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Virus delays ballerina’s final bow Dreams of a Colorado Ballet grand finale are on hold

BY MARK JAFFE SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN

medicine through seminars; and a natural skin care line called My Zen Skin Care, which Lucas launched about three years ago.

She also provides acupuncture treatments twice a week at a Western medicine facility in Littleton.

However, Chinese medicine was not considered an essential business under the Stay-At-Home, Lucas said.

“First thing to go was the face-toface seminars. Big hit to income,” Lucas said. “Next, (the) private practice and medical practices closed.

Second big hit to income.”

Chandra Kuykendall, of Englewood, a longtime ballerina with the Colorado Ballet, was set to give her final performance at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, replete with ceremony, flowers and a standing ovation. And then she got an email.

Suddenly, the carefully choreographed end to Kuykendall’s 22-year career was swept up in the vortex of the coronavirus pandemic, adding a note of aching dissonance to her coda.

But it also offers a sign of hope as Kuykendall and the ballet company look beyond the disease’s turmoil to a happier ending.

The day had begun like most others: Kuykendall, 41, left the home in Englewood she shares with her husband and two sons for the company’s Armstrong Center for Dance on Santa Fe Drive in Denver. It was Friday, March 13.

A dancer’s day starts with class, 90 minutes or so of tuning and calibrating the body, beginning with small steps to stretch and warm the muscles and ending with explosive jumps across the studio. Then rehearsal begins.

The company was preparing for its final bill of the season, and Kuykendall, a principal dancer, was slated to perform in two ballets: the classically inspired “Theme and Variations” and then her finale in the edgier, modern work, “Petite Mort,” a ballet Kuykendall said is “on every dancer’s bucket list.”

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Throughout Colorado’s stay-athome order, Dr. Martha Lucas kept her fingers crossed that her small business in Capitol Hill would survive the novel coronavirus pandemic.

“Chinese medicine is effective at

treating peoples’ anxiety. It helps your spirit be more balanced,” Lucas said. “But how am I going to be able to be there for my patients?”

Here’s a look at how some Denver small businesses are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.

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In some cases, workers who refuse to go back to their jobs continue to collect unemployment benefits.

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Project to house homeless in Capitol Hill moves forward St. Francis Center to convert historic church into residential building

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

There are many people in the Denver area who are employed, but still struggle to afford any sort of housing.

“It’s even more unaffordable to those earning only minimum wage,” said Blaine Newby, project lead for St. Francis Center. “This will be a big step in helping people get out of homelessness.”

St. Francis Center, a not-for-profit organization that provides refuge for people in the Denver metro area who are experiencing homelessness, is sponsoring a project at the Warren United Methodist Church, 1630 E. 14th Ave., to rehabilitate the building into low-income housing.

The facility, St. Francis-Warren Residences, will serve individuals of any gender who are employed or ready to enter the workforce and are currently experiencing homelessness. According to the St. Francis Center website, the housing will serve “people earning less than 30% of the area median income,” which, according to the website, is “roughly $19,500/year.”

Warren Residences will provide

A rendering of one of the common areas that will be inside the St. Francis-Warren Residences, 1630 E. 14th Ave., in Denver’s Cheesman Park neighborhood.

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“Each day that someone lives in a state of homelessness is a day of erosion of their self-esteem and dignity,” Luehrs said. “Now is the moment for

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The church is a landmarked-preserved building, so the outside will remain nearly the same as it looks today, Newby said. Exterior modifications only include some smaller projects such as landscaping and a new roof, Newby said.

The building is about 17,000 square feet, and has lower, upper and loft levels. It will be converted to include 49 dormitory-style units — about 150 square feet each. Only one person will reside in each unit.

The tenants will share a variety of common areas, including a balcony, dining room, living area, laundry facility, bathrooms and four kitchen pods equipped with stoves, ovens, sinks and refrigerators/freezers.

Residents will be able to engage with each other through programming such as art or cooking classes and recreation, Newby said.

“We feel the interaction between residents can enhance the living experience and overall well-being,” he said.

Warren Residences will be staffed 24/7, which includes a live-in manager who will reside in one of the units, and professionals who can provide support services such as employment help and counseling.

According to the St. Francis Center website, lease terms for every tenant will prohibit weapons, violent behavior toward staff or other residents, illegal drug use, smoking indoors and overnight guests.

Per a recently published Good Neighbor Agreement, registered sex offenders will not be eligible for residency at Warren Residences.

The Good Neighbor Agreement is a document that addresses various concerns such as safety and parking, for example. It is between St. Francis Center; Warren Village, a nearby

residential property that provides housing to low-income single parents who are working or going to school; immediate neighbors; and representatives from Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods and Neighbors for Greater Capitol Hill.

CHUN’s board of directors signed it on April 2.

“After a thoughtful, deliberative process, we are hopeful that the initiative, and our neighborhood, move forward in a constructive way,” said CHUN President Travis Leiker. But, “there is more work to be done and CHUN is eager to convene neighbors to address the most vexing issues of the day.

Now is the time to lean in, even if it needs to be done virtually, to shape the future of our neighborhoods.”

The Neighbors for Greater Capitol Hill’s board voted to sign the agreement on April 10.

“Neighbors for Greater Capitol Hill feel that it is reasonable, fair and represents a good compromise between the needs of St. Francis Center, their clients and the immediate neighbors,” said Michael Henry, who serves as the board’s treasurer.

St. Francis Center bought the church in December for $1.25 million.

Currently, St. Francis Center is working with the city on finalizing the project’s plan and architecture.

Interior demolition is scheduled for the end of May or early June, with construction beginning in August and a project finish in March or April in 2021.

“Using a church building for the purposes it was built for — to serve people’s needs, and to provide a respectful space where they can renew their sense of self and other — is a spectacular opportunity,” Luehrs said.

“The building will be used for many, not just a few, and will be a proud legacy for those who constructed it and worshiped in it for many generations.”

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Learning hybrid likely for Denver issues public health Denver schools this fall order to wear face covering DPS approach may combine in-person, remote learning

BY MELANIE ASMAR CHALKBEAT.COM

Denver’s public schools “will likely offer a mix of in-person and remote learning” when school resumes in the fall, Superintendent Susana Cordova said May 7 in a newsletter to families.

