Littleton Independent 042023

ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO

VOLUME 134 | ISSUE 39

South Metro Housing Options opens voucher waitlists

waitlist this month — for one day only.

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

For the rst time in several years, South Metro Housing Options will open its housing choice voucher

It will also open a waitlist for two weeks for one-bedroom apartments at Sierra Vista Apartments in unincorporated Arapahoe County.

SMHO is a public housing author-

Calls to end detention centers

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Along a residential road in Aurora sits a home that aims to be a place of peace for people released from the nearby immigration detention center.

Casa de Paz, meaning “House of Peace” in Spanish, is a nonpro t that o ers free resources and services to those leaving the Aurora-based U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center.

e ICE facility is operated by the GEO Group, which NPR reported is one of the nation’s largest for-pro t prison operators.

In February 2023, the company — which describes itself, in part, as

housing for families, students, professionals, seniors and disabled adults.

Applicants may be from any jurisdiction, must be 18 years old or older and must have a valid email address, according to SMHO.

At least one member in a household that receives a voucher must

be a legal resident of the United States.

Two waitlists

Housing choice vouchers, which are federally funded, subsidize rent and allow recipients to choose

SEE VOUCHERS, P10

Littleton council divided on land use bill

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Disagreement arose at an April 11 study session, where Littleton city councilmembers discussed whether to draft a resolution against the land use bill unveiled by Gov. Jared Polis and other Democrats in March.

According to its authors, the goal of Senate Bill 23-213 is to improve the growing housing crisis by eliminating local zoning that prohibits the construction of multifamily housing.

a “provider of support services for secure facilities, processing centers, and reentry centers” — reported total revenues of $2.38 billion in 2022.

e Aurora-based facility it operates, however, has faced criticism over the years regarding its conduct.

e American Civil Liberties Union alleged in 2019 that the facility “violates the basic human

e bill’s main deliverables would be setting state mandates for greater housing density and reduced parking requirements in Colorado’s larger cities and resort towns.

As several Littleton city councilmembers expressed adamant opposition to the bill, mainly citing its “preemption of local control,” others highlighted its strengths and were less eager to state overt disapproval.

SEE LAND USE, P8

Some adamantly opposed, others see positives

Andrea Loya, executive director of Casa de Paz, and Rep. Jason Crow smile in the garage of Casa de Paz’s home on April 3.

PHOTO BY TAYLER SHAW

SEE CROW, P4

South Suburban candidates speak at forum

Multiple issues discussed

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

At a forum on April 12, candidates for the South Suburban Parks and Recreation District board of directors tried to win votes from dozens of community members by explaining why they care about the district and how they plan to lead if elected.

South Suburban is a regional provider of parks and recreation services. Its May 2 election will ll two seats on the ve-seat board of directors.

Candidates Michael Edwards, Elizabeth Watson, John Priddy and Alexis Barrere attended the forum, which was hosted by the Littleton Business Chamber and the South Metro Community Foundation.

Pam Eller, who could not attend the event due to a pre-planned vacation, submitted statements to be read at the forum by former mayor John Ostermiller.

No reason was publicly announced to explain the absence of Ken Lucas.

Property care and the unhoused population

David Long, a Littleton Business Chamber board member, moderated the event by asking questions provided by the chamber.

For the rst prepared question, Long asked candidates what they will do to improve and care for South

Suburban’s outdoor properties, listing examples such as overgrown trees and weeds to vandalism and destruction.

“In formulating your answer, please factor in that the growing homeless population continues to utilize South Suburban open space to sleep, and on occasion, members of that population may engage in illegal activities,” Long read.

Edwards said he would like to nd a way for people to alert authorities or maintenance teams of overgrowth and other property issues so they can be dealt with properly from a habitat and ood control standpoint.

In regards to unhoused individuals sleeping in open spaces, Edwards said there are other resources available for them.

“It’s a lot of people who do not want to take advantage of those and comply with the conditions,” he said.

Watson said she would make sure South Suburban dedicates an appropriate percentage of its budget to maintenance and upkeep of the outdoor facilities in its 2023 master plan, as taxpayers had said was a priority for them.

“Also, the homeless issue is something that is statewide,” she said. “ at is something we can really reach out to some community members and existing organizations and make sure that we are interacting with them to make sure homeless people are aware of existing resources.”

Priddy agreed that maintenance of parks should be a top priority in

Would you like to learn more about environmental cleanup projects at Former Air Force Plant Peter J. Kiewit and Sons (PJKS)?

If yes, then please contact Ron Coringrato at: (303)720-5934 or at rcoringrato@hgl.com to get more information on participating in the startup of a Restoration Advisory Board, also known as a “RAB”

What is a RAB?

• A RAB is a community group which meets to discuss and receive information on environmental restoration (cleanup) projects at a military base. What does a RAB do?

• A RAB facilitates and improves communication, outreach, and transparency between the military base, the public, regulators, local governments, and interest groups for issues related to military cleanup activities. RABs offer a structured, focused, and interactive opportunity for community stakeholders to meaningfully participate in the cleanup process. A RAB enables local community members to receive from and exchange information with the base and regulatory agencies managing environmental cleanup projects at PJKS.

• RABs engage in and support DoD’s cleanup efforts by reviewing and commenting on cleanup documents and activities; serving as a liaison to and sharing cleanup information with the community; and providing a forum to exchange information about the schedule, type, and status of cleanup activities. RAB meetings allow RAB members and members of the community to receive updates and ask questions on the status of the environmental cleanup program at PJKS.

• Though RABs are not a decision-making body, they do give local community members the opportunity to have their voices heard and provide a forum to provide valuable community insight to base and regulatory agencies.

Are you interested in participating in PJKS’s RAB?

• PJKS is currently assessing whether there is enough community interest to reestablish a RAB.

• If you are interested in learning more about PJKS’s environmental restoration projects and having the opportunity to give your input to base and regulatory agencies on the management of cleanup projects at PJKS, either as a RAB member or by attending RAB meetings, please contact Ron Coringrato at: 303-720-5934; or at: rcoringrato@hgl.com by May 6, 2023 to indicate interest.

terms of where the district puts its money.

“ e second thing is, we need to give the community an opportunity to get back to us with these concerns,” he said. “Are we taking that feedback? Are we putting that back into our processes for maintaining the overgrown trees? at’s the way I would approach it.”

Barrere said she would use her relationships with local organizations to address concerns about the unhoused population and would establish a plan of action that would consider all parties involved.

“Our parks and open spaces are key to our quality of life here in the district and in Littleton, but they also have to be a place where we feel safe,” she said. “And I’m increasingly hearing from community members, friends and families that they’re not feeling safe in our parks.”

Littleton Golf and Tennis Club design

For the next question, Long told candidates that the Little Business Chamber had received negative feedback about the exterior design of the Littleton Golf and Tennis Club at West Bowles Avenue and South Federal Boulevard.

“What is your opinion of this project?” he asked the panel. “Do you feel it can be improved, and if so, how?”

e candidates all said they thought the board should have taken more community input or aesthetic considerations into account when choosing how to design the building.

“I know there were quite a few citizens who put input into the construction and the ideas behind it and it doesn’t seem like those opinions were heard or heard loud enough to have an impact,” Barrere said. “If I am elected to the board, I will make sure that decisions like this are made in consideration of public opinion and with consideration of the aesthetics and the feel that it brings.”

“I do think they completely missed an opportunity to build something that Littleton could be proud of, and it could be a community space,” Watson said. “Littleton deserves to be respected and listened to and have their community supported in an equal way to all in-district members.”

Several candidates pitched some ideas for improving the building.

“I guess what I see is hopefully a blank canvas, and some creative artists can hopefully bring something to that particular design,” Edwards said. “I was wondering about something historic, or if you can incorporate something that does bring in that Littleton, and as you look out at it, you’re not seeing just a steel building out there.”

“In terms of where do we go from here? Do we plant big trees? What do we do?” Priddy said. “ at’s the question but there’s a lesson in this for us, right? Which is making sure that when these opportunities come up, grab the table, making sure that the opinion of the community and the character of the town is taken into account.”

Hudson Gardens

To set up the third question, Long said South Suburban recently announced that concerts and other

events would not take place at Hudson Gardens in 2023. Long said South Suburban is analyzing business operations and creating a strategic plan to identify opportunities for the venue and patrons.

“In your own words, what would you expect the strategic plan to address and what events do you see will continue, be pursued and/or be discontinued?”

Watson said the strategic plan for Hudson Gardens is a great opportunity for community involvement. She said it isn’t about what she thinks is important, but what the community values there.

“( e nancial aspect) should be a consideration,” she said. “But an also equally important consideration should be what the community wants, what events are important, what events encourage our kids to get out and engage with nature… Involve the community in the creation of this plan. It is vital.”

Priddy agreed that both nances and community opinion should be considered in the formulation of the plan.

“Having had the experience of creating a number of strategic plans in my career, I think without a doubt, how the events and activities that were held in that facility… perform is a critical component of it,” he said. “It is my expectation that this plan will be inclusive of consideration of the value, not just scal value but other community value that’s brought as it relates to all of the activities and events.”

Barrere said she would love to see the venue collaborate more with businesses in downtown Littleton.

“I’m looking at ways to partner for programs, you know, picnic baskets that you can pick up at one of the restaurants in downtown Littleton to bring to a concert or things like that, opportunities to drive the economy,” she said.

She said she would also like South Suburban to have a plan for stewardship of the historical components of Hudson Gardens.

Edwards said he thought early community input was the most important part of a new strategic plan for the gardens.

“Looking at the bene ts, or the nancial aspects of these di erent events, how popular were they?” he said. “How important are they to the community, but also from a nancial standpoint, how well are they supported? Can they be improved?”

Closing statements

In his closing statement, Edwards said his interpersonal abilities, especially his ability to receive criticism, would make him a great board member.

“I think one of the most important things that I can bring to this to this seat is the ability to talk to people and listen,” he said.

Priddy noted the diversity of the district and thanked South Suburban’s sta for the work they do.

“My intent is to bring my vast nonpro t leadership and business experience to aid the current board and the leadership of the institution as it sets, so we can make progress and move forward into the future,” he said.

Fire extinguished at waste facility in Englewood

No injuries reported

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A re in Englewood that occurred April 11 at a WM, formerly known as Waste Management, site at 2400 W. Union Ave. has been put out, said JD Chism, a captain and public information o cer for the Denver Fire Department.

Chism said the re department received its rst call about the re at 2:03 p.m., and the re was put out by 3:02 p.m. It is currently not known what caused the re.

When asked if there were any injuries as a result of the re, Chism said a couple of people were evaluated for smoke inhalation but no one chose to be transported to a hospital.

Chism said he was not sure how large the re was, but that the re department only had to send one rig to respond to the re.

He said he did not see any reports of any additional damage or exposures caused by the re.

In an email the following day, Chism said this was the third re at 2400 W. Union Ave. since last April.

“All those res have been listed as undetermined for cause,” Chism wrote. “As you would imagine in a large waste facility like that there are so many di erent potential ignition sources with a huge re load.”

One of those three res was an overnight re that began June 27, 2022, and burned an estimated 1,000 tons of trash and roughly 100 tons of recycling. WM of Colorado shared recommendations on how to keep trash from becoming a re hazard, including never putting hot, hazardous or highly combustible items in any trash or recycling carts.  ose interested in learning more about household hazardous waste and where to dispose of materials can visit: wm.com/us/en/home/ common-hazardous-waste.

Speak up and be heard

Arapahoe County commissioner district boundaries are about to change and we want your input.

This month we are hosting public hearings in each district. Attend one of the remaining hearings below, virtually or in person. Missed your district’s hearing? You can still get details, view proposed maps and submit your comments by visiting arapahoegov.com/redistricting

Arapahoe County Fairgrounds (District 3)

Thursday, April 20, 6 p.m.

CentrePoint Plaza (District 5)

Monday, April 24, 6 p.m.

Arapahoe County property tax deadline

For taxpayers who chose to pay their taxes in one full payment, rather than in two half-payments, the full payment due date is Monday, May 1. For taxpayers paying in two installments, the second installment is due Monday, June 15 For more information, visit arapahoegov.com/treasurer.

rights of its mainly asylum-seeking detainees through medical neglect and abuse, which has led to at least two deaths.”

A Rocky Mountain PBS investigation, originally published in 2019, found that police often do not investigate allegations of sexual abuse and physical assaults at the Aurora facility.

In April 2022, e Colorado Sun reported three immigrant rights organizations led a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security alleging racial discrimination, excessive use of force and retaliation against two Black immigrants at the facility.

In November 2022, activists expressed frustration at a lack of information regarding the death of 39-year-old Melvin Ariel CaleroMendoza, who was in ICE custody in Aurora, according to reporting by CPR.

Establishing oversight

e Aurora facility is located within the congressional district of Democratic U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, who aims to end these private detention centers.

During an April 3 tour of the Casa de Paz home, Crow said when he rst came into o ce in 2019, his o ce started getting reports from the community about abuses at the facility and substandard conditions.   Crow said he wanted to do an inspection, but he was told that if he pre-announced the inspection, the

facility may “clean it up and give us the dog-and-pony-show.”

“So I actually showed up in my North Face pu er jacket and jeans, like I often do, and I said, I’m here — I represent this district and I’m here to do an inspection. And they turned me down,” he said. “It took me three attempts over about a 30day period to nally get access to that facility, which obviously really pissed me o .”

Eventually, he said he gained access to the facility and reportedly saw a lot of the things he had been told about and warned about by the community. It prompted his o ce to try to reform the facility.

As part of this e ort, Crow helped pass a law, called the Public Oversight of Detention Centers Act, that now requires immigration detention facilities provide immediate access to members of Congress, as well as provide access to congressional sta with only a 24-hour notice.

On his website, bit.ly/crowweb, Crow’s o ce documents action it has taken regarding immigration detention centers and the Aurora facility in particular, as well as accountability reports from the ICE Aurora Contract Detention Facility.  e most recent accountability report published on the website, dated March 3, states that there were 654 people most recently formally counted in the facility, with 591 males and 63 females.

“We’re in our fth year of this project, trying to make things as good as possible, given the fact that these facilities have not been shut down yet,” Crow said. “Ultimately, we need to shut these facilities

down. I’ve been very clear about that.”

In March 2022, Crow joined two other members of Congress in asking the administration of President Joe Biden to end contracting with private, for-pro t immigration detention facilities, according to a news release from Crow’s o ce.

Until that happens, a priority for Crow’s o ce is working with community partners like Casa de Paz, he explained.

“ is organization really lls a huge gap,” he said. “People are just released from these facilities oftentimes with no safety net, right on the streets. No baggage, no personal belongings, nothing. And it’s bad for them; it’s bad for the community.”

Casa de Paz: Providing a better welcome

Casa de Paz tries to make contact with each person released from the Aurora facility, said Andrea Loya, the nonpro t’s executive director.

e nonpro t even has a van located outside the facility so volunteers can connect with released people.

e volunteers will then bring those people to the nearby house, which is equipped to provide food, clothing, backpacks, personal hygiene products and access to a telephone, computer and Wi-Fi at no cost.

“We are really just trying to provide folks with a better welcome than they have received up to this point,” Loya said. “We’re constantly trying to provide better services for folks.”

e organization has served people from more than 83 countries in the last 10 years, Loya said.

e average length of stay is about 1.5 days, and the house has some bedrooms for people who need a temporary place to sleep.

e number of people Casa de Paz serves in a week uctuates, she said.

“We have seen 100 people a week. We have seen 50 people a week. We have seen 50 people every day,” Loya said.

Crow asked Loya how people in the Aurora facility learn about Casa de Paz, to which she explained it is mainly word of mouth. She noted the nonpro t also has a visitation program, and a lot of people who are currently detained know to look for the nonpro t when they are released.

‘Punish them for trying to seek a better life’

Casa de Paz representatives have concerns about the treatment of people in the Aurora facility due to what has been reported to them, Loya explained. For example, some women have reported being taunted by o cers, she said.

“People did not realize that the U.S. would punish them for trying to seek a better life,” she said. “So, a lot of people will complain about the conditions of GEO, but also a lot of people are also shocked by the fact that isolation and being treated like a criminal for seeking asylum is the … model that we have.”

e facility does have some people who have been transferred after they spent some time in prison, Loya said. Most of those people will often say that they would rather be in prison than be in a facility like GEO’s because they “get treated 10

times better at a prison than … at an immigrant detention center,” she said.

Crow said a misperception some community members have is that the people who are detained in the facility are all criminals.

“ ere’s a very small number of people who are picked up because of criminal violations. e vast majority of the people there are actually complying with U.S. law.

“What U.S. law says is that if you present yourself at an entry point or a border crossing, and you request asylum or refugee status — that’s what you’re supposed to do,” he said. “And then we take those folks and we put them in detention centers — so how is that right and just?”

According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a research organization at Syracuse University, 57.8% of those held in ICE detention have no criminal record as of April 9, and “many more have only minor o enses, including tra c violations.”

“ ere’s a huge disconnect between what our law … states and what people are doing to comply with that law, and then how we’re treating them when they’re going through the process as outlined,” Crow said. “ at’s why, ultimately, why these centers need to be shut down.”

