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Denver voters to decide on sales tax to help homeless Tax would amount to 2.5 cents on every $10 purchased Denver Fire Department personnel prepare to leave for College Station, Texas, Aug. 27 to assist with the aftermath of Hurricane Laura. The storm, which reached Category 4 status at landfall, slammed Louisiana and southeast Texas. The personnel are part of Colorado Task Force 1, a statewide response team associated with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

tice isn’t surprised that he and his bandmates soon learned they had COVID-19. But at the time, the news was unexpected — and the band had no way of knowing that the illness they were facing was just the beginning of a long struggle that Justice says is far from over.

Denver’s City Council is asking voters to increase the sales tax by 0.25 percent for programs to get people out of homelessness.

The tax, amounting to 2.5 cents on every $10 purchased, would raise an estimated $40 million a year (likely less in the first year because of the current pandemic-caused economic downturn) for a Homelessness Resolution Fund.

Kaya Wertz, a Colorado Coalition for the Homeless social worker, said the proposal was a matter of life and death. She described clients who have died of exposure in Denver.

With winter coming, Wertz said during the public comment period ahead of the Aug. 24 council meeting, “we do not have indoor space.”

Earlier in August, City Council referred another proposal for 0.25% in new sales taxes to voters, to pay for programs to fight climate change. If both the climate change and homelessness measures are passed, Denver shoppers would be paying a total of 8.81% in sales taxes, up from the current 8.31%.

Before the Aug. 24 vote, District 9 City Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca questioned the proposal’s sponsor, City Councilwoman-at-large Robin Kniech,

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Fire agencies send help to Colo. blazes, hurricane area First responders deploy to locations in need of extra assistance

BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Several firefighters from throughout the metro area deployed to assist

in Colorado wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Laura in Texas.

Denver Fire Department, South Metro Fire Rescue and Castle Rock Fire Department each sent first responders to College Station, Texas, along with other members of Colorado Task Force 1, the Coloradobased emergency response team for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Some venues bringing back live music Musicians reflect on challenges of COVID-19

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It was Feb. 24 when Jason Justice and his four bandmates in Gumbo

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le Funque, a New Orleans-style funk group, believed they were each coming down with the flu.

Their symptoms came on right during Mardi Gras season, the band’s busiest time of year, and for days, the group played long strings of gigs as their symptoms grew worse.

Looking back on the events, Jus-

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Car-free parks, ‘shared streets’ to remain for now Some Denverites ask mayor to make them permanent

BY DAVID SACHS DENVERITE

We’ve seen a lot of things we haven’t seen before since COVID-19 hit, including people chilling in camping chairs in the middle of 16th Avenue during what used to be rush-hour.

More commonly, though, people are simply walking and rolling down the city’s “shared” streets with fewer threats from drivers of cars and trucks, who are supposed to steer clear of the corridors unless those streets are their final destination.

The city Department of Transportation and Infrastructure opened select streets to people and (mostly) closed them to cars this spring so Denverites could spread out at a time when close quarters might mean catching the bug. DOTI closed city parks to vehicles as well.

Advocates for sustainable transportation have been counting the number of people frequenting the streets in hopes of making the case for permanent changes.

Now, a group of residents known as the Denver Bicycle Lobby is pushing DOTI to make permanent changes — and its ask is backed up by over 1,100 local petitioners, according to a PDF provided to Denverite.

“Shared streets were a bit of an experiment and an emergency response to allow for social distancing, but really the benefit is way beyond

A “shared street” along Byron Place on the northern edge of Sloan’s Lake on Aug. 26.

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that,” said David Mintzer, a parent who lives along 11th Avenue. He uses the street to ride his bike to work at Denver Health and said his kids can ride comfortably in the street for the first time ever.

Mintzer and hundreds of others who support the shared streets and carfree parks say the repurposed public spaces create a sense of community where a thoroughfare for drivers once dominated.

