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Incubator helps cook up local business

BY IAN WARREN SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Kitchen Network, in the Westwood neighborhood, is a culinary incubator helping local chefs start their businesses.

“We provide an affidavit of commissary, which is necessary to take downtown and obtain a license,” said Dennis McFerrin, founder of Kitchen Network.

“We get you legal (such as the right forms), we help you source your groceries, we help you in every way we can. This is your home base for your business once you start here.”

Founded in 2004, the main area is a communal commissary kitchen where food truck owners, bakers and chefs can prepare their food using stateof-the-art equipment they may not be able to afford to do on their own. Kitchen Network also provides private kitchens that business owners can truly make theirs.

That’s what Olivia Brewer, who started Handcraft Bakery a little more than two years ago, did.

“I spent six months just doing the cottage food act out of my house, selling direct at a market in Cherry Creek,” Brewer said.

“That went pretty well. But there’s a lot of restrictions on what you can do from there, in your house. I went out looking for a kitchen and found Kitchen Network.”

Handcraft Bakery is a wholesale bakery that sells to local vendors in the Denver metro area. Brewer makes all goods from scratch. You can find them at a couple of Nordstrom coffee shops, Kaos Pizzeria, Mas Kaos Pizzeria & Taqueria and Yardbird.

At the moment, Olivia’s favorite desert to make is pie.

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Olivia Brewer holds a tray of baked goods ready to be put in the oven. Brewer started Handcraft Bakery “a little over two years ago at the beginning of the farmers market season,” and moved to Kitchen Network to expand her commercial options. While she doesn’t have a store front, her creations are available at local restaurants — Kaos Pizzeria, Yardbird and Nordstrom to name a few.

PHOTOS BY IAN WARREN because it’s new,” she said. “We just started making pies a few months ago and it’s been really fun. Once a week I focus a ton of energy on making pies and it’s a fun day.”

And, she said, “my favorite thing to eat — croissants.”

If you’re interested in starting a culinary business or want to learn about other businesses working out of Kitchen Network, visit www.KitchenNetwork.com.

The incubator is located at the Morrison Road Complex, 4986 Morrison Road in Denver.

Handcraft Bakery’s rosemary crusted cheesecake with a raspberry merlot glaze, and tiramisu at Kaos Mas Pizzeria & Taqueria in Tennyson.

Clifton Oertli, 32, started his own programming and web development business when he was in high school.

His business involved buying and selling items on eBay. Today, he owns two businesses in metro Denver: Resolute Brewing Co. and NEI Electric Power Engineering Inc. Beck Halbeisen and Vincent Rowe, both 18, recently started an app-based business. The app, Leave No Car Behind, is an Uber-like ride program that will not only take someone home, but will also get their car home. The app is made to Oertli get drunken drivers off the road.

Oertli, Halbeisen and Rowe are among those taking advantage of a strong climate for young entrepreneurs in the Denver metro area.

In 2016, Denver was ranked by NerdWallet.com, a website that focuses on personal finance, as the fourth best city in the country for young entrepreneurs.

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May 18, 2017 Yadira Velez, 16 , and Keiren Brown, 17, share a dance at the “Black and Gold Masquerade,” a prom for online high school students from across the state. Brown and Velez met at last yea’rs prom and stayed in touch via Facebook throughout the year.

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Online students dance night away — just like anyone else

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A common concern about online schools is whether students get the same opportunities to socialize as their peers in traditional ones.

But they showed they can have just as much fun when students from four online schools recently enjoyed the time-tested tradition of prom.

“It’s something that all high school students look forward to, whether they attend a traditional school or a virtual school,” Teri Cady, head of school at Destinations Career Academy of Colorado, said in an email.

“They make a night of it just like any other high school student.”

More than 150 students from areas as diverse as Westminster, Elbert County, Castle Rock, Colorado Springs and Northglenn all attended

the “Black and Gold Masquerade,” hosted May 5 by Colorado Preparatory Academy, Destinations Career Academy, Pikes Peak Online School and Colorado Digital Board of Cooperative Education Services at the Riverwalk Clubhouse in Littleton.

