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More unrelated people can now live together Council approves changes for group living in 11-2 vote

BY ESTEBAN L. HERNANDEZ DENVERITE

Denver City Council has adopted a sweeping set of rules for group living after nearly three years of public discussions, meetings and

tweaks based on feedback.

The measures passed 11-2 in the early hours of Feb. 9 after a public comment session that lasted more than five hours. Councilmembers Kevin Flynn and Amanda Sawyer voted against the proposal.

“At the end of the day I think these changes represent very broad input from the community,” said at-large Councilmember Debbie Ortega, who supported the changes.

The changes to the city’s zoning code will allow halfway houses in more parts of the city and increase the number of unrelated adults who can share a home. As many as five unrelated adults will be able to legally live together in homes in Denver, up from two. Residential facilities like homeless shelters, halfway houses, sober living and rehabilitation facilities, and assisted living and nursing homes will be

regulated by size rather than by the types of services they offer.

The new rules will provide more spaces for halfway houses in Denver.

Prior to city council’s vote on the matter, halfway homes were only allowed in about 3,210 acres of industrial areas near downtown. Now, they can stretch out to 19,000 acres in commercial corridors throughout SEE GROUP LIVING, P13

Telling the stories of significant women Denver playwright talks about his Iconic Women Theatre Series

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Mike Broemmel says he stumbled into becoming a playwright.

In the early 2000s, he wrote a short story called “The Baptism,” which tells the story of a “town run amuck with religious zealotry,” states Broemmel’s website.

However, it did not get published as a short Broemmel story because the publisher Broemmel was working with thought it was too controversial, Broemmel said.

“So I turned it into a play,” Broemmel added. “I found I enjoyed the format and everything involved with writing a play.”

Today, Broemmel, 58, a Denver native who currently resides in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, has written about 30 plays. He is best

Cathy Washburn as Helen Bonfils in Mike Broemmel’s “The Bonfils Girl.” The full-length, one-actor play is one of six in Broemmel’s Iconic Women Theatre Series, which tells the life stories of women whom history either overlooked or did not fully chronicle.

SEE WOMEN, P9

INSIDE: VOICES: PAGE 8 | LIFE: PAGE 10 | CALENDAR: PAGE 11

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Governor’s powers, health care reform to take center stage State Legislature to return Feb. 16 after month delay due to COVID-19

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Issues hanging over the 2021 session of the Colorado General Assembly include: Republicans’ objections to the governor’s far-reaching powers during the pandemic; an expected attempt

by Democrats to advance a type of health care reform known as the “public option”; a slate of gun control bills; and a push to treat cannabis-based medicine the same as any other medication in K-12 schools.

As if the state Legislature didn’t have enough on its plate during the ongoing economic downturn wrought by COVID-19, other highprofile proposals are sure to draw heated debates at the Capitol.

State lawmakers convened for a three-day session in January, approving a handful of bills that — among other measures — renewed certain pandemic-related tax credits and retooled a relief program for minority-owned businesses in light of a court challenge that called its race-based criteria discriminatory.

Now, after a delay meant to protect against COVID-19, the

Legislature is expected to return on Feb. 16 to continue this year’s legislative session, the roughly four-month period in which bills are passed.

Asked what his biggest targets are for the session, Republican Chris Holbert, state Senate minority leader, said with a laugh that Holbert his goal is “to not be asked that question.”

“It’s mathematically impossible to have goals unless the Democrats” agree, Holbert said, noting that Democrats still control both the state Senate and House and the governor’s office.

In Colorado’s third year of total statehouse control by Democrats after the 2018 election, here’s a look at the proposals likely to grab attention.

‘Not about the man named Polis’ After an 11-month stream of near-constant executive orders related to the coronavirus, Republicans such as Holbert, the state senator from Parker, are questioning whether a governor should have such a longstanding expansion of authority.

But Holbert draws a careful line: A Republican proposal may focus on how long a disaster emergency declaration — which can give a governor broader powers — can last before the governor has to depend on the state Legislature to extend it. But the proposal isn’t so much about changing the authority itself that exists under such a declaration, Holbert said.

However, Holbert did call into question the type of rulemaking that has come via state order during the pandemic.

He says he’s heard from constituents in Douglas County who assume Holbert decided that hair salons could only open at a certain percentage of their capacity or 10 people, or less, citing the type of public health rules Colorado has seen throughout the pandemic.

“I had nothing to do with that, and people want to know why,” Holbert said, arguing state lawmakers should have more say. A proposal might include giving the Legislature an opportunity to review rules made by executive order, he added.

“Right now, I think we under-

stand that we don’t have that authority,” Holbert said.

Senate Republicans intend to float either a state-law or constitutional proposal — if it’s a constitutional change, it would come as a referred measure to state voters — to ask about the timeline for future statewide disaster emergencies, Holbert said.

“Should the Legislature have to (weigh in) in 30 days? Sixty days?

Ninety? Six months? A year?”

Holbert asked.

The senator framed the issue as centered on future potential emergencies — no matter who the governor is. “This isn’t about the man named Jared Polis,” Holbert said.

If Republicans were to target Polis’ current authority “relative to where we are right now, Democrats would kill that in (legislative) committee. So that would be a short conversation,” Holbert said.

But he took issue with Colorado’s classification of certain businesses as “nonessential” or noncritical, a move that placed them under restrictions other “critical” businesses were spared.

He heard of a tobacco store in the Parker area that attempted to stay open against pandemic-related orders, while nearby, big-box stores were able to sell tobacco.

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The ripples of events, leadership and legacies Website is a project of the Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund wants to ensure the stories of Colorado’s rich history are accessible to all.

To do this during a time when the organization temporarily cannot welcome visitors inside the Governor’s Residence at the Boettcher Mansion, the Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund has launched a new, interactive website to share Colorado history.

“The Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund has taken this opportunity to broaden our reach and share Colorado history with all who are eager to learn, near and far,” said CoCo Criste, executive director of the Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund.

The website, https://www.colorado-leaders.com/ looks at the ripples of events, leadership and legacies of three centuries of Colorado history.

The three centuries are: 1776-1876 — One hundred years to statehood.

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To learn more about the Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund, visit https://governor-residence.colorado. gov/.

1876-1976 — Colorado’s Centennial.

1976-2076 — Colorado’s Bicentennial.

“We could have gone back thousands of years, but our timeline and budget did not allow,” Criste said.

“Therefore, we decided to focus on three centuries of Colorado history beginning in the 1770s because Colorado is the Centennial State.”

She added that the website’s timeline includes the future so today’s leaders can recognize how they, and everyone, have the “opportunity to have an impact on your community and the future.”

The funds for the website came as a grant from the Boettcher Foundation. The Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund applied for the grant in 2019 to build the website in 2020, Criste said.

Since its inception 12 years ago, the Governor’s Residence Preservation SEE HISTORY, P7

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it wasn’t the size of the store because you could see small liquor stores, and for some reason those were essential. A person could visit a small cannabis dispensary (in Arapahoe County),” Holbert said.