“Until health officials give clearance for a return to normal school operations, we will need to adhere to social-distancing guidelines,” Cordova wrote. “We will also likely need to make schedule adjustments periodically during the school year.”

Denver Public Schools officials are still working out exactly what that will look like, Cordova said.

The district plans to begin gathering feedback from families next week via a survey.

“The best plan we can put together for reopening schools is one that prioritizes health and wellness and is responsive to the needs of our students and families,” Cordova wrote.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in late April told superintendents to prepare for the possibility of hybrid learning models and the need for social distancing within schools, even as he loosened stay-at-home requirements.

Denver schools closed to in-person learning in mid-March, and classes shifted online to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. School buildings will remain shuttered for the rest of the school year. High school graduations will be virtual, and summer school will be remote.

The first day of the next school year in Denver is set for Monday, August 17.

Cordova said health experts have advised the district not to delay the start of school. She noted that the warmer weather will reduce the likelihood of a spike in COVID-19 cases. It’s not yet clear whether that will be the case, as scientists are still researching and waiting.

“We are so looking forward to having students back in our buildings in a few months, although still with some adjustments,” Cordova wrote.

This story is from Chalkbeat Colorado, a nonprofit education news source.

Used by permission. For more, and to support Chalkbeat, visit co.chalkbeat. org.

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A public health order was issued to mandate wearing a face covering in certain public places in Denver.

The public health order, issued by Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock through the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment, went into effect on May 6 and will last until further notice.

Per the public health order, a face covering is mandatory for customers and employees of retail and commercial business, including grocery stores. A face covering should also be worn in other public places such as at bus stops and facilities that offer health care services.

Face coverings may be factorymade or handmade. They should be made of multiple layers of washable cloth, fabric or other soft or permeable material, without holes, that cover the nose, mouth and surrounding areas of the lower face.

It should fit snugly but allow for breathing without restriction.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers guidelines on suitable homemade face-coverings at www.cdc.gov. The Colorado Sewing Coalition is providing face coverings for $5 each. Orders can be placed at cosewingcoalition@gmail. com.

For more information on this public health order, visit www. denvergov.org.

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Panel urges DPS to adopt state ratings District has had its own system for appraising schools

BY MELANIE ASMAR CHALKBEAT.ORG

Denver should scrap its own school rating system, and instead pair the state’s ratings with additional information to give families a more nuanced picture of the district’s schools.

That’s the recommendation of a committee tasked with reimagining Denver’s “school performance framework,” which gives each school a single color-coded rating largely based on state standardized test scores. Low-rated schools get extra scrutiny and funding from the district, but have in the past been closed by the school board.

The new system would represent another shift away from Denver’s previous approach to school improvement. Proponents have supported ratings based on test scores as a way to identify struggling schools and provide important information to families as they choose schools.

But backlash has grown from teachers and others who argue that test scores say more about a school’s

demographics than the quality of instruction happening within its walls.

Denver Public Schools is currently collecting public feedback on the committee’s recommendations, and the school board is slated to vote on them next month.

Federal law requires states to rate schools based on students’ academic performance. Colorado has its own school performance framework that, like Denver’s, is largely based on state math and literacy test scores.

Every district but Denver Public Schools already uses the state framework, and the 30-person committee is recommending Denver use it, too.

In addition, the committee recommends that Denver collect and share a trove of other information about each of its schools’ academics, culture, and student well-being.

“To date, schools have been narrowed to a single `color’ as the primary way of communicating their value to stakeholders,” the committee wrote in a 21-page report.

While the state rating will still meet requirements for a summative school score, the other information “will provide parents and the broader community with a more accurate picture of each school.”

The information could include measures such as average class sizes, the reliability of a school’s buses, or the ratio of mental health staff to students. The data in a

school’s “dashboard” would not be combined into a rating, but rather be used to provide context for the state ratings.

The district would use the state ratings to determine when and how to intervene in struggling schools.

The State Board of Education uses state ratings in the same way.

Using the state’s ratings would save Denver money and provide “clarity and consistency” for families, the committee wrote. The two systems, though both based on test scores, sometimes generate different ratings for the same school, causing confusion and contention.

Combining the ratings with the dashboard represents a desire to move away from standardized test scores as the ultimate measure of school quality.

“We believe it is important to connect what is happening in the school to how it is happening,” the committee wrote in its report. “A student may have above-average academic scores on standardized tests, but they may have significant trauma over the experience of learning if the climate and culture of where they did the learning at school was challenging.”

A political shift on the school board has caused Denver to move from closing or replacing struggling schools to requiring them to submit plans for improvement. Another,

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more amorphous recommendation by the committee talks about using data not to indict schools as failing but as part of “a continuous improvement learning cycle” to diagnose schools’ strengths and weaknesses, flag potential problems, and put in place strategies to fix them.

The committee began meeting in August and finalized its recommendations last week. Its members held a variety of viewpoints, and the report notes its decisions were not unanimous.

Saying it was too difficult for the public to participate due to the effects of the novel coronavirus, parents with the advocacy organization Stand for Children implored the district to pause the committee’s work. But the committee continued to meet virtually.

The district is using an online form to collect public feedback on the recommendations this week and next week. On May 14, the committee is slated to present the recommendations to the school board, which will hold a special public comment session about them on May 18. The seven-member board is expected to vote on the recommendations on June 11.

Chalkbeat Colorado is a nonprofit news outlet covering education in Denver and around the state. This story is used by permission. For more, visit https://co.chalkbeat.org/.

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COVID-19 testing expands across Colorado Locations have been set up in Wheat Ridge, Aurora, Kiowa

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Nearly two months after COVID-19 testing got off to a rocky start in Colorado, the state announced expanded locations that appear to approach its goal of mass testing for Coloradans.

And at some of those sites, Coloradans don’t need to be in a prioritized group — such as health care workers or first responders — to get tested.

Gov. Jared Polis unveiled a map that showed about 30 community testing sites as of May 7. Eventually, the state hopes to have a testing site in each of Colorado’s 64 counties.