Some students were attending their first dance, but at least two had met before the event.

Yadira Velez, 16, of Colorado Springs met her date, Keiren Brown, 17, of Green Valley Ranch, at last year’s event. They connected on Facebook afterward and see each other in person about once a month.

“I asked my friend if I should go up to him and say `hi,’ ” Velez said in a text after the prom. “I felt like I was never going to see him again, so I went for it… You don’t even know how much I’ve been waiting for prom this year.”

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Researchers weighed multiple factors, with Denver ranking high because of an educated population, a strong economy and a high rate of loan guarantees by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Denver also was ranked by Forbes magazine in 2016 as the best place in the nation for businesses and careers. The magazine pointed to Denver’s ability to provide a good “work-life balance,” something that millennials value most in their careers, according to the article.

Madhavan Parthasarathy is the director of the Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado Denver. He has noticed a shift of millennial interest in entrepreneurship, stating that it is “growing tremendously.”

Parthasarathy said an entrepreneur is largely defined by the mindset he or she possesses.

“An entrepreneur is someone who has a certain level of passion and a mindset that is curious enough to actually learn new things, be willing and open to different types of jobs and functions and able to actually take risks,” he said.

And, he believes, there is a specific set of skills an entrepreneur must possess. Among the skills are sharp thinking and the ability to make quick decisions.

An entrepreneur, he said, is someone willing to “do marketing, run finance, sweep the floors and do whatever is required to run the business.”

Entrepreneur from the start After hawking items on eBay, Oertli moved into a new project in college and joined a web startup company where he developed websites for the next five years.

Oertli graduated with an engineering degree and decided to pursue a path in engineering.

He worked at NEI Electric Power Engineering Inc. in Wheat Ridge for five years before purchasing it along with four co-workers.

Just two years ago, Oertli decided to add something new and different to the mix by opening Resolute in Centennial with three other owners.

Running an engineering firm and a brewing company concurrently requires different mindsets, Oertli said.

“It is a big shift going from managing introvert engineers to managing extrovert creative types in the brewery,” Oertli said.

And people, Oertli knows, are the most important part of entrepreneurship.

“It is more about your team than it is about anything else,” Oertli said. “The market, the product — everything else is secondary to the team.”

The secret to a good team, Oertli has found, is diversity of both opinion and personality types.

“If you have your entire team

comprised of people with the same personality type, they are all going to approach a problem with the same mindset,” Oertli said. “A different thought process might help you see a problem from a different perspective that one personality type might not see it from.”

Oertli defines entrepreneurship as creating a career that an individual is passionate about.

“To me, it has always meant that I get to make my vocation what it is that I enjoy doing,” Oertli said.

“I can structure my career, my day and my teams around what I want to be doing every day.”

Big challenges, new solutions Halbeisen, a senior at Standley Lake High School in Westminster, and Rowe, a senior at Pomona High School in Arvada, are going to Metropolitan State University next year and hope to eventually attend the University of Colorado-Boulder to study business.

“Being an entrepreneur has been a goal,” Halbeisen said.

“I didn’t think it would happen this early, but we are both fortunate for this to happen.”

In starting their business, Halbeisen and Halbeisen Rowe agreed that there needed to be a way to get drunken drivers off the road.

“We want the roads to be safer at night,” Rowe said. “The main reason that people justify drunk driving is so that they can get their car home.”

Rowe The app the teens created to solve the problem works by having two people arrive, one to drive the individual home and the other to drive their car home.

The service, currently running in Denver and Santa Fe, New Mexico, has a base cost of $30 and adds an extra $2.10 for every mile driven.

Both Halbeisen’s and Rowe’s families have been affected by drunken driving.

Halbeisen’s grandfather, who was a state patrol officer, almost died in an accident involving a drunken driver, he said. After pulling a driver over one evening, a drunken driver drove off the road and pinned his grandfather against the other car.

Rowe said his cousin was a passenger in a vehicle and died in a drunken driving accident in 2016.

Halbeisen’s father, an app developer, gave the teens the necessary resources to create the app, which launched in March.

