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County explores Tri-County alternatives Commissioners hope to have new way of offering public health services by 2023

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Respiratory therapist Robin Mannino receives the COVID-19 vaccine in mid-December at Parker Adventist Hospital.

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Vaccine rollout facing challenges Phone support being escalated in push to get COVID-19 shots out to residents 70 and older

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Colorado residents ages 70 and older are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, but public health officials are struggling to scale that operation up as quickly as possible.

Douglas County hospitals and clinics are finding several struggles in the vaccine rollout, including limited supply and communication barriers.

“Online has been easiest to set up (appointments) but that’s inadequate for this population,” said Kaitlin Wolff with Tri-County Public Health Department.

That’s why Tri-County is in the process of increasing their phone support operations and scaling up their call center staff, said Wolff, who is also a public health nurse in charge of coordinating the health

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Sky Ridge Pharmacy Director Valerie Davis, left, and pharmacy technician Karen Fetter prepare the COVID-19 vaccine for inoculation in mid-December.

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Douglas County is moving forward on finding a new way to deliver public health services to its residents by 2023 but has not determined a specific path forward or how much it will cost.

In a Jan. 25 news release that was approved by county commissioners, a spokesperson said this desire for change was brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The COVID-19 pandemic revealed to the board of Douglas County commissioners that the time to evaluate and seek a different solution to public health services of a county this size has come,” the news release states.

“Commissioners are quick to note that what the service delivery model will look like and cost is in the beginning phase of being discovered.”

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DCSD semester plans generate mixed reactions Community debates how to educate children amid pandemic

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

How to school children during the COVID-19 pandemic has sparked fierce debate among local community members in the Douglas County School District.

At recent school board meetings, public comment filled with emotional pleas from teachers, students and parents. Here are local voices on each learning model and why the proponents of each feel theirs is the best path forward for schools at the time being.

Remote education

Maria Volker, a Highlands Ranch High School teacher, said shifting from the current remote learning to hybrid learning should wait until teachers can be vaccinated, something that may not happen until March.

“The kids are learning so much better this semester because they have gotten used to (remote learning) and the teachers have gotten used to it,” she said. “I have found much more success remotely. I never thought I would say that.”

Volker called the district’s first semester, mostly conducted in

hybrid learning, chaotic. She had to quarantine twice. Her students also were in and out of quarantine. Then the district announced a switch to full remote learning to finish the semester amid the pandemic’s third wave.

She wants students to have more consistency and feels like she can reach more of her students through full remote learning. Although they are not in-person, she can gather her entire class on a screen and help them socialize that way, she said.

The 61-year-old is also nervous by the emergence of new mutations in the virus.

“Can I get any more scared? Are we now guaranteeing quarantine because it’s much more infectious?,” she said.

Ethan Reed, 17, is a senior at Legend High School who joined several district students during the Jan. 19 board meeting in advocating against a return to hybrid learning.

Reed told Colorado Community Media his concern is twofold — that any in-person learning continues to pose health risks during the pandemic and that hybrid is less effective than remote learning.

In hybrid learning, he accomplished little during students’ independent learning days, he said, and felt like he learned less compared to full remote or in-person.

Reed also worries the introduction of a new, more transmissible strain of the virus in Colorado could lead to more spread within schools. He

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expects any in-person learning could cause a rise in cases and worries that will force the district to pivot plans again, sending students back once again to remote learning.

Reed called social distancing in high schools nearly nonexistent, saying it’s proven difficult to keep students three or six feet apart.

“I know quarantines are going to be happening and popping up quite a bit,” he said.

Hybrid learning

For Taylor Witte, a 14-year-old sophomore at Mountain Vista High School, hybrid is the best route until the district can return to in-person learning. The prospect of ending the semester in remote learning is breeding pessimism among students, she said.

Remote education has its drawbacks too, she said.

“Being on a screen for seven hours consecutively and then being assigned work for hours on end,” she said.

High school education is dependent on the experience, she said, like being able to do labs in-person for a science course.

Hybrid learning offers more structure, and some in-person learning is better than none, she said. She understands there are health risks amid the pandemic but also trusts the district’s sanitizing and cleaning protocols, she said.

“I think that given that the pandemic has been in effect for this

long, we have to be willing to at least semi-normalize ourselves to the circumstances,” she said. “If restaurants are able to be open, then I think education should be prioritized.”

Revised quarantine guidelines, which now require 10 days in quarantine compared to the previous 14 and can release people who test negative sooner than that, also opens the door for hybrid, Witte said.

“Overall I think students on the secondary level are just looking for a high school experience, even from an education perspective,” she said.

Interim Superintendent Corey Wise also has advocated for a return to hybrid, although the board of education on Jan. 19 decided to break with his recommendation and keep students in remote learning through at least early February.

Wise said the district would be able to sustain hybrid learning until March, when teachers are expected to be vaccinated. The superintendent has also said consistently the district does not believe schools are sources of significant spread in the community, and that most exposures came from outside buildings.

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Joyel Chambers has spoken at several board meetings urging a full, in-person option for families.

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Doxxing by Parker man caused fear for woman, family State health employee shares her experience after alarming social media post

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

All it took was the ring of a doorbell for Sarah Tuneberg’s 10-yearold son to burst into tears.

The tension in the Denver home had already felt palpable as Tuneberg was grappling with how to keep her family safe. And now, an Amazon package delivery had sent her child into a panic.

“Are they here?” the boy asked through tears. “Whoever posted your name on the internet?”

It was more than her name that was posted online, however. Tuneberg’s address, along with a note encouraging people to “let them know how you feel” was posted to Facebook by a Parker man Dec. 28.

She had been doxxed.

As a special senior adviser for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s COVID-19 response, Tuneberg had been identified by the man as someone “putting thousands out of work,” and “killing businesses.”

“We’ll see how strong they are at their homes,” wrote Mark Hall, a 2020 Parker Town Council candidate and a co-chair of the Parker Republicans.

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What followed for the mother of three were calls with the state’s homeland security department, increased police patrols by her home, tears, confusion and an internet binge on the rumors about her that were now spreading like wildfire.

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‘I burst into tears’

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Earlier in the day Dec. 28, before she became aware of the doxxing, Tuneberg had sent an email to her colleague letting him know she would be taking 24 hours off to rest and reflect. She was brought on board by Gov. Jared Polis in March to fight the pandemic and expand community testing for the virus. She’d been working an average of 12- to 14-hour days for months and felt like she was accomplishing some of the best work of her career.

Less than a minute after sending that email, her colleague called her with the news that her name and address had been posted online and that people were being encouraged to come protest at her home.

“I was just like ‘what?’” she said in an interview with Colorado Community Media. “It was so terrifying, I won’t lie. I was so caught off guard and shaken ... I burst into tears.”

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Roxborough man charged in connection with insurrection Patrick Montgomery, 48, posted photos from siege to Facebook, authorities say STAFF REPORT

A Roxborough-area man is facing federal charges after allegedly participating in the insurrection inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6.

Patrick Montgomery, 48, faces one charge of knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without authority to do so, and a charge of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

If convicted, Montgomery Montgomery faces maximum penalties of one year in jail and/or a $100,000 fine on the first charge and six months in jail and/or a $5,000 fine on the second charge.

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Close the blinds. Take everything off your porch. Lock your doors. Lock your windows.

All of these measures were being taken because of the actions of a complete stranger in another town.

“I’ve never met Mark Hall in my life. I’ve never heard of him,” Tuneberg said.

A Facebook group called “Revolt Against Shutdowns, Big Box Holidays,” was created Dec. 28.

Hall posted in the group that he would, every day, be posting “the name and address of unelected, non-law enforcement officers who think they can flex muscles in businesses.”

Montgomery was released from federal custody following a court appearance on Jan. 19. His next hearing is scheduled for Feb. 2.

Montgomery is the fifth Coloradan charged in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection that saw supporters of President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in objection to Joe Biden’s win, leaving five dead.

Montgomery’s Jan. 19 hearing took place alongside Robert Gieswein, a Woodland Park man also accused of participating in the insurrection.

Three tipsters notified federal authorities after seeing photos and posts referencing storming the Capitol on Montgomery’s Facebook page, according to an affidavit filed in federal court.

“We stormed the Senate … opened those Chamber door (sic) for Transparency!” Montgomery wrote in one post, along with a photo taken inside the Senate chamber.

Other photos and posts from the Facebook page show Montgomery either traveling to Washington

or participating in the “Stop the Steal” protest outside the Capitol objecting to Biden’s election to the presidency, according to the affidavit.

“I’m not a scared cat or running from anything,” Montgomery wrote in an email exchange with one tipster, the affidavit says. “Im (sic) so deeply covered by the best Federal Defense lawyers in the country in case you chicken (expletive) cry boys don’t want it takes to defend our freedom from these corrupt politicians.”

Montgomery will be appointed a public defender in the case.

Another Facebook user posted a photo to Montgomery’s page taken from inside the Senate chambers during the riot, asking if a man in the photo was him. Montgomery responded, “Got nothing to hide …”

“I didn’t storm the castle violently,” Montgomery wrote in an email, according to the affidavit. “My group was let in peacefully by the police we were talking to with respect. We came a[n]d left peacefully before the anarchist and Antifa

showed up breaking (expletive) and being hoodlums.”

FBI officials have said there is no evidence “Antifa” participated in the riot.

Montgomery deleted the posts referencing the Washington protest and riot on Jan. 7, according to the affidavit.

Montgomery is the owner of Pmonte Outdoors, a hunting guide services company, according to state records. Photos from his Facebook page show him on many big game hunts, posing with dead animals, including water buffalo, jaguars and lynx.

Montgomery’s criminal record includes guilty pleas to two charges of driving under the influence, driving while ability impaired, hunting without permission, criminal mischief, and multiple charges of driving with a suspended license.

Though Montgomery’s next hearing will be held in Denver, further hearings will likely be held in Washington, D.C., according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

“If they want a war, we can give them that,” he wrote.

Hall said he wasn’t advocating for violence, but asked people to show up to the employees’ homes with air horns, honking and signs.

After he posted the addresses of Tuneberg and another CDPHE employee, Hall received comments of encouragement.

“Take the gloves off. This is a bare knuckle war,” one commenter wrote. “Forget the rule book. Jungle rules apply now.”

To this comment, Hall responded “I agree … it will probably come to that.”

Others, however, were furious.

Guided to the post by a 9News story about the doxxing, some commenters criticized the post and Hall.

The next day, Hall took down the post and apologized, saying: “People and small businesses right now are very passionate and concerned about what’s happening with continued shutdowns, and the actions I took were an attempt to express my frustration.”

But by then, Tuneberg’s address

had been seen and shared countless times. As far as she knows, no one showed up to protest, but the fear that someone could tuck the information away to use later has already been planted in her mind.

“To be threatened in your home when it’s the only place you can go right now, it was really intense,” Tuneberg said.

Tuneberg, who has called the posting of her address “cowardly,” said it’s ridiculous for Hall to say he wasn’t calling for violence while posting her address and using words like “war” and “revolution.”

Hall declined requests to be interviewed for this story.

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She explained to her kids what was happening, and took it as an opportunity to talk about how words and actions have consequences, even when you can’t see them, she said.

“I didn’t run for office. I really am just trying to do my best work and it feels so strange to be identified as someone who is worthy of that level of vitriol,” she said.

She has tried to get in touch with Hall — who as of Jan. 18 hadn’t responded or contacted her directly, she said — to let him know the impact of this event on her life, she said.

“I’d like to tell him who I am and what it was like to be on the other end of that and what it was like for my kids,” she said. “I’m just trying really hard in a global pandemic and you, without knowing me … decided I’m an enemy and deserving of incredible consequence in my life.”

‘An internet hole’

The day of rest and relaxation that Tuneberg had planned for suddenly looked very different.

“I’m embarrassed to admit, I fell into an internet hole,” she said.

She went through the “explosion” of messages she was receiving on Twitter and Facebook.

She read through comments from people saying she was part of a

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View from Rueter-Hess incline ‘real special’ Regional attraction in Douglas County surges in popularity

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Word is getting out about the Rueter-Hess Recreation Area in northern Douglas County, the newest attraction to the county’s plethora of outdoor activities. The incline, which opened Nov. 26, has drawn visitors from throughout the metro area to catch the 360-degree view of the south metro suburbs at the top.

Jim Boberschmidt, of south Denver, hiked the incline Jan. 15 with his sons and said the view from the top was “real special.”

“I saw it on Instagram yesterday and thought `it’s going to be a nice day and my wife likes to hike,’ so I thought I would scout it out while she’s working today,” Boberschmidt said. “It feels like it’ll be busy on weekends. This will be a destination site for the area, so we’ll see.”

The Rueter-Hess Incline Challenge is an outdoor staircase of 132 steps — roughly equivalent in height to a nine-story building.

The incline is located north of the reservoir and accessible off Heirloom Parkway near the Rueter-Hess Water Purification Facility. A parking lot west of the water purification facility has been designated for

A group of hikers, hailing from north Denver, catch their breath atop the Rueter Hess Incline Jan. 15. The newest attraction in northern Douglas County has caught the attention of outdoors enthusiasts throughout the metro area.

visitors at the bottom of the Incline Challenge. A one-mile trail, the Rosie Rueter Trail loop, leads to and from the parking lot and incline.

The incline has one-way access, up the steps and down the service trail.

Dogs are allowed on trails only and must be leashed. Dogs are not allowed on the incline.

The incline will be open from sunrise to sunset, seven days a week.

The opening of the incline marks the finish of the first phase of the five-phase Rueter-Hess Recreation Master Plan.

“We know that residents have been anxiously waiting for regular recreation activities to open at Rueter-Hess. We are very happy to have Phase I complete and the Incline ready for public use,” RHRA

Hikers climb the Rueter-Hess Incline Jan. 15. The incline opened last year as the first recreational opportunity available at the Rueter Hess Reservoir site for regular, daily PHOTOS BY NICK PUCKETT use.