A potential proposal could arise on that matter, Holbert said. He added: “Again, not to interfere with what Polis has done now or to criticize him, but in the future, why can’t small (businesses stay open)?”

State House Speaker Alec Garnett thanked the governor for his approach in responding to the pandemic.

“If we want to have a more robust discussion about the Legislature’s role Garnett and how this is all supposed to work in the next pandemic, I don’t think it’s an appropriate time (for that) when we’re toward the end of this crisis,” said Garnett, a Democrat of Denver.

“I don’t want to cast any disparaging light on what this governor has accomplished,” the House leader added.

Health care focus amid virus Democrats heard during election season that health-care costs remain a “No. 1 priority” for Coloradans, Garnett said.

February 18, 2021 “There is no doubt that the pandemic has underscored the gap in health (care) for Coloradans,” with costs standing as a hurdle for families trying to make ends meet, Garnett said.

Last year, Democratic lawmakers envisioned a type of “public option,” which would have added a government-overseen program alongside current private health insurance. Supporters of a public option say it would drive costs down by creating more competition for private companies.

The state government would have overseen the program, but private insurance carriers would have administered it and held the financial risk, according to a fact sheet by the state, which referred to the plan as a public-private partnership.

The pandemic upended last year’s legislative session, but Democrats are back this year with a modified proposal that tweaks the possible Colorado public option — and tries a less government-driven approach first.

Dubbed the Colorado Health Insurance Option, it’s what’s known as a total-cost-of-care proposal that would set cost-reduction goals for health insurance premiums that Coloradans pay.

Under the plan, insurance companies would negotiate reimbursement rates — the amounts that insurance companies pay out — with hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and other health-care industry entities to enable the lower premium costs that consum-

ers would pay, according to Jarrett Freedman, spokesman for state House Democrats.

The proposal would put the total-cost-of-care model in effect for years 2023 and 2024, and if the proposal’s insurance premiumreduction goals aren’t met, then in 2025, a plan for a Colorado public option would take effect.

That system in 2025 may look more like a traditional public option compared to last year’s idea, with the government entirely running the program rather than overseeing private insurers’ administration of it.

But if insurers are able to meet the goals, any creation of a statebacked public option would be delayed until the targets are no longer met, according to a fact sheet on the plan.

Individuals and small employers would be able to purchase insurance through the plan, the sheet says.

Holbert argued that if lawmakers want to make health care more affordable or accessible, they should “get government out of it.”

“They like to call it the public option, but it’s government interference and it’s price controls, and it means that some or most will pay more while fewer will pay less,” Holbert said.

Stakeholders in the health care industry have said they share the goal of cost reduction and want flexibility to meet them rather than having the state “force anything on top of us,” Garnett said.

“What we’re trying to do is set

goals for price reduction that are going to help Coloradans. Give insurers the option to work with hospitals and pharma and different players in the industry to set premiums … to achieve a goal,” Garnett said.

‘Citizen control’ Three gun-control bills face good odds in the Democrat-led Legislature: This year could see proposals regarding requirements for storing firearms safely, a waiting period for purchasing firearms, and a duty to report lost or stolen firearms.

Holbert characterized the proposals as “citizen control” bills.

“They don’t really seem to do anything about criminals but seem to (affect) law-abiding citizens,” Holbert added.

For Garnett, the focus is partly on Colorado’s suicide rates and preventing suicides that involve a firearm, he said, adding: “We all support the Second Amendment.”

“I really don’t understand why these proposals seem to be as partisan as they are,” Garnett said.

“The goal is to improve responsible gun ownership.”

The House speaker called the proposals “narrowly focused” and ones that have been beneficial in other states. He argues they’ll be tailored to address the outlined goal, as with 2019’s Extreme Risk Protection Order bill, , Garnett argued. That’s known as Colorado’s “red flag” law.

“The number of talking points around the ERPO have not come true,” Garnett said.

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Bill boosting funds for school districts advances Measure would cushion impact tied to enrollment declines

BY ERICA MELTZER CHALKBEAT.ORG

Colorado school districts would avoid the worst budget hits from losing 30,000 students this school year under a bill that received initial support from the Joint Budget Committee in early February.

The bill sends an extra $60 million to school districts — $41 million to make up for lost local tax revenue and another $19 million to districts that saw particularly large enrollment declines or that experienced a notable decrease in the number of students living in poverty.

Rural districts will share another $25 million from a new nicotine tax approved by voters in November.

Colorado funds districts based on how many students they have, as well as other factors like district size and student poverty, with the state and school districts sharing the costs. With the state budget set in the spring, lawmakers always adjust school funding midway through the year to account for changes in enrollment and local tax collections from the previous year’s estimates.

Many school districts were bracing for significant cuts this year — on top of cuts the legislature already made last year in response to a pandemic-related economic slump — because 3% fewer students have showed up to school.

According to the school finance formula, the full hit to school districts should have been almost $121 million. But Colorado lawmakers already hold back hundreds of millions every year that the state constitution says should go to K-12 schools to pay for other priorities. The withholding reached $1.2 billion this school year, as lawmakers struggled to balance the budget during the height of business restrictions and job losses. Colorado’s K-12 budget is about $7.2 billion.

Rather than claw back $121 million for the state, the school funding adjustment bill essentially treats it as part of the amount that was already withheld.

The additional $19 million in the bill will benefit districts that saw more than a 2% decrease in enrollment or that saw a big decrease in students deemed “at-risk.” These are students who qualify for free lunch or food stamps under federal guidelines or who are learning English, and districts get more money to serve these students.

That means that decreases in this student population have a bigger financial impact.

Officials believe the drop in

low-income students comes from families not filling out paperwork, rather than fewer families struggling amid historic job losses.

“I think the at-risk students are there, and we didn’t effectively count them,” legislative budget analyst Craig Harper told the Joint Budget Committee.

Districts like Aurora, Westminster, Adams 14 and Sheridan, all working-class Denver suburbs with large immigrant populations, faced particularly large cuts related to students in poverty not showing up in the count.

With Democratic majorities in

both chambers of the Colorado legislature, the bill is likely to pass easily, but Republicans still could raise objections.

State Sen. Bob Rankin, a Carbondale Republican, said he supported the financial adjustment bill in committee so that it can move forward, but he has concerns about effectively paying for students that districts are not educating.

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Denver metro counties move to looser rules in level yellow Colorado finalizes color-coded ‘dial 2.0’ of COVID-19 restrictions

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

In the latest ratcheting down of Colorado’s COVID-19 restrictions, the state public-health department confirmed it would drastically ease the limits that allow counties to remain in certain color-coded levels of coronavirus restrictions.

The “dial 2.0” changes put Denver metro counties in level yellow, promising loosened businesscapacity restrictions, according to information from the state public-health department as of Feb. 5. Some would even sit close to entering the notably low blue level.

The changes took effect Feb. 6.

In the Denver metro area, Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Denver, Jefferson, Elbert and Broomfield counties — all in level orange under the previous rules — moved to yellow under the new framework on Feb. 6.