Officials have closed eight street segments to most cars and opened them to people, including East 16th Avenue from Lincoln Street to City Park Esplanade in North Capitol Hill/City Park West, West 11th Avenue from

Lincoln to Humboldt Street on Capitol Hill, and South Irving Street from West Second Avenue to West Gill Place in the Barnum-Westwood area.

Prioritizing walking, biking and transit over driving single-occupancy vehicles is one of the Hancock administration’s stated strategies for fighting climate change and building a healthier city.

While DOTI has not committed to making shared streets and car-free parks permanent, department spokeswoman Nancy Kuhn said the changes will stick around through the fall at which point DOTI will “assess the program again” and “determine next steps.”

“DOTI appreciates the community support it’s receiving around its temporary shared streets initiative that’s giving people extra space to walk and bike amid social distancing guidelines,” Kuhn said via email.

“We’re glad to see that people are using these streets to get outdoors and exercise and enhance their mental and physical health during this time of COVID-19.”

Keeping shared streets alive after COVID-19 dies is the only logical thing for his district, said City Councilman Chris Hinds, who was elected to represent east-central Denver on a platform that included reorganizing the city’s car-first streets.

“I would actually like it, if we did make them more permanent, if we could add additional treatments on the streets to further discourage cars from using them as through-streets,” he said.

Hinds, who uses a wheelchair, said planters are one barricade option to make streets less hostile to people walking, biking and rolling.

Feedback sent to his office has been overwhelmingly positive for shared streets, though car-free parks have received more mixed reviews, he said.

For Mintzer, it would be a shame to lose what has been a silver lining in a difficult time.

“It would definitely be a sad day if they take the barricades down and revert back to the status quo,” he said.

This story is from Denverite, a nonprofit Denver news source affiliated with CPR News. Used by permission.

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RTD board appoints 1st woman as transit agency’s CEO Jeffco representative was the sole ‘no’ vote

BY MICHAEL KARLIK COLORADO POLITICS

Debra A. Johnson, the current deputy CEO of Long Beach Transit in southern California, will be the next CEO and general manager of the Regional Transportation District.

On Aug. 25, RTD’s board of directors approved Johnson by a vote of 14-1, which prompted the negotiation of an employment agreement with her.

“I have been preparing to lead at this level for more than 25 years,” Johnson said during a video presentation to the public in August.

She wrote in her application to the board that she directs the operations of the Long Beach agency, which serves 14 cities and 23 million customers. Johnson has a master’s degree in public administration and has also worked for transit systems in Washington, D.C., San Francisco Debra A. Johnson will be the next CEO and and Los Angeles County. general manager of RTD. COURTESY OF RTD “We made history tonight and I look forward to making a lot more “So the question is, how did RTD positive history,” said Director Troy get so far off track with excessive L. Whitmore, District K, referring salaries, when at the end of the day to Johnson’s new status as the first less than 3% of the population uses woman, and also the first Black RTD?” she asked. woman, to lead the eight-county, apIn an online survey that gathered proximately 3,000-employee agency.

685 responses, the public rated the three finalists similarly, with 37% There were nearly 60 applicants saying Johnson to succeed was “very qualiinterim general fied” compared manager Paul to 33% each for J. Ballard, and Le Grand and an executive Quigley. search commit“Debra has tee narrowed the operating the finalists to experience Johnson, Adelee working with Le Grand and larger agencies Tina Quigley. in bigger cities, The board but applying a deliberated on Troy L. Whitmore, smart, efficient a separate call closed to the RTD board director of District K approach to ensuring sound public before operational prorejoining the cesses,” wrote meeting to take one anonymous respondent. a vote.

“Seems to have a lot of executive Director Natalie Menten, repexperience. Liked her presentation, resenting parts of Lakewood and spoke a lot about what she will do Golden in District M, was the sole for the organization and how she vote against the hiring resolution, would handle the COVID-19 pandemalthough not because she opposed ic,” wrote another.

Johnson. She said the three wom“She seems solid, yet unspectacuen before the board had similar lar,” noted someone who gave her qualities and experience. Menten’s a middling rating on the one-to-10 dissatisfaction stemmed from her scale. “If we want to maintain the desire to cut the salary for the posistatus quo, this is the choice to tion of general manager. make.”