The map is online at tinyurl.com/ eCOVIDtestingsites.

“We are working every day with public and private partners to expand testing across Colorado,” Scott Bookman, incident commander for the Colorado Department of Health and Environment, said in a news release.

“But obtaining sufficient testing supplies continues to be the limiting factor in our ability to reach that goal.”

The state sent testing supplies to support 42 testing sites that will be operated by local public health agencies

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or community health providers, the state announced in late April. In an optimistic turn, Polis announced an order of more than 100,000 tests from South Korea in late April.

Here’s a look at where and how people can get tested in the Denver metro area.

Testing starts to catch up Colorado may have had one of the first drive-thru testing locations in the country in early March in Denver, Polis said at the time. The state had to close it early a couple times due to high demand, and it soon began sending testing resources to locations throughout the state.

Although state officials in following weeks noted the importance of increased testing as Colorado geared up to relax social distancing restrictions, it appeared Colorado did not achieve widespread statewide testing before the stay-at-home order ended in late April.

Now, one community health center in Wheat Ridge, two in Aurora and one in Kiowa — along with about two dozen others statewide, according to the state’s map — are more readily allowing the public to get tested.

Not just priority groups The state health department has advised testing providers to prioritize

people in the following order: • Hospital patients and health care workers.

• Patients in long-term care facilities or those in other residential settings, such as homeless shelters or prisons.

• Patients over age 65 and patients with underlying health conditions.

• First responders and critical infrastructure workers, such as those in the energy, water or agriculture sectors.

• People who work with vulnerable populations or in group residential settings.

• Other individuals (general public).

Although the specific groups should still be prioritized for testing, as capacity for testing increases, the state is encouraging health care providers to expand testing to all symptomatic people when feasible.

There’s no special methodology to that, said Ian Dickson, a health department spokesman.

“If and when they are able to expand testing, we encourage them to do that,” Dickson added.

Drive-thru testing at the Aurora and Wheat Ridge locations is open to the general public, according to STRIDE Community Health Center, which operates those sites.

Coloradans should check with the testing locations to see if they are testing the general public. View the map at tinyurl.com/y9d8yscp.

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Some laid-off workers refusing employers’ back-to-work calls Unemployment assistance exceeds wages for many Colorado workers

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As limits on business operations triggered by the coronavirus pandemic are slowly being relaxed across Colorado, some employers are asking their laid-off workers to come back to work — but not all of those idled workers are agreeing to return.

And in some cases, state officials are allowing workers who refuse to go back to their jobs to continue to collect unemployment benefits.

In Colorado, employers have reported 250 job refusals in the first couple weeks since late April, around the time the statewide stay-at-home order ended, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.

Two of those were refusals of work from somewhere other than the person’s most recent work situation, but the rest were offers to return to the most recent employer.

Ninety-eight of those refusals had been processed as of May 7, with 93 of those state decisions determining the workers are still eligible for benefits, according to the department.

Workers can’t choose to stay on unemployment simply because they’re

WHAT ABOUT YOU? Are you an employer trying to re-hire laid-off workers? Are you a worker receiving unemployment benefits who’s been offered your job back? We’d like to hear about your experiences. Email newsdesk@ coloradocommunitymedia.com, write UNEMPLOYMENT in the subject line, and give us your name, the city or town where you live or where your business is located, and the best way to reach you. taking in more money that way, said Cher Roybal Haavind, the labor department’s deputy executive director.

That’s important because, in light of the new federal program that gives an extra $600 per week on top of a state’s regular unemployment assistance, the possibility of people making more on unemployment than they would while working has become a hot topic.

On average, Colorado workers eligible for unemployment benefits are receiving nearly as much in benefits now — with the $600 boost included — as they were paid on the job as of late 2019, the New York Times has reported. That means that a large percentage of Colorado laid-off workers are paid more in benefits than they were in wages.

Under state rules, those workers who receive benefits are required to make biweekly reports to the labor department, and those updates must say if a person refused a job offer.

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As limits on business operations triggered by the coronavirus pandemic are slowly being relaxed across Colorado, some employers are asking their laid-off workers to come back to work.

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Failing to report job refusals when requesting benefit payment can be considered a fraudulent act under Colorado law, said Philip Spesshardt, a manager at the state labor department. That rule applies for any job offer, not just an offer to return to a previous position.

Some reasons a person could turn down a job offer and still collect unemployment benefits, according to Haavind, include: • The work environment is not complying with social distancing or the guidelines of Colorado’s recent safer-at-home order.

• The person is part of a group that is more vulnerable to COVID-19 than others.

• The person has COVID-19 or is caring for someone with the disease.

• Work offered involves an “unreasonable” reduction in the rate of pay.

• Work offered is substantially different and less favorable to the employee than their prior experience with the employer.

The department is asking employers who make a return-to-work offer, or any job offer, that is not accepted to report it on the coloradoui.gov website.

After either an unemployed Coloradan or an employer reports that a job offer has been turned down, the department suspends the Coloradan’s benefits while it contacts both parties about the job offered and the reason for the refusal before issuing a decision.

The process typically takes between two and five business days, depending upon the responsiveness of both parties, Spesshardt said. Any decision can be appealed by either party, according to Haavind.

Gig, self-employed, contract workers For gig workers — such as Lyft drivers — and self-employed and contract workers, their unemployment benefits come through the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, a new stream of money from the federal

Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. In April, the state announced that people who have lost gig work and similar previously ineligible positions would be able to apply for benefits.

Federal guidelines for returning to work for those groups are not explicit, Haavind said.

The state doesn’t judge when workers should return to work based on market demand in their field.

Such labor market information does not determine whether individuals on regular state unemployment should continue to be eligible for benefits, so any labor market information related to gig workers and the self-employed also would not determine eligibility on pandemic unemployment assistance, Spesshardt said.

“The information would more commonly be used to determine whether an individual is performing an active and reasonable search for work when required,” Spesshardt added.

Record-breaking numbers During the fallout from the Great Recession, the week with the highest number of claims for unemployment assistance filed in Colorado was the week ending Jan. 9, 2010, with 7,749 claims.