Counties now enter level yellow starting at about 100 new COVID019 cases per 100,000 people within one week, a measure known as a county’s incidence rate.

The state’s new framework starts measuring the rate in one-week

periods rather than 14-day chunks.

The line a county needs to cross to enter level red was set to change drastically in the new rules. Rather than 350 new cases per 100,000 people over a two-week period, the threshold essentially changes to 1,000. The line for level orange, the level nearly all counties were operating in as of early February, was 175. Now, it’s 600.

Level yellow’s threshold changes from 75 to 200.

Technically, the new thresholds are about 500 for red, 300 for orange and 100 for yellow over oneweek windows.

Elbert County’s two-week rate sat at 236 — or, roughly, just over 100 for a one-week rate — as of Feb. 5, placing it close to entering level blue, one level below yellow, if the virus’s spread drops. Jefferson County sat close behind at 256.

The move comes as the number of vaccinated Coloradans continues to grow, Jill Hunsaker Ryan, the department’s executive director, said in an earlier news release.

“Since the dial’s last major change in November, Colorado has begun distributing COVID-19 vaccines throughout the state,” Hunsaker Ryan said in the Feb. 5 announcement. “More people now have immunity to COVID-19, including people over 70 and frontline health care workers. This relieves the strain on our hospital system.”

Compared to the draft of the new

rules announced on Jan. 30, the final version of the update changes capacity limits for restaurants in level yellow. Other than that, capacity limits remain the same for all other businesses and other settings across the dial’s levels.

Businesses certified as part of the state’s 5-Star program are still allowed to operate one level lower on the dial than they otherwise would be able to without certification, except they may not operate in level green, or “Protect Our Neighbors,” unless the county is formally in that level.

“Because caution is still a priority, (businesses in) counties in yellow with a 5-Star Business Program may only operate in blue once 70% of 70-year-olds in the state are vaccinated with at least one dose, expected to happen by the end of the month,” the Feb. 5 news release said.

The following are some of the capacity changes that businesses and other settings in level orange could see with a move to the lessrestrictive level yellow, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

For a complete list of differences between all the levels, go to the state’s COVID-19 website at covid19.colorado.gov/data/covid19-dial-dashboard and click “level restrictions” below the map.

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

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

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The new change for restaurants in level yellow — that they may now operate at 50% or up to 50 people (or up to 150 with the calculator). — is up from the previous level yellow limit of 100 people with the calculator, according to the Feb. 5 news release.

For a breakdown of what newcase rates and rates of positive COVID-19 tests qualify counties for each dial level, see page 2 at tinyurl.com/NewColoradoDial.

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Fund has hosted about 5,000 students and 130,000 members of the general public into the Governor’s Residence at the Boettcher Mansion, 400 E. Eighth Ave. in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.

“Our tours and education programs have always been free of charge,” Criste said.

She added, however, field trips to visit the residence were sometimes difficult for schools - whether it be because of distance from Denver and the expense for transportation, or the additional need for volunteers and supervision to accompany the children.

“This project (the website) falls in line with the education and preservation aspects of our mission,” Criste said. It “is an extension of our programs and we want to offer this as a tool for students, teachers and all eager to learn more about Colorado history.”

Phase I of the website was development and launching it, Criste said. Phase II is adding additional content, and for this part, Coloradans are invited to contact the Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund to provide suggested content, Criste said.

“There are thousands of stories to tell,” she said.

The Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund is looking forward to welcoming people back into the Governor’s Residence, Criste said, and discussions have already

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begun on how the website will supplement the in-person programming. For example, Criste said, offering self-guided audio tours or some sort of a kiosk option. The idea, she said, is for the website to be an additional resource for teachers and students completing a social studies unit or anybody who wants to prepare ahead of their visit.

“I find civic pride in learning about the progressive nature of Colorado,” Criste said. “It is important to learn about successes and failures in history, and to be well informed so that we can progress as members of society moving forward.”

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ecently, Turner Classic Movies showed what many consider the worst movie ever made.

“Plan 9 from Outer Space,” directed by Edward D. Wood Jr., and starQUIET ring Bela Lugosi DESPERATION who died during production.

Lugosi’s place was taken by Wood’s wife’s chiropractor who concealed his face with a cape.

Get the idea?

Pilots in the cockCraig Marshall pit of an airplane Smith are seated in lawn chairs. Behind them is a shower curtain that separates them from the passengers.

Low budget.

The film is so bad it’s good.

I own it.

“Ed Wood,” an excellent Tim Burton biopic about the director, starring Johnny Depp and Martin Landau, was released in 1994. Landau, as Lugosi, won the Academy

Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Is “Plan 9 from Outer Space” the worst film ever made? It’s close, but there are many to choose from.

Anything with Liza Minnelli in it.

And her mother in “Meet Me in St. Louis,” singing the “Trolley Song,” is good for a few nightmares.

There’s one on my list that might surprise you: Billy Wilder’s “Some Like it Hot.” Notoriously, it required Marilyn Monroe 47 takes to read “It’s me, Sugar,” correctly.

“Plan 9 from Outer Space” is narrated by Criswell who was known for “wildly inaccurate predictions,” often appearing on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson.

Carson, in fact, developed a character based on Criswell and his loony predictions.

The film is a hodgepodge of continuity errors, low production values, and unrelated stock footage inserted at odd times.

It got me thinking about the worst television shows ever. Again, there are plenty to choose from, including everything that has a laugh track. Everything, including “M*A*S*H” and “Friends.”

Don’t make me watch “Friends” and I will be your friend.

“My Mother the Car” is right up there. It starred Jerry Van Dyke and a 1928 Porter touring car that, it’s learned, is his mother reincarnated.

“Reincarnated.” Get it?

The car talks to Van Dyke (it’s actress’s Ann Sothern’s voice) and tells him what to do.

My one and only lunch box featured a character on a show I watched long before I knew what “production values” meant.

“Captain Video.”

“Captain Video and His Video Rangers” aired between 1949 and 1955; there were an estimated 1,537 episodes.

How bad? To save money, each episode was “interrupted” for about ten minutes with old cowboy movies. The cowboys were Captain Video’s “undercover agents on Earth.”

During live broadcasts, actors often had to turn away from the camera so they wouldn’t be seen laughing about the script or the prop miscues.

The show’s prop budget was twenty-five dollars a week.

What did I know? I believed in Captain Video and I believed in Howdy Doody.

The program gets mentioned in a better Billy Wilder-Marilyn Monroe film, “The Seven Year Itch,” that also starred Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman.

Sherman’s son Ricky is shown wearing a space suit in one of the opening scenes.

When television was new it was a threat to filmmakers.

Outrageous films were made in the 1950s in an attempt to lure audiences back into theaters.

That’s when most of the best of the worst movies, often featuring horrific monsters, were made, including “The Creature from the Black Lagoon,” the movie Sherman and “The Girl” go to in “The Seven Year Itch.”