Halbeisen and Rowe have been part of the driving team for their budding business. They said that even though they get calls at 3 a.m. on weeknights, it will be worth it in the long run.

“You have to give it your all,” Halbeisen said. “You can’t expect things to happen, you have to go out and work for it.”

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VOICES Take a stand for Colorado’s public lands

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recently had the opportunity to attend a forum on Colorado’s outdoor recreation industry, hosted by Colorado State District 22 Senator Andy Kerr. Joining him were Colorado TourALCHEMY ism Office Director Cathy Ritter, Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office Director Luis Benitez, Public Lands Business Organizer for Conservation Colorado Gabe Kiritz, and State District 5 SenaAndrea Doray tor Kerry Donovan.

The forum emphasized the importance of public lands and how they contribute to our state’s tourism and recreation economy, but I was especially intrigued with Senator Donovan’s discussion of the inaugural Colorado Public Lands Day on May 20, 2017.

Colorado became the first state

in the nation to establish a holiday recognizing the value of public lands last year. The third Saturday in May will be known as Colorado Public Lands Day. The bill, carried by Senator Donovan, passed with bipartisan support and was signed into law by Governor Hickenlooper in May 2016.

During the recent forum, Senator Donovan talked about how crucial public lands are to Colorado, as a defining part of our heritage, identity and unique way of life. This new state holiday is intended to encourage all of us Coloradoans to get outside and enjoy.

Our public lands are vital resources providing clean water and protection of wildlife habitat that also offer vast recreation opportunities that can often be accessed for free.

According to www.copubliclandsday. com, Colorado has 24 million acres of public land, which 90 percent of the people living here use on a regular basis. We have eight national monuments, 12 national park sites, and 41 state parks.

Some of the recreation opportunities I’ve personally enjoyed on our public lands during my lifetime in Colorado include backpacking and camping, hiking, mountain biking, wildlife viewing, exploring historic sites, fishing and hunting. (Yes, I went dove hunting in the San Luis Valley while I was in high school and I swear they were laughing at me … the doves, that is.)

But our public lands are under attack, as funds for maintaining them are on White House budget chopping blocks, and as neighboring states such as Utah try to take back public lands for private development. The transfer of public lands to the private sector means that access would not only be limited but, in some cases, eliminated altogether.

Senator Donovan stressed that public lands belong to all of us, and that she has seen some “unlikely alliances” coalesce to fight their loss. We all pretty much know that bikers and hikers and horse riders don’t agree on much while on the trails, and that

motorized recreation on some public lands such as in wilderness areas is quite controversial. But, according to Senator Donovan, these groups are coming together to send a message that our public lands should stay just that – public.

As we do so often, Colorado is leading the way in the celebration and preservation of public lands with more than 95 events across the state that include concerts, trail building, education, and brew fests. Check out all the opportunities on the website, and let’s all take note of this first-inthe-nation historic day on May 20, not only by enjoying even a small part of the 24 million acres, but also by speaking out and taking a stand for Colorado’s public lands.

Andrea Doray is a writer who also fell into the Arkansas River during her first (and only) attempt at stream fly fishing and filled up her waders with the rushing water. Contact her at at a.doray@andreadoray.com for the rest of the story.

Legislature falls short on taking care of air, kids

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he state Legislature wrapped up this week, with a whimper.

Lawmakers failed to deal with something so basic that it’s hard to believe our state leaders are GUEST ignoring it – the air COLUMN we breathe.

The American Lung Association just released their latest State of the Air report. Each year they compile official air quality data from around the country which they put in perspecJen Clanahan tive for those of us who don’t understand what all those numbers mean. They boil it down to a simple letter grade like our kids bring home on their report cards. Alarmingly, we’re failing.

Nine counties in Colorado received

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an F, including all our suburban counties: Jefferson, Douglas, Adams, Arapahoe and Boulder. Two others received a D. That’s two more counties that received an F than last year.

While there were some minor areas of improvement, it’s clear we have a lot of work ahead of us.

