where the menu constantly changes. “What we are is consistent, great quality food. That chicken parmigiana you had 10 years ago is still the same chicken parmigiana because that’s what you love,” said Lasinda.

Jimmy grew up with the loyalty of mom-and-pop restaurants and established those ideals in Cranelli’s. “We make (our employees) feel like they’re a part of more than just a restaurant,” said Jimmy.

The ultimate success of Cranelli’s rests in the strength of Lasinda’s and Jimmy’s partnership inside and outside of the restaurant.

“I don’t want to be so cliche on this, but she’s my best friend,” said Jimmy.

He said they are complete opposites — Lasinda loves to be out in the front being interviewed, while he prefers staying out of the spotlight. “If I see a camera to the left, I’ll go to the right, where Lasinda will say, ‘Ooh let’s see what’s going on over there,’” said Jimmy.

Jimmy said he shares the same core values with Lasinda, and after living and working together for 20 years, they still enjoy each other’s company.

“I think what’s been the best thing about all of it is we still love hanging out together,” said Lasinda. “We make it fun. We just both love this industry.”

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Sterling Ranch starts commercial rainwater harvesting Eventual aim is to supply up to 400 acre-feet of water per year

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As Colorado’s drought drags on, one Douglas County community is hoping to pave the way for a new commercial water source: rain.

Sterling Ranch, a masterplanned community in the northwest region of the county, is ready to test the idea out after more than a decade of working with the legislature and gathering data. If it works, it could change the way the entire state thinks about rainwater harvesting.

“I really think it could be something that municipalities look at in the future,” said Andrea Cole, general manager for Sterling Ranch’s water provider Dominion Water and Sanitation. “It’s getting drier so we have to figure out how to be better and more efficient with our water use.”

Historically, most areas of

the state have outlawed the collection of rainwater, requiring that every drop make it to downstream users. Now, Dominion Water is looking to prove they can gather the precipitation without harming others’ water rights.

“When you go in and develop an area, since you change the landscape, you’re increasing runoff,” Cole said.

That added runoff is in part due to the increase in hard surfaces such as roads and roofs, she said.

“When it rains on a road, you get more runoff than when it lands in a field,” she said.

A 2007 study from Leonard Rice Engineers found that a maximum of about 15% of rain returned to the stream system, according to Water Education Colorado.

Cole says the data Dominion has collected shows excess water entering the system because of the hard surfaces there. Now, they will test it out by actually removing the rainwater.

Rainwater in Colorado In 2009, two new pieces of legislation related to rainwa-

ter were approved. One, House Bill 09-080, allowed limited rainwater to be collected by some homes who use domestic wells and are outside of cities or water districts. The other, House Bill 09-1129, gave permission for up to 10 pilot programs for rainwater harvesting to take place.

In 2016, House Bill 16-1005 passed, which allowed most homes to collect two rain barrels for outdoor use on lawns and gardens.

Using diversion structures, the rain for the pilot program will be collected in a small pond in the Willow Creek area.

It will then be pumped for outdoor, non-potable uses such as irrigating parks and recreational fields.

As part of the pilot, Dominion will be required to get their plan approved by a water court. Cole expects that process to take about three years.

“We’re pretty confident that we can get through the water court process,” Cole said.

“Water rights are always about no harm, no injury, so we have to show that we’re not injuring or harming downstream water rights.”

A spokesperson for Denver Water said the agency would evaluate their impact after seeing the water right application.

“We are always interested in exploring innovative approaches to addressing Colorado’s water supply-demand gap through efficient uses of water, and we look forward to learning more about Sterling Ranch’s plans,” according to the spokesperson.

Sam Calkins with Centennial Water and Sanitation said his department will be keeping a close eye on the project as they learn more about it. Centennial Water provides water and

wastewater services to residents in Highlands Ranch.

“If they can find something that hasn’t been used and doesn’t harm other water rights on the Platte River then it sounds like an interesting idea,” he said.

If it’s successful, Sterling Ranch hopes to expand rainwater harvesting to other areas.

The first project is expected to glean up to 60 acre feet per year. If the whole system can be built out, it could add as much as 400 acre feet of water per year.

Cole said she sees the program as a way to reduce the amount of demand for treated, potable water. If successful, she believes it may make sense for other large developed areas to consider doing the same thing to add to their water portfolio.

Sterling Ranch focuses on water conservation through a program they call “demand management,” which gives residents a live look at their water usage and bills, asking them to manage their own consumption. They also have banned the use of bluegrass, a high-demand turf, and instead offer native, drought-resistant plants for landscaping.

Their water provider Dominion, which is set to have about 12,000 homes by 2040, plans to be 90% renewable water by that same time.

Tracy Kosloff with the state engineer’s office said they would also be monitoring the process of the program.

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No such thing as ‘The Media’

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borrowed this week’s title from a long-ago colleague. Many years ago, he tried to stress the point that people referring to “The Media” is not quite accurate. Today, that statement is truer than ever.

In reading articles and information about our industry, we often hear “The Media,” especially when we are being put down for the state and attitude of the nation.

Here’s where I am going with this — There is no FROM THE such thing as “The Media” because an organization like Colorado Community Media and a CNN, FOX EDITOR News or New York Times are not alike at all.

Television, radio, major news stations and major newspapers are not all made of the same cloth.

Mainstream media and the small-town newspaper, which I will argue are more valuable today than ever, are nothing alike and the reporters doing the work are completely different.

Over the last week, I read an interesting article where a journalist even says she is sick of the and listened to a radio show that talked about Thelma Grimes news just how tired of news the average American is. I have to say, I agree. Over the last few years, my news consumption has decreased tremendously. I rarely go near television news at all anymore.