What are your worsts?

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

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friend of mine had recently posted his frustrations about someone not thanking him for allowing them to merge into the traffic ahead of him. No wave, no thank you, they WINNING just moved on and WORDS into the flow of traffic. Have you been there? Have you found yourself more agitated these days, letting some of the simplest annoyances become major irritations?

Have we found Michael Norton ourselves dancing on a wire, a thread, and ready to snap? Probably more so than we would like to admit.

I know that for myself I started noticing the little things. The small stuff was beginning to get to me.

Yup, I was on edge and maybe even dancing on a wire.

What I appreciated most about my friend’s post was that he posed it as a question, asking people if they ever felt the same sense of being disrespected or under-

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appreciated when allowing other drivers to merge into traffic. My first response to his question was a simple, “Nope.” And then I thought about it more, placing myself as both the driver giving grace to another person and then as the person receiving the grace to merge into traffic. Would I be agitated and irritated? Would I be grateful and appreciative? How would I have demonstrated either?

As the driver who let the other person in, I would do so because it is the right thing to do to keep traffic moving safely. There have been times when it absolutely irritated me. Luckily, the wisdom of my grandfather and maturity has brought sense back to my nonsensical way of thinking and driving.

His encouragement was to always offer grace in every aspect of life, and every aspect of life includes driving.

After thinking about the question posted by my friend, I commented on his original post with the questions my grandfather would have asked me if I was feeling underappreciated: Have I given thanks to God 100% of the time for every gift

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Have I ever been so wrapped up in a “hands-free” phone conversation or paying close attention to the GPS where I mumbled quietly or silently, “Thank you” instead of a wave of gratitude?

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Doing what is right, because it’s the right thing to do, will always yield far more favorable results than allowing ourselves to be so easily offended by the words, actions, or the lack of both from those around us, and maybe especially as we are driving.

How about you? Are you dancing on a wire? Are the little annoyances becoming bigger irritations? Or have you found that the best way to find a more solid footing is by offering grace? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@tramazing.com, and when we can learn how to respond instead of reacting, it really will be a better than good year.

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PLAYS IN MIKE BROEMMEL’S ICONIC WOMEN THEATRE SERIES: “The Hours of Anne” — Anne Boleyn, former Queen of England/ Henry VIII’s second wife.

“The Bonfils Girl” — Helen Bonfils, Denver philanthropist.

“Call Me Mrs. Evers” — Myrlie Evers, civil rights leader.

“Mother!” (co-written with Jennifer Dempsey) — Mother Jones, union organizer, activist and co-founder of Industrial Workers of the World.

“Stand Still & Look Stupid” — Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood actress and inventor.

“La Primera Mujer” — Eva Peron, former First Lady of Argentina.

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known for his Iconic Women Theatre Series. The series consists of six fulllength, one-actor plays that chronicle the life stories of women that history has “somewhat overlooked or previously failed to fully explore,” Broemmel said.

Not all the plays in the Iconic Women Theatre Series tell the story of a local woman, but the first Broemmel wrote for the series is about Denver’s own Helen Bonfils. In addition to being an heiress and philanthropist who funded the building of the Holy Ghost Catholic Church at 1900 California St. in Denver, Bonfils became the first woman to head a major metropolitan newspaper — her

father co-founded The Denver Post and Helen Bonfils acquired it after his death, serving the newspaper in a variety of leadership roles. Bonfils also became a producer of Broadway plays in New York, and locally, her love of theater led to building the former Bonfils Memorial Theatre on East Colfax Avenue for the Denver Civic Theatre.

This building eventually became today’s Lowenstein CulturePlex, 2526 E. Colfax Ave. Money from her estate also helped establish the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, after her death in 1972.

“The Bonfils Girl” was completed in 2014, and in 2021, a seventh play for the Iconic Women Theatre Series will be finished, Broemmel said.

“At the outset, I think I thought there would be

Emily Ebertz as Hedy Lamarr in Mike Broemmel’s play, “Stand Still & Look Stupid.” Broemmel’s plays in the Iconic Women Theatre Series have entertained audiences across Colorado, the United States and internationally. This photograph was taken in 2019 when “Stand Still & Look Stupid” was staged at the Shoot Belfast Gallery in Belfast, Ireland, during Ireland’s Festival of the People.

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two or three,” Broemmel said. But “the thing is, I am always coming across examples of women who have lived amazing lives, and whose stories just haven’t been fully told or sometimes, even properly chronicled.”

Plays part of the Iconic Women Theatre Series

have been performed locally, across the U.S. and on international stages. They feature Colorado-based actors and crew teams.

The plays are expected to go on the road again later in 2021, depending on the state of the coronavirus pandemic, Broemmel said.

He added there will be

LEARN MORE To learn more about Mike Broemmel and his plays, visit www.mikebroemmel.com. opportunities for those in Denver to also see the plays - either live in-person or as an online, virtual experience.

Stephanie Herm named chief operating officer of JCC Denver STAFF REPORT

Stephanie Herm has been hired to serve as the new chief operating officer of the Staenberg - Loup Jewish Community Center (JCC Denver).

In this role, Herm will oversee all of the JCC Denver’s operations. This includes the Early Learning School, Camp Shai, Ranch Camp and the Mizel Arts & Culture Center; as well as the organization’s facilities and community engagement programs.

As a professional, Herm brings more than a decade of executive leadership experience to the JCC

Denver, and she is an active volunteer with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

“Building community is not just my career choice, it’s my passion,” Herm said Herm in a news release. “My goal as a member of the executive leadership team is to steward and grow our inclusive community for years and generations to come.”

The JCC Denver is located at 350 S. Dahlia Street in Denver.

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n Oct. 21, Chuck Coughlin was visiting his wife’s grave in a Boulder cemetery when he noticed a woman visiting her husband’s grave.

He saw her name — Marj O’Reilly — on the tombstone next to her husband’s and made a comment about how her first name was similar to his mother’s.

Not the best pick-up line, O’Reilly later joked.

The two struck up a conversation and found out they had a lot in common, and decided to meet again soon.

Before long, the two were in a relationship, and on New Year’s Day, Coughlin proposed. They recently set a date — June 11 — for their wedding.

All because they bumped into each other at the cemetery last October, O’Reilly said.

Just like their meeting, Coughlin and O’Reilly’s relationship during the pandemic has been unique.

And they’re not alone.

COVID-19 has forced couples across the Denver area to confront serious topics, such as health and politics, early in a relationship while eliminating many activities they might do on dates.

“Pandemic dating kind of expedites dating 10 times over,” said Blair Nelson of Denver, who met her boyfriend virtually last spring. “… We often joke that we’ve been together almost nine months, and it feels like we’ve been together for three years.”

Meanwhile, how to meet each other’s friends and family has varied from couple to couple, with many saying they’re taking precautions while others said they haven’t taken any.

Coughlin and O’Reilly, who live in Lakewood and Broomfield, respectively, have taken precautions by meeting loved ones virtually or outside with social distancing.