Air pollution can cause permanent problems in young children whose lungs are still developing in addition to other serious effects like lung cancer and asthma attacks. As parents, our most important job is to protect our children — but we alone can’t change the air.

Legislators couldn’t come to agreement and the Governor didn’t provide the leadership to push through a solution to this problem. There was no clean energy legislation. While an energy efficiency bill passed, and this is good news, it extended programs that are already in place. Since those programs have been in place and we’re still failing, we clearly need a

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As parents, if our child brings home a report card with failing grades we don’t say that it’s OK and ignore it.

We would try to understand what went wrong and address the problem.

So why aren’t our state leaders doing that with our air? And just as I would ask my child what happened, I’m asking the Governor: What happened?

Why are we failing and what are we going to do to fix the problem?

It’s bad enough now, but what’s worse is we’re heading into summer.

The heat of summer exacerbates ozone pollution; almost all our red alert days happen during the summer.

Summer should be a time of carefree outdoor play for our kids or when we head to the mountains to explore our state. Unfortunately, air doesn’t stay in one place so leaving the metro area doesn’t alleviate the situation.

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legislative season we need Governor Hickenlooper to address it. He stood up to tell President Trump to uphold the Paris climate agreement and he has pledged that Colorado should have the cleanest air in the country.

Now we need action to match the sentiments.

We call on Gov. Hickenlooper to take action to protect our children from the dangerous impacts of ozone pollution. He has the authority. Whether it’s through executive orders or through a state agency like the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, he must and can act. With such a large portion of our population living in a county with failing air quality we can’t sit back and wait for future legislative sessions to try again.

Jen Clanahan is the “head mom” of Colorado Moms Know Best, a statewide network of parents concerned about clean air for their kids.

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Horse illness affects about 80 Westernaire horses and ponies

The first of about 80 rental horses and ponies owned by the Westernaires is expected to come out of a six-week quarantine period by May 20, after recovering from a form of strep called strangles.

The outbreak should not cause panic, said Glen Keller, the director of the Westernaires, who referred to it as a “very inconvenient truth.”

“We’re not letting it get the best of us,” Keller said.

According to www.horseandhound. co.uk, strangles is a common bacterial infection that can affect horses, ponies and donkeys of all types and ages. It is a highly contagious infection of the upper respiratory tract, and can be easily lspread through shared water troughs and/or tack and yard equipment.

It is specific to equines, Keller added, and only in a rare circumstance can the bacteria be transmitted to humans or tother animals.

Strangles is rarely fatal, Keller said, adding equines generally make a full recovery. None of the Westernaires’ horses and ponies have died from the infection. The animals showed symptoms of a “snotty nose” and a fever, Keller said.

The Westernaires is a nonprofit organization that provides horsemanship and promotes western heritage to Jefferson County youth ages 9 to 19.

The Westernaires own about 230 horses and ponies, Keller said. He estimated that of them, 58 horses and 26 ponies were affected by strangles.

Keller is unsure how the infection came to the Westernaires facility, located adjacent to the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. But the organization responded instantly to the outbreak, and it is being handled with all professionalism, he said.

All areas of the Westernaires’ facility has been disinfected and cleaned.

The equines are being treated with a regimen that entails two vaccine shots administered by a veterinarian, Keller said.

“It seems to be working really well,” Keller said.

However, even after symptoms clear up, strangles can be contagious for up to six weeks, Keller said. Therefore, every horse and pony that contracted strangles is being quarantined for that amount of time.

The illness has led the Westernaires to modify operations — practices now take place on Saturdays only, and only the healthy horses that have not contracted the infection are being used. In addition, to avoid potential exposure to horses not owned by the Westernaires, owners are not permitted to bring in their own horses for Westernaires activities.

A memo sent out from Scott Gales, the director of the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, to members of the 4-H organization states that the fairgrounds’ facilities are not involved in or associated with the infection.

“However, as a precautionary measure, all of our stalls, pens, water tanks, tie-outs and other facilities were disinfected shortly after discovery of this infection,” the memo states. “We have taken these precautionary measures to ensure the safety and well-being of animals and humans — as our highest priority.”