Investigation into Calero-Mendoza’s death

Regarding the death of Melvin Ariel Calero-Mendoza in October last year, Crow said he led a letter e ort to request more information and to push for more transparency.

In October 2022, Crow and U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper called for an independent investigation into CaleroMendoza’s death, according to a news release from Crow’s o ce.

“We do have concerns about that … and the prior fatalities that occurred at that facility and the other medical emergencies that have occurred at that facility,” he said. “We’ve never had the level of transparency and engagement that we would expect, frankly, because these for-pro t facilities have perverse incentives.”

Crow noted he expects more information once the investigation has concluded.

Looking ahead

If the Aurora ICE facility were to close, the only fear that Loya has is that people will be relocated somewhere that is not accessible.

Currently, in the community, residents and businesses will reach out to Casa de Paz if they come across someone who needs their services, she said.

“Everybody in this area knows that we’re here. And so if this one were to close, but then relocate, that would make it di cult for the community outreach and the community support,” Loya said.

Loya is really excited to work with Crow’s o ce and continue the efforts of holding ICE accountable, she said.

“I think, speci cally, this partnership is really important for that,” she said.

ose interested in learning more about Casa de Paz, the services it o ers and ways to get involved can visit: casadepazcolorado.org.

South Metro Fire Rescue service plan approved by 3 counties

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A largely technical change in the records of South Metro Fire Rescue met approval from the elected leaders of the three counties over which the re ghting agency spreads, the agency says.

Residents in the south Denver metro area earlier this year received a letter from the agency about an “amended service plan.” e letter contained legal language and pointed to then-upcoming public meetings of county leaders who would vote to approve or deny the proposed changes.

e amendment doesn’t set the stage for any changes to how South Metro Fire Rescue operates, said Mike Dell’Orfano, a South Metro Fire o cial.

While it’s essentially a housekeeping matter, the document has value historically and in terms of transparency for a re agency that has grown to cover a large swath of the metro area, according to Dell’Orfano.

“How did our legal existence go from this small re protection district to what we are today? And how not only each of those entities came together but each of them grew independently before that also,” Dell’Orfano said. e agency’s history is “several decades of these

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All council members were present at the meeting except for Patrick Driscoll. At the end of the discussion, council directed sta to draft a resolution opposing the bill as introduced. Council will vote on the resolution at an upcoming meeting.

Concerns and opposition

For several members of council and city sta , the largest concern of the bill is that it will take away local control of land use decisions.

“As a city I think we need to take a hard no,” District 2 Councilmember Jerry Valdes said. “I think (the bill) just needs to die right now. ere’s too many issues with it. For one… it’s a shift of power from citizens. All of a sudden, bureaucrats are going to tell us how we need to zone our city.”

City Attorney Reid Betzing also said he was strongly against the bill because it’s “an a ront to home rule.”

“ is is a breathtaking usurpation of home rule local land use control,” he said. “Whether it’s warranted for whatever reasons, OK, but from just a legal perspective, I would never be in support of this. Just fundamentally, regardless of what they want to do.”

City Manager Jim Becklenberg added several other concerns to the list. He said the bill lacks an a ordable housing strategy and is not equitable because it does not include unincorporated areas.

In addition, he said city sta is concerned that transit-oriented development, albeit a good idea, will be unsuccessful unless transit services increase.

“We’re concerned that that’s not some-

thing that will be delivered upon,” he said.

More importantly, he said the city worries about the ripple e ect the legislation could create on the 2,300 units of housing that Littleton is already planning to develop.

“We’ve made the progress that we’ve made toward middle housing and are poised for more this summer,” he said. “We’re concerned, really, about the impact that the legislation, if passed, would have just on those development plans.”

At the least, Becklenberg said, the developers would have to redraw their plans. At most, the legislation could have a larger, more chilling impact on Littleton’s current progress towards building units, he said.

Mayor Kyle Schlachter noted that the city just spent years revamping the city code, which is work that would mostly be wasted if the bill passes.

“Rather than moving forward and having sta look at actual site plans and building plans, we’ll have to spend more time to revamp everything again here,” he said.

In spite of these concerns, Schlachter and other opponents of the bill said they like ideas behind the bill, just not the method for achieving the goals.

“I support a lot of the policies in it,” Schlachter said. “I think we should be able to enact some of them here in Littleton, but not have the state force them on us.”

Considerations and strengths

Another frustration Valdes had regarding the bill was that it blames the housing crisis on municipalities, he said.

“We’ve screwed up,” he said. “ at’s what it tells us. If you read that thing, it says that in there twenty-some times.”

The state Capitol in Denver, where land use is being weighed.

PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD

“Maybe that’s the hard reality we need to face,” District 3 Councilmember Stephen Barr responded, o ering the rst expression of possible support for the bill during the meeting.

Valdes said he disagreed and that the state has helped create the problem, speci cally by passing construction defect legislation that created a hesitancy for developers to build middle housing.

Later, Councilmember At Large Pam Grove said she did not see how new development would be a ordable housing.

“It’s not necessarily, but it’s a prerequisite for it,” Barr responded. “You can’t have a ordable housing without housing supply. We are not building housing, like we’re just barely starting to get on track to

building housing, but… the problem is outpacing the scale of what we can do individually.”

Contrary to the clear opposition from some of his colleagues, Barr said he would like to take a neutral position on the bill.

“It, in and of itself, does not solve the problem,” he said. “I am not under any illusions that it does, nor am I under any illusions that it’s perfect or equitable… but to my personal views, the principles in this bill are things that we should be striving for. We don’t like the mechanism by which it is done. And I think it’s okay to give up a little, a little power in order to have that collective responsibility be shared.”

District 4 Councilmember Kelly Milliman said she was also not a clear “no” against the bill.

“We keep saying that they’re taking over home rule,” she said.

“Don’t you think that the governor might be saying, instead of taking it away, I’m going to take the brunt of

the anger that’s going to come from the NIMBYs, or the ones that use whatever language they want to use to ght development?”

“I know this is a big change,” she continued. “But this is a regional problem. It’s regional. We’re not going to solve it here in the city of Littleton. Englewood’s not going to solve it. We have to come together regionally.”

Because of the strengths and concerns she saw in the bill, Milliman asked if there was a way to stall on taking a position to wait and see the amendments.

Based on Littleton’s correspondence with the governor’s o ce, roughly 30 amendments to the bill have been proposed. Some of these draft amendments would aim to strengthen a ordability and antidisplacement of individuals in currently a ordable housing, provide additional exibility in housing options and strengthen stakeholder input, according to a city memo.

Mayor Pro Tem Gretchen Rydin said she would like to advocate for the amendments that align with their speci c concerns.

“For the record, I don’t want to be a hard ‘no’ either,” she said. “Affordability and anti displacement, I think that is really important and making sure that those amendments capture that. And I would much rather much see us use our soapbox to advocate for that in the bill than to say, ‘We’re out this sucks.’”

In response to the suggestion to wait, Schlachter said there wasn’t enough time with the legislative session ending in just over three weeks.

“We don’t have time to wait to see what those amendments are,” he said. “And so I think there’s support to draft a resolution in opposition of the introduced bill.”

If the bill changes drastically with amendments after the city takes a position, Schachter said the city could take a new position.

where they want to live among properties in the private market.

SMHO’s waitlist for housing choice vouchers will be open for one day only, from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19. If the waitlist lls up before 8 p.m., the list will close early.

e second waitlist is for onebedroom apartments at Sierra Vista Apartments, located at 8851 East Florida Avenue, just east of Parker Road. e apartment complex is newly renovated and incomerestricted, with tenants receiving project-based rental assistance through SMHO.

e waitlist for Sierra Vista will be open for two weeks, from 8 a.m. on April 14 until 5 p.m. on April 27.

e waitlist for two-bedroom apartments at Sierra Vista is not set to open this month.

Applicants may apply to one or both waitlists, SMHO spokesperson Kimberly DeCero wrote in an email to Colorado Community Media. Applications will not be accepted after the waitlists close.

How to sign up

People interested in signing up for a waitlist must submit an online pre-application at https:// onlineportal.smho.co. No paper pre-applications will be available or accepted.

Pre-applications will ask applicants for general information including name, phone number, email address and Social Security number,

DeCero wrote in an email. SMHO encourages people who need access to a computer or internet to complete this task at their local libraries.

Placement on a waitlist will be based on the date and time the pre-application is submitted. SMHO

is an equal opportunity housing establishment, so the best thing a person can do to get on a waitlist is to be diligent and apply when the list opens, DeCero said.

“ ere’s no preference, there’s no opportunity to jump ahead, there’s none of that,” she said. “It’s equal

opportunity all the way. Everybody has the same chances.”

After a pre-application is submitted, applicants can check their status and update their information as needed at https://onlineportal. smho.co. Applicants must ensure the contact information on their pre-application is always current.

Once a person is on a waitlist, they will be contacted if an apartment or voucher becomes available for them. It often takes years to get o a waitlist for a housing choice voucher, SMHO executive director Corey

If a person is chosen from the waitlist, they will go through the application process to be approved for a voucher, either housing choice or project-based, depending on which waitlist they are chosen from.

“ is is a pre-application to get them in a position to be able to apply when the time and opening comes for them,” DeCero said.

Only one pre-application may be submitted per family. If multiple pre-applications are submitted per family, they will be rejected.

Applicants who would like to request a reasonable accommodation should call Helen Hoy at 303-7949608. A reasonable accommodation is a change, exception, or adjustment to a rule, policy, practice, or service that may be necessary for a person with disabilities to have an equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Applicants with questions about the process can call SMHO at 303794-9608 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Mondays through ursdays.

A kitchen in a unit at Sierra Vista Apartments.

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several districts becoming bigger and then ultimately consolidating together.”

e agency’s original service plan dates back to 1967, when the organization was known as Parker Fire Protection District. e old agency served about 2,000 residents over 105 square miles in portions of Arapahoe and Douglas counties.

Now, South Metro Fire Rescue covers 560,000 people over 285 square miles, stretching over much of the south metro area after many re protection agencies combined over the years to form today’s agency.

It now covers many cities and towns, including Bow Mar, Castle Pines, Centennial, Cherry Hills Village, Columbine Valley, Fox eld, Greenwood Village, Littleton, Lone Tree and Parker, along with nearby

unincorporated portions of Arapahoe, Je erson, and Douglas counties.

(“Unincorporated” means an area doesn’t sit within a city or town.)

ere’s historical value in neatly summarizing how the districts changed and then came together, Dell’Orfano said. For curious members of the public, the updated document also can provide other information clearly.

“A service plan is required for all special (government) districts, and you would hope that the document is pretty transparent when it comes to the services provided, how it’s being nanced, how it’s being governed and what’s the impact to people,” Dell’Orfano said.

He added that the updated plan “is more comprehensive and understandable than the previous one, which was just several county and court documents that we pieced together.”

When a person has to “do a research project” to gure out what the plan is,

that’s not helpful, he added.

Amid recent public scrutiny of “special districts, mainly metro districts, I feel like this helps us keep up with current expectations,” Dell’Orfano said.

(Metro districts are a type of government entity that carries out some government functions, such as the Highlands Ranch Metro District that oversees some services in that community.)

e amendment is “just recognizing that we might be o ering the same services, but over the past 55 years, the volume, the expertise, the types of incidents have all evolved,” Dell’Orfano, who serves as the agency’s chief government a airs ofcer, has said.

It also aims to take a new “snapshot” at the features of the re district, such as the hazards, the number of cities and the population, he said.

Since the agency’s start decades ago, its original service plan was amended a couple times to account

for the ability to take on debt and to make sure all its services were re ected, Dell’Orfano said. ose amendments occurred in 1983 and 1996.

“As of right now, we don’t have debt, and we haven’t used debt to fund major capital projects for several years,” Dell’Orfano said in February.

“Capital” costs include paying for re trucks, re stations and ambulances, for example.

e amendment won’t change the way the agency spends money, and it won’t change South Metro Fire’s hiring ability or the pay that employees receive, Dell’Orfano said.

South Metro Fire’s property tax rate — the mill levy that property owners in the re agency’s service area pay — would not increase as a result of the amended plan.

Leaders in Douglas, Arapahoe and Je erson counties held public meetings on the proposed change in late February. e three boards of county commissioners all approved the plan unanimously, Dell’Orfano said.

Fertilizer: arch enemy of waterways.

Streams, lakes and reservoirs don’t need it. Your lawn may not need it, either. Fertilizer, like other products that serve a necessary purpose, can become a problem if misused. Most lawn fertilizers contain nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, represented by a three-number string on the front of the bag. Nutrient needs vary from lawn to lawn and can only be determined by testing the soil. If over-applied, rain carries away excess nutrients not needed by plants and washes them to the nearest waterway, causing excess algae growth that uses up vital oxygen for fish.

Please take the time to have your soil tested to determine your lawn’s needs. This simple, small change in your lawn care makes a huge difference, not only to the health of your lawn but also to your nearby rivers, creeks and lakes.

Local stormwater agencies are teaming together to bring you this message. We take this so seriously that we posted this ad rather than send you more garbage in the mail. One thing is clear: our creeks, rivers and lakes depend on you. THIS

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Cherry Creek Schools teacher dies of bacterial meningitis

Public at low risk

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Arapahoe County Public Health o cials held a virtual press conference April 12 to follow up on their announcement that an Eaglecrest High School teacher died over the weekend after displaying  symptoms consistent with bacterial meningitis.

“We’re very concerned about this case being a case of Neisseria meningitidis, which is a speci c type of bacteria and this bacteria is very, very serious because it causes invasive disease very quickly,” said Dr. Chris Urbina, chief medical o cer for the health agency.

e Cherry Creek School District sent a letter to Eaglecrest families on April 11 informing them that Maddie Schmidt, an Integrated Learning Center teacher died over the weekend. Meningitis is in ammation around the brain and the spinal cord that can be deadly if not treated quickly, Urbina said. Eaglecrest is in the Centennial area.

People who become infected may experience symptoms such as sudden headaches, sti neck, fevers, nausea, vomiting, a sensitivity to light, general illness and occasionally a rash, Urbina added.

e germ may be transmitted by close contact, like a person coughing, he said.

“You actually have to have very close contact with this person, like, greater than eight hours,” Urbina

said.

He added that close contact includes sharing food or utensils with an infected person.

“It’s not spread by casual contact,” Urbina added.

e federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention agrees. e bacteria are “not as contagious as germs that cause the common cold or the u,” according to the CDC.

“People do not catch the bacteria through casual contact or by breathing air where someone with meningococcal disease has been.”

e health department is concerned that bacteria spread to Schmidt’s brain and caused severe disease.

Jennifer Ludwig, director of the health agency, said a lab-con rmed test led the department to begin an investigation.

“Our team kicked into gear working with Cherry Creek School District to identify close contacts of the individual so that we could begin our contact tracing,” Ludwig said. “It’s very important that we notify close contacts as quickly as possible because the timeframe in which to reach them, so that they can then seek medical care, is very short.”

Urbina said the health department is working to identify those cases and get them prophylaxis, which he said is a simple antibiotic. If they receive that in a very short time period, the spread of the disease can be prevented, he said.

At this point, the health risk to the

general public is very low, Urbina said. He noted it is not being called an outbreak, but rather a case of meningitis.

One reporter asked the health department representatives about the death of another Eaglecrest educator, Judith Geo roy, who also died over the weekend. CPR reported Geo roy was a paraprofessional in the Integrated Learning Center, but Geo roy’s cause of death has not been con rmed.

“We are only investigating the one case — that is the only individual that we have information on at this time,” Ludwig said.

When asked whether Schmidt and Geo roy were close contacts with one another, Ludwig said, “ at is not information that we would be able to disclose at this time. It’s still an open investigation, and we are only investigating the one right

now.”

If more cases do come up, the health department will continue to recommend treatment, Urbina said. He said there are two vaccines associated with preventing this type of meningitis, which he said are available on the health department’s website.

“If you’re concerned about protecting yourself against Neisseria meningitidis in general, then I would encourage you to get these vaccines,” he said.

Ludwig said the health department wanted to give its sympathy regarding the deaths at Eaglecrest High School.

“Our hearts go out to the families, to the school community and to the school district. is is a very dicult time for the whole community,” Ludwig said. “We are thinking of you all.”

Wrapped in stress FROM THE EDITOR

There seems to be some kind of “awareness month” for almost every topic on the planet, so I was not overly surprised to see that April is Stress Awareness Month. Not sure a month quite does it for the level of stress we are under these days, but hey, at least there is an established time to educate the public about it. By nature, I am a stressed person. I have regular anxiety. I have imposter syndrome in several aspects of my life. en, there are the daily realities of life that I do not create in my head to add to the stress. In doing some research, I learned about three levels of stress, which include:

• Acute stress – is is known as more “brief” stress. However, those brief stresses are common and frequent. is kind of stress is caused by reactive thinking where negative thoughts re ect current events and situations.

• Episodic acute stress – is is when a person experiences acute stress frequently. is level of stress may leave someone feeling like they are always under pressure and that things are always going to go wrong.