Here’s where the discussion gets interesting. Some who are talking about this topic are saying it happened during the pandemic when Americans just got tired of all of it. On a local radio show, the host recently talked about what happened to “The Media” when Donald Trump was elected president. Was it the pandemic or Donald Trump?

I think the reasoning in both cases have valid points. I think Bill Maher said it best about the pandemic when he said at some point media coverage on COVID became more about “scaring the sh#$ out of people” over informing and reporting. There is some truth to that.

Instead of reading and listening to commentary about the pandemic, I paid attention to local information and turned to the well-done data chart NPR created that just showed numbers on how each state was doing.

Then, we have the Donald Trump effect. The former president did the media and nation no favors. The media became like a dog with a bone, covering every aspect of Trump’s unconventional way of leading this nation. Agree with the former president or not, I would argue with anyone telling me the media did a great job during his four years in office.

Look at the Hunter Biden situation, I have a hard time believing that mainstream media would have ignored this story as much as they have if the name behind the investigation was Trump Jr. The problem with the pandemic and Trump’s presidency is the distrust in the media has grown, the divide in this country is huge and the impact is felt on media companies like CCM, where we are more worried about what your local city council and school board is doing than we are about whatever Biden’s press secretary said today.

As distrust mounts and we are blamed for “The Media,” newspapers nationwide are closing and creating what is being referred to as “news deserts.”

CNN and Fox News will weather the storm, speaking to their respective audiences who tune in to hear what they want to hear.

However, once the local, community newspaper is no longer available, learning what local council members are doing, where your local tax dollars are going and why in the world the lanes are closed for construction again on Broadway — will no longer be available to you.

Bottom line, don’t lump your local, community newspaper in with your disdain for “The Media.” Instead, we ask that you support us as we continue to build and grow to serve 24 communities along the Front Range.

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orking with Zig Ziglar was truly a blessing in so many ways. Whenever he would meet someone in the afternoon or evening, he would greet them with a big smile and an enthusiastic and cheerful, “Good morning.” The person on the receiving end would almost always reply with, “Good morning to you too.” And then would catch themselves saying, “But it’s not morning.” And Zig would reply with a question, “Well then why did you say good morning?” And the person would say, “Because you said good morning.”

That’s where the teaching would begin as Zig would remind the person that we get back what we put out, giving the person an aha moment. We know that when trying something like this, that it all comes down to the delivery. And Zig was so easygoing and good hearted that no one ever took offense to his mini lessons of life.

Another story he would share from the stage is this one. A woman and her 6-year-old son were at home one day. The family lived on a mountain range and overlooked a valley. One day the young boy was getting into some mischief as young boys tend to do, and his mother disciplined him and withheld his afternoon snack until he would apologize.

The boy ran out of the house slamming the door behind him yelling, “I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.” And as he did a young boy’s voice echoed from the valley saying, “I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.”

Terrified, the boy ran back into his house and into his mother’s arms crying. He told her that there was a boy in the valley yelling that he hates me. The mom knowing full well it was the echo encouraged her son to go back outside and shout, “I love you, I love you, I love

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you,” and see what happens. The boy did as instructed, and the voice was heard echoing in return, “I love you, I love you, I love you.”

We really do get back what we give out. Even a smile. Keeping with my Zig Ziglar theme, Zig would always encourage people by sayMichael Norton ing, “If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.”

We are at odds with one another in so many ways and places. And if we are in a state of fear, worry and doubt about what is happening locally or globally, we could all probably benefit by remembering that people will respond or react to what we do and what we say. If we say good morning at 5:00 at night, they may respond by saying good morning back. We must remember that what we are yelling from the mountaintop or by email, text, or social media, that we will also get back what we put out. So why not put out more loving kindness, and reasonableness?

In 1914 during World War I, the Americans, French and Germans, put aside their war for a short time to meet on the battlefield to celebrate Christmas, exchanging gifts, food and stories. This was a world war, and yet they found common ground. After a heavily contested boxing match or UFC bout, the fighters do their best to win, but when the fight is over, they meet in the middle and hug or acknowledge the other out of respect. It happens in other sports too. When the game is over, regardless of who won or lost, you can see play-

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WATER FROM PAGE 1

the district would be adapting practices to meet the recommendations made by Centennial Water.

The news release said the metro district strives to set a good example of water conservation yearround and will further enhance its efforts to adjust to the new Stage 1 drought restrictions.

“It’s important for community members to know that our parks remain a top priority and we will strive to keep them as healthy as possible while meeting the expectations for water savings,” said Dirk Ambrose, metro district parks and parkways manager. “Due to the reduction in water consumption, there may be stressed plant material and dry grass, but we still encourage outdoor use and activities.”

Based on Centennial Water’s drought response plan, the metro district announced it will be enacting a 20% overall reduction in irrigation water consumption.

Homeowners will see the metro district watering more than the two days per week residents are allotted

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to each other and smiling. Maybe they played in college or met while they were on the same team at some point. But once the battle is over, they come together in such a great way.

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due to the large amount of property the district maintains.

The large network of irrigation systems, with more than 6,000 zones, makes it impractical to irrigate large sites in a single day. While areas may be watered multiple days per week, the overall amount of water used will be reduced by 20%.

Under the new restrictions, which officially begin July 20, outdoor irrigation for residents will be limited to two days per week in accordance with Centennial Water’s adopted watering schedule.

Residential customers with oddnumbered addresses can water on Sundays and Wednesdays; evennumbered addresses can water on Saturdays and Tuesdays.

Besides reducing the overall amount of water used for irrigation, metro district officials said they will turn off all interactive and decorative water features, including the fountains at Civic Green Park. This will reduce water consumption and comply with the drought response plan, according to the news release.

