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Council votes to oppose measure to change petition rules

Residents speak out against vote

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

At a regular meeting on Feb. 7, Littleton City Council passed a resolution opposing ballot question 300, which proposes changes to the city charter’s sections about initiatives and referendums.

Business owners discuss issues

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A collection of Littleton leaders took a walk down Main Street on Feb. 10, including city council-

members, local business owners and Rep. Jason Crow.

e walk was part of the congressman’s “Crow on Your Corner” visit to downtown Littleton on Feb. 10, where he met with local business representatives to talk about challenges and hopes for the city.

“Small business stu is near and dear to my heart,” Crow said to a group of business owners at a meet-

ing before the walk. “I was raised in a small business family. I now represent a district where about 85% of the people I represent either own or work for small businesses. So it’s really the lifeblood of our economy. It’s how people support their families and I take that charge extremely, extremely seriously.”

Ballot question 300 will be presented to Littleton voters in a special election on March 7, after a citizen-initiated petition led city council to place the measure on the ballot.

Proponents of the ballot question want to bring the city’s charter in line with aspects of Colorado election law, reducing the signature threshold needed for citizen petitions that aim to add new laws or challenge ordinances. Approval of the measure would also reduce the timeline for when elections based on those petitions must be held. e resolution opposing the measure passed in a 6-1 vote, with District 2 Councilmember Jerry Valdes dissenting.

Resolution

being reviewed

BY NINA JOSS NJOSS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Recently released security camera footage contradicts the Littleton Police Department’s original

press release regarding the fatal shooting of Stephen Poolson Jr.

On Feb. 2 at around 3:22 a.m., the Littleton police released a press release stating an individual “was driving a motorcycle and crashed” before he ran and produced a handgun. An o cer then shot the man, who was later pronounced deceased after being transported to a hospital, according to the

department.

Video footage shows police collide with motorcycle in shooting incident Department says details still

Video footage released by the Littleton Police Department contradicts the claim that the motorcycle driver “crashed.” Instead, it shows a patrol car driving directly into the motorcycle as the driver appeared to be taking o .

“It is always our goal to nd the

Mayor Kyle Schlachter said the goal of the resolution is to send a clear message to citizens that the ballot item did not come from council, even though they voted on Nov. 15 to put it on the ballot. With city residents exceeding the signature threshold of 3,628 on the petition, city council had no choice but to put the measure on the ballot during that vote, city attorney Reid Betzing said.

Local business owners share their thoughts with Rep. Jason Crow.

PHOTO BY NINA JOSS

e event was part of Crow’s annual start-of-the-year e orts to engage with communities in his district. Although Littleton residents have been part of Crow’s constituency for years, recent redistricting added the western part of the city to his district.

Topics of concern

At the meeting, business owners shared topics on their minds, from ideas for helping business owners buy properties to challenges regarding Littleton’s unhoused population.

Some also spoke about the recent closure of Bemis Public Library due to methamphetamine contamination in the bathrooms. ey expressed challenges in knowing whether or not to test their bathrooms, what that testing and remediation would cost and how to prevent drug use in their businesses.

“I think as we were hearing about this, many of us wondered, ‘Oh should we be getting our bathrooms tested?’” Catharina Hughey, owner of DIRT Co ee Bar, said. “But if that happened, there are insurances that don’t cover that renovation, that time for our us to be closed, like that’s scary.”

Crow also spoke with the group about workforce development opportunities, as he said that’s one of the largest issues he tends to hear from business owners.

“I’m a huge believer in apprenticeships,” he said. “I think we need to change the model by which we are educating folks and move more towards an apprenticeship model.”

He explained a program called CareerWise Colorado that businesses can sign up for to start apprenticeship programs for students.

Business development opportunities

Pat Dunahay, co-president of the Littleton Business Chamber, said he wanted more understanding among local business owners about loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration.

In response, Crow said he would work with local small business development centers to organize training and seminars about programs, grants and loan opportunities, as they did for other areas

during the pandemic.

“We did (seminars and forums) virtually during the pandemic, but we can do them in person as well,”

he said. “We’d be happy to put together a seminar or forum through the (Littleton Business Chamber) or the city, whatever you want.”

Littleton in focus

In regards to the homelessness crisis in the metro Denver area, Crow said he sees Littleton and surrounding areas working towards solutions in new ways.

“ e Tri-Cities Homelessness initiative between Sheridan, Englewood and Littleton, I think really can be a model for others to follow,” he said. “Working across jurisdictions to address the problem is what we’ll have to do to x it.”

For Braxton Johnson, assistant vice president at Redstone Bank, the event with Crow was a great way to gain visibility as a small business.

“It was cool to see him come down and take time with the local businesses,” he said. “We struggle as a as a bank, right? Some people don’t like banks, but we’re actu-

ally a small community bank that doesn’t hurt people, so it’s cool for us to get visibility and talk to people.”

Keven Kinaschuk, who started McKinners Pizza in downtown Littleton 18 years ago, said it’s nice to have focus on Littleton as it continues to grow into a more vibrant downtown.

“I’m glad that people are starting to take notice,” he said.

Mayor Kyle Schlachter said having Crow visit was a great way to connect the local community to its representative.

“It’s always great having Representative Crow here to see and talk to people that are living here day to day,” he said. “It’s always nice to let him speak to our residents and have them also share their thoughts and concerns with him because that’s exactly what our type of government is all about -- is communication and listening and doing things for our community members.”

Local business owners talk at a meeting with Rep. Jason Crow on Feb. 10.

Rep. Jason Crow speaks about workforce development.

A group of small business owners, Littleton Business Chamber members and city councilmembers and sta with Rep. Jason Crow at “Crow on your Corner.”

PHOTO BY NINA JOSS

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Suspect accused of stealing catalytic converters

Thefts dramatically increase

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A man suspected of stealing catalytic converters last October in Centennial has been arrested, the Arapahoe County Sheri ’s O ce said in a Feb. 7 news release.  ree catalytic converters were stolen Oct. 7 from Toyota Tacoma trucks at EcoShield Pest Solutions, located at 7275 S. Revere Parkway in Centennial, the sheri ’s o ce said in the release.

After an initial investigation, Arapahoe County Sheri ’s O ce investigators found the stolen parts at a local scrap yard in Denver, but the suspect was still at large, according to the sheri ’s o ce.

On Nov. 30, investigators sought an arrest warrant for Jeremiah Jansen, 47, on three felony charges: identity theft, criminal mischief and theft.

Douglas County Sheri ’s O ce deputies arrested Jansen Jan. 3 on an unrelated charge of motor vehicle theft, according to the release.

As of Feb. 7, Jansen was in custody at the Douglas County Detention Facility. He was being held in lieu of $10,000 bond on the Arapahoe County charges, and he also faces additional criminal charges in Douglas County, per the release.

“ e investigator assigned to this case did an excellent job not only

tracking down the stolen catalytic converters, which is extremely tough to do, but also remaining diligent in identifying and tracking down the suspect,” Arapahoe County Sheri ’s O ce Sgt. Matt Davis said in the release.

Arrests are rarely made in catalytic converter theft cases, and stolen catalytic converters are typically not recovered, the sheri ’s o ce said in the release.

“Catalytic converters are stolen primarily for their valuable metals,” the sheri ’s o ce said in the release. “ ieves steal them from unattended vehicles and since they’re not easily traceable, there’s a lucrative market for the stolen parts.”

According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, catalytic converter thefts increased 1,215% between 2019 and 2022.

One method of preventing such thefts is catalytic converter etching, in which an identi cation label is placed on the catalytic converter.  e Englewood Police Department will host catalytic converter anti-theft events Feb. 24 and Feb. 25 in which people can sign up to get a free, do-it-yourself etching kit. ose interested in learning more about the events can visit: lockdownyourcar.org/events.

Additional measures residents can take to protect against thefts involving vehicles include locking their car, parking in secure areas and removing any valuables from their car, according to the Colorado Auto eft Prevention Authority.

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Local authorities continue to deal with catalytic converter thefts that have gone up over 1,000% since 2019. SHUTTERSTOCK

POLICE

most accurate information possible, and sometimes that information takes time,” Littleton Police Department spokesperson Sheera Poelman wrote in an email to members of the media on Feb. 8. “Based on this video it has come to light that the motorcycle did not in fact crash, but yes, in fact, was contacted by a patrol vehicle.”

When a member of the Littleton Police Department is involved in a “deadly force encounter,” external teams investigate the incident, according to a statement from the police department.

Poelman said the Littleton Police Department is not privy to what information is happening in the external investigation and does not have the authority to release information from it.

Reporting sta at 9 News obtained cell phone video of the security footage on Feb. 8 and contacted the Littleton Police Department. e external investigation team and the department then decided to release

obtained from o cials, including herself, who visited the scene the morning of the incident and saw the motorcycle which appeared to them to have crashed.

“ e information contained in that release, including that the motorcycle had crashed, was very preliminary information, obtained in the early hours of the scene, and was the most accurate information that LPD had at the time,” a Feb. 8 statement from the department said.

At the time of the initial press release, the o cer who shot Stephen Poolson Jr. had not yet been interviewed, Poelman said. Policy requires the involved o cer to be physically separated from investigators in order to avoid potential bias in these incidents, she said.

A statement from the police department said they plan to release body camera footage and any additional video/audio/or pertinent information that will convey as much information as possible to the public upon completion of the investigation.

O cials at the scene where a Littleton Police o cer shot a man who had allegedly been on a stolen motorcycle.

PHOTO COURTESY OF LITTLETON POLICE DEPARTMENT

Sterling Ranch advances internet speed

8 gigs coming

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After nearly eight years of investing in ber technologies, Sterling Ranch is expanding a partnership with Lumen Technologies as they plan to be the rst community to roll out up to 8-gig internet.

President of Sterling Ranch Development Company Brock Smethills said in 2014, the community elected to do a ber to the home community when it was not commonplace. Since then, millions of dollars has been invested into Sterling Ranch’s ber network.

“We see that as really an amenity,” said Smethills. “Just like homeowners expect pools and schools - we believe that they have come to expect really good broadband service and that’s something we hope to deliver on now, and continue to deliver in the future.”

In the existing relationship with Lumen, the base service was one gig service to each residential unit for $89 a month. According to Smethills, the dollar amount was reduced to $75 a month and will be e ective this year.

“So the standard service will still be one gig, or $75 a month and customers will be able to opt into if they want three gig or eight gig service for a premium,” said Smethills.

e new technology, XGS-PON, is expected to be available across all of Sterling Ranch by the end of 2024. According to the press re-

lease, the technology will enable internet speeds of up to 8 gigabits per second. at is 40 times faster than the average advertised down-

“It’s the next generation of residential ber telecommunication services that CentryLink is rolling out,” said Smethills.

While most internet networks start with ber to hubs in neighborhoods like Highlands Ranch and Roxborough, they need to be converted to coaxial cable for the nal distance to each home.

According to Smethills, the last mile of coaxial cable has been a limiting factor in internet speeds.

“Now we have glass from a point of presence all the way to a residential unit,” said Smethills. “ at gets rid of that bottleneck of that piece of coaxial copper that has physical constraints and how fast you can literally send electrons back and e technology is being made available by Lumen Technologies through its premier ber internet service, Quantum Fiber.

By investing in this technology early on, Smethills said that the community was well prepared for COVID-19 as they had work from home capability before it was necessary. is new technology will allow residents to have stronger internet connection and better manage their home utilities.

“ ere’s something to be said about having good broadband that enables our residents to fully utilize technology to help their lives,” said Smethills.

SHUTTERSTOCK

We’re Littleton people and we’re voting NO on Ballot Question 300.

Here’s why: Littleton’s ‘home rule’ status allows our City Charter to set a higher bar for referendums than Colorado state law. Littleton’s higher bar protects against special interest-driven ballot measures in our small city. We’re voting No on Question 300 because it:

7 Erases our city charter protections, slashing in half the number of signatures needed for referendums. This makes it much easier for small, partisan groups to manipulate city policy.

7 Undermines our general elections by enabling 60-day snap elections which have far lower voter turnout. Low-turnout elections mean narrow, special interests gain an outsize say in our city. Question 300 also means costly special elections could be required every few months.

7 Omits a key guardrail of state law. Colorado law includes geographic distribution requirements such as 40% of signatures collected from every district in certain circumstances. Question 300 lacks any distribution requirement – meaning residents from just one Littleton neighborhood or a single HOA could set the agenda for the rest of the city.

7 Adds costly special elections. Each off-cycle election costs roughly double what it would be if that vote were held during our November general election. Special elections take money from our city budget that could be used for other items such as body cameras for police, snowplows, or road improvements.

We hope you’ll join us in voting NO on Question 300 this March 7.

Signed,

Lauren Acres

Kent Bagley

Steve Barr

Elliot Barrere

Alexis Barrere

Elizabeth Beindorf

Michael Beindorf

Dan Brickley

Gerre Brickley

Debbie Brinkman, Former Littleton Mayor

Jim Busby

Molly Charboneau

Amy Conklin, Former Littleton Councilmember

Don Conklin

Patricia Cronenberger, Former Littleton Mayor

Rick Cronenberger

Karen Crossen

Kristen Deevy

Kylee Duff

Matt Duff

Pat Dunahay

Emily Dykes

JD Dykes

Karina Elrod, Former Littleton Councilmember

Ruth Graham

Josie Haggerty

Amanda Henderson

Kyle Henderson

Bill Hopping, Former Littleton Councilmember

Cathy Hopping

LaDonna Jurgensen, Former Littleton Councilmember

Rebecca Kast, Former Littleton Councilmember

Bill Kast

Gail Keeley

Kurt Keeley

Jacquie Kitzelman

Bebe Kleinman

Margi Klute

Deanna Kristopeit

Drew Lang

David Law

Jeff May

Katie McReynolds

Myles McReynolds

Stew Meagher, Former Littleton Councilmember

Scott Melin, Former Littleton Councilmember

Kelly Milliman

Kevin Milliman

Casey Milliman

Julia Montano

Kal Murib

Patrick Navarrette

Sally Parsons, Former Littleton Mayor

Kate Peterson

Sandra Petry

Dan Radulovich

Julie Radulovich

Dennis Reynolds, Former Littleton Mayor

Gretchen Rydin

Patrick Santana

Kyle Schlachter

Maureen Shannon

Bruce Stahlman, Former Littleton Councilmember

Kelly Stahlman

Nick Stevens

Merrill Stillwell

John Sweeny

Keith Taylor

Susan Thornton, Former Littleton Mayor

John Thornton

Ben Traquair

Eric Veith

Kay Watson

Maureen Whalen

Carle Zimmerman, Former Littleton Councilmember

Age is not a factor in heart disease risk

Heart issues can attack all ages

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It is a common myth that heart disease does not a ect the younger population. However, Dr. Je Park, a cardiologist with Aurora Denver Cardiology Associates at e Medical Center of Aurora says that is a common myth.

“High long standing blood pressure issues with long standing cholesterol issues, long standing diabetes, yeah, that puts you at higher risk for sure,” said Park. “But there’s de nitely a genetic component.”

Heart disease can present itself in many ways to di erent people and may not always be obvious.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, obesity, diabetes and unhealthy eating patterns are appearing among younger people and placing them at a higher risk for heart disease.

“ e patients are getting younger, we’ve had heart attacks in patients who are in their twenties,” said Park.  ere are certain genetic conditions where individuals are at increased risk of having a heart attack, Park said. Cholesterol issues is a primary indicator.

One example given by Park is a

condition called familial hypercholesterolemia, or FH. is is a genetic disorder where people have high low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels. People have a predisposition for heart disease at that point as the body cannot recycle bad lipids, Park said.

“You’re like ‘I’m too young to see a doctor’ and I’m guilty of that same concept, you know, but it’s a matter of if you get identi ed early on, it’s a matter of your treatment starts earlier and you’re protected early,” said Park.

Park says it’s never too soon to

check one’s heart health. e American Heart Association has ways to help prevent heart disease throughout each stage of life, starting when at 20 years and older.

Heart disease is a man’s disease “ at’s a false, false, false statement,” said Park. “I think I’ve treated more women than I have treated men, or at least equally, and I guess it’s a matter of what’s the cause of the heart disease that you’re talking about.”

According to Park, heart disease and heart attacks in women present themselves di erently from men.  It might notbe the typical chest pain and it might not be the typical exertional component that people tend to think about, said Park. Women can feel some indigestion but end up having a heart attack.

A map presented by the CDC shows heart disease death rates among women 35 and older across the U.S.

According to the CDC, between 2018 and 2020, the Colorado average estimated heart disease death rate for all races and ethnicities in women 35 and older was 195 per 100,000 people. e average estimated number for Douglas County was 154.

Symptoms do not always occur while the body is doing physical activity, Park said, symptoms can arise while the body is resting.

“Even if you’re feeling great, you never know,” said Park.

Dr. Je Park with a model heart in support of Heart Month.

CREDIT: RACHEL ROBINSON

Centennial takes court action against alleged sex club

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The City of Centennial has filed a lawsuit against the owners of The Office, a business it alleges is an adult swingers’ club, for operating a sexually-oriented business where it is not permitted in the city.