“My vote tonight is in opposiLance L. Longenbohn, the presition to what is going to be another dent of Amalgamated Transit Union bloated executive salary at RTD,” Local 1001, said that the operators’ she said. “I will not stand quiet as the taxpayers will be on the hook for union is “very pleased with the Board of Directors’ selection of another big bill.”

Debra Johnson. We agree that Debra Menten said that in the past, she was the best overall choice, and look attempted to cut $100,000 from the forward to working together.” general manager’s roughly $295,000 This story is from Colorado Polisalary. She pointed out that the pay tics, a statewide political and public was far in excess of the Colorado policy news journal. Used by permisDepartment of Transportation’s sion. For more, visit coloradopolitics. executive director and even the com. governor.

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Discovering Denver’s history and unique characters Historic Denver offers its annual walking tours with new options

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Denver’s past includes a multitude of creative self-starters. Some became self-made millionaires, and others were not quite as fortunate.

“They’re all interesting characters,” said Diane Travis, a retired architect who serves as a docent for Historic Denver’s Walking Tours. “The West was populated by people who were willing to work hard for what their future would be.”

Historic Denver has kicked off its seasonal Walking Tours, offering tours of LoDo, Capitol Hill, Historic 16th Street and Larimer Square, the latter of which includes exclusive access to the Daniels & Fisher Tower.

The tours will be offered through the fall.

“Each of the tours is custom,” said Travis. She added that some tour attendees are most interested in the history, others want to learn about the architecture and still others want to hear about Denver’s fascinating people from the past. But most attendees want a combination of all three, Travis said.

Traditionally, the walking tours can host up to 20 people, but this year, the tours have been reformatted for social distancing. Participants now have three options to choose from to attend a tour. They are offered as in-person

The Crawford Hill Mansion at 150 E. 10th Ave. in Denver, which now hosts the Haddon, Morgan & Foreman law offices, is one of the historic places part of Historic Denver’s Capitol Hill Walking Tour.

PHOTO BY CHRISTY STEADMAN guided tours, Dial-a-Docent or virtual.

An in-person guided tour is avail-

able for private groups of no more than five with advanced registration.

Masks are required for the duration of the tour for all participants and guides.

Dial-a-Docent allows attendees to connect live via phone with one of Historic Denver’s trained guides while exploring the city on their own. Attendees are provided a map, and the guide will share insider stories along the way, point out architectural details, relate significant historical facts and answer questions.

The current virtual tour being offered is the Women’s Suffrage Tour.

This tour is hosted on Zoom, and includes a combination of photographs and video with an expert who discusses the important people and architecture in Denver during the

women’s suffrage movement.

“You may have walked by a building and always wondered what it was,” said Alison Salutz, director of community programs for Historic Denver.

“The tours are a fun way to learn more about your city.”

People enjoy hearing the stories of the people who lived here “and how they contributed to Denver becoming the city it is today,” Salutz said.

Historic Denver’s tours attract tourists and longtime residents alike, she added.

“They feel like they know the city, but always walk away with new information,” Salutz said. “When we stop and take a closer look, we discover so many neat things.”

For information, visit historicdenver.org/tours-events/walking-tours.

Denver’s Daniels & Fisher Tower on the 16th Street Mall is a destination of Historic Denver’s Walking Tour of Larimer Square.

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A reporter’s bout with COVID-19 ‘I didn’t realize how mentally challenging it would be’

BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

July 29 was the 10th day I had been feeling sick with COVID-19, and by that time, I had all the symptoms you’ve read or heard about.

I had a fever. I could feel myself losing my breath if I did something as simple as make my bed. I had a cough, and I could barely walk around my tiny apartment or walk outside to go throw out the trash.

But it wasn’t until July 29 that I really realized that I was sick with COVID-19.

I was watching the Colorado Rockies play against the Oakland Athletics, and I saw the cardboard cutout fans placed in the stands of the ballpark and the players and coaches in masks.