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The Incline Challenge is the county’s second, with the Miller Park incline in Castle Rock, at 200 steps tall, being the first.

Rueter-Hess Reservior will eventually be home to outdoor activities from archery to canoeing. The 1,600 acres of land surrounding the reservoir is owned by the Parker Water and Sanitation District.

Parker Water is an agency separate from the Town of Parker and operates in areas throughout northern and eastern Douglas County.

There is no timeline for when the rest of the area will open.

Rueter-Hess Recreation Authority is made up of six government agencies: the Parker Water and Sanitation District, Town of Castle Rock, Town of Parker, City of Castle Pines, City of Lone Tree and Douglas County.

The RHRA will hold a grand opening event in the spring, according to a news release, once the East-West Regional Trail, which will connect Parker to Highlands Ranch, is complete. To view the Rueter-Hess Reservoir Recreation Plan, visit rhrecreation.org.

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Douglas County School Board votes to continue remote education Directors did not follow interim superintendent’s call to launch hybrid learning Jan. 25

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After an hours-long debate, the Douglas County School Board broke with a recommendation from its superintendent to launch hybrid learning the week of Jan. 25 and instead voted to keep middle and high schools in remote education through at least early February.

The Jan. 19 decision came in light of strong pushback from classroom teachers, who had advocated against a hasty return to any in-person learning and called hybrid learning “a failure.”

Directors voted 5-2, with Krista Holtzmann and Kevin Leung dissenting.

The board directed interim Superintendent Corey Wise to provide another update on the district’s ability to begin hybrid learning at their Feb. 2 board meeting, with a potential launch on Feb. 8.

Wise’s recommendation had been to start hybrid learning for secondary students on Jan. 25.

He said hybrid learning allows

for more “active time” between students and teachers because they can spend two days a week together in classrooms.

Schools would also be better able to monitor students’ mental health during the ongoing public health crisis, he said.

Elementary school students have conducted full in-person learning since Jan. 5. That has proven safe and sustainable so far, Wise said, calling it a promising sign for launching hybrid among older students.

Wise said repeatedly there will not be a perfect solution to second-semester learning as the district is facing an onslaught of starkly different opinions regarding how to educate students during COVID-19. There also will not be a perfect time to switch models, he said.

Wise pointed to survey results that asked teachers if they felt ready to follow the district’s former plan of returning to hybrid learning by Jan. 25. The district received 1,761 responses.

On a scale of 1 to 5, 31% of respondents rated their readiness at a 5, about 24% rated it at a 4, 22% at a 3, 11% at a 2 and 13% at a 1.

Wise said readiness to go hybrid will differ by school.

Board President David Ray scrutinized that survey based on teacher feedback during public comment.

“It almost feels like we’ve asked

the wrong question,” he said.

“Whether you are ready or not is one question. Whether it’s effective is another.”

Kallie Leyba, president of local teachers union Douglas County Federation, said those results were misleading. Teachers were told the decision to return to hybrid learning was already made and the survey asked if they felt ready for the transition, not if they wanted to return to hybrid learning, she said.

Wise confirmed the district surveyed educators about the previous plan — returning to hybrid — and if they were ready for the transition. The district would need to continue asking teachers how to improve hybrid, he said.

“We have been in hybrid and we are only going to get better,” Wise said.

Numerous teachers spoke during public comment urging directors against returning schools to hybrid or in-person learning before vaccines are available for educators, something that’s unlikely until March.

Educators felt they were spread thin managing both in-person learning and students learning at home when the district conducted hybrid learning first semester, teachers said.

Engagement and attendance among students were also lower during hybrid than during remote, they told directors.

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“I have never worked so hard for so little,” Castle View High School teacher Jessica Hunziker said.

Some teachers believed remote learning would reduce disruption to learning because students would not be moving in and out of quarantines or forced to suddenly switch learning models if COVID-19 cases rise.

Remote education would provide students with consistency, teachers said. It enables them to connect with students daily and help cohorts socialize with one another.

Several students also spoke to directors, urging the district against returning secondary schools to hybrid learning.

Leigh Walden, a senior at Castle View High School, said recent weeks have proven the most consistent, most effective and the least stressful for her this year.

She also worried about health risks during hybrid or in-person learning, particularly with the emergence of more transmissible variants of the virus.

“A return to the hybrid model is a shortsighted and irresponsible solution,” she said.

Legend High School senior Ethan Reed said hybrid was difficult on students because they covered less material and did little schoolwork on independent learning days. He also predicted

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New drive-thru restaurant to offer fast, fresh fare Sweetgreen has plans to open in Highlands Ranch this year

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A California-based restaurant focused on providing fresh, healthy food has set its sights on Highlands Ranch for its first ever drive-thru location.

Sweetgreen, which already has two locations in Denver, plans to open its store at 9215 South Broadway in Highlands Ranch late this year, according to a spokesperson.

“It’s all about meeting customers where they are and creating an integrated experience designed for an on-demand world,” according to the spokesperson.

The restaurant uses an app-based ordering system to provide customers with food. Even before COVID-19 and the accompanying recommendations for social distancing, more than 50% of the company’s orders came through that app.

The drive-thru format builds upon that behavior and makes it even easier by allowing guests to access Sweetgreen without having to leave their vehicle, according to the spokesperson.

Onsite ordering is available as well.

The menu includes several seasonal

A rendering of the new Sweetgreen drivethru, which will be located at 9215 South Broadway in Highlands Ranch. The drivethru will have a large window so customers COURTESY OF SWEETGREEN can see into the kitchen.

and warm bowls along with salads and custom bowl options. Items include the crisy chicken salad for $11.95, the fish taco bowl for $12.50 and the garden cobb salad for $10.95.

The drive-thru location will have outdoor patio furniture for those who want to eat on site, rooftop solar panels and windows revealing the kitchen and food preparation.

The company, founded in 2007, has more than 100 other locations. The restaurants create their food from scratch.

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the severe special needs program. That means he gets more in-person education than general education students, she said, but quarantines took him out of the classroom twice last semester and once this semester.

With the various disruptions, Chambers said Joey has not had a full two weeks of in-person instruction since August. Teachers did “a fabulous job” of trying to continue Joey’s education during quarantine but it still proved ineffective, she said.

“He doesn’t learn anything in that environment,” she said. “If he is not able to learn in-person he is not getting his education.”

Chambers also believes a full, in-person model can be carried out safely under state guidelines.

She wants the district to compromise by allowing a full remote learning option and a full inperson option, allowing students and teachers to choose which they are comfortable with.

As for hybrid, Chambers said some in-person learning is better than none. Although she understands it’s difficult for teachers, she said, she believes it’s better for students than remote.

“I think they need to come up with a plan tomorrow, today, have an emergency meeting and put it in place immediately,” she said.

Calls to reopen schools have also spurred talk of recall efforts.

Castle Rock resident Nate Ormond announced an open invitation during public comment on Jan. 19 for people to join a virtual town hall discussing a recall of board members.

Ormond told Colorado Community Media his group plans to recall four board members — Susan Meek, Elizabeth Hanson, David Ray and Christina Ciancio-Schor. The directors could not be reached for comment.

Ormond would need to gather a total of 80,000 signatures, or 20,000 for each board member.

He has publicly pledged $100,000 of his personal funds for the effort but estimated his group will need to raise roughly $1 million to pursue recalls of all four directors.

Reopening schools is not the only issue driving the effort, but it was a significant one, he said. Ormond said board directors had the summer to plan for reopening schools fully but continue showing a “broad lack of leadership.”

The virus is deadly for at-risk groups and poses a legitimate health concern, but the state has issued sufficient guidelines to mitigate risks, he said. Echoing Wise’s comments, Ormond said there is not data showing schools are superspreader sites.

“For whatever reason they just can’t seem to put together a coherent and executable plan,” she said.

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Living the Dream brewery makes beer benefiting Backcountry The wheat beer can be purchased on tap or in a can

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The staff at Living the Dream Brewing Co. has developed a new beer, benefitting the Backcountry Wilderness Area in Highlands Ranch, that they hope is the perfect brew to enjoy during or after outdoor adventures.

The Backcountry Wilderness Wheat is “like sunshine in a glass,” said Emily Hutto, a spokesperson for Living the Dream.

Ten percent of all sales of the beer, which is on draft and canned at Living the Dream, will go directly into the Backcountry Conservation and Education Fund.

The Highlands Ranch Community Association’s Backcountry Wilderness Area, which makes up 13 square miles of Highlands Ranch, is a dedicated conservation area in the southern part of the community.

The Backcountry Conservation & Education Fund was formed with the goals of wildlife habitat conservation in that area and environmental education, said Lindsey McKissick, outreach coordinator for the wilderness area.

“They put our mission on the back (of the can),” McKissick said. “Now,

Ten percent of all sales of the new beer from Living the Dream Brewing Company will go toward the Backcountry Conservation & Education Fund.

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anyone who picks up a six-pack and turns the can around has a second to look at what our mission is.”

Much of the nonprofit’s work goes toward fire mitigation, noxious weed treatments, maintaining water resources for wildlife and education programs for the community.

“We’re really lucky to have small businesses like Living the Dream here backing us,” McKissick said.

“Because it makes a difference.”

The local brewery has partnered with the nonprofit since it got off the ground in 2017, with Living the Dream hosting a fundraising event every second Thursday of the month that benefits the Backcountry. During the monthly Beer for Bucks event, $1 from each beer sold at the brewery goes toward the

The Backcountry Wilderness Wheat is on draft and in cans at Living the Dream Brewing Company, located near Chatfield Reservoir.

nonprofit. This is the first time the brewery has created a specific beer benefitting the organization.

“The nonprofit and brewery have been working together so long it made sense to make a beer,” Hutto said.

Cans of the beer can be purchased at the Living the Dream Brewery,

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“Living the Dream … really celebrates all things Colorado and Colorado is such an outdoor-centric state,” Hutto said. “The whole brand is around getting outside and enjoying beers après.”

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department’s vaccine plan.

Right now, the best thing for eligible Douglas County residents to do to get the vaccine is visit Tri-County’s website, which has the most up-to-date information on where vaccines are available and how to get an appointment. That information can be found at tchd. org.

Residents can also call a variety of Tri-County phone numbers to set up appointments including 2-1-1 and 866-760-6489. State phone numbers for this purpose are 303-3891687 or 877-462-2911.

As of Jan. 22, providers including UCHealth, Centura Health, Kaiser Permanente and STRIDE Community Health Centers were listed on Tri-County’s site as having vaccine appointments. Pharmacies such as Safeway and King Soopers were also listed.

In order to secure a vaccine, residents must make an appointment before showing up to these locations. While some residents have found all appointments filled when trying to sign up, Wolff said persistence can be an effective method to secure an appointment.

“While most things like a flu shot can be obtained at your own primary care office, the supply of COVID vaccine is just much more controlled,” she said. “That’s

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following year. Commissioners later rescinded that notice and said the county would stay with the agency until January 2023.

The county’s Jan. 25 statement followed an announcement at a Town of Castle Rock meeting six days earlier. At the meeting, the town’s staff said they had learned that the county “will proceed” with a separate Douglas County health department by January 2023, said David Corliss, town manager.

“It’s my understanding that the county, in 2022, next year, will budget funds to get that all started,” Corliss said at the meeting. “They obviously will have to hire an executive director, establish a health board and have additional staff that’s going to be then involved in all the machinery in a health department.”

That’s not necessarily what the

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why when people call their doctor, almost no primary care facilities have the vaccine right now.”

In order for a vaccine site to be approved to distribute the inoculation, the site must meet a variety of qualifications.

“We intend to expand the number of sites,” Wolff said.

Tri-County is also offering a mobile vaccine team specifically for residents who have transportation challenges such as those in rural ar-

county’s new public health services will look like, however, according to the spokesperson for the county.

One option that has been discussed is the county not formally being a part of Tri-County but still contracting services from the department, said Jennifer Ludwig, deputy director of the agency.

“It is something that has been discussed and I think it could be a possibility,” she said. “That isn’t typically how we do business. It would be a big change.”

At the Jan. 19 meeting, Castle Rock town councilmembers discussed their interest in forming a municipal health deparment but ultimately decided it would not be cost effective. The council voted instead to write a letter requesting that the county expedite its withdrawal from Tri-County and asking for the town to have a role in the governance of a new county health department.

The county is working with TriCounty — which also serves Adams and Arapahoe counties —on the

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more quarantines and disruption to learning under a hybrid model. Jan. 25 was the wrong time to make the switch, he said.

There have also been consistent calls at school board meetings from parents who want full, in-person learning, and their emotional pleas continued Jan. 19.

Parents of students with disabilities or individualized education plans urged a return to in-person

eas or independent living facilities.

Tri-County asks for patience as they work to increase the scale of vaccines and to regularly visit their website for more information, Wolff said.

As of Jan. 25, more than 25,000 Douglas County residents had received at least one of the two required vaccine doses, according to data from Tri-County. That’s almost 7% of the adult population in the county.

process of finding new health services, Ludwig said.

“We’ve always understood that we would be exploring this in 2021,” Ludwig said. “I am anticipating that it will take a good part of this year to do a comprehensive analysis in three counties.”

She believes a plan will begin to be implemented in 2022. So far, Tri-County has had “a couple of meetings” with staff representatives of each of the three counties they represent.

“We haven’t even mapped out a plan or process,” she said.

There is not a timeline in place for when the county will complete its analysis and decide what course of action it will take, according to the county spokesperson.

Ludwig said it appears that the commissioners’ interest in pursuing a new delivery of services continues to be a desire for local control.

“I still believe that’s the biggest reason,” she said. “We’re not taking it personally.”

learning and said other models do not provide equity to their children.

Other parents said remote education is harmful to many students’ mental health and pales in comparison academically to in-person instruction.

Remote education might work for some teachers and students, but they don’t believe it works for the majority of those in district schools.

Some suggested giving families two choices — full in-person instruction or full “eLearning,” the district’s online learning option during COVID-19.

“I’m happy that (teachers) are able to fool themselves into thinking the situation is better,” one Castle View High School senior said.