The metro district said it has already implemented many water saving measures. It operates a centrally automated irrigation control

system that works in conjunction with weather stations.

In 2022, the metro district appointed a central irrigation coordinator to oversee the entire automated system and to finetune watering programs.

The Metro District has begun to strategically convert areas of parkway bluegrass to plant material that requires substantially less water. It also completes routine, proactive cultural practices — including mowing, aeration, fertilization and weed management — that limit water demand.

While water consumption will be reduced, it’s also important to understand the challenges of maintaining 440 irrigated acres in parks and parkways: • High public use and heavily programmed activities in parks result in turf stress and significantly reduce windows to apply water.

• Metro district’s sprinkler heads

are susceptible to vandalism during overnight hours in parks in the summer time and they fall victim to snow plows in the winter months.

• The parkways’ landscape consistently is disturbed and damaged due to utility contractor work and the regular presence of commercial equipment.

• Sloping terrain, heat from hardscapes — roads, sidewalks, fences etc. — and south-facing landscape contributes to plant stress and increases water use especially in the parkway system.

To read more about Highlands Ranch Metro District’s water conservation practices, visit highlandsranch.org/resources/waterconservation.

To learn more about Stage 1 restrictions, the drought response plan and conservation tips for homeowners, visit Centennial Water’s Drought Resource Center at centennialwater.org/drought.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Follow safe cycling practice Bicycle riders, please give notice to walkers you pass along the High Line Trail! A simple “on your left” as you approach a walker from the rear is appreciated and necessary to eliminate accidents. On my walk today only one bicyclist warned me of his approach and others simple whisked by which is very scary, even as one walks carefully on the right. There used to be signs of “etiquette” along the trail in Highlands Ranch for cyclists, walkers and horses. Please return the signs so everyone can know the rules and safely get along as we share the trails.

Judy Kraft, Highlands Ranch Dam plan was bad idea Mr. Schauf (“Two Forks was missed chance” letter, July 7) is way off on his remarks that Two Forks was a missed chance.

I was at the old Supreme Court chambers of the Capitol in June of 1988 when then Gov. Roy Romer said yes (non-binding) to the project but with a conditional, “find alternative solutions.” Thank you Governor Romer and then finally EPA Chief William Reilly for vetoing the permit for the dam pursuant to the Clean Water Act in November 1990. The veto necessitated Denver Water Board to look at water efficiency (Denver didn’t meter water), recycle water (which they along with our water districts are now doing) and raise other existing dams (Gross Reservoir Dam now being raised).

Two Forks was a boondoggle and it anyone wants to truly edu-

cate themselves on this extremely controversial project should watch; https://coloradotu.org/blog/2020/5/ the-two-forks-legacy-video, this video has a panel of former employees of the EPA and Denver Water, environmentalists and reporters. I wish I could have been at this event in May 2020 and thank each and every one of them. I find it interesting that even a former Denver Water employee stated during the event that, “We don’t need the water, we need the project.”

I also would like to know how Mr. Schauf thinks Two Forks would be full by now, considering most reservoirs are at all-time lows?

Thanks to all of those citizens that spoke against this project and helped preserve this area for all of us.

Leslie H. Lilly, Castle Rock Column missed truth In the July 7 issue of the Parker Chronicle, guest columnist Linda Newell made her sad lament of the loss of the right to control her own body. A more truthful, moral statement would have been that she lost the right to murder her baby. Every mother knows that the growing life inside of her body is human being.

A human being with God-given rights to live, just as the mother has rights to live. The mother is entrusted to give the best possible care to that little life.

It is so sad to watch a culture of death make babies expendable for the wishes of the mother.

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tephanie Wells and Donna Miller grew up during a time when women could not be pilots, but the two Denver women did not give up on their dreams and eventually earned their wings.

Miller, a first officer, flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner for American Airlines, and Wells is retired after an illustrious career that included flying for NASA and working for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Defying gender barriers Miller grew up in Golden. Her father was a Colorado School of Mines professor and an aviator.

“He was a back seater in the F-4 in the Navy and went to top gun,” Miller said. “He was my inspiration growing up.”

Miller attended Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, which had an aviation program but only for men. So, she majored in business administration, economics and international management. She spent her last semester of college overseas and was accepted to the American College in Paris. She ended up living abroad for eight years.

Miller moved to South Korea for two years and worked as an Air Force civilian, where she got her pilot’s license in 1988 at age 27.

She then moved to Frankfurt, Germany, where she took a job as an administrative assistant for a computer company from 1989 to 1990, when the Berlin Wall fell.

“I was 27 and considered military, but the age cutoff was 27 in half, and at that time, the military didn’t need pilots,” Miller said.

Miller returned to Denver in late 1990 and started working at Jeppesen, coding the database for airline onboard computers.

While there, Miller met Capt.

Elrey B. Jeppesen, after whom the Jeppesen Terminal at Denver International Airport was named.

She said Orville Wright signed Jeppesen’s pilot’s license, and he gave her a piece of fabric from the Wright brothers’ first aircraft.

“I helped Jeppesen catalog all of his memorabilia, which is in a display case at Denver International Airport,”

Miller said.

Miller left Jeppesen to work for the United Airlines Training Center in 1995. It was another desk job, but it put her in right place at the right time.

While Miller was working at the training center, Capt.Ted Stiles, who was on United’s hiring committee, came into her office.

“He said, ‘Donna, you can’t steal second with your foot on first,’” Miller said. “I said, ‘excuse me.’ He said, ‘if you ever wanted to be a pilot, you have to leave your cushy little desk job and go out and fly — get the experience you need and then you can return to the airlines.”