I heard the artificial crowd noise at the game, and it may sound goofy, but watching the Rockies that day is when I started to mentally feel like I had the virus.

Watching the “new normal” Rockies game with all of its changes and precautions to protect people from the virus drove home the fact that I was sick with a deadly virus that has been the cause of at least 167,000 deaths in America. It made it more real than my July 25 positive COVID-19 test, it made me fearful, and it made my anxiety about my illness worse.

There is a big difference between having COVID-19 and reading or hearing about it. I had spent every week since the pandemic started writing about the virus, and even interviewed people who were sick with it — but I still didn’t realize how mentally challenging it would be to have COVID-19.

You start to wonder if your symptoms will ever go away. I worried most about all of the people I had come into contact with before I tested positive. I thought about my coworkers and tried to remember everything I could’ve touched in my office to warn them. I thought about my 65-year-old father who is high risk and whom I had seen only a few days before I had symptoms.

It’s hard having thoughts rush through your mind about the idea that you could have infected someone with a deadly virus that we don’t have a cure for. If I had gotten my father or any of my family or friends sick, and something bad happened to them, I don’t know how I could have lived with myself.

I don’t want you to have those thoughts. I don’t want you to have to worry about getting your friends or family sick.

Most importantly, I don’t want you to get COVID-19.

It is scary when you’re lying in bed with the virus, and you can feel yourself having trouble breathing.

It’s scary when you can barely walk because you’re so sick, and it’s scary not knowing what kind of impact COVID-19 will have on your long-term health.

It took me 16 days to fully feel like I

Reporter Joseph Rios found that his recovery from COVID-19 took time. had recovered from the virus. I can’t move around as fast I used to, and I feel out of shape after being sick for so long, but I’m thankful I can carry on with my life and that I didn’t get anybody sick that I know of.

I had thought I was doing everything right to prevent myself from getting sick. I religiously sanitized my hands whenever I had a chance. I wore a mask everywhere I went, I stopped

visiting and going out with friends — but I still got it.

I think that shows how easily anyone can get it and is why it’s important to take all the precautions you can, because even when you do take those precautions, you can still easily get the virus.

Joseph Rios is a reporter for Colorado Community Media, covering Englewood and Jefferson County.

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Book offers tour of Denver’s beer history from home New volume captures the Gold Rush launch of city’s brewing scene

BY JOHN FRANK THE COLORADO SUN

A year after Denver was founded in 1858, the city’s first brewery opened.

The local newspaper declared the first batch of beer from the Rocky Mountain Brewery “the best we ever tasted” — surely in part because of the free keg delivered to its offices.

Today, the history seems quite fitting given that Denver now ranks as one of the nation’s best beer cities.

But the city’s beer fortunes didn’t always look so frothy, as Jonathan Shikes writes in his new book, “Denver Beer: A History of Mile High Brewing.”

The book covers more than 150 years of brewing history, capturing the hardship faced by the German immigrants who started the city’s first breweries during the gold rush, the dark days of Prohibition that nearly extinguished the industry and the pioneers of craft beer who revived the legacy.

The best part: You can still taste the history today. And the beer is much better now, too.

One recent afternoon, Shikes agreed to take me on a virtual brewery tour of Denver’s past and present and described how each contributed to the current beer scene.

Given the pandemic, the safest way to enjoy a beer crawl right now is at home. So the socially distanced tasting took place in his backyard and featured five breweries that sell beer to-go.

Tivoli Brewing The journey started with Denver’s oldest brewery and one of its newest, Tivoli Brewing. The founders of Rocky Mountain Brewery sold to the owner of Tivoli. The brewery was one of the few that endured through Prohibition and made the most popular beer among locals for decades before it closed in 1969.

“Tivoli’s roots go back to the very first brewery and it was also the longest lasting one,” explained Shikes, who also writes about beer for Westword. “It was what everybody drank in Denver in the 40s, the 50s and 60s.”