The strangles vaccine is costly, and because the Westernaires cannot rent out the quarantined horses, the organization estimates it is incurring a weekly loss of revenue of about $15,000.

To help offset the expenses from the strangles outbreak, the organization set up a Go Fund Me account on April 29.

As of May 5, $23,463 of the $30,000 goal has been met.

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Bill increases penalties for texting and driving Governor expected to sign bill, which Legislature passed in April

BY TOM SKELLEY TSKELLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A bill that increases penalties for drivers convicted of distracted driving passed the full Legislature on April 24 and is expected to be signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper at

the end of May. Under the legislation, a law enforcement officer must see a driver using a phone for texting, or doing any other form of manual data entry, while operating a motor vehicle. A conviction for a first offense would be a Class 2 misdemeanor resulting in a fine of $300 and four points on the driver’s license. Subsequent offenses would incur the same fine and points assessed.

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demeanor charges, with fines ranging from $300 to $1,000 and a possible sentence of 10 days to one year in prison.

“It’s a start to make Colorado roads safer in the long run,” said Susan Dane, co-founder of Colorado Organized for Responsible Driving. “But our work is not done.”

Dane and other CORD members founded the group after friends Jacquie and Brian Lehner were killed in an accident on State Route 83 north of Franktown in 2016. The driver admitted to drinking and smoking marijuana before the accident, as

well as checking a text message, just before she drifted into oncoming traffic and caused the accident.

CORD had representatives at every committee hearing throughout the course of the bill’s passage, Dane said. The next step for the group will be to work with schools and driver’s education programs to reach young drivers before texting becomes part of their driving routine.

“I don’t know what it’s going to take to get people to shake the habit,” Dane said. “But we’re going to keep working at it.”

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Paula Greisen, Personal Representative 1670 York Street Denver, CO 80206 Legal Notice No.: 8072 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of PEGGY MARILYN MILLER, Deceased Case Number: 2017PR30 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 11th, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Kathryn Barker Personal Representative of the Estate of Peggy Marilyn Miller HULBERT & ASSOCIATES, LLC 1828 Clarkson Street Denver, Colorado 80218 Legal Notice No.: 8079 First Publication: May 11, 2017 Last Publication: May 25, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Gerald V. Harris, aka Gerald Harris, aka Gerald Victor Harris, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30435 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 5, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Howard J. Harris Personal Representative 860 Lafayette Street Denver, Colorado 80218 Legal Notice No: 8068 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Richard Anthony Heidenreich, Aka Richard A. Heidenreich, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30519 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 11, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Lavina E. Heidenreich c/o Katz, Look, and Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln St., Ste. 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No: 8086 First Publication: May 18, 2017 Last Publication: June 1, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Charlotte M. Thompson, aka Charlotte Madeline Thompson, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30468 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before September 11, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Terry L. Thompson Co-Personal Representative 2948 Risinger Drive Shreveport LA 71119 Timothy K. Thompson Co-Personal Representative 3046 Yampa Way Aurora, Colorado 80013 Legal Notice No: 8073 First Publication : May 11, 2017 Last Publication: May 25, 2017 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Rita Lucero, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30492

Notice To NOTICE Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Rita Lucero, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30492 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 11, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Nancy K. DeNava Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look, & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No: 8075 First Publication: May 11, 2017 Last Publication: May 25, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of William Aloysius Conway, III aka William A. Conway, III, aka William A. Conway, aka William Conway, aka Bill Conway, Deceased Case Number: 17 PR 30448 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 11, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

William A. Conway, IV Personal Representative 9220 E. Jewell Circle Denver, Colorado 80231 Legal Notice No: 8076 First Publication: May 11, 2017 Last Publication: May 25, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Kathryn M. Pelloni, Deceased Case Number: 17 PR 0192 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 11, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