Miller started a file called “stealing second” that day and contacted every single flight operator she knew.

“I probably didn’t even have 500 hours at the time, which is really low time, but I had all of my ratings,” she said.

Miller got her first pilot’s job in 1998 flying car parts to Mexico from El Paso, Texas.

“It was low paying,” she said. “We loaded and unloaded our own airplanes. It was tough duty.”

She also flew skydivers without pay, but she could jump for free. In 1999, she was hired as a first officer and a captain with Air Midwest. She flew regional turboprop jets out of Florida for over two years.

She applied at United, Delta and American, and finally, in June 2001, she was hired by American.

Miller logged her first passenger flight to Chicago on Sept. 10, 2001, the day before 9/11, and on Oct. 1, she was furloughed.

During the furlough, which ultimately lasted 11 years, Miller found other flying jobs, which were low paying but helped her stay current and qualified.

In 2013, Miller resumed flights with American Airlines based in Chicago.

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She lives in Denver but commutes elsewhere to fly the 787 Dreamliner.

She also runs marathons and so far has completed 32.

Airline pilots have to retire at age 65; Miller is 61.

“I’m not sure yet where I want to retire — maybe Portugal and spend more time in Europe,” Miller said.

“But I want to keep my hands in aviation because I love flying. It will always be a part of my life.”

A life-long passion Wells was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and grew up in Washington, D.C. She took her first flight at age 15 and immediately fell in love with aviation.

“I was picked up and carried away by it, but I couldn’t afford it,” Wells said. “It was just so far out of reach; it might have been impossible.”

Wells graduated with a bachelor of science degree in meteorology from Iowa State University in 1975, and while in college, she started working toward obtaining her private pilot’s license.

After graduation, she joined the Air Force, and her first assignment was as a weather forecaster.

“It was very cool to work as a forecaster, but my dream was always to be a pilot,” Wells said.

She said the Air Force announced it would start training women as pilots within a year of her joining.

“So, I was in the right place at the right time,” Wells said.

Wells began pilot training in 1978 and, after graduation, was assigned as an instructor pilot for the Cessna T-37 trainer. She later served as an instructor for the WC-130 “typhoon chaser” aircraft and the supersonic T-38 Talon.

She got the opportunity to train her peers to pilot these planes but becoming a fighter pilot was still out of reach for women at that time.

“I couldn’t get it, but that was OK,” Wells said. “I was so happy just to be the pilot for the Air Force.”

Wells was on active duty for the Air Force from 1975 to 1985 and then transferred from active duty to the Air Force Reserves.

“I flew more than 10 years in San Antonio, flying the C-5 galaxy military transport,” Wells said.

As a part-time reservist, she could pursue a civilian career, and her dream job was to fly for NASA. In 1986, she was hired by NASA, and her first assignment was as a zero-gravity test director. She eventually advanced to piloting the KC-135 Stratotanker Zero-G, “vomit comet,” aircraft.

She also served as chief of training and aviation safety officer at NASA, and she earned her master’s of science degree in aeronautical science from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University by attending classes in the evenings.

“I was also pilot on a couple of other airplanes, including the administrative airplane Gulfstream 1 to transport the bosses, and then, I got to fly the Gulfstream 2, which is a

special simulator to train the astronauts,” Wells said.

Wells said there were about 20 staff pilots and approximately 140 astronauts at NASA. The pilots’ mission was mainly to support the manned space program and to help train astronauts.

Wells decided she wanted to be close to her family in Colorado, so she left NASA and went to work for the Federal Aviation Administration in 2003 as a safety inspector at the Denver Flight Standards Office at Denver International Airport.

“I was an instructor pilot for the FAA, and I also had many (other) tasks, including overseeing air charter companies, flight schools, agriculture operators, external load helicopters, monitoring air shows, doing accident investigation,” Wells said.

Wells retired from the FAA in 2010 and was off to her next adventure, flying part-time for Mountain Aviation in Broomfield and instructing pilots on the King Air. She also worked for Rocky Mountain Aerial surveys flying the Cessna 206 doing surveys with a LIDAR camera that produces 3-D mapping.

“They had special instruments mapping the folds and valleys of the terrain in extreme detail,” Wells said. “It’s used for different things — mapping a golf course or building a road through a canyon.”

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Another All Colorado exhibit The Littleton Fine Art Guild’s home base, the Depot Art Gallery, hosts the “38th All Colorado Show.” (I know — there are two with the same name, but neither venue is inclined to change show names, so please just visit both and enjoy!) The juror was Doug

Dawson, who selected 70 works from 400 entries.

The exhibit runs through Aug. 27, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on July 27. Gallery open Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free. Ample at 2069 Sonya Ellingboe parking W. Powers Ave. in Littleton. 303-7950781, depotartgallery.org.

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All Colorado Art Show returns to Curtis 39th annual exhibition will run through Aug. 27

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Colors are softer and more subdued, perhaps, in this 39th year, and materials seem more varied as one enjoys Curtis Center for the Arts’ very solid All Colorado Art Show at Greenwood Village’s Curtis Center for the Arts, 2349 E. Orchard Road, just west of South University Boulevard.

The pleasant gallery in an old schoolhouse holds a collection of works, in two and three dimensions, by a number of this state’s talented corps of working artists. The show will run through Aug. 27 and is open six days a week (closed Sundays), so area art lovers will want to fit a visit onto the summer calendar. And perhaps find a new treasure for their home. Admission is free. Parking (free) is accessed from the drive just east of the gallery, which also serves the corner school.

Libby Garon, gallery director for Denver’s Walker Fine Art, was juror.

She is active in the Denver arts community and focuses on making connections between artists and collectors, as well as having an ongoing involvement with Colorado’s arts organizations and galleries.