A reborn Tivoli launched in 2012 at its old home on the Auraria higher education campus downtown, making a mix of old world and newfangled styles. Owner Corey Marshall acquired the trademarks for the old Denver breweries and beers, rooting the revamped brewery firmly in the past.

A good example was the beer Shikes poured: Sigi’s Bock, named for Moritz Sigi, who founded Colorado Brew-

“Denver Beer,” a new book from Jonathan Shikes, recounts the 160-year history of brewing in the Mile High City.

Great Divide Brewing in Denver is one of the latest breweries to enter the hazy IPA category.

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ery in 1864 and built part of the building Tivoli took over.

The traditional German Bock is a lager, much like most of the beers in Denver in the late 19th century. And it features fire-kilned malt — a bygone in today’s world of electric and gas — that lends a smoky depth to the rich caramel flavor, perfectly encapsulating then and now.

Wynkoop Brewing For the second stop, we fastforwarded all the way to 1988 and the founding of the state’s first brewpub, Wynkoop Brewing in the Lower Downtown neighborhood.

It was Denver’s first new brewery since Prohibition ended in 1933. (Shikes said it’s possible other breweries launched after but he couldn’t

find records about them and they no longer exist.)

Wynkoop stood out from the crowd.

“A small brewery making its own beer was just a concept people didn’t understand,” Shikes said. “There was Coors and Miller and Schlitz and Bud and all those guys — but nobody made their own beer in a restaurant.”

The response was overwhelming. On opening day, people were lined up around the block, in part because Wynkooop served beer at a pre-Prohibition price of 25 cents. The catch: At first the brewery made only traditional English cask ales, served warm at 55 degrees and flat from a cask.

The beer we tasted — Colorojo, an imperial red ale — fits

the brewery’s malt tradition but pairs it with a resiny hop bitterness. Thankfully, the brewery filled the crowler cold and carbonated.

John Hickenlooper, one of the brewpub’s founders and the former Denver mayor and governor, deserves a lot of credit for promoting the city’s beer scene and helping to make it what it is today, Shikes argued.

“I think he’s probably the single most important person in Denver beer history,” Shikes said. “He didn’t just found the very first craft brewery here, but he promoted it nationwide and helped other breweries. He just was a constant pitch man.”

Great Divide Brewing When Brian Dunn opened

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Great Divide Brewing, not too long after Wynkoop, he “thought he was too late to the game,” Shikes said.

The year was 1994. But Dunn found a niche model that soon established Great Divide as one of the most prominent breweries from Colorado. “He started that different business model here of packaging,” Shikes said.

“You could come in and taste his beers and then take them home.”

Still, it took a bit for Great Divide to get established. The early beers were “hugely over the top,” Shikes said. A prime example is the Yeti imperial stout we tasted. The beer’s logo is more emblematic of Colorado beer than any other, but it was an acquired love.

“Brian went around trying to sell it to restaurants, and they were like, ‘What the (heck) is this?’” Shikes said.

“It was this crazy 10% ABV dark beer. They said, ‘No one is going to buy this.’”

Of course, eventually everyone did. The rich chocolate and coffee aroma and roasted dark flavor in the original Yeti still stands out, even if stouts are typically sweeter now and loaded with adjunct ingredients, like coconut, marshmallows and spices.

Despite their envelope-pushing past, Great Divide eventually adapted to the modern trends and even will release a pumpkin Yeti version in August. And a new focus on small-batch beers helps one of the oldest Denver breweries stay relevant today.

“They are one of the oldest, most well-known breweries,” Shikes said. “Them, Breckenridge and Wynkoop — that’s the trifecta of old powerhouses here.”

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about why she chose a tax seen as harder for lower-income people — including those experiencing homelessness — to bear.

Kniech said that the exemption of food, medicine, fuel and feminine hygiene products softened the impact and that the city had limited options to raise sufficient funds.

District 2 Councilman Kevin Flynn said he shared concerns about the regressive nature of a sales tax, but supported the move to address homelessness. Flynn said he opposes the proposal to raise the tax to fight climate change because he “wanted to conserve public support for this (homelessness) measure.”