“Our families live so far apart,” Coughlin said, “I’m not sure it would’ve been any different (without the pandemic).”

O’Reilly felt that, by now, they at least would have connected more with their family members who live in Colorado, particularly over the holidays.

Nelson and her boyfriend, Patrick Marlin of Idaho Springs, have taken similar measures. Marlin met most of Nelson’s friends and coworkers virtually while Nelson met Marlin’s family outdoors at hikes and bonfires.

However, Nelson described how Marlin met her parents much earlier when her parents were in town while driving from Texas to Seattle for the summer.

Nelson and Marlin have also driven to Texas twice, and quarantined both times.

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Chuck Coughlin and Marj O’Reilly spend time at Davidson Mesa Open Space on Jan. 23. After meeting O’Reilly in October, Coughlin PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN proposed on New Year’s Day. The two will be married June 11.

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we’re in public or traveling,” Marlin said, adding that they wear masks and clean their hands frequently.

“We haven’t gotten COVID yet, but some of that is probably luck.”

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Nelson said the pandemic prompted her to take a more serious look at her love life and have a greater interest in a relationship.

However, while other couples said they met through dating apps and websites during the pandemic, Nelson knew that wasn’t for her.

Instead, she took the premise behind online dating, and applied it to her professional network. She described how, in May, she sent out a very honest and vulnerable newsletter-like email about herself and what she was looking for in a partner to 110 people, asking if they knew anyone who would be a good fit.

Marlin’s cousin was one of the recipients and set them up virtually, as Marlin was actually in North Carolina.

As a someone in business-to-business sales with a part-time bartending gig, Marlin recalled spending a lot of time alone in his apartment, and getting an email one day about Nelson.

The two described how they texted for a few weeks before their

Denver’s Blair Nelson and Idaho Springs’ Patrick Marlin met virtually in May and had their first in-person date in July after Marlin moved back from North Carolina. The COURTESY PHOTO two enjoy hiking and skiing together.

first phone call.

In July, Marlin packed everything he could in his car and headed back to Colorado. The two had planned their first in-person date on July 17.

It didn’t go well.

Marlin recalled how the restaurant they went to had terrible food and drinks, so they left, got groceries and cooked at home.

“I think it was too much pressure after months of talking,” he continued.

However, things went much better after that, and because of the pandemic, Marlin described how they would spend a few days together rather than a few hours on a date.

Hiking, biking, skiing and camping have been very popular activities for Marlin and Nelson, as well as others. As for indoor activities, couples said they’ve also spent time cooking; doing puzzles and coloring books; and playing card, board and video games together.

“It’s hard to get reservations and capacities are limited,” Nelson said. “We didn’t have ballgames or

concerts or the ease of spontaneity.

We really had to plan and be intentional about things.”

In each other’s bubble

While they hadn’t contracted COVID-19 as of late January, Marlin and Nelson said they’d dealt with a few potential exposure scares and subsequent quarantines. They’ve discussed the likelihood of both of them getting it if one of them contracts it, and decided they’re going to support each other if that happens.

Arguably, the bigger concern has been keeping their loved ones safe, explaining that they were going to quarantine for a week before visiting family in late January.

Other individuals in relationships, especially those who live alone, consider them and their significant other as in the same bubble, so if one of them gets COVID, they’ll probably both get it.

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confront that reality in mid-November, when O’Reilly tested positive for COVID-19. Coughlin never had symptoms but later tested positive for antibodies.

While they’ve certainly been concerned that they gave it to each other, Coughlin explained that, at that point, they’d never spent time in close quarters together. All their meetings had been outside or socially distanced. Thus, they’re not sure where O’Reilly contracted it.

All throughout their relationship, the two have been emailing and video-chatting almost every day.

They also went hiking and walking together a lot.

“I think (COVID-19) made us more cautious with each other,” O’Reilly said of their initial interactions.

Now the two, who are both in their 70s, have received their second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, and are looking forward to getting married in June.

Both of them came from very

happy marriages, and their widowhood was something helped them bond so quickly and deeply. Coughlin and O’Reilly also both lost their spouses to cancer-related complications in March 2020 and December 2018, respectively.

Finding someone who understood that loss and who was able to support them through it was providential, they described.

“I was so blessed to find this woman,” Coughlin said. “The chances of finding each other are so low.”

Likewise, Marlin and Nelson described how, after spending months alone in their apartments, they were thankful to have someone in their lives to support them, especially through job loss, stress and anxiety, and other pandemic-caused issues.

“I think we are so much stronger,” Nelson said of being in a relationship during the pandemic. “… It’s hard but it’s definitely been worth it.”

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the city. The new law will prohibit halfway homes from entering residential areas where only single-family, duplex and row house homes are built, or so-called low-intensity areas.

The new rules were years in the making, with the city’s planning office hosting its first meetings to begin talking about changing the zoning code in March 2018.

The city has hosted more than 30 advisory meetings and participated in more than 50 other public meetings and presentations with local groups, including registered neighborhood organizations, ever since.

Denver Community Planning and Development Executive Director Laura E. Aldrete said the changes will help modernize the city’s zoning code.

City planners add that the

changes will help expand housing possibilities in Denver at a time when homes are increasingly more expensive. They said the new rules will lead more people to consider things like co-living and tiny homes.

But data from cities where more unrelated people are allowed to live together doesn’t exactly suggest more people actually do.

Denver looked at 30 cities with higher household limits, including Albuquerque, Austin, Boulder, Kansas City and Minneapolis. It found that despite having limits ranging from three to eight unrelated adults in a household, average household sizes in those cities were still only between two and 3.1 people. Cities like Seattle and Vancouver allow up to eight unrelated adults per household, but have an average household size of 2.12 and 2.46 unrelated adults, respectively. Those numbers are closer to Denver’s own current average of 2.31, according to city data.

Even speakers who supported the changes took issue with them.

Some said they didn’t go far enough — the original group living proposal would have allowed up to eight unrelated people to live together. A few people said they supported the changes with caveats.

Mary Coddington, who spoke on behalf of the Neighborhood Development Collaborative, which advocates for affordable housing, supported the changes. She said the organization “looks forward to a future in which Denver bases all of its zoning choices on the characteristics of the built environment instead of the characteristics of its residents.”

The new rules will take effect once Mayor Michael Hancock signs the bill into law.

At least 150 people initially signed up to speak during the public hearing, representing neighborhoods all over the city including Athmar Park, Baker, Cherry Creek, Cole, Congress Park and Montbello.

A majority spoke in favor of the changes. Before the meeting, city council got 619 letters of support and 524 letters in opposition to the changes.

People who opposed the changes worried about the impact on quality of life and property values, and said the changes would create “frat house” environments in some cases. Speakers said they would negatively impact neighborhood character, and that the changes would lead to more people moving to the suburbs.

“Like many people, my home is my most significant investment,” said Kristin Macarthur, who opposed the proposal. “I’m too close to retirement to recover from a sudden loss of value due to the zoning changes you’re proposing.”

