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Colorado Heights’ likely buyer to keep historic features

Freddie Sprankel, a United States Army veteran, sits at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver.

Sprankel, 34, was homeless in the Denver metro area after returning to civilian life in 2012.

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spinal damage in Fort Hood, Texas. He came back to his native Colorado to be near his family for mental support, went through a divorce and ended up homeless in Denver.

A year and a half later, Sprankel was able to find housing — but for many homeless veterans, the path forward is still steep.

“I would say the trajectory is such that that population is increasing,” T.J. Westphal, a service officer for the Arapahoe County Veterans Service Office, said of homeless veterans in his county.

Given “the current housing market and cost of

After months of meetings by concerned community members, Colorado Heights University campus — still affectionately known as Loretto Heights to area residents — received some certainty when it selected a company to purchase the former school property.

The historic, 70-acre campus at 3001 S. Federal Blvd., a once-Catholic college that grew out of an effort by the Sisters of Loretto that dates back to 1891, is expected to be owned by Catellus Development Corporation. Colorado Heights University has discontinued operations, its website said.

Catellus, which has experience in transforming university campuses, brownfields and other sites into mixed-use developments, has committed to preserving the campus’s administration building and chapel as key features in the future development, the release said.

That’s a promise community members were striving for.

“I think a lot of folks who’ve been in the area for long time have some anxiety over potential changes that could be coming to the campus,” said Kevin

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An estimated 569 homeless veterans live in the Denver metro area, and Freddie Sprankel used to be one of them.

After more than three years in the U.S. Army — including an almost year-long duty tour in Iraq — Sprankel got an honorable discharge in 2012 and was in a head-on car collision that caused him

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Schools vie to use building that housed elementary Gilpin Montessori ceased operation in northeast Denver in the spring

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Seven Denver schools have applied to locate their programs in the northeast Denver school building that until this spring housed Gilpin Montessori elementary school.

They include six charter schools and one district-run school. Four of the seven are already operating in other buildings.

The other three programs are not yet open.

In a gentrifying city where real estate is at a premium and the number of existing school buildings is limited, securing a suitable location that affords enough room to grow is one of the biggest hurdles new schools face.

Every year, Denver Public Schools solicits applications from schools seeking to use its available buildings.

The process for the former Gilpin building is separate; the school board is expected to vote in December on a program or programs to take up residence in fall 2018.

The seven applicants are: • Compassion Road Academy, a

district-run alternative high school currently located near West 10th Avenue and Speer Boulevard that had 172 students last school year.

• The Boys School, an all-boys charter middle school that opened this year with 87 sixth-graders in rented space in a northwest Denver church and plans to add more grades.

• Denver Language School Middle School, a K-8 charter school that served 715 students — 101 in middle school — last year and is currently split between two campuses in east Denver.

• Colorado High School Charter GES, a charter alternative high school that opened this year in west Denver.

It is the charter’s second campus in the district.

• Downtown Denver Expeditionary School Middle School, a charter school that served 402 kindergarten through fifth-graders last year in the building that houses DPS headquarters. It is approved to serve grades 6, 7 and 8, as well, but has not yet opened a middle school program.

• 5280 High School, a charter high school approved but not yet open that plans to emphasize hands-on learning and would also offer a program for students in recovery from addiction, eating disorders and other challenges.

• The CUBE, a personalized learning charter high school approved but not yet open.

The district is currently reviewing the applications to make sure they meet the initial criteria it set, said DPS spokeswoman Alex Renteria: The schools must be currently operating or previously approved secondary schools with enrollments of 600 students or fewer.

A community meeting scheduled for Dec. 2 will provide an opportunity for community members to meet the applicants and “provide feedback on their alignment with the community priorities,” according to a district presentation.

Community priorities are one of the measures by which the applicants will be judged, the presentation says.

The others are academic performance, facility need and enrollment demand, it says.

A facility placement committee will review the applications and make a recommendation to Superintendent Tom Boasberg the week of Dec. 11, Renteria said. Boasberg is expected to make his recommendation Dec. 18 to the school board, which will vote Dec. 21.

The committee will include five district staff members and four community members, including two from the neighborhood, Renteria said. Applications from community members to serve on the committee are due Tuesday, and members will be selected

by Friday, she said.

The Gilpin building is available because the elementary school that previously occupied it closed at the end of last school year. Using a district policy to close schools with low test scores and lagging academic growth, the school board voted last December to permanently shutter Gilpin Montessori and restart two other elementary schools: John Amesse and Greenlee.

The district’s rationale for closing Gilpin rather than restarting it with a new elementary program was based on enrollment: With just 202 students last year, it was the district’s secondsmallest elementary school — and DPS enrollment projections showed further declines in the number of elementary-school-aged children in the neighborhood, which is gentrifying.

A recent analysis by the Denver Regional Council of Governments and the Piton Foundation’s Shift Research Lab showed a similar trend: rising home prices and rents, and a building boom that resulted in thousands of new housing units from 2012 to 2016, but just 23 new students.

Gilpin Montessori parents and community members rallied to save the school and have lobbied the district to keep an elementary school there.

Three programs serving students with special needs are temporarily using the building this year.

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living, we definitely talk to a lot of people who are on the cusp of becoming homeless.”

Westphal says the numbers are hard to track, but he’s noticed an uptick in the number of people in Arapahoe County who are on that edge since 2014 and 2015.

For Sprankel, 34, it took a combination of help from a nonprofit organization and a governmental body to get him back to life with housing, as is the case for many like him. But dealing with the local offices of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs — better known as the VA — wasn’t easy, even for a homeless veteran.

In limbo Left with no separation pay when he was discharged from the Army, Sprankel, a father of five, was told the VA would take care of him. But when he started his disability paperwork in Colorado, it was a self-described “nightmare.”

Sprankel said he dealt with a slowmoving Denver VA system, and he said he had to go to great lengths to get his case on track and get the benefits he needed, a year and a half after he had come back to Colorado after his service.

In general, the VA offers avenues to permanent supportive housing, transitional housing and referrals for VA and community programs, said Michelle Lapidow, section chief for the homeless program at the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System in Denver.

Vouchers through the Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — known as HUD-VASH — can be a road to housing, Sprankel said, but even if a veteran is approved, they still have to wait for housing to open up that accepts the vouchers.