What might that mean? The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) estimates Biden’s tax plan could raise around $3.5 trillion over a decade.

“The Biden tax plan is highly progressive,” the CRFB reported, “increasing taxes for the top 1 percent of earners by 13 to 18 percent of after-tax income, while indirectly increasing taxes for most other groups by 0.2 to 0.6 percent.”

President Biden hopes to: 1. Raise the maximum individual tax rate to 39.6% (from 37%) and, generally, raise taxes on annual income above $400,000.

2. Limit the tax benefit of itemized deductions to 28% (which limits the benefit for taxpayers taxed at higher rates).

3. Raise the long-term capital gains tax rate to 43.4% (from 23.8%) for those with more than $1 million annual income. This could significantly affect someone selling a small business.

4. Raise payroll Social Security taxes for those earning more than $400,000 annually.

5. Eliminate the step-up in basis on inherited assets. For example, the proposed plan would require an heir selling their parents’ house to pay tax on the difference between the heir’s selling price and the parents’ original purchase price (versus its “stepped-up” value on date of death).

6. Eliminate the $25,000 exemption for losses on rental income and Sect 1031 likekind exchanges.

7. Increase the child tax credit (with lots of complexities).

8. Provide a tax credit of up to $15,000 for first-time home buyers and low-income renters.

9. Offer green energy tax incentives for reducing emissions.

10. Increase the income tax rate on C-corporations to 28% (from 21%) thus reducing shareholder profits.

11. Reduce the estate tax exemption, requiring more families to pay estate taxes.

As a CPA, I’m already thinking through potential tax-wise moves to make. That said, if Congress decides to seek $3 trillion more in taxes, there may be only so much we can do about it. Unless you plan to make less and own less, you might need to plan to pay more taxes in the years ahead.

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Level yellow could be weeks away Post-holiday disease spike appears to taper off, but counties’ data still in red zone

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In mid-December, businesses across Colorado saw state officials throw them what appeared to be an extra lifeline with the arrival of the “5-Star” program to allow them to operate with expanded capacity if they followed stepped-up COVID-19 safety protocols.

More than a month later, in some counties, that extra boost hasn’t materialized. And higher capacity for 5-star businesses may not arrive for weeks, one local public health leader for Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties says.

Gov. Jared Polis’ unexpected announcement in late December that all of Colorado’s “level red” counties would move to level orange restrictions rendered the 5-Star program temporarily irrelevant, causing confusion for business owners and local governments.

The 5-Star program allows qualifying businesses to follow restrictions that are one level less severe than they otherwise would need to based on their county’s level on Colorado’s

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color-coded COVID-19 “dial.” Before Polis’ announcement, businesses in red counties expected to get the OK to operate at the looser orange restrictions by earning 5-Star certification, which involves following strict coronavirus-prevention protocols.

Polis’ move of red counties down to orange sparked the possibility that 5-Star-qualified businesses could now operate at even morerelaxed level yellow rules, but that proved to be out of reach for most places across the state.

“I think it was very confusing and especially for counties that had received the approval for the 5-Star certification program or counties that were preparing to apply,” said Jennifer Ludwig, deputy director of Tri-County Health Department. “It really put us in this strange space.”

The state’s COVID-19 dial is the set of restrictions counties must follow based on local virus spread. Level red, a relatively new addition that took effect Nov. 20 in metro Denver and other areas of the state, banned private gatherings and indoor dining at restaurants, and tightened capacity limits at some types of businesses. Red is the second-highest level next to purple, a stay-athome order. Eventually, more than half the state’s 64 counties operated in level red.

Amid pushback from some counties and businesses against the level red restrictions, the state rolled out its 5-Star State Certification Program, modeled after a system Mesa County had “pioneered and has successfully run since the summer,” according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

The first step to increased business capacity under the program was for counties to apply for approval from the state public-health department.

After that, businesses in approved counties still must apply for certification and have their buildings inspected — and generally must follow requirements such as daily symptom checks for employees, recording customers’ names and contact information to support contact-tracing, and opening windows to maximize airflow, among others.

Amid the scramble for some local governments and businesses to apply, the blanket move to level orange came as an abrupt reshuffling

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of the process.

Some thought: “`Businesses were opened (further) in level orange, so what’s the benefit of 5-star?’ It caused a lot of confusion,” Ludwig said. “I do think people felt that, ‘Why are we going to have the dial if we’re not going to follow it?’”

The COVID-19 dial public health order — the document that outlines how the dial works — does give the state public-health department flexibility in choosing to change a county’s level, Ludwig noted. A county’s level usually depends on local rates of new cases, how many COVID-19 tests come back positive and the trend in hospitalizations.

But “CDPHE reserves the right to move counties one or more levels more quickly as circumstances warrant,” one part of the public health order says.

Getting to level yellow

Citing improving virus trends, Polis on Dec. 30 announced he told the state public-health department to move counties from red to orange effective Jan. 4 even though many didn’t meet requirements for the orange level according to the dial system.

Starting just before that announcement and continuing after it, the state saw a spike in the rate of daily new COVID-19 cases. Asked whether the recent uptick was due to holiday gatherings or the move to level orange, Ludwig said “it was probably a combination,” noting that “we had Christmas and New Year’s and restaurants opening back up for dine-in.”

The State Joint Information Center, which takes questions for the state public-health department, said there “isn’t any evidence at this time that moving counties from red to orange contributed to any significant increases.”

The tide may be changing again: Since Jan. 9, the seven-day average case count has trended downward, the Joint Information Center said on Jan. 20.

But the recent upward turn in data put the benefit of 5-star certification further out of reach for many counties. Although the state manually moved counties to level orange, counties still must meet the orange requirements in earnest before 5-star certified businesses

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ORANGE AND YELLOW The following are some of the capacity changes businesses in level orange could see with a move to the less-restrictive level yellow by qualifying for Colorado’s 5-Star program in counties with mild enough virus trends, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. For a complete list, go to covid19.colorado.gov/data/ covid-19-dial-dashboard and click “level restrictions” below the map.

When capacity limits are expressed as both a percentage and a total number of people, businesses must use whichever number is fewer, according to the state’s website.

• Restaurants: Changes from 25% capacity or 50 people to 50% capacity or 50 people, whichever is less.

• Offices: Changes from a 25% capacity limit to a 50% limit. Remote work is “strongly encouraged” under both the orange and yellow levels.

• Gyms/fitness centers: Changes from 25% capacity or 50 people indoors to 50% capacity or 50 people, whichever is less.

• Indoor unseated events and entertainment: Changes from 25% capacity or 50 people to 50% capacity or 50 people, whichever is less.

The differences between levels become more pronounced as counties, or 5-Star businesses, move further down the dial to levels blue and green. can operate one level lower — at level yellow — according to the state public-health department.

Counties should meet the orange marks for local rates of new cases, also known as a county’s “incidence rate,” which is measured over two-week periods. They also need to meet thresholds for percent of COVID-19 tests come back positive and the trend in hospitalizations.

Incidence rate and the test-positivity rate should be sustained for seven consecutive days, according to the Joint Information Center.

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I’m sorry for what I would say on Twitter if I were on Twitter.

The same goes for Facebook and Instagram and any others I don’t QUIET know about.

DESPERATION Sooner or later, everyone on Twitter apologizes for something. I know I wouldn’t be any different.

I’d say something that was “tone deaf.” (I see the words “tone deaf ” Craig Marshall a lot.)

Smith At first, I’d try to defend what I said, then I’d make up an excuse for what I said.

Then I’d apologize.

It would go something like this: “I want to apologize to the State of Texas and all Texans. What I said about Texas and Texans was tone deaf. I know that now.

“This will not define me. However, I don’t know what will, and

maybe this will define me.”

Perhaps there are plenty of good reasons to have a Twitter account, and they offset all of the negativity I keep reading about.

If I did have an account, I know just what I’d do. I would be up in the middle of the night tweeting exactly what I thought of musicals. “Hamilton.” “Cats.” “Mamma Mia.” For or against? Little Miss beauty pageants, the NRA, the Second Amendment, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, peanut butter, Scientology, chocolate chip ice cream, Quentin Tarantino, motivational speakers, televangelists, situation comedies, Comic Con, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, the Easter Bunny.

My mailbox would explode, implode, spit and fume.

Last week I had a nightmare like no other: I was a contented Douglas County high school art teacher but the principal, Mr. Kafka, decided it was my turn to teach a new course.

“American Patriotism.”

I begged and pleaded: “No, not me. Not now.”

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new hair shirt hanging in the closet.

If anyone thinks “We’re all in this together,” they haven’t been paying attention.

Not wanting to stoke further divisions among the citizenry, I am going to try to sit on the fence for a while. Travel the road’s middle. Try to appeal to every man, woman and child. It can be done.

“Offend no one,” will be my motto, my newest tattoo.

I will greet everyone with a smile.

But how will they know I’m smiling behind a mask?

Good question.

The chances of a makeover are practically nil. I have been disputatious since I was a child; unlike my sister, who never complained about our mother’s spaghetti sauce.

Elbert Hubbard said, “To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.”

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

Hope and encouragement, love and forgiveness

We must agree on civility

Events over past weeks and months have raised concerns and anxiety across our country. After each incident there have been sanctimonious cries of disdain and calls for reprisal. In every case there is one side who will try to rationalize the violence and disruption and an opposing side who will cast it as the epitome of evil and lawlessness.

There is no righteousness on either side. Not in those who encouraged and then lionized the riots over the summer, but condemned similar actions recently. Nor in those who sermonized about law and order when condemning the “social justice” demonstrations, but said little when their colleagues conducted themselves in similar lawless behavior.

We excuse lawlessness under any number of noble rationales, but all fly in the face of a nation ruled by law and order. We have now taught our citizens that the only way to really get your message heard and addressed is to rise up and act out — riot, destroy, even injure or kill.

I call on all of us to take a serious look at the state of our nation. If one wants to talk about systemic ills facing our nation, this needs to be at the top.

This is not a partisan issue that will be solved by blaming “them.” It is an issue that will require all parties to

In the first place, I don’t know how to tweet. The word itself isn’t fit for a Runyonesque character like I am.

“Harry, I’m going upstairs to tweet,” would worry the dog.

Not everyone, as we know, apologizes for what they express on Twitter. Some of us never apologize.

Maybe you have noticed? People are far more likely to complain now than they once were. And to complain aggressively.

Some things trigger all of us.

Race and abortion, for examples.

Some things trigger select groups or individuals. Perfume in elevators and gum chewing.

If the whole perfume industry went away, I wouldn’t mind.

Wait. Maybe I should reword that.

Think twice: Do you really want to smell like your off-aunt’s funeral?

See what I mean? I am governed by black coffee and an unnecessary need to engage in pedantic faultfinding.

I’m working on it. There’s a brand

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ecently I was asked about some of the best advice I have received over my career. As I considered my response, I thought about some of the great business minds and strategists who provided guidWINNING ance. I paused for WORDS a moment before answering the question. I wanted to make sure that my answer would reflect how I chose to live my life.

The answer I gave was this, “The best advice Michael Norton I have received is to provide hope and encouragement to all and to offer unconditional love and forgiveness to everyone.” This was a business interview, and I could tell that the gentleman who asked the question was caught off guard.

My instinct was right because he tried to clarify that his question was more about business advice and not personal advice.

Pausing one more time, I

thought about the response I had provided, “Provide others with hope and encouragement and live with unconditional love and forgiveness.” There was a pause on his end, so I asked if I could clarify what I meant and why I believe it was still the best advice I had ever been given personally, professionally, and spiritually. His response came quickly, “Yes, please connect the dots for me.”

Beginning with hope and encouragement I shared that early in my career I was fortunate enough to have worked in a culture of hope and encouragement. From the CEO on down, including my manager, all worked with the spirit of lifting each other up. There was hardly any turnover on the team. And since we know that people don’t leave jobs, they leave their bosses, this was so unique that I knew that I wanted to emulate it in my own career and in my life.

Wondering if it was the right approach for the company, the answer is yes, they were successfully acquired.

The attitude of gratitude was

abundant. And as I received promotions, I was then responsible for the productivity and care of those on my team. Rule #1 for me was a commitment to creating a culture and environment based on the foundation of hope and encouragement. If that did not fit with anyone on the team, they were encouraged and free to find success elsewhere.

“OK, this makes sense in that context. But I’m curious, tell me about love and forgiveness in the workplace,” the gentleman continued.

“Let’s not forget that we are talking about unconditional love and unconditional forgiveness that succeeds at home and at work.” That’s important because oftentimes we try and place rules around both. As we discussed love, I wanted to make sure that he understood that I was not speaking of romantic love, I was speaking about a different kind of love. A love based on appreciation, respect, honor, and a willingness to come alongside each other in the good times, wins,

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New preschool coming to Sterling Ranch in late 2021 Primrose facility will be owned by residents of neighborhood STAFF REPORT

A Primrose private preschool located in Sterling Ranch is set to open in late 2021, according to a news release from the neighborhood. The architect for the project is Galloway and the general contractor is AD Miller.

The school will be owned and operated by Mandy and Mike Fawcett,

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acknowledge that hoodlumism and lawlessness are never the way to air our grievance, nor to be accepted and rationalized. The fate of our nation depends on it.

Ron Newton Highlands Ranch School board letting kids down

I, along with many parents, am very frustrated by the Douglas County Board of Education’s decision to delay middle- and high-schoolers’ return to in-person learning. The school board’s decision to continue remote learn-

both of whom have a long relationship with Primrose, and whose daughters both attended Primrose for their early childhood education.

Additionally, the news release says the Fawcetts are pioneer residents of Sterling Ranch with a commitment to serving the community.

“We’re very excited to welcome Primrose to Sterling Ranch and provide the young families who live here with a school for their children to attend in their own neighborhood,” said Brock Smethills, president of Sterling Ranch Development Company, according to the news release. “More and more families are deciding to call Sterling Ranch

home and the addition of Primrose will make our community all the more desirable to everyone. This is an outstanding school with a stellar reputation that is another great amenity for our residents.”