• Chronic stress – is is the most harmful type of stress, especially if left untreated. is level of stress never fades, leaving someone to feel pressured and overwhelmed over a long period of time.

Stress does not just a ect the mind. I can attest to that in telling you all something I rarely talk about. Not because I am embarrassed, but it is hard to explain.

In my early 20s, I was getting my journalism career started, had recently been married and was waking up feeling o some mornings. My tongue was hurting and something was wrong.

After getting married and moving in with my husband, we found out I was having seizures in my sleep. I never had them during the day and they only happened on occasion. ey had also never happened before.

I was sent to a neurologist who ran tests and found nothing wrong or nothing to explain it, especially given that the seizures only occurred in my sleep. He considered it to be hormones and maybe other causes but eventually told me I would either have to learn to deal with the stress of my job or nd another career.

Seizures can a ect everyone di erently. For me, it impacted some of my memories. I do not remember dating my husband and sometimes he has to remind me of things that happened in those early years of marriage.

ere was no way I was going to give up my career, so I started working with doctors and therapists on what to do.

To this day, I am still a stressed person by nature, but on those particularly bad days, I have a di erent feeling or sense. I know that before going to sleep, I must destress. I must take some time to smile and try not to think about the day I just had.

I haven’t had a seizure since I was 32. I am now 44.

To this day, we still do not know for sure what exactly triggered these seizures, but it did force me to be a lot more aware of what is happening to me on a mental health level.

elma Grimes is the south metro editor for Colorado Community Media.

LINDA SHAPLEY Publisher lshapley@coloradocommunitymedia.com

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Choose Eller for South Suburban

As former members of the South Suburban Parks & Recreation District Board of Directors, we join many others in asking district voters to elect Pam Eller in the May 2 board election.

Pam previously served on the BOD from 2010 to 2018, and she has remained active and invested in South Suburban in the ve years since being term-limited in 2018.

We four had the pleasure of serving either concurrently or in overlapping terms with Pam and are familiar with her many strengths. We encouraged her to run again in this election, believing that her leadership and knowledge will be of immense value in the coming four years.

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Don’t let fear block goals

She was invited to speak at her rst women’s conference. Although Carolyn was excited about the opportunity to nally be invited to share her story, she was petri ed of speaking in public. Without a real opportunity to speak that was immediately in front of her, she would dream about one day becoming a speaker. She could see herself on stage wowing the audience. But now, it suddenly became very real for her, and with each passing day, her panic levels increased. She couldn’t eat, she couldn’t sleep, and she couldn’t focus on her full-time job. And sadly, a week before she was scheduled to speak, she backed

Allen is in sales. Allen is having a very difcult beginning to his year as his numbers are way o . He has heard the word “no” so often

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already this year that he has developed a fear of asking the prospect for the business. Before each call he began thinking to himself, “ is prospect will just say no too.” He decided he would rather just not ask for the business, hoping they would ask him for an agreement, because he feared the word, “no.” is became so bad for Allen that he actually stopped making prospecting calls as he was fearful that no one would take his calls. His email and social media reach out campaigns became informational without any calls to action as he was afraid no one would reply or he would be blocked. So now he shared that his biggest fear is losing his job for non-performance. Unfortunately, Allen is right, he is in danger and has been placed on a performance improvement plan.

Fear impacts us all in di erent ways. For some the grip of fear becomes paralyzing. For others, they have learned to work through their

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Healthy aging means avoiding trips and falls

Older adults can learn to avoid trips and falls plus schedule a mobility assessment through the Douglas County Health Department. is vital topic will be explored on ursday, June 1 at the Seniors’ Council of Douglas County meeting held at the Douglas County Miller Building, Conference Rooms

LIVING AND AGING WELL

A&B, in Castle Rock. e meeting is from 10-11:30 am and is free and open to the public.

Clara and Ollie were living a calm retirement when a fall changed their lives.

Clara was 75 years old and in good health when she tripped on a loose rug, fell, and broke her wrist. e injury required surgery and a cast. e related pain required medication.

One night, after getting home from the hospital, Clara got up from bed.

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roughout her previous board service, Pam earned the support of many across the district for her work ethic, integrity, fair-mindedness and compassion. Pam was always thoroughly prepared for each board meeting, adding thoughtful comments and often a fresh perspective to decisions that came before the board, and she had a remarkable ability to listen carefully to help nd workable solutions to constituents’ issues and requests. We all will be well-served if Pam is elected once again on May 2.

As she stood, her head began to swim. Lightheaded from the pain medication, Clara fell again. is time, she hit her head on the bedside table and su ered a fatal brain injury. Ollie was devastated by the loss of his wife, and he died the next year from a broken heart.

For older adults, a fall can be lifealtering. Each year, nearly 3 million older adults nationwide are treated in emergency departments for injuries sustained during a fall. Helping Douglas County’s 52,000 adults over age 65 prevent falls is a priority for the new Douglas County Health Department.

“As we began planning for our new health department, we asked our community what they wanted from public health,” said Michael Hill,

Recreation Center, 6315 S. University Blvd., Centennial.

Stene

director of the Douglas County Health Department. “Based on community engagement and research, we saw that injury prevention was one of the top three needs in our community.”

Health care professionals and public health agencies are working together to better understand what leads to falls, including some of the realities our older adults face, such as:

1. Decreased strength, conditioning, and balance

2. Side e ects of medications, both prescribed and over-the counter

3. Limited vision and hearing

4. Hazards in/around the home, such as stairs, rugs, and uneven sidewalks or oors

What can older adults do? Laura Larson and Dr. Owen Stene, Doug-

las County Health Department, will discuss the plan to prevent older adults from injury-related falls as well as introduce the new Health Department’s priorities, at the June 1 Seniors’ Council meeting.

e Douglas County Health Department is committed to providing person-centered care that supports overall health and wellbeing for older residents. e department is located at 410 S. Wilcox Street, Suite 103, in Castle Rock and can be contacted at 720-643-2400.

Seniors’ Council of Douglas County serves and advocates for older adults. Information and updates are available at www.douglas.co.us — search for Seniors’ Council. Our signature event for older adults, Vintage & Vibrant, is planned for Saturday, Sept. 28 in Parker. Details and updates can be found on our website.

You may vote in this election if you are a resident and/or property owner within the district boundaries:

1. At the polls on Tuesday, May 2 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Goodson

2. By absentee ballot — Voters who have signed up on South Suburban’s Permanent Absentee Voter (PAV) List automatically receive a mail ballot for every South Suburban May election. To be added to this list, visit www.ssprd.org and search “2023 Election.” e link to the Application for Absentee Ballot is on the Elections page. To speed the application process and receive a ballot for this election, take a phone photo or make a PDF of your completed application and email it to Elections@ ssprd.org. Questions? Call South Suburban Elections at 303-483-7011 during regular business hours, M-F, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit the Elections page to learn more about all six candidates running for the two open seats in this election. With your vote on May 2, Pam Eller will again work collab-

oratively with the board, sta , and residents to maintain and strengthen our recreational amenities for the personal and nancial health of our entire community.

Kay Geitner, Centennial, 20042012, board chair 2010-2012

Sue Rosser, Centennial, 2008-2016 John Ostermiller, Littleton, 20092018, board chair 2012-2018 Mike Anderson, Lone Tree, 20102018

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Paula J Edwards

Paula Edwards, 53-year Littleton resident, passed peacefully on April 2, 2023, leaving a strong legacy of love. She volunteered and taught over 18 years in Littleton Public Schools, focusing on literacy at South (later Moody), Whitman, Runyon, and Centennial. Honoring Paula’s career in LPS and passions for literacy and music a fund

has been established through the LPS Foundation https://lpsfoundation. com/how-to-help/donate-now.html. Please select Paula Edwards under the “My donation is for” dropdown. More details may be found at https://obituaries. neptunesociety.com/obituaries/arvada-co/ paula-edwards-11235437

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acronym, F.E.A.R. stands for False Evidence Appearing Real. And lastly, the famous quote said by so many, but I will choose this version, “Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the realization that there is something more important than fear.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

November 29, 1941 - April 2, 2023 fears, developing strategies and coping mechanisms to help overcome their fears in certain situations. And some of us face our fears head on. It’s not that the fear isn’t there, it’s just that they acknowledge their fear and summon the courage to deal with it in that moment. Still there are others who say they have no fear, that they aren’t afraid of anything, and these are the folks who lie about other things too.

We all have fears, and that’s normal and okay. What we should strive to work towards is not letting our fears stop us from achieving our goals. We can never let our fears get in the way of who we want to be and what we want to do. When fear wins, we lose, and when we allow fear to cheat us from achieving our goals it’s a double loss.

Here are a few things that I have learned to lean into when I have felt fearful. First is this that hope and fear are the same thing, a belief that something is going to happen in the future. So why not live with hope instead of fear, hoping that something good will happen and not anything bad. Second is turning fear into an

Here’s the good news, Carolyn overcame her fear of public speaking by learning how to be overprepared with her content. She learned other helpful speaking tips from Toastmasters, and she is doing awesome. Allen not only survived his 90-day performance improvement plan, he is also back to focusing on doing his sales behaviors, following a sales process, and winning business. Fear for both is a thing of the past.

Are you holding on to any fears that are keeping you from achieving your goals? I would love to hear your hope and fear story at gotonorton@ gmail.com and when we can never allow our fears to cheat us out of our goals and dreams, it really will be a better than good life.

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

EDWARDS

BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE OLOVE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In a state that has over 400 breweries and almost 100 distilleries, approaching the topic of sobriety can be a hard conversation for many people to have.

But with low-key, no-fuss non-alcoholic options at many establishments across the metro, it doesn’t have to be a big deal if you don’t want to drink, whatever your reasons.

Mocktails that you wouldn’t even know were NA

Golden Moon Speakeasy in Golden uses all its own distilled spirits and creates unique craft cocktails at’s all the more reason that general manager Kayla Veatch sees to o er quality, non-alcoholic options.

“My overall philosophy when I changed the menu was to have the same options as the alcohol menu,” Veatch said.

So no, you won’t have to order a water if you’re the designated driver. e mocktails at Golden Moon use highly steeped teas to replace alcohol and utilize many of the same syrups and NA ingredients the cocktails use.

Mocktails are a great option for people ready to slow down on alcohol for the night, people taking certain medications, pregnant people and people exploring sobriety, Veatch said. e speakeasy even serves mocktails to children before 9 p.m.

Having an inclusive menu makes an establishment like this a gathering place for groups, Veatch explained.

“People can still come together….if I didn’t have mocktails, I wonder if they would still be excited to come,” she said about group members who don’t consume alcohol.

Some of the mocktails Veatch makes include the Cloud City, which features an earl grey tea base, ginger, lemon and elder ower, or the Cheshire Cat, which features a butter y pea ower tea base, passionfruit juice and lime. Veatch even makes a copycat smoked whiskey.

Golden Moon Speakeasy is located at 1111 Miner’s Alley in Golden.

An alcohol alternative

For those looking for another NA drink option, perhaps with health bene ts, kombucha has been a popular choice.

Kombucha has been added as an option at many breweries, bars and co ee shops around Colorado; but Marc Gaudreault owns one of only two kombucha tap rooms on the front range.

Before the pandemic, the Trubucha tap room in Lone Tree had space for people to sit inside and enjoy a glass of kombucha. According to Gaudreault, Trubucha actually grew during the pandemic, and the demand for his product is so great he needs most of his shop space for fermenting the kombucha in huge vats.

Still, Trubucha boasts 31 taps in the store and has a spacious patio for people to enjoy kombucha, lemonade, ginger beer or cold brew.

So, what is kombucha? Put simply, Gaudreault explained, it’s lightly fermented tea. But the health bene ts are much more lengthy, he said. Most notably, the drink has an abundance of natural probiotics,

Kayla Veatch crafts a mocktail.

A lineup of mocktails at Golden Moon.

Water gardeners to show o ponds

Co lorado Water Garden Society members, including Jim Arneill of Centennial, will conduct tours of the ponds at Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St. in Denver, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on April 20. They will also have advice for prospective water gardeners.

Installation coming to museum

“Abstract Expressions,” a new sound and garden installation, will open on the terraces of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver in May, envisioned by artist Nathan Hall, in collaboration with Kevin Phillips Williams, assistant curator and horticulturist, Denver Botanic Gardens. The museum is at 1250 Bannock St. in downtown Denver. See clyffordstillmuseum.org.

Highlands Ranch Concert Band

The Highlands Ranch Concert Band will present “Natural Wonders Across America” at 3 p.m. on May 7 at Littleton High School Auditorium, 199 East Littleton Blvd. Rob Yost will conduct. Free.

Arapahoe Philharmonic

“Summer Songs of Support” will be a fundraising concert, banquet and silent auction held by the Arapahoe Philharmonic at 7 p.m. on June 2 at The Dome at AMG, 6295 Greenwood Plaza Blvd., Greenwood Village. Tickets, $75. Featuring Sauel Chang, piano; Jackson Bailey, violin; Jacob Martin, cello.

Benefit craft fair

A craft fair to benefit the ACC Foundation will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 6 in the first-floor, west-side Summit Room at Arapahoe Community College, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive in Littleton. Vendor registration fee benefits ACC Foundation and Study Abroad Programs.

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as well as B vitamins and an acidic composition that some say can help your gut health.

For many, this drink has become a replacement for beer and other alcoholic beverages, partly due to its prevalence in drinking establishments.

“We have some breweries that go through three of these (kegs) in a week,” Gaudreault said.

People who choose not to drink should have options besides a soda, Gaudreault said.

“You want something that is a little more sophisticated,” he said.

Trubucha is located at 10047 Park Meadows Drive Unit A in Lone Tree.

Make it at home yourself

For those looking to have an NA drink at home, e Spice and Tea

Dog walks

Historic Littleton Inc. leads dog walks along a di erent section of the City Ditch. Meet in Ridgewood Park, 2492 West Euclid Ave. See some of the oldest sites in Littleton. Tour guide is Rebeca Kast, with Dog-Mayor Murdoch and friends. Questions? email historiclittleton@gmail.com. Park in small lot at Lower Ridgewood Park . Dogs are welcome. Tours are free. Donations are welcome. Next one is at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 7.

Spring Show

e Arapahoe Community College

Art and Design Department is hosting its annual Spring Show at Aspen Grove April 20-May 7. Reception: April 20, 5-7 p.m. 7301 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton.

Lone Tree

e Mary Louise Lee Orchestra will perform music of Natalie Cole at 8 p.m. April 21 at Lone Tree Arts Center. Tickets: $31-$45. See lone-

Exchange in Idaho Springs has almost everything you need to get started on your very own mocktail creation.

Logan Houser, manager at e Spice and Tea Exchange in Idaho Springs, explained that the shop has all sorts of ingredients to make cocktails or mocktails at home.

e sugar and salt wall, which contains countless canisters of avored granules, is a good place to get ingredients to sweeten your mocktails or rim the glasses, according to Houser.

“It all just depends on what you’re trying to achieve,” he said.

e store has many types of teas, some of which can make for a good mocktail base.

“We have like four or ve teas you can use for mocktails,” Houser said.

He said the fruity teas do really well for those drinks, but you can try out lots of combinations.

“Really anything you buy here is multipurpose,” Houser said.

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Artists invited

Douglas Land Conservancy announces Plein Air Community Day at Sandstone Ranch Open Space. Artists, both professional and casual are invited. Five awards will be given at the end of the day, to young artists. See douglaslandconservancy.org.

Stories on Stage

Stories on Stage will perform “Confessions of a Wedding Singer” at 2 p.m. on May 7 at Su Teatro, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Virtual performance May 11 and after. Tickets: $24. 303-494-0523, storiesonstage.org.

Book launch

Mary Taylor Young’s new “Bluebird Seasons” will launch at e Bookies, 4315 E. Mississippi, Denver, at 2:30 p.m. on May 7.

‘The Little Prince’ “ e Little Prince” by Rachel Port-

man will be presented at Lamont School of Music April 20-23 in University of Denver’s Newman Center. bit.ly/lamontopera.

Art in Highlands Ranch

Ken Caryl Art Guild Exhibit will be at St. Andrew UMC, 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch, from May 5 to June 14.

Vintage Theatre

“ e Inheritance” by Matthew Lopez runs through May 14 at Vintage eatre, 1468 S. Dayton St, Aurora. Part 1 and Part 2 add up to three hours with intermissions. See website to arrange timing for tickets: vintagetheatre.org.

Aurora Fox

“Treasure Island: a New Musical for a New Generation,” directed by Nick Sugar will run April 28 to May 21 at Aurora Fox Arts Center. Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. See aurorafox.org.

e shop also o ers cocktail kits with sugars, teas and syrups to make drinks, which Houser said are popular for people to use for NA drinks.

“You can change them out for club soda,” he said of champagne or other alcohol recommended in the recipes.

e Spice and Tea Exchange is located at 1634 Miner St. in Idaho Springs.

If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, call the alcohol addiction hotline at 331-200-1664, or visit alcohol.org.

Kayla Veatch strains a mocktail.

PHOTO BY OLIVIA JEWELL LOVE

Colorado Water Garden Society members will conduct tours of the ponds at Denver Botanic Gardens.