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Summons and Sheriff Sale Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO Court Address: 1437 Bannock Street, Room 256, Denver, CO 80202 Case No.: 2020CV033391 Division/Ctrm.: 209 Plaintiff: Spire Owners Association, Inc., a Colorado nonprofit corporation v.

Defendants: Yvonne F. & Georgianna A. Verdugo; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.; Megastar Financial Corp.; and Public Trustee of the City and County of Denver Attorneys for Plaintiff MOELLER GRAF, P.C. Bujar Ahmeti, #42373 K. Christian Webert, #43739 Gail R. Gudder, #17820 - ggudder@moellergraf.com 385 Inverness Parkway, Suite 200 Englewood, Colorado 80112 Office: (720) 279-2568 FAX: (720) 279-2569 SUMMONS [BY PUBLICATION] THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT(S): You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response. You are required to file your answer or other response within thirty-five (35) days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within thirty-five (35) days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.

This is an action for judicial foreclosure under C.R.C.P. Rule 105 and damages seeking to foreclose a statutory lien on the following property: PARCEL A: UNIT 2612, SPIRE, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION THEREOF RECORDED ON MARCH 26, 2010, AT RECEPTION NUMBER. 2010033284 AND THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF RECORDED ON MARCH 26, 2010 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 2010033285 IN THE RECORDS OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO, AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME. PARCEL B: PARKING SPACE UNIT 280, SPIRE, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION THEREOF RECORDED MARCH 26, 2010 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 2010033284 AND THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF RECORDED MARCH 26, 2010 AT RECEPTION NUMBER 2010033285 IN THE RECORDS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, SLATE OF COLORADO, AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME.

now states as follows: PARTIES AND VENUE 1. Plaintiff William Anthony Bronson is an individual, resident, and domiciliary of the County of Denver, State of Colorado.

2. Defendant Dennis Bronson is an individual, resident, and domiciliary of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

3. This Court has jurisdiction over this matter and venue is proper pursuant to C.R.C.P. 98(a) because the real property at issue is located in Denver County, Colorado.

FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS 4. On 8/19/2014, the parties were deeded the real property located at 2870 Bellaire Street, Denver, CO 80207 (“The Bellaire Property”) pursuant to Denver County Probate Court Case No. 14PR30459.

5. Neither party resides at this property. Plaintiff has attempted to contact Defendant to facilitate the sale of the property; however, Defendant has not been responsive to Plaintiff’s requests.

CLAIM FOR RELIEF (Partition of Real Property) 6. Plaintiff incorporates by reference the allegations stated above as though restated and re-alleged herein.

7. Plaintiff is a tenant in common of the Bellaire Property and therefore may maintain this partition action pursuant to C.R.S. § 38-28-101.

8. Pursuant to C.R.S. § 38-28-106 and C.R.S. 38-28-107, the Court may partition the property or, if a partition of the property cannot be made without manifest prejudice to the rights of any interested property, the Court may direct the sale of the property. This property is a single-family home and therefore cannot be effectively partitioned.

Therefore, Plaintiff is requesting a Court ordered sale of the property and that both parties share in the proceeds equally.

PRAYER FOR RELIEF WHEREFORE, Plaintiff, William Anthony Bronson, prays for a Court Ordered sale of the real property located at 12870 Bellaire Street, Denver, CO 80207 which is owned by both parties as tenants in common and that both parties split the proceeds of any sale equally.

Respectfully submitted this 1st day of September, 2020.

BLOCH & CHAPLEAU CATES, ONGERT, LLC /s/ Joseph D. Bloch Joseph D. Bloch, #16783 Trenton J. Ongert, #36602 Matthew P. Dolan, #50019 Attorneys for Plaintiff 1725 Gaylord St. Denver, CO 80206 (303) 331-1700 Plaintiff’s Address 2676 Grape Street Denver, CO 80207 Legal Notice No. 80867 First Publication: February 18, 2021 Last Publication: March 18, 2021 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

Dated January 14, 2021

DISTRICT COURT, DENVER COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 1437 Bannock St. Denver, CO 80202

MOELLER GRAF, P.C. Gail R. Gudder, #17920

Plaintiff(s): SPRINGFIELD AT INDIAN CREEK ASSOCIATION

Legal Notice No. 80836 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: February 18, 2021 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Defendant(s): JOHN W. BUCKINGHAM; HOME POINT FINANCIAL CORPORATION; AND PAUL LOPEZ, DENVER COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE; AND OCCUPANT(S)

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF DENVER STATE OF COLORADO 1437 Bannock St. Denver, CO 80202 WILLIAM ANTHONY BRONSON, an individual, Plaintiff, v.

DENNIS BRONSON, an individual, Defendant.

Attorneys for Plaintiff Joseph D. Bloch, Atty. Regis #16783 Trenton J. Ongert, Atty. Regis #36602 Matthew P. Dolan, Atty. Regis #50019 Bloch & Chapleau, Cates, Ongert, LLC 1725 Gaylord Street Denver, CO 80206 Phone No.: (303) 331-1700 Fax No.: (303) 355-0252 Email: jbloch@blochchapleau.com tongert@blochchapleau.com mdolan@blochchapleau.com Case Number: 2020CV33033 COMPLAINT FOR PARTITION COMES NOW, Plaintiff, William Anthony Bronson, (“Plaintiff”) by and through his attorneys, Bloch & Chapleau, Cates, Ongert, LLC, and submits this Complaint for Partition against Defendant, Dennis Bronson, (“Defendant”), and in support thereof

Attorney for Plaintiff(s): Name: Richard W. Johnston, Esq. Address: Tobey & Johnston, P.C. 6855 South Havana Street, Suite 275 Centennial, CO 80112-3813 Phone Number: (303) 799-8600 Fax Number: (303) 799-6977 E-mail: rjohnston@tobeyjohnston.com Atty. Reg. #: 19823 Case Number: 20CV34187 SUMMONS THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO DEFENDANT(S) NAMED ABOVE: You are summoned and required to file with the Clerk of this Court an answer or other response to the attached Complaint within twenty-one (21) days after this summons is served on you in the State of Colorado, or within thirty-five (35) days after this summons is served on you outside the State of Colorado, or within sixty-three (63) days after this summons is served upon the United States or one of its agencies.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within the applicable time period, judgment by default may be entered against you by the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, without any further notice to you.

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The following documents are also served with this Summons: Complaint in Foreclosure, and District Civil Case Cover Sheet.

DATE: December 9, 2020 TOBEY & JOHNSTON, P.C. By: /s/* Richard W. Johnston *Original signature on file at the office of Tobey & Johnston, P.C. This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4, C.R.C.P., as amended. A copy of the Complaint must be served with this Summons. This form should not be used where service by publication is desired.