A tenant of the building at 6886 S. Yosemite St., The Office described itself as a private club, according to the city’s civil complaint, which is a legal document that initiates a lawsuit. However, the city alleges The Office is actually operating a sexually-oriented business that, for a fee, offers people a space to engage in sexual activities, according to the court document.

The city claims the spaces in The Office were constructed for the purpose of members engaging in sexual activities. It alleges that items provided in the spaces include condoms, massage tables, beds, bondage devices and even a chair

that has a sex toy on it. The word “sex” is also allegedly written on a ceiling, the city claimed.

Sexually-oriented businesses are permitted in some areas of Centennial, but not where The Office is located, according to the lawsuit.

As a result, the alleged use of the property violates the city’s land development code, which prohibits sexually-oriented businesses in any location except for properties located between Interstate 25 on the west; Havana Street on the east; Costilla Avenue on the south; and Arapahoe Road on the north, per the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, The Office began to operate around August 2022. The city delivered a cease and desist order to The Office on Aug. 5, 2022, which the city claimed it has not received a response to.

The city filed its complaint with the Arapahoe County District Court on Feb. 6, naming the defendants as The Office and Price Holdings LLC, which the city claims owns the property at 6886 S. Yosemite St.

It’s not good for our water... either.

Whenever you are outside and you notice a piece of trash, please stop and dispose of it properly. What isn’t collected today is picked up in the next rainstorm and sent directly to the nearest creek. From the moment this small piece of trash enters our waterways, it is responsible for a tremendous amount of damage. 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 STORMWATER

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The City of Centennial has filed a lawsuit against a local business that allegedly provides a place for “sexual activities.” SHUTTERSTOCK

Natural world shows the way

‘Biomimicry’ exhibition traces design evolution

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

“Nature’s Blueprint: Biomimicry in Art and Design” is geared to make us really look hard at what we nd around us, with a sensitivity to what design ideas may have followed an initial look by someone out there ...

At the entry we nd a group of bronze forms, including one at the right height and location for a small visitor to touch — a really welcoming way to open an exhibit geared to stretching the visitor’s imagination — no matter what the size and age.

Photos illustrate how trees inspired Gaudi’s sculptured columns in the beautiful Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona and motion-related art inspired by trout and mushrooms, mountain goats, fruit bats, peregrine falcons, owing water and more ...

A robot that climbs trees was in-

spired by the motion of an inchworm and another display addresses the question: “Can animals make art?”

A prosthetic arm adapted to mountain climbing is inspired by a bird’s claw.

Here the huge nest of a bower bird is decorated with a collection of blue objects the bird had gathered over time.

And a cockatoo is singing in a highlystyled manner: apping its wings and turning its head just so ... is intriguing exhibit is loaned by the Mid America Arts Alliance, from the Innovation Lab at the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon, and will stretch the imagination of visitors of all ages. (Families on cross-country treks may want to include this well-recognized museum in travel plans ...)

One will undoubtedly be more aware of what’s nearby on the next walk — be it around a city block or in the woods — in the foothills or on a mountain trail.

Even very young children can learn to slow down and search for what’s near their feet as they walk, resulting in some peculiar treasures carried home

at times ... Hopefully, there’s a small shelf at home where they can exhibit the latest nd. Or in some cases, a special cage may be needed, as well as the correct food for a nd ... We found some great books at the library about what to feed whatever it is ... an essential part of a young naturalist’s library.

From Feb. 17 to May 14, Colorado artist Christopher Warren will exhibit “REinterpreting REcreating Nature,” a body of work that includes sculptures from throughout Warren’s career and his Beatnik Prints, showing his exploration of nature and art via topographic maps ... His exhibit opens with a Feb. 17 talk at 4 p.m. and reception at the museum. See beatnikprints.com for more information.

IF YOU GO

The Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton, is open Tuesday through Sunday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, with the last entry at 4:30 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. littletongov. org/museum or 303-795-3950.

Arts events start year going strong

Rebekah Durham is the Arapahoe Philharmonic’s new concertmaster as the orchestra continues its 70-year history with conductor Devin Patrick Hughes. In addition to classical music, she

performs indie rock and bluegrass in the area. e rst concert, “Rhythm and Blue,” will be at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at Lone Tree Arts Center., 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Box o ce: 303781-1892, arapahoe-phil.org.

Douglas County Libraries

Douglas County Libraries presents area authors and more ... CJ Box, bestselling Western author, will appear at 7 p.m. March 1 at Lone Tree Library with KOA Colorado talk host Ross Kaminsky to talk about his new Joe Pickett novel, “Storm Watch.” Sandra Dallas will appear at 6 p.m. April 22 to talk about her new novel, “Where Coyotes Howl.” Books will be sold at these events. Parker Library will host its Local Authors Showcase on March 11 at 1 p.m., where a panel will talk about their new books and then sell them. Also, Douglas County Libraries will host a traveling photography show — “ e Sammy Project Photography Show” — giving personal stories of people dealing with mental health issues, at Castle Rock Library, through Feb. 28 and at Highlands Ranch in March; Parker in April and Lone Tree in May. See dcl.org.

Arapahoe Libraries

Arapahoe Libraries present graphic novelist R. Alan Brooks, who will spend an evening via Zoom with adults and teens on Feb. 23 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. His graphic hovels include “ e Burning Metronome and Anguish Garden” and he writes the weekly comic “What’d I Miss” for the Colorado Sun. Register and get Zoom information at 303-542-7279.

Lakewood Cultural Center

e Takacs Quartet will appear at 7:30 p.m. March 4 at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Pkwy., Lakewood, with music by Haydn, Britten, Schubert. Tickets start at $25, 303-9877845, lakewood.org/LCCPresents.

Big dogs

e Dumb Friends League says adoption fees for big dogs (40 pounds and over) will be reduced by 40% through February. Both the Denver and Castle Rock DFL Centers have more large dogs than they can easily manage this winter.

SONYA’S SAMPLER

Cly ord Still Museum e Cly ord Still Museum in Denver will exhibit “AWful Bigness,” a collection of the artist’s biggest paintings, beginning this week, through Sept. 10. 2023. e museum is at 1250 Bannock St., Denver. 720-354-4875, clyffordstillmuseum.org.

Kirkland Museum ”Vance Kirkland’s Cosmos” is open at the Kirkland Museum, 1201 Bannock St., Denver, with a changed display of Kirkland’s art selected by curator Hugh Grant and deputy curator Christopher Herron. 303-8328576, kirklandmuseum.org.

Soprano performance

Soprano Michelle DeYoung will perform at 7:30 p.m. March 30 at the Newman Center, 2344 E. Ili Ave., Denver. Tickets start at $34. 303-8717720, newmancenterpresents.com. She appears regularly with national and international symphony orchestras and opera companies.

Bird count

e Great Backyard Bird Count, conducted nationally by the Audubon Society, is this week. Take 30 minutes to count birds at your back yard feeder and report to the national organization. e local Audubon Center is looking for new members, including members of the Young Birders Club. See their website at denveraudubon.org for information — and pay a visit if you are not yet acquainted. Potential Master Birders Program members, who train for a year, will begin in July 2023. Check the website for young birder’s outings, Nature walks for adults and more...Urban Interns train March to May. 303-979-2473.

“Progeny Fig. 2,” photographic transparencies and insect pins by Alan Bur Johnson, is on display as part of the “Nature’s Blueprint: Biomimicry in Art and Design” exhibit at Littleton Museum. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND LISA SETTE GALLERY

State park visitation dropped o in 2022

BY PAOLO ZIALCITA COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO

Hiking was slightly less popular at Colorado’s state parks in 2022.

During the pandemic, visitors ocked to Colorado’s state parks, shattering visitation records by millions. With about 19.5 million visitors in 2020, Colorado Parks and Wildlife recorded a nearly 31 percent increase in annual visitors compared to the previous year.

Although stay-at-home orders expired in 2021, even more people visited the state’s 42 parks that year — a new record of about 19.9 million visitors.

But last year, enthusiasm for the outdoors waned ever so slightly. About 18.2 million visitors entered Colorado’s state parks in 2022, a nearly 9 percent decrease from the previous year.

Joey Livingston, a statewide public information o cer for CPW, said the decrease isn’t a cause for concern for the agency. ey believe the number of visitors is settling to a new baseline.

“What we’re seeing in 2022 is more of a return to what normal levels would be pre-pandemic,” Livingston said. “We have our new Keep Colorado Wild Pass that just started in January, and so we’re also hoping that more people are gonna have cheaper access to be able to go to the state parks. e hope is to keep those visitation numbers high.”

Visitation statistics are approxi-

of the overall pattern.

Lake Pueblo was Colorado’s most popular state park in 2022, repeating a consistent trend established over the years. However, the number of visitors at the lake dropped by over a million last year, from 4.6 million to 3.5 million. Other popular state parks, like Cherry Creek State Park in Aurora and Golden Gate Canyon

opment, saw nearly 6,000 visitors after only welcoming 224 in 2021. e massive increase in visitors since 2019 has prompted changes to how some state parks operate. Visits to Eldorado Canyon State Park have nearly doubled since 2016.

“We did implement a timed reservation system at Eldorado Canyon State Park to try to help,” Livingston

said. “It’s not really about visitation. Sometimes it’s more about parking, and we only have a limited number of parking spots at a lot of our parks. necessarily handle as many vehicles Livingston said parks could continue to introduce changes to entry systems as the agency learns more about how increased visitation is impacting state parks.

is story is from CPR News, a nonpro t news source. Used by permission. For more, and to support Colorado Public Radio, visit cpr.org.

VOTE YES ON 300

VOTE YES ON 300

BY MARCH 7

CITY CHARTER = STATE LAW

CITY CHARTER = STATE LAW

VOTE YES ON 300

YES on 300 will align the City Charter with State Law to:

BY MARCH 7

YES on 300 will align the City Charter with State Law to:

• Provide the same petitioning signature requirements of 5% as other Colorado cities

 Provide the same petitioning signature requirements of 5% as other Colorado cities

 Clarify special election timeframes so they can’t be postponed for up to two years 

CITY OFFICIALS AREN’T LISTENING

• Clarify special election timeframes so they can’t be postponed for up to two years

CITY CHARTER = STATE LAW

VOTE YES ON 300

CITY OFFICIALS AREN’T LISTENING

YES on 300 will align the City Charter with State Law to:

BY MARCH 7

 Provide the same petitioning signature requirements of 5% as other Colorado cities

• Littleton’s cherished “small town feel” and character are lost from the proposed new large-scale high-rise, boxy developments (like Aspen Grove, Columbine Square, etc.)

 Littleton’s cherished “small town feel” and character are lost from the proposed new large-scale high-rise, boxy developments (like Aspen Grove, Columbine Square, etc.)

• City codes do not provide for adequate open space, parking, or diverse housing options

 City codes do not provide for adequate open space, parking, or diverse housing options

 Clarify special election timeframes so they can’t be postponed for up to two years

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PETITIONING IS A DEMOCRATIC RIGHT

CITY CHARTER = STATE LAW

PETITIONING IS A DEMOCRATIC RIGHT

CITY OFFICIALS AREN’T LISTENING

YES on 300 will align the City Charter

• The First Amendment and State Law guarantee voters the right to petition their government, especially when elected officials do not listen

 Littleton’s cherished “small town feel” and character are lost from the proposed new large-scale high-rise, boxy developments (like Aspen Grove, Columbine Square, etc.)

 The First Amendment and State Law guarantee voters the right to petition their government, especially when elected officials do not listen

 City codes do not provide for adequate open space, parking, or diverse housing options

CITY OFFICIALS AREN’T LISTENING

PETITIONING IS A DEMOCRATIC RIGHT

 Littleton’s cherished “small town feel” and character are lost from the proposed new large-scale high-rise, boxy developments (like Aspen Grove, Columbine Square, etc.)

 The First Amendment and State Law guarantee voters the right to petition their government, especially when elected officials do not listen

 City codes do not provide for adequate open space, parking, or diverse housing options

Roxborough State Park’s distinctive geological formations are visited by thousands of people every year, as one of the closest state parks to the Denver metro area. PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN

The excitement of the new year has yielded busy calendars for many of us, particularly those of us in Arapahoe county government. Despite the freezing temperatures, 2023 is o to a fast start with exciting opportunities and some di cult challenges.

Already this year, two new commissioners, Leslie Summey and Jessica Campbell-Swanson, have been sworn in, county meetings have started, our budget process is underway, and we recently hosted our rst telephone town hall of the year.

I’m a hometown girl. I grew up here, met my husband and raised a family here and also started a business here. So as a resident, mom and chair of the Board, it’s important to me that we act now to maintain the things we love about the county so that they can be enjoyed for generations to come. ere’s a lot to love about Arapahoe County, too.

From the farming and ranching community of Byers to Colorado’s second-largest city, Aurora, to the western suburbs, our county o ers a unique diversity of landscapes, industries, recreation opportunities and people. at diversity is one of the many reasons so many people have chosen to call Arapahoe County

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“home.” In fact, Arapahoe County is expected to add another 200,000 people by 2030 and grow from 600,000 to 800,000 residents.

Our appeal to our new neighbors is both understandable and challenging. Meeting the needs of this growing county with the economy’s ups and downs can be daunting. It becomes even more formidable as we realize the magnitude of the issues we must address: housing affordability, mental health, criminal justice, homelessness, crumbling infrastructure and roads. ese are big, complex issues that we simply cannot ignore.

How do we meet the challenge? It starts with listening to you and identifying our shared  priorities. A sincere thank you to the residents who took time out to join our most recent telephone town hall and o er your opinions. When asked, 37% of you named crime as the most important issue facing the county followed by homelessness and a ordable housing (26%), roads (15%) and mental health (10%). ese are our priorities too.

ese priorities come at a cost. And despite our long tradition of doing more with less, our shared priorities require additional resources. For decades, we have pursued e ciencies, innovations, cost-savings, and continuous improvements when managing resources. is practice has earned us a track record that includes awards, consistently high bond ratings and balanced budgets. e question now is how we secure

the resources we need to achieve our goals. e Board is taking a serious look at how best to modernize and stabilize our revenue stream, to help meet the priorities that will ensure Arapahoe County continues to be the number one place to live, work and raise a family.

In the coming weeks and months, we look forward to engaging with you as we navigate a path forward.

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Support 300

Arapahoe County already has ve commissioners, which means they would not be impacted by the bill. However, Arapahoe County operates without a lot of in-commission ghting, has good discussion and debate and is a great example of why a ve-member board can be a lot more functional.

When it comes to party lines, I would like a better balance of Republicans and Democrats on the Arapahoe board, given there is currently only one Republican, but that’s not a huge complaint.

Thelma Grimes

In Douglas County, the current commissioners are great evidence of why a three-member boards is not good in representing a county with 360,000 people and growing. e argument against the bill is that it “creates more government,” not less. I get not wanting more government, but is having two more commissioners added to a currently dysfunctional board a bad thing?

I have never been a fan of the all-yes boards. I like my elected boards to have a balance of voices and opinions. If all members of a council, commission or school board have the same thoughts, beliefs and ideals — you will get a lot of rubber-stamp voting without thoughtful discussion and debate.

Local city and town councils, with fewer residents than all of Douglas County, currently have more elected ofcials looking out for their best interests.

In Douglas County, residents currently have George Teal and Abe Laydon deciding where and how money is spent. ey are making decisions on zoning, land use and water. If Commissioner Lora omas does have an opposing view or opinion — it doesn’t seem to matter as the two men on the board have clearly formed an alliance. is alliance means if one supports a project — the other will get in line to do the same. ese are schoolyard games that should never been the norm on a local, elected board. is alliance has cost taxpayers plenty of money in approving investigations against omas that have yielded nothing more than tens of thousands of dollars in wasted taxpayer dollars.

At the very least, two more commissioners being asked to approve another frivolous investigation might ask questions and vote against it.

With two more commissioners, decisions might still end the same way, but I bet there is more discussion, fewer alliances and probably a healthier representation of what residents in Douglas County deserve.

What I love about Rep. Marshall introducing the bill, House Bill 23-1180, is that he can’t be bullied. He is at the state level and the two-member majority can’t just quash it. Do I think the bill will pass? It’s early and hard to say. e argument of having more government oversight could win out in halting it in its tracks. However, I do hope our elected o cials at the state level give it true thought and consideration.

If it is passed in the 2023 session, counties that would be a ected by the bill are Je erson, Larimer, Douglas, Boulder, Pueblo and Mesa, all of which are counties with three commissioners.

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

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ecently, State Rep. Bob Marshall did exactly what he said he was going to do when he ran for o ce — he introduced a bill that would require large counties to expand from three- to ve-member boards of commissioners. If the bill is approved, that would mean Douglas County will go from three to ve commissioners.Support Ballot Measure 300. Every citizen that wants to have a democracy should support this measure because the city government does not want to listen to its citizens. e city is so afraid of this they want to pass Resolution 10-2023. It is a resolution to tell you to not even consider the ballot measure. Even though, by the time you see this council may have passed it, we all should write council to tell them it was wrong to even put forth such a resolution. I wrote the city council the following about this resolution and their disdain for the voter’s voice; it is not about the ballot measure but exempli es the council’s stance in opposition to your (you the citizen and voter’s) voice and directly shows why you should vote yes for the ballot measure.