Westphal in Arapahoe County, an Army veteran himself, said frustration with the VA is often due to misinformed expectations.

“If they feel like they’ve been burned, we help them” understand the VA’s decision, said Westphal, who previously worked for the VA. “Some vets get into the mindset of, ‘Well, I’m a vet — the VA is going to be there to help me with anything I need.’ “ Because veterans often hear misinformation about help they can get, Westphal said, it can be a wake-up call when they find out what they’re eligible for.

“I would say for my part, I wasn’t really informed at all,” Westphal said. “When I got out in 2005 ... there weren’t a lot of services for transition out of the military at that point. Over the last decade or so, we’ve really seen the VA and communities making an effort to improve that piece, but (the) military and VA have a lot of work to do (to give) good information to vets when they separate.”

Mariah Markus, 26, a former member of the Air National Guard who trained and worked at U.S. Air Force bases, also became homeless and met Sprankel through the Veterans of

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1 building at 841 Santa Fe Drive in Denver on Oct. 22. A veterans nonprofit, Post 1 is the first and oldest VFW post, founded in 1899, according to its website.

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“There’s a lot of bureaucracy that surrounds VA claims,” said Markus, who grew up in Aurora and became homeless in July 2015 after exiting the military in 2012. “It’s a systematic problem.”

Markus wasn’t able to get disability benefits because she never served active duty.

“Some claims get approved all at once,” she said. “Some have to really put up a fight.”

Challenges and welcome news In the metro area suburbs, the homeless veteran population is much smaller than in the city of Denver, where about 81 percent of homeless veterans in the area stayed on one night in the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative’s Point-In-Time survey. But officials are still working to provide help.

“Over the past year, Jefferson County has seen an increase in homeless veterans as they have moved from other counties into Jeffco,” said Kathryn Otten, an official with the county’s Human Services Department. Although its veterans’ service officers didn’t make contact with homeless veterans in most months of 2017, Otten said the office believes there has been an increase in need.

The City and County of Denver is the epicenter of veteran homelessness in Colorado, said Brenton Hutson, an official with Volunteers of America’s Colorado branch.

Denver’s point-in-time count, 459, dwarfs that of the next-highest count in the metro area, Arapahoe County’s 44.

“Denver metro is one of the few urban centers nationally that has not seen a marked decline in homelessness amongst veterans over the past several years,” said Brenton Hutson, an official with Volunteers of America’s Colorado branch. “That tide is beginning to turn, in large part because of community efforts to stand up more effective data systems that allow providers to efficiently connect services to those in need.”

After a three-year growth streak that peaked in 2016 with 713 homeless veterans identified, the Point-In-Time report on the amount of homeless in the Denver metro area on one night, Jan. 30, showed 569 veterans

counted. That number comes despite

RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE The VA offers: • Permanent supportive housing and transitional housing • Drop-in services including showers, a food pantry, case management, housing assistance and screening and referrals for VA and community programs, through the Volunteers Of America Bill Daniels Veteran Services Center • Walk-in clinic service also offering case management, housing assistance and program referrals • Call: 800-827-1000 and 303-399-8020; call 720-501-3367 for the Bill Daniels center Homeless assistance and veterans services from nonprofit and local resources: These entities offer services or help veterans navigate the VA process.

• Volunteers of America Colorado Branch — 303-297-0408 • American Legion Deptartment of Colorado — 303 366-5201 • Archway Housing and Services — 303-561-1870 • Adams County Veterans Service Office — 303-227-2107 • Jefferson County Veterans Services Office — 303-271-4205 • Arapahoe County Veterans Service Office — 303-738-8045 • Douglas County veterans services — 303-663-6200 • Elbert County veterans services — 303-520-6088 • Colorado Division of Veterans Affairs — 303-284-6077 the overall homelessness and chronically homeless counts hitting six-year highs. The survey doesn’t yield an exact picture of the homeless population, but the results may signal a shift.

But veterans like Sprankel don’t always have a lot of time to wait.

A patchwork of help “It was tough, without a doubt,” Sprankel said. “I wasn’t sleeping — I’d drive around to wherever I’d feel safe for the night, crash out for one to two hours, and then I’d be up. Paranoia kicks in, that fear mindset.”

Homeless shelters in the city of

Denver can be a hostile environment, especially for combat veterans, Sprankel said.

“I just rolled with the punches, until the punches got so heavy I was ready to kill myself,” said Sprankel, who said he attempted cutting his femoral artery with a butcher knife at one point.

Other veterans got him motivated, and that, Sprankel said, saved his life.

In 2013, he met a veteran from the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1 at a King Soopers, who gave him resources he needed to get back on his feet.

“They really brought me in, gave me another home when I really didn’t even have one,” said Sprankel, who sometimes asked to stay in other people’s homes. “My pride was kicking in — I didn’t want to ask for help, and that was (wrong).”

Sprankel, who receives income through the VA and said he can’t work for medical reasons — he had stomach surgery in Iraq and surgery on his spine — has had a home in Highlands Ranch since summer 2014.

Now, as a volunteer for the VFW, he reaches out to people who might have the same prideful mentality as he once did about not accepting help.

“They gotta fill in that paperwork and (get working),” said Sprankel, who helps veterans in crisis and helps with disability claims and homelessness.

Being homeless opened Sprankel’s eyes to “what’s really going on here in Denver.”

“It’s not necessarily that people aren’t helping, but there’s only so much certain organizations can do,” Sprankel said.

On the public side, every county in Colorado has an officer like Westphal in Arapahoe County. Westphal helps link veterans to services like Medicaid and food assistance as well as housing options.

“The million-dollar question is, what can cities and communities do?”

Westphal said.

Local governments should work with affordable housing developers to incentivize more affordable units in their areas, he added.

“Make the decision as a community to support the construction of lowincome housing,” Lapidow, of the VA, said. “It is cheaper to house individuals than to leave them on the streets, and it’s the right thing to do.”

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Regulators approve first digital pill to track patients System can keep tabs on doses, but hasn’t been proven to improve compliance ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. regulators have approved the first drug with a sensor that can track whether patients have taken their medicine.

The Abilify pill was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2002 to treat schizophrenia, and the sensor technology was approved for marketing in 2012. The FDA said in a statement Nov. 13 that the digitally-enhanced medication “works by sending a message from the pill’s sensor to a wearable patch.”