Garon awarded the first place / juror’s choice award to Denver artist Sharon Brown’s charming portrait of an older couple, “The Joneses,” dressed up, smiling happily and holding hands, they stand in front of a hedge of pink roses on a sunny day. One thinks perhaps they have just attended a service at their favorite church and cheerfully look forward to a family dinner nearby.

Brown states: “I grew up with a number of artists in my family so it was natural for me to draw and paint from an early age.” She works in oil and watercolor in her studio and runs her own gallery, The Pattern Shop, in RiNo. She and her husband were among the eight artists who founded the River North Art District.

Watercolors and oils are presented in conventional techniques and there are some surprises. Aurora artist Cara Brewer’s “Cranes” is a SEE CURTIS, P19

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Check out the range of summer options below: Northglenn launches first public art exhibit Northglenn Arts unveiled the installation of the Creative Inspirations gallery exhibit, the city’s inaugural public art exhibit. Northglenn partnered with Chicano Humanities & Arts Council (CHAC), an inclusive community of all creatives that are dedicated to preserving, showcasing, educating, and reflecting the essence of Chicana/o/x, Latina/o/x and other multicultural/multiracial communities.

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The screening will be held at the Galleria at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St. in Denver, at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 26. DazzleJazz is curating the pre-show entertainment and Ryan Dykstra Records will be on site with a mobile record shop.

If you somehow haven’t seen “Almost Famous,” the semi-autobiographical film tells the story of William Miller, an aspiring rock journalist who gets hired by Rolling Stone magazine to write a piece about up-and-coming band Stillwater. It’s as much a story about growing up as it is an ode to the world of classic rock.

More information can be found at www.artscomplex.com/events/ summer-at-the-arts-complex.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — The Lumineers at Coors Field Coors Field is just flat out a great place to spend a summer night. Just being there is enough of a highlight, but throw in one of the biggest Colorado-based bands and you have a true banner evening in your future.

The Lumineers will be playing the stadium, 2001 Blake St. in Denver, at 8 p.m. on Friday, July 22. The group is touring in support of their 2022 album, “BRIGHTSIDE.” And they’ll be joined by some special guests — Gregory Alan Isakov and Daniel Rodriguez. All these performers have deep ties to the state, so it should be a special performance.

Score tickets at www.ticketmaster.com.

Fashion forward by looking back There’s still plenty of summer left to make an impression with your style choices — that’s where the newly launched Helen Elizabeth Vintage and its pop-up show enters the picture.

The pop-up will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, at 3295 Blake St., Suite 104 in Denver. This one-time event is highlighting its summer collection, which is (according to provided information), “a curated selection of clothing and accessories are available for purchase, including womxn’s dresses, skirts, tops, bathing suits, jewelry, hats and purses from decades spanning the 1930s to the 1990s.”

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Tickets $47-$56 opening night; $42-$51 through run; minersalley. com, 303-935-3044. “Hair” is still relevant.

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celebrated and maintained. Visit Helen Elizabeth on Instagram at @helenelizabethvintage.

Celebrate baseball — the way it used to be Baseball has held down its spot as “America’s pastime” since the late 19th century, and Lakewood is giving fans of the game a chance to experience how the game was played in the days of yesteryear.

Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., are great for local and visiting families in summer (or anytime). Those gigantic dinosaur skeletons leave anyone wide-eyed and there are other exhibits for varied interests from mummies to butterflies. The Imax theater will be closed for renovation until December, but the Gates Planetarium is open. Check the schedule for special in-person events, including the free “60 Minutes in Space” at 7 p.m. July

27 in the Ricketson Auditorium.

Admission to the museum is ticketed. See dmns.org.

$10/$7 or visitors may take selfguided tours for $5. AnschutzCollection.org, 303-293-2000.

Anschutz Collection The four-story American Museum of Western Art at 1727 Tremont Place in Denver has a collection of Western art that will speak to local and out-oftown visitors. More than 300 works by more than 180 artists, in a beautiful building. Public tours at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. cost

Watercolors The Annual Colorado Watercolor Society State Watercolor Exhibition is open through Sept.

1 at the Susan K. Arndt Gallery at Red Rocks Community College, 13300 W. 6th Ave., Lakewood. Juror was Keiko Tanaba.

Some south metro area artists are included.

stitching, Under a glass bell just inside the entrance is “Forest Moss” a mini-three-dimensional landscape with tiny logs and tinier leaves.

The juror will speak at 2 p.m. on Aug. 13. It’s always interesting to hear how they evaluated entries to create an exhibit.

Note that Greenwood Village’s newer event, Art on the Green, will return to Curtis Park on

Sept. 17, 18. (Contact Curtis Director Chris Stevens for information.)

Curtis Center for the Arts is at 2349 East Orchard Road in Greenwood Village. It is open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday. 303-797-1779. Admission is free. Parking just east of the gallery.

Pick up information on education programs.

Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park is hosting a Colorado Vintage Base Ball Association (CVBBA) base ball game at 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 30 at the park, 801 S. Yarrow St. The players will be wearing vintage uniforms, there will be snacks and a classic good time will be had by all. If you want to get in on the fun, you can register to take on the Colorado Vintage Base Ball Association. Participation is open for ages 16 and older and vintage costumes are encouraged.

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Mental health providers say they were ‘blindsided’ again by Medicaid policies New rules could worsen

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado mental health counselors in private practice say they’ve been surprised once again with new rules that will make it harder to treat the state’s most vulnerable patients: those with Medicaid insurance.

The latest friction between behavioral health professionals and the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing centers on the supervision of post-graduate counselors working toward their state license.