More information about the school is available online at primroseschools.com.

“Our family is excited to begin this journey with Sterling Ranch,” said Mandy Fawcett, according to the release. “We look forward to serving the community of Sterling Ranch as their early education childcare provider and will collaborate with teachers and staff and most importantly partnering with the parents for the

same goals in mind: the children, their safety and to establish their love for learning as they continue to grow. We know the positive impact a Primrose School can make on the community, families, employees and the children.”

Primrose Schools believe that who children become is as important as what they know, and desire to forge a path that leads to a brighter future for all children, according to the release. The schools provide an earlylearning approach that balances purposeful play with nurturing guidance from teachers to encourage curiosity, creativity, confidence and compassion.

ing, though well-intentioned, will prolong the damage to our children and disregards what science is telling us. Our kids deserve and need better.

Our children are suffering academic, mental, and social/emotional harm from remote learning. The DCSD superintendent recently acknowledged a “significant slide in grades” is taking place. Nationally, mental health-related emergency room visits for kids are up 25-30% this past year.

Yet the science says in-person learning does not increase COVID spread. The CDC says schools are one of the safest places for children. Charters, private schools, and nearby public-school districts are proving that in-person schooling

can be done safely for children and teachers.

So what do we as parents do?

In the near term, we should continue being the voice of our children to the school board — emailing them and speaking at board meetings.

We can also take advantage of public school choice via open enrollment (which includes charter schools and other innovative options) — a short-term action that

can deliver benefits next school year and beyond.

A third (longer-term) thing we can do is stand up for our children in school board elections later this year — voting for people who will listen to science, to the families they serve, and who put our children’s education first. Those are the types of leaders that our children deserve.

Will Johnson Highlands Ranch

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losses, and family emergencies.

The kind of love that team members always knew they could count on. A “family first” approach, whether it was the team’s personal family or the family culture we created on our team.

Unconditional forgiveness works the same way. I have found that most errors made in business never torpedo a company. Giving team members permission to fail.

Unconditional forgiveness is not a “get out of jail free” card. If the mistake crossed the line and hurt the company or the team, a client, or partner significantly enough, there would be consequences.

Remembering all the times I had failed and was given grace, given

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unconditional forgiveness, even if I lost an account or an opportunity. My leadership team always made sure that I was OK first, and then worked with me to identify what went wrong and what I could do better next time. It was not only their advice, they demonstrated it each day.

How about you? What’s the best advice you have received personally or professionally? I would love to hear all about it at mnorton@tramazing.com and when we can live and work with the spirit of hope and encouragement and unconditional love and forgiveness, it really will be a better than good year.

Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

OBITUARIES SJOSTROM

Joan Sevier Sjostrom 11/10/1931 – 1/15/2021

Joan Sevier Sjostrom, age 89, passed away peacefully at home on January 15, 2021 in Sedalia, Colorado. She was born November 10, 1931 in Denver, Colorado. Joan loved life and was always ready to serve whenever she recognized a need. An avid volunteer, she was recognized in 2005 when Mayor John Hickenlooper of Denver declared July 28, 2005, Joan Sjostrom Day in honor of her exemplary service. Examples of Joan’s community service are plentiful and include: volunteering at Douglas County schools and service for 10 years on the school board; long-time volunteer and past board member for the Task Force of Douglas County (now the Help and Hope Center); Rotarian for more than 30 years and past president of the Rotary Club of Castle Rock; and volunteer at the Castle Rock branch of the Douglas County Library for more than 10 years, helping establish the local history department.

Joan’s faith was also central to her life.

Joan is survived by her brother, George Sevier, her three daughters, Sandra Link and husband Dave, Anne Sjostrom, Sharon Sjostrom and wife Lisa Baker. Her three grandchildren: Rachel, Emily and Davis Link. Her son, John, preceded her in death in 2002 and husband, Rex, in 2006.

We are grateful to the gentle and compassionate care that Joan and her family received from The Denver Hospice during the last 6 months of her life.

Please join us celebrating her life 10:00 am Saturday morning January 23rd, 2021 at https://wellofhopechurch.org. Replay available. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Douglas Land Conservancy (douglaslandconservancy. org) or the Help and Hope Center (www. helpandhopecenter.org).

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Mackenzie Theron Cheek 4/22/1991 - 12/20/2020

Mackenzie Theron Cheek was born 4-22-1991 in Denver, CO and died 12-20-2020 in Santa Monica, CA. He was the son of Robert Cheek of Carson City, MI and Jill Cheek of Castle Rock, CO. He is survived by his parents and sister, Heidi Cheek of Hendersonville,

NC. Mackenzie graduated from Douglas County High School in 2009. He was active in his church youth group and Boy Scouts. He was proud to have attained the rank of Eagle Scout, also in 2009. A memorial service is planned for Saturday 1-30-2021.

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Traveling poet, buskers share words of love and music in the age of COVID

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small desk, an antique typewriter and some space on Denver’s 16th Street Mall are the tools Colorado native Devan Kingsford needs to arouse some pretty strong emotions.

With a few taps on the Remington mobile’s keys, he creates unique poetry on demand for strangers passing by.

“I love doing this. I have an English degree, so I’m probably going to end up teaching at some point,” said Kingsford. “But for now, I’m fine just writing poetry for strangers.”

Up the street, Peter Olschner and Kyle Lang are two young street musicians performing soulful jazz tunes and trying to preserve downtown Denver’s rich history of street music.

“We don’t have a band name because we just started jamming together,” said Olschner. “We both love playing music with other people.”

It was a cold January day on the mall and it was bare with masked people enjoying entertainment, restaurants and shopping to escape COVID quarantines. COVID-19 has presented some challenges, especially for performers and musicians. The pandemic took away Lang’s job, sending him to the streets to play.

“I used to teach percussion in public schools around Colorado and after the pandemic shut down extracurricular activities, I was kinda lost for a bit,” he said. “It’s been great getting back into it, though.”

Olschner said the pandemic had a positive impact on playing his music because he was able to still earn an income.

“I would not have discovered my love for busking if I had a traditional gig opportunity. I’ve been able to continue to be a performer despite the situation surrounding the pandemic,” he said.

As for Kingsford, the typewriter poet, the pandemic moved him away from his favorite spot in Larimer Square, but it has not slowed him down. He is still able to find locations to set up his typewriter.

“There was more walking space and, luckily, we have the 16th Street Mall, which is a pedestrian mall which gives you a lot more space. Without that extra space, I probably would not have been able to work. Also, it would not be at a safe distance,” said Kingsford.

Shouting on the street corners

Kingsford is a native of Colorado and received an English degree from Metropolitan State University of Denver. He has been

Ivory Sykes, aka Vio the Violinist, of Aurora performs near Welton Street on the 16th Street Mall in Denver on Jan. 16.

PHOTO BY CHRISTY STEADMAN

Devan Kingsford creating a poems for strangers on the mall.

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creating poetry for strangers for more than seven years on the streets of Denver and at special events. He does not charge for his poetry but accepts donations.

Kingsford started working as a poet at the Art Walk on Santa Fe Drive in Denver, standing on the street corner with a book of his own poems in his hand, shouting his creations to strangers.

He did that until a woman warned him that he should stop.

“You are gonna get yourself killed — there’s one thing people hate worse than poetry, is when it’s screamed at them by a stranger,” said Kingsford.

Kyle Lang was inspired to play drums as an outlet to express himself.

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She suggested that he get a typewriter to choose a topic and write for strangers.

“I started doing that and never looked back. It’s incredible,” he said.

Crying and hugging

Kingsford’s poetry has touched many hearts with his words, none more than his own — sometimes in ways he has a hard time describing.

“You know, I can’t even imagine as a poet, I should have had a word for it,” said Kingsford.

A few years ago a woman approached him and asked for a

poem.

“She was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and she had six months to live. She wanted me to write her a poem that made her not afraid of death,” said Kingsford. “I wrote her poem. Then we cried together and hugged, and then she left.”

Have Remington, will travel

Why did Kingsford choose an antique Remington typewriter to create his poems?

“I own about 11 typewriters.

Three of them are Remington SEE PERFORMERS, P15

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Harlem After Dark to perform in livestream

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one Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree, presents a livestream performance by jazz vocalist/guitarist Allan Harris, with his trio: “Har- SONYA’S lem After Dark” at SAMPLER 8 p.m. Feb. 5. See LoneTreeArtsCenter.org or call 720-509-1000. LTAC will email a link prior to the show.

Single Stream: $25; Household Stream: $40. (This will be a professionally produced livestream, Sonya Ellingboe LTAC says.) The new presentation skills of our theatre folks are impressive as months roll by — I see a whole new skill set out there!

Art Encounters: public art

Art Encounters is a year-long exhibit that showcases outdoor sculpture in areas in Highlands Ranch, Castle Rock, Parker and Roxborough.

Applications must be received on ArtCall.org by Feb. 19. All sculptors whose work is chosen receive a $800 stipend and will be considered for the People’s Choice $1000 honorarium and the $1,000 judge’s prize.

Selected works will be exhibited May

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portables because they are incredible,” he said. “It’s like a laptop. It’s small, the fonts are 10 points and I average from three to 16 lines. I only use little quarter sheets of paper to write my poems. So you can fit a lot of words.”

As far as personalizing each poem, Kingsford said he relies on the subject to get him started. Some people offer up their whole life story, others only give non-verbal clues.

“There are other poets who do this, and they have their methods. I don’t like to ask a lot of questions, I don’t want to put words in your mouth or suggestions. I ask people to give me whatever they have at that moment,” said Kingsford.

Kingsford is available at 720-5469494 or by email at devankingsford@ gmail.com to book him for an event or to create a special poem for a loved one.

Street musicians

Olschner plays guitar and Lang plays drums. Both have been playing music since they were children and have been playing together for a short time. Lang loves instrumental mathrock music, and Olschner loves jazz.

So the plan is to form a jazz combo and do covers with popular tunes.

Olschner 24, was born and raised in Arvada. He attended Pomona High School in Arvada, learning choir and musical theater. Olschner went to Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and studied philosophy and music.

He has been playing guitar since he was 16 years old and mostly earns income full time as a street performer in Denver and Boulder

2021 to May 2022. Douglas County Arts Council started this exhibit.

‘The Good Director’

Colorado Theatre Guild will present Christy Montour-Larson, a well-recognized area theatrical director, at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 and March 10, in a virtual event that will benefit the Denver Actors Fund. She will explore good directing, bad directing and why good directing might be better than great. She will share how she works with designers, casting, table work, blocking, pacing, actors, rehearsals, tech and opening ... Questions from the audience will follow.

Free for members, $6/workshop for non-members. Link will be emailed.

See coloradotheatreguild.org.

Kirkland Museum

Kirkland Museum, 1201 Bannock St., Denver, celebrates moving into a new year with an exhibit of neverbefore-seen works from its Colorado and Regional Collection. Members free, non-members: $10, seniors/ students $8. No children under 13 admitted, due to the charming way things are displayed: salon style-in roupings as though in a home ...

This collection of contemporary decorative arts is really a treat for the eyes and brain. Hours: TuesdaySaturday: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday:

Jazz vocalist/guitarist Allan Harris will livestream from Lone Tree Arts Center at COURTESY PHOTO 8 p.m. on Feb. 5.

noon to 5 p.m. Pre-reserved/timed tickets required in advance: 303-8328576. (No groups at present.) Parking lot behind the museum.

Book news

Author Claudia Cangilla McAdam of Highlands Ranch will have a new children’s book in late Feb. about the Shroud of Turin. Watch here for a notice when it arrives — will be available at St. Thomas More Catholic Parish book store in Centennial.

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

The Gates Planetarium and Imax Theatre are open at Denver Museum

Peter Olschner learned how to play guitar with the computer game Guitar Hero 3.

Expressions and Guitar Hero

Lang was inspired to play drums to express himself.

“It’s another way for me to speak, and it gives me a creative outlet to express myself,” said Lang.

Olschner was inspired to play guitar by a music computer game.

“I grew up playing the game Guitar Hero 3 and I loved the soundtrack so much,” Olschner said. “I realized that I could play the songs on a real guitar if I practiced enough. When I was a sophomore in high school, my friend sold me his acoustic guitar with a buzzy string for $20, and I haven’t looked back since.”

He’d like to open a private lesson studio teaching students music theory and guitar techniques.

“I am working towards producing

Musical treat

“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” will be streamed from Town Hall Arts Center in Littleton at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 and 30. Tickets required: “Pay What You Can” structure: $15 to $55. townhallartscenter.org, 303-794ARTS. Matthew Kepler directs this staged concert version. Coming up Feb. 12, 13: “Almost Maine.” Only shows at the scheduled time.

CORE Gallery

The Women’s Caucus for Art exhibits members’ works at CORE New Art Space, in its new gallery location at 6851 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood. Open 6-10 p.m. Feb. 7 and 3-5 p.m. Feb. 9. 303-297-8428. Free admission and parking. coreartspace.com.

Honda Civic type R,” said Lang.

Mall music

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— supplemented by walking his brother’s dog for extra income.

Kyle Lang, 21, was adopted from Korea and grew up in Westminster.

He is studying psychology at Front Range Community College and was a music major at Metropolitan State University. He’s been playing drums for 12 years, which supplements his regular paycheck from NAPA Auto Parts in Boulder.

of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver, with presentations in Spanish on Saturdays and Sundays.

See website. All visitors 3 and older must wear a mask in the museum.

No food and drink in the theatre. Indigenous Film: “The Last American Indian on Earth” will be screened at 7 p.m. on Feb. 10 — pre-register. And: Perseverance lander, the newest lander, was launched in July and is expected to land on Mars on Feb. 18.

There will be a connection to NASA coverage of the landing. Time TBA. dmns.org, 303-370-6000.

original music, music videos, and educational videos for the internet as another source of income down the line,” said Olschner.

Lang’s short-term goal is to finish his degree at Colorado State University. After graduation, he plans to start a career in counseling.