PHOTO COURTESY OF DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS

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Hudson Gardens is gem for generations

Lovely acreage has roots in namesake couple

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

I spent a happy Monday afternoon soaking up Colorado sunshine and the beautiful views at Hudson Gardens with my grandson. And I wanted to remind readers that it’s a really lovely way to spend a few hours — just being there! It’s free, beautifully maintained by South Suburban Parks and Recreation District and o ers an ever-changing menu of growing things. Soon, the Rose Garden will be blooming, as will the Water Lily Pond and trees and shrubs ... including fragrant lilacs.

In 1940, Col. King C. Hudson was stationed at Fort Logan in Denver and his wife, Evelyn, joined him. He was ready to retire soon and the couple decided they would like to live in the area and start the restaurant she had been wanting to operate after a career in the foods business in Chicago. (Marshall Field’s tearoom in particular.) ey looked at various properties and decided on a large plot of farmland in Littleton, near the bank of the South Platte River.

Local old-timers in this primarily agricultural community shook their heads over that restaurant idea. “People will never come this far south to have dinner,” they said.

First, the Hudsons built a log home for themselves, close to the riverbank, then they designed and built the log Country Kitchen Restaurant on Santa Fe Drive.

e pair had traveled widely in Europe and Asia and she had written a series of “Tummy Travel” books about food they’d enjoyed. (Some reprints are available in the Gardens’ shop.) e restaurant opened with bu et assortments of foods re ecting various nationalities and added some more traditional menu dinners as well. e Country Kitchen was an immediate success, was recommended in the latest Duncan Hines travel guidebook that many driving travelers carried and, drew crowds from Denver, as well, who returned soon with more friends in tow. At rst, the pair would close the restaurant in the winter after the holidays and travel for a while, opening again in warmer weather, but eventually, it had a sta who could keep the operation running.

In the early 1950s, Marathon Oil and Martin Marietta both opened labs nearby, drawing employees who enjoyed good food. Our family came to work for Marathon and soon visited the Hudsons’ restaurant with our families. (Moving here, in the middle of the U.S., with Rocky Mountains close enough for a picnic excursion, seems to guarantee lots of company, which is usually ne, as long as there’s time to wash sheets in between!)

Eventually, the busy couple

retired, renting the log building to another food person, who operated as e Northwoods Inn, with a huge Paul Bunyan gure standing by their sign.

e Hudsons continued to live in their riverside home. He raised purebred horses and she became interested in beautifying her city, contributing trees and planting materials to the new Arapahoe Community College campus and elsewhere. She also served on the Littleton Fine Arts Board, seeking ways to pay for sculpture and an art collection for the growing city.

She told me of a visit to the city planning o ce to inquire about

something. (A visit she made quite frequently.) While there, she saw a drawing on a desk of riverfront land that included hers, she realized. Planners’ drawings showed that land lled with houses and apartments.

I can remember Evelyn telling me a few days later that she had driven home and immediately called her lawyer and set up a foundation that day, which would protect the Hudson acreage as open land. Her thinking quickly progressed to creating a place of beauty that people of all ages could enjoy and appreciate — and perhaps learn a bit about how to grow beautiful plants and teach others about that beauty.

She called a few close friends and her beloved nephew, Don Had eld, and soon was involved in setting up the rst Hudson Gardens Board of Directors, which met in her living room monthly — and at times, more often. Local landscape architect Doug Rockne was hired to design Hudson Gardens, with input from British horticulturalist Andrew Pierce. Board members and sta were generous with time and expertise at public gardens visited across the U.S. and in Canada. From Longwood Gardens in Philadelphia to Buchart Gardens in Vancouver, Canada.

Plans were drawn and redrawn and plant lists were developed and landscapers hired. Soon, a lovely garden was open for business ... I feel certain, Evelyn is somewhere, smiling ...

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Thu 4/27

Tom Mcelvain Music @ 5pm

The Englewood Tavern, 4386 S Broadway, Englewood

Jamie Lissow @ 6:30pm

Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark Pl, Greenwood Village

Fri 4/28

Mark O'Connor @ 6pm Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St, Lone Tree

Vamonos Pest/Mobro:

Vamonos Pest at Cherokee Ranch & Castle @ 5:30pm

Cherokee Ranch & Castle, 6113 N Daniels Park Rd, Sedalia

Wild Pink @ 6pm

Gothic Theatre, 3263 S Broadway, Englewood

R�N for Fire Heroes - Fire�ghter Strength Challenge & 5K @ 11pm / $30

Apr 30th - May 7th

1071 Round Top Lane, Castle Rock

Mon 5/01

Social Skills: Group for Teens (1317 yrs) S/S23 @ 5am

May 1st - Aug 31st

Parker Recreation Center, 17301 E Lincoln Ave., Parker

Kids’ Zone: Gym Jam (3-6 yrs) S/S23 @ 5am

May 1st - Aug 31st

Jamie Lissow @ 6:15pm

Comedy Works South, 5345 Land‐mark Pl, Greenwood Village

Tom Mcelvain Music @ 7pm Wild Goose Saloon, Parker

Dave Hadley: Water 2 Wine w/ June Star @ 5pm

Water 2 Wine, 8130 S University Blvd #110, Centennial

Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts @ 8pm Wild Goose Saloon, Parker

Miguel Mateos @ 8:30pm

Stampede, 2430 S Havana St, Aurora

Sat 4/29

The Slocan Ramblers: Five String Barn Concert @ 6:30pm

Five String Barn Concert, Castle Rock

Sun 4/30

Parker Recreation Center, 17301 E Lincoln Ave., Parker

BOOM Sports: (18 mos-6 yrs) 10 Punch Card S/S23 @ 5am

May 1st - Aug 31st

Parker Fieldhouse, 18700 E Plaza Dr, Parker

Preschool Month RegistrationMay @ 8am / Free May 1st - May 31st

Parker Fieldhouse, 18700 E Plaza Dr., Parker. 303-805-6315

Tue 5/02

Gymnastics: Ninja: Mighty Ninja (34 yrs) May @ 3pm

May 2nd - May 23rd

Parker Recreation Center, 17301 E Lincoln Ave., Parker

Denver Concert Band: Young Artist Concert @ 1pm / $22

Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075

Commons Street, Lone Tree. Info@ DenverConcertBand.org, 720-5091000

Ruston Kelly @ 6pm Gothic Theatre, 3263 S Broadway, Engle‐wood

Wed 5/03

Dear Marsha,: DM Acoustic @ Brewability @ 5:30pm Brewability Lab, 3445 S Broadway, Englewood Whitechapel

@ 7pm Gothic Theatre, 3263 South Broadway, En‐glewood

Littleton YMCA Offering Free Family Fun on Healthy Kids Day @ 8am Littleton Family YMCA, 11 West Dry Creek Court, Littleton

6 Million Dollar Band @ 7pm Wild Goose Saloon, Parker

Kelsey Cook @ 6pm

Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark Pl, Greenwood Village

New Pornographers @ 7pm Gothic Theatre, 3263 South Broadway, En‐glewood

Ladies Night @ 5pm / $10 Stampede, 2430 South Havana, Aurora

Thu 5/04

Bad Omens: 107.9 KBPI Birthday Bash @ 6pm Fiddlers Green Amphitheater, 6501 S Fid‐dlers Green Cir, Greenwood Village

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Colorado to receive $31 million settlement from Juul

Stems for nationwide case

BY OLIVIA PRENTZEL THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado is expected to receive $31.7 million from electronic cigarette manufacturer Juul Labs in a multistate settlement over claims the company used deceptive marketing tactics and promoted products to teens, the state’s attorney general announced April 11.

e lawsuit, led in 2020, claimed Juul was misrepresenting the health risks of their vapes and targeted young people by hiring social media in uencers to promote e-cigarettes and brand ambassadors to give free samples to teens at Colorado convenience stores.

“ is settlement is a victory for the state of Colorado and everyone who fell victim to Juul’s reckless, deceptive, and unconscionable marketing tactics,” Attorney General Phil Weiser said in a statement. “While no amount of money or new restrictions on Juul’s business practices can undo the harms caused by the teen vaping epidemic, this settlement will make great strides toward reducing it and can support young people who are hurting now more than ever.”

Vapes typically contain the same addictive nicotine as other tobacco products.

e settlement funds will be used solely to address tobacco prevention

despite a news release his o ce sent earlier that said it would be used in part to cover attorneys’ fees.

“ at $31 million is going to be dedicated entirely to supporting young people who have su ered both from a public health and from a mental health perspective,” Weiser said. “ e kids are not OK. Right now they’re su ering. is vaping epidemic is part of that, it has in icted harms that remain and that need to be addressed.”

e attorney general’s o ce will send $167,000 to the National Asso-

for investigation and litigation costs, according to the settlement.

Under the settlement agreement, Juul will be prohibited from using those marketing tactics in the future, Weiser said. e company will also be required to hire a compliance o cer and provide the public opportunities to review documentation of their compliance with the agreement.

Most recent state data shows that 16% of Colorado teens reported they had vaped in the past month. When Colorado led the suit, the state had the highest rate of vaping teenagers in the nation at 27%, double the nation average, according to the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey.

Juul has settled lawsuits with 47 states and territories, paying more than $1 billion, the company said.

“With this settlement, we are nearing total resolution of the company’s historical legal challenges and securing certainty for our future,” a company spokesman said. “Since our companywide reset in the fall of 2019, underage use of JUUL prod-

the National Youth Tobacco Survey.” Colorado sued Juul with other attorneys general, including from California, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico and New York. e total settlement was $462 million.

Late last year, Juul announced it settled more than 5,000 cases brought by about 10,000 plainti s in the U.S., sidestepping a substantial amount of legal issues for the company.

“ ese settlements represent a major step toward strengthening Juul Labs’ operations and securing the company’s path forward to ful ll its mission to transition adult smokers away from combustible cigarettes while combating underage use,” the company said in a news release.

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

Settlement funds from the Juul Labs lawsuit will be used to address tobacco prevention and teen mental health programs. SHUTTERSTOCK IMAGE

‘Chicks Fly!’ at Wings Over the Rockies

Women have played a role in aviation since humans rst took to the sky, but as is so often the case, they don’t receive nearly the recognition and celebration their male counterparts do. e Wings Over the Rockies’ Chicks Fly! Showcase aims to do something about this fact.

“In the aviation world, ‘chick’ is a term of endearment for women pilots. I’ve been ying for 20 years and have always loved being referred to as a chick pilot,” wrote Ann Beardall, Exploration of Flight Program Coordinator at Wings Over the Rockies, in an email interview. “We’ll have a couple of pilots on duty for airplane rides and you will be amazed at the diversity and depth of experience they have.”

Chicks Fly! will be held at Wings

Over the Rockies Exploration of Flight, 13005 Wings Way in Englewood, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 22. e event will feature guest speaker Col. Kim “Killer Chick” Campbell, who will also be signing her book, “Flying in the Face of Fear.”

Beardall answered some questions about the event, what audiences can expect and more:

Interview edited for brevity and clarity.

Tell me about why it is important to showcase women in aviation.  ere are women who y or have own who have done fantastic things in both their careers and

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the aviation community. Telling their stories and having them meet with future aviators is a great way to generate interest and foster dreams for young girls and young boys.

Clarke Reader

Why is it important to host events like this?

We look for all kinds of di erent aviation events to host and showcase. It is important to highlight di erent aspects of aviation, simply because most people think it’s only about the pilot. Later in the Summer we will highlight First Responders (safety/air ambulance), Taildraggers, helicopters, and we cover drones, air marshalling and much more. As part of our mission we educate, inspire and excite everything aviation, as well as teach the teachers through our Teachers Pathway program.

What part of the event are you most looking forward to?

I can’t wait to see the women pilots come in and I hope they will display objects on their aircraft that will designate it as a Chick Plane. I know my plane will be there. And I am really looking forward to meeting the Killer Chick, herself!

What do you hope attendees come away with?

I really hope that people from

all walks of life will be inspired by listening to Col. Campbell. I also hope that the kids who come, see themselves in aviation. No dreams are out of reach.

Visit Wingsmuseum.org for more information and to purchase tickets.

See the world through the eyes of ‘Blind Visionaries’

e work done by composer and artist Daniel Kelly shows why the idea of siloing arts o into di erent mediums is a foolish idea. His work is a multisensory presentation that highlights his songwriting and piano playing while simultaneously projecting “light painting” portraits, created by visually impaired and sighted photographers from the Seeing With Photography Collective, according to provided information.

Kelly’s show, “Blind Visionaries,” is coming to the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, at 7:30 p.m. April 21. Get tickets for the performance at https://lakewood.showare.com/.

Explore the Titanic, as told by the movies

ere are many great debates centered on movies: should Ilsa have gone with Rick at the end of “Casablanca?” Was the latter half of “Inception” a dream? Dude, where’s my car? But one of the great discussions for a certain generation is whether or not the door at the end

Strong. Stable. Private.

of “Titanic” could safely hold both Jack and Rose while they waited on rescue.

As part of the Molly Brown House Museum’s, 1340 Pennsylvania St. in Denver, annual recognition of the anniversary of Titanic’s sinking, it is hosting Room for Two: Titanic Story in Film at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 22. e event will feature an “irreverent” exploration of the vessel’s story in lm and include movie-themed snacks and cocktails. Get the details at www. mollybrown.org.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Wiz Khalifa and Joey Bada$$ at Red Rocks I’d be pretty pressed to think of a more tting kick o to the warm seasons in Colorado than Wiz Khalifa and Joey Bada$$ co-headlining Red Rocks, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway in Morrison, at 6:45 p.m. April 22.

e rappers will be joined by a slew of genre stalwarts, including Action Bronson, Berner, Marlon Craft, Chevy Woods and Little Stranger, creating the perfect lineup for a spring Saturday night. You can sample all kinds of approaches to rap by attending but they all share a hazy, feel-good vibe. Get tickets at www.axs.com.

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

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Making, possessing ‘ghost

Legislature to pass bill

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER THE COLORADO SUN

Making, possessing and selling so-called ghost guns, the untraceable homemade weapons linked to several recent high-pro le Colorado shootings, will likely soon be illegal in the state.

Democrats in the state legislature Wednesday introduced a measure outlawing the rearms as part of their package of bills this year aimed at curbing gun violence in Colorado.

When guns are made by licensed manufacturers, they are required to have an engraved serial number. If that type of weapon is used in a crime, investigators can trace where it was purchased and by whom.

Additionally, anyone purchasing a gun in Colorado must go through a background check.

But the proliferation of make-ityourself gun kits and 3D printers has allowed an unknown number of untraceable rearms to be produced by people who are able to skirt Colorado’s universal background check system.

Under the bill, which is set to be introduced in the state Senate, people who already own rearms that have no serial number will have until the start of 2024 to have them engraved with a serial number by a licensed dealer. at transaction would require a background check and recording of the serial number.

e bill would also outlaw the purchase and possession of any un nished rearms that don’t have serial numbers and can be easily assembled, and it would outlaw devices that would let semi-automatic ghost guns re at a rate similar to an automatic weapon.

Under the bill, people found to have created or be in possession of an unserialized rearm or gun frame would face a Class 1 misdemeanor for a rst o ense, punishable by up to 364 days in jail, and a Class 5 felony, punishable by up to three years in prison, for subsequent o enses.

“What we’re going to be doing is interrupting access to guns,” said Sen. Rhonda Fields, an Aurora Democrat. “It’s a very popular weapon for criminals to use because you don’t have to go for a background check. So we’re about to put

will likely be illegal

Law Center, an anti-gun violence advocacy organization that tracks statutes related to rearms.

Colorado’s forthcoming bill would make it illegal to use a 3D printer to produce a rearm but would not go as far as some states — such as New Jersey — that bar the distribution of instructions for how to make a gun with a 3D printer.

State Sen. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora

an end to that so that we can interrupt the level of gun violence that we’re seeing in our state and across the nation.”

Other prime sponsors of the bill are Sen. Chris Hansen, D-Denver; Rep. Andrew Boesenecker, D-Fort Collins; and Rep. Junie Joseph, DBoulder.

“No law stops illegal activity,” Hansen said. “I have no doubt there will be people who will break the law. But, the point is, we have nothing on the books right now to address unserialized rearms.”

e measure is expected to cruise through the Democratic-controlled legislature to Gov. Jared Polis, who supports the legislation.

ere’s also growing, bipartisan support outside of the Capitol for regulating ghost guns. e mayors of Denver, Colorado Springs and Aurora wrote a joint opinion column in January supporting legislation that would restrict untraceable guns.

Ghost guns have been associated with several high-pro le shootings in Colorado over the past year, including one in March when an East High School student with a history of making guns shot two administrators. e alleged shooter in the Club Q massacre in Colorado Springs also had a history of using a 3D printer to produce guns at home.

e bill would also add crimes around unserialized guns and gun parts to the list of reasons someone could be barred from purchasing a rearm.