Tami Door, president and CEO of the Downtown Denver Partnership, said the group supported the proposal.

“We believe that the approach to use a sales tax as a funding source is the right approach,” Door said in an interview before the Aug. 24 vote, adding that it was a way for both residents and visitors to contribute.

Door said it had not yet been decided how the Downtown Denver Partnership might contribute financially to the campaign to raise funds to fight homelessness.

According to campaign finance reports, the Downtown Denver Partnership contributed $200,000 to the $2 million campaign that last year helped defeat Initiative 300, which would have allowed camping in public spaces.

John Parvensky, CEO and president of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, told City Council members in August that he opposed 300, which

Beds in Sinton’s Sanctuary, the shelter for senior women at the Volunteers of America building on Santa Fe Drive in Denver’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, on Aug. 14.

PHOTO BY KEVIN J. BEATY/DENVERITE voters overwhelmingly rejected, because he did not believe it was the way to address homelessness. Kniech’s proposal, Parvensky said, was a way to “do better,” echoing the slogan of 300’s main opponents.

The advocacy group Denver Homeless Out Loud got 300 on the ballot, saying it could safeguard the basic rights of people without homes as the work to end homelessness continued.

Terese Howard, an activist with Denver Homeless Out Loud, said the sales tax proposal could be helpful. Howard said her group wanted to ensure that people who have experienced homelessness, not just service providers, would have a say in how any money raised would be used.

“The money needs to go to housing,”

Howard said.

The Delores Project, which provides shelter and transitional housing for women and transgender individuals, welcomed the proposal, saying in a statement that it was “optimistic that the people of Denver will choose to step up to address the homelessness crisis.”

“We also hope that business groups like the (Downtown Denver) Partnership will put their money toward solutions, rather than campaigns, and share the burden with consumers,” the Delores statement added.

Kniech’s proposal would help Denver turn innovations such as its social impact bond into programs that can serve more people, said Kinsey Hasstedt, the Denver-based state and local

policy program director for Enterprise Community Partners, a national builder and financer of below-market housing.

The social impact bond has shown promise in getting people who have been on the streets for years into housing, Hasstedt said during the public comment period of an earlier City Council committee hearing on the Homelessness Resolution Fund.

Kniech said Aug. 24 that Denver has “models that can work. What we don’t have is the resources to take this to the scale that we need.”

This story is from Denverite, a nonprofit Denver news source affiliated with CPR News. Used by permission.

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s we seek to find enjoyment or peace in the last weeks of summer, I sometimes forget for a few moments the tragedies of this year — a year of GUEST unprecedented loss COLUMN of more than 160,000 Americans dead due to COVID-19. However, the scope of this year’s difficulty doesn’t begin or end with COVID. The strife and stress caused by the pandemic, recession, joblessness, Deborah Ortega civil unrest and a charged political climate is sparking unprecedented violence in our city. This has been the most violent summer Denver has witnessed in a decade. More than 46 people were killed in Denver by the beginning of July of this year. In 2018, the next deadliest year in the last decade, that number wasn’t reached until the end of August.

I remember with sadness the summer of violence in Denver in 1993 and the toll it took on our communities, the lasting trauma, and the efforts to stem the bloodshed. We have

to do better this time.

Along South Federal Boulevard recently, eight people were shot and three killed. Also recently, gunfire erupted in Athmar Park inuring a 3-year-old, 11-year-old, 12-year-old, and two 17-year-olds. In total, nine people were injured while enjoying a day in the park.

These young people will forever live with the physical and mental scars of this violence. This is an unacceptable legacy to carry into adulthood from such a young age, and as a community we have a responsibility to do better.

Violence is connected to mental health, access to healthy food, livable wage jobs, affordable housing and widening inequities within the education system. All of these stressors have increased significantly in 2020 and play out both in the streets and within homes across Denver. Domestic violence issues are compounded by the tightening economy, mandatory time at home, strained hours and increased demands on workers.