This year, the week ending March 21 — when Colorado closed dine-in restaurant and bar service, and hair and nail salons, spas, and tattoo and massage parlors — shattered that record with 19,745 new unemployment claims filed.

Then, the next three weeks saw the numbers increase fivefold. And although the numbers have dropped off from that high point, Colorado continues to see historic numbers of claims each week.

In the week ending April 11, the department counted 104,217 initial claims filed.

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Cultural institutions offer virtual visits Denver Zoo, History Colorado, others offer creative ways to pass the time

unteers during the Civil War and oil paintings. www.historycolorado.org/ colorados-most-significant-artifacts DMNS@HOME - Ambience advice: Set up your screen near a window, where you can get some natural light.

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has put all kinds of resources on this portion of its website. There are videos like one with archaeologist Erin Baxter on infamous murderer and cannibal Alferd Packer. Most thrillingly for dinosaur fans like yours truly, there are all manner of options available — videos, PowerPoints and activities. www.dmns.org/learn/ dmns-at-home

BY CLARKE READER SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Have you ever stared at the paint on your walls so long you start to see the works of timeless paintings in the splotches? That’s starting to happen to me — I think there’s a portion of Raphael’s “The School of Athens” in my kitchen and Frida Kahlo’s “Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress,” in my study.

In other words, I could use a little culture in my life.

Thankfully, Visit Denver has launched Virtually Denver, a new resource that allows residents like me to dive into the city’s vibrant arts and cultural institutions from the comforts of our couches, desks and dinner tables. You can check out the options at www.denver.org/blog/post/denverevents-this-weekend.

There are all kinds of options — interactive experiences, videos and reading materials. It gives the opportunity for organizations to share some of their in-depth and behind-the-scenes secrets — like the Denver Art Museum’s Beyond Monet YouTube series — and a chance to highlight some of the gems — take the Denver Zoo’s

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COURTESY OF STEVIE CRECELIUS Museums Colorado’s Most Significant Artifacts — Ambience advice: Play any albums from The Band or Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

Organized by History Colorado, this resource gathers a bevy of historic and cultural heritage items, ranging from photographs, documents, manuscripts, audio recordings and much, much more. You can explore diaries from settlers, see the U.S. flag carried by the 1st Regiment of Colorado Vol-

baby rhino cam and the Kirkland Museum’s Pull Up a Chair exhibit, which features 45 fascinating chairs, from 150 usually on exhibit.

I’ve recommended just a few favorites (with some tips to increase the virtual visiting ambience) in a variety of categories, all with the aim of entertaining and educating. I also heartily encourage you to go to www.

ColoradoGives.org to donate to some of these vital organizations.

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Outdoors Gardens Navigator Website — Ambience advice: Start your exploring in your front or back yard, out on your patio or deck; in other words, anywhere you can be comfortably outside.

What better way to see how plants are coming back to life during spring than by digitally exploring the Denver Botanic Gardens? Visitors can search for specific plants, see which flowers are in bloom and take tours (either created by staff and custom). navigate. botanicgardens.org/ecmweb/ECM_ Home.html Zoo to You Virtual Safari — Ambience advice: Play Paul Simon’s “Graceland,” Burna Boy’s “Outside” or Lord Huron’s “Lonesome Dreams.”

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our dead in Ohio,” the song says. It was recorded by countertenor Neil Young and the other members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young on May 21, 1970, just weeks after a tragic incident on the Kent State University QUIET campus.

“Kent State” for DESPERATION many has a similar recall effect that “Columbine” does.

I heard the song on the 50th anniversary of Kent State and saw the familiar media images of the massacre, notably Mary Ann Vecchio Craig Marshall screaming over the body of a student lySmith ing face down.

At the time, college students were protesting the war in Vietnam. Many of us carried homemade signs, had

long hair, and stood in defiance of government-imposed rules and regulations.

Sound familiar?

It’s unlikely, however, that a song will rise from the current coronavirus protests that will change the nation like “Ohio” did. But who knows?

There are other similarities between then and now: The nightly news then had a body count; likewise, the nightly news now.

Protesters then were called every name in the book. Protesters now are called every name in the book.

The line of separation, it seems, is represented by nothing more than a face mask.

Many refuse, can’t be bothered. One woman said masks were “uncomfortable.” I wondered what she would think about a ventilator?

Photojournalism student John Filo’s photo of Vecchio, who was 14 at the time, won a Pulitzer Prize. Vecchio was kneeling over the body of Jeffrey

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Pause oil-gas permits for sake of health As a 20-year-old, I am not at high risk from COVID-19.

Still, I had to take a leave of absence from my job, not only to protect my grandmother with whom I live, but also to help slow the spread. As most Coloradans are trying to do our part to mitigate the impact of the ongoing pandemic, these efforts are being hindered by the “business as usual” behavior of the oil and gas industry.

Amid a respiratory pandemic, the last thing we need is to exacerbate respiratory problems. A Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment study found that chemicals used in oil and gas operations presented health risks from 300 to 2,000 feet. Shortterm exposure to benzene, for instance, can lead to shortness of breath and respiratory depression, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Therefore, oil and gas permitting must be put on hold, especially since rule-making and the implementation of Senate Bill 181 are halted. (This bill would make public health and the environment a priority when it comes to oil and gas permitting.) Pausing the proceedings that could protect our health while not eliminating potential threats to it makes no sense.

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left after spitting on the guard, and returned with her husband and son, one of whom allegedly shot the guard. All face charges of first-degree murder.

Inevitably, some of the current protesters, or their mothers, fathers and children, will be impacted by the virus and require attention from doctors and nurses.

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Fifty years ago, the nation was divided because of a war. Same thing now.

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As I speak with clients and partners each day, I Michael Norton find myself in conversations around the importance of planning and thinking ahead. We are playing a most formidable opponent right now, the COVID-19 virus.

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Vecchio was a runaway from Florida. She exchanged her colorful story to a reporter for a ticket to California but was returned to her home.

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The B-side of “Ohio” was “Find the Cost of Freedom,” a song that did not chart.