To pass Resolution 10-2023 opposing Ballot Measure 300 is to refute all the principles of democracy as written in both the State and Federal Constitutions. e resolution is the council body saying: rst, that the City Council has no respect for the voice of “We e People.” Second, that council does not believe in the right of the citizens to disagree with the City Council. And third, that you the City Council disavows and repudiates the right of citizens to petition even as guaranteed in old city charter, ARTICLE VI. INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM. It says, “Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the Council by a petition signed by registered electors of the City equal in number to the percentage hereinafter required.” e petition that resulted in Ballot Measure 300 met those requirements and was written with the city Attorneys guidance to assure it met the law and the Charter’s intent, and the with assistance of the city Clerk to make sure it was written in a way that could easily become part of the City Charter and Code. In short, the Littleton City Council’s stance against this petition is a claim that the City Council should rule with absolute, autocratic authority. Any member of the City Council that votes to approve this resolution should be completely ashamed of themselves and understand that they are making a claim of dictatorial-like power! is is as un-American as it gets.

For the sake of our democracy, every voter should speak out against the resolution and vote for the ballot measure.

Michael Goldberg Littleton

Look under the legalese

Artful use of language is something most enjoy. It makes us smile, and we each have our favorites. But some aspects of the language arts are less endearing.

Most nd the lengthy “whereas” statements found in o cial government documents less than enjoyable reading. Sometimes this actually informs, but it can also hide things and mislead.

Littleton City Council’s February 7 Resolution No. 10 illustrates. It urges a “no” vote on Ballot Question 300. Voters should take a careful look — both at what is there and for what is missing.

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One does not have to be a fan of courtroom drama to appreciate verbal skills used to craft this resolution. Even Raymond Burr would crack a wry smile. And few would want to argue the resolution’s factuality. What’s not there, however, is another story all voters should know.

Legalese (de ned by Cambridge as legal language “di cult for ordinary people to understand”) in the resolution’s fth “Whereas” states: “the City of Littleton already conforms to State Law in requiring at least 5%, as referenced in C.R.S § 31-11-104, of the registered electors to advance petitions and initiatives.”

is statement artfully avoids the impetus for Question 300. Of course, as a Home Rule Municipality — a rmed by the resolution’s fourth “Whereas” — Littleton “has the right and authority to govern its own elections and signature requirements.” But greater candor would have revealed that, for years, the city has actually imposed “greater” requirements than the “at least 5%” of registered voters required by State Law.

Indeed, for referendum petitions, the city requirement is twice the state minimum, 10%. And for initiative petitions, it requires three times the state minimum, 15%. Now it appears the city has grown even more fearful that voters might call its undesirable decisions into question (i.e., referenda) and push it to take neglected actions residents want done (i.e., initiatives).

But why? Why would the City of Littleton be so afraid of having residents make their voices heard? Not a few residents perceive they are being inadequately represented by o cials’ heads lopsidedly turned more to outside interests than to caring for Littleton’s existing character, its neighborhoods, and its quality of life as well as curtailing high-density development and its adverse impacts.

Amazingly, that powerful block, emplaced and supported by outsider interests, is now telling residents how to vote. Don’t be misled. Vote “yes” on Question 300.

John Marchetti Littleton

Housing and diversity

Kudos to Colorado Community Media for a piece of ne local journalism with “ e Long Way Home” series examining Colorado’s housing crisis. e January 26 articles detailing racial inequities in Denver’s suburban communities like the Littleton area, where I live, provide important insight — and highlight the need for all of us to redouble e orts for social change.

As the series illustrates, Littleton and surrounding towns didn’t become lily-white by accident. Government policies assured racial and economic segregation via redlining, racially restrictive covenants, and large-lot zoning. Today, Denver metro is highly racially segregated, ranks 13th among the most highly economically segregated urban areas, and 40th among U.S. large metro areas for upward mobility of below-median-income families.

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“I know we (voted to put the measure on the ballot) kind of against our desire,” Schlachter said at the Feb. 7 meeting. “And I just wanted the citizens to realize that this isn’t coming from the city, isn’t coming from city council… I just didn’t want any confusion that the council is supportive of this.”

Valdes said passing the resolution did not seem fair without giving the petition’s sponsors a chance to publicly share why they think voters should support the measure.

“I’m having trouble with this one, that we as a council are putting opposition out there, while we’re not allowing the supporters of this particular thing to come forward to tell us why citizens should vote for it,” he said.

Several councilmembers responded that they felt citizens had many chances throughout the process to share their opinions.

“We’ve had a number of folks come up tonight and speak regarding this issue,” District 3 Councilmember Stephen Barr said. “We’ve had a number of folks email and call us individually as councilmembers regarding this issue... I don’t think anyone has been arrested or thrown in the gallows for voicing that opinion.”

During the public comment portion of the meeting, several citizens spoke against the resolution.

“Before you vote on (the resolution) tonight, I would ask that you carefully consider the consequences of this action against your constituents and also the rami cations of your future political careers,” said resident Lynn Christensen.

John Marchetti, a citizen who was part of the group that started the petition, said it did not “seem morally correct” for council “to comment negatively on issues which were initiated by the public and which, by implication, re ect on council performance.”

“Why is the city council so deadset against the citizens’ desire to be heard?” he asked.

Several comments on the agenda item in the meeting packet online also opposed the resolution, saying that “council clearly does not want

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to hear what the voters think about any given issue” and that to pass the resolution would be “to refute all the principles of democracy.”

Betzing said the city council has the right to pass resolutions supporting or opposing ballot measures, per Colorado’s Fair Campaign Practices Act.

He added that Littleton’s city council has passed resolutions regarding ballot issues in the past, including the formation of the Littleton Downtown Development Authority, a lodgers tax and procurement changes.

Perspectives on the measure

Several councilmembers spoke in favor of the resolution, stating reasons they do not support the ballot measure.

“One of the biggest issues I think we all have is the costs, that if (the measure) eventually passes, could burden the city with multiple elections throughout the year and multiple costs,” Schlachter said.

Littleton’s current city charter limits special elections to one per year, City Clerk Colleen Norton said. If the measure passes, she said this limit would be repealed from the city charter. e number of permitted special elections per year would instead be constrained by state timeline rules based on when petitions are deemed sucient and when other elections are scheduled.

is opens up the possibility of several special elections each year, but special elections would not be unlimited, Norton wrote in an email to CCM.

e city estimates the March 7 special election to cost $165,000.

Marchetti recognizes this cost but does not think the prices of special elections are a reason to reject the measure.

“ ere shouldn’t be a price tag on how the citizens should be treated,” he said in an interview with Colorado Community Media. “What is the price of democracy?”

Proponents of the measure say it is about having citizen’s voices heard, after they felt their petition and votes were ignored regarding the rezoning of a shopping center called Aspen Grove for new housing last year.

To resident Susan ornton, who opposes ballot question 300, this

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action seems like a “back-door approach to seizing power.”

“I am generally not in favor of special elections because they tend to be forced by people or groups that have special interests,” she said in an interview with Colorado Community Media. “(Special elections) tend to have much lower voter turnout, and mostly the people who vote are those who are involved. erefore, it increases their chances of forcing a change.”

Barr said the measure concerns him because of the impact it could have on housing policy.

“Housing seems to be at the crux of the argument about those who are supporting it,” he said at the Feb. 7 meeting. “I would say that if housing is on the mind of the folks that are supporting this, this could ultimately have potential implications to how we work on housing policy in the future.”

Marchetti said he and other citizens in an advocacy group called Revision Littleton, which supports the measure, are not against growth in Littleton.

“Growth is going to happen,” he said. “It doesn’t have to happen in such a fashion that it becomes overwhelming to the city’s infrastructure and to the citizens that came to Littleton because of what it was.”

Appropriation

Council members voted unanimously to amend the city’s 2023 budget to approve approximately $165,000 in additional funds to cover the costs of the March 7 special election.

Public commenter Pam Chadbourne said the city should be able to provide “more precise and accurate costs” and asked for more data from the city on this front. She also said she wanted to see how this election’s cost compares to past special election costs.

In an interview with Colorado Community Media, Norton said the cost of the election will remain an estimate. Final numbers cannot be tallied until weeks after the election is held. Norton said nal costs are tallied based on extra postage, vendor bills and costs based on the hours election judges will have to work.

Among other reasons, she attributed the increase in operating costs from the city’s last special election in 2015 to in ation and supply shortages. In addition, the number of eligible electors in Littleton has increased by approximately 6,000 voters since the last special election, which also adds to costs.

Ballots for the special election will start being mailed to residents on Feb. 13.

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While working out at a gym in Golden recently, someone approached Ty Scrable and asked if he was associated with Colorado School of Mines. Scrable had to explain that, no, he’s just a Golden resident.

Unfortunately, Scrable said, this isn’t the rst time it’s happened.

“I get that a lot,” he said. “People think I’m a student, professor or tourist because I’m Black.”

Systemic racism stubbornly remains in Golden. But, as Scrable said, it has morphed from Ku Klux Klan demonstrations in the 1920s and racist housing policies in the 1940s to something less overt but still widespread and endlessly frustrating.

Because White people make up the overwhelming majority in the city and, thus, are seen as the norm, Scrable said, “many people don’t view me as part of my own community.”

In the wake of Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the summer of 2020, many cities and newspapers across the United States have started reckoning with their pasts, examining how they’ve contributed to systemic racism, learning what they can do to be more inclusive and fair. e Golden community has started the process, and now it’s the Golden Transcript’s turn.

e newspaper, which now is part of Colorado Community Media, isn’t immune to biased coverage. is report is the product of its journalists attempting to examine the paper’s coverage of the Black community since the Civil Rights era and own up to its mistakes.

Since 1866, the Golden Transcript — known as the Colorado Transcript for its rst 103 years — has been a record keeper for Je erson County. While its stories are extensive and valuable, the paper contains original and reprinted content that was harmful to the Black community and other marginalized groups.

Just one example is its coverage of the Black Panther Party, a group that gained national attention in the late 1960s for its response to policing in Black communities across the country.

Between 1969-1971, the newspaper published approximately 170 articles that referenced the Black Panther Party. Nearly all of these articles

BEYOND THE GOLDEN TRANSCRIPT: Our efforts to reconcile racial mistrust begins with this story

In our newspaper this week, you’ll see an article about the Golden Transcript. It’s one of two dozen newspapers owned by Colorado Community Media, which also owns this paper. The article tackles the issue of systemic racism in the Transcript’s pages.

The idea for the project started in 2020, when the Colorado News Collaborative, Colorado Media Project and Free Press convened the Black Voices Working Group, which was made up of Black leaders, community members and journalists. The group addressed media coverage and focused on how to improve trust in mainstream media among the Black community. Acknowledging past harm was the No. 1 recommendation made by the group.

A few months later, I attended a Denver Press Club event where Jameka Lewis, a senior librarian at the BlairCaldwell African American Research Library, illustrated biases in mainstream local media coverage of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and ’70s while exhibiting rare prints of the Black Panther Press. Many of Lewis’ examples came from the Transcript. Most articles were wire stories from

other cities, but editors still chose to run them, affecting perceptions of the party in Golden.

We pursued and were awarded a grant from the nonpartisan Colorado Media Project to explore, uncover and analyze this issue in the form of the special report that is in this edition of your newspaper.

Our newsroom, which is predominantly White, also participated in the Maynard Institute’s diversity, equity and inclusion Fault Lines training along the way. West metro editor Kristen Fiore was a speaker at the Advancing Equity in Local News convening with journalists from publications like the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Washington Post to talk about this project.

We believe this story is important beyond Golden — and we hope to spark conversations in our communities across the Denver area about race and inclusion and how our news coverage impacts those issues.

Linda Carpio Shapley is publisher of Colorado Community Media, which runs two dozen weekly and monthly publications in eight counties. She can be reached at lshapley@coloradocommunitymedia.com

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presented the group in a negative light, with words such as “fugitive,” “thugs” and “militants.” And, the Transcript appeared to rarely cover the Black community in the city and wider region. Because of this, their voices are missing in archives, now online as an important chronicling of Colorado’s history.

By not including these voices in an accurate light, and by publishing stories that reinforced harmful stereotypes and/or recorded Black people’s traumatic experiences in an apathetic or ippant way, the Golden Transcript’s coverage contributed to systemic racism, according to researchers and Black community leaders.

Jameka Lewis, senior librarian at the Denver Public Library’s Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library and a freelance researcher on this report, said Transcript readers may have had their beliefs about the Black Panther Party, and the Black community in general, shaped by the Transcript’s negative portrayals.

“ ere is harm when it comes to media and the Black community in Denver and Colorado,” Lewis said. “If we want to repair the harms, we have to acknowledge that (they are) factual.”

Alfonzo Porter, editor-in-chief at Denver Urban Spectrum and a journalism professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver, said mass media has been at the epicenter of “propagating negative images and re ections of the AfricanAmerican community.”

“It really stems out of our country’s background, and we’re still dealing with those biases,” he said.

While almost all of the Transcript’s stories about the Black Panther Party were from wire services like United Press International, Porter said the Transcript and other newspapers are accountable for reprinting those stories.

“It’s exactly like original reporting, because … the editorial sta sat in a room, looked at this piece, determined that it was appropriate and ran with it in the paper,” he said.

The Black Panther Party

e Black Panther Party for Self Defense started in 1966 in Oakland, California. Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale started the organization as a response to police brutality there and in other Black communities, according to Lewis’ research.

e party had a 10-point program that included demands for Black liberation and societal

THE COVERAGE

How national, Denver-area papers covered the party Sisters Ida Daniel, Pat Rogers and JoEllen Greenwood grew up in Denver and graduated from East High School in the ’60s and early ’70s. ey recalled reading e Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News and watching the nightly news on TV. ey also listened to the city’s Black radio station, KDKO, and read Black-oriented magazines like Ebony and Jet.

Overall, the three didn’t recall a lot of news stories about Black people in the mainstream press, unless it was negative. e news covered Black people who were arrested for murder, robbery, rioting and other crimes. Rogers summarized the coverage as: “Be afraid of Black people.” at kind of coverage played out with the Black Panthers. In 2016, e New York Times analyzed stories about the Panthers, noting “journalists were at once fascinated and frightened by them” and their activities in the 1960s and ‘70s.  Coverage about the Denver Panthers in Black newspapers in the area at the time was scant. Of those Lewis researched, the Black-owned publication e Denver Blade published the most articles on the group’s activities, both locally and nationally, in 1969.

Its coverage appears to be fairly balanced, Lewis said.

One Blade article discussed the Panthers’ orga-

improvement. Eventually, the Black Panthers led more than 35 community programs across the country, like the Free Breakfast for School Children Program — also known as e Free People’s Food Program, which helped feed Black children from economically disadvantaged families.

In Denver, a chapter gained recognition in 1967. Led by Lauren Watson, the chapter’s history was largely erased or ignored, Lewis said, adding that the Denver Panthers were instrumental in the ght for civil rights in Colorado.

It’s important to note that many Black community members both then and now have mixed feelings about the Panthers and their work, Lewis stressed.

Longtime Denver residents she interviewed formed their opinions largely based on what they read about the Black Panthers in newspapers and saw on TV. Yet that coverage contrasts with what many in the community saw the Denver Black Panthers doing. ey were involved in school board and City Council meetings, provided free meals for children, and worked to

nizing a meeting to discuss policing and police presence at Cole Jr. High School in Denver’s diverse Whittier neighborhood. It chronicled the Black community’s e orts to address a racial gap between teachers and Black students. One possible solution, and likely at the suggestion of the Denver Black Panthers, was to establish Cole as a Freedom School, a concept that focused on Black pride and Black liberation in academics.

In contrast, the Denver Post also covered the meeting but didn’t mention the Panthers’ involvement in organizing the event or the Freedom School proposal. In a review of Post archives, the story focused on arrests. e Denver Blade coverage did not mention any Black Panther arrests.

“Oftentimes, it was up to Black news media to cover this group in a more comprehensive way, which I believe e Denver Blade did,” Lewis said. “It covered all aspects of the local and national Panthers, and o ered readers a more balanced view of the members of this group.”

e Denver Blade stopped operating in 1970.

How Golden’s newspapers covered the Panthers

e Transcript published approximately 170 articles that used the terms “Black Panther” or “Black Panthers” between 1969-1971. Almost all of these were reprinted stories from wire services, which seldom described anything positive about the party or its members.

improve the welfare of their neighborhoods and its residents.

“Many Black people believed what the media said about the Panthers,” said Terry Nelson, a lifelong member of the Denver community. “ … It depended on the source. We recognized that the newspapers weren’t telling the truth about the members. … We knew that the Denver members were active in schools, speaking with teachers and parents. We never saw that in the major newspapers.”

Tracie Keesee, a former Denver police captain and co-founder of the Center for Policing Equity, described how during this tumultuous period, the press played into the hands of government o cials.