Eleven states — including Washington, Nevada, California and Rhode Island — as well as Washington, D.C., have enacted laws regulating ghost guns, according to Gi ords

“As federal law has evolved and as the industry tries to get around these regulations we make updates to the law,” said Allison Anderman, an attorney with the Gi ords Law Center, who worked on the Colorado bill.

e Gi ords Law Center is an o shoot of Gi ords, an organization that advocates for tighter gun regulations across the country and is named after former U.S. Rep. Gabby Gi ords. e Arizona Democrat was gravely wounded in a 2011 mass shooting that forced her to retire from Congress.

Regulations around ghost guns in other states are all relatively recent, making their e cacy di cult to gauge, Anderman said.

ere are di culties around regulating the production of guns that can be made behind closed doors, but Anderman said the bill will focus primarily on sellers and distributors of ghost gun parts.

“We are trying to essentially go after the supply,” Anderman said.

In 2022, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives issued a rule requiring that kits that can be used to create rearms at home must include serial numbers.

e bill comes as Democrats in the Colorado legislature have taken up four other measures aimed at preventing gun violence. e bills would impose a three-day waiting period for all gun purchases, raise the minimum age for buying guns to 21 and expand Colorado’s red ag law to let teachers, prosecutors and medical professionals also petition a judge to order the temporary seizure of someone’s guns.

A fourth bill would make it easier to sue the gun industry.

is story is from e Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support e Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com.

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‘It’s a very popular weapon for criminals to use because you don’t have to go for a background check.’

Local couple looks to open Sky Zone franchise in Highlands Ranch

Construction expected this summer

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Sky Zone, an innovative indoor active entertainment experience that brings child-like fun for all, is opening its sixth Colorado location in Highlands Ranch.

“As long-time fans of Sky Zone, we jumped at the opportunity to open a franchise as it perfectly aligns our values as a place for families to come and have fun together,” said franchise couple.

As Colorado natives who have lived in Douglas County a majority of their lives, Nick and Lisa are excited to be involved in the community where they grew up.

Nick and Lisa have enjoyed bringing their two kids to Sky Zone, which provides activities such as ultimate dodgeball, skyslam and skyhoops, freeclimb, foam jousting and a ninja warrior course.

As Douglas County and Highlands Ranch o er a place for young families to live in an active community, Nick and Lisa would like to provide that experience for more at the local level.

“I think we are both very excited to share the experiences a Sky Zone has to o er with the community, o ering an active immersive play environment for all ages,” said the couple. “We want everyone to have

Highlands Ranch families to Sky Zone and show them why we’re the

a mix of attractions such as Ninja Courses, the Toddler Zone, Air

Courts, Drop Zones, Zip Lines and President of Franchise and Business the company is thrilled to have the improvements late spring or early summer of this year.

Outside of a Sky Zone Trampoline Park.

Thinking outside the den

Wildlife o cials turn to guy who never caught a bear to make a better bear trap

BY KEVIN SIMPSON THE COLORADO SUN

On the caretaker’s property adjacent to the local state wildlife area, sheets of structural steel, once blanketed by snow but now tickled by tumbleweeds, sit stacked on the ground awaiting their eventual transformation.

Inside a nearby outbuilding sits the nished product the raw materials soon will replicate, once it’s their turn to be cut, welded and shaped into a contraption state o cials have been craving for years: a better, lighter, more versatile bear trap.

Je Belveal, the 36-year-old Colorado Parks and Wildlife resource technician who took on the project, notes that his little slice of paradise on the plains may be home to a seemingly inordinate number of white-tailed deer, but there’s not a bear in sight. And metalworking, while among the skills he honed in pursuit of an agency gig, gures only tangentially into a job description that includes maintenance and upkeep of ve state wildlife areas — everything from cleaning the toilets to xing fence lines, maintaining roads, managing grazing and weed mitigation.

“ is is extra credit,” Belveal says of the bear trap project. “All I brought to the table here was a willingness to

tackle the problem.”

Colleagues will tell you it’s much more than that, and talk at length about how Belveal’s retiring and self-e acing personality short-sells a skilled and dedicated worker. In fact, a lifetime of persistence and a

penchant for problem-solving put him at the center of a collaborative e ort to reimagine a trap for safely and e ectively capturing problematic black bears — the only bear spe-

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cies them, reduce halfway,” supervised began, enforcement very always pride every mates tion 20,000. conditions on bears mans often that often, may, the new tem 18,300 bears, involved cans has CPW continuing grant funding ects be them avoid 2015, dozen have of o one of rust. through ings rating bear could in-house, than

Je Belveal, a Colorado Park and Wildlife technician, lifts the separation door inside a bear trap on Mar. 14 at his workshop in Flagler. The separation panel divides the trap into two enclosures in case cubs follow a mother inside.

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cies living in Colorado — to relocate them, avoid putting them down and reduce chances of further con ict.

“Je just doesn’t do anything halfway,” says Frank McGee, who supervised Belveal when the project began, before becoming CPW’s law enforcement training manager. “He’s very self-motivated as well, and I’ve always appreciated the way he takes pride in his work. He takes each and every part of his job seriously.”

Colorado Parks and Wildlife estimates that the state’s bear population hovers between 17,000 and 20,000. A spring freeze or drought conditions can su ciently infringe on natural food sources to nudge bears into close contact with humans — circumstances that people often exacerbate through behavior that encourages interaction and often, much to wildlife o cers’ dismay, leads to fatal consequences for the bears.

Since the implementation of a new statewide bear reporting system in 2019, CPW has logged over 18,300 sightings and con icts with bears, and nearly one-third of them involved enticements like trash cans and dumpsters. e problem has become pervasive enough that CPW recently announced it will be continuing a $1 million competitive grant program launched with state funding two years ago for local projects aimed at reducing bear con ict.

When bears persist, traps may be used to capture, tag and release them — one important strategy to avoid putting them down. Since 2015, CPW has relocated 461 bears.

But over the years, more than a dozen wildlife areas across the state have accumulated such a variety of traps that on many occasions o cers scramble to nd the right one for a particular situation. Many of them are old and crusted with rust. And so began the quest to sift through the features and shortcomings of the agency’s rapidly deteriorating collection and build a better bear trap — preferably one that could be adapted to any situation.

If possible, it would be produced in-house, a more economical option than buying from a vendor, which

could run $25,000 per trap.

Belveal has been working on the project in ts and starts over the last two years, and so far has completed four of the six planned for his home Area 14, a swath of the state reaching from Teller County, through Colorado Springs and clear to the Kansas state line. At a cost of about $5,000 in materials plus his time on the clock, the nished traps have saved the agency an estimated $80,000.

And though the rst tests of the traps still lie ahead, CPW has been so thrilled with Belveal’s ingenuity, persistence and attention to detail that the agency recently named him its outstanding technician of the year. But his can-do legacy was forged well before he reshaped a critical tool for dealing with problem bears.

Walking across his property at the edge of the Flagler State Recreation Area, Belveal extends a friendly, down-home demeanor and a viselike handshake that o ers no hint of the physical trials of his childhood.

Born seven weeks premature at 3 pounds, 7 ounces, he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy that triggered symptoms known as hemiplegia, muscle atrophy that weakened the entire right side of his body. With a right leg an inch shorter than his left, he walked with a limp and, into his middle school years, slept in a brace to stretch his tendons.

“My dad and mom never made excuses for me because of my disability,” Belveal says. “I was never a victim, always encouraged and told I could do anything any other man could do.”

Belveal’s parents divorced when he was 10, and he initially lived with his mom in Karval and later Brush.

At 15, he moved in with his dad, who moved to Colorado Springs so Belveal could attend a small Christian high school. ere, he spent his freshman year lifting weights to aid his rehabilitation. e following year he took up wrestling.

In his rst year of competition, he spent virtually every match pinned to the mat. When he nally broke through with a victory his junior year, he built on that success with a work ethic and irrepressible attitude that earned him the admiration of his coach and teammates — and a

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Colorado Democrats clash over provisions in elections

Recounts, public funds for ads an issue

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado Senate President Steve Fenberg rejected a provision requested by Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a fellow Democrat, limiting when candidates can pay for recounts in his measure this year tweaking the state’s election code.

And in another snub, Fenberg’s measure, introduced Tuesday, would prohibit the Colorado Secretary of State’s O ce from using state or federal funds for advertising that features candidates for federal, state or local o ce.

e move appears to come in response to controversial television commercials run by Griswold featuring herself and former Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams, a Republican running to be Colorado Springs mayor, in the lead-up to the 2022 election. Griswold was running for reelection at the time.

e measure, Senate Bill 276, represents a rare open disagreement among two powerful, rising Democratic stars in Colorado and it hinges on the sensitive issue of election conspiracies and misinformation.

Colorado law requires that mandatory recounts be conducted in races that are decided by an extremely small margin — when the number of votes separating the leading two candidates is less than 0.5% of the number of votes cast for the leading candidate. So, for instance: If Ronald McDonald had 1,000 votes and the Burger King had 999 votes, the one-vote di erence would be 0.1% of McDonald’s votes, triggering a recount.

For races where the margin between candidates is larger, a recount can be requested by a campaign and is conducted if they pay for the work.

Griswold wanted to prevent those so-called permissive recounts by candidates who lose by more than 2 percentage points to prevent election workers across the state from having to duplicate their work in contests with a clear outcome.

In 2022, for instance, then-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters paid more than $100,000 for a recount in her GOP primary loss in the secretary of

state’s race after alleging fraud and malfeasance but providing no evidence. ere was no shift in Peters’ 14-percentage-point loss after the votes in each of Colorado’s 64 counties were tallied for a second time. But Fenberg, who lives in Boulder, worried that limiting permissive recounts would decrease con dence in Colorado’s elections.

“I think we want to increase con dence in our elections and not remove options for people,” Fenberg told reporters Tuesday. “Especially if someone is an election denier, I don’t want to do something that feeds into (conspiracies).”

Colorado State Sen. Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, prepares to address fellow lawmakers as the legislative session opens in the Senate chambers Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Restricting permissive recounts to races when candidates were within 2 percentage points of each other was a top legislative priority for Griswold this year.

“ e Secretary of State’s o ce does not write legislation but instead works with Colorado’s County Clerks to recommend policies that are needed to administer elections that are free, fair and secure,” Annie Orlo , a Griswold spokeswoman, said in a written statement. “It is disappointing that the Senate president was unwilling to include this already agreed-upon provision that was supported by Colorado’s county clerks and would have protected the state’s dedicated election administrators from performing unnecessary recounts. ese unnecessary recounts are being used by election deniers all over the country as a means to sow doubt and burden election workers to the point they are no longer willing to do these jobs.”

Meanwhile, the provision around how advertising dollars can be spent would prohibit a federal, state or local candidate from being prominently featured — either by name, photograph or likeness — in any advertising by the Colorado Secretary of State’s O ce.

“ is bill is about building condence and trust in our democracy, which includes strengthening transparency standards, preventing con icts of interest and ensuring election administration isn’t perceived as partisan in nature,” Fenberg said in a statement.

Griswold and Williams came under re for appearing together in a TV ad that ran in the months before the 2022 election that was aimed at combating voting conspiracies.

e Secretary of State’s O ce spent more than $1 million on the spot.

e ad was the subject of a campaign nance complaint led by a conservative political nonpro t.

Griswold, in an interview Tuesday with e Colorado Sun outside of a courtroom where she was testifying against a man who allegedly threatened her, called the provision “reckless.”

“Doing voter education, outreach to Coloradans is something that statewide elected o cials do in the course of normal business,” Griswold said. “To propose something so dramatic without stakeholding, when lives are literally being threatened, feels very reckless.”

Griswold’s o ce, which in a statement called the restriction “incomprehensible,” said the provision would also restrict its ability to promote business and licensing programs.

e advertising provision only applies to Griswold’s o ce, but other statewide elected o cials have used their likeness in ads paid for with public dollars. For instance, the ofce of Treasurer Dave Young, also a Democrat, spent thousands of dollars on Facebook ads that featured the treasurer’s photo publicizing its “Great

Colorado Payback” program in the weeks before the November election.

Gov. Jared Polis sent a letter to Colorado taxpayers that accompanied Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights refund checks that were sent out in August and September.

Both Polis and Young, like Griswold, successfully ran for reelection in November.

Fenberg’s bill, which was drafted in partnership with Griswold’s o ce and county clerks, would also make a host of other changes to Colorado’s elections. at includes requiring counties with more than 10,000 voters — more than half of Colorado’s 64 counties — to begin counting ballots at least four days before Election Day in an e ort to ensure results are posted as quickly as possible to prevent election conspiracies from spreading.

e measure also seeks to make candidates’ state nancial disclosures more robust and accessible to the public and expand automatic voter registration to tribal land.

Colorado Sun correspondent Sandra Fish contributed to this report.

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derRidge 6-0, 6-0. Marian Hayes improved her record to 12-0 with a 6-0, 6-0 win over Paige Colmenter.

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Mountain Vista sophomore tennis player Marian Hayes is having a good time this spring, thanks in part to her o -season workouts with her best friend who just happens to be her sister.

Marian, a state semi nalist last spring, is Vista’s No. 2 singles player and is unde-

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Girls soccer

Valor Christian and Heritage continue to play good soccer.

Valor (5-1-1), ranked fourth in the latest state poll, defeated Lakewood 5-1 on April 13 as all the goals in the match were scored in the second half. Addison Whitehouse tallied three goals for Valor.

Valor whipped Bear Creek 10-0 on April 14.

Sixth-ranked Heritage (7-0-0) edged Castle View 1-0 on April 10 with Charley Bell scoring the winning goal. e Eagles’ Kailin Gudewicz got the only goal as Heritage nipped Chateld 1-0 on April 12.

No. 5 Mountain Vista (6-1-0) outlasted Grandview, 2-0, on April 10 with

Golden Eagles.

“I’ve played really well this season so far,” said Marian. “I did really well last year and I think I have improved like just overall and with my mental game.”

Her improvement started before the girls tennis season.

“My sister is the No. 1 singles player and we would go out and hit together a lot and practice serves,” Marian said. “We would go to the

Riley MacDonald and Keira Woody scoring for the Golden Eagles, Arapahoe (6-2-1) edged Cherokee Trail, 2-1, on April 13 with Karli Holmes and Jordan Stead scoring for the No. 7 Warriors. Bella Lopez assisted on both goals.

Lutheran, ranked fourth in Class 4A, defeated Golden, 4-0, on April 15. Four di erent players scored for the Lions and keeper Bissett Bussey made four saves.

Boys volleyball

Douglas County, ranked fth in the state poll, swept No. 3 Legend 3-0 in a Continental League rst place showdown on April 14.

e win left the Huskies unbeaten in the league with seven wins and a 12-1 overall record. Legend

competiton in practice and she is like my best friend.”

In the 7-0 win against Legend, Marian defeated sophomore Matthea Mathurin 6-1,6-2 while Lauren downed freshman Mia Scaife 6-2, 6-2.

Mountain Vista, ranked sixth in the April 12 CHSAANow.com poll, defeated underRidge 6-0, in another match on April 13. Lauren Hayes defeated Kelsey Wheeler of un-

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dropped to 5-1 and 16-3.

Second-ranked Valor Christian (14-2) outscored Mountain Vista 15-9 in the deciding fth set to pull out a 3-2 win on April 14. Gabe Repplinger had 21 kills for Valor in the match while Tucker Shearn contributed 46 assists.

Boys swimming

Cherry Creek (6-1), ranked second in the PrepSwimCo.com poll, defeated Fossil Ridge 399-190 in an April 15 dual meet. Creek’s Zachary Reese won the 100 backstroke in :52.82 and the 200 IM in 1:58.33.

Sixth-ranked Highlands Ranch (3-1) downed No. 7 Heritage 227-128 in a dual meet on April 11.

Sota Kawahata of Highlands Ranch won two events. He was rst in the 100 freestyle in :49.15 and

“It is great having the Hayes girls at the top of the line up,” said Vista coach James Flanigan. “We are very fortunate to have them. ey are great kids and tennis players.”

Flanigan believes his team is one of the top six in the state this season along with defending state champion Cherry Creek, Fairview, Ralston Valley, Valor Christian and Fossil Ridge.

A new four-round, dual-

won the 200 freestyle in 1:46.07.

Heritage was second and Ponderosa fourth in the April 15 Smoky Hill Invitational. Littleton’s Connor Wherry won the diving with 436.70 points and Heritage’sJacob Maestas was rst in the 100 backstroke in :52.35.

Boys lacrosse

Top-ranked Cherry Creek (10-0) got past Denver East 17-10 on April 14 while Magnus Langtry scored six goals and had four assists to pace No. 2 Legend (8-0) to a 17-6 victory over Rock Canyon on April 11.

ird-ranked Valor Christian (9-1) defeated No. 10 Castle View 17-3 on April 13. Rush LaSelle had four goals and ve points for Valor while Baden Brown nished with seven points

style bracket will be introduced in girls tennis to determine this season’s state team champion. Individual state champs will be decided May 11-13 at Denver’s City Park. Finals in the team competition will be May 16 at City Park.

“I love the new format,” said Flanigan. “It mirrors what the NCAA does and makes it more similar to other team sports.

“I think it is great for the teams to compete as teams together and great there is an individual portion as well.”

with two goals and ve assists.

No. 5 Regis Jesuit handed a 10-7 defeat to No. 6 Mountain Vista (7-2) on April 11. No. 7 Arapahoe (35) lost 5-3 to Kent Denver on April 11.