The band recorded “Ohio” in just a few takes. Young later said David Crosby cried after one of them. His voice can be heard during the fade.

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Sadly and ironically, on the leadup to the Kent State anniversary, a security guard at a Family Dollar store in Flint, Michigan, was shot and killed.

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“We’re going to get back at it,” she said. “Every day is a little different (but) we’re choosing to stay positive.”

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Lucas kept her skin care line open for online orders and offered free shipping, but it was “slow going” and is the smallest arm of her business, she said.

Following Denver and Arapahoe counties’ health department mandates, Lucas hopes to be back in business May 8. In the meantime, she has been providing webinars to continue with her seminar teachings, and has been offering telemedicine appointments for acupressure, herbs and supplements and distant Reiki sessions.

Because the COVID-19 pandemic has brought on additional amounts of stress to people, Lucas and one of her colleagues, Rebecah Ziegler, started a video series called Your At-home Medicine Bowl. Each one contains a healing practice that anybody can use at home to help with calming, Lucas said.

“Stress doesn’t treat our immune systems well,” Lucas said, “so that’s another issue and partly why I started the Your At-home Medicine Bowl. Just trying to help people stay healthy during the most stressful of times.”

As for the future, Lucas believes there will be a need for Chinese medicine practices following the pandemic.

“I feel that our practices will shine because many people will be traumatized.

They’ll have PTSD from this, insomnia, anxiety, depression — all things that Chinese medicine absolutely shines at treating,” Lucas said. “It’s just hard to see that future now.”

The CBD Suite www.thecbdsuitedenver.com e Jessica Kiley and Samantha Bowers were ecstatic to fi-nally open the doors of their small business in January.

“South Gaylord Street has such a great community,” Bowers said. “We really miss our block.”

The two women own The CBD Suite, a boutique-style retail business modeled to allow customers to test and explore CBD products at sampling stations where people could taste or apply the products on-site.

Upon opening, Kiley and Bowers had big plans to host various events at the shop, including visiting brand reps and education, mindfulness and health-and-wellness events.

The CBD Suite, 1078 S. Gaylord St., hosted its grand opening on Feb. 29, and just a few weeks later, the women had to close their doors be-

Dr. Martha Lucas gives her daughter an acupuncture treatment. Lucas, a self-employed acupuncturist, has been providing some of her services via telemedicine and hopes to re-open her small business come May 8.

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“We were just starting to gain a repeat customer base,” Bowers said. “But for us as a brand, it was more important to keep our community safe.”

To stay in operation during the closure, Bowers and Kiley rushed to launched The CBD Suite’s online store much earlier than originally anticipated, and offered curbside pickup, free shipping and free delivery.

“But so much of (the shop’s experience) was educationbased and being able to provide people with the opportunity to interact with us and the products,” Bowers said.

In attempt to enhance the online shopping experience, Bowers and Kiley offered phone and email consultations on product education — spotlighting items to help people manage the health crisis, such as sleep aids and products that help with anxiety, focus and mental clarity.

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The candle-making classes at Rosy Rings were a popular feature at the store, so the boutique home fragrance shop started offering them virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Suite gave out goodie bags and offered discounts to healthcare workers/medical professionals and first responders.

Bowers and Kiley expect to reopen their shop as soon as it’s safe to do so, according to the health department’s mandates, Bowers said.

Rosy Rings https://rosyrings.com/ About 25 years ago, Rosy Rings founder Shannon Cumberland started the small fragrance company in her Denver home’s kitchen.

On Oct. 24, 2019, Rosy Rings opened its brick-and-mortar location at 2940 E. Sixth Ave. in Cherry Creek North.

“We hit the ground running,” said Allie Liebgott who has been with the company for eight years and joined as a partner in September last year. “But it all came to a screeching halt when we realized we wouldn’t be able to stay open.”

Liebgott manages the Cherry Creek North boutique, which offers home fragrance retail and hosted candle-making classes twice a week. She has four employees that she hopes to bring back following the pandemic, Liebgott said.

Rosy Rings already had an online store, but during the shop’s closure, it ramped up its email blasts, newsletters and social media presence, Liebgott said. She would video chat with shoppers and provide them with a virtual walkthrough of the store, Liebgott said.

A popular item during the stay-at-home order was the DIY candle kits, which people had delivered or picked up curbside, Liebgott said.

“They’re a nice distraction,” she said. “It’s one of those crafts that anyone can do and enjoy.”

Because the candle-making classes were so well received at the shop, Liebgott began offering them via Zoom in the early days of Colorado’s stay-at-home order. She has since hosted virtual candlemaking parties for a variety of groups — couples on a date night, Girl Scouts and birthday parties.

Small businesses have been hit hard by the pandemic, but Liebgott is thrilled to see that the local community has been doing what it can to supporting its small businesses and local restaurants, she said. As a token of appreciation, Liebgott started setting out satchels of bath salts, little vases of fresh flowers and other “pretty things that make your day brighter” outside of the storefront that people could take home.

“The small businesses in Denver are what make this city so great,” Liebgott said, extending a thank you to everyone who supported local businesses during the COVID-19 closures. “Every single sale means the world to us right now.”

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Urban homesteaders get back to the land

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undari Kraft grew up reading Laura Ingalls Wilder. But while she fantasized about a self-sufficient life in a little house on the prairie, she lived in a bungalow in Northglenn.

“As I got older, I realized moving to the country wasn’t in the cards, but I’m not one to say that’s that,” Kraft said. “The question became: What’s possible?”

When Kraft and her husband bought a place in northwest Denver, she had big ideas: gardens, a greenhouse, goats and chickens. The only catch? Bureaucracy.

With a can-do pioneer spirit, Kraft was the organizer and driving force behind code changes that eased up on urban livestock, greenhouses and front-yard gardens in Denver and beyond.

As time went by and her urban mini-farm flourished, Kraft found herself at the forefront of a movement to rethink how we live in cities.

“It used to be you either live in the city or the country,” said Kraft, the author of “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Urban Homesteading.” “People aren’t buying into that anymore.”

Outside of her busy life as a public affairs consultant and a mom of two young kids, Kraft milks goats, collects eggs from her chickens, preserves her garden harvests and makes her own soap and bread.