“Being able to track ingestion of medications prescribed for illness may be useful for some patients,’’ Dr. Mitchell Mathis of the FDA said in statement. “The FDA supports the development and use of new technology in prescription drugs and is committed to working with companies to understand how this technology might benefit patients and prescribers.’’

Abilify MyCite was developed by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. and the

sensor was created by Proteus Digital Health.

Greenlighting the new digital version, however, came with some caveats. While the system can track doses, it hasn’t been shown to improve patient compliance, the FDA said.

“Abilify MyCite should not be used to track drug ingestion in ‘real-time’ or during an emergency,’” the statement said, “because detection may be delayed or may not occur.”

Patients can track their dosage on their smartphone and allow their doctors or caregivers to access the information through a website.

In a statement issued last May at the time the FDA accepted submission of product for review, the companies said “with the patient’s consent, this information could be shared with their healthcare professional team and selected family and friends, with the goal of allowing physicians to be more informed in making treatment decisions that are specific to the patient’s needs.”

The companies said the sensor “activates when it reaches stomach fluids and communicates with the patch.”

The FDA said digital Abilify is approved for the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and as an add-on treatment for depression in adults.

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Federal health authorities are warning about reports of injury, addiction and death with an herbal supplement that has been promoted as an alternative to opioid painkillers and other prescription drugs The supplement, kratom, made from a plant native to Southeast Asia, has gained popularity in the U.S. as a treatment for pain, anxiety and drug dependence. Users have opposed efforts to regulate the plant, saying it could be a safer alternative to opioid pain pills that have caused an epidemic of abuse.

But the Food and Drug Administration said Nov. 14 that kratom carries similar risks, including addiction and death, and the agency is working to block shipments.

The FDA said it is aware of 36 deaths involving products made with kratom and hundreds of calls to poison control centers, which increased tenfold between 2010 and 2015. In some cases, kratom is mixed with opioids like oxycodone, the ingredient in OxyContin, according to the agency.

“The FDA must use its authority to protect the public from addictive substances like kratom, both as part of our commitment to stemming the opi-

oid epidemic and preventing another from taking hold,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement.

Gottlieb said the agency has seized and destroyed shipments of kratom at international mail facilities.

Kratom remains legal under federal law, although some states have banned the plant, including Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Tennessee and Wisconsin. It is sold in various forms, including capsules and powders.

The Drug Enforcement Administration had planned to ban the plant by adding it to a list of illegal drugs that includes marijuana, heroin and LSD. But the agency backed away from that plan last October after a flood of public complaints including a letter signed by 62 members of Congress and a protest at the White House organized by the American Kratom Association.

The group has said categorizing kratom as an illegal substance would stymie medical research into its potential therapeutic uses.

The DEA said last October it would delay a decision until the FDA issued a recommendation.

Despite the warning about the risks of kratom, an FDA spokeswoman said the agency’s scientific review is ongoing. There is no timetable for completing the review.

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Way down under a lot of wrapping, the core of Christmas is still there

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f you are full of kringle and nog, I don’t want to bring my wet blanket into it very far, even though it’s tempting.

The Christmas QUIET season once lasted a week or two. Then a DESPERATION month. Now it’s two months.

(And if you watch home shopping channels, it’s six months.)

Christmas music in November is wrong. I can avoid it in my home. I can’t avoid it in stores.

Everyone in Amer- Craig Marshall ica does not celebrate Smith Christmas.

Everyone in America who celebrates Christmas does not celebrate it in the same way.

Moneymakers aren’t interested in the illusion of rationality.

However, I was delighted to hear that Black Friday is losing its mojo.

I am happy for the employees, mostly, who have had to work at odd hours just to serve ravenous appetites for deep discounts on must-have electronics and peeing dolls.

Beneath my gruff exterior is a gruff interior. Beneath my gruff interior is a soft spot for memories, and a wistfulness about some things that have been diminished through the manipulations of others — to an extreme.

I am old enough to know that’s how we do things around here.

Some weddings, for example.

The national average for a wedding day in 2016 was $35,329, according to Fortune magazine.

The typical cost to have a justice of the peace marry you is $50 to $100.

I may have told this story before.

Aging leads to redundancy. But it’s the best Christmas memory I have.

We drove Santa Claus home in a Buick.

My father sold Buicks in Uniontown, Penn., in the early 1950s.

There was a Christmas parade. I wish I had photographs. I am sure it was simple and sweet and half Frank Capra and half Diane Arbus.

I rode up front in a convertible, next to my father, and Santa was in the back seat. He waved at everyone, and threw candies. He hit one kid in the forehead.

When the time came, Santa said, “Please take me home.”

My father said, “OK, Ed, uh, Santa.”

Santa lived a couple of blocks from us.

I wish I had kept a journal. This would have been my entry that night.

“I had the time of my life tonight.

There I was, in a Buick Skylark with Santa. He looked like he had lost some weight. Maybe the holiday stress. He smelled a little funny too. I can’t put my finger on it, but it might have been Maker’s Mark.”

Much later in life, when I was reevaluating Natalie Wood’s life and death — among other things, I drank my way through Decembers.

The month had turned into an inexplicable monster, no longer enjoyable.

I drowned out the sounds of it.

Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenka) was 8 when she costarred in “Miracle on 34th Street.”

Precocious and a Christmas curmudgeon, until, well, watch it for yourself.

Wood was 31 when she made “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” a very different kind of film than “Miracle on 34th Street.”

Twelve years later, Wood died, and the cause is still in question. Her life went from Santa’s knee to a Catalina Island boat trip, and in between the waters were choppy, like they are for most of us.

Do you want to know a secret?

Every December, I watch one of those two films.

Guess.

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

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hanksgetting? Sounds like one of those made-up holidays, doesn’t it? We all know there is no such holiday as Thanksgetting — well maybe not technically, but quite possibly a twist WINNING on the traditional holiday of ThanksWORDS giving.

On Thanksgiving we typically share our gratitude for all we have been blessed with over the past year. We give thanks for the people in our lives, especially those sitting around Michael Norton the dining-room table with us. We show our appreciation for all of the opportunities we have been given and we cherish the days leading up to Thanksgiving just as much as the holiday itself.

The attitude of gratitude is something I have written about quite a bit over the years as I have been told that gratitude is one of the healthiest of all human emotions. When we exhibit

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gratitude for the people in our lives and for the gifts we have been blessed with, we usually continue to experience greater relationships, and some say that we may have even more to be grateful for.