Girls lacrosse

Second-ranked Valor Christian (7-2) went two overtimes before nally beating St. Ignatius College Preparatory 14-13 on April 14. Eliza Osburn had four goals and three assists for Valor.

No. 6 Cherry Creek (82) downed third-ranked underRidge 15-4 on April 14 as Ava Whitt led the way for the Bruins with six goals and an assist. Creek routed Arapahoe 20-2 on April 12.

Ninth-ranked Rock Canyon (8-0) defeated Air Academy 13-10 on April 13.

Lauren Hayes talks with Mountain Vista coach James Flanigan during a break in the April 12 match against Legend.

Mountain Vista’s Marian Hayes is undefeated this season with a 12-0 record and says o -season workouts with her sister Lauren helped her. PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON

Top two players have successful matches

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winning record. A late-season injury left him with broken ribs and then pneumonia, and the physical toll simply wore him out and left him just short of earning a trip to the 2006 state tournament.

e drive that powered him to persevere didn’t stop with his prep wrestling career, and he has often leaned into its lessons. “I use and bene t from the mental toughness that sport requires on a daily basis,” he says. “You know how to dig deep. If I have a hard project or physically demanding task, I go back to my wrestling experience.

“It’s the same attitude when you’re ghting a guy and you’re on your back. Just never give up. You gotta just keep trying until something works. I apply that subconsciously to everything I do.”

His other passion — the outdoors — led him to volunteer for work building trails and helping with other conservation projects. One experience in particular left a lasting impression: a stint shadowing a CPW wildlife technician.

e way he gured it, the job essentially amounted to farming and ranching for the government, a means to spend a career immersed in the work and lifestyle he loved. From that moment, he adopted a single-minded focus: One day, he would land a job with Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

e most direct route might have been to pursue a college degree, but Belveal, though a more than respectable student, didn’t gure he was cut out for that. He noticed that the agency’s job requirements o ered him a loophole — a college degree or relevant work experience.

“I chose what was most natural to

me, which was working, and I went for the relevant experience route,” he says. “And everything I did for those years leading up to getting a full-time job was focused on getting experience that would translate to my hireability with Parks and Wildlife.”

Belveal volunteered almost daily with CPW for years, intent on impressing the agency with his work ethic. He started down a professional path by taking a job with El Paso County Parks. Still, he felt he also needed to establish some trade skills to bolster his résumé. When his dad opened his own steel fabrication shop, Belveal worked for him full time from 2009-12 to get his certi cation as a structural steel welder.

He melded that experience with his continued CPW volunteer work. After six or seven tries — and rejections, at a time when an open CPW position drew hundreds of applicants — he gures his perseverance eventually just overwhelmed the agency.

“I got to know the HR gals and you know, they were rooting for me because I tried so many times it was kind of embarrassing,” Belveal says. “But every time I applied I learned something and would come back, you know, a little better the next time.”

In 2012, he nally got full time CPW work as a resource technician at Lake Pueblo State Park. Five years later, he landed his dream job, transferring to the Eastern Plains to live and work as a wildlife technician on a state-owned property just east of Flagler.

e bear trap project has cemented his credentials.

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

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FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0050-2023

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On February 3, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Alice M Sullivan

Original Beneficiary(ies)

U.S. Bank National Association

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Date of Deed of Trust

December 27, 2013

County of Recording

Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust

February 10, 2014

Recording Information

(Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)

D4010923 Book: N/A Page:

Original Principal Amount

$100,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$77,372.49

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 1, BLOCK 7, VISTA VERDE ESTATES FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as:

7000 S Penrose Ct, Centennial, CO 80122.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/07/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 4/13/2023

Last Publication: 5/11/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER

DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES EN-

TITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 02/03/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Alexis R. Abercrombie #56722

David W Drake #43315

Scott D. Toebben #19011

Randall S. Miller & Associates PC 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710

Attorney File # 23CO00003-1

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

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FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0048-2023

On February 3, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

LLC

QUICKEN LOANS, LLC

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 140, HIGHLAND VIEW, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as:

2607 E NICHOLS CIR, CENTENNIAL, CO 80122-3425.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/07/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 4/13/2023

Last Publication: 5/11/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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;

DATE: 02/03/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Anna Johnston #51978

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557

Randall M.

B1122784 Original Principal Amount $104,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $129,472.64

have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

No.) B4000523

Principal Amount $136,000.00

Principal Balance $127,244.17

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, TO WIT: LOT 20, APPLE ORCHARD MANORS.

Also known by street and number as: 6638 South Arapahoe Dr, Littleton, CO 80120.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/31/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 4/6/2023

Last Publication: 5/4/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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;

DATE: 01/27/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423 Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-23-951091-LL

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

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Legal Notice NO. 0035-2023

First Publication: 4/6/2023

Last Publication: 5/4/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0058-2023

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On February 10, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) STEPHANIE GARCIA Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR CAPITOL COMMERCE MORTGAGE CO., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION , as Trustee for the benefit of the Freddie Mac Seasoned Credit Risk Transfer Trust,

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOTS 37 AND 38, BLOCK 93, SHERIDAN HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 2087 WEST ADRIATIC PLACE, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80110

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/14/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication4/20/2023

Last Publication5/18/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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;

DATE: 02/10/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Alison L Berry #34531

N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9 800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 18-017897

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. 0058-2023

First Publication: 4/20/2023

Last Publication: 5/18/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0038-2023

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On January 27, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Julian Martinez Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR EVERETT FINANCIAL, INC. DBA SUPREME LENDING, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY

Date of Deed of Trust

20, 2021

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION

APN #: 207719108018

Also known by street and number as: 4381 W Ponds Cir, Littleton, CO 80123.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/31/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 4/6/2023

Last Publication: 5/4/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent 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;

DATE: 01/27/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) repre

Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861

David R. Doughty #40042

Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592

Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990

Attorney File # 23-029154

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Description 0038-2023 Lot 6, Block 11, Columbine Lakes Townhouses, Phase 1, as shown on the Townhouse Plat

Recorded August 28, 1975, at Reception No. 1504138, and in Townhouse Covenants Recorded September 25, 1975 in Book 2376 at Page 523 and Columbine Lakes Recreation and Maintenance Association Covenants recorded September 25, 1975 in Book 2376 at Page 542, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Legal Notice NO. 0038-2023

First Publication: 4/6/2023

Last Publication: 5/4/2023 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0030-2023

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On January 24, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Cheryl L Humphrey and Monte E Humphrey Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Pacific Republic Mortgage Corporation, a California Corporation

Holder of Evidence of Debt PennyMac Loan Services, LLC Date of Deed of Trust

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust

have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOTS 23 AND 24, BLOCK 28, SOUTH BROADWAY HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 4298 South Grant Street, Englewood, CO 80113.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: C.R.S.§ 38-35-109(5) LEGAL DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN CORRECTED BY SCRIVENER'S AFFIDAVIT RECORDED 4/13/2012 AT RECEPTION NO. D2040501 IN THE RECORDS OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY.

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/24/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the 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 issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 3/30/2023

Last Publication: 4/27/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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;

DATE: 01/24/2023

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Alexis R. Abercrombie #56722

David W Drake #43315

Scott D. Toebben #19011

Randall S. Miller & Associates PC 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710

Attorney File # 17CO00183-5

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

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Legal Notice NO. 0030-2023

First Publication: 3/30/2023

Last Publication: 4/27/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent City and County

Public Notice CITY OF SHERIDAN

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On the 10 day of April, 2023, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. 3 SERIES OF 2023

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO, AMENDING TASTING SECTION 10-55, ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE TASTINGS

Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.

Legal Notice No. 301844

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On the 17th of April 2023, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance: BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 24 SERIES OF 2023

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 1, CHAPTER 5, SECTION 1, OF ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE, RELATING TO REDISTRICTING OF CITY COUNCIL DISTRICTS WITHIN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO.

Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov,

(Council Bill No. 20)

Copies of the aforesaid council bill are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood,

PROPOSAL: A petition for inclusion into the Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Public Improvement District has been filed with the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, acting as the ex officio Board of Directors of the Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Public Improvement District.

Petition Information: Name(s) of Petitioner(s): Mountain Plains Investment Corporation

Description of Property: Vermilion Creek – a portion of the NE1/4 & N1/2, SE1/4 of Sec.32 and NW1/4 & N1/2, SW1/4 of SEC.33, T5S, R66W, of the 6th PM, City of Centennial, County of Arapahoe

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on April 25, 2023 at 9:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the calendar of the Board of County Commissioners permits, the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, Colorado, acting as the ex officio Board of Directors of the Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Public Improvement District, will hold a public hearing at which all interested persons and citizens will be given the opportunity to be heard concerning the Petition for the above-described inclusion into the Public Improvement District in accordance with the provisions of Section 30-20-520, Colorado Revised Statutes. All persons having objections to this Petition may appear at this public hearing and show cause why the Petition should not be granted. The hearing will be held in the East Hearing Room, Arapahoe County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado.

The Petitioners are the owners of property proposed to be included into the Arapahoe County Water and Wastewater Public Improvement District. Additional information about the Petition is available in the Office of the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado.

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board

Legal Notice No. Arap 1176

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTIFICATION OF LEVEL OF DETERMINATION CASE NO. AA23-004, RANGEVIEW METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

PROPOSAL: Rangeview Metropolitan District proposes to drill two additional water wells on the Lowry Range in Unincorporated Arapahoe County to access Rangeview Metropolitan District’s groundwater rights in the Denver Basin. The project’s intention is to source water that will be used for potable consumption and Rangeview’s mission is to source and deliver clean water to their customers. The proposed wells are to be drilled on an existing 200 by 300-foot easement that Rangeview acquired on Colorado State Land Board property in 2014. The location of these two wells is proposed directly south of Quincy Avenue and approximately one mile west of Watkins Road. Access to the existing easement is established through the main entrance to the Lowry Range.

Per Arapahoe County’s Regulations Governing Areas and Activities of State Interest in Arapahoe County (1041 Regulations), a Determination of the Level of Review based on the impact of the proposed project is required. The County has conducted a review and evaluation of the proposed project based on the Level of Determination criteria stated in the 1041 Regulations and a determination has been made that it qualifies for a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI).

More information about this proposal is available at the offices of the Arapahoe County Public Works and Development Department, Planning Division, 6924 S Lima St., Centennial CO 80112 (please call ahead to schedule an appointment if you plan to walk-in), by calling 720-874-6650, or by emailing planning@arapahoegov.com during regular business hours (8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday).

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board

Legal Notice No. Arap 1183

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, April 18, 2023,

inspection in the office of the City Clerk and is also available on the City’s web site, www.centennialcolorado.com. The ordinance may be obtained by contacting the City Clerk, 303-754-3324.

(First published March 23, 2023)

By:Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531370-60370

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

SHERIDAN REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Sheridan Redevelopment Agency will hold a Public Hearing at its Meeting on April 24, 2023 immediately following the City Council meeting scheduled for 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, Sheridan City Hall, 4101 South Federal Blvd. to consider an amendment to the 2022 Budget.

Interested parties may express opinions in person at the Public Hearing or in writing to be received by the City Clerk by 4:30 p.m. on April 24, 2023.

Jenna DiRubbo, Secretary Sheridan Redevelopment Agency

Legal Notice No. 301846

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PROPOSED BUDGET AMENDMENTS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 9:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the calendar of the Board of County Commissioners permits, in the East Hearing Room of the County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County will meet to consider the following proposed budget resolutions:

RESOLUTION:

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners adopted the 2022 Annual Budget pursuant to Statute; and

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners will consider the following budget amendment to the 2022 Annual Budget; and

WHEREAS, this matter has been published pursuant to Section 29-1-109, C.R.S., as required by law.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County to amend the adopted 2022 Annual Budget as follows:

Transfer $850,000 from the unappropriated balance of the General Fund, Administrative Services Department and recognize the same amount in the Self-Insurance Liability Fund, County Attorney’s Office to cover insurance claims that have been incurred but not yet reported (IBNR).

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Budget Officer shall file a certified copy of this Resolution with the Division of Local Government and with the affected spending agencies.

Legal Notice No. Arap 1186

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The regular meeting of the Board of Adjustment and Appeals is scheduled for May 10, 2023 at 7:00 p.m., the meeting will be held virtually.

Case # VAR2023-005.: Dokken Built LLC. The applicant is requesting a variance to encroach approximately seven (7) feet, eight (8) inches horizontally into the required bulk plane to convert an existing structure into a residence in the R-1-A zone district. This is a variance to Section 16-6-1.G. Bulk Plane Requirements, of the Englewood Municipal Code.

PREMISES: 2820 S. Lafayette Street

Copies of the application are on file in the Community Development Department and may be reviewed upon request. Anyone interested in this matter may be heard at the Public Hearing by calling 303.762.2342 or emailing commdev@ englewoodco.gov 24 hours prior to the public hearing for directions providing public comment virtually or in person.

By Order of the City Board of Adjustment and Appeals

/s/ Shelly Worek Shelly Worek Recording Secretary

Legal Notice No. 301845

First Publication: April 20, 2023 Last Publication: April

and comments regarding the County’s 2023 Annual Action Plan, which describes how the County and the City of Centennial plan to utilize 2023 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) funds.

The BOCC study session will be held in person on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at 3:15 pm, or shortly thereafter, in the West Hearing Room at the County Administration Building, located at 5334 S Prince Street, Littleton, CO, 80120. Interested parties can view and access the public study session through our website: https://www. arapahoegov.com/1617/Public-Meetings-LiveStreaming or https://arapahoe.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx. To comment virtually during the public comment period, interested parties may call 855-436-3656 and, when prompted to, press *3 to be entered into the speaking queue.

Interested parties are also encouraged to review the 2023 Annual Action Plan Draft and submit comments during the minimum 30 day public comment period, beginning Monday, May 8, 2023 and ending Sunday, June 11, 2023.

The 2023 Annual Action Plan Draft will be available for review online, starting Monday, May 8, 2023 at http://arapahoegov.com/index.aspx?NID=334.

The plan will also be available by request made to Jeremy Fink at jfink@arapahoegov.com or (303) 738-8062 or by TDD (303) 738-8033, or at Arapahoe County Housing and Community Development Services located at 1690 W. Littleton Blvd., Suite 300, Littleton, CO 80120.

The County will consider any comments (written or verbal) received during the public comment period when preparing and submitting the 2023 Annual Action Plan. As such, a summary of the comments will be incorporated into the final document.

If you need special accommodations or translation services to attend a public meeting or submit comments, or if you would like to request related documents in a language other than English, please contact Jeremy Fink (contact information is listed above) at least 48 hours prior to the start of the meeting to ensure we can accommodate your request.

Legal Notice No. Arap 1185

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE

On the 17th of April 2023, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill: BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 21 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER NUNNENKAMP

A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING SHORT TERM RENTALS

Copies of the aforesaid council bill are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 301841

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Bids and Settlements

Public Notice INVITATION TO BID

RECEIPT OF BIDS: Sealed bids for construction of the 2023 WATERLINE IMPROVEMENTS

- SOUTH HOLLY STREET, SOUTH ADAMS STREET, AND EAST IRISH PLACE will be received by the WILLOWS WATER DISTRICT, 6930 SOUTH HOLLY CIRCLE, CENTENNIAL, CO 80112, until 4:30 PM (LOCAL TIME) ON MAY 18, 2023. There will NOT be a public bid opening. OBTAINING CONTRACT DOCUMENTS: Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be obtained electronically in .PDF format from the ENGINEER via email. Email the ENGINEER to request a copy of the bidding documents.

PRE-BID CONFERENCE: A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting will be held at the Willows Water District office at 6930 South Holly Circle, Centennial CO 80112 on May 3, 2023 at 1:30 pm (local time) to discuss the project. A site visit will follow the meeting. Interested bidders are strongly encouraged to attend. Representatives of the OWNER and the ENGINEER will be present to discuss the project.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK: Project includes replacement of approximately 900 lineal feet of 4-inch, 8-inch and 12-inch waterline with PVC waterline, including crossing of a creek, replacement of eight service lines, gate valves, ductile iron fittings, and all related sitework, stream water control, erosion and sedimentation control, traffic control, and street restoration. The work also includes the abandonment and grout-filling of approximately 60 lineal feet of existing 12-inch asbestos-cement (AC) waterline, and removal and disposal of approximately 390 lineal feet of 8-inch and 12-inch AC pipe.

BID SECURITY: Each proposal must be submitted on the prescribed form and accompanied by Bid Security in the form of a certified cashier's check or a corporate bid bond executed on the prescribed form, payable to Willows Water District in the amount of five percent (5%) of the amount bid. The Successful BIDDER will be required to furnish

Performance and Payment Bonds, each in the amount not less than 100% of the contract price.

ADDRESS AND MARKING OF BID: The envelope enclosing the bid shall be sealed and addressed to Willows Water District and delivered or mailed to 6930 South Holly Circle, Centennial, CO 80112. The envelope shall be plainly marked in the upper left-hand corner with the name and address of the bidder and shall bear the words "Bid for," followed by the Project title per the Contract Documents and the date and hour of opening of bids. Refer to Section 00 21 13 - “Instructions to Bidders” for additional submittal requirements.