“You can be an urban homesteader, even if you don’t have a yard,” Kraft said. “It’s about a mindset and practices to live more sustainably and self-sufficiently. I didn’t grow up on a farm. There’s not some number of boxes you have to check. If I can do it, you can do it.”

Grow what you like For beginners looking to start growing their own food, the first question is: What do you like?

“Think about what you actually want to eat,” said Michele Hanley, who runs Mile High Urban Farming, which helps design, plan and even maintain gardens around the metro area. “I see a lot of people plant kale because it grows well and it’s good for you, but people don’t like to eat it.”

The cost to start a brand-new garden can add up, Hanley said, but it can pay off.

“Tomatoes are a good return on investment,” she said. “Good tomatoes are, what, $5 to $6 a pound? Well, one good tomato plant can generate 40 pounds. You can even get away with that in a patio pot.”

The biggest misconception Hanley sees is people who think they have a “black thumb.”

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“Urban homesteaders” make the most of small plots of city soil to grow food. Michele Hanley, the owner of Mile High Urban Farming, said her tomato plants are a good return on investment.

COURTESY OF MICHELE HANLEY a friend, and don’t give up,” Hanley said. “It’s not the end of the world if it’s not a success. It’s like Jake said in ‘Adventure Time’: ‘Sucking at something is the first step in being sort of good at something.’”

The scientific method For those looking to step up their homesteading game, there are few better resources than Colorado State University’s county extension offices. Focused on bringing sciencebased education and information to the community, the offices employ experts in fruit and vegetable gardening, keeping livestock, and safe canning and preserving — all just a phone call away.

“Colorado can be a challenging place to garden,” said Lisa Mason, the horticulture agent for Arapahoe County’s extension office. “We have a short growing season, a variable climate, and tough soil. But we’re here for the community.”

It’s tough to say how much of a family’s diet can be supplemented with garden produce, Mason said, depending on how much time and energy they want to put into it and how much space they have. Even people in apartments can grow herbs, lettuce, tomatoes and peppers on a balcony.

The extension office’s website is loaded with fact sheets on all sorts of gardening topics, all developed to maximize efficiency in the Denver area’s climate and soil.

“There’s an art to gardening, but

there’s also a lot of science you can employ,” Mason said.

In the old days Colorado’s early homesteaders didn’t have the luxury of county extension agents, but they developed wisdom of their own, said Suellen Winstead, the curator of the Littleton Museum, which features an authentic, functioning 1860s-style homestead.

“Back then, your garden was your life,” Winstead said. “Pioneers had to grow enough during a short growing season to preserve food for winter.

This was not a hobby.”

Pioneer families had access to a wide variety of heirloom seeds that were well-suited to local climates, and had keen senses for the intricacies of gardening, developed over lifetimes and generations.

But among their most important resources was community.

“There’s a perception that the Old West was families alone in a cabin miles from the nearest person,” Winstead said. “But what we had here was people settling in communities and relying on each other for support.”

When times got tough, neighbors could rely on each other, Winstead said.

“If my wheat crop failed or my tomatoes died, people pitched in. I think we could learn from that. Gardening and homesteading can bring people together. If you grow more than you can use, find someone in need.”

The frugal mindset of homesteaders

carried on into the Great Depression and World War II, Winstead said.

“It was a habitual thing,” she said.

“They went through a time of great scarcity. You don’t waste. You eat everything on your plate. You find a use for things.”

‘Success isn’t always easy’ Some urban homesteaders still rely on their skills and hard work to provide for their families.

Operating from the yard of a rental duplex in Adams County, Tess and Jeff Curry make a good chunk of their living from the fruits of their labor. Known as “The Honey People” at north Denver farmers markets, the Currys sell honey from their beehive, eggs from their chickens and more.

Tess said she started producing her own food during the Great Recession, when Jeff, a construction worker, was hurting for work and laid up with an injury.

“It’s hard work. Success isn’t always easy, but one benefit is the food just tastes so much better,” Tess said. “I know what’s in my food. I know where it comes from. My grandkids know a potato comes out of the ground.”

Tess said her work has introduced her to the larger community of local growers, and she enjoys trading plants and produce. And if things take a turn for the worse, she knows she can rely on herself and her friends to stay fed.

“We might have to eat a lot of eggs and beans for a while, but hey, at least we’d be eating.”

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“We went to class and rehearsal in the morning, and at lunch, we got an email we were going to have a meeting,” Kuykendall said. That afternoon Gil Boggs, the company’s artistic director, announced the rest of the season was being canceled because of the pandemic.

“It was quite a shock,” Kuykendall said. “The Colorado Ballet has been my home for 31 years, and it was over.

I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know whether to clean out my locker.”

Kuykendall arrived at the Colorado Ballet Academy in 1988, when she was 9 and has danced with the organization ever since, save for a year with the Leipzig Ballet in Germany.

She went home. The dress bought for her retirement party had come in the mail. The phone started to ring with calls from family members asking what was going to happen. “I said I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Spared injury, pregnancy changed her body It was on a summer day in 1996 that Kuykendall, then 17, knew she was going to be a ballet dancer — or at least, voiced it aloud for the first time.

It was just before her senior year in high school.

Her mother was driving her back to their home in Parker from a Bolshoi Ballet Academy summer intensive camp in Vail.

“Mom was talking to me about ACTs and SATs, and I turned to her and said, ‘You know I am not going to college,’” Kuykendall remembered. “She pretty much knew. My parents have been very supportive.”

She joined the company’s corps de ballet after graduating from high school.

Boggs took the reins of the company in 2006. In 2007, after the curtain had come down on a performance, he walked out to the stage and announced to the dancers that Kuykendall was being promoted to principal dancer. It was, she said, one of the proudest moments of her life.

“She became one of the leaders of the company,” Boggs said. “She danced major roles in every one of our productions … She was a key person in the organization.”

As a principal, Kuykendall danced as the broken-hearted and mad Giselle and the doomed princess Odette in “Swan Lake.”