The department — which approved the policy written by the regional agencies that handle payments to mental health clinics — says the new rules are necessary to ensure Medicaid patients are receiving quality care.

But counselors in private practice say the rules could mean the loss of dozens of workers and potentially hundreds of mental health appointments.

They’re also frustrated because they said they didn’t know the new rules were coming.

The policy, which was announced at the beginning of this month, imposes stricter requirements on using interns still working toward their graduate degrees and therapists who have graduated but have yet to receive

their license, a process that takes two to four years after graduation.

Those pre-licensed counselors can see patients, but must have a licensed counselor sign off on their diagnoses and progress notes from each counseling session.

With the new rules, only counselors who have been licensed for at least two years can sign off on the work of pre-licensed counselors. The rules also stipulate that any counselor sanctioned by the state licensing division, at the Department of Regulatory Agencies, must wait for two years after their sanctions have expired before supervising pre-licensed counselors.

Counselors in private practice see both rules as an overreach, one that will mean fewer appointments for patients on the government insurance program for the needy, Medicaid.

About 30 of them attended a virtual meeting this week with the Medicaid division, which is housed in the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.

“We feel like that is going too far,” Andrew Rose, a psychotherapist and director of Boulder Emotional Wellness, said in an interview. “If DORA has decided you are safe to practice, that should be good enough.”

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“We have to make sure that our members are getting high-quality care,” Bates said. “We were glad to see some very clear rules about when this is and is not appropriate.”

Where the department erred, Bates said, was in not informing behavioral health care professionals about the policy changes or showing them a draft ahead of the implementation date.

“The rollout was where we kind of had some challenges,” she said.

The regional agencies are now considering possible changes to the policy and have said they will not deny claims or penalize clinics that are not following the new rules. After the outcry from providers, the regional agencies backtracked on the July 1 implementation date. One of them, Colorado Access, said in an email to The Sun that the policy change is not in effect and that “any changes to our current program will include additional input and advance notice.”

The discord is the latest in a long list of frustrations among mental health professionals who say they want to provide therapy for people on Medicaid but are fed up dealing with burdensome rules, redundant paperwork and even threats of having payments revoked. It comes as Colorado is facing unprecedented need for services, due in part to the isolation and stress of the coronavirus pandemic.

Rose said he typically signs off on 100 to 200 notes per week for his team of pre-licensed staff at Boulder Emotional Wellness. The clinic employs 38 pre-licensed counselors and plans to bump that number to 42 next month.

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challenge, since it’s already difficult to find licensed counselors willing to take on the liability of supervising pre-licensed therapists, he said.

Rose and others said they found out about the policy in a July 5 newsletter from one of the regional agencies that also laid out other policies that went into effect July 1.

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We just need some relief from this. We need to be included in decisions about who we can hire.”

The need for mental health counseling is so high right now that appointments with licensed counselors are “filled in a hot second,” said Dr. Lisa Griffiths, director of the Center for Valued Living in Aurora. Many clients rely on appointments with pre-licensed counselors under the supervision of licensed counselors.

One of Griffiths’ seven supervisors has a doctoral degree but has not yet had her license for two years, meaning she could no longer supervise other counselors under the new rules.

Mental health providers have been meeting regularly with the Medicaid department to smooth out their relationship after a series of issues, including rate cuts and processing problems that resulted in a regional agency trying to take back money from clinics that had already been paid for seeing Medicaid clients.

In the past few months, providers and the department have collaborated on new policies for marriage therapists and treating patients with gender dysphoria. The latest policy changes, however, came out of nowhere, Griffiths said.

“The providers felt blindsided,” she said.

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Xavier Cotton and Cristian Madrazo remember being kids watching video of petroleum spewing from Deepwater Horizon and poisoning the Gulf of Mexico.

They also remember how ludicrous it seemed for Dawn to be running commercials about decontaminating baby otters with a few ounces of dish soap in the face of a 210-million-gallon oil spill.

Surely there had to be something better to put up against an ocean of dislocated fossil fuel.

Fast forward to engineering classes at Front Range Community College, with a challenge from a teacher to make their first-year project address a problem in the environment and sustainability. In between warehouse shifts at Amazon and other youthful demands, Cotton and Madrazo watched videos of oil spills on YouTube.

Weeks of tinkering later, and with the help of a wading pool, some empty water bottles as flotation devices, and much of Cotton’s own hair, the team produced “Orca.”

It’s a drone for oil spills. It sits at the edge of a plastic boom that surrounds and slowly reels in a floating spill and soaks up the petroleum through a hair filter.

Orca works like the baleen bristles inside a whale’s mouth. (Don’t “actually” the young engineers about orcas being faux whales, because they’ve heard it. They stick to the Wiki explanation of an orca as “a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family,” and they know their marketing, as we are about to find out.)

Orca won the Front Range Community College local engineering challenge, and their enthusiastic teachers urged them on to national competitions. So, they went. And in June, Cotton and Madrazo won second prize — with a cash chaser — at the National Science Foundation’s

Cristian Madrazo, center, and Xavier Cotton, right, demo their oil spill cleanup idea, COURTESY OF FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE the “Orca” drone, to an innovation challenge judge.

annual Community College Innovation Challenge. The judges, who first grilled all the teams in a “Shark Tank”-style atmosphere, called Orca “a new method of cleaning oil spills that is both inexpensive and quick.”

Not to mention, Cotton said, “the current solutions are just terrible.

The main solutions are like burning, which releases fumes into the environment, and these chemical disbursers that stay in the ocean releasing toxins. There are petroleum-based sponges, which kind of suck up oil, and then the sponges just fall to the floor, and it’s just littering the oceans for different creatures and critters to eat. We had to make this.”