James A. Pelloni Personal Representative PO Box 1376 Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80034 Legal Notice No: 8078 First Publication: May 11, 2017 Last Publication: May 25, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Delores R. Newland, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30489 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 24, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Person Giving Notice: Cyndi L. Lyden Attorney for the Personal Representative 1777 S. Harrison Street, Suite 1250 Denver, Colorado 80210 Legal Notice No: 8081 First Publication: May 18, 2017 Last Publication: June 1, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Roscoe M. Bolt, aka Roscoe Mahlon Bolt, aka R.M. Bolt, aka Ross Bolt, and Ross M. Bolt, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30348 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 18, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Marianne J. Bolt Personal Representative 1777 Larimer Street, No. 1210 Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No: 8082 First Publication: May 18, 2017 Last Publication: June 1, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

NOTICE CONCERNING PETITION TO TERMINATE PARENT-CHILD LEGAL RELATIONSHIP AND PETITION FOR CUSTODIAL ADOPTION

To: JENEE JOSEPHINE MENZOR and RONNIE JOSEPH VALVERDE

You are hereby notified that the District Court in

To advertise yourthis public notices 303-566-4100 county will hold call a hearing on the Petition for

Notice To Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Patricia Ann Fischahs, aka Patricia A. Fischahs, aka Patricia Fischahs, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30548 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 18, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Jerry J. Francis Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203 Legal Notice No: 8084 First Publication: May 18, 2017 Last Publication: June 1, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of William G. Pearson, aka George W. Pearson, and William Pearson, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30559 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 18, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeffrey G. Pearson Personal Representative c/o Patrick R. Thiessen, Esq. Poskus, Caton & Klein, P.C. 303 E. 17th Avenue, Suite 900 Denver, Colorado 80203 Legal Notice No: 8085 First Publication: May 18, 2017 Last Publication: June 1, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Takeshi Ohtake, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30437 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 18, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Kumiko Ohtake Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look and Onorato, PC 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No: 8087 First Publication: May 18, 2017 Last Publication: June 1, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, DENVER COUNTY, COLORADO 520 West Colfax Avenue, Room 125 Denver CO 80204 IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: ROSALITA MENZOR FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CHILD Attorney for Petitioner: Koupal Law Firm, P.C. Laura J. Koupal, #35119 1776 Jackson Street, Suite 209 Denver, CO 80210 (303) 861-3020 laura@koupallaw.com Case Number: 16JA230 and 16JA 231 Courtroom 2C NOTICE CONCERNING PETITION TO TERMINATE PARENT-CHILD LEGAL RELATIONSHIP AND PETITION FOR CUSTODIAL ADOPTION To: JENEE JOSEPHINE MENZOR and RONNIE JOSEPH VALVERDE You are hereby notified that the District Court in this county will hold a hearing on the Petition for Custodial Adoption and Petition to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship filed by the Petitioner involving the children, Ronnie Janya Menzor, born on March 8, 2007 and Zenee Josphane Valverde, born November 5, 2010, in Denver Colorado The Court will hold the hearing on the 13th day of June, 2017 at 9:45 a.m. in Division 2C of the Denver Juvenile Court at the address

Custodial Adoption and Petition to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship filed by the Petitioner involving the children, Ronnie Janya Menzor, born on March 8, 2007 and Zenee Josphane Valverde, born November 5, 2010, in Denver Colorado

Misc. Private Legals

The Court will hold the hearing on the 13th day of June, 2017 at 9:45 a.m. in Division 2C of the Denver Juvenile Court at the address listed above.

Unless within thirty-five (35) days after the publication of this Notice you file an answer with the Court, or appear before the Court, your parental rights to the child may likely be terminated. You have the right to waive your right to appear and contest, and your failure to appear and contest, either in person or by representative, will result in the Court forever terminating your parent-child legal relationship and granting the requested adoption.

Dated this day of , 2017.

KOUPAL LAW FIRM, P.C. Laura J. Koupal, #35119 Attorney for Petitioner Legal Notice No.: 8071 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: June 1, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

City and County Public Notice

Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) proposes to collocate wireless communications antennas at a top height of 61 feet on a 51-foot building roof-top at the approx. vicinity of 2855 South Lamar Street, Denver, Denver County, CO 80227. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Sara, s.spagnolo@trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, Suite 260, St. Louis, MO 63141, 314-9976111.

Legal Notice No.: 8080 First Publication: May 18, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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