In 2000, she met Rob Kuykendall, another dancer in the company, and in 2005, they were married. Five years later, they bought a ballet school in Centennial, the Denver Academy of Ballet, which Rob Kuykendall has run since his retirement from ballet.

A dancer is always at risk of a career-ending injury, but save for one knee operation in 2009 – from which she rebounded in four months to dance “Swan Lake” – Kuykendall has escaped any serious damage.

Pregnancy was another story. There was a time when marriage and certainly pregnancy spelled the end of a ballerina’s career.

Times have changed.

Kuykendall had her first baby, a boy,

Colorado Ballet principal dancer Chandra Kuykendall is reflected in a mirror on her dresser while practicing in her “studio” -- her bedroom -- during a Zoom videoconference lesson taught by her husband, former Colorado Ballet artist Rob Kuykendall. The Colorado Ballet shut down in response to statewide coronavirus stay-at-home orders, keeping Chandra Kuykendall from dancing in her final ballet.

PHOTOS BY ANDY COLWELL/SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN Dance figures flank the smartphone of Colorado Ballet principal dancer Chandra Kuykendall as she participates in a live Zoom videoconference lesson taught by her husband, former Colorado Ballet artist Rob Kuykendall.

in 2010, and another boy 21 months ago. “It was challenging coming back,” she said. “You have to be very forgiving of your body and how it has changed.”

Dancers are always striving to achieve an unattainable level of perfection. “It leads to a lot of self-doubt,” Kuykendall said.

On March 8, the Colorado Ballet had what turned out to be its final performance of the season. Kuykendall danced in the ballet “Feast of the Gods,” which was created especially for the company. When a ballet is created “on” dancers, it holds a special place for them.

“Dancing ‘Feast of the Gods’ that day was almost like an out-of-body experience,” Kuykendall said. “I didn’t know it was going to be my last performance, but I shed a couple of tears when I got off stage and my partner, Christopher Moulton, hugged me. I sensed it was a poignant moment.”

Then, on Friday the 13th, came Boggs’ meeting. He also announced that the company’s 32 dancers and the 22 dancers in its second company would be paid through the rest of the season, as would the 49 musicians who were scheduled to play for the final performances.

“We were in a good position,” Boggs said. “We had pretty much wrapped up our season. Some companies go till May or June.” Ticket receipts for the

season fell just about $100,000 short of the $4.8 million goal, he said.

That, however, is not the end of Kuykendall’s story. The plan is for one more dance and a final bow.

Rehearsals are alone at home At the end of a final performance, the artistic director comes out with a bouquet, then company officials with more flowers, then former dancer partners and family all with flowers as applause washes over the stage.

“It is a big deal for a dancer,” Boggs said. “I know when I took my final bow as a principal with the American Ballet Theatre on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, it meant a lot to me.”

He’ll make sure the same thing happens for Kuykendall.

“Chandra has been around this

organization for 22 years, we’re trying to make it a big deal,” Boggs said. “As soon as we are able to get back on stage at the Ellie Caulkins, we are going to give her one more performance.”

This has put a welcomed retirement on hold.

“I am looking forward to spending more time with my boys and husband,” Kuykendall said. “Rob and I have been on opposite schedules with me dancing during the day and him teaching till 9 p.m. at night.”

And then there was the wear and tear. “I was ready to retire, my body is hurting,” she said. “I was ready to let my body rest a bit.”

For now, there is no rest. Kuykendall has purchased a stationary bike and every day she does the footwork and combinations done in class, except a dresser fills in for the ballet barre.

She has no idea what happens next.

“All I know is that the Colorado Ballet will do something for me, but what and when is TBD,” Kuykendall said.

The only thing she knows for certain is there will be one more dance.

“Having that final show and knowing it is the last one is important to me,” she said. “My first show was ‘The Nutcracker’ in 1988. I was a mouse.

Having that start and finish in the same theater, on the same stage is important to me.”

This story was written for The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. Used by permission. For more, visit coloradosun.com.

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See some of the zoo’s most fascinating and adorable animals, including the aforementioned baby rhino, gibbons and even a bear safari. My favorite is the Good Night Zoo audio episode, which brings you along with Disa Skaff, night keeper at the zoo. denverzoo.org/zootoyou

Music Red Rocks live cam — Ambience advice: Play any live album recorded at Red Rocks, from U2 to Dave Matthews and Amos Lee to Stevie Nicks.

There isn’t a whole lot going on in this live cam, but it’s so relaxing to watch, and it brings back so many great memories of concerts, films and graduations. I heartily recommend using this like those fireplace videos around the holidays — put it on to relax. www.redrocksonline.com/about/ livecam Streams with Grit — Ambience advice: Stream this one with a brew or

Performing arts Socially Distant Culture Club — Ambience advice: Play Animal Collective’s “Merriweather Post Pavilion,” Chance the Rapper’s “Coloring Book” or the Talking Heads’ greatest hits.

Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Arts launched a weekly series called Socially Distant Culture Club, which sends participants a newsletter with artist inspiration, creative guides and recipes. On Wednesdays at about 5 p.m. there will be video tutorial, and people are encouraged to tag their creations on social media. www. msudenver.edu/cva/events/sociallydistantcultureclub

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The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment is asking employers who make a return-to-work offer, or any job offer, that is not accepted to report it on the coloradoui.gov website. COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT

NORTON FROM PAGE 8

And then, during this time, evaluate what works and what does not work so that we can do more of something else, strive to do things better, and look at different ways to tackle the challenges or opportunities in front of us. More, better, different. And do more, better, different until we meet with excellence again. Not perfection, but excellence.

And one of those ways is to plan and prepare for success. To plan and prepare for excellence. Okay, so we

think ahead and the world changes, awesome, as now we go to Plan B. And now we are fully onboard with Plan B and another law or change comes our way, that is fantastic, now we get to move into Plan C. Are you kidding me? This is excellent. Why is it excellent, especially during this crisis we are living through? It is awesome, excellent, and fantastic because we have a series of plans and strategies already prepared. We took the time to think ahead.

And when we think ahead, plan for change, and ready ourselves mentally, physically, and spiritually, when new information hits or new laws, restrictions, and policies come our way, we stay completely calm

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ending May 2, according to state Labor Department news releases.