Zig Ziglar’s most famous quote is this, “You can have everything in life that you want, just as long as you help enough other people get what they want.” You see, here is where we turn gratitude upside down. Not only are we grateful for all that we do receive, but this gives us the opportunity to experience gratitude by helping others. I mean really, how awesome does it feel when we help someone else out, donate time, give charitably and cheerfully to a great cause? It feels fantastic, doesn’t it?

I am sure that we have all experienced some form of Thanksgiving holiday where we sit around with our family and share all the things we are grateful for. We hear things like, “I am grateful for my family.” Or, “I am grateful for my job.” Maybe we hear things like being grateful for the meal being served, or some people may express appreciation for the time

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off and watching football or movies on Thanksgiving. When we stop and think about it, we really do have so much to be thankful for beyond the brief examples given here.

Now what if our answers were slightly different? “I am so grateful that I had a chance to help a person stranded on the roadside with a flat tire.” “I sure do appreciate being asked to help serve meals at the homeless shelter.” “I am feeling blessed that my business trip was canceled so I could help out more around the office, at home, and at church this week.” What we get back from giving out is almost always so much more powerful to us personally and professionally when it comes to the feeling and attitude of gratitude.

The best part about this, and as the people who are constantly giving out can share with us, is that they never do any of it with any expectation of receiving anything in return. They never say, “I am helping out here because I know I will need help one day myself.” That never happens. People who give from the heart, those who

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give charitably and cheerfully, know full well that the gift of gratitude that they experience simply comes from the doing and the giving. And when Thanksgetting rolls around each year, these folks already know what they are grateful for, the chance to receive that feeling and sense of appreciation and accomplishment for doing what comes very naturally.

So how about you? Are you celebrating Thanksgiving or Thanksgetting? Because as Zig said, “You really can have everything in life you want, just as long as you help enough other people get what they want.”

I would love to hear all of your Thanksgiving or Thanksgetting stories at gotonorton@gmail.com.

And when we remember it really is all about the other people in our lives and all of the blessings we receive when we do give back, it absolutely will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.

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Council votes to approve Hancock’s budget for 2018 Affordable housing effort doesn’t measure up in eyes of some members ANDREW KENNEY EMAIL AKENNEY@DENVERITE.COM

Denver’s city council approved &Mayor Michael Hancock’s proposed $2 billion budget in a 10-3 vote on Nov. 13, setting the spending plan for the year ahead.

However, several councilmembers expressed concerns and criticisms about the Kniech early execution of Denver’s major new affordable housing effort.

Councilwoman Robin Kniech said that she voted against the budget because Mayor Michael Hancock’s administration wasn’t responsive enough to her questions about the

city’s affordable housing spending.

“My trust in the process was misplaced,” she said. She did not receive the details she requested about money that has been set aside for housing-related programs, she said. She also was unhappy that the city had not set aside money to pay for lawyers for people facing evictions.

“A strong government response to the housing crisis can’t just be about the quantity of resources or the number of new programs that can be announced to the media. Because these are taxpayer dollars, it also has to be based on transparency and accountability to the public,” she said.

Councilman Rafael Espinoza also voted against the budget, saying he felt that the administration didn’t listen enough to council input. Councilman Kevin Flynn joined the “no” votes because he doubts the legality of spending public money on a legal defense fund for immigrants, he said.

Councilwoman Debbie Ortega voted for the budget, but said that the affordable housing fund needs to be more accountable to its advisory committee.

“It can’t be just one person making

a decision and charging forward like a bull in a china closet,” she said.

Mayor Michael Hancock’s office responded in a written statement after the meeting.

“We’re obviously disappointed in the councilwoman’s vote against a budget that unquestionably addresses the community’s most pressing priorities,” wrote spokesperson Jenna Espinoza, referring to Kniech, who had made the most critical comments.

“The administration and council have made great progress together over the past few years when it comes to affordable housing, and we very much hope to continue doing so moving forward, particularly as we face growing challenges from the federal government.”

Councilmembers said they were happy with the overall thrust of the plan, and sometimes with the specific programs that they championed.

Ortega said she was satisfied that the administration would work to minimize traffic impacts from new construction in northeast Denver, as she requested.

Councilman Paul López liked the

final product, too.

“There’s a lot of things that can be done a little differently in the budget but overall I believe it’s a good budget,” said López, who recently convinced the administration and the council to double the funding for the immigrant legal defense fund.

Councilman Paul Kashmann, meanwhile, had reservations but was happy to see spending to fix sidewalks, he said.

Council President Albus Brooks said that he shared concerns about the city’s affordability plans, but he still came out in favor of the budget.

“We have to have incredible execution when it comes to our plans, and that’s called into question tonight.

I join (Kniech) in that concern. I’m incredibly concerned. Every time I go out into the community — they’re looking at me, as to why you’re not executing on these plans,” he said.

“But still, this budget is doing as it was intended to do.”

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Flynn, Denver city councilmember for District 2, in June.

Community meetings managed by several local ,residents on April 12, June 29, July 17 and Oct. 25 discussed the future of the campus, according to Jim Gibson, one community leader who has pushed for the preservation of its cultural significance.

Colorado Heights will continue to work with the Catholic organization Sisters of Loretto on its offer to donate the campus’s cemetery to it, university President Fred Van Liew said in the Nov. 1 statement. The university plans to provide some financial assistance for the transfer of the cemetery, where 62 dead nuns lie, according to Flynn.

In June, Flynn said the city would become involved only if a buyer wanted to add uses that currently aren’t permitted, such as retail. Zoning regulations already permit multi-unit housing on the property because of the existing college dorms, Flynn said.

Restaurants, gathering places, an art museum, affordable housing, a park or a multi-use complex with artists’ lofts and a theater are all development options residents have proposed in community meetings. Another desire was to have the campus continue as an educational institution.

Formally, Gibson’s community group voted within itself to push for preserving views of the administration building, to explore whether a historic landmark designation by the city of Denver would be appropriate and to try to manage any adverse effects that new developments on the campus might pose to nearby neighborhoods, among other ideas. Nearly 40 community members at the Oct. 25 meeting, called a h“Community Conversation,” at the Loretto Denver Center at 4000 S. Wadsworth Blvd. voted overwhelmingly for the ideas, which the group plans to present .to the property’s buyer.