“My long-term goal is buying a

Olschner enjoys performing his music for people on the 16th Street Mall and the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. The practice has developed him into an experienced performer.

“The people are very generous with their tips when they are enjoying the music. I love making cash tips, because it allows me to pay for my rent and my groceries as I continue to develop my career as a professional musician,” said Olschner.

Lang enjoys playing at the mall for a variety of people.

“Music always brings people together... I love the crowd, and I love being able to share my craft with others,” Lang said.

Lang and Olschner’s plans are to play Sunday jazz night at Dazzle in downtown Denver. You can watch the Lang and Olschner on tiktok with username @cattrumpets.

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With family missing in war, her ‘mind is the hardest place to be’ Refugee is consumed with worry about family caught in renewed civil war

CALL FOR HELP Whatever you are going through, crisis counselors and professionally trained peer specialists are available to help. Call the Colorado Crisis Service hotline at 1-844-493TALK (8255). There is no wrong reason to reach out.

BY SUSAN GREENE COLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE

Millete Birhanemaskel, a refugee, longtime Denver resident and businesswoman, grappled with 2020 as many others have: She tried to protect her family, her employees, her tenants from COVID’s reach. She worried about the presidential election. And she managed to keep her coffee shop, the Whittier Cafe, from going under.

She knew already what it was to be separated from the people you love, whether that separation comes by virus or by war. And she knew, too, what it was to live with uncertainty and powerlessness because each is a refugee’s emotional wallpaper.

But the anxieties of 2020 for her became magnitudes greater on Nov. 3. On that day, as Americans and much of the world awaited election results, civil war flared again in her family’s home country

living back in Tigray since the dictator was toppled in the early 1990s. That is, until November when a feud between Ethiopia’s federal government and local Tigrayan leaders prompted Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to bomb the region again, inciting a civil war that has killed civilians and forced more than 50,000 Tigrayans to flee.

Millete Birhanemaskel, 39, of Denver, moved to the United States from Ethiopia in 1982 and owns the PHOTO BY MARC PISCOTTY Whittier Cafe, a business that she said is focused on social justice.

of Ethiopia and her grandmother and two aunts went missing in the shelling. In the days since, the isolation that has marked this year for so many has taken on a new meaning for her: Much of her family is still unreachable and her grief is invisible to most Americans who know nothing of Ethiopia

and the trauma of its wars.

“I swear to God I know I look like that crazy woman who is screaming about this terrible dream and everybody’s like `What is wrong with her?’ I feel like I’m in a psych ward yelling, but nobody can hear me.”

Birhanemaskel’s head is 8,000 miles away, at the refu-

gee camp in Sudan where she was born after her parents fled bombing of their native Tigray in northern Ethiopia under a military dictatorship.

Her immediate family moved to Colorado in 1982, when she was an infant, but her grandmother and extended family have been

Constantly trying to make contact

Since the disappearance of her grandmother and two aunts, Birhanemaskel, 39, has been calling the cell phones she bought them, which go straight to busy signals without even ringing. She has been checking her Twitter feed every few minutes.

She keeps seeing posts that refugees have little food SEE REFUGEE, P20

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or water as they walk west toward refugee camps in Sudan, some reportedly collapsing, even dying of exhaustion along the way. She keeps hearing that Ethiopian soldiers are raping Tigrayan women and shooting or beheading Tigrayan men, leaving their bodies in the road for fellow refugees to step over. She keeps imagining she is walking in their shoes.

“As long as they’re missing, I can’t sleep, can’t focus, can’t enjoy anything because I keep having the most awful thoughts about what’s happening to them,” she says.

She is experiencing what clinicians call “vicarious trauma.”

But vicarious does not express how close it hits home, this civil war in a country where she has never officially lived, yet has defined so much of her life. It is the place, she says, that makes her “most full.” And yet the trauma her relatives are now enduring is a trauma they and her parents lived through four decades ago - and the third siege on the Tigrayan people in her grandmother’s lifetime.

That story explains why her grandma, whose home was bombed in the 1970s, hates loud noises. It explains why her parents met in a refugee camp and emigrated to the U.S. with a promise to themselves and their kids: “Never again.”

“This is literally my own story, the story of why I’m here. It’s just horrific how history repeats itself, how it comes full circle, how my people

January 28, 2021J Tigrayans’ stories on social media, are continuing to be devastated,” but mainly to search for her grandshe says. ma and aunties, or at least find out Vicarious does not describe the if they’re still alive. She will fly east experience of having to stop thinkwhen her visa arrives, which could ing of herself as an Ethiopian be any day now, and daydreams American, but rather as a Tigrayan about spotting them immediately in American virtually overnight Nov. the camp where she was born.

3. “There’s no way that my country could bomb my family like this,” Mother urges she says. daughter to stay Vicarious does home not account for Her mother — how on edge she who lived in that feels, how irricamp for several tated she is by the years and knows post-U.S.-election what she’s headchatter on the ing into — has talk radio her begged her to husband listens stay here with to every mornher kids. ing, how shortBirhanemaskel tempered she knows she is has become with risking COVID their two youngexposure and a est kids, ages 4 lack of medical and 3, whose care care in Sudan, her mother helps and a long with. quarantine when Millete Birhanemaskel she returns. She “Thank God for that because also knows that I can’t be present posting refugees’ with them and stories could put just forget about it, so I just sit in my her at risk of getting blacklisted by car and scroll my phone for news Ahmed’s government and forbidden about Ethiopia. This has consumed from seeing her family if the civil my entire life. Every minute. And I war ends and if they survive and if don’t know how to stop that.” they return, once again, to Tigray.

Birhanemaskel, who gave up her Those possibilities, however unEthiopian passport to become a U.S. bearable, seem preferable to further citizen, would not be allowed into neither-here-nor-thereness. From the country at this point. So she the comfort of her home in Denver, applied weeks ago for an emergency she says, she cannot pretend she visa to tour the refugee camps in isn’t caught in this war.

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‘This is literally my own story, the story of why I’m here. It’s just horrific how history repeats itself, how it comes full circle, how my people are continuing to be devastated.’

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Entertaining new ideas Lone Tree businesses adapt while attractions remain closed

BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On her commute home Jan. 6, Donna Reed, with her husband Brian and brother-in-law Scott, paused to appreciate a moment she had not felt in almost a year: leaving work before sunset.

Throughout the pandemic, the three Reeds Southside Tavern coowners worked from dawn until midnight, finishing tasks left undone thanks to a reduced staff and cleaning the restaurant from the top down every night.

“Leaving here at 5 p.m. and getting home while it was still light out — we just looked at each other and said, ‘holy cow,’” Donna said Jan. 7.

For the first time in 10 months, Donna felt like they were back to a normal schedule.

Businesses within Lone Tree’s Entertainment District, south of the Park Meadows mall and east of Yosemite Street, have used different methods to weather the pandemic.

No longer able to rely on attracting new customers visiting nearby attractions, including a mall, bowling alley, movie theater and indoor skydiving facility, restaurants are reimagining how they reach cus-

tomers. Some have closed for good while others have found refuge in takeout and delivery.

Brian, Scott and Donna Reed own Reeds Tavern, a sports-themed bar and restaurant at 9535 Park Meadows Drive. Brothers Brian and Scott purchased the place in 2017, a perfect location for attracting movie-goers streaming out of the east exit of Regal United Artists movie theater a few feet away.

Regal United Artists closed all of its locations in October. The company could not be reached for official comment. The company Tweeted Jan. 5 that it hopes to open its New York City and Los Angeles theaters in March.

“For us, even more than the other (restaurants), that foot traffic from the movie theater was huge,” Donna said. “People would come in before the movie and come back after the movie. We’ve seen that drop off significantly.”

Reeds Tavern began focusing more on its social media presence, menu specials and new promotions.

“When you’re in difficult times, you revitalize and renew yourself and it creates habits that last — regardless of being shut down or not,” Donna said, adding that they have seen their customer base expand as a result.

As of Jan. 8, there remains little in the way of entertainment in the district. Though looser restrictions on indoor dining seem on the horizon, attracting customers in the area

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sizes and fewer people than usual— “it’s still a zero-sum game,” Boe said—but the trends they have seen are encouraging. Close to 90% of their customers today are first-timers, a slight uptick from before the pandemic.

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Donna Reed, co-owner of Reeds Tavern, is optimistic about the future of the restaurant through the pandemic based on their experience and the innovations they’ve made to their business since it started.

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will remain a challenge for business owners in the area while the movie theater and Bowlero bowling alley stay closed indefinitely.

The district’s third unique entertainment draw, iFly, an indoor skydiving facility, has been able to remain open. iFly does not qualify as either an “entertainment” business or “gym,” as classified by the state. Instead, the colossal, regional attraction can operate as a “retail” business — their product literally being the wind they pump through vertical tunnels to simulate the sensation of free-falling.

“Since there hasn’t been such an influx of other entertainment that are still open, that’s sent a lot of new business our direction,” said Jordan Boe, iFly manager. iFly is providing smaller class

Reeds Tavern is one of 40 Lone Tree restaurants certified under the Douglas County COVID-19 5-Star program since Dec. 21. As of Jan. 8, the program allowed businesses to reopen indoor dining service at 25% capacity under stricter safety protocols.

On Jan. 4, Gov. Jared Polis moved the entire state from level red to level orange status, permitting indoor dining at 25% for all. That same day the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced that 5-Star-certified restaurants could allow dine-in service at 50% capacity following a sevenday decline of cases in their respective counties.

To Donna, that means opening two virtual golf bays instead of one, more tables and fewer people being turned away at the door.

“It also, when there’s only a few tables in here because of the large space, it just doesn’t feel as upbeat as when there’s more customers than there are tables,” Donna said.

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appearing to improve, the county was expected at the time to hit the mark within roughly a week.

Trends took a different turn. As of Jan. 19, Douglas County’s rate sat at 436, according to Tri-County data.

Arapahoe posted a 491, and Adams sat at 492.

Jefferson County sat at 383 and Denver at 448, according to the state’s website.

And although nearly all of Colorado is operating in level orange, the majority of counties — including Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Jefferson and Denver — still sat in red territory based on incidence rate.

As of noon Jan. 20, Broomfield and Elbert counties’ 5-star businesses were operating in yellow restrictions, according to the Joint Information Center. Those appeared to be

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sports tavern.”

Within their building cluster, which includes Grist Brewing Co., Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant, Grillin’ Wings & Things, the former Sweet Tomatoes and Exotikka Indian Dining, only Reeds Tavern, Grist and Rio Grande have 5-Star status.

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the only such counties, according to Colorado’s COVID-19 website.

But Tri-County Health’s area — Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas — is on the right track, Ludwig said.

Asked when 5-Star-certified businesses will have low enough metrics get to operate at yellow, Ludwig said, “I think we’re several weeks away,” adding that Tri-County’s area may hit the mark sooner if residents adhere to coronavirus precautions well enough.

“Since (early January), all three of our counties have been coming down at a really great pace,” Ludwig said. She added: “We did not have as big of a post-holiday spike as expected.”

The Tri-County area saw “a huge decline” in the number of businesses applying for 5-Star certification after counties were moved to level orange, Ludwig said, but the area has since seen a “slow and steady” trickle of applications.

Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, Jef-

ferson, Broomfield and Denver were among the counties approved for the 5-Star program, but Adams was not, as of Jan. 20.

Although many counties still show level-red virus trends based on incidence rate, health officials appear unlikely to move counties back to red restrictions unless the trends take a severe turn.

“I think it would have to get significantly worse,” Ludwig said.

“And if numbers started to increase at a dramatic pace in which we were very nervous or we started seeing hospitalizations increasing to a point of not having ICU (intensivecare unit) capacity, I think the state health department would be having conversations about what needs to take place.”

Asked about possibly moving metro Denver counties or others back to red, the Joint Information Center said: “We need to find the

delicate balance between protecting public health and doing what we can to provide much-needed economic relief — we know that economic hardships also cause poorer health outcomes. We will work closely with local public health agencies and will make decisions based on what best protects public health.”

Asked whether the dial system’s benchmarks for incidence rate should be changed and whether the levels don’t accurately reflect what restrictions ought to be, the center’s statement said: “Throughout the pandemic, we have updated policies based on new information and data available to us. Counties were moved from red to orange to provide much-needed economic relief and because we believed we could do so while also protecting public health. If we see a significant increase or decrease in disease transmission, hospitalizations and positivity rates, we will evaluate next steps.”

ther looking at signing leases or are in the process of signing vacancies in the private market.”

The afternoon of Jan. 7 at Reeds Tavern could have been mistaken for a typical, slow Thursday afternoon. A few customers sat at one table. One man enjoyed a round of virtual golf. But that was as busy as things could get.

Reed, a lifelong educator, is on her third career. She joined the ownership team behind Reeds Tavern last year. Donna began dating Brian last February. The two married in May,

with Donna officially taking his last name and becoming the third co-owner.

When the March shutdown orders forced all nonessential businesses to close, Donna worried the young restaurant would not survive.

“I’m seeing people who don’t own restaurants but believe in restaurants…starting things to help support restaurants and really coming together as a community,” Donna Reed said. “That coming together as a community has been vital to us keeping our doors open.”

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buildings in the Entertainment District remain highly sought-after by investors, according to City of Lone Tree Economic Development Director Jeff Holwell. Sweet Tomatoes shuttered recently and there is strong interest in that building, Holwell said. Fox & Hound is temporarily closed. Holwell said they are keeping an eye on the status of that business, as its building is also interesting developers.

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C R O S SWO R D Faith leaders discuss P U Z Z L E ‘opening people’s eyes’ to racism

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Across the country, demonstrations over the past several months buoyed up a conversation about race and unequal treatment that protesters say still runs rampant in the lives of people of color.

A pertinent question for a nation of many faiths: Where does religion fit into the conversation?

Five Colorado religious leaders gathered in a virtual live talk on Jan. 17, discussing everything from the Black Lives Matter movement to Asian Americans experiencing discrimination because of COVID-19 to how to faith leaders can wade into the challenging space of addressing racism.