Newsrooms considered police as trustworthy and well-respected sources, so it was easy for them to hand reporters a story and have it taken at face value, Keesee said.

Keesee added: “We see it now, right? at divisiveness in the media, the stories that are being told — or not being told.”

e only article referencing the party’s free breakfast program was published April 30, 1970, about Baltimore police rounding up Black Panthers suspected of killing a patrolman. After searching party headquarters, police searched a school where it conducted its breakfast program, among other locations.

In contrast, the Colorado School of Mines student paper, e Oredigger, published at least two stories about the Black Panther Party. Both were straightforward accounts of Lauren Watson, the head of the Denver chapter, visiting Golden.

Ultimately, while coverage of the Black Panthers varied by publication, the Golden Transcript failed to cover the party’s community initiatives or involvement. It did, however, print dozens of wire stories about the party’s supposed criminal activity and police raids associated with the group.

e coverage used negative language to describe the Panthers, their neighborhoods and any activities they were involved in. Because of this, Golden-area residents absorbed and believed what they heard and saw in the news coverage, Lewis stated.

e role of the press in forwarding racial inequality really shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, Keesee said, especially to communities of color.

“It’s not just that person that wrote the story,

Jameka Lewis is a senior librarian at the Blair-Caldwell

African American Research Library and a researcher on this project. COURTESY PHOTO

that person had an editor, right?

ere wasn’t anything in that editor’s mind that said, ‘Yeah…this seems a little biased. Did you even go into the community, or did you just take that o the wire and repeat it?’”

ere’s no excuse for sloppy journalism, as it is harmful and contributes directly to a larger narrative, Keesee said.

“When you talk about media coverage, there were only three channels on the television, back then; there was no social media,” she said, adding, “the newspapers were cranking out those stories overnight and you were waiting for your morning paper. Nobody was up waiting for breaking news. So, the news that was coming out, it was more focused and easier to control.”

And when news was breaking, “it

THE COMMUNITY

Golden in the 1960s and ’70s

Built on lands traditionally inhabited by the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute and other tribes, Golden City was founded in 1859. According to Allan Tellis, a doctoral student of political science at the University of Colorado-Boulder and freelance researcher on this report, Golden has never had a signi cant Black population.

Census data from 1960 shows that the Golden division of Je erson County had 28 Black residents. By 1970, that number had increased to 86. Overall, those numbers represent 0.15% and 0.27% of the total population, respectively, according to Tellis.

As of 2020, Golden had 388 Black residents, representing 1.9% of the city’s population.

Longtime Golden residents recalled how many of the city’s Black residents in the late 1960s and early ’70s were associated with Colorado School of Mines as students, professors or their family members. As far as discussions about the Black Panther Party speci cally or race relations in general, longtime White residents said the topic didn’t come up much because there wasn’t a large Black population in the area.

Rick Gardner, a resident who has studied Golden’s history extensively, said the community had “other preoccupations at the time,” such as labor clashes at the Coors brewery and the Vietnam War.

John Akal, a longtime Goldenite and current columnist for the Transcript, described how he spent his summers in Chicago, where it was “a whole di erent situation.” Because of the 1968 Chicago riots, which were sparked by the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Akal remembered a lot of racial tension in the city at the time.

But that was Chicago.

Golden was di erent, but not necessarily better.

The KKK in Golden Overt discrimination in Golden against Black people and other

was breaking only one way, and those narratives were pretty narrow,” she added.

The newsroom

During this timeframe, the Transcript was a daily paper with a small sta of six and a wire service that provided regional and national news.

Neil Paulson, who was managing editor from 1970-75, said the paper relied on United Press International reports to cover many issues, including the Black Panthers.

“It was a terrible service, especially for a small paper,” he said. “It cost us a little more, but eventually we went to e Associated Press.”

e only dictate from the paper’s owners, e Kansas City Star and the Great (Kansas) Tribune, was to run a local story on the front page, Paulson said. National and regional stories ran inside.

Paulson noted that Golden’s population at the time, as it is today, was

communities peaked with the Ku Klux Klan, which had a strong presence in the city and throughout Colorado, particularly in the 1920s.

e Klan began in Denver in 1921 and eventually “all but took possession of the state of Colorado,” according to a report in the Steamboat Pilot. Klan members throughout Denver gathered on Golden’s South Table Mountain for cross-burnings and other rituals. According to Golden History, the mountain could attract up to 10,000 members.

Overall, the Klan helped prevent or deter unknown numbers of Black people from carving out lives in the area. History Colorado recently released ledgers of KKK membership that show seven members of the terrorist organization resided in the Golden area, Tellis added.

Racist housing policies, practices

While the Klan’s activities are certainly one reason Golden has a small Black population, it’s not the only reason. Discriminatory housing practices also contributed.

Don Cameron, a former Jefferson County teacher and current Golden city councilor, has researched zoning history and discriminatory housing policies and practices, including some accounts recorded in the Transcript.

While many Black residents in Denver were constricted by redlining, their counterparts in Golden faced other challenges.

“Starting in the ’20s and into the ’40s, it was common for people to say that they would only sell their individual property to those of the Caucasian race, or non-Negro race individuals,” Cameron stated in a self-published article about Golden’s zoning history.

“ e courts backed up this right because they were protecting the homeowners’ use of their land and had no civic duty to prevent this discrimination,” the article continues. “Blacks were excluded from being shown properties in these restrictive neighborhoods, and if they tried to purchase them, (they) might have it taken away soon

predominantly White.

He knew two Black Goldenites during his years as editor. One was Monroe Jordan, an assistant chef at downtown Golden’s historic Holland House, who later worked at the nearby Ace-Hi Tavern.

When Jordan died, Paulson ran a story on the front page that brie y memorialized him but mostly discussed an attempt to nd his relatives, as no one had come forward to claim Jordan’s body nearly two weeks after his death.

Readers didn’t react positively to the front-page piece.

“I got a couple of nasty phone calls, but no one admitted to their bias,” Paulson said. “ ey refused to apologize, of course. ey said I shouldn’t have put that on the front page. In typical Golden fashion, there was nothing speci c, other than to say, ‘You shouldn’t have done that.’ e thought of another race didn’t exist.”

For the Transcript’s newsroom, Paulson said there was no “codi ed

policy on racism” during his time there.

“We condemned it, but we made little e ort to actively attack it,” he said. “( e) Black Panthers seem remote from Golden, where there were few Black families.”

One place where Paulson thought racism showed up was on the editorial page. e paper had four syndicated columnists every day who lived outside the community. ey were selected by the publisher because “they were cheap and not already being published by the two Denver dailies,” he stated.

Paulson said he had no doubt the paper could be accused of racism for its coverage in those days.

“But I’d like to think it was by omission rather than intent,” he said. “We rarely spoke of racism and did little to come out against its pernicious e ects. I don’t remember anyone on the sta making racist remarks, and I think I would have remembered that.”

after.”

Perhaps the most evident example of this was in 1942, when Logus Butler and Susie A. Allison paid $1,500 for 30 acres near present-day Boyd Street in north Golden. ey planned to build on it, but they were forced to sell a few months later after Golden residents drove them out.

“A large number of citizens appeared before the City Council

Wednesday evening,” the Transcript reported Oct. 22, 1942, “and stated that a group of colored people had taken possession of the land recently purchased by them east of the Clark’s Garden addition, within the city limits of Golden, and were apparently staking out some building sites.”

After Butler and Allison were

A photo circa late 1960s or early 1970s shows the Seymour family gathered for a portrait in their family home in Denver. In this photo, the siblings — Ida Daniel, Pat Rogers, JoEllen Greenwood and Winfred Semour Jr. — were teens. COURTESY PHOTO

FOR THE RECORD

forced to sell the land, plots on the same land were listed for sale two

THE IMPACT

In the community

While growing up in Denver in the ’60s and ’70s, Daniel and her sisters used their education and life experiences to help them decipher which news stories were biased and which were reputable. They also relied on family and friends’ advice.

“I don’t think news at the time covered Blacks in the world that they lived in,” Daniel said. “To me, the general stories about how Blacks lived, what they did, what their concerns were and some of their needs, were not covered.”

The sisters felt this trend in coverage didn’t change until the ’80s, when news about Black people and Black communities became more prominent.

As an example, Daniel described how The Denver Post did a feature article on her late husband, Wiley Y. Daniel, who was a prominent attorney and

THE FUTURE

For Goldenites

In more recent years, especially in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter rallies in the summer of 2020, the Golden community has started examining the long reach of systemic racism in and around the city. The City of Golden started work on its Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, and groups like Golden United and Golden Anti-Racism Collective formed.

While these are good first steps, real change has to start with people’s attitudes, GAC members Scrable and Michele Minihane said.

Although many Goldenites are open-minded and inclusive, Minihane personally believed there are still some residents who “do not value an integrated community and don’t feel like it’s important to make people of color feel welcome.”

She added: “I don’t get the sense that (attitudes) have changed a lot in 40 or 50 years.”

Scrable agreed that tangible changes, whether in attitudes or policies, have been slow. He said it’s going to take time and everyone working together to make Golden a more welcoming and inclusive place.

The two described how the Golden Anti-Racism Collective has become a place where people can share their experiences, examine systemic racism’s impact on the community, and find ways to improve Golden for current and future generations.

As of last month, GAC has about

years later. Ownership was restricted to “members of the Caucasian race.”

These accounts are just glimpses of Golden’s treatment of people of color, but Tellis emphasized how they demonstrate “institutionalized

the state’s first Black U.S. district court judge. She also recalled how The Post’s society section ran pictures of positive stories happening in the Black community.

“I do think it began to change in the ’80s,” Daniel continued. “There were positive stories (but) … the stereotypes were still going on.”

Diversity in the newsroom also seemed to improve during this timeframe, the sisters said. They recalled Reynelda Muse, the first Black person to anchor a newscast in Colorado, and Bertha Lynn, who started in Denver television in 1976.

While a lot has changed in how traditional outlets cover Black people and Black communities, the sisters believe there’s still plenty of bias. Rogers admitted that she avoids local news because there are still more negative stories about Black people than positive ones.

“I think there absolutely still is biased coverage,” she said. “I don’t want, every day, to hear

400 members on an email list and a few dozen who come to its regular meetings. There are several subgroups within the Golden Anti-Racism Collective that tackle different topics such as policy and policing, education, and books and media.

While the bulk of the members are White, any Goldenites of color are welcome to join and participate as they’re able, the members said.

The group has established a unique partnership with the Golden Police Department, as some of its members sit on the department’s community engagement group, GAC member Sandra Knecht explained. GAC and other community members have given feedback on various department policies, particularly around use of force.

GAC members also try to comment on City Council discussions and participate in other local matters, including education, youth outreach and affordable housing. In doing so, the group has developed partnerships with Shelton Elementary, the Golden Library, Colorado School of Mines student groups, Golden United and other groups that share GAC’s goals.

Similar to GAC, Golden United formed after the 2016 election as “there was a fair amount of division, nationally and locally,” Ronnie Rosenbaum said. The group sought to bring people together and encourage respect for those who have different ideas and opinions.

Rosenbaum, who’s vice president on Golden United’s board of directors, described the partnership between Golden United and

anti-Black behaviors and norms” in the area. So, he said, it’s no surprise that the Black Panther Party, an organization that “unapologetically called for Black liberation and the dismantling of White supremacist power structures, would catch the

about, ‘there’s another Black person who got in trouble.’”

In the country

Going back through American history, the Urban Spectrum’s Porter described other incidents where media outlets didn’t give Black people the benefit of the doubt. He listed the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and the Emmett Till lynching as examples of the media portraying those involved as “guilty until proven innocent,” adding how the trend has persisted into today’s coverage of police shootings and similar incidents.

“And it seems as though that mentality continues to manifest in those organizations in their treatment of our community,” he said. “And so, it’s always the bad news. There’s really never any positive reflections.”

Regarding news coverage of the Black Panther Party, the journalism professor described it as a peaceful organization that was responding to violence “against

GAC, saying the two groups and others joined forces for a rally in summer 2020 and pushed City Council to approve the “Golden Stands with Black Lives” banner on Washington Avenue.

Minihane stressed how the GAC believes systemic racism impacts all Golden residents, regardless of race, and recommended locals read “The Sum of Us” by Heather McGhee to learn more about that impact.

For the City of Golden

In summer 2020, the Golden City Council produced a series of resolutions meant to address its history of racial exclusion and racist domination of non-White groups, Tellis stated.

These resolutions included:

Resolution 2736 – Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis

Resolution 2747 - Declaring Support for Black Lives and Racial Equity Through a Public Display, and

Resolution 2748 - Declaring A Commitment to Anti-Racism Actions

Resolution 2736 states, “the Golden City Council recognizes that racial inequities have become institutionalized in the policies and practices of many agencies, governmental and otherwise. Council recognizes the need to examine seemingly neutral policies and practices to determine whether they are contributing to inequity and, where needed, change or eliminate the policy or practice as cities have a long history of decision and policy making that have resulted in classist and racist outcomes.”

ire of local reporting.”

Tellis added: “Golden has displayed a deep commitment to the marginalization of Black people. To reflect on this legacy is pivotal if we desire to not replicate the racial strife and injustice of our past.”

African-American people in an attempt to say, ‘We will protect our community.’”

“The idea was that Black folks with guns clearly scared the hell out of people,” Porter continued. “Because obviously, if you’ve got a gun, then you’re going to be violent. And it’s only that mentality because of our profession (as journalists). Our profession has continued to promote that reflection — still does, to this day.”

As for Golden and the Transcript’s coverage of the Black community, Porter believed it likely made Black residents feel unsafe and unwelcome, saying, “They know that any coverage of them will not be balanced and fair.” Fairness and racial equity are concepts Golden, Denver, the United States and journalism as a profession need to work on, he stated.

“I don’t see our profession doing enough work in that area,” Porter said. “I hear the talk. But I’m not seeing anything to back it up.”

Building on that, the city hired a consultant in June 2021 to develop a Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan based on community input. After developing it for more than a year, the plan outlined four goals: Create a culture of inclusion and belonging throughout the community of Golden; Increase access to services and resources for diverse community members;

Foster an organizational culture and environment within the City of Golden that’s committed to racial equity, diversity and inclusion; and Expand economic opportunities for diverse businesses.

Along with the REDI Action Plan, the consultants also recommended dozens of strategies toward these goals and an implementation plan.

For instance, public documents and other information should be available to those who don’t speak English or have different abilities. City boards and commissions should have a more inclusive recruiting process to ensure diversity among their members. The city also should host training about Golden’s history, structural racism and implicit bias.

The City Council adopted the REDI Action Plan in December 2022 and called on the community to ensure Golden achieves the four goals in a timely, effective way.

The plan was developed with race as the leading element because of how widespread and

damaging racial inequalities are in the United States, according to city consultants. However, the REDI Action Plan is overall intersectional, examining how to make Golden a better place for people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, socioeconomic backgrounds, religions and other demographics.

O cials said the next step is to assemble an implementation team of community members and city sta ers to make recommendations to City Council on how to achieve goals. Golden expects to assemble the team this spring.

In a Feb. 10 email, Mayor Laura Weinberg highlighted city o cials and community members’ ongoing work to “live up to our value as a welcoming and inclusive city.”

“I applaud the Golden Transcript’s work to identify its role in racial inequities in the past and its role in systemic racism,” she stated. “ e City of Golden has undertaken similar work … (and) I look forward to this year’s actions to take the information from our new REDI plan and put community-driven solutions into practice.”

For the Golden Transcript

While the Transcript’s ownership and newsroom has changed greatly since the late 1960s and early ‘70s, it’s not immune from the biases and attitudes that riddled its past coverage and contributed to systemic racism in and around Golden.

Scrable said reading the Transcript’s past coverage of the Black community can be “demoralizing,” but even recent stories have failed to represent Black voices.

He pointed to an Aug. 31, 2020 Transcript story about City Council’s decision to display a “Golden Stands With Black Lives” banner over Washington Avenue. e story said the banner would be displayed for 60 days, “an amount of time intended to symbolize how long it took for slave ships to cross the Atlantic.”

Scrable and his GAC co-chairs did advocate for 60 days, but they never assigned any symbolism or signicance to the number.

“It might’ve been said (in the meeting), but it wasn’t us,” Scrable said of

GAC. “It

was a misquote.”

After the Aug. 31, 2020 story, Scrable received about 20 phone calls from people upset about the supposed symbolism. He felt the Transcript hadn’t done enough research and ultimately misrepresented the facts, and that insensitivity created a very frustrating experience.

He wanted the Transcript to ensure there are positive stories about people from historically marginalized groups, and do better educating Goldenites about their neighbors’ achievements and experiences.

Scrable added: “I’m looking to the Transcript to paint a positive picture for all people of color … and representing ‘all’ versus ‘a few.’” e Colorado Community Media newsroom acknowledges it has work to do, and this February 2023 report is only the rst step in what the team hopes will open a wider conversation about systemic racism and media coverage for years to come. Working on this report brought CCM sta

members face-to-face with outdated practices and implicit biases.