“I’m in a trust-but-verify mode,” said Gibson, who added that he’s cautious but optimistic about what Catellus has promised so far. “I think we have reason to have some optimism, but we’re gonna stay on top of it.”

Gibson wants southwest Denver residents to make their desires heard to produce a “win-win” for all in-

The historic administration building at Colorado Heights University in southwest Denver June 22. Originally part of Loretto Heights Academy, which opened in 1891, the campus became Teikyo Loretto Heights University in 1989 and Colorado Heights University in 2009. FILE PHOTO volved, including the new potential property owner.

“Catellus will collaborate with community leaders and neighbors, Colorado Heights University, and the City and County of Denver to determine the best uses while working to preserve and transform the campus,” said Tom Marshall, executive vice president of Catellus, in the Nov. 1 statement.

The campus, once called Loretto Heights College, is steeped in Denver history that goes back more than a century.

Originally owned by the Sisters of Loretto, Loretto Heights Academy opened in 1891 after their original building in downtown Denver — the Catholic girls’ school St. Mary’s Academy of the Loretto Order, which opened about 1864 — grew to take up nearly the whole block by 1880, a 1985 school newspaper article said.

In 1948, it became Loretto Heights College, solely a four-year Catholic college for women, and later admitted male students. It closed in 1988, and three of its academic programs moved to what was then called Regis College, according to a Regis article.

Teikyo Loretto Heights University opened on

the campus in 1989 and focused on international students. The Japan-based Teikyo University Group opened Colorado Heights University, a private, notfor-profit institution, in 2009.

The campus’s administration building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975 and still was as of July 2015, according to register documents.

Colorado Heights University announced its decision to close in November 2016 due to an insufficient student population.

Also a factor were problems the United States Department of Education found with the agency that accredited its programs.

All students of the university have either completed their programs of study or successfully transferred to other educational institutions, primarily in the Denver metro area, Catellus’ statement said.

About 500 students were enrolled in the university around the time it announced its closing.

A development program for the property will be determined in the coming months, the statement said.

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Get into the holiday spirit with music, food

D Theatrical options for the holiday season The Arvada Center is celebrating the holiday season with a classic family story, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.”

BY CLARKE READER CREADER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

T

he holidays mean something different to everyone, but if there’s one thing that most can agree on, it is that they should be spent with the people who mean the most to us.

And as far as activities go for the holidays, few are better than sharing the community and thrill of live theater.

“The holidays are the time of year when people are busiest, so it’s really special that they make time to be together at the theater,” said Josh Hartwell, a playwright and actor who has written two holiday shows this season — one at Lakewood’s The Edge Theater and Golden’s Miners Alley Playhouse. “It makes you feel closer to the people you care about when you make time to do things with them.”

This time of year, theater-goers have a variety of options to select from — more traditional to dark comedies and shows that highlight holiday themes, like “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” which is playing at the Arvada Center. “’Joseph’ is a great family-oriented show, with some wonderful messages,” said Stephen Day, who

plays Jacob and Potiphar in the show. “There’s powerful moments of redemption, and a great exploration of family dynamics.”

The musical brings together all kinds of genres, from pop and country to rock. Which means there’s something for everyone to enjoy in the show, said Sarah Rex, the narrator in “Joseph.”

Another show that embraces the theme of the season is “Seussical,” which is plays at Littleton’s Town Hall Arts Center. The show is an amalgamation of several of Dr. Seuss’ most popular stories, including “Horton Hears a Who,” “The Cat in the Hat,” “The OneFeathered Tail of Miss Gertrude McFuzz” and “Horton Hatches an Egg.” “Christmas and the end-of-year holiday celebrations are all about family, and there is a long-time tradition of families sharing certain productions together, passing the experience on to new generations to share,” said Bob Wells, director of the show. “’A Christmas Carol’ and ‘The Nutcracker’ are the champions, and I hope ‘Seussical,’ with its story, music, dance, sets and costumes, will become part of the merry tradition.”

Those looking for more off kilter fare can check out “The SantaLand Diaries” at The Jones

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at the Denver Center for Performing, based on David Sedaris’ experiences from his stint as a Macy’s elf in New York City, and the world premiere of “Resolutions,” written by Hartwell and directed

by Missy Moore at The Edge.

“The idea was to create a holiday show that wasn’t really about the holidays,” Hartwell said. “It’s kind of a Quentin Tarantino holiday show. It’s something unlike everything else out there.”

The show is about three middleaged couples who meet up after the holidays at a cabin in Vail.

Each year their social event includes exchanging white elephant gifts, making their resolutions for the upcoming year and, of course, some drinking. But as relationships change, so does the event.

“It’s a black comedy, but it has some grimness, too,” Hartwell added.

For the traditionalists, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ production of “A Christmas Carol” is a perennial favorite, and hard to top.

But for a more personal approach, Hartwell adapted Charles Dickens’ classic for Miners Alley in Golden.

His version follows six local SEE THEATER, P10

espite all the shoppers big box stores see on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving wasn’t all that special for Angelo Coiro, owner of Angelo’s CDs and More.

But when Record Store Day started making exclusive releases on Black Friday, everything changed.

“It’s been a big helpto use, and we do triple what we used to on that Friday,” he said. “Suddenly, Black Friday is relevent to us again.”

During the Record Store Day Black Friday event, independent record stores like all three of Angelo’s locations, Twist and Shout, Black and Read, Wax Trax, and others will be opening at much more reasonable hours (usually around 8 a.m. or so) to sell limited versions of unique releases on COMING tapes and CDs. ATTRACTIONS vinyl, Some items sure to go first include a 7-inch single of “Baby It’s Cold Outside” by local favorites Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon” on two LPs, and Gorillaz’s latest album, “Humanz,” on two LP picture discs.

“We have donuts and other Clarke Reader treats for the first people who arrive, and there will be live music at some locations,” Coiro added. “There are also sales and specials we’ll have going all weekend.”

Go to www.recordstoreday.com to find the record nearest you, compile your wishlist, and make a plan for the day.

An album listening party at a movie theater Denver-based Vinyl Me, Please, a record-ofthe-month club where subscribers are sent one record each month, has been growing by leaps and bounds since it was first created in 2013.

To coincide with the release of its album of the month, the company started The Spins, listening parties where people can party while checking out the album.

