Parker Chronicle 31
October 1, 2021
SOCIAL CLUB FROM PAGE 1
And the mission doesn’t end with helping women find connection. The group also preserves a piece of Douglas County history — the 123-year-old Hilltop Schoolhouse, between Parker and Elizabeth. The Hilltop Social Club celebrated 100 years as an organization with an open house at the school in September. The society was founded with five members in March 1921 and has slowly but steadily gained in membership since, reaching 35 people in 2020. “It shows that people really do still need that connection with each other,” member Eileen Enterline said. “Even though we’re getting more populated.” Originally, members came together to share recipes, homemaking advice and tips for living on the farm. In the late 1950s the group began caring for the schoolhouse, which was built in 1898 and is still owned by the Douglas County School District. A district spokesman provided a statement thanking the society for its efforts to maintain and preserve the historic site and congratulting the group on 100 years serving the community. “The building is a monument to the efforts of educators in this part of Colorado from before the alignmeent of the DCSD RE-1 in 1958,” the statement said. The small roadside school is the only surviving public structure from the defunct town, Hill Top. Hill Top began as a lone rail stop in 1881 and grew into a ranching community in the mid-1930s. The schoolhouse served children in Hill Top and Elbert County until 1954. “The whole thing is full of memories,” club member Fran Petrie said. Caring for the schoolhouse is a point of pride for Beatrice ‘Be’ Dent, who joined the club in 1980. She
Susy Cushman, left, and Beatrice Dent, center, visit in the kitchen of the Hilltop Schoolhouse in September at a celebration of the PHOTOS BY JESSICA GIBBS Hilltop Social Club’s century as a group.
wishes more people knew about the building’s significance. “People have driven by time after time and they don’t know what this little place is,” Dent said. “They think it’s a house. In fact, we’ve had people come up and ask if they could rent it.” Dent raised seven children, devoting her life to caring for them and her grandchildren. The social club offered her an activity outside the home. Beyond polishing up the schoolhouse, Dent has served up hamburgers at auctions, sold cookbooks written by the group, held yard sales and raised money for local teachers through the social club’s volunteerism. At 93, Dent aims to support her community with her membership, she said. She has no plans to slow down, saying there is “too much to learn and do.”
“I’m not quitting. Nope,” she said. Susy Cushman, 79, joined the Hilltop Social Club in 1965 at the invitation of “the lady up the road.” That was a simpler time, she said, where people “built on friendships and helped.” Members said she’s a force in the group. She drives an RV full of women to field trips, such as a visit to The Black Forest, and has hauled her tractor up to the schoolhouse to help mow the grounds. Retired from farm life, Cushman said she joined the group for the same reasons it was founded — to find fellowship in what was then a sparsely populated area. Nearby towns like Castle Rock have “changed so much,” she said, reflecting on Douglas County’s rapid population growth. But that might mean more people interested in joining, she said, and more generations to care for the schoolhouse.
Beatrice ‘Be’ Dent is 93 and joined the Hilltop Social Club in 1980.
“I think it’s amazing that we stayed together,” Cushman said.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on October 30, 2021, final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and Paonia, the Douglas County Fiber Mapping And Expansion Project, Douglas County Project Number TF-2018-033 in Douglas County; and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said Paonia, Inc. for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said October 30, 2021 file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Board of County Commissioners, c/o Director of Public Works Engineering, with a copy to the Project Engineer Danny Montoya, Department of Public Works Engineering, Philip S. Miller Building, 100 Third Street, Suite 220, Castle Rock, CO 80104.
The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, By: Janet Herman, P.E., Director of Public Works Engineering. Legal Notice No. 939735 First Publication: September 30, 2021 Last Publication: September 30, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Account Number: 2734
Misc. Private Legals Public Notice NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It May
Concern, and more especially to: SANDRA FARR AKA SANDRA RUTH FARR OCCUPANT - LINCOLN LTD - BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC - SCOTT DAVID KASSING - SANDRA FARR AKA SANDRA RUTH FARR C/O SENIORCARE LLC - SANDRA FARR AKA SANDRA RUTH FARR & GLYNN CATLEDGE AKA GLYNN NEWTON CATLEDGE - CLARKE LIVING TRUST - WALTER F CLARKE & SARA M CLARKE AS TRUSTEES OF THE CLARKE LIVING TRUST - MELANIE DOUGLAS PC - MARTHA BROWN GUARDIAN FOR SANDRA FARR C/O SENIORCARE LLC - DR CHRISTOPHER R THORNTON AS CONSERVATOR FORMERLY MARK ELLIOTT AS CONSERVATOR - GLYNN CATLEDGE AKA GLYNN NEWTON CATLEDGE You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 2nd day of November 2017 the then County Treasurer of the County of Douglas, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13, LLC the following described real estate situate in the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, to wit: LOT 37 BLK 19 PERRY PARK 5 1.128 AM/L and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13, LLC. That said tax lien sale was
made to satisfy the delinquent* taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2016. That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of SANDRA FARR for said year 2016 That on the 16th day of December 2020 said FIG CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CO13, LLC assigned said certificate of purchase to BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC. That said BLUE SPRUCE SERVICING COMPANY LLC on the 23rd day of December 2020 the present holder of said certificate, has made request upon the Treasurer of said County for a deed to said real estate; That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for said real estate to the said at 1:00 o’clock P.M., on the 30th day of December 2021 unless the same has been redeemed. Said property may be redeemed from said sale at any time prior to the actual execution of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my hand this 16th day of September 2021 /s/ David Gill, Douglas County Treasurer Legal Notice No. 939675 First Publication: September 16, 2021 Last Publication: September 30, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press
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