Going forward, CCM’s goal is to include more voices of color in the newsroom and on the pages of its two dozen publications, Publisher Linda Shapley said. CCM wants to ensure all local voices are heard and included, while also re ecting on racial equity, diversity and inclusion. CCM will strive to consider the lenses through which the sta decides to cover stories in the rst place. Appreciating di erences in CCM’s coverage areas, like history and culture, will guide the newsroom in its e orts.

Other newspapers such as e New York Times, the Washington Post, e Kansas City Star, Philadelphia Inquirer and more have done similar analyses of their past coverage, and the Transcript encourages other newspapers in the region and across the country to do so as well, Shapley said, adding that it wouldn’t have been possible without a Colorado Media Project grant.

For all journalists, Porter stressed the importance of continuing to diversify newsrooms and ensuring fair, balanced and objective coverage and “stop convicting people without evidence.”

He called on more publications to review their past coverage and acknowledge its harmful impacts, saying it’s important to shine a light on the truth, to be honest and to be transparent.

“If we’re ever going to get past this, it’s going to take some truthtelling,” he said. “It will be hard. It will be di cult. But it really is one of the last vestiges to make this country what it said it was in the beginning — freedom and liberty for all. Which has not been the case for us.”

Jameka Lewis, Allan Tellis, Kristen Fiore, Rylee Dunn, Christy Steadman, Steve Smith and Deborah Grigsby contributed to this report. Greg Moore contributed as an editor.

A banner reading “Golden Stands with Black Lives” hangs from the iconic “Welcome to Golden” sign over Washington Avenue in September 2020. After declaring racism as a public health crisis in 2020, among other e orts, Golden recently adopted a Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan. COURTESY OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN

Today’s a ordable housing emergency is compounded for our Black, Latinx, and Native American neighbors who face historical barriers designed to exclude them from generational wealth-building as well as present-day ingrained prejudices. is is not a healthy situation for our community or our nation.

Visionary racial justice leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. fought to pass the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA), enacted 55 years ago this April. anks to the FHA, local groups like the Denver Metro Fair Housing Center (funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — HUD, help persons facing discrimination to le complaints with Colorado’s Civil Rights Division or in federal court. And the framers of the federal law had the wisdom to include a provision for “A rmatively Furthering Fair Housing” which requires local governments to take steps to reverse historic segregation via a renewing ve-year action plan they submit to HUD.

Still, many folks in white skin identity today do not realize the extensive bene ts of living, working, and learning in diverse communities for all racial and ethnic groups. Major employers are realizing the bene ts, but the embrace of diversity lags in our suburbs.

As we work together locally to cope with the a ordable housing crisis, we need to use all the tools provided by federal and state law to increase local diversity. Let’s move toward a Denver metropolitan area where every individual, group, and community enjoys equal housing opportunity and access in a biasfree and open housing market, where integrated neighborhoods are the norm, and the private and public sector guarantee civil rights.

John Paul Marosy, outreach and education coordinator, Denver Metro Fair Housing Center

Je erson County

Say no to 300

I am voting no on 300 and I urge you to vote no, too. Our community will not bene t from approving this ballot initiative.

We are having a special election on March 7 because a group of petitioners want to change how our city manages referendums and initiatives. e petitioners suggest several reasons for wanting to amend Littleton’s charter.

First, they say they want to protect our First Amendment rights to petition our government by restoring ballot access for voters. Our First Amendment rights are not under attack and our citizens have always had the right to put referendums and initiatives on the ballot. Ballot measure 300 is proof of this fact.

Second, they say we are not in compliance with state statutes. is is false. Our current petition processes follow all the laws of the state. As a home-rule municipality our charter is our guiding document and the voice of our citizens. It was created with local values in mind. ird, the supporters want to

decrease the number of signatures required to overturn a city council approved ordinance. e group behind this initiative has just proven that our process and our signature thresholds work. is group got the required number of signatures to send this to a vote. I applaud their civic engagement, and I respect our city charter and the petition process it outlines. We don’t need to x something that isn’t broken. Changing our charter should require more community voices, not fewer.

Finally, the petitioners say that more citizen-led referendums and initiatives will improve the democratic process. However, having multiple, unpredictable, and inconsistently-timed special elections is proven to result in much lower voter participation than general elections. More unplanned special elections will be a nancial burden to the city and may require service cuts from necessary city functions. Littleton already has a process for citizen-led petitions that works. ere is no reason to change it, and doing so is not in the best interest of our community. Please join me on March 7 by voting in the best interest of our community and vote no on 300.

Kyle Schlachter Mayor of Littleton

Unhappy about story is letter will be worth writing if it can convert just one of your liberal journalists away from their woke ideology as expressed in your second of a four-part series, e Long Way Home by Nina Joss and Haley Lena Jan. 26, reporting on the housing crisis. e article is the epitome of woke ideology because of the accusations made from beginning to end that essentially accuse the U.S. for systemic injustice in housing.

Instead of any consideration of our American ideals around equal opportunity this article focuses on a socialist Utopian ideal with many examples of unequal outcomes. Not surprisingly this very lengthy article ends advocating mandatory liberal training to combat discrimination for real estate licenses.

First, don’t ask about the facts in this article, ask why the Colorado Community Media (CCM) is editorializing about identity politics and race baiting. No mention is made of the problem put on hardships cases which are the outcome of living in a free society, also known as an imperfect world, which is the history of our country. e Long Way Home series is being published in all the 24 metro Denver newspapers, and for a good reason none of the testimonials in this week’s article relate to any of our Douglas County jurisdictions.

Nobody will disagree that it’s easy to nd biased journalists these days, they’re everywhere, so the fault of biased reporting lies with the editors and a biased sta . e paper identi es 25 people contributing to this series. I can’t help but wonder where people like these journalists come from. For me, I don’t personally know anyone whose as severely handicapped with racial prejudice about identity politics as the publishers of this article.

Smith Young Parker

Residents frustrated over lack of action

Airport, FAA disagree on data

BY TAYLER SHAW TSHAW@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As representatives of the Centennial Airport and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continue to disagree about why more aircraft are ying over nearby neighborhoods, residents are frustrated by a lack of progress.

“I’m begging you for solutions,” said Audra Dubler, a Greenwood Village resident, during the Feb. 9 Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority Board of Commissioners meeting. “I think there’s a huge amount of frustration and confusion. I have no rights. Everyone’s telling me, ‘No, the FAA,’ or it’s you, or who is it? Everyone keeps passing the buck.”

Dubler is a leader of Quiet Skies

Over Arapahoe County, a group of residents advocating for changes to be made to address safety and noise concerns at Centennial Airport.

For months, they have been attending meetings to raise concerns about increased air tra c, noise and lead pollution impacting residents, speci cally those living north of Arapahoe Road.

At the Feb. 1 Centennial Airport Community Noise Roundtable meeting, roughly 150 people attended either in person or virtually.

“ e residents are mad. I’m mad. Because it’s maddening to have as many as two ight school planes at a time or more buzzing over your house for hours on end,” said Greenwood Village Councilmember Donna Johnston. “ e residents are not going to stop until there’s a resolution because their homes, their sanctuary, their lives are being a ected.”

e increase in noise and air tra c began approximately eight months ago, Dubler said. “We’re not antiairport. We’re not anti-pilot. We just want our homes back that we had eight months ago,” she said.

FAA denies making changes post mid-air collision

While residents have reported an

increase in the frequency of ights, speci cally ight school training aircraft, going over their homes, the Centennial Airport and FAA do not agree on the cause.

During the January roundtable meeting, a few people said tra c patterns had changed due to two planes colliding in midair over the Cherry Creek State Park area in May 2021, leading to more aircraft tra c above neighborhoods.

However, Michael Valencia, general manager of the FAA Denver District, disagreed that there has been a pattern change.

Valencia attended the Feb. 1 meeting in person and was joined virtually by three other FAA representatives. To help clarify what the FAA did after the mid-air collision, the administration gave a presentation.

In its assessment of the mid-air collision, the FAA “determined that we saw some drift,” Valencia said.

“When we looked at this event and how we operate as a whole here in Centennial, and other airports, we determined that we really need to tighten up our ship,” he said.

According to the presentation,

air tra c controllers at Centennial Airport “received speci c refresher training on the requirement of positive control and the managing of base turns to mitigate potential con icts with aircraft landing the parallel runway and prevent the reoccurrence of another mid-air collision.”

Valencia explained that in the case of the mid-air collision, if the controller had directed one of the pilots to extend the tra c pattern, the collision likely would not have occured.

“I directed them (the controllers) that if you’re in that situation, then you’re going to take control and you’re going to prevent a collision. And you’re going to extend that downwind and manage those turns to make sure that we are preventing those,” Valencia said.

FAA representatives said this is not a change.

“We made no changes to the procedures in how we operate tra c beyond servicing the demand that is coming in. I want to make sure that I stress that,” said Justin Biassou, an FAA community engagement o cer.

“ ere was no procedural change, there was nothing that was written.”

A few members of the roundtable disagreed with the claim that no change was made.

“It’s a matter of semantics, again. The training that the air traffic controllers got caused a difference in their approach to dealing with planes. And that difference in the approach to their dealing with planes has caused the increased noise over the communities,” said Alison Biggs, a Douglas County representative on the roundtable.

Castle Pines Councilmember Chris Eubanks, also a member of the roundtable, added, “When something is done one way and then an event happens and then it’s done di erently, I don’t know how else you can classify that as other than a change.”

FAA looks at data

According to the FAA’s analysis, the primary factor for the increase in the “visual ight rules (VFR) pattern

Representatives of the Centennial Airport Community Noise Roundtable listen to Centennial City Councilmember Candace Moon during the Jan. 4 meeting.

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footprint” at Centennial Airport is increased aircraft volume in the trafc pattern.

“We think the causal factor is basically the amount of aircraft that are in the pattern these days,” said Joseph Bert, manager of the FAA’s operations support group.

According to the presentation, as more aircraft are added to the tra c pattern, the pattern elongates due to saturation and having to maintain a safe amount of distance between the aircraft.

When it comes to tracking ight activity, there are two di erent types of counting — ight tracks versus operations.

For example, if an aircraft does six touch-and-go landings, which is when a plane lands and takes o again without coming to a full stop, it will count as one ight track. However, that same scenario would count as 12 operations, because each touch-and-go landing will count as an arrival and departure, Bert explained.

e FAA said Centennial Airport’s ight tracks were up 23.7% from 2019 to 2022. Speci cally over Greenwood Village, the number of ight tracks was up 74.9% from 2019 to 2022, according to the FAA’s data.

e FAA noted there is not a direct correlation between the reported overall track increase and the track increase over Greenwood Village.

“ is is due to the daisy chain effect. Once a tipping point is reached where the pattern elongates to Greenwood Village, it is not just that single extra aircraft in the pattern that will over y the area. Every aircraft in the pattern will, in turn, follow that same elongated ground track,” according to the presentation.

“ e substantial growth at APA (Centennial Airport) has resulted in the signi cant increase of the number of VFR (tracks) over Greenwood Village,” Bert said. “I’m not saying it’s solely the amount of aircraft. ere are other situations and examples that would cause this, but the major-

ity of it, we think, is the amount of aircraft in the pattern itself.”

Airport disagrees with FAA’s conclusion

In a Feb. 6 interview with Colorado Community Media, Centennial Airport Executive Director and CEO Mike Fronapfel said the airport believes the change that caused more aircraft to y over neighborhoods happened well before eight months ago.

e airport thinks that after the mid-air collision occurred, the FAA local control tower changed the way it managed the aircraft in the pattern, resulting in the pattern getting extended more frequently over the community, he said.

“We stand by that, still. We disagree with the FAA’s analysis, or initial analysis, of that,” Fronapfel said.  He thinks the FAA is concerned about changing procedures or changing the tra c pattern because doing so could trigger an environmental process requirement.

“And so, by saying they changed the way they manage the aircraft, not speci cally the pattern, I think that they’re trying to get away from getting caught for not doing an environmental (process), essentially,” Fronapfel said. “I would agree with them, maybe speci cally, they didn’t change the pattern, but … when they changed the managing of the tra c, that resulted in the pattern changing.

“And their contention is that it wasn’t them, it was the number of aircraft that are in the pattern at any given time,” Fronapfel said. “Well, the numbers we have, that were provided by the FAA’s own tower personnel, prove that wrong.”

During the Feb. 1 meeting, Fronapfel said the airport’s ight operations in 2022 were less than in 2019.

“Looking at our overall operations for 2019, we had 355,784 operations, and that’s based on (the) tower counts. In 2022, that dropped to 302,660,” Fronapfel said. “If we look at just the local tra c — which, in our view … the majority of the local tra c is pattern tra c — in 2019, it was 167,818. And then in 2022, it dropped down to 132,026.”

Local tra c refers to when the aircraft stays within the airspace during their ight, he explained, and most of the local tra c is training aircrafts.

“We do agree that there’s more aircraft over the community now than there used to be. Where we disagree is about why that is occurring,” Fronapfel said. “We disagree that there are more aircraft utilizing the pattern now than there was in 2019. We actually think it’s just the opposite.”

Responding to Fronapfel, Bert noted the di erence between ight tracks and ight operations.

“When you say you dispute our data, you’re really comparing apples and oranges,” Bert said. “What we’re trying to tell you is our data is showing that it is because we have more aircraft in the pattern overall, period.”

Fronapfel said there are a lot of di erent ways the data can be split and the airport will be doing more analysis.

“I’m hopeful that we’re gonna be able to come back to the next meeting and have a uni ed analysis of what’s occurred,” he said.

Regarding the timeline of when a change occurred, Fronapfel said he can’t explain why some community members noticed a change eight months ago.

“I’m hoping to be able to explain more of that once we dive into the data a little bit more,” he said. “ ere’s all kinds of variables that could be at play.”

The role of flight schools

Part of the equation in addressing resident concerns is the ight schools, Fronapfel said.

“You need both the FAA and the pilots to, you know, concur and agree and make an e ort to keep that pattern south of Arapahoe Road,” he said. “And from what I’ve heard … they want to be good neighbors as much as they can.”

ere are four major ight schools — Flights Inc, ATP Flight School, Independence Aviation and Aspen Flying Club — and a few di erent ight clubs that utilize Centennial Airport, Fronapfel said.

“What we’ve heard from the ight schools is there’s a really strong demand for pilots right now,” he said. “So, the training activity has increased.”

e airport recently had a meeting with some of the ight schools, which Fronapfel said was productive. Part of the conversation was how training aircraft y in the tra c pattern when they are not being directed by the FAA’s control tower.

ere are some scenarios where the pilots are given speci c instructions by the FAA to extend the tra c pattern, Fronapfel said. However, there are other times where it is the pilot and instructor who determine whether to extend the pattern.

“When they have the option and when they have control over whether they extend or not, we want them to follow the noise abatement guidelines whenever possible. And so, they were receptive to that,” Fronapfel said. “It’s not the last meeting we’ll have with them. I think we need to continue that conversation.”

Anonymous letter from flight instructor Fronapfel shared with Colorado Community Media a copy of an anonymous open letter from someone who claims to be a ight instructor at Centennial Airport.

“I write this anonymously because it is clear the public has picked on ight schools and pilots as the one to blame for the recent noise issues since the Key Lime mid-air and now the issues with leaded fuel,” the letter states. “I would like to answer some of the public’s questions from my point of view. You will nd that we agree with you on virtually all counts.”

In the letter, the anonymous source said leaded fuel needs to go away entirely, and they rarely think there is a need for any training aircraft to y over the communities north of Arapahoe Road.

“Virtually all tra c being routed that direction is doing so at the command of the tower, who is operating under the direction of the FAA. We don’t like ying this way … as it puts us over residential areas and

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increases our time in the pattern,” the letter states.

ey said the ight school they work with will commit to voluntary additions to the current voluntary noise abatement procedure.

ese additions include: restricting northbound touch-and-go landings to occur between 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.; staying south of Arapahoe Road after departure when the control tower and safety of ight allows; and working with the other ight schools towards reforming the practice areas to accommodate the new and existing residential developments.

“Ultimately the responsibility of returning pattern operations to its previous standard rests solely with the FAA. e failures of one private pilot does not represent the capabilities of the hundreds of commercial pilots that operate at this eld every day,” the letter states, referring to the mid-air collision.

“ e non-standard tra c environment has increased both pilot and controller work-load, reducing safety for us in the air, and the people below us.”

Can a capacity limit be placed on the tra c pattern?

One idea that was raised during the roundtable meeting was limiting the amount of aircraft permitted in the tra c pattern at a time.

A few representatives of the roundtable inquired whether the FAA would restrict the number of aircraft

in the pattern.

“We have strict constraints that are given to us by Congress, and our mandate is to ensure safe operations within the pattern in the local area,” Biassou said. “We know that the airport receives AIP (Airport Improvement Program) grants funding from the federal government. And so to that end, that would also make it difcult for the airport to restrict those.”

Fronapfel said that because the airport has accepted federal funds, it is limited in what it can do, adding that the airport doesn’t have juris-

diction over the airspace as the FAA does. He noted that the federal grant dollars are paid for by the users of the airport, not the taxpayers in the jurisdictions.