For November, Vinyl Me, Please, selected St. Vincent’s latest album, “Masseducation,” and to celebrate, are hosting a listening party at the BarFly, located in Sloan Lake’s new Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 4255 W. Colfax Ave. Beginning at 6 p.m. on Nov. 17, the event will feature a mixology class, movie screening and a silent disco curated by DJ Details and the Vinyl Me, Please staff.

“We have a relationship with our members where we say, ‘Here is this thing that was really moving to us and we actually spend a lot of time writing about it … and we’d love for you to give it a listen,’ “ explained Tyler Barstow, one of the founders of the company, in an interview from earlier this year. “Our goal is to illuminate and shed some light on where this album comes from, because there are so many albums that aren’t just another pop record or another rap record or another indie rock record.”

For more information, visit www.drafthouse. com/denver/theater/sloans-lake.

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THINGS to DO

THEATER

The Magic Within: Psychic Explorations with Erica Sodos: 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25 and Dec. 30 at Mercury Café, 2199 California St. Denver. Call 303-294-9258.

Pump and Dump Show: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29 at Comedy Works South, 5345 Landmark Place, Greenwood Village. Band of Mothers national tour. Call 720-2746800 or go to https://www.comedyworks. com/comedians/the-pump-dump. Go to facebook.com/thepumpanddump.

Disaster: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday through Dec. 2 at The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Go to www.EquinoxTheatreDenver.com.

Beau Jest: through Dec. 10 at Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver.

Presented by Cherry Creek Theatre Company. Performances at 7 p.m. Thursdays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. Additional show at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3 and Dec. 10.

Call 303-800-6578 or go to www.cherrycreektheatre.org Anansi: The Itsy BiTSY Spider Stories: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, 1 p.m. Saturdays, 11 a.m. Sundays through Dec. 17 at The BiTSY Stage, 1137 S. Huron St., Denver. Show is free; reservations required. Call 720-328-5294 or go to www.bitsystage.com.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: through to Saturday, Dec. 23 at Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. Performances at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays to Saturdays; 1 p.m.

Wednesdays, and 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Talkbacks after 7:30 p.m. performances on Nov. 28 and Dec. 7. Happy hours with cast after 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24 and 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6 performances. Call 720-898-7200.

Seussical, The Musical: 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m.

Sundays through Dec. 30 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., Littleton.

Additional sows at 2 p.m. Nov. 25 and Dec. 2, and 6:30 p.m. Dec. 10. No show on Dec. 24. Tickets available at the arts center box office, by calling 303-794-2787 ext. 5, or online at townhallartscenter.org/seussical.

ComedySportz: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Dec. 31 at The Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Two teams compete for laughs and points, with a referee keeping things moving and calling fouls. Fans judge the scenes and games and ultimately decide the winners and losers. Call 303-3215925 or go to http://www.avenuetheater. com for tickets.

MUSIC

Noel Northglenn: 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1 at the Northglenn Recreation Center, 11801 Community Center Drive. Kick off the holiday season when Santa visits Northglenn. Carolers, carriage rides, songs with Mrs. Claus, an indoor snowball fight, holiday cartoons in the theater and more. Northglenn Senior Organization hosts its annual bake sale and the Northglenn Historic Preservation Commission sells gift items and stocking stuffers. This year’s theme is The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Go to www.

northglenn.org/noel or call 303-450-8935.

Sing We Now of Christmas: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1-2 at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 E. Alameda Ave., Denver. Presented by the Colorado Choir, featuring more than 80 voices performing Christmas songs. Call 303-388-4962 or go to augustanaarts.org.

Learn more about the choir at coloradochoir.com.

Sleigh Ride in Winter: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1 and 2:30 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St. Popular and classical holiday favorites performed by the Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra. Selections include Fantasia on Greensleeves, Charly Brown Christmas, Wassail Dances, White Christmas, and three Sleigh Ride arrangements, and Old Saint Nicholas himself makes an appearance. Call 720-509-1000 or go to www.lonetreesymphony.org.

ARTS/CRAFTS

French Chef Series: 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Nov. 28 at Children’s Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus. Practice your culinary skills by making French cuisine like crepes and pastries with our friends from Alliance Française de Denver. Space is limited, first-come, first-served. Sign up outside The Teaching Kitchen.

Legacy: through Dec. 31 at the Denver Public Library, Vida Ellison Gallery, 10 W. 14th Avenue Parkway, Denver. Exhibition of prominent painters working in the field of realism today. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday; and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday; and 1-5 p.m.

Sunday. Go to http://www.gallery1261.com/

EVENTS

Blossoms of Light: 5-9 p.m. Nov. 24 to Jan. 1 at Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York St., Denver. Holiday lights extravaganza. Go to https://www.botanicgardens.org/

of Lights. Admission includes a hayride, short holiday movies at Santa’s Cinema, live reindeer, crafts with Mrs. Claus, pictures with Santa and craft vendors in Santa’s workshop. Food and beverages may be purchased. Go to https://www.botanicgardens. org/chatfield-farms A Hudson Christmas: 5-8 p.m. select evenings from Nov. 24 to Dec. 31 at Hudson Gardens and Event Center, 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Outdoor holiday walking tour. Share Christmas wishes with Santa; take a photo on Santa’s sleigh. Tickets available at www.altitudetickets.com, or in person on event nights. Go to www.hudsongardens.org.

Job Search Help: 1-3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29 at Sheridan Library, 3425 W. Oxford Ave., Denver. Need a space to learn about the job search process and work on applications?

Our librarians are here to help with resumes, job search sites, LinkedIn and more. Save your spot at arapahoelibraries.org.

Signing Santa: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29 at Cherry Creek Shopping Center.

Deaf and hearing-impaired children are invited to visit and sign with Santa. Go to www.shopcherrycreek.com.

Food, Toy Drive: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday through Dec. 1 at Brian Fox Farmers Insurance Agency, 2101 Ford St., Denver.

Drive benefits Christian Action Guild. Call 303-279-5054.

Santa Claus and Paws: 6-9 p.m. Sunday,

Santa’s Village: Fridays to Sundays, Nov. 24 to Dec 24 at Chatfield Farms, 8500 W. Deer Creek Canyon Road, Littleton. Replaces Trail

HEALTH EDUCATION Buddhism: 2:30-3:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 27 at Springbrooke, 6800 Leetsdale Drive, Denver. Join Active Minds for an examination of its origins, teachings, beliefs and practices. Seating is limited. Call 303-3319963 to RSVP. Buddhism: 5-6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28 at Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Join Active Minds for an examination of the origins, teachings, beliefs and practices of Buddhism. Call 303-322-7727.