“For Buddhists, one of the most important things is to look at the self,” said Rev. Diana Thompson, a Kaikyoshi minister at the Tri-State/ Denver Buddhist Temple.

If you’ve been called racist, “you need to just sit and listen — you need to be with them, you need to understand the perspective that they’re coming from,” Thompson said.

“We see self-reflection as the beginning of our social engagement,” Thompson said. The talk was put on by the nonprofit Colorado Humanities.

Worshipers should ask: “Where did we come from, or how did we come together?” said Kamel Elwazeir, president of the Islamic Society of Colorado Springs.

“If we can agree that the creator created us from clay, from dirt, and that we all belong to Adam, then we are all connected, and there is no” difference between one another, Elwazeir said. “It is considered a sin in Islam and talk down to (someone) or look down on him because of skin color.”

Rev. Joan Bell-Haynes, executive regional minister of the Central Rocky Mountain Region of the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, brought up her organization’s effort to “eradicate racism

within each (part) of our church.”

“Our concern is based in our theology that all people are created in God’s image, and that is the image of humanity, not one race or another,” Bell-Haynes said.

The local faith leaders touched upon the Black Lives Matter movement, which opposes “statesanctioned violence” against Black people, along with “anti-Black racism,” according to its website.

Adrian Miller, executive director of the Colorado Council of Churches — an organization that aims to work “together for justice” in the Christian community — referred to the “All lives matter” response to the Black Lives Matter movement.

“When you say, ‘Save the whales, nobody says ‘all fish matter,’” Miller said.

When some began attributing COVID-19 to Chinese people, Thompson said a member of her temple was called a “COVID (expletive)” at a grocery store. Thompson also lamented former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric regarding the coronavirus but argued that conversations about social issues shouldn’t break down by party affiliation.

“We can’t say that just because you are this political affiliation, you’re a piece of junk because things are far more complicated than that,” Thompson said.

How to lead faith congregations in conversations about race also came up in the discussion. Bell-Haynes asks those in the faith community to inquire about what racism looks like in their own community context.

“Some of them may say, ‘I don’t have experience with racism.’ Well then … who are the people being marginalized?” Bell-Haynes said.

Worshipers should be helping others “to open their eyes that there are people in our own communities that are being treated inferiorly.”

Colorado Humanities, a nonprofit, provides educational programs about topics such as history, literature and religion, according to its website.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals City and County PUBLIC NOTICE ORDINANCE NO. 12.05.13 A Bill for an Ordinance to Amend Sections 2.04.020 and 2.04.030 of the Parker Municipal Code Concerning Eliminating the Ex Officio Member for the Cultural and Scientific Commission The Town of Parker Council adopted this Ordinance on January 19, 2021.

The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the office of the Town Clerk, 20120 East Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado.

Carol Baumgartner, CMC, Town Clerk Legal Notice No. 938605 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE ORDINANCE NO. 3.324.2 ORDINANCE NO. 3.324.2 - Second Reading A Bill for an Ordinance to Amend Section 13.09.040 of the Parker Municipal Code to Add a New Paragraph 13.09.040(b)(4) Concerning the Registration of Temporary Signs Between March 20 and May 1 of Each Calendar Year The Town of Parker Council adopted this Ordinance on January 19, 2021.

The full text of the ordinance is available for public inspection and acquisition in the office of the Town Clerk, 20120 East Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado.

Carol Baumgartner, CMC, Town Clerk Legal Notice No. 938606 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE PURSUANT TO THE LIQUOR LAWS OF THE STATE OF COLORADO, BLUESTAR RESORT & GOLF, LLC d/b/a THE EXCHANGE has requested the City Council of the City of Castle Pines, acting as the Local Licensing Authority, grant a Beer and Wine Liquor License at 1415 Westbridge Drive, Castle Pines, CO, 80108, to dispense Malt and Vinous liquors by the drink for consumption on the premises. The Public Hearing on the application will be held at a virtual Meeting of City Council on Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. Please see the City’s website at www. castlepinesco.gov to register to view the meeting.

Sole Member: BlueStar Landscape Management, LLC, 655 Brea Canyon Road, Walnut, CA, 91789 Principal Officer: Tim Walker Steckbeck Date of Complete Application: 12-18-2020 By: Tobi Basile, CMC, City Clerk Legal Notice No. 938607 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Metropolitan Districts Public Notice NOTICE OF VACANCIES ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF RAMPART RANGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 5 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Rampart Range Metropolitan District No. 5 of Douglas County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 32-1-808, C.R.S., that two vacancies currently exist on the board of directors of the Rampart Range Metropolitan District (“District”). Any qualified, eligible elector of the District interested in filling such vacancy and serving on the board of directors should file a Letter of Interest with the board of directors of the District on or before February 7, 2021, at the office of the District’s General Counsel.

Forms of Letters of Interest are available and can be obtained from the Rampart Range Metropolitan District No. 5, c/o Jennifer S. Henry at McGeady Becher P.C., 450 E. 17th Avenue, Suite 400, Denver, Colorado 80203, (303) 592 4380.

RAMPART RANGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 5 By: /s/ Elizabeth Matthews, Secretary Legal Notice No. 938597 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING ON RESOLUTION PROPOSING INCLUSION OF PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to C.R.S. § 32-1-401(2)(a)(II), a resolution proposing the inclusion of certain property into the Parker Water and Sanitation District will be considered by the Board of Directors of Parker Water and Sanitation District on the date and time below.

Public meeting information: Parker Water and Sanitation District Offices 18100 E. Woodman Drive Parker, Colorado 80134 February 11, 2021 at 6:00 p.m.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the meeting on February 11, 2021 may be held virtually via zoom. Please check PWSD’s website at: https://www.pwsd.org/762/Meetings-Agendas for meeting attendance information via zoom before travelling to the meeting.

Description of Area to be Included: All property within the Castle Pines North Metropolitan District which is generally located: East of Daniels Park Road, and West of Interstate 25.

It is generally south of the lots on Grigs Road and Tapadero Way; south west of the Public Service Company Power Line Easement and trails; and, south of Charter Oaks Drive and 1st Avenue.

Its southern boundary is generally north of the lots along Chase Lane, Northwood Lane and Country Club Parkway.

The District does not include Green Valley Subdivision, Oak Hills Subdivision, Beverly Hills Estates and that portion Charter Oaks Subdivision that is north of Charter Oaks Drive and 1st Avenue.

If you are uncertain whether you are in the District you may enquire at the District office at 7404 Yorkshire Drive, Castle Pines, CO or by calling 303.688.8550.

All persons interested and a municipality or county which may be able to provide service to the real property therein described shall appear at the time and place stated above and show cause in writing why the resolution to include the property should not be finally adopted.

Legal Notice No. 938598 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice CENTENNIAL AIRPORT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Commissioners of the Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority will conduct a VIRTUAL BOARD MEETING at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 11th, 2021. Please go to the following link to attend this virtual meeting: http://bit.ly/ acpaafeb2021.

The agenda will include a Public Hearing on an application under Centennial Airport’s Development Policy and Application Procedures for Aeronautical and Non-Aeronautical Land Use (“Development Procedures”) from Floors and Doors LLC. for the Lot 10 Floors and Doors 2.0 Office/Hangar Development Plan.

Information concerning these items may be reviewed at the Authority offices by appointment at 7565 South Peoria Street, Englewood, CO 80112. To schedule an appointment please call 303-790-0598.

Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority Legal Notice No. 938610 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF VACANCY ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF LANTERNS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Lanterns Metropolitan District No. 1 (the “District”), Town of Castle Rock, Douglas County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 32-1-808, C.R.S., that one or more vacancies currently exist or will exist on the Board of Directors of the District. Any qualified, eligible elector of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors for the District should file a Letter of Interest with the Board by 5:00 p.m., on Monday, February 8, 2021.

Letters of Interest should be sent to Lanterns Metropolitan District No. 1, c/o WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial, CO 80122.

LANTERNS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1 By: /s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON Attorneys at Law

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Legal Notice No. 938604 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE OF VACANCY ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF CIELO METROPOLITAN DISTRICT TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the Cielo Metropolitan District (the “District”), Douglas County, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 32-1-808, C.R.S., that one or more vacancies currently exist or will exist on the Board of Directors of the District. Any qualified, eligible elector of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors for the District should file a Letter of Interest with the Board by 5:00 p.m., on Monday, February 8, 2021.

A description of the Work to be performed is: Sterling Ranch Filing 3A, 3B, Waterton Road, and Middle Fork Street Landscape and Irrigation Improvements located in Douglas County, Colorado. Bidders are required to bid on all of the project scope as further defined in Section 01000-1 in the bid documents. The contract will be awarded in whole in the areas of landscape and irrigation construction.

Letters of Interest should be sent to Cielo Metropolitan District, c/o WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON, 2154 E. Commons Ave., Suite 2000, Centennial, CO 80122.

Bid packages will be available for download the day of advertisement on January 28, 2021 at the following link: https://redland.box.com/s/7q8dwtc8dfgh9ea46at agoza8i4tqush Potential bidders may be asked to sign or click an acknowledgment to the effect that only bidders who obtain bid packages from the foregoing link will be eligible as plan holders to submit bids. Plan holders are required to notify Wade LePlatt at Redland via email and phone that they are plan holders, no later than four (4) days prior to bid submissions, in order to receive notification of bid addenda. Bidders must acknowledge receipt of bid addenda on the designated form with their bid submission or their bid will be automatically disqualified.

CIELO METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

A pre-bid conference will not be held.

By: /s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON Attorneys at Law

Bids shall be made on the bid forms furnished by the Owner and shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope and endorsed with the name of the Bidder along with an electronic Excel copy on disk or thumb drive. A Bid Bond in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total Bid amount will be required. The Bid Bond will be retained by Owner as liquidated damages should the Successful Bidder fail to enter into a Contract with the Owner in accordance with the Bid. Bidders must supply a list of Subcontractors.

Legal Notice No. 938603 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Bids and Settlements Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT/ FINAL SETTLEMENT STERLING RANCH COMMUNITY AUTHORITY BOARD PROVIDENCE VILLAGE RECREATIONAL FACILITY AND STERLING RANCH FILING 4A - TOWNHOMES Notice is hereby given that at 9:00 a.m. on February 8, 2021, the STERLING RANCH COMMUNITY AUTHORITY BOARD shall make final payment and settlement to the following contractors in connection with all services rendered, materials furnished and for all labor performed in and for the referenced project: 1. JBS Pipeline Contractors in the amount of $13,398.15, pursuant to the contract dated July 9, 2019 for work performed in Sterling Ranch Filing 4A – Providence Village Recreational Facility.

2. JBS Pipeline Contractors in the amount of $18,074.10, pursuant to the contract dated July 9, 2019 for work performed in Sterling Ranch Filing 4A - Townhomes.

Any person, individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, limited liability company, partnership, association or other legal entity that has furnished labor, materials, sustenance, or other supplies used or consumed by a contractor or his or her subcontractor in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies laborers, rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractor or the subcontractor may, at any time and up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of the claim.

All such claims shall be filed with the Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board, c/o Seter & Vander Wall, P.C., 7400 E. Orchard Road, Suite 3300, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 on or before the above-mentioned date and time of final settlement.

Failure on the part of a claimant to timely file a verified statement of the amount due shall relieve the Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board from any and all liability for making payment to the claimant.

BY ORDER OF THE STERLING RANCH COMMUNITY AUTHORITY BOARD Legal Notice No. 938580 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Published in: The Douglas County News Press Public Notice INVITATION TO BID The Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board, an authority and separate legal entity formed pursuant to §29-1-203.5, C.R.S. (hereinafter called the “Owner”) will receive sealed Bids for Sterling Ranch – Filing 3A, 3B, Waterton Road, and Middle Fork Street Landscape and Irrigation Improvements (collectively the “Project”) via email to wleplatt@redland.com until 11:00 A.M., February 26, 2021. Hard copy Bids shall also be mailed to Redland located at 1500 West Canal Court, Littleton, CO 80120. Bids received will be publicly opened and read aloud via web meeting.

A meeting invitation will be sent to those interested who notify the Owners Representative via email.

Attention is called to the fact that Bidders offer to assume the obligations and liabilities imposed by the Contract Documents. The Successful Bidder for the Project will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Labor and Materials Payment Bond and a Warranty Bond of the full amount (100%) of the Agreement Price, in conformity with the requirements of the Contract Documents.

The basis of the award shall be the lowest responsible and responsive Bid as determined by Owner. The Owner reserves the right to not award a Contract until sixty (60) days from the date of the opening of the Bids, and Bidders expressly agree to keep their Bids open for the sixty (60) day time period. Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids. Owner reserves the right to accept any combination of Bids which in Owner’s sole, and absolute judgment will, under all circumstances, best serve the Owner’s interests. Owner also reserves the right to extend the Bidding period by Addendum if it appears in its best interest to do so.

Any questions concerning this bid shall be directed via email to: Wade LePlatt, P.E. Redland 1500 West Canal Court Littleton, CO 80120 Phone: 720-283-6783 ext. 134 Email: wleplatt@redland.com Legal Notice No. 938612 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT TOWN OF PARKER STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, PURSUANT TO SECTION 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on the 11th day of February, 2021, final settlement will be made by the Town of Parker, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Town of Parker and TAT Construction, for the completion of Jordan Road Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon (CIP20-019), and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said TAT Construction for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said 11th day of February, 2021, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Town of Parker Council, c/o Director of Engineering/Public Works, 20120 E. Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado, 80138.

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

The Town of Parker Council, By: Tom Williams, Director of Engineering/Public Works.

Legal Notice No. 938618 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Second Publication: February 4, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press Public Notice REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ) #003-21 PUBLIC FINANCIAL

CONSULTANT SERVICES The Department of Community Development of Douglas County Government, hereinafter referred to as the County, respectfully requests information/qualifications and fee schedule rates from responsible, qualified firms for the provision of public financial consultant services. The purpose of this request is to obtain ongoing independent public finance advising in support of the County Commissioners, including, but not limited to the adequacy of financial information related to special district service plan applications. This project will mainly entail ongoing financial consulting at the behest of the County, when necessary.