When asked if it is possible to establish a capacity limit of how many aircraft are allowed within the tra c pattern at a time, Fronapfel said he is not sure.

“I don’t believe it is. I don’t believe we can arti cially dictate what that limit is. However, that being said, we are getting legal advice on that,” he said.

Fronapfel and members of the Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority Board of Commissioners met with an aviation attorney in private before the Feb. 9 board meeting to get legal advice and understand what their legal parameters are.

Afterwards, during the board meeting, Arapahoe County Commissioner Jessica Campbell-Swanson said she had a lot more hope going into that meeting than she did coming out.

“I am crestfallen and frustrated about our own ability,” CampbellSwanson said. “We were very disappointed in what we heard, in what the … airport’s capabilities and authority is.”

Fronapfel said the legal expert will attend the next roundtable meeting, scheduled for March 1, to give the same presentation that was given to the board and to answer questions from the public.

Airport’s next steps

Any solution has to involve the FAA being at the table, Fronapfel said Feb. 6.

“I’m hoping that as we get more evidence that shows that it was the management of the tra c versus the amount of tra c in the pattern, that

that’ll help our argument with the FAA to revisit that again,” he said. “I think there are de nitely avenues to a solution, we just haven’t reached the nal solution yet.”

During the Feb. 9 meeting, Fronapfel shared ve measures the airport wants to pursue:

1. Communicate with the FAA to nd solutions to minimize the extension of the tra c pattern. 2. Communicate with the ight schools so they can reduce the number of times the pattern gets extended when they are not actively being given FAA instructions. 3. Work with legal counsel to understand the airport’s ability to reduce the community’s exposure to aircraft noise and lead emissions.  4. Meet with ight schools, xed-base operators and their fuel suppliers to expedite having an FAA-approved unleaded alternative fuel available.  5. Provide the airport board with recommendations “and possibly a draft resolution” at the March meeting that outlines nancial initiatives the airport can provide to accelerate the transition to unleaded fuel.

Dubler of Quiet Skies Over Arapahoe County gave members of the board a document with proposed solutions, such as issuing landing fees for aircrafts and fees for leaded fuels.

It was decided some members of the board and members of Quiet Skies Over Arapahoe County would meet together in a smaller working group to further discuss the potential solutions.

“ is group is committed to working with the neighborhood and with you all. We are as frustrated as you are,” said ad Bagnato, chair of the board of commissioners. “We are, again, as committed as you are to try to nd a solution.”

Noise and a busy airport has created controversy for the Centennial Airport, which has oversight from representatives in Arapahoe and Douglas counties.

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Hickenlooper quietly convenes senators representing Colorado River Basin

Western water woes are topic

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

John Hickenlooper has been quietly convening fellow U.S. senators from six other Colorado River Basin states over the past year in an e ort to assist in the increasingly frantic conservation negotiations around the parched and overtaxed waterway that some 40 million people in the Southwest rely upon.

Hickenlooper, a Democrat, sees the informal, bipartisan caucus as a way to mediate interstate disagreements over how the river should be managed — and who should have to use less of its water — in the hope of preventing federal intervention. While states’ governors may not meet on a regular basis, senators from across the river basin are frequently together in Washington, D.C.

“ e idea here is that we’re looking at how to use more carrot and less stick,” he said. “ e key here is the federal government is not the best one to force a deal. e best solution is going to be a solution that all seven states sign o on.”

e group of senators has been meeting every few weeks to discuss Colorado River Basin issues.

e gatherings have become more frequent amid Biden administration deadlines for basin states to come to a water conservation agreement that

prevents Lake Mead and Lake Powell levels from dropping too low.

e reservoirs are already at historically low levels, yet the negotiation deadlines have come and passed without a deal.

“I think the senators can provide additional information that maybe the states don’t all have,” Hickenlooper said, “and make sure that everyone is working together.”

Hickenlooper didn’t provide details on what the caucus has discussed, but he said the group has met with Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton, who warned that 4 million acre-feet in existing water use must be pared back.

“We’re all really hearing what priorities and speci c issues are with each state and with the water users in each state,” he said. “As long as we understand that and are working from the same set of facts, we’re probably going to come up with a much better solution than if things degenerate into lawsuits.”

Hickenlooper said the caucus is looking to formalize itself with a chair and subchairs from the upper and lower Colorado River Basin.

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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U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper speaks at an event regarding new federal funding slated for I-70 on Feb. 23. He has been working with other senators on Colorado River problems.

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Creek is 5A state swim champ

Bruins take title for third year in a row

BY JIM BENTON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Cherry Creek’s Lawson Ficken won two events, Charlotte Wilson captured a third individual title and the Bruins’ three relay teams were also rst. at all added up to Cherry Creek winning its third straight Class 5A state swimming championship on Feb. 10 at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in ornton.

It was the 29th overall state title for the Bruins since the sport was rst sanctioned in 1972.

“It’s always fun to win,” said Cherry Creek coach Karin Olmstead Dinsdale. “ is is an amazing group of kids. We have seven that have carried on the last four years and they have become part of my family and in many ways they are a special group.

“ e leadership we have on this team has been really good. When these seniors lost four years ago and were runners-up, they came back with vengeance and said never again. ey love to win and I love that. ey’ve got that taste of winning.

Cherry Creek’s dominance can put a lot of pressure on Bruins swimmers to keep being one of the top state contending teams each season, but it seems like nobody feels any undue pressure.

“Pressure is a privilege,” added Dinsdale, who is a former Cherry Creek swimmer.

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BY JIM BENTON SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Hard work is starting to pay dividends for Highlands Ranch basketball player Ezra Simonich.

Simonich, a 5-foot-10 sophomore, scored 23 points on Feb. 7 in a Continental League showdown against Regis Jesuit which matched two top ten teams in the CHSAANow state rankings.

“I’ve been working real hard to get my shot going and I felt like the habit paid o ,” said Simonich.

She made ve 3-point baskets to lead the way for the fth-ranked Falcons, who used a strong second and third periods in which they outscored the Raiders 38-19 to pull away from the Raiders, who came into the game ranked sixth.

“We passed really well and we came out a lot faster and harder

I’m really lucky to be in a scenario to feel that. I put it on myself because I don’t want to let my team down but it’s fun. It’s de nitely scary. I was really nervous and I just tried to channel mine into being excited.”

Cherry Creek amassed 448 points in the title victory while Regis Jesuit was the runner-up with 367.5 points.

Two-time Class 4A state champion Heritage, which this season moved up to 5A, was third with 321 points.

e Eagles’ Mary Macauley, a twotime state champ last season, added

championship with a winning time of 2:00.67.

Ficken, a senior who will continue her education and swimming at Auburn next season, won the 50 freestyle in 22.64 and the 100 freestyle with a time of 48.77.

“It feels so good,” she said. “I’m just so lucky to swim with these girls and I’m just so honored to be able to pick it up and compete.”

Wilson, a junior, captured the 100 backstroke in 52.95.

Both Ficken and Wilson were on

Falcons girls getting tougher

than we have this season,” added Simonich. “ at’s why we got up and then we were able to keep that throughout the game. We’ve grown a lot. We all know where each other is at and we’re really playing well as a team.”

“ e kids played great as a team,” said Falcons coach Caryn Jarocki. “ ey actually executed the game plan better than we have in the past. ey are learning to take what we learn in practice and executing that in the game.”

Highlands Ranch’s varsity roster is young with ve freshman, three sophomores and two seniors.

“We are a very young team and they are growing by leaps and bounds,” Jarocki said. “ ey are getting tougher every day. ey have been thrusted into roles that they shouldn’t have to play but they are. ey are young and they are doing it.

I’m proud of them.

“Now the sky is the limit. I think they are feeling the fever of it. ey are gaining con dence every day.” e Falcons’ two seniors, Mad-

with Alexis Greenhawt and Ana Loveridge that set a state record in the preliminaries and then broke it in the nals.

e Creek foursome turned in a 1:30.81 clocking in the nals which was 11 hundredths of a second o the national record.

In the 200 medley relay, Wilson, Katie Cohen, Maren McDonald and Alana Maxey won in 1:47.81 while Creek’s 400 relay team of Greenhawt, Ficken, Loveridge and Teagan Steinmetz won with a time of 3:23.66.

Isabella Shumpert (22) of Highlands Ranch gets a rebound slapped away by a Regis Jesuit player during the Feb. 7 game in which the Falcons won, 65-43.

Ranch hoops team is young but playing hard

Cherry Creek’s girls swimming team won its third straight state championship and 29th overall on Feb. 10. PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON

Tori Baker (1) of Highlands Ranch drives around Lexi Meyer of Regis Jesuit during the Feb. 7 game. The Falcons won, 65-43, to remain unbeaten in the league. PHOTOS BY

TOUGHER

die Groth and Bailey Williamson, had 12 and 10 points respectively against Regis.

In the game against Legend on Feb. 7, the Falcons rolled to a 50-39 victory.

Highlands Ranch faced piggyback league rst place games against both Regis and Legend and

won both contests.

With two games remaining in the regular season, the Falcons are 8-0 in the league and 18-3 overall. Legend is 7-1 and 14-7 while underRidge is 7-2 in the league and Regis 6-2.

Jarocki swelled her Colorado allbest winning mark to 716-186 in 34 years of coaching, including the rst 11 seasons at Colorado Academy. She has helped Highlands Ranch win seven state championships.

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Public Trustees

NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS CRS 38-38-111(2.5b)(3a,b,d)(5)

PUBLIC TRUSTEE SALE NO. 0320-2022

To: Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust or other person entitled.

You are advised that there are overbid funds due you. This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

Name of Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust

Dylan Dick Address of Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust

15700 E Jamison Dr Unit 1-305, Centennial, CO 80112

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

October 22, 2020

Recording Information E0144226 Book: N/A Page:

Legal Description of Property

See Attached Legal Description

Street Address of Property 15700 E Jamison Dr Unit 1-305, Centennial, CO 80112

NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED OVERBID FUNDS

I sold at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on 10/26/22, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, to the highest and best bidder for cash, the real property described above. An overbid was realized from the sale and the funds must be claimed by the Obligor/Grantor(s) on the evidence of debt and/or Deed of Trust or other persons entitled thereto within six months from the date of sale.

THE STATE OF COLORADO REQUIRES US TO NOTIFY YOU THAT YOUR PROPERTY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE STATE TREASURER IF YOU DO NOT CONTACT US BEFORE 4/26/2023 as part of the "Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act", pursuant to Colorado law.

First Publication: 1/26/23

Last Publication: 2/23/23

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

Date: 12/29/22

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

By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 9/2012

Legal Notice NO. 0320-2022

First Publication: 1/26/23

Last Publication: 2/23/23

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

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0590-2022

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

On November 22, 2022, 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)

Randall M. Johnson

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. ("MERS") as nominee for Loan Simple, Inc., Its Successors and Assigns

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

NewRez LLC, F/K/A New Penn Financial, LLC,

D/B/A Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing

Date of Deed of Trust

March 25, 2015

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

April 02, 2015

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

D5032362

Original Principal Amount

$155,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$134,581.56

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 8, SOUTHCREEK SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as: 15902 E Nichols Ave, Englewood, CO 80112.

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, 03/22/2023, 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: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

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: 11/22/2022 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: Susan Sandstrom, 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-22-947588-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.

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. 0590-2022

First Publication: 1/26/2023

Last Publication: 2/23/2023

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent City and County

PUBLIC NOTICE CITY OF CENTENNIAL

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, February 14, 2023, the Centennial City Council passed on first reading:

ORDINANCE NO. 2023-O-02

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO

AMENDING SECTIONS OF ARTICLE 3, TITLED

MUNICIPAL COURT, OF CHAPTER 2 OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL CODE

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

By: Barbara Setterlind, MMC, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531050-60050

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Public Notice

ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

To whom it may concern: This notice is given with regard to items in the custody of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office that have been released for public auction. The Sheriff’s Office will release numerous items including but not limited to, bicycles, jewelry, audio/ visual equipment, automotive parts, tools, sports equipment (such as camping, rafting, skiing gear, etc.), household goods and other items of personal property to a private auction company identified as Roller Auction. These items will be released for on-line bidding on the last Tuesday of each month and the auction is open to the public.

If any citizen believes they have property in the possession of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office that can be identified, and for which they can show proof of ownership associated with a written report that has been filed with the Sheriff’s Office prior to this announcement, can contact the evidence section of the Sheriff’s Office.

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board

Legal Notice No. Arap 1154

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

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

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Centennial, Colorado will conduct a public hearing on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. regarding ORDINANCE 2023-O-02, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CENTENNIAL, COLORADO

AMENDING SECTIONS OF ARTICLE 3, TITLED MUNICIPAL COURT, OF CHAPTER 2 OF THE CENTENNIAL MUNICIPAL CODE. The public hearing will be held at the Centennial Civic Center, 13133 E. Arapahoe Road, Council Chambers, Centennial, Colorado 80112. Copies

Legal Notice No. 531049-60049

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Public Notice

Proposed Flood Hazard Determinations for Arapahoe County, Colorado and Incorporated Areas

The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued a preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), and where applicable, Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report, reflecting proposed flood hazard determinations within Arapahoe County, Colorado and Incorporated Areas. These flood hazard determinations may include the addition or modification of Base Flood Elevations, base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Area boundaries or zone designations, or the regulatory floodway.

Technical information or comments are solicited on the proposed flood hazard determinations shown on the preliminary FIRM and/or FIS report for Arapahoe County, Colorado and Incorporated Areas. These flood hazard determinations are the basis for the floodplain management measures that your community is required to either adopt or show evidence of being already in effect in order to qualify or remain qualified for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program. However, before these determinations are effective for floodplain management purposes, you will be provided an opportunity to appeal the proposed information. For information on the statutory 90-day period provided for appeals, as well as a complete listing of the communities affected and the locations where copies of the FIRM are available for review, please visit FEMA’s website at https://www. floodmaps.fema.gov/fhm/BFE_Status/bfe_main. asp or call the FEMA Mapping and Insurance eXchange (FMIX) toll free at 1-877-FEMA MAP (1-877-336-2627).

Legal Notice No. 531023-60023

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Public Notice

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing before the Englewood City Council will be held on March 6, 2023 at the hour of 6:00 p.m. in the Englewood Council Chambers, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, CO 80110.

Case ZON2022-001 Planned Unit Development (PUD): The issue to be heard before the City Council is a proposed planned unit development (PUD). The proposed PUD includes 361 apartment units in a four-story building surrounding a parking structure and 34 rental townhomes in eight three-story buildings with private garages. The site is 8.611 acres and will have 645 off street parking spaces.

Case SUB2022-009 Major Subdivision:

The issue to be heard before the City Council is a proposed major subdivision to combine several lots and dedicate public right-of-way in conjunction with the proposed Planned Unit Development (PUD) case ZON2022-001.

Address: 1314 West Oxford Avenue

A copy of the proposed documents may be reviewed in the Community Development Department. Anyone interested in this matter may be heard at the Public Hearing by calling 303.762.2430 or by emailing CityClerk@englewoodco.gov prior to the public hearing for directions on providing public comment virtually or in person.

By Order of the Englewood City Council Stephanie Carlile, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 301739

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The regular meeting of the Board of Adjustment and Appeals is scheduled for March 08, 2023, at 7:00 p.m., the meeting will be held virtually.

Case # VAR2023-001. APPLICANT: Craig Demmon. The applicant is requesting a variance to encroach approximately five (5) feet, ten (10) inches into the required twenty-five (25) foot minimum front setback to add a proposed enclosed garage for a property in the R-1-A zone district. This is a variance to Section 16-6-1.2: Summary Table of Dimensional Requirements for Accessory Structures, of the Englewood Municipal Code.

PREMISES: 1321 E. DARTMOUTH AVE.

Case # VAR2023-002. APPLICANT: Kelley Thompson. The applicant is requesting variances to encroach approximately three (3) feet, four (4) inches into the required five (5) foot minimum side setback, and to encroach approximately eight (8) feet, eight (8) inches into the required twenty-five (25) foot minimum front setback, and to encroach approximately one (1) foot, zero (0) inches vertically into the required bulk plane to add a proposed second story addition for a property in the R-1-C zone district. These are a variances to Section 16-6-1.1: Summary Table of Dimensional Requirements for Principal Structures and Section 16-6-1:G. Bulk Plane, of the Englewood Municipal Code.

PREMISES: 3021 S. CORONA ST.

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. 301765

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Metropolitan Districts

Public Notice CALL FOR NOMINATIONS §§ 1-13.5-501; 1-13.5-303, C.R.S.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the eligible electors of the Southglenn Metropolitan District No. 2, City of Centennial, Arapahoe County, Colorado (the “District”).

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, two (2) directors will be elected to serve until May 2025 and three (3) directors will be elected to serve until May 2027. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the board of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form from the Designated Election Official (“DEO”) at 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial, CO 80122 or via telephone at 303-858-1800, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Self-Nomination and Acceptance Forms are also available online at https://whitebearankele.com/.