Afghanistan: 10-11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5 at the Jewish Community Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Join Active Minds for a look at the story of Afghanistan, both before and since 9/11. We will also take a look forward at what the future holds for this war-torn country. No RSVP required. Call Lil Shaw 303-316-6359 for information.

Editor’s note: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Thursday for publication the following week. Send listings to calendar@coloradocommunitymedia.com.

No attachments, please. Listings are free and run on a space-available basis.

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Family-Friendly Walk: 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 24 at Castlewood Canyon State Park. All Colorado State Parks offer free admission on Fresh Air Friday. Hike includes a waterfall and the old dam. Enter from Colo. 86 on Castlewood Canyon Road, and meet at Falls Trailhead Parking Area. Participants will walk the Falls Spur Trail. Bring a lunch. Call 303-688-5242 or go to www.meetup.com/ secularhub for map and details.

Candlelight Walk, Tree Lighting: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 24 in historic downtown Littleton. Littleton High School choir and Heritage High School Brass perform. Live reindeer and a holiday float with a glittering ice princess and dancing elves. Event culminates with Santa illuminating more than one million lights in downtown. Additional entertainment by the Arapahoe Community College Choir, Leawood Elementary Choir and the Colorado Fire Tribe. Main Street will close at 4 p.m. Free parking available at Arapahoe Community College, the Littleton Center and the Arapahoe County Building.

Go to https://littletonrocks.com/event/ candlelight-walk-2017/

Dec. 3 at Cherry Creek Shopping Center.

Furry friends invited to take a photo with Santa. Pets must be up-to-date on vaccinations, and must be on a leash or in a lightweight, portable carrier with harnesss.

Go to www.shopcherrycreek.com.

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A musical Thanksgiving tradition On Thanksgiving Day 1976, The Band — the musical group responsible for classics like “The Weight” and “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” — played its final concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom, with visits from rock royalty like Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell and more.

The ensuing film, directed by Martin Scorsese, and live album have gone down as one of the best live recordings in rock history.

In 2005, Polytoxic, a jam band based in Denver, came up with the idea of reenacting the movie on stage to highlight the quality of area musicians. That first concert on May 25 included 16 guest musicians and a four-piece horn section, and sold out in minutes. So the group decided to hold a repeat performance the night before Thanksgiving — and they’ve been doing it ever since.

Now in its 13th year, The Last Waltz Revisited will be on Friday, Nov. 17, at the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., and on Nov. 22 (the night before Thanksgiving) at the Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 N. Clarkson St. The show will feature more than 50 musicians and a full horn section, all from the Denver music scene.

A portion of the proceeds go to support the Denver Rescue Mission, and more information and tickets

modern sensibilities.

“The journey is so interesting, and I think Scrooge is more complex than people realize,” said Jim Hunt, who plays the miser in the production.

“People who come to our show are going to see something fresh and new.

In the end, it’s about family and coziness, and that fits with the holiday season.”

can be found at www.lastwaltz revisited.com.

A how-to for a snack for the holidays Thanksgiving is so centered on food that having a few easy, go-to recipes in your pocket is always a good idea.

The Museo de Las Americas, located at 861 Santa Fe Drive, can help you prepare a delicious snack with a Caliente: Craft Your Own Salsa class from 10 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18. Students will learn how to develop their own salsa recipe, and take it home with them after the class.

To claim a spot in the class, call 303-571-4401 or visit www.museo.org.

The holiday blues Teller’s Tap Room is a hidden gem in Wheat Ridge, and in addition to its top-notch food and drinks, it’s a great place for live music on the weekends.

At 7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 19, the Delta Sonics band will be playing a show at the bar and grill at 1990 Youngfield St. The group has been named the best blues band in Denver during the Westword Magazine Music Showcase every year from 2011 through 2016.

Go to www.tellerstaproom.com for information.

Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. A community editor with Colorado Community Media, he can be reached creader@ coloradocommunitymedia.com.

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Lo han demandado. Lea Ia informacion a continuacion y en Ia pagina siguiente Petitioner's name is: MANUEL JOSE FAJARDO Nombre del demandante CASE NUMBER (NOMERO DE CASO): BD 648 816 For Court Use Only (SOLO PARA USO DE LA CORTE) CONF0RMED COPY ORIGINAL FILED Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles

Tiene 30 dias de calendario despues de haber recibido Ia entrega legal de esta Citacion y Petici6n para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-12Q) ante Ia corte y efectuar Ia entrega legal de una copia a/ demandante. Una carla o 1/amada telef6nica o una audiencia de Ia corte no basta para protegerlo.

Sino presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, Ia corte puede dar ordenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y Ia custodia de sus hijos. La corte tambien /e puede ordenar que pague rnanutencion, y honorarios y costas legales.

Para asesoramiento legal, p6ngase en contacto de inrnediato con un abogado. Puede obtener informacion para encontrar un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio web de los Servicios Legales de California (.www.lawhelpca.org) o poni{mdose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado.

A VISO-LAS ORDENES DE RESTR/CCION SE ENCUENTRAN EN LA PAGINA 2: Las ordenes de restriccion estan en vigencia en cuanto a ambos conyuges o miernbros de Ia pareja de hecho hasta que se despida Ia peticion, se ernita un fallo o Ia corte de otras ordenes. Cualquier agencia del orden publico que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas 6rdenes puede hacer/as acatar en cualquier Iugar de California.

EXENCION DE CUOTAS: Sino puede pagar Ia cuota de presentacion, pida a/ secretario un formulario de exencion de cuotas. La corte puede ordenar que usted pague, ya sea en parte o por cornpleto, las cuotas y costas de Ia corte previamente exentos a peticion de usted ode Ia otra parte.