The RFQ documents may be reviewed and/or printed from the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System website at www.rockymountainbidsystem.com. The RFQ documents are not available for purchase from Douglas County Government and can only be accessed from the above-mentioned website.

RFQ responses shall be submitted in a sealed envelope plainly marked “RFQ #003-21, Public Financial Consultant Services” prior to the due date and time. Electronic and/or faxed responses will not be accepted. RFQ responses will be received until 3:00 p.m., on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 by the Douglas County Finance Department, Purchasing Division, 100 Third Street, Suite 130, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104. Responses will not be considered which are received after the time stated, and any responses so received will be returned unopened.

Douglas County Government reserves the right to reject any and all responses, to waive formalities, informalities, or irregularities contained in a said response and furthermore, to award a contract for items herein, either in whole or in part, if it is deemed to be in the best interest of the County to do so. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate optional items and/or services with the successful firm.

Please direct any questions concerning this RFQ to Carolyn Riggs, Purchasing Supervisor at 303660-7434 or criggs@douglas.co.us, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Legal Notice No. 938616 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF CONTRACTORS SETTLEMENT COUNTY OF DOUGLAS STATE OF COLORADO NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 38-26-107, C.R.S., as amended, that on the 22nd day of FEBRUARY 2021, final settlement will be made by the County of Douglas, State of Colorado, for and on account of a contract between Douglas County and KAHN CONSTRUCTION for the JUSTICE CENTER INTAKE DOCK REMODEL PROJECT - INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #002-20 (PO#40278); and that any person, co-partnership, association or corporation that has an unpaid claim against said KAHN CONSTRUCTION for or on account for the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or any subcontractors in or about the performance of said work, or that supplied rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of said work, may at any time up to and including said time of such final settlement on said 22nd day of FEBRUARY 2021, to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with the Douglas County Government, Board of County Commissioners, c/o Facilities, Fleet & Emergency Support Services, 100 Third Street, Castle Rock, Colorado 80104.

Failure on the part of the claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve said County of Douglas from all and any liability for such claimant’s claim. The Board of Douglas County Commissioners of the County of Douglas, Colorado, By: Carolyn S. Riggs, CPPB, Purchasing Supervisor, Douglas County Government.

Legal Notice No. 938583 1st Publication Date: 1/21/21 2nd Publication Date: 1/28/21 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Summons and Sheriff Sale Public Notice District Court, Douglas County, State of Colorado 4000 Justice Way, Ste. 2009 Castle Rock, Colorado 80104 In Re the Parental Responsibilities Concerning: VADA LARREN GEDDES Petitioner: RYAN MICHAEL MONOHAN And Respondents: CHANEL LARREN GEDDES and UNKNOWN BIOLOGICAL FATHER Attorney for Petitioner: Tricia M. Shepard, #42273 Shepard Law, LLC 19751 East Mainstreet, Suite 303 Parker, Colorado 80138 Phone Number: 720.432.8460 E-mail: tricia@shepardfamilylaw.co

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Public Notices Case Number:2020DR30705 SUMMONS FOR ALLOCATION OF PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES To the Respondent named above this Summons serves as a notice to appear in this case.

If you were served in the State of Colorado, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 21 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

If you were served outside of the State of Colorado or you were served by publication, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 35 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

You may be required to pay a filing fee with your Response. The Response form (JDF 1420) can be found at www.courts.state.co.us by clicking on the “Self Help/Forms” tab.

The Petition requests that the Court enter a Order addressing issues involving the children such as, child support, allocation of parental responsibilities, (decision-making and parenting time), attorney fees, and costs to the extent the Court has jurisdiction.

Notice: Colorado Revised Statutes §14-10-123, provides that upon the filing of a Petition for Allocation of Parental Responsibilities by the Petitioner and Co-Petitioner, or upon personal service of the Petition and Summons on the Respondent, or upon waiver and acceptance of service by the Respondent, an automatic temporary injunction shall be in effect against both parties until the Final Order is entered, or the Petition is dismissed, or until further Order of the Court. Either party may apply to the Court for further temporary orders, an expanded automatic temporary injunction, or modification or revocation under §14-10-125, C.R.S. A request for genetic tests shall not prejudice the requesting party in matters concerning allocation of parental responsibilities pursuant to §14-10124(1.5), C.R.S. If genetic tests are not obtained prior to a legal establishment of paternity and submitted into evidence prior to the entry of the final order, the genetic tests may not be allowed into evidence at a later date.

Automatic Temporary Injunction – By Order of Colorado law, you and the other parties: 1. Are enjoined from molesting or disturbing the peace of the other party; and 2. Are restrained from removing the minor child(ren) from the state without the consent of all parties or an Order of the Court modifying the injunction; and 3. Are restrained, without at least 14 days advance notification and the written consent of all other parties or an Order of the Court, from cancelling, modifying, terminating, or allowing to lapse for nonpayment of premiums, any policy of health insurance or life insurance that provides coverage to the minor child(ren) as a beneficiary of a policy.

If you fail to file a Response in this case, any or all of the matters above, or any related matters which come before this Court, may be decided without further notice to you.

Respectfully Submitted this 2nd day of September 2020. /s/ Tricia M. Shepard, #42273 Attorney for the Petitioner Legal Notice No. 938570 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: February 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice District Court, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2020CV30690, Division/ Courtroom # 6 SHERIFF’S SALE NO. 20001381 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY TOWN AND COUNTRY VILLAGE HOMEOWNERS ASSN Plaintiff: v.

AMY MICHELLE VINCZE et al.

Defendant(s) Regarding: Lot 120, Block 1, Town & Country Village No. 4, County of Douglas, State of Colorado also known by street and number as 10870 Victorian Dr, Parker CO 80138 (the "Property);

have withdrawn their bid.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE INITIAL BID AT THE TIME OF SALE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JUDGMENTS BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Recorded Transcripts of Judgement are in the amount of $6,852.30 All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 303-660-7527. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is ALCOCK LAW GROUP 19751 E MAINSTREET 210 Parker, CO 80138 ,303-993-5400 Dated 1/7/2021, Castle Rock, CO Tony Spurlock Sheriff of Douglas County, Colorado Tommy Barrella, Deputy Douglas County, Colorado Legal Notice No. 938482 First Publication: 1/7/2021 Last Publication: 2/4/2021 Published In: Douglas County News Press Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, DOUGLAS COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 4000 Justice Way, Ste. 2009, Castle Rock, CO 80109 Case No.:2020CV30779 Division: 5 Plaintiff: THE ESTATE AT LONE TREE HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC. D/B/A HERITAGE ESTATES HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation v.

Defendants: BRIDGET BARTELDS; U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE TRUST 2006-1, ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGEBACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-1, 60 LIVINGSTON AVENUE, ST. PAUL, MN 55107; SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING LLC AS ATTORNEY-IN-FACT FOR ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE TRUST 2006-1, ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGE-BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-1, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE; STATE OF COLORADO - DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; GUY’S FLOOR SERVICE, INC.; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; and FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY as Trustee Attorneys for Plaintiff MOELLER GRAF, P.C. Joshua S. Myers, #53309 jmyers@moellergraf.com Bujar Ahmeti, #42373 K. Christian Webert, #43739 385 Inverness Parkway, Suite 200 Englewood, Colorado 80112 Office: (720) 279-2568 FAX: (720) 279-2569 SUMMONS [BY PUBLICATION] THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: BRIDGET BARTELDS 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 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 rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.

This is an action for judicial foreclosure under C.R.C.P. Rule 105 and damages seeking to foreclose a statutory lien on the following property: LOT 141, LONE TREE FILING NO. 16-D, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO; Dated January 11, 2021.

MOELLER GRAF, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff

also known as: 10870 Victorian Dr Parker, CO 80138 (the “Property”)

/s/ Joshua S. Myers, #53309 Associate Attorney

Under a Judgement and Decree of Foreclosure entered on November 20, 2020, relating to Transcripts of Judgments recorded in the Douglas County public records the undersigned is ordered to sell certain real property set forth and described above.

Legal Notice No. 938578 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: February 18, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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 Division of the Sheriff's Office of Douglas County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 25th day February, 2021, at 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2213, Castle Rock, CO 80109, phone number 303-660-7527. 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. All bidders will be required to have in their possession cash or certified funds at least equal to the amount of the judgment creditor’s bid. Please telephone 303-660-7527 prior to the sale to ascertain the amount of this bid. The highest and best bidder will have two hours following the sale to tender the full amount of their bid, or they will be deemed to

Public Notice District Court, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2017CV30168, Division/ Courtroom # 1 SHERIFF’S SALE NO. 21000023 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY LINCOLN SQUARE LOFTS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION Plaintiff: v.

NAZARAD K MADURO et al.

Defendant(s) Regarding: Condominium Unit No. 1216, Lincoln Square Lofts, County Douglas, State Colorado, According to the Condominium Map thereof recorded on June 17, 2005, at Reception No. 2005054932, and the Declaration recorded on June 17, 2005 at Reception 200504931, in the

office of the Clerk and Recorder of Douglas County, Colorado as amended from time to time, Including the exclusive right to use LCE Parking Space No (s). 1216, as defined and described pursuant to the Declaration and depicted on the Condominium Map Also known and numbered as: 10184 Park Meadows Dr, #1216, Lone Tree, CO 80124; also known as: 10184 Park Meadows Dr #1216 Lone Tree, CO 80124 (the “Property”) Under a Judgement and Decree of Foreclosure entered on April 27, 2017, relating to Transcripts of Judgments recorded in the Douglas County public records the undersigned is ordered to sell certain real property set forth and described above.

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 Division of the Sheriff's Office of Douglas County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 18th day March, 2021, at 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2213, Castle Rock, CO 80109, phone number 303-660-7527. 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. All bidders will be required to have in their possession cash or certified funds at least equal to the amount of the judgment creditor’s bid. Please telephone 303-660-7527 prior to the sale to ascertain the amount of this bid. The highest and best bidder will have two hours following the sale to tender the full amount of their bid, or they will be deemed to have withdrawn their bid.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE INITIAL BID AT THE TIME OF SALE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JUDGMENTS BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Recorded Transcripts of Judgement are in the amount of $7,788.25 All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 303-660-7527. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is Orten, Cavanaugh & Holmes, LLC 1445 Market Street Denver, CO 80202, Dated 1/21/2021, Castle Rock, CO Tony Spurlock Sheriff of Douglas County, Colorado Tommy Barrella, Deputy Douglas County, Colorado Legal Notice No. 938563 First Publication: 1/21/2021 Last Publication: 2/18/2021 Published In: Douglas County News Press Public Notice District Court, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2020CV030109, Division/Courtroom # SHERIFF’S SALE NO. 20001405 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY HIGHLANDS RANCH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff: v.

DAVID E. JOY et al., Defendant(s) Regarding: LOT 63, Highlands Ranch Filing No. 143, 2nd Amendment, County of Douglas, State of Colorado Also known as: 3370 Cranston Circle, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126; also known as: 3370 Cranston Cir Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 (the “Property”) Under a Judgement and Decree of Foreclosure entered on November 17, 2020, relating to Transcripts of Judgments recorded in the Douglas County public records the undersigned is ordered to sell certain real property set forth and described above.

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 Division of the Sheriff's Office of Douglas County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 4th day March, 2021, at 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2213, Castle Rock, CO 80109, phone number 303-660-7527. 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. All bidders will be required to have in their possession cash or certified funds at least equal to the amount of the judgment creditor’s bid. Please telephone 303-660-7527 prior to the sale to ascertain the amount of this bid. The highest and best bidder will have two hours following the sale to tender the full amount of their bid, or they will be deemed to have withdrawn their bid.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE INITIAL BID AT THE TIME OF SALE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JUDGMENTS BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Recorded Transcripts of Judgement are in the amount of $8,971.77 All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 303-660-7527. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is WINZENBURG LEFF PURVIS & PAYNE LLP

8020 SHAFFER PKWY 300 LITTLETON, CO 80127, 3038631870 Dated 1/7/2021, Castle Rock, CO Tony Spurlock Sheriff of Douglas County, Colorado Tommy Barrella, Deputy Douglas County, Colorado Legal Notice No. 938510 First Publication: 1/7/2021 Last Publication: 2/4/2021 Published In: Douglas County News Press Public Notice District Court, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2020CV030135, Division/Courtroom # 5 SHERIFF’S SALE NO. 20001398 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY HIGHLANDS RANCH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff: v.

JAMES D. AGNEW; SUZANNE R. AGNEW et al. Defendant(s)

phone number 303-660-7527. 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. All bidders will be required to have in their possession cash or certified funds at least equal to the amount of the judgment creditor’s bid. Please telephone 303-660-7527 prior to the sale to ascertain the amount of this bid. The highest and best bidder will have two hours following the sale to tender the full amount of their bid, or they will be deemed to have withdrawn their bid.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE INITIAL BID AT THE TIME OF SALE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JUDGMENTS BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Recorded Transcripts of Judgement are in the amount of $38,810.20 All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 303-660-7527. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is ALCOCK LAW GROUP 19751 E MAINSTREET 210 Parker, CO 80138, 303-993-5400 Dated 1/7/2021, Castle Rock, CO

Regarding: Lot Twenty-One (21), Block Three (3), Highlands Ranch Filing No. 14, County of Douglas, State of Colorado.

Tony Spurlock Sheriff of Douglas County, Colorado

Also known as: 1100 Ridgeglen Way, Highlands Ranch, CO 80126;

Tommy Barrella, Deputy Douglas County, Colorado

also known as: 1100 Ridgeglen Way Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 (the “Property”)

Legal Notice No. 938497 First Publication: 1/7/2021 Last Publication: 2/4/2021 Published In: Douglas County News Press

Under a Judgement and Decree of Foreclosure entered on November 10, 2020, relating to Transcripts of Judgments recorded in the Douglas County public records the undersigned is ordered to sell certain real property set forth and described above.