For those last two weeks, the total includes both regular unemployment and pandemic unemployment assistance for those such as gig workers and the self-employed.

The week ending April 25, there were 40,906 pandemic unemployment assistance claims. There were 13,149 of those claims filed the week ending May 2.

Does it cost?

In March, there was confusion over the actual cost of a COVID-19 test.

“Testing is free,” a March 10 state news release said.

The cost of medical visits related to getting tested was a different story.

Now, because of federal legislation, people with any kind of private health insurance should have free access to the COVID-19 test — along with any doctor visits associated with getting the test — with no co-pays, deductibles or co-insurance charged, according to the Colorado Division of Insurance.

Coloradans should check with their health care provider to be sure, though.

For Coloradans with Medicare, all of the costs are covered if a doctor orders a COVID-19 test, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Under Colorado’s Medicaid program — Health First Colorado — and the Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+), all the costs of testing and the doctors’ visits associated with getting tested are covered, according to the state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.

Uninsured Coloradans should contact that office at 303-866-2993 to ask about options. To apply for Medicaid and Child Health Plan Plus, visit colorado.gov/peak.

because we expected this to happen.

We expected the worst and planned for the best.

So how about you? Are you thinking ahead? Do you have Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, Plan D and even more plans? I really would love to hear your “thinking ahead” story and strategy at mnorton@tramazing.com. And when we plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win, it really will be a better than good week.

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.

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All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 8, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Syrous J. Meheen Personal Representative c/o Keith L. Davis, JD Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111 Legal Notice No.: 80471 First Publication: May 7, 2020 Last Publication: May 21, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ELIZABETH MARILYN TRUDGEON, aka ELIZABETH M. TRUDGEON, aka ELIZABETH TRUDGEON, Deceased Case Number 2020PR30355 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 30, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Debra L. Drissel, Personal Representative c/o Meurer Law Offices, P.C. 3801 E. Florida Ave., Ste. 906 Denver, CO 80210 Legal Notice No.: 80458 First Publication: April 30, 2020 Last Publication: May 14, 2020 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Clara Maxine Yanke, a/k/a Maxine Yanke, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30434 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 31, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

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All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 30, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Marvin Rogoff, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30430 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 31, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Linda Rogoff Personal Representative 7000 E. Quincy Ave. Apt. F218 Denver, CO 80237 Legal Notice No.: 80464 First Publication: April 30, 2020 Last Publication: May 14, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bradley Louis Nassimbene, a/k/a Bradley L. Nassimbene, a/k/a Brad L. Nassimbene, and Brad Nassimbene, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030480 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 1, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kathy Klontz Nassimbene, Personal Representative c/o Law Office of Byron K. Hammond, LLC 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 960 Denver, CO 80246 Legal Notice No.: 80465 First Publication: April 30, 2020 Last Publication: May 14, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of KAREN DIANNE LUNCEFORD, aka K. Dianne Lunceford, aka Karen Lunceford, aka K.D. Lunceford Deceased Case Number: 20PR30467 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 7, 2020 or the claims may be forever barred.

Chrissy R. Smith Personal Representative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Legal Notice No.: 80466 First Publication: May 7, 2020 Last Publication: May 21, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JOHN R. LUNCEFORD, aka John Raymond Lunceford, Deceased Case Number: 20PR30466 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 7, 2020 or the claims may be forever barred.

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All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 7, 2020 or the claims may be forever barred.

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Janet L. Pike Personal Representative 4600 E. Asbury Circle, #302 Denver, CO 80222 Legal Notice No.: 80469 First Publication: May 7, 2020 Last Publication: May 21, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice Estate of Mitchell Lee Ortega, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030414 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Probate Court of Denver County, Colorado on or before September 14th, 2020 , or the claims may be forever barred.

S. Blake Harris, Esq. #45942 Attorney to the Personal Representative 1660 17th Street, Suite 120 Denver, CO 80202 Legal Notice No.: 80472 First Publication: May 7, 2020 Last Publication: May 21, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice Estate of Karen Alma Barrett, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030463 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Probate Court of Denver County, Colorado on or before September 14th, 2020 , or the claims may be forever barred.

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Notice To Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of GARY R. NIEDERJOHN, aka Gary Niederjohn, aka Gary Reid Niederjohn, Deceased Case Number: 20PR30451 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

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Michael C. Schwerin Personal Representative 601 Castle Ridge Court Fort Collins, CO 80525 Legal Notice No.: 80476 First Publication: May 14, 2020 Last Publication: May 28, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mikel D. Secore, a/k/a Mikel Dorothea Secore, a/k/a Mikel Secore, and Misha Secore, Deceased Case Number: 2019PR031315 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Vina Sue Bishop, Personal Representative c/o Law Office of Byron K. Hammond, LLC 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 960 Denver, CO 80246 Legal Notice No.: 80477 First Publication: May 14, 2020 Last Publication: May 28, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Gloria P. Duran, a/k/a Gloria Precides Duran, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30371 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Donald Michael Duran Personal Representative c/o Keith L. Davis, Esq. Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111 Legal Notice No.: 80479 First Publication: May 14, 2020 Last Publication: May 28, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Robin Gail Morris, a/k/a Robin G. Morris, a/k/a Robin Morris, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30444

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All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Evan Hecht Personal Representative 4661 Columbine St Denver, CO 80216 Legal Notice No.: 80480 First Publication: May 14, 2020 Last Publication: May 28, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Tom Joe Bednasek, aka Tom Joseph Bednasek, aka Tom J. Bednasek, aka Tom Bednasek, aka Thomas Joseph Bednasek, aka Thomas Joe Bednasek, aka Thomas J. Bednasek, aka Thomas Bednasek, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30429

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before August 15, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert Jeffrey Scaman Personal Representative c/o Meurer Law Offices, P.C. 3801 E. Florida Ave., Suite 906 Denver, Colorado 80210 Legal Notice No: 80463 First Publication: April 30, 2020 Last Publication: May 14, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Harris Michael Kaplansky, aka Harris M. Kaplansky, aka Harris Kaplansky, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30474

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 7, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

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