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form is the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on Friday, February 24, 2023. If the DEO determines a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form is not sufficient, the form may be amended prior to 5:00 p.m. on February 24, 2023. Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit curing of an insufficient form after this date and time. An Affidavit of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate must be submitted to the office of the DEO by the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that information on obtaining an absentee ballot may be obtained from the DEO, and applications for an absentee ballot must be filed with the DEO no later than the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on April 25, 2023.

SOUTHGLENN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 2

By: Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 531048-60048

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen Public Notice CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

§§ 1-13.5-501; 1-13.5-303, C.R.S.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and, particularly, to the eligible electors of the Kent Place Metropolitan District Nos. 1 & 2, City of Englewood, Arapahoe County, Colorado (each a “District” and collectively, the “Districts”)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election will be held on May 2, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, and for each District, two (2) directors will be elected to serve until May 2027. Eligible electors of the Districts interested in serving on the boards of directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form from the Designated Election Official (“DEO”) at 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial, CO 80122 or via telephone at 303-858-1800, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Self-Nomination and Acceptance Forms are also available online at https://whitebearankele.com/.

The deadline to submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form is the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on Friday, February 24, 2023. If the DEO determines a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form is not sufficient, the form may be amended prior to 5:00 p.m. on February 24, 2023. Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit curing of an insufficient form after this date and time. An Affidavit of Intent to be a Write-In Candidate must be submitted to the office of the DEO by the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that information on obtaining an absentee ballot may be obtained from the DEO, and applications for an absentee ballot must be filed with the DEO no later than the close of business (5:00 p.m.) on April 25, 2023.

KENT PLACE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 & 2

By: Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 301760

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the District will conduct a regular election on the 2nd day of May, 2023, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. At that time, (2) two directors will be elected for a 4-year term expiring in May 2027.

In order to be a candidate for one of the director positions, a qualified individual must submit a Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form. Eligible electors of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may obtain a Self-Nomination and Acceptance form from the District’s Designated Election Official (DEO):

Sue Blair, DEO elections@crsofcolorado.com

Community Resource Services of Colorado 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Phone: 303-381-4960

Offices Hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form must be returned to the Designated Election Official by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. The form can be emailed to elections@crsofcolorado.com.

A Self-Nomination and Acceptance Form that is not sufficient may be amended once at any time before 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24, 2023. Earlier submittal is encouraged as the deadline will not permit correcting an insufficient form if received at 5:00 p.m.

Affidavit of Intent To Be A Write-In-Candidate forms must be submitted to the office of the Designated Election Official by the close of business on Monday, February 27, 2023.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an application for an absentee ballot may be filed with the Designated Election Official, at the contact information referenced above, no later than the close of business on Tuesday, April 25, 2023.

LIBERTY HILL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

Sue Blair, Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. 531054

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Bids and Settlements

Public Notice NOTICE OF CONTRACTOR’S

FINAL SETTLEMENT

West Metro Fire Protection District Station No. 12 Renovations

West Metro Fire Protection District 433 South Allison Parkway Lakewood, CO 80226

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that West Metro Fire Protection District is announcing completion of the following construction project:

West Metro Fire Protection District Station No. 12 Renovations located at: 9990 West Alamo Place Littleton, CO 80123

Pursuant to C.R.S. §38-26-107, the General Contractor, PG Arnold Construction, LLC. and all contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, vendors and manufacturers who have provided any materials or labor in connection with this construction project, are hereby notified that Final Settlement on this construction project is scheduled for February 27, 2023. Final settlement will be held at the district headquarters, located at 433 South Allison Parkway Lakewood, CO 80226. The General Contractor, or any contractor, subcontractor, supplier, vendor and manufacturer who provided any materials or labor in connection with this construction project, and who claims to have not been paid for all or any portion of such materials or labor, shall submit a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim to West Metro Fire Protection District on or before the date and time scheduled for final settlement. All claims shall be submitted in writing to:

West Metro Fire Protection District c/o Jay Jackson, Division Chief – Support Services

433 South Allision Parkway Lakewood, CO 80226

By: /s/ Jay Jackson, Division Chief – Support Services

WEST METRO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT

Legal Notice No. 531028

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

ARAPAHOE COUNTY NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

ARAPAHOE COUNTY

17-Mile House Utility Improvements

Project No. C21-21

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, Colorado shall make final settlement with Dream Builders, Inc. for its work completed for Arapahoe County on the project identified as 17-Mile House Utility Improvements Project. The work generally consisted of installation of a domestic water into the home, connection of a sanitary sewer to the existing leech field, and installation of an irrigation system.

MMC, City Clerk

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed or any of its subcontractors or that has supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used by Dream Builders, Inc. or any of its subcontractors in or about the performance of the work done within unincorporated Arapahoe County, whose claim has not been paid by Concrete Express, Inc. or any of its subcontractors

may file a claim with the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County, 5334 S. Prince St., Littleton, CO 80120, at any time up to and including February 27, 2023.

This Notice is published in accordance with §3826-107, C.R.S., and all claims, if any, shall be filed in accordance with this statutory section. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement and/or claim prior to the aforementioned date for filing claims shall release Arapahoe County, its officers, agents and employees from any or all liability, claims, and suits for payment to Dream Builders, Inc.

Joan Lopez, Clerk to the Board

Legal Notice No. Arap 1149

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Summons and Sheriff Sale

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO

Case No.: 2022CV031011 Div: 202

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

PLAINTIFF: SABLE LANDING CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION

v. DEFENDANTS: ROY M. TREGGIARI

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS,

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 Civil Unit of the Sheriff's Office of Arapahoe County, Colorado at 10:00 O’clock

A.M., on the 23rd day of March, 2023, 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 THE 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 $16,402.55.

This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to under Order for Default Judgment and Order and Decree for Judicial Foreclosure dated November 10, 2022 and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq. by Sable Landing

Condominium Association the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on February 20, 2019 at Reception No. D9014549 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The foreclosure is based on a default under the Condominium Declaration for Sable Landing recorded on 10/18/1978 at 1903900, Book 3100 Page 471 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The Declaration establishes a lien for the benefit of Sable Landing Condominium Association against real property legal described as follows:

Condominium Unit 937, Condominium Building

9, Sable Landing, according to the Condominium Map for Sable Landing Subdivision Filing No. 1, Phase 5, recorded in Plat Book 48 at Page 35, and as defined in the Condominium Declaration recorded October 18, 1979 in Book 3100 at Page 471; and amendments and supplements thereto, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.;

And also known as: 14852 E. Kentucky Dr. #937, Aurora, CO 80012-1706.

The attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is: Kate M. Leason, Reg No. 41025, Altitude Community Law P.C., 555 Zang Street, Suite 100, Lakewood, Colorado 802281011, 303.432.9999.

DATED: December 27, 2022.

Tyler S. Brown, Arapahoe County Sheriff

By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 530924

First Publication: January 26, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

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

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO

Case No.: 2022CV031183 Div: 15

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY PLAINTIFF: CHESAPEAKE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.

v. DEFENDANTS: JOSH LETZ; JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.; and ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS,

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 A.M., on the 16th day of March, 2023, 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 THE 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 $12,346.08.

This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to Order for Default Judgment and Order and Decree for Judicial Foreclosure dated November 7, 2022, and C.R.S. §38-38-101 et seq. by CHESAPEAKE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on February 3, 2021 at 221021678 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The foreclosure is based on a default under the Amended and Restated Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions of Chesapeake Townhomes recorded at June 28, 2016 of the Reception #D6068747 records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The Declaration establishes a lien for the benefit of Chesapeake Homeowners Association, Inc. against real property legally described as follows:

Lot 105, Block 1, Olde Towne Subdivision Filing No. 2, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.; Also known as: 11652 E Bayaud Drive, Aurora, CO 80012-1248.

The attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is: Kate M. Leason, Reg No. 41025, Altitude Community Law P.C., 555 Zang Street, Suite 100, Lakewood, Colorado 802281011, 303.432.9999.

DATED December 13, 2022.

Tyler S. Brown Arapahoe County Sheriff

By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No. 530899

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

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

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO 7325 S Potomac St., #100 Centennial, CO 80112

Phone: 303.645.6600

Plaintiffs: DAVID B. COX AND LORNA L. COX vs.

Defendants: GREGORY L. MITCHELL, if living, AND CINDY L. MITCHELL, if living; any unknown heir thereof either named Defendant; and all unknown persons who claim any interest in the subject matter of this action

Attorney for Plaintiffs: Kyle England, Esq. #51343 SPAETH & DOYLE LLP 501 S Cherry Street, #700 Glendale, CO 80246 Kyle@spaethanddoyle.com 303.385.8058

Case No.: 2022CV32188 Div.: 21

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE FOLLOWING DEFENDANT(S):

All Defendants listed above and any person(s) who claim any interest in the subject matter of this action.

You are 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 the court an Answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response with thirty-five (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 thirty-five (35) days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be entered against you by the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, without any further notice to you.

Legal Notice No. 531014

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO 7325 S. Potomac Street, #100 Centennial, CO 80112

Plaintiff: SUNBURST HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado non-profit corporation;

Defendants: EDWIN A. OLSON IV; FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION; ARAPAHOE COUNTY TREASURER; UNKNOWN TENANT(S) IN POSSESSION.

Attorneys for Plaintiff: THE DUPONT LAW FIRM, LLC

Stephane R. Dupont, #39425

Address: PO Box 1073, Castle Rock, CO 80104 Phone Number: (720) 644-6115

Case Number: 2022CV32127

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 within 35 days after the service of this Summons upon you. Service of the 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 for judicial foreclosure of an association assessment lien pursuant to C.R.S. 38-33.3-316, in and to real property situated in Arapahoe County, Colorado, more particularly described on Exhibit A, attached hereto and by this reference made a part hereof.

Dated: January 5, 2023

THE DUPONT LAW FIRM, LLC

By:

*s/ Stephane R. Dupont Stephane R. Dupont

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

Exhibit A Lot 21, Block 3, Sunburst Subdivision, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Also known as: 15936 East Radcliff Place, #B Aurora, CO 80015

Legal Notice No. 530946

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO

Case No.: 2022CV031730

Division: 15

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Plaintiff: SADDLE ROCK METROPOLITAN DISTRICT, a Colorado nonprofit corporation v. Defendants: HARP LLC; CITY OF AURORA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES DEPARTMENT;

Regarding: LOT 33, BLOCK 1, SADDLE ROCK NORTH SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known and numbered as: 22537 E Hoover Pl, Aurora, CO 80016 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, 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 Civil Unit of Sheriff's Office of Arapahoe County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 6th day of April 2023, at 13101 E. Broncos Pkwy, Centennial, CO 80112; phone number 720-8743845. 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.

DATED in Colorado this 10th day of January, 2023.

Tyler S. Brown Sheriff of Arapahoe County, Colorado

By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff

ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF: ORTEN CAVANAGH HOLMES & HUNT, LLC 1445 Market Street, Suite 350 Denver, CO 80202

Legal Notice No. 530971

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225 Englewood, Colorado, 80110

Public Notice

ARAPAHOE COUNTY DISTRICT COURT, STATE OF COLORADO Address: 7325 Potomac St. Centennial, CO 80112

Case Number: 2022CV030884 Division: 14 ALT ASSETS, LLC, a Texas limited liability company, Plaintiff, v. ANDREW PARK, individually; COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY; SUE SANDSTROM, as the Arapahoe County Public Trustee; OCCUPANTS; and NAMU PARK, as Trustee under the provisions of a Trust Agreement dated January 1st of the year 2020 and known as the Namu Trust, Defendants.

Attorneys for Plaintiff: Brian T. Ray Christopher J. Conant Hatch Ray Olsen Conant LLC 730 Seventeenth Street, Suite 200 Denver, Colorado 80202 Phone Number: (303) 298-1800 Email Addresses: bray@hatchlawyers.com; cconant@hatchlawyers.com

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 a judicial foreclosure action affecting real property commonly known as 13872 East Stanford Place, Aurora, CO 80015:

LOT 21, BLOCK 1, CHERRY CREEK POINTE SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Dated this 11th day of January, 2023.

HATCH RAY OLSEN CONANT LLC

By: s/ Brian T. Ray Brian T. Ray Attorneys for Plaintiff

In accordance with C.R.C.P. 121 §1-26(7) a copy of this document with original/electronic signatures is being maintained by Hatch Ray Olsen Conant LLC and will be made available for inspection by other parties or the court upon request.

This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(g), C.R.C.P., as amended. This form should not be used where personal service is desired.

Legal Notice No. 530960

First Publication: January 19, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Misc. Private Legals

Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Case No.: 2022CV31157 Division: 204

COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE

Plaintiff: PIER POINT VILLAGE 2 HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado non-profit corporation

Defendants: ZACHARY COMSTOCK; BRIGID COMSTOCK aka BRIGID M COPESKY; NAVY

FEDERAL CREDIT UNION; PIER POINT 7

COUNCIL; SUE SANDSTROM, Treasurer, as the Arapahoe County Public Trustee

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

RE: Sheriff’s Sale of Real Property pursuant to Order on Verified Motion for Default Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure and §38-38-101 et seq., C.R.S.

This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to the Order on Verified Motion for Default Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure issued by the Arapahoe County District Court case number 2022CV31157

captioned PIER POINT VILLAGE 2 HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado non-profit corporation v ZACHARY COMSTOCK; BRIGID COMSTOCK aka BRIGID M COPESKY; NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION; PIER POINT 7 COUNCIL; SUE SANDSTROM, Treasurer, as the Arapahoe County Public Trustee, dated November 29, 2022, and §38-38-101 et seq., C.R.S., by the PIER POINT VILLAGE 2 HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., the current holder and owner of a statutory lien against the real property located in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

The foreclosure is based on the Amended and Restated Condominium Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Pier Point Village 2 recorded on December 20, 2010 at Reception # D0131702 which establishes a lien for the benefit of The PIER POINT VILLAGE 2 HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. (“Declaration”) WHICH LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS legally described as follows, to wit:

Lot 5, Block 2, Pier Point Filing No. 7, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

Also known as 3810 S Atchison Way #E, Aurora CO 80014.

The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10:00 a.m. on April 6, 2023 at 13101 E. Broncos Pkwy., Centennial, CO 80112.

**BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE MINIMUM BID AT TIME OF SALE. **

All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 720-874-3845. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is:

Tammy M. Alcock, Esq. Alcock Law Group, PC 19751 E. Mainstreet, Suite 225 Parker, CO 80138

Dated: January 3, 2023 Tyler S. Brown, Sheriff Arapahoe County, Colorado

By: Sgt. Trent Steffa Deputy Sheriff

Plaintiff: APPLE VALLEY EAST CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC, a Colorado nonprofit corporation v.

Defendants: EMMANUEL MCKINNON; YVONNE MCKINNON; BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC; CITY OF AURORA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION REHAB PROGRAM; and PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR ARAPAHOE COUNTY

SHERIFF’S COMBINED NOTICE OF SALE

This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to an Order for Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure dated October 28, 2022 , and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq. by APPLE VALLEY EAST CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation, the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on April 8, 1974 in book 2226 at page 205, and the supplement thereto recorded October 7, 1974 in book 2280 at page 603 and second supplement recorded October 31, 1974 in book 2286 at page 494, in the records of the office of the clerk and recorder of Arapahoe County, Colorado. CONDOMINIUM UNIT A, BUILDING 72, APPLE VALLEY EAST CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE MAP RECORDED APRIL 8, 1974 IN MAP BOOK 26 AT PAGES 30 TO 33, INCLUSIVE AND SUPPLEMENTS THEREOF AND AN AFFIDAVIT CORRECTING SAID MAP RECORDED SEPTEMBER 3, 1974 IN BOOK 2271 AT PAGE 256, AND THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR APPLE VALLEY EAST CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED APRIL 8, 1974 IN BOOK 2226 AT PAGE 205, AND THE SUPPLEMENT THERETO RECORDED OCTOBER 7, 1974 IN BOOK 2280 AT PAGE 603 AND SECOND SUPPLEMENT RECORDED OCTOBER 31, 1974 IN BOOK 2286 AT PAGE 494, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

Also known by street and number as 72 Newark Street, Unit A, Aurora, Colorado 80012.

Record owner of real property:

Yvonne Mckinnon Association/Foreclosing Entity/Holder of Debt

Foreclosed: APPLE VALLEY EAST CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC, a Colorado nonprofit corporation

Interest foreclosed: Statutory lien for unpaid assessments per C.R.S. § 38-33.3-316, as perfected by the Condominium Declaration for Apple Valley East Condominiums, recorded on April 8, 1974, at Reception No. 1415965, Book 2226, Page 205 in the Clerk & Recorder’s Office for the County of Arapahoe, Colorado (“Declaration”). More accurately defined in the Order for Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure, issued by the Court on October 28, 2022, a certified copy of which was recorded on November 14, 2022, at Reception No. E2111351 in the Clerk & Recorder’s Office for the County of Arapahoe, Colorado (“Order”). Amount of judgment entered on October 28, 2022: $30,423.31 with post-judgment interest at 18% per annum. The amount of the foreclosed lien is not stagnant. Amount of foreclosed lien as of December 7, 2022: $33,153.38

Attorneys for Association: Moeller Graf, P.C.; Associate Attorney Gail R. Gudder, Reg. No. 17820; ggudder@moellergraf.com; 385 Inverness Pkwy., Ste. 200, Englewood, CO 80112; Phone: (877) 279-4499.