WARNING: A VALID SUMMONS MAY BE ISSUED

BY A LAWYER AND IT NEED NOT CONTAIN A COURT CASE NUMBER, THE SIGNATURE OF A COURT OFFICER, OR A COURT SEAL. THE PLAINTIFF HAS 14 DAYS FROM THE DATE THIS SUMMONS WAS SERVED ON YOU TO FILE THE CASE WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTACTING THE COURT TO FIND OUT WHETHER THE CASE HAS BEEN FILED AND OBTAIN THE CASE NUMBER. IF THE PLAINTIFF FILES THE CASE WITHIN THIS TIME, THEN YOU MUST RESPOND AS EXPLAINED IN THIS SUMMONS. IF THE PLAINTIFF FILES MORE THAN 14 DAYS AFTER THE DATE THE SUMMONS WAS SERVED ON YOU, THE CASE MAY BE DISMISSED UPON MOTION AND YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO SEEK ATTORNEY’S FEES FROM THE PLAINTIFF. Amended and Adopted by the Court, En Banc, October 10, 2013, effective immediately Legal Notice No. 80871 First Publication: February 18, 2021 Last Publication: March 18, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT AND SUMMONS FOR BALTAZAR AND ANGELA GARCIA, PLAINTIFF V. LUCIANO PEREZ-ORTEGA, DEFENDANT Case #2020CV032871 In the Denver District Court, Denver County, Colorado. The Complaint seeks a judicial determination of the ownership of 3445 W. Exposition, Denver, Colorado. The legal action is a quiet Title Action under C.R.C.P 105, Adverse Possession under C.R.S. 38-41-106, and seeks Declaratory Judgment. An Answer or other Response is due in the court system as required by law, 30 days from the date of Service of the Summons and complaint.

If no response is received a default judgment could result granting the requested relief. If there are any questions the attorney of Record for the Plaintiff is Michael M. Noyes, Esq. – 1873 S. Bellaire St., #1550, Denver, CO 80222 – Telephone is: 303-756-6789.

Legal Notice No. 80837 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: February 18, 2021 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice William Weimar DDS will close his dental office at 100 Acoma on March 23, 2021. Inactive dental charts from 2013 and earlier will be destroyed unless we are contacted to transfer any of these records. 303-778-6703.

Legal Notice No. 80868 First Publication: February 18, 2021 Last Publication: March 11, 2021 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Donald Gray Miller, Jr., Deceased Case Number: 2020PR031360 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 16, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Donald G. Miller, III, Personal Representative 1952 Wild Oak Ln. Chico, CA 95928 Legal Notice No. 80859 First Publication: February 11, 2021 Last Publication: February 25, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Constance Hedwig Ford, aka Constance H. Ford, aka Constance Ford, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30074 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 June 11, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. /s/ Terry Ehrlich #13213 Attorney for the Personal Representative 7691 Shaffer Parkway, Suite A Littleton, Colorado 80127 Legal Notice No. 80856 First Publication: February 11, 2021 Last Publication: February 25, 2021 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Ichiro Ino, also known as George Ino, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30083 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 11, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Hajja Kabli, Personal Representative 5538 Iran Street Denver, Colorado 80249

Public Notice

Michelle Denise Forsythe Personal Representative 660 S Bryant Street Denver, CO 80219 Legal Notice No. 80862 First Publication: February 18, 2021 Last Publication: March 4, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jessie Lene Syrie, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30087

Latrayl D. Veasley, Personal Representative 3325 Ash Street Denver, CO 80207

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Merry C. Low, Deceased Case Number: 21PR30037 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 18, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Karen L. Low and Robert M. Cook-Deegan, Co-Personal Representatives 2552 E. Alameda Ave., Unit 11 Denver, Colorado 80209 Legal Notice No. 80858 First Publication: February 11, 2021 Last Publication: February 25, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 80864 First Publication: February 18, 2021 Last Publication: March 4, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Grace I. Starrett, a/k/a Grace Ione Starrett, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31633

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 June 11, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JOHN LLOYD ADAMS, a.k.a. JOHN L. ADAMS, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30031 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 June 25, 2021 or the claims may be forever barred.

SHEILA MARIE ADAMS COWES Personal Representative 14355 BYRON ROAD BYRON, MI 48418

Robert A. Starrett, Personal Representative c/o Keith L. Davis, Esq Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 80861 First Publication: February 11, 2021 Last Publication: February 25, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Phyllis Gwendolyn Wells, also known as Phyllis G. Wells, and Gwen Wells, Deceased Case Number: 21PR30098

Legal Notice No. 80869 First Publication: February 18, 2021 Last Publication: March 4, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 18, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Laura Wright, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30056 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 11, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Aisha C. Ruiz, Personal Representative 3413 W. Gill Place Denver, Colorado 80129

Becky and Brad Rucic Co-Personal Representatives 17220 Rimrock Drive Golden, Colorado 80401 Legal Notice No. 80863 First Publication: February 18, 2021 Last Publication: March 4, 2021 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Gene Wallace Bernath, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR031664

Legal Notice No. 80854 First Publication: February 11, 2021 Last Publication: February 25, 2021 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ROBERT F. BARRY, a/k/a ROBERT FRANCIS BARRY, a/k/a ROBERT BARRY, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31558 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Young, Personal Representative 4009 Baxter Peak St. Las Vegas NV 89129

Public Notice

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 18, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 18, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 80857 First Publication: February 11, 2021 Last Publication: February 25, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 80849 First Publication: February 4, 2021 Last Publication: February 18, 2021 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Beatrice Delores Lopez, also known as Beatrice D. Lopez, also known as Beatrice Lopez, also known as Beatrice Delores Martinez, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31642

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Glendon D. Schantz Personal Representative 1061 North Malaya Street Aurora, Colorado 80018 Legal Notice No. 80850 First Publication: February 4, 2021 Last Publication: February 18, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Spencer L. Toppen, also known as Spencer Leroy Toppen, also known as Spencer Toppen, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30033

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate

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February 18, 2021

Airport provides grant to Tuskegee Airmen chapter Money to support a path to flight-industry careers for young people in need

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Colorado chapter of a nonprofit that works to keep alive the history of the Tuskegee Airmen received a check from a local airport, a move expected to help “enable young people to pursue their dreams,” the chapter’s president said.

One of the major objectives of the nonprofit is to “encourage young people and let them know you can be excellent as well,” said Mark Dickerson, president of the Colorado chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc. The chapter honors the accomplishments and history of the Tuskegee Airmen, Black servicemen of the U.S. Army Air Corps — a precursor to the U.S. Air Force — who trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama during World War II. They constituted the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military.

The chapter — named for Hubert L. “Hooks” Jones in order to commemorate the Denver aviator who died in 1975 — spreads the history of African Americans who participated in air crew, ground crew and operations support training in the Army Air Corps during World War II, according to the chapter’s website.

Members of the chapter met with Robert Olislagers, director of Centennial Airport, on Jan. 29 at the airport to receive a financial grant of $6,000.

The money will go toward the

Robert Olislagers, director of Centennial Airport, left, speaks with Mark Dickerson, president of the Colorado chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc., after handing Dickerson a check to aid the chapter’s educational programs for youths.