I spoke with Margaret Abrams, executive director of the Rose Andom Center, who highlighted the complex and interrelated issues people are facing.

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While I take heart in what I’ve witnessed in our community during this pandemic — neighbors, organizations and city entities stepping up to share the burden of new responsibilities and challenges, we have to persist. We must work together towards our shared goals of a safer more equitable city.

If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, please reach out to the Rose Andom Center at 720-337-4400 to be connected to resources. Please also be in touch with my office if you would like to share problems you’re seeing in your community or ideas for solutions. We can also help connect you with community resource officers or human services personnel within the city.

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“Folks are not only struggling with the issues around not being in a safe relationship or having recently left a violent relationship, but they’re now just struggling to meet basic needs in terms of housing and food and kids,” Abrams said.

“That’s why on our website, we’ve tried to post information about food banks and emergency resources that the city has put together. We also try and coordinate a lot with our partner agencies, and have been hearing similar things from them as well about the complexity of cases and victims that are reaching out with a lot more needs.”

This means that meeting the basic needs of our community must be foremost in addressing rising violence. We should use data available to identify where folks have lost employment. We must provide food where there is food insecurity and hunger. Childcare is increasingly difficult for families to find, especially as school starts back up while classrooms are closed.

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According to the Treasury Department, forgiven funds may not be taxable, but the payroll businesses paid with those funds can no longer be considered a business expense.

Now, we don’t know Mr. Mnuchin personally, but our guess is that, as Treasury secretary, he probably knows something about math: Disallowing businesses from claiming that payroll as an expense is the same thing as taxing the forgiven loan.

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Now some members of the U.S. Senate weren’t amused by this little “Lucy with the football” tomfoolery. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has led a fight in the Senate to tell the Treasury Department that they meant what they said: the forgiven loans should not be taxable, including through the back door. Other senators are worried about the “optics” of standing up for small businesses, if you can imagine.

Colorado’s own Sen. Cory Gardner was an early supporter of a bill Sen. Cornyn introduced (S. 3612) to fix the problem.

Treasury cannot be allowed to override Congress’ promise to our small business community.

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arrival, according to South Metro Fire Rescue Public Information Officer Eric Hurst.

Hurricane Laura struck Louisiana and the Texas coast Aug. 26 as a Category 4 storm. Gusts reached up to 150 mph, according to Weather.com. The National Hurricane Center warned of an “unsurvivable storm surge.”

Denver Fire sent 10 first responders, South Metro Fire Rescue sent 12 and Castle Rock Fire Department sent one to help with Hurricane Laura.

The task force could help dealing with floodwaters, technical rescues, humanitarian work or delivering supplies, Hurst said.

Colorado Task Force 1 is a Colorado-based team designed to assist search-andrescue operations, emergency medical care and in other capacities as they are needed. The task force has about 200 members in all.

Department heads do not expect any diminishment in local services, according to a Denver Fire spokesperson.

“The large number of firefighters we have allows us to maintain these services. We will not allow that to be compromised to maintain our certification and accreditation,” the spokesperson said.

“We have that in the back of our minds all the time.”

Local fire agencies also have crews deployed to assist with Colorado’s Pine Gulch and Cameron Peak wildfires.

The Pine Gulch Fire, 18 miles north of Grand Junction, had engulfed more than 139,000 acres as of Aug. 27, making it the largest wildfire in the state’s recorded history. The fire was about 53% contained with almost 1,000 people working to douse the blaze, according to the Grand Junction Field Office for the Bureau of Land Management.

The Cameron Peak Fire, on the Arapahoe and Roosevelt national forests in northern Colorado, remained at 0% containment and had burned across 23,000 acres, fire officials said. About 700 people are working on that blaze.

The Grizzly Creek Fire, near Glenwood Springs, has burned 32,000 acres and is 61% contained, according to the White River National Forest office. About 700 people are working on that blaze as well.

South Metro Fire Rescue currently has eight firefighters assisting crews battling hthe Pine Gulch and Cameron Peak fires and one more assisting fire prevention in .