THE PROPERTY TO BE SOLD AND DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN DESCRIBED ABOVE.

THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The covenants of said Declaration have been violated as follows: failure to pay assessments that have come due, more accurately described in the Order.

THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Civil Unit of the Sheriff’s Office for the County of Arapahoe, Colorado, will sell the real property described above and the improvements thereon at 10:00 AM, on the 6th day of April 2023 at 13101 E. Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, to the highest and best bidder. The Association and its attorney do not make any 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 THE TIME OF SALE.

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Notice to Creditors

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Kathleen May Michaels, a/k/a Kathleen M. Michaels, a/k/a Kathleen Michaels, Deceased Case Number 2022PR31434

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 or on or before June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sean Stephen Michaels

Personal Representative 3449 West Alamo Place Littleton, Colorado 80123

Legal Notice No. 301744

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of FRANK R. HARPER, III, aka FRANK RODERICK HARPER, III, aka FRANK R. HARPER, aka FRANK HARPER, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30054

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 June 27, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Amanda Anne Harper

Personal Representative c/o WARREN, CARLSON & MOORE, LLP PO Box 610 Niwot, CO 80544-0610

Legal Notice No. 301763

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of MICHELLE LEA DICKERSON, AKA MICHELLE L. DICKERSON, AKA MICHELLE DICKERSON, Deceased Case No.: 2023PR030078

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 June 09, 2023, or said claims may be forever barred.

CHRISTOPHER GORDON #42569, Personal Representative 3650 S YOSEMITE ST STE 214 DENVER, Colorado 80237

Legal Notice No. 301749

First publication: February 09, 2023

Last publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

CLAYTON C. MEEKS, a/k/a CLAYTON CARL MEEKS, a/k/a CLAYTON MEEKS, Case Number: 2023PR30052

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 June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Margaret Merrilyn Meeks, Personal Representative c/o Woodson L. Herring, Esq., Woodson L. Herring, LLC 5800 S. Nevada Street, Littleton, CO 80120

Legal Notice No. 301742

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Robert H. Emmons, Jr., deceased

Case Number: 2022PR31247

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 June 02, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Erin E. Cook, Personal Representative 2941 Mt. Royal Drive Castle Rock, CO 80104

Legal Notice No.530991

First publication: February 02, 2023

Last publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Ruth J. Wiedemeier, a/k/a Ruth Jane Wiedemeier, a/k/a Ruth Wiedemeier, a/k/a Ruth Wiedemier, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR030086

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 June 20, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

David Kirchner, Personal Representative

c/o Timothy J. Parks, Esq. Hutchins & Associates LLC

1999 Broadway, Suite 1400 Denver, CO 80202

Legal Notice No. 531046

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of ROBERT LEVINARD STEINERT, a/k/a ROBERT LEE STEINERT, a/k/a ROBERT L. STEINERT, a/k/a ROBERT STEINERT, Deceased Case Number : 2023PR30085

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 June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

David L Steinert Co-Personal Representative 14553 E Wagon Trail Drive Aurora, CO 80015

Laura Thompson Co-Personal Representative 13757 E. Marina Drive, Unit B Aurora, CO 80014

Legal Notice No.531036

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Doris Jeanne Shockley, a/k/a Doris J. Shockley, and Doris Shockley, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30073

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 June 2, 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. 530997

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Darrell F. Freeland, also known as Darrell Forrest Freeland, and Darrell Freeland, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30061

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 June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Vicki Lynn Spangler Personal Representative 3709 S. Galapago Street Englewood, Colorado 80110

Legal Notice No. 531041

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Marcia Sue Patullo, also known as Marcia S. Patullo, also known as Marcia Sue Osborne, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30059

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 June 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gregory S. Johnson

Personal Representative 16661 Oakmoor Place Parker, CO 80134

Legal Notice No. 531027

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of COLLETTE BERNICE BUTLER, a/k/a COLLETTE B. BUTLER, a/k/a COLLETTE BUTLER; f/n/a COLLETTE BERNICE HONSTEIN, a/k/a COLLETTE B. HONSTEIN, a/k/a COLLETTE HONSTEIN; f/n/a COLLETTE BERNICE ACUNA, a/k/a COLLETTE B. ACUNA, a/k/a COLLETTE ACUNA; f/k/a COLLETTE BERNICE ACUNA-ROWLAND, a/k/a COLLETTE B. ACUNA-ROWLAND, a/k/a COLLETTE ACUNA-ROWLAND, a/k/a COLLETTE B. ROWLAND, a/k/a COLLETTE ROWLAND; f/k/a COLLETTE BERNICE BOSTWICK, a/k/a COLLETTE B. BOSTWICK, a/k/a COLLETTE BOSTWICK, Deceased

c/o EIRICH LAW FIRM 10233 S. Parker Road, Suite 300 Parker, CO 80134

Legal Notice No. 530981

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher:Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Bryan Joseph Bignell a/k/a Bryan J. Bignell and Bryan Bignell, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30039

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 June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Shane J. Bignell

Personal Representative

c/o Poskus & Klein, P.C. 303 East 17th Avenue, Suite 900 Denver, Colorado 80203

Legal Notice No. 531057

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Wilbur Wright McConnell, also known as Wright McConnell, aka W. Wright McConnell, aka William McConnell, aka William Wright McConnel, Deceased Case Number: 22PR30360

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 March 6, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

James Michael McConnell,

Personal Representative c/o Renet Greer | Greer Law, LLC 7899 S. Lincoln Ct, #100 Littleton, CO 80122

Legal Notice No. 531016

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Muriel J. Wright, also known as Muriel Jean Wright, and Muriel Wright, deceased Case Number: 2022PR31449

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 June 09, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael J. Wright

Personal Representative 2195 Primo Rd., Unit E Highlands Ranch, Colorado 80129

Legal Notice No. 301747

First publication: February 09, 2023

Last publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Linda Van Gilder Kelley, also known as Linda V.G. Kelley, and Linda Kelley, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30004

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 June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A, Personal Representative 1455 16th Street, Suite 407, Floor 4 Denver, CO 80202

Legal Notice No. 531033

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of JAMES EDWARD TURRE, A/K/A JAMES E. TURRE, AND JAMES TURRE, Deceased Case Number 23 PR 30031

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 June 21, 2023 or the claims may be forever barred.

Steven J. Turre, Personal Representative 6500 W. Mansfield Avenue #17 Denver, CO 80235

254 Zang Street Lakewood, Colorado 80228

Legal Notice No. 531034

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Kathleen Marie Beckett, deceased Case Number: 2023PR30026

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 June 09, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Marie Elizabeth Weschler Personal Representative 12278 Utica Place Broomfield, Colorado 80020

Legal Notice No. 301746

First publication: February 09, 2023

Last publication: February 23, 2023 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Notice

TO CREDITORS Estate of DANIEL JAMES ANDRYKOWSKI , AKA DANIEL J. ANDRYKOWSKI, Deceased Case Number: 2022PR31329

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 June 2, 2023 , or the claims may be forever barred.

MELISSA MARY ANDRYKOWSKI

Personal Representative Address: 4200 W. 17th Avenue Denver, CO 80204

Legal Notice No. 530983

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Katherine Lee Peters, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30127

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 June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Terry Richardson & Judy Richardson, Personal Representatives 10101 Burnt Store Road Lot 121 Punta Gorda, FL 33950

Legal Notice No. 531053

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO

Estate of Thomas Allen Gerlick, aka Thomas Gerlick Jr., Deceased Case Number: 22PR90

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 June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

John L. Gerlick, Personal Representative 1166 W. Princeton Place Englewood, Colorado 80110

Legal Notice No. 301741

First Publication: February 2 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Jennifer Ashley Rowe, deceased Case Number: 2022PR31427

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 June 02, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Alan Woolfolk, Personal Representative 18314 Tyler St. NW Elk River, MN 55330

Legal Notice No. 530993

First publication: February 02, 2023

Last publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of JAMES

Legal Notice No. 301762

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of JUDITH ELLEN BRENNING, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30100

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 June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Nicole M. Harrington Personal Representative

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 6/9/2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Clancy, Personal Representative 46 Bancroft Road, Northampton, MA 01060

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 June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred. Person Giving Notice: Joy Bardin 17631 E Bethany Pl Aurora, CO 80013 Legal Notice No. 530990

February 2, 2023

February 16, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Carla Beer, deceased Case Number: 23PR25

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 June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Taryn Lemery, Personal Representative 2390 S. Madison st Denver, Colorado 80210

Legal Notice No. 531040

First publication: February 16, 2023

Last publication: March 02, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of RICHARD ARTHUR MARTINEZ, a/k/a RICHARD A. MARTINEZ, a/k/a RICHARD MARTINEZ, a/k/a RICH MARTINEZ; a/k/a RICK MARTINEZ, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30021

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 June 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Tricia D. Martinez, Personal Representative 9945 Ashburn Lake Drive Tampa, FL 33610

Legal Notice No. 531030

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Herman Gordon, Deceased Case Number: 2023PR30060

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 June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

John D. Gordon Co-Personal Representative 2557 S. Columbine Street Denver, CO 80210

James R. Gordon Co-Personal Representative 64965 Leonard Court Hot Springs, CA 92240

Legal Notice No.531037

First Publication: February 16, 2023 Last Publication: March 2, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of ROSS NAVARRO, aka ROSENDO NAVARRO, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30008

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 June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gregory J. Templeton Personal Representative Meurer Law Offices, P.C. Nicole G. Andrzejewski 3801 E. Florida Avenue, Suite 906 Denver, CO 80210

Legal Notice No. 531056

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Craig W. Rader, a/k/a Craig William Rader, a/k/a Craig Rader, Deceased Case Number 22 PR 30935

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 June 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

David C. Walcher, Personal Representative 4047 South Sable Circle Aurora, CO 80014 dwalcher@msn.com

Legal Notice No. 531026

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Terry Lee Banza, aka Terry L. Banza,

aka Terry Banza, Deceased

Case Number: 2023PR30092

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 June 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jonathan P. Banza, Personal Representative

2224 Waylon Dr. Johnstown, CO 80534

Legal Notice No. 301748

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of CAROLYN L. REIDA, Deceased

Case Number:2023PR030006

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 June 9, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

By /s/ Richard M. Arnold

Attorney for Personal Representative

7691 Shaffer Parkway, Suite A Littleton, CO 80127

Legal Notice No. 531003

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Lawrence John Schipper, Jr., also known as Lawrence J. Schipper, Jr ., also known as Lawrence J. Schipper, also known as Lawrence J. Schipper II, Deceased

Case Number 2023PR30115

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 June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Leslie Ann Weller

Personal Representative 37 Brooks Road Moorestown, NJ 08057

Legal Notice No. 531032

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Agnes Marie Lowman, Deceased

Case Number: 2022PR31436

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 June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Attorney for Personal Representatives

The Hickey Law Firm, LLC 1075 South Yukon Street Suite 260 Lakewood, Colorado 80226

Legal Notice No. 531000

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

Estate of Brian Michael Lesar, Deceased Case Number 2022PR031198

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 June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Thomas Lesar Personal Representation 707 Lighthouse Road Panama City Beach, FL 32407

Legal Notice No. 531039

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Brian Thomas Ghent, deceased

Case Number: 2022PR436

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 June 16, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

William Riley Austin, Jr.

Personal Representative 4101 S. Navajo St., Apt 528B Englewood, CO 80110-4497

Legal Notice No. 301761

First publication: February 16, 2023

Last publication: March 02, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Rosalee Alice Haselgren, Deceased Case Number: 2023 PR 30032

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 June 2, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Geoffrey L. Pearson Attorney to the Personal Representative 2205 W. 136th Ave, #106-128 Broomfield, CO 80023 Legal Notice No. 530996 First Publication: February 2, 2023 Last Publication: February 16, 2023 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

TO CREDITORS

of ANDREW PAUL BONN, also known as ANDREW P. BONN, and ANDREW

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on February 1, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe-Littleton County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Jackman Carlos Steele be changed to Jackman Carlos Gonzalez Case No.: 2023 C 100077

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531047

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on February 2, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Abram Moreno Jacobo be changed to Abram Moreno Jacobo Case No.: 23 C 100043

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531042

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME

Public Notice is given on January 24, 2023 that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Minor Child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Henry Matthew Stoutfellow Reagan-Wilson be changed to Henry Jameson Stoutfellow Reagan-Wilson Case No. 2022C047215

By: Clerk of Court/Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 530995

First Publication: February 2, 2023

Last Publication: February 16, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on January 19, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Ethan Yaw Aggrey be changed to Ethan Asongwed Yaw Aggrey Case No.: 22C100569

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531011

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on February 2, 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 Abigail Lyn Berry be changed to Abigail Lyn Jepson Kuhl Case No.: 23C100069

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on January 13, 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 Gianna Noelani Ditsworth be changed to Gianna Noelani Palmer Case No.: 2023 C 100027

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531021

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on January 25, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult /a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Rachel Lillie Jane Fields be changed to Imani Lillie Jane Fields Case No.: 23 C 100060

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531035

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on January 23, 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 Andrew Carlson Woodward be changed to Andrew Woodward Carlson Case No.: 23C100042

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531017

First Publication: February 9, 2023

Last Publication: February 23, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on February 3, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of David Chukwuebuka Samson be changed to David Chukwuebuka Njoku

Case No.: 23 C 100045

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531058

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on February 2, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, CO 80112

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: CHRISTOPHER MILLER, FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CHILD. MODERN FAMILY LAW

Cynthia Griffin, Esq., #50552 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 700 Denver, CO 80246

Telephone: (720) 880-5091

E-mail: cynthia.griffin@modernfamilylaw.com

Case Number: 2022JA030029

NOTICE OF ADOPTION PROCEEDING AND SUMMONS TO RESPOND PURSUANT TO §19-5-105(5), C.R.S.

To the above-named Respondent(s):

You are hereby notified that a Petition for Adoption has been filed and if you wish to respond to the Petition, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 35 days after this Notice is served on you.

Your response must be accompanied by the applicable filing fee of $192.00.

Your failure to file a Response, or to appear, within 35 days after service, and, in the case of an alleged father, your failure to file a claim of paternity under Article 4 of Title 19, C.R.S., within 35 days after service, if a claim has not previously been filed, may likely result in termination of your parental or your alleged parental rights to the minor child.

The following documents are also served herewith: (check as appropriate)

[x] Petition for (Stepparent, Kinship, Custodial) Adoption

[x] Petition to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship (JDF 520).

[x] Affidavit of Abandonment (JDF 525)

Other: [x] Consent to Adoption by Minor Child

Consent to Adoption by Custodial

Public Notice

TO: Joshua Zancanelli

NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME Public Notice is given on February 3, 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 lzac Johnathon Garcia be changed to lzac Johnathon Delgado. CASE NUMBER: 2023C030955

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 531038

First Publication: February 16, 2023 Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Legal Notice No. 531045

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on February 3, 2023, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Daniel Tochukwu Samson be changed to Daniel Tochukwu Njoku Case No.: 23 C 100047

By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531059

The petition requests that the name of Olalekan Emmanuel Amusat be changed to Olalekan Lion Emmanuel Case No.: 23 C 100080

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 531055

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 2, 2023

Publisher: Littleton Independent Children

Services

(Adoption/Guardian/Other)

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that Jacob Eugene Urban and Megan Marie Urban have filed an Amended Petition for Adoption in the County Court of Merrick County, Nebraska, referenced as Case No. AD 22-1, and is requesting that Jacob Eugene Urban adopt the minor child, C.J.Z. An abandonment hearing is scheduled for March 21, 2023, at 3:00 p.m., in the Merrick County Court. A separate hearing on the underlying adoption and whether such adoption is in the best interests of the minor will be scheduled by the Court following the hearing on the issue of abandonment. You have been identified as the father of the minor child born around April of 2011. You have the right to (i) deny paternity, (ii) waive any parental rights you may have, (iii) relinquish and consent to the adoption of the child, (iv) file a Notice of Objection to the Adoption and Intent to Obtain Custody anytime during the pregnancy or as late as ten business days after birth, or (v) object to the adoption in court within forty-five days after the receipt of notice. In order to deny paternity, waive paternal rights, relinquish and consent to the adoption, or receive additional information to determine whether you are the father of the child in question, you must contact the attorney representing the biological mother: Erin M. Urbom, 202 W. 3rd Street, Grand Island, NE 68801, Telephone: (308) 382-2128. If you wish to object to the adoption and seek custody of the child, you must seek legal counsel from your own attorney immediately.

Legal Notice No. 301764

First Publication: February 16, 2023

Last Publication: March 9, 2023

Publisher: Englewood Herald

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