Human hair absorbs five times its weight in oil. When Cotton’s ‘do wasn’t big enough for the job, they added in hair from his dog. They poured some motor oil in a Walmart wading pool, set their manhole-coversize drone to work, and it sucked. In a good way.

The prize is part consolation for the fact that Cotton’s hair hasn’t grown back yet.

Personality in presentation Front Range Community College computer science instructor Diane Rhodes says the pair succeeded in part because they had a good idea, backed it with solid engineering and modeling work, and put in the time to

overcome physical problems and fix broken parts. But their personalities also made a big impact, Rhodes said.

Doing well at innovation competitions requires interaction, practice in public, and a bit of sales, Rhodes said.

“They were very enthusiastic, and very knowledgeable. They were able to articulate their problem in a concise way. And they were not shy,” Rhodes said. “They had fun. I like to have fun in my class. I take my class seriously, but don’t take myself so seriously,” and that’s what Cotton, 19, and Madrazo, 22, brought with Orca, she said.

“And I never once had to tell them to put their phones down. Which I thought I was going to have to do. Because I do have to do that in my class.

Regrettably,” she said.

The two engineering students say each presentation got better, with the help of Rhodes, other teachers, and the expert judges for the national competition at the Library of Congress.

“I learned to give your audience just enough so that they understand it,” Cotton said. “And not so much what we care about, or what we think they should care about. Just let them guide the conversation.”

Before one important presentation, Rhodes said, the boys came to her and said they’d been practicing a new technique. They had created a graphi-

cally fresh poster that everyone agreed was a killer view of their idea, and they wanted their pitch to sound like a scripted-but-casual conversation between Madrazo and Cotton. Rhodes was a bit queasy at what sounded very cheesy.

“So they went and did it, and it was fantastic,” Rhodes said. “And I thought, this is a classic example of why you shouldn’t just say no right away before you see.”

One judge in Washington, D.C., started talking enthusiastically about patent possibilities and commercialization. Rhodes agrees that Orca may very well prove a viable product in the future, but for now they plan to “park” the idea and focus on more schoolwork. Cotton is headed for a four-year degree at Colorado School of Mines, and Madrazo will be transferring his credits to the University of Colorado for work in architectural engineering.

A prototype of the “Orca” oil spill cleanup drone with a sample boom attached to contain the oil as it’s drawn into the float for separation.

(Front Range Community College) “They have a lot on their plate,” Rhodes said.

Like all good engineers and entrepreneurs, the team crammed their heads with ideas from the other innovators in their competitions. Madrazo admired an idea for HIV medication from a Santa Monica college, deep into a kind of biological engineering that was very different from the mechanical engineering featured in other products. Cotton was most enthused about a recycling bin that automatically scans materials dropped in and sorts or rejects objects that need to go elsewhere.

“They did a really good job,” Cotton said. “I’m proud to have come in second place to them.”

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PepsiCo has chosen Denver as the place where it will build what will be its largest U.S. plant.

Colorado beat out three other states to become the site of the mammoth facility, Pepsi said in a statement on July 13. The company acquired roughly 152 acres of land near Denver International Airport for the planned 1.2 million-squarefoot manufacturing facility, which is set to open next year.

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respond to their concerns. Recently, she encouraged the board to do more voter outreach around what the board could do to address voters’ desire for more transparency and trust, but her motion failed.

“I think it takes time to build trust back after it’s been lost, and it requires telling the truth, ensuring our actions are congruent with our words,” Meek said. “We need to admit and recognize there has been damage done by actions taken and, I think most importantly, (commit) to work together as a seven-member board and (do) our work in public and following the law.”

Meek said much of the feedback she hears regarding trust and transparency revolves around focusing on education.

“There’s a common theme about removing partisian politics, having the board not endorse political candidates, attend events that are partisian in nature, not having board members make statements that are divisive in the community,” she said.

Board directors have unified around the need for new funding, voting unanimously to alert election officials of their intent to have questions on the ballot this November.

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“We’re fully aware that we have headwinds and that we really need to get out there and build trust in our school district,” she said.

“Honestly, our biggest headwind in Douglas County is always helping taxpayers understand how we’re actually funded, because it’s counterintuitive.”

Kane also points to accountability measures the district has in place for spending voter-approved money as a way to ensure a transparent process, including the MLO/Bond Oversight Committe, which was created following the 2018 bond.

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Column went overboard Kudos to your columnist for using the terms “Americans with uteruses” and “pregnant person” in a column appearing on July 7.

Too often we regress to those dark days before 2021, by using the hurtful word “women.” However, your columnist erred in also referred to “my mother and grandmothers,” rather than the acceptable Newspeak terms “birthing person” and “grand-birthing persons.” As Orwell teaches, we cannot control the way people think unless we first change the language, and to do that we must be consistent.

The column also correctly notes that our Constitution was written by “all white wealthy men.” Marx taught us that we cannot move forward unless victim classes are created and class warfare is stoked.

And isn’t it time we judge the value

of something by the race, sex and economic status of its authors, rather than by its truth or virtue?

A particularly valuable insight is that “Americans with uteruses have fewer rights than a firearm.”

Of course, inanimate objects have no rights. For instance, my Smith & Wesson has no right to be baptized as a Presbyterian. It is only important that the phrase has a nice ring to it and serves the chosen narrative.

The same is true for the column’s assertion that a majority of the Supreme Court wants to go back to the days when “Black persons were legally allowed to be enslaved.” Never mind that this majority includes a justice who is himself Black. The phrase nonetheless serves its purpose by inflaming emotions, at least among those who do not think for a nanosecond about its absurdity.