A model of a “Red Tail” P-51 Mustang signed by some of the Tuskegee Airmen sits on PHOTOS BY ELLIS ARNOLD display Jan. 29 at Centennial Airport’s administration building.

chapter’s Mile High Flight Program, an effort that has lasted nearly 25 years, according to Dickerson, a retired Air Force colonel. The program provides flight training through an independent company that operates at Centennial Airport.

“If they want to become a commercial pilot, military pilot, they have that option,” John Lamb, a volunteer fundraiser for the chapter, said of the youths who participate in the flight program. Once they get their license, the choice is theirs, Lamb added.

The program opens up the world of aviation for kids as young as 14 — generally, high-schoolers — by taking them to places such as the University of Colorado, Metropolitan State University of Denver, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and aero-

space and scientific businesses in the Denver Tech Center area, Lamb said.

Centennial Airport’s donation to the Tuskegee Airmen chapter isn’t the first grant the airport has given the group, Lamb said. The entities have had “an ongoing relationship” because of the chapter’s Mile High Flight Program operations at the airport.

Volunteers at the chapter work with high school counselors around the Front Range to nudge kids toward applying for scholarships from the chapter, Lamb said.

Among the volunteers are Centennial City Councilmember Candace Moon and her husband, Vorry Moon, who also serves as chair of the chapter’s board of directors.

As a Reserve Officers’ Training

Corps, or ROTC, cadet, two Documented Original Tuskegee Airmen were professors of aerospace science, Vorry Moon said of his time in college. They encouraged him to join a chapter, Moon said.

Anyone who served at Tuskegee Army Air Field or in any of the programs stemming from what’s known as the “Tuskegee Experience” from 1941-49 is considered to be a Documented Original Tuskegee Airman, according to Tuskegee University.

They are colloquially called DOTAs. For Candace Moon, Centennial Airport’s grant “shows what the community can do to uplift its youth,” she said.

“They are able to get opportunities that only come once in a lifetime,” Candace Moon said. “We’ve seen in the Mile High Flight Program how far children can go.”

Some of the aviators who went through the program in their youth are mentors for young people participating in it now, Dickerson said.

Public Notices Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Alison Toppen, Personal Representative 1800 Glenarm Pl., Ste. 1202 Denver, CO 80202 Legal Notice No. 80851 First Publication: February 4, 2021 Last Publication: February 18, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Edward Walter Albert, Deceased Case Number: 20PR31604 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 11, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jason Edward Albert c/o Zachary T. Reams, Esq. Personal Representative 222 N 7th Street Grand Junction, Colorado 81501 Legal Notice No. 80855 First Publication: February 11, 2021 Last Publication: February 25, 2021 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John Joseph Astuno, Sr., Deceased Case Number: 2021PR030164 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Probate Court of the City & County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 18, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

John Joseph Astuno, Jr. Personal Representative 16 Meadowview Lane

Greenwood Village, CO 80121 Legal Notice No. 80870 First Publication: February 18, 2021 Last Publication: March 4, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of William R. Hiatt, aka William Read Hiatt, aka William Hiatt, aka Will Hiatt, and Bill Hiatt, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30107 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 June 18, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Susan W. Hiatt, Personal Representative 385 Dexter Street, Denver, Colorado 80220 Legal Notice No. 80865 First Publication: February 18, 2021 Last Publication: March 4, 2021 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Joseph T. Gallegos, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR420 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 June 11, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Joanne Nora Cdebaca, Personal Representative 1546 W. Bayaud Denver, CO 80223 Legal Notice No. 80860 First Publication: February 11, 2021 Last Publication: February 25, 2021

Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Darleene Marie Zeigler, aka Darleene M. Zeigler, aka Darleene Zeigler, Deceased Case Number: 2021 PR 30053 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 June 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Tod B. Zeigler, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203 Legal Notice No. 80848 First Publication: February 4, 2021 Last Publication: February 18, 2021 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of DELAYNE R. SMITH, a/k/a DELAYNE RAMEY SMITH, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 31518 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before June 11, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ron Bulkley, Personal Representative 5166 S. Keenland Ct. Littleton, CO 80123 Legal Notice No. 80853 First Publication: February 11, 2021 Last Publication: February 25, 2021 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Adoption / Guardianship Public Notice Denver Probate Court Denver County, Colorado 1437 Bannock Street, Room 230 Denver, CO 80202 In the Matter of the Estate of: Margaret M. Grinnell a/k/a Margaret Mary Grinnell a/k/a Peggie Grinnell a/k/a Margaret Rae Grinnell, Deceased Attorney for Petitioner: Ryan B. Scott #36741 The Law Office of Ryan B. Scott, LLC 8089 S. Lincoln Street, Suite 201 Littleton, CO 80122 Phone Number: 720-446-1966 E-mail: ryan@rbscottlaw.com Case Number: 20PR0475

Address: 1437 Bannock Street, Room 230, Denver, Colorado 80202

***** IMPORTANT NOTICE***** Any interested person wishing to object to the requested action set forth in the attached motion/ petition and proposed order must file a written objection with the court on or before the hearing and must furnish a copy of the objection to the person requesting the court order. JDF 722 (Objection form) is available on the Colorado Judicial Branch website (www.courts.state.co.us). If no objection is filed, the court may take action on the motion/ petition without further notice or hearing. If any objection is filed, the objecting party must, within 14 days after filing the objection, contact the court to set the objection for an appearance hearing.

Failure to timely set the objection for an appearance hearing as required will result in further action as the court deems appropriate.

Legal Notice No. 80866 First Publication: February 18, 2021 Last Publication: March 4, 2021 Publisher: Denver Herald-Dispatch

NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO § 15-10-401, C.R.S. To: Any Heir of the deceased, Margaret M. Grinnell, a/k/a Margaret Mary Grinnell, a/k/a Peggie Grinnell, a/k/a Margaret Rae Grinnell, Last Known Address, if any: 2449 S. Colorado Boulevard, Apt. 136, Denver, CO 80222 A hearing without appearance on a Petition for Formal Probate of Will and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative for Admittance of the Last Will and Testament of Margaret M. Grinnell to probate, determination of the heirs and devisees of the Estate Margaret M. Grinnell, and for appointment of Roby Scott Christian as Personal Representative will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued:

Public Notice Superior Court of Washington County of Pierce No. 20-5-00714-1 In re the adoption of Noah James Oler-Hinz.

Notice and Summons by Publication to Kelsey Anne Oler: a petition to terminate parental rights, adopt the child and change name to Noah James Hinz was filed on 11/05/2020. You have sixty days after the first date of this publication to serve a copy of your response to Jennifer D. Andrews at 2200 N 30th St Ste. 202 Tacoma WA 98403 or a court may enter an order granting the adoption and terminate your parental rights.

Legal Notice No. 80828 First Publication: January 21, 2021 Last Publication: February 25, 2021 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Date: March 19, 2021 Time: 8 am Courtroom or Division: Room 230

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