1. The name and address of the court are (EI nombre y direccion de Ia corte son): LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT 111 NORTH HILL STREET LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 2. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner's attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (EI nombre, direccion y numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante sino tiene abogado, son): EVANGELINA MALHOTRA, ESQ. SBN 112862 (562) 806-9400 MALHOTRA & MALHOTRA 7847 E. Florence Avenue, Suite 111, Downey, CA 90240 STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. removing the minor children of the parties from the state or applying for a new or replacement passport for those minor children without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor children; 3. transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or

EVANGELINA MALHOTRA, ESQ. SBN 112862 (562) 806-9400 MALHOTRA & MALHOTRA 7847 E. Florence Avenue, Suite 111, Downey, CA 90240

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AVISO-ACCESO A SEGURO DE SALUD MAS ECONOMICO: {.,Necesita seguro de salud a un costo asequible, ya sea para usted o alguien en su hogar? Si es asi, puede presentar una solicitud con Covered California. Covered California lo puede ayudar a reducir el costa que paga por seguro de salud asequible y de alta calidad.

Para obtener mas informacion, visite www.coveredca.com. 0 llame a Covered California al 1-800-300-0213.

STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from: 1. removing the minor children of the parties from the state or applying for a new or replacement passport for those minor children without ADVERTENCIA-IMFORMACION IMPORTthe prior written consent of the other party or an ANTE order of the court; advertise yourDe public notices acuerdo a Iacall ley303-566-4100 de California, las 2. cashing, borrowing against,To canceling, transpropiedades adquiridas por las partes durante ferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiarsu matrimonio o pareja de hecho en forma conies of any insurance or other coverage, includjunta se consideran propiedad comunitaria para ing life, health, automobile, and disability, held fines de Ia division de bienes que ocurre cuando for the benefit of the parties and their minor chilse produce una disoluci6n o separaci6n legal dren; 3. transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, del matrimonio o pareja de hecho. Si cualquiera concealing, or in any way disposing of any propde las partes de este caso //ega a fal/ecer antes erty, real or personal, whether community, de que se divida Ia propiedad comunitaria de quasi-community, or separate, without the writtenencia conjunta, el destino de Ia misma ten consent of the other party or an order of the quedara determinado por las clausulas de Ia escourt, except in the usual course of business or critura for the necessities of life; and correspondiente que describen su tenencia (por 4. creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a ej., tenencia conjunta, tenencia en comun o propiedad nonprobate transfer in a manner that affects the comunitaria) y no porIa presuncion de disposition of property subject to the transfer, propiedad comunitaria. Si quiere que Ia prewithout the written consent of the other party or sunci6n comunitaria quede registrada en Ia esan order of the court. Before revocation of a critura de Ia propiedad, deberia consultar con nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of un abogado. survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on Legal Notice No.: 8215 the other party.

First Publication: October 26, 2017 Last Publication: November 23, 2017 You must notify each other of any proposed exPublisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch traordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective..However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or your own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs.

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Notice To Creditors

NOTICE-ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE HEALTH INSURANCE: Do you or someone in your household need affordable health insurance? If so, you should apply for Covered California.

Covered California can help reduce the cost you pay towards high quality affordable health care.

For more information, visit www.coveredca.com.

Or call Covered California at 1-800-300-1506.

WARNING-IMPORTANT INFORMATION California law provides that, for purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divided, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e., joint tenancy r tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property.

ORDENES DE RESTRICCION ESTANDAR DE DERECHO FAMILIAR En forma inmediata, usted y su conyuge o pareja de hecho tienen prohibido: 1. llevarse del estado de California a los hijos menores de las partes, o solicitar un pasaporte nuevo o de repuesto para los hijos menores, sin el consentimiento previa por escrito de Ia otra parte o sin una orden de Ia corte; 2. cobrar, pedir prestado, cancelar, transferir, deshacerse o cambiar el nombre de los beneficiarios de cualquier seguro u otro tipo de cobertura, como de vida, salud, vehiculo y discapacidad, que tenga como beneficiario(s) a /as partes y su(s) hijo(s) menor(es); 3. transferir, gravar, hipotecar, ocultar o deshacerse de cualquier manera de cualquier propiedad, inmueble o personal, ya sea comunitaria, cuasicomunitaria o separada, sin el consentimiento escrito de Ia otra parte o una orden de Ia corte, excepto en el curso habitual de actividades personales y comerciales o para satisfacer las necesidades de Ia vida; y 4. crear o modificar una transferencia no testamentaria de manera que afecte Ia asignaci6n de una propiedad sujeta a transferencia, sin el consentimiento por escrito de Ia otra parte o una orden de Ia corte. Antes de que se pueda eliminar Ia revocacion de¡una transferencia no testamentaria, se debe presentar ante Ia corte un aviso del cambia y hacer una entrega legal de dicho aviso a Ia otra parte.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Matthew Eli Herbst, aka Matthew E. Herbst, aka Matthew Herbst, and Matt Herbst, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 31335

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 March 23, 2018, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Herbst Co-Personal Representative Deborah Herbst Co-Personal Representative c/o Nancy R. Crow, Esq. Hutchins & Associates LLC 1999 Broadway, Suite 1400 Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No: 8238 First Publication: November 23, 2017 Last Publication: December 7, 2017 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Cada parte tiene que notificar a Ia otra sobre cualquier gasto extraordinario propuesto por lo menos cinco dias habiles antes de realizarlo, y rendir cuenta a Ia corte de todos los gastos extraordinarios realizados despues de que estas ordenes de restriccion hayan entrada en vigencia. No obstante, puede usar propiedad comunitaria, cuasicomunitaria o suya separada para pagar a un abogado que Jo ayude o para pagar los costos de Ia corte.

AVISO-ACCESO A SEGURO DE SALUD MAS ECONOMICO: {.,Necesita seguro de salud a un costo asequible, ya sea para usted o alguien en su hogar? Si es asi, puede presentar una solicitud con Covered California. Covered California lo puede ayudar a reducir el costa que paga por seguro de salud asequible y de alta calidad.

Para obtener mas informacion, visite www.coveredca.com. 0 llame a Covered California al 1-800-300-0213.

ADVERTENCIA-IMFORMACION IMPORTANTE De acuerdo a Ia ley de California, las propiedades adquiridas por las partes durante su matrimonio o pareja de hecho en forma conjunta se consideran propiedad comunitaria para fines de Ia division de bienes que ocurre cuando se produce una disoluci6n o separaci6n legal del matrimonio o pareja de hecho. Si cualquiera de las partes de este caso //ega a fal/ecer antes de que se divida Ia propiedad comunitaria de tenencia conjunta, el destino de Ia misma quedara determinado por las clausulas de Ia escritura

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