Finally, the column is to be applauded for pointing out that unlike many other states, in Colorado “we are lucky to still have protected voting rights.” This is to be contrasted

with other states where apparently they do not “still have protected voting rights.” Though this cannot be explained, better to not explain when it cannot be supported.

Of course, the above is written as satire and with my tongue in cheek.

What I truly do lament is your columnist’s observation that celebrating the Fourth of July was difficult for many. Though we can differ on whether the Constitution grants the right to an abortion, we should all recognize that we are privileged to live in the freest, fairest, most racially diverse and upwardly mobile country on Earth.

Mike Morgan, Lone Tree Salute to Pride participants I read the article in the June 30 issue of the Highlands Ranch Herald about the Wind Crest Pride Parade and don’t believe it was a complete representation of Wind Crest nor Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging.

Although there was one statement about residents and staff starting Wind Crest’s Pride Parade, inclu-

sion is one of our values and it feels like both the staff and resident D,I&B groups were excluded.

Jim and Jean Genasci are to be celebrated — they were instrumental in the D,I&B resident group.

And they were real supporters of PFLAG (which is what a lot of the buttons on the sash and cowboy hat represented).

Daniela Vital Smith and members of the staff D,I&B committee, working with the resident D,I&B group obtained supplies, spent hours decorating, blowing up balloons, and painting signs which were hand drawn by resident artist Marianne Andres. Root beer floats at the end, provided by Dining, made a perfect finish.

Although this article does give Wind Crest credit for being supporters of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging by showing the Pride of its community through a parade to celebrate love and respect for all its diversity, it just didn’t recognize all who worked to make this a success.

Dottie Wolcott, Highlands Ranch

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0061 To Whom It May Concern: On 5/3/2022 11:16:00 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: Lee Ann Knutson Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for National Mortgage Center dba pricelinemortgage, a Florida Corporation, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: LoanCare, LLC Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 5/30/2000 Recording Date of DOT: 6/7/2000 Reception No. of DOT: 00039182 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $163,500.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $110,243.76 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. **This loan has been modified through a Loan Modification Agreement effective November 1, 2010.

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 22, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 101A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9778 S. Bucknell Way, 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, August 24, 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: 6/30/2022 Last Publication: 7/28/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 5/3/2022 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 #: CO11591 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0061 First Publication: 6/30/2022 Last Publication: 7/28/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Highlands Ranch NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0069 To Whom It May Concern: On 5/20/2022 11:26:00 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: Gerard Menard Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. acting solely as nominee for Guaranty Residential Lending, Inc. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: PNC Bank, National Association, successor by merger with Compass Bank Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 6/3/2003 Recording Date of DOT: 6/13/2003 Reception No. of DOT: 2003088551 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $393,000.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $236,947.61 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: Failed to make the monthly mortgage payments as required by the terms of the Note and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

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

Legal Description of Real Property: LOT 306, HIGHLANDS RANCH FILING NO. 134-A, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO Which has the address of: 2539 Greensborough Drive, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129 NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust described herein, has filed written election and demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that on the first possible sale date (unless the sale is continued*) at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, September 7, 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: 7/14/2022 Last Publication: 8/11/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 5/20/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: MARCELLO G. ROJAS Colorado Registration #: 46396 3600 SOUTH BEELER STREET SUITE 330, DENVER, COLORADO 80237 Phone #: (303) 353-2965 Fax #: Attorney File #: CO200013 *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0069 First Publication: 7/14/2022 Last Publication: 8/11/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Lone Tree NOTICE OF SALE Public Trustee Sale No. 2022-0068 To Whom It May Concern: On 5/12/2022 4:34:00 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: Steve C Quintana Original Beneficiary: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. ("MERS") as nominee for The Mortgage Company, Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust (DOT): 5/9/2019 Recording Date of DOT: 5/15/2019 Reception No. of DOT: 2019026608 DOT Recorded in Douglas County.

Original Principal Amount of Evidence of Debt: $561,200.00 Outstanding Principal Amount as of the date hereof: $550,549.72 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: the failure to make timely payments required under said Deed of Trust and the Evidence of Debt secured thereby.

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 15, HERITAGE HILLS FILING NO. 1-I, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO. Which has the address of: 9650 Aspen Hill Circle, Lone Tree, CO 80124 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, August 31, 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: 7/7/2022 Last Publication: 8/4/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Dated: 5/12/2022 DAVID GILL DOUGLAS COUNTY Public Trustee The name, address and telephone numbers of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

ILENE DELL'ACQUA Colorado Registration #: 31755 7700 E. ARAPAHOE ROAD, SUITE 230 , CENTENNIAL, COLORADO 80112 Phone #: (877) 369-6122 Fax #: Attorney File #: CO-22-925398-LL *YOU MAY TRACK FORECLOSURE SALE DATES on the Public Trustee website: http://www. douglas.co.us/publictrustee/ Legal Notice No. 2022-0068 First Publication: 7/7/2022 Last Publication: 8/4/2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Bids and Settlements PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on August 21, 2022, final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and Myers & Sons Construction, LLC for the Trumbull Bridge Rehabilitation Project, Douglas County Project Number CI 2019-018, in Douglas County; and that any person, copartnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said Myers & Sons Construction, LLC for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said August 21, 2022, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Board of County Commissioners, c/o Director of Public Works Engineering, with a copy to the Project Engineer, Daniel R. Roberts, P.E., Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104.

Failure on the part of claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve said County of Douglas from all and any liability for such claimant's claim.

The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, By: Janet Herman, P.E., Director of Public Works.

Legal Notice No. 942371 First Publication: July 21, 2022 Second Publication: July 28, 2022 Publisher: Douglas County News Pree Account Number: 2734

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