PROJECT ADMINISTRATION: All questions relative to this project prior to the opening of bids shall be directed to the ENGINEER for the project, and all questions shall be written and transmitted via email.

OWNER Willows Water District 6930 South Holly Circle Centennial, CO 80112

Telephone: (303) 770-8625

Contact: Randy Mitchell

ENGINEER Forsgren Associates, Inc. 56 Inverness Drive East, Suite 112 Englewood, CO 80112

Telephone: (720) 214-5884

Contact: Mike Waresak, P.E. Email: mwaresak@forsgren.com

OWNER’S RIGHTS RESERVED: The OWNER reserves the right to waive any informalities or to reject any or all bids, if in the best interest of the OWNER.

Legal Notice No. 301843

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT 2022 MILL AND OVERLAY

On or about April 30, 2023 the City of Englewood will make a final settlement to: Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. 1627 Cole Blvd, Suite 200 Lakewood, CO 80401

For the construction of: 2022 Mill and Overlay

Notice is hereby given that after 5:00 p.m. local time on April 30, 2023 final settlement to Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. Contractor, will be made by the City of Englewood, Colorado for and on account of the contract for the construction of the above-referenced project.

Any person, co-partnership, an association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by the contractor identified above or any subcontractor thereof in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that has supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractor or subcontractor, may in accord with section 38-26-107 (1) C.R.S., file with the Director of Finance, City of Englewood, Colorado, a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim, which statement must be filed on or before September 23, 2022.

Claims must be submitted to Jackie Loh, Director of Finance, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110-2373, (303) 762-2416.

Failure on the part of a claimant to file such statement prior to the final settlement date and time will relieve the City of Englewood from all and any liability of such claim as provided by law.

Jackie Loh, Director of Finance City of Englewood, Colorado

Legal Notice No. 301837

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Second Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: ENGLEWOOD HERALD

Public Notice

Bid Bridge House seeks general contractors to provide sealed bids for the remodel and conversion of an existing 13,000 sf building at 4675 South Windemere in Englewood CO. The scope of work includes the demolition of existing interior partitioning and select exterior portions and rebuilding to accommodate a new residential facility and associated support programs. The project scope also includes site improvements. Interested parties please email Will Thibodeau at will@boulderbridgehouse.org. Sealed bids will be due May 26, 2023.

Legal Notice No. 301840

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to § 38-26107, C.R.S., that on May 2, 2023 final settlement with Insituform Technologies, Inc. will be made by South Englewood Sanitation District No. 1 for the “2021 Capital Improvement Program Project” subject to satisfactory final inspection and acceptance of said facilities by the District. Any individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other legal entity that has furnished labor, materials, sustenance, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or its subcontractor, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that has supplied laborers, rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work, and whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractor or subcontractor, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work

contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim with South Englewood Sanitation District No. 1, c/o, Darryl Farrington, Semple, Farrington, Everall &Case, PC, 1120 Lincoln Street #1308, Denver, CO 80203, on or before the date hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to final settlement will release the District, its Board of Directors, officers, employees and agents of and from any and all liability for such claim.

s/s South Englewood Sanitation District

Legal Notice No. 301833

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

BID PACKAGE #04

LEGACY MECHANICAL, INC. GC SERVICES

Notice is hereby given that Littleton Public Schools in the county of Arapahoe will on May 2, 2023 pay retainage and make final settlement with Legacy Mechanical, Inc. for BID PACKAGE #04 GC Services at Highland Elementary School. Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, material, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by the contractor identified above or any subcontractor thereof in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that has supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefore has not been paid, by the contractor or subcontractor, must file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim, which statement must be filed on or before April 24, 2023. Claims must be submitted to Board of Education to Littleton Public Schools at the school district’s Property Management Department, 5776 S. Crocker Street, Littleton, CO. 80120 on or before April 24, 2023. Final Settlement will be made and verified claims must be timely filed with Littleton Public Schools. Failure on the part of the claimant to file such statement prior to or on the established date will relieve the School District from any and all liability for such claim,

Dated: March 30, 2023.

Legal Notice No. 531250

First Publication: March 30, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Not consecutive publications

Summons and Sheriff Sale

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Case Number: 2022CV031889

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE

Plaintiff: Murphy Creek Master Association, Inc. v. Defendants: Henry Gwagee, Gormah Kolleh, Stearns Lending, LLC, and Sue Sandstrom, as Arapahoe County’s Public Trustee

Lot 8, Block 16, Murphy Creek – Filing No. 4, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

Also known as: 24789 E. Florida Avenue, Aurora, CO 80018

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS or JUDGMENT DEBTORS, please take notice:

You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Sheriff's Office of County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado at 10:00 am, on the 15th day of June, 2023 at the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office Civil Unit located at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO, 80112, phone number (720) 874-3845, at which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.

**BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT TIME OF SALE. ** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY.

Judgment is in the amount of $9,411.64.

Attorney for Murphy Creek Master

Association WesternLaw Group, LLC

Gabriel Stefu, #34616 9351 Grant Street, Suite 120 Thornton, CO 80229 gstefu@westernlawgroup.com

DATED in Colorado this 15th day of March, 2023.

Tyler S. Brown Sheriff of Arapahoe County, Colorado

By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 531273

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225, Englewood, Colorado, 80110

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, CO 80112

Plaintiff: PARK AVENUE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. vs. Defendant(s): LESLIE J. FORSYTH; BELLCO CREDIT UNION; ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE

Attorneys for Plaintiff: Orten Cavanagh Holmes & Hunt, LLC Hal R. Kyles, #23891 1445 Market Street, Suite 350 Denver, CO 80202

Phone Number: (720) 221-9780

Matter ID #2189.0024

Case No.: 2023CV030026 Division: 14

SUMMONS [BY PUBLICATION]

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS:

You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response.

You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this Summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.

This is an action of foreclosure pursuant to Rule 105, C.R.C.P. to the real property situate in Aurora, Colorado more particularly described as Lot 98, Block 1, Castle Creek Subdivision Filing No. 2, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Dated: April 3, 2023.

ORTEN CAVANAGH HOLMES & HUNT, LLC

By: /s/Hal R. Kyles Hal R. Kyles, #23891

This Summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(g), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure.

Legal Notice No. 531328

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: May 11, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Case Number: 2022CV031414 Division: 204

Plaintiff: HUNTER’S RUN CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado non-profit corporation

vs.

Defendants: MICHAEL ANGEL ANAYA CHAVEZ; ANGEL ANAYA DURAN; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., individually and solely as nominee for, THOMPSON KANE & COMPANY, LLC.; and SUE SANDSTROM as the ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE

This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to the Arapahoe County District Court’s Order for Default Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure dated January 19, 2023, and C.R.S. §38-38-101 et seq., by Hunter’s Run Condominium Association, Inc. a Colorado non-profit corporation, (“Association”), the current holder of a statutory lien. The judicial foreclosure is based on a default under the Hunter’s Run Condominium Association, Inc. a Colorado non-profit corporation Condominium Declaration recorded on July 3, 1984, at Reception number 2426225 (“Declaration”). The Declaration, as recorded, establishes a lien for the benefit of Hunter’s Run Condominium Association, Inc., a Colorado non-profit corporation WHICH LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS legally described as follows:

CONDOMINIUM UNIT 101, CONDOMINIUM BUILDING H, HUNTER’S RUN CONDOMINIUMS PHASE VI, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON MARCH 20, 1996 IN BOOK 127 AT PAGE 29 IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR HUNTERS RUN CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED ON JULY 5, 1984 IN BOOK 4201 AT PAGE 472, AND ANNEXATION RECORDED MARCH 20, 1996 UNDER RECEPTION NO. A6033386. COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 2575 South Syracuse Way, Unit H-101, Denver, CO 80231.

The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10:00 A.M., on the 8th day of June, 2023, at the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office, located at 13101 East Broncos Parkway Centennial, CO 80112, telephone number 720-874-3845. At the sale, the Sheriff will sell the above described real property and improvements thereon to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in or to said real property in connection with this sale.

**BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT THE TIME OF SALE.** The name, address, and telephone number of the attorney representing the Plaintiff is: Kathryn Willard, #50236, Vial Fotheringham, LLP, 12600 W. Colfax Ave., C200, Lakewood, CO 80215; telephone: 720-943-8811.

Date: March 7, 2023

Plaintiff: STEPPING STONES AT COPPER RIDGE HOMEOWNERS ASSOC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation

v. Defendants: GLEN COX; COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY; ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE

Attorneys for Plaintiff: Orten Cavanagh Holmes & Hunt, LLC Hal R. Kyles, #23891 1445 Market Street, Suite 350 Denver, CO 80202 Phone Number: (720) 221-9780 Matter ID #2034.0051

SUMMONS [BY PUBLICATION]

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS:

You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this Summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.

This is an action of foreclosure pursuant to Rule 105, C.R.C.P. to the real property situate in Aurora, Colorado more particularly described as Lot 3, Block 18, Copper Ridge Subdivision Filing No. 1, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Dated: April 11, 2023.

ORTEN CAVANAGH HOLMES & HUNT, LLC

By:/s/Hal R. Kyles

Hal R. Kyles, #23891

This Summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(g), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure.

Legal Notice No. 531351

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Misc. Private Legals

Public Notice

TO: ARIELLE M. LINDSEY: You are notified that you have 10 days after publication for this notice of levy to file your claim of exemption with the District Court of Arapahoe County, 7325 South Potomac St., Centennial, CO 80112 in Case 2021CV031847 entitled: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. v. ARIELLE M. LINDSEY $5,163.89 garnished at Bellco Credit Union, 7600 E. Orchard Rd., Ste 400, Greenwood Village, CO 80111.

Legal Notice No. 531346

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 18, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Water Court

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO MARCH 2023 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION

TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications, and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of MARCH 2023 for each County affected.

2023CW3027 (15CW3176) ARAPAHOE LAKE NO. ONE ASSOCIATION, c/o Janelle Mauch, Westwind Management Group, Inc., 27 Inverness Drive East, Englewood, CO 80112, Telephone: (303) 369-1800. PLEASE DIRECT ALL PLEADINGS AND CORRESPONDENCE

TO: Bernard F. Gehris, Esq. and Peter D. Jaacks, Esq., Burns, Figa & Will, PC; 6400 S. Fiddler’s Green Circle, #1000, Greenwood Village, CO 80111; (303) 796-2626; bgehris@ bfwlaw.com; pjaacks@bfwlaw.com. APPLICATION FOR DILIGENCE OF CONDITIONAL WATER RIGHTS IN ADAMS, ARAPAHOE, DOUGLAS, JEFFERSON, WELD AND DENVER COUNTIES. II. Applicant requests entry of a finding for reasonable diligence for the remaining conditional portion of the water rights originally decreed on Sept. 30, 2016 in Case No. 15CW3176, and made partially absolute in Case

6th P.M. The center of the dam is located approximately 1,420 feet from the north section line and 1,890 feet from the east section line. Arapahoe Lake is a reservoir situated upon, and in the bed of, Goldsmith Gulch. d.

Source: Goldsmith Gulch, which is a tributary of Cherry Creek, which is a tributary of the South Platte River. e. Amount: 12.6 c.f.s. inflow and 24.9 acre-feet storage, absolute, with the right to refill (all absolute). f. Date of Appropriation: April 30, 2013. g. Uses: Recreation, piscatorial and wildlife habitat (all absolute). All recreational uses are within the high water line of Arapahoe Lake. h. Size of Reservoir: 24.9 acre-feet, with 23.6 acre-feet of active and 1.3 acre-feet of dead storage. i. Surface Area: 3.6 acres. j. Maximum Height of Dam: 21 feet. k. Length of Dam: 240 feet. 2. Description of Plan for Augmentation with Exchange: a. Structure being Augmented: Arapahoe Lake, as described above. b. Statement of Plan for Augmentation: The plan accounts for out-of-priority depletions from lake evaporation and replaces the depletions with water leased from Denver Water. Deliveries are made and measured at the outfall of the replacement release facility and/or accounted for pursuant to Denver Water’s relevant decrees. c.

Source of Augmentation Water: Water leased from Denver Water pursuant to Contract No. 16113A dated December 17, 2015 (the “Contract”), for up to 11 acre-feet per year. d. Locations Where Replacement Supplies are Introduced: Replacement supplies identified in the Contract are delivered to or made available for augmentation and replacement in the South Platte River system above the location where the then-calling water right is being administered, including but not limited to the following locations: i. Denver Water’s South Reservoir Complex the outlet works for which delivers water to the South Platte River in Adams County, Section 1, Township 3 South, Range 68 West, 6th P.M. ii. Metropolitan Denver Wastewater Reclamation Plant which discharges water to the South Platte River in Adams County in Section 1, Township 3 South, Range 68 West, 6th P.M. iii. Calculated LIRFs from the Goldsmith Gulch Sub-basin or the Cherry Creek Sub-basin pursuant to Paragraph 27.3, and/or LIRFs quantified above the Burlington Administration Point identified in paragraph 23.2.1 of the Decree in Case No. 04CW121. The calculated LIRFs for the Goldsmith Gulch Sub-basin may be used to directly augment depletions within the same Sub-basin.

iv. Littleton/Englewood Wastewater Treatment Plant which discharges water to the South Platte River in Arapahoe County in Section 33, Township 4 South, Range 68 West, 6th P.M. v. The confluence of the South Platte River and Bear Creek.

vi. Chatfield Reservoir, the outlet works of which are located in the NE Corner of Section 1, Township 6 South, Range 69 West, 6th P.M. in Jefferson and Arapahoe Counties. vii. Future Outfall of Wastewater Treatment Plants: The outfall of any existing or future wastewater treatment plants that treat Denver’s reusable water supplies and discharge upstream of Denver Water’s South Reservoir Complex. 3. Description of Appropriative Right of Exchange: a. Name of Exchange:

Arapahoe Lake Augmentation Exchange. b. Operation of the Augmentation Exchange: This exchange is pursuant to Sections 37-80-120 and 37-92-302(1)(a), C.R.S. The exchange operates within all or part of the following reach: from the Denver Water Board’s points of replacement at or upstream of Denver Water’s South Reservoir Complex outlet works located in Section 1, Township 3 South, Range 68 West, 6th P.M.; thence up the South Platte River to the confluence of Cherry Creek in the NE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 33, Township 3 South, Range 68 West, 6th P.M.; thence up Cherry Creek to the confluence of Goldsmith Gulch in the SW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 20, Township 4 South, Range 67 West, 6th P.M.; thence up Goldsmith Gulch to the point of depletion at Arapahoe Lake in the SW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 22, Township 5 South, Range 67 West, 6th P.M. c. Exchange

From Locations: i. Denver Water’s South Reservoir Complex, the outlet works for which delivers water to the South Platte River in Adams County, Section 1, Township 3 South, Range 68 West, 6th P.M. ii. Above the Burlington Ditch headgate, which is located on the east bank of the South Platte River, in the NE1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 14, Township 3 South, Range 68 West, 6th P.M., in City and County of Denver, Colorado, 2456.2 feet east of the west line of the southwest quarter and 2347.7 feet north of the south line of said southwest quarter of Section 14. The headgate is located approximately at latitude 039°47’24.69”N, longitude 104°58’9.97”W. The UTM coordinates are approximately NAD 1983 UTM Zone 13S 502616.89 mE 4404471.42 mN. iii. Metropolitan Denver Wastewater Reclamation Plant which discharges water to the South Platte River in Adams County in Section 1, Township 3 South, Range 68 West, 6th P.M. iv. The confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River. v. Cherry Creek, at the intersection of the downstream Cherry Creek Sub-basin boundary with Cherry Creek, at approximately Logan Street. d. Exchange To Location: Arapahoe Lake. e. Affected Exchange

Reaches: South Platte River, Cherry Creek and Goldsmith Gulch. The exchange will operate within all or part of the following reach: from Denver Water’s points of replacement at or upstream of Denver Water’s South Reservoir Complex outlet works located in Section 1, Township 3 South, Range 68 West, 6th P.M., up the South Platte River to the confluence of Cherry Creek in the NE1/4 NW1/4 of Section 33, Township 3 South, Range 68 West, 6th P.M.; thence up Cherry Creek to the confluence of Goldsmith Gulch in the SW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 20, Township 4 South, Range 67 West, 6th P.M.; thence up Goldsmith Gulch to the point of depletion in the SW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 22, Township 5 South, Range 67 West, 6th P.M.

NOTE: Water released from any points that are located on the South Platte River above its confluence with Cherry Creek must be delivered to the confluence with Cherry Creek where it can then be exchanged up Cherry Creek and Goldsmith Gulch to Arapahoe Lake. f. Purpose of Exchange: This exchange allows delivery of replacement water to replace out-of-priority depletions from upstream storage in Arapahoe Lake, to keep this lake full to the extent feasible pursuant to the plan for augmentation decreed in Case No. 15CW3176, in addition to storage under its own priority. g.

C.R.S. § 37-92-305(5), the substituted water provided by Denver Water for the exchange will be of a quality and quantity to meet the requirements of use for which the water of senior appropriators has normally been used. III. Other. 1.