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice:

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice District Court, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2020CV30678, Division/ Courtroom # 6 SHERIFF’S SALE NO. 20001437

You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Civil Division of the Sheriff's Office of Douglas County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 4th day March, 2021, at 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2213, Castle Rock, CO 80109, phone number 303-660-7527. 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. All bidders will be required to have in their possession cash or certified funds at least equal to the amount of the judgment creditor’s bid. Please telephone 303-660-7527 prior to the sale to ascertain the amount of this bid. The highest and best bidder will have two hours following the sale to tender the full amount of their bid, or they will be deemed to have withdrawn their bid.

CASTLEWOOD RANCH HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION INC Plaintiff v.

JONATHAN SCOTT KULP et al.

Defendant(s)

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

also known as: 6181 Oakley Ct Castle Rock, CO 80104 (the “Property”)

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JUDGMENTS BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Recorded Transcripts of Judgement are in the amount of $10,225.99 All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 303-660-7527. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is WINZENBURG LEFF PURVIS & PAYNE LLP 8020 SHAFFER PKWY 300 LITTLETON, CO 80127, 3038631870 Dated 1/7/2021, Castle Rock, CO Tony Spurlock Sheriff of Douglas County, Colorado Tommy Barrella, Deputy Douglas County, Colorado Legal Notice No. 938504 First Publication: 1/7/2021 Last Publication: 2/4/2021 Published In: Douglas County News Press Public Notice District Court, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2019CV30053, Division/Courtroom # 5 SHERIFF’S SALE NO. 20001389

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

Regarding: Lot 22, Block 2, Castlewood Ranch Subdivision, Filing No. 1, Parcel 4, County of Douglas, State of Colorado 6181 Oakley Ct, Castle Rock, CO 80104 (the "Property).;

Under a Judgement and Decree of Foreclosure entered on December 3, 2020, relating to Transcripts of Judgments recorded in the Douglas County public records the undersigned is ordered to sell certain real property set forth and described above.

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 Division of the Sheriff's Office of Douglas County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 11th day March, 2021, at 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2213, Castle Rock, CO 80109, phone number 303-660-7527. 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. All bidders will be required to have in their possession cash or certified funds at least equal to the amount of the judgment creditor’s bid. Please telephone 303-660-7527 prior to the sale to ascertain the amount of this bid. The highest and best bidder will have two hours following the sale to tender the full amount of their bid, or they will be deemed to have withdrawn their bid.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE INITIAL BID AT THE TIME OF SALE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JUDGMENTS BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Recorded Transcripts of Judgement are in the amount of $5,986.44

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY THE VILLAGES OF PARKER MASTER ASSOCIATION INC, Plaintiff: v.

ALICE C. CASSIDY et al., Defendant(s) Regarding: Lot 32, Block 1, Villages of Parker Filing No. 4A, County of Douglas, State of Colorado Also known as 11084 Callaway Ct. Parker, CO 80138 ("Property");

All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 303-660-7527. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is ALCOCK LAW GROUP 19751 E MAINSTREET 210 Parker, CO 80138, 303-993-5400 Dated 1/14/2021, Castle Rock, CO

also known as: 11084 Callaway Ct Parker, CO 80138 (the “Property”) Under a Judgement and Decree of Foreclosure entered on July 1, 2020, relating to Transcripts of Judgments recorded in the Douglas County public records the undersigned is ordered to sell certain real property set forth and described above.

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 Division of the Sheriff's Office of Douglas County, Colorado at 10:00 A.M., on the 25th day February, 2021, at 4000 Justice Way, Suite 2213, Castle Rock, CO 80109,

Tony Spurlock Sheriff of Douglas County, Colorado Tommy Barrella, Deputy Douglas County, Colorado Legal Notice No. 938545 First Publication: 1/14/2021 Last Publication: 2/11/2021 Published In: Douglas County News Press Public Notice 1) 2004 GMC SIERRA PICKUP GRAY VIN 2GTEK19T941152064 Villalobos Towing LLC 5161 York Street Denver, CO 80216

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Public Notices 720-299-3456 Legal Notice No. 938615 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice This is a legal notice of record. If you have been a patient of Dickason Chiropractic between the dates of 1-1-2012 and 1-1-2013 and would like obtain your chiropractic records from our office you may call our office to arrange pick up. These records will be destroyed as of 2-16-2021. 303688-2300 140 S Wilcox Street Unit D Castle Rock, CO 80104.

Legal Notice No. 938564 First Publication: January 14, 2021 Last Publication: February 4, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles Public Notice 1) 2003 HONDA CIVIC COUPE SILVER VIN 1HGEM22583L020502 2) 2008 HONDA ACCORD COUPE BLACK VIN 1HGCS21829A003174 3) 2016 NISSAN SENTRA SEDAN SILVER VIN 3N1AB7AP3GL681757 REDLINE RECOVERY INC 6966 W MISSISSIPPI AVE LAKEWOOD, CO 80226 720-546-8397 Legal Notice No. 938614 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice Westside Towing 1040 Atchison Ct., Castle Rock 80109, has the following for sale 1) 2003 Toyota Tacoma 3Z268122 2) 1992 Honda Accord NA113129 3) 1994 Ford F-150 RLA32210 4) 2006 Nissan Altima 6C130918 5) 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee 2C290135 6) 1974 Mercedes Benz 12025362 7) 2011 Cadillac DTS BU140541 8) 2001 Ford E-Series 1HB04659 9) 2005 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 5E269050 10) 1941 International K6 HFA24061 11) 1951 Chevrolet 3100 5JPB9246 Legal Notice No. 938594 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of SUE ANN HINDS TOMA, a/k/a SUE A. TOMA, a/k/a SUE TOMA, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30500 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before May 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert J. Toma, Personal Representative 4272 Vacation Lane Arlington, VA 22207 Legal Notice No. 938565 First Publication: January 14, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Leonid Yefinovich Silverstone, a/k/a Leonid Silverstone, and Leo Silverstone, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 030206 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before May 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Vera Klementyevna Silverstone Personal Representative 8847 S. Miners Place Highlands Ranch, CO 80126 Legal Notice No. 938569 First Publication: January 14, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Esther Marie Conti, aka Esther M. Conti, aka Esther Conti, Deceased Case Number: 20PR30560 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before May 28, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Richard C. Conti, Personal Representative 6327 S. Harrison Ct. Centennial, CO 80121

Legal Notice No. 938608 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: February 11, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Kevin Andrew Huddleston, Deceased Case Number: 20PR30553 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before May 28, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

James C. Huddleston, Personal Representative C/O Gubbels Law Office, P.C. 402 N. Wilcox St., Ste. 100 Castle Rock, CO 80104 Legal Notice No. 938602 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: February 11, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Betty Jean Rogers, Deceased Case Number: 20PR30546 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before May 28, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

James E. Rogers, Personal Representative C/O Gubbels Law Office, P.C. 402 N. Wilcox Street, Suite 100 Castle Rock, CO 80104 Legal Notice No. 938601 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: February 11, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Fay B. Sanders, (aka Fay Lydia Sanders), Deceased Case Number: 20PR30446 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before May 14, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jan F. Elfner, Personal Representative C/O Gubbels Law Office, P.C. 402 N. Wilcox St., Ste. 100 Castle Rock, CO 80104 Legal Notice No. 938567 First Publication: January 14, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Marilyn Rita Campbell, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 030436 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before May 31, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Todd Mackintosh Counsel for the Personal Representative P.O. Box 200782 Denver, Colorado 80220 Legal Notice No. 938593 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: Febuary 11, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Alice J. Jones, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030415 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before May 21, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Brenda M. Bowler, Personal Representative c/o Gubbels Law Office, P.C. 402 N Wilcox St., #100 Castle Rock, CO 80104 Legal Notice No. 938575 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: February 4, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of CYNTHIA W. BARNHILL, a/k/a CINDY BARNHILL, Deceased Case Number: 2021-PR-30004 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before May 21, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael W. Reagor, Attorney for Personal Representative Dymond ● Reagor, PLLC 8400 E. Prentice Ave., #1040 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 938587 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: February 4, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mary Ellen Goldberg, aka Mary E. Goldberg, aka Mary Goldberg,

aka M. Ellen Goldberg, aka Ellen Goldberg, Deceased Case Number: 21 PR 30017 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before May 28, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

John D. Miles and Thomas Goldberg Co-Personal Representative 30201 Rainbow Hill Road Evergreen, Colorado 80439 Legal Notice No. 938600 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: February 11, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Martin Edward Fineran, a/k/a Martin E. Fineran, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30026 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before May 28, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Vicki Rey Fineran, Personal Representative c/o Keith L. Davis, Esq. Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 938595 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: February 11, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Corwin Maupin, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30000 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Douglas County on or before May 21, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert F. Colwell CPA Personal Representative 5728 S. Gallup Street Littleton, CO 80120 Legal Notice No. 938585 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: February 4, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Barbara J. Fabing, aka Barbara Jane Fabing, Deceased Case Number: 20PR30445 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before May 14, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Allison P. Weatherwax, Personal Representative C/O Gubbels Law Office, P.C. 402 N. Wilcox St., Ste. 100 Castle Rock, CO 80104 Legal Notice No. 938571 First Publication: January 14, 2021 Last Publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Charlotte M. Lauric, aka Charlotte Mary Lauric, aka Charlotte Lauric, Deceased Case Number: 21 PR 30014 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Douglas County, Colorado on or before May 28, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gregory W. Lauric, Personal Representative c/o Joyce H. Nakamura, Esq. Hall & Evans, LLC 1001 17th Street, Suite 300 Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No. 938617 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: February 11, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on January 7, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Minor Child has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Luna Joy Allen be changed to Luna Joy Brandorff Case No.: 21 CV 2 By: The Magistrate Legal Notice No. 938599 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: February 11, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public Notice is given on December 17, 2020 that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of

Katelyn Noelle Whittlesey be changed to Kat Noelle Steele.

Case No.: 20C474

ously been filed, may likely result in termination of your parental or your alleged parental rights to the minor child.

By: K.A.P. Cone Clerk of the Court / Deputy Clerk

You may be required to pay a filing fee with your Response. The Response form (JDF 1315) can be found at www.courts.state.co.us by clicking on the “Self Help/Forms” tab.

Legal Notice No. 938560 First publication: January 14, 2021 Last publication: January 28, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

If applicable an Affidavit of Abandonment has been filed alleging that you have abandoned the child for a period of one year or more and/or have failed without cause to provide reasonable support for the child for one year or more.

Public notice is given on January 11, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Minor Child has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

You are further notified that if you fail to appear for hearing on this matter, the Court may terminate your parental rights and grant the adoption as sought by the Petitioners.

The Petition requests that the name of Sara Charlynn Swanson be changed to Charly William Swanson Case No.: 21 C 30072

Legal Notice No. 938613 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: February 25, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice

By: The Magistrate

District Court, Douglas County, Colorado Court Address: 4000 Justice Way Castle Rock, CO 80109

Legal Notice No. 938588 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: February 4, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

In the Matter of the Petition of: SAMUEL JAMES SMITH JR., For the Adoption of a Child

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on December 8, 2020, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Minor Child has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Sophia Isabelle Worek be changed to Sophie Isabelle Worek Case No.: 20 C 448 By: A Magistrate

Mulvihill & Fruhwirth, P.C. Cheryl Mulvihill 19751 East Mainstreet #330 Parker, CO 80138 Phone Number: 303-841-2752 E-mail: mulvihilfruhwirt@aol.com Fax Number: 303-841-9646 Atty. Reg. No.: 10727 Case Number: 20JA118 Division: 8 NOTICE OF ADOPTION PROCEEDING AND SUMMONS TO RESPOND

Legal Notice No. 938609 First Publication: January 28, 2021 Last Publication: February 11, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

To Respondent : Carl Michael Wagoner

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public Notice is given on January 12, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Adult has been filed with the Douglas County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Beth Anne Richardson Petersen be changed to Beth Anne Richardson.

Case No.: 21C19

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.

You may be required to pay a filing fee with your Response. The Response form (JDF 1315) can be found at www.courts.state.co.us by clicking on the “Self Help/Forms” tab.

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.

By: Merlin Klotz Clerk of the Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 938611 First publication: January 28, 2021 Last publication: February 11, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News Press

Have you seen how Classifieds can work for you?

Date: January 5, 2021

Adoption / Guardianship Public Notice District Court, Douglas County, Colorado 4000 Justice Way, Castle Rock, Colorado 80109 In the Matter of the Petition of: TAMARA ALEXANDRIA EMGE For the Adoption of a Child Case Number: 20JA93 NOTICE OF ADOPTION PROCEEDING AND SUMMONS TO RESPOND PURSUANT TO §19-5-105(5), C.R.S.

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Legal Notice No. 938561 First Publication: January 14, 2021 Last Publication: February 11, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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To Respondent: Sarah M. Daniels 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.

Date: October 28, 2020 J. Delgado Clerk of Court/Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 938540 First Publication: January 14, 2021 Last Publication: February 11, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press Public Notice Douglas County District Court, Colorado 4000 Justice Way, Castle Rock, CO 80109 Case Number 20-JA-106, Courtroom 8 Attorney for Petitioner(s): Karen Lamprey, Law Office of Karen Lamprey, P.C. 950 Wadsworth Blvd., Ste. 205, Lakewood, CO 80214 Phone: 303-233-0478, Fax: 720-545-9897, EMail: Karen@LampreyLaw.com, Reg. No.: 40217 In the Matter of the Petition of Kevin Michael Best and Eva Michele Best, For the Adoption of a Child Notice of Adoption Hearing To: Ashley Marie Davis: Pursuant to §19-5-208, C.R.S., you are hereby notified that the above-named Petitioners have filed in this Court a verified Petition seeking to adopt a child.

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 previ-

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