Metro Agreement: Applicant has agreed with Metro Wastewater Reclamation District (“Metro”) that nothing stated in any decree entered herein shall affect or prejudice any of Metro’s rights and obligations as they existed immediately prior to the entry of the decree, including under the July 29, 1968 Agreement between Denver Water; Metro; the Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation Company (“FRICO”); the Burlington Ditch Reservoir and Land Company (“Burlington”); and Henrylyn Irrigation District (“Henrylyn”). Any reference in the decree entered herein to the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District’s Robert W. Hite Treatment Facility’s outfall or the pump station located at the Robert W. Hite Treatment Facility as a place of replacement or source of exchange shall not prejudice any right of Metro, Applicant, or Denver Water to seek a future determination of the rights and obligations, if any, of Metro, Applicant, or Denver Water regarding the right to move the location of Metro’s outfalls and/or its points of discharge of some or all of the wastewater treated at the Robert W. Hite Treatment Facility. 2. Burlington Bypass: Applicant has not and will not operate the exchange in a manner that increases the bypass obligation set forth in paragraph 44 of the decree entered in Case No. 2002CW403, District Court, Water Division No. 1. Outline of work done during the diligence period toward completion of the appropriation and application of water to a beneficial use as conditionally decreed:

A. In Case No. 18CW3213, Applicant applied for and obtained a decree to make absolute a significant portion of the water rights conditionally decreed in Case No. 15CW3176. B. Since the decree in Case No. 15CW3176 was entered, Applicant has coordinated its storage, exchange and augmentation operations with the Division 1 River Operations/Compact Commissioner, the local Water Commissioner, and Denver Water, with a spreadsheet of monthly operations prepared and sent to each. C. Applicant has continuously retained a water engineering firm and legal counsel to assist in maintaining its conditional water rights, including for the application filed in Case No. 18CW3213 and this diligence application. VI. Name of Owners of the Land upon which any Structure is Located, upon which Water will be Stored, or upon which Water is or will be Placed to Beneficial Use: Applicant - Arapahoe Lake No. One Association. WHEREFORE, Applicants respectfully request a judgment and decree of this Court that the remaining portion of the exchange volume decreed in Case No. 15CW3176 (0.98 acre-feet) continue as conditional.

THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of MAY 2023 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

Legal Notice No. EH100

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Notice to Creditors

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of LUELLA S. EASON, a/k/a LUELLA SPARGO EASON, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30240

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 20, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Richard L. Eason, Personal Representative 2261 E. Dartmouth Place Englewood, CO 80113

Bette Heller, Esq. Attorney to the Personal Representative 19671 E. Euclid Dr., Centennial, CO 80016

Phone Number: 303-690-7092

E-mail: bhelleresq@comcast.net

Atty. Reg. #: 10521

Legal Notice No. 301849

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Bruce Luvern Smith, aka Bruce L. Smith, aka Bruce Smith, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30190

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Brenda Franklin, Personal Representative 23801 Matador Way Murrieta, CA 92562

Legal Notice No. 531327

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JACQUELYN JEAN KASTELIC, aka JACQUELYN J. KASTELIC, aka JACQUELYN KASTELIC, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030282

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County Probate Court on or before August 8, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Dana Smith, Personal Representative

5739 Angel Oak Court Parker, CO 80134

Legal Notice No. 531322

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of JEAN SUZANNE MACEK, a/k/a JEAN S. MACEK, a/k/a JEAN MACEK, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30299

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Hanna M. Warren, Personal Representative 3790 S. Broadway Englewood, Colorado 80113

Legal Notice No. 301831

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Robert Charles Burdick, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30303

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jonathan P. Shultz, Attorney for the Personal Representative 19751 E Mainstreet, Ste 200, Parker, CO 80138

Legal Notice No. 531332

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Richard J. Holicky, a/k/a Richard James Holicky, and Richard Holicky, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30247

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Arapahoe County District Court on or before August 7, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeannie L. Dunham, Personal Representative 2171 S. Dallas Street Denver, CO 80231 Phone: 303-549-4039 jaydee60@comcast.net

Legal Notice No. 531317

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Martha Moore Larson, a/k/a Martha M. Larson, a/k/a Martha Larson, a/k/a Marti Larson, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30337

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado or on or before August 13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Theresa Kuntzsch, Personal Representative 1612 Ensenada Street Aurora, CO 80011

Legal Notice No. 301834

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Renee Louise Bartlett, A/K/A Renee L. Bartlett, A/K/A Renee Bartlett, A/K/A Renee Louise Francis Bartlett, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30388

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lorna Kay Casorso

Personal Representative 4675 West 69th Drive Westminster, CO 80030

Legal Notice No. 301835

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Abdalla Ismail Suleiman, deceased Case Number: 2023PR030062

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 06, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Nageeb Abdalla Suleiman Personal Representative 3801 E. Florida Ave. Ste. 725 Denver, Colorado 80210 Legal Notice No. 301830

First publication: April 06, 2023

Last publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Kathlene Mae Kohler, deceased Case Number: 23PR131

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 06, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mark Andler Kohler

Personal Representative 4351 S. Galapago St. Englewood, Colorado 80110

Legal Notice No. 301819

First publication: April 06, 2023

Last publication: April 20, 2023 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Larry Dietz, a/k/a Larry G. Dietz, a/k/a Larry Gerard Dietz, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30320

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe, County, Colorado on or before August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Thomas Dietz, Personal Representative 1648 Wildlife Drive Red Bud, Illinois 62278

Legal Notice No. 301818

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Robert M. Balas, a/k/a Robert Michael Balas, a/k/a Robert Balas, a/k/a Bob Balas, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30380

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 14, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Patricia J. Ayers, Personal Representative 237 South Downing Street Denver, CO 80209

Legal Notice No. 531335

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Charles Joseph Ciancio, Jr., a/k/a Charles Joseph Ciancio, a/k/a Charles J. Ciancio, Jr., a/k/a Charles J. Ciancio, a/k/a Charles Ciancio, Jr., a/k/a Charles Ciancio, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30341

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Stacey Malone, Personal Representative 447 S County Road 137 Bennett, CO 80102

Legal Notice No. 531315

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Z. JANE CARPENTER, also known as ZELLA JANE CARPENTER, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030373

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jane Elizabeth Carpenter

Collins. CO

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of DIANE M. SNIVELY, a/k/a DIANE MARIE SNIVELY, Deceased

Case Number 23PR30335

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Linda Marie Jackson Baker, Personal Representative c/o Patrick A. Schilken, PC 7936 E. Arapahoe Court, Suite 2800 Centennial, CO 80112

Legal Notice No. 531340

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Kyttie L. Nicholson, a/k/a Kyttie Lee Nicholson, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30429

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado or on or before August 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

James D. Nicholson

Personal Representative 26900 E. Colfax Ave., #159 Aurora, CO 80014

Legal Notice No. 531356

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Janice A. Gabrielse, a/k/a Janice Arlene Gabrielse, a/k/a Janice Gabrielse, a/k/a Janice Arlene Wielard Gabrielse, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30364

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe, County, Colorado or on or before August 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

John M. Gabrielse, Personal Representative c/o Briana Fehringer, Esq., Anderson & Jahde, PC 5800 S. Nevada Street, Littleton, CO 80120

Legal Notice No. 301847

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Stephen David Sowder, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30241

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado or on or before August 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Krystin Ravenscroft

Personal Representative 20032 East Bellewood Lane Centennial, Colorado 80015

Legal Notice No. 531345

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Clydelle F. Coburn, aka Clydelle Coburn, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30379

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Stephen Stubbendick and Sandra Stubbendick, Co-Personal Representatives c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No.

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 14, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael W. Reagor, Attorney for Personal Representative 8400 E Prentice Ave., Suite 1040 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

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Estate of Mary Lou Lowry, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30301

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe, County, Colorado or on or before August 6. 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Susan K. Griebel, Personal Representative 3605 S. Oneida Way Denver, CO 80237

Legal Notice No. 531328

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Wayne Dean Bernhardt, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30294

Estate of Mary B. Walmsley, a/k/a Mary Burchard Walmsley, a/k/a Mary Jane Walmsley, a/k/a Mary J. Walmsley, and Mary Walmsley, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30304

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Carolyn Moller Duncan, Atty. No. 33766 Attorney for Personal Representative Duncan Legal, PC 6436 S. Racine Circle, Suite 227 Centennial, Colorado 80111

Phone No: 303-394-2358

Legal Notice No. 531319

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Hazel Glass Allen, a/k/a Hazel G. Allen, a/k/a Hazel Allen, a/k/a Hazel Glass, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030231

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Carla Lynn Glass Palmer c/o Mollie B. Hawes, Miller and Steiert, P.C. 1901 W. Littleton Bvd. Littleton, CO 80120

Legal Notice No. 531330

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Carol Lee Quaintance, also known as Carol L. Quaintance and/or Carol Quaintance, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR030412

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Tamson Lee Walker, Personal Representative c/o Branaugh Law Offices, P.C. 8700 Ralston Road, Arvada, CO 80002

Legal Notice No. 531354

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Thomas Fredrick Albright, deceased Case Number: 2023PR030369

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kevin Albright Personal Representative 3650 S Yosemite St STE 214 Denver, CO 80237

Legal Notice No.301848

First publication: April 20, 2023

Last publication: May 04, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Noreen Agnes Ruff, aka Noreen A. Ruff, aka Noreen Ruff, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30407

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 21, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of James Joseph Connell, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR030142

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of ARAPAHOE County, Colorado on or before August 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Anne V. Shelton, Personal Representative 18 Pullen Drive Millstone Township, NJ, 08535

Legal Notice No. 531352 First Publication: April 20, 2023

Publication: May 4, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 7, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Laura Ann Pulscher, aka Laura Ann Bernhardt Personal Representative 13515 South Bellaire Street Santa Fe, Texas 77510

Legal Notice No. 531312

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Charles A. Levine, a/k/a Charles Alfred Levine, a/k/a Charles Levine, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30415

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 21, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kyle B. Levine, Personal Representative 1108 Lakeside Avenue South Seattle, WA 98144

Legal Notice No. 531349

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of JACKIE WILLIAM HARMON, a/k/a JACKIE W. HARMON, a/k/a JACKIE HARMON, a/k/a JACK WILLIAM HARMON, a/k/a JACK W. HARMON and JACK HARMON, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30346

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of ARAPAHOE County, Colorado on or before AUGUST 25, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jacquelyn Renee McDonald and Stephanie C, Fierro, Co-Personal Representatives c/o Brian Hedberg, Esq., 7350 E Progress Place, #100 Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111

Legal Notice No. 531355

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Rizwan Tahir, deceased Case Number: 2023PR030102

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Meral Tahir, Personal Representative 3801 E. Florida Ave. Ste. 725 Denver, Colorado 80109

Legal Notice No. 301838

First publication: April 13, 2023

Last publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Kem E. Kistler, a/k/a Kem Edward Kistler, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30387

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the District Court of Arapahoe, County, Colorado on or before August 25, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Vicki Kistler, Personal Representative 11528 E. Highline Place Aurora, CO 80010

Legal Notice No. 531334

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of David E. Godfrey, a/k/a David Emanuel Godfrey, Deceased Case Number 2023PR30308

Polis wants renters, not owners Jared Polis’ SB23-213 is designed to make us all renters forever instead of homeowners who can build wealth and equity by living happily in our beautiful Colorado communities. is bill would impose ”a ordable housing” that is, apartment buildings, on town and cities, overriding their local control with dictatorial statewide mandates (coloradocommunitymedia.com/stories/ local-leaders-oppose-gov-polishousing-bill-for-taking-awaylocal-control,428079) But it’s market forces that govern housing prices, and its in ation, and out-of-control homebuilding regulations, and especially the disastrous construction defects law that are making homeownership too costly for so many of our citizens. e legislature should x these problems before trying to change all of our communities into look-alike cities with citi ed apartment housing.

Our Colorado property rights are being trampled on by Colorado legislators bent on turning Colorado into a sea of apartment dwellings usurping authority away from local politicians to support ownership, especially single family ownership.

Single family ownership that is being swamped, being overrun in favor of non-ownership rentals by short-sighted state and local government policies does not solve

the growing “a ordable housing” crisis. is is not left or right, but a right or wrong issue.

Families trying to raise their kids do not want to be forced to live in rental “flats” as they do in Europe. Moms and dads raising families need air to breathe and yards to play or work in. People of all ages want to live in ownership units to preserve wealth building. Single family units are the key to wealth building no matter how much appointed planners or follow the money politicians think otherwise e long solution: Give quality developers the challenge to solve a ordable housing issues o ering ownership instead of renters. Remove the heavy hand of government agendas now calling the shots against developer innovation and creativity. Developers have become a hated group unnecessarily. Good developers can and will solve the a ordable housing crisis ... untie their hands.

e short solution: If defending your property rights is important to you, Join up with a multiple county coalition forming against property right abuses. A Public Outcry Alert was held in Lakewood on April 11th at the Rockley Event Center. e place was packed. Homeowners/taxpayers showed up from these ve surrounding counties; Je erson, Arapahoe, Adams, Douglas, Denver plus towns Lakewood, Parker and Westminster. Add your name to the list held by organizer RameyKJohnson@gmail.com

Evie Zur Parker

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All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 13, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

David Godfrey, Personal Respresentative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

Legal Notice No. 531332

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Name Changes

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 31, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Seyfe Bejiga Bedane be changed to Seyfe Joshua Bejiga

Case No.: 23C100242

By: Judge Laqunya Baker

Legal Notice No. 531347

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 20, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe-Littleton County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Kamara Chanise Hughes be changed to Kamara Chanise Barbarin-Hughes

Case No.: 23C100215

By: Judge Colleen Clark

Legal Notice No. 531331

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 20, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has

Barrere said her experience as a nurse practitioner and a Littleton resident gives her a unique perspective.

“I will bring a diverse voice,” she said. “I have a background in healthcare and working with youth and families… I would bring the voice of Littleton to the board which I think is important as the district kind of shifts its focus from this northwest corner of the district more towards the southeast corner.”

Eller, whose statement was read by Ostermiller, focused on her experience as a South Suburban board member from 2010 to 2018.

“I possess invaluable current and historical knowledge, leadership and relationship with South Suburbans many municipal and other partners,” Ostermiller read. “Those endorsing me consistently mention my work ethic, integrity, availability to residents and my ability to listen, study and seek opinions.”

Watson, who ran for the board last year, is running again because she feels strongly that there could be improvement in communication with the South Suburban community.

“I’m running for the board of directors because I believe in transparency and in district representation,” she said. “One person that has this vision of being inclusive and providing important information to our district can make a

been filed with the Arapahoe-Littleton Court.

The petition requests that the name of Abdujaber Yaya Hassen be changed to ABDULJEBAR HAJI BAME

Case No.: 23 C 100217

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531318

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on February 22, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Stephany Mendez be changed to Stephany Castro-Mendez Case No.: 23C100152

By: Judge Laqunya Baker Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531321

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 22, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Krista Anne Culp be changed to Krista Anne van Zwieten

Case No.: 2023C100214

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531323

First Publication: April 6, 2023

Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on April 11, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Victoria Aracely Chavez-Lopez be changed to Victoria Mae Kealoha

Case No.: 23C100264

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531359

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

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

The petition requests that the name of Gracie Von Caires be changed to Love Allen Case No.: 23C100204

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531313 First Publication: April 6, 2023 Last Publication: April 20, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

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Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 22, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Mary Saidov be changed to Miriam Saidov Khalepari Case No.: 23C100225

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 531316 First Publication: April 6, 2023 Last Publication: April 20, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 17, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Mykyta Prykhodko be changed to Mykyta Botkins Case No.: 23C100213

By: Judge Colleen Clark

Legal Notice No. 531327

difference.”

More information on the candidates running for board can be found on Colorado Community Media’s website in their candidate profiles.

Absentee ballot applications are due by April 25 and votes must be cast, either absentee or in person, by 7 p.m. on May 2.

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 27, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Rachael Danielle Norquoy be changed to Rachael Danielle Cannon Case No.: 23C100231

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531342

First Publication: April 13, 2023 Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on February 27, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Jaden Pierce Marshall be changed to Jaden Sina Kayeni Case No.: 23 C 100168

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531358

First Publication: April 20, 2023

Last Publication: May 4, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 30, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Khristina Marie Strickland be changed to Khristina Marie French Case No.: 23C100240

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531329

First Publication: April 13, 2023

Last Publication: April 27, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Children Services (Adoption/Guardian/Other)

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, CO 80112

In re the interest of: Zyon Willams

Petitioner: JEREMIAH DEAN And Respondent: MYA KIARA WILLIAMS Case Number: 2023DR30220 Division: 35

Attorney for Petitioner: Robert D. Perrone, #56131 Johnson Law Group, LLC 2373 Central Park Boulevard, Suite 300 Denver, CO 80238 Phone: (720) 452-2540 Fax: (720)

Santa traded his sled for skates recently as South Suburban Parks and Rec hosted him for a day of skate and fun at the Family Sports complex in Centennial.

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