Pike National Forest.

Denver Fire sent has sent at least 60 members of its 158-person Wildland Crew to assist in the two largest local wildfires, according to the department’s Twitter account. The department also

Firefighters from South Metro Fire Rescue Brush 33, based in Centennial, push back against the Cameron Peak Fire in the Arapahoe and Roosevelt national forests in northern Colorado on Aug. 24.

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A photo taken by firefighters on the scene of the Cameron Peak Fire near Fort Collins. sent three wildland engines and a suppression module, a device designed to protect electrical devices from voltage spikes.

Castle Rock Fire sent three firefighters to assist with the Grizzly Creek Fire.

“There is no negative impact locally with these deployments,” Castle Rock Fire Chief Norris Croom stated in an Aug. 27 email. “We have a reserve brush truck that gets placed in service to fill in for the deployed truck, and we have sufficient staff-

ing to allow for these deployments.”

South Metro deployed its first two crews Aug. 13, according to South Metro Fire Rescue spokesperson Connor Christian. South Metro deployed one crew of three to the Pine Gulch Fire area near Glenwood Springs and a four-person crew to the Cameron Peak Fire in Larimer County. One battalion chief was sent to command a crew of 20 in Pike National Forest and one lieutenant safety officer was sent to as-

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sist with Pine Gulch as well.

The three-person crew sent to Pine Gulch came from Station 41 in Parker on a Type 3 brush truck. That crew returned Aug. 24. Another three-person crew from Station 39 in Castle Pines left Aug. 24 to replace the first Pine Gulch crew. The four-person crew fighting the Cameron Peak Fire came from Station 33 in Centennial in a Type 6 brush truck and has not yet completed its deployment.

Crews will rotate based on

roughly two-week rotations until their services are no longer needed.

A Type 3 brush truck can hold up to 500 gallons of water and is typically found in departments of rural, mountainous communities.

A Type 6 brush truck is better suited for off-roading and can hold up to about 300 gallons of water.

South Metro will not deploy any more crews to assist other fires in Colorado, Christian said. The department may still send singleresource deployments, like the lieutenant and battalion chief.

The State of Colorado has a statewide open fire ban effective through mid-September.

Christian reminded homeowners to be cognizant of the high fire danger.

“Our biggest tip is to be very cognizant of making sure no one is having flammable materials around dry vegetation,” Christian said.

“We also encourage mitigation around homes.”

Christian said South Metro has responded to multiple grass fires along the highway — occasionally caused by something as simple as a loose tire from a semi-truck.

“It can catch vegetation on fire extremely quickly,” Christian said. “It is extremely dry. Take care of your properties as much as you can to reduce the fire risk and your home.”

South Metro Fire Rescue has fire mitigation tips available on their website at southmetro.org.

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Virtual learning provides challenges for dance instructors

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nstructors at the Parker Dance Academy are getting better at using their words.

Studio director Lexie Steinhauser has danced and taught dance for years. But even she struggled when it came to teaching through a computer screen.

“Usually, as you’re teaching the technique of dance, you go around and touch their shoulders, tell them to go back, tell them to fix their foot,” said Steinhauser. “We’ve gotten really into imagery with our students, and with movement, how you utilize different body parts.”

Without the ability to get up close with their students to adjust an elbow here or a plie there, dance teachers are adapting their methods to reach students beyond the studio.

“As dancers, especially dance teachers who have worked all over the world, you have to learn how to adapt to a situation no matter what,” Steinhauser said. “It’s part of the gig.

If someone goes the wrong way, makes a wrong step, gets too close to another dancer, the music stops, the audience throws something at you — you have to adapt to that situation and make it seem like nothing has gone wrong.”

Dance instructors throughout Denver are finding new ways to reach their students and picking up new tricks themselves along the way.

Allison Jaramillo, co-director of the Littleton Ballet Academy, said the instructors found some new tools while learning to teach virtually. The angle with which the students position their web cameras can sometimes help instructors visualize a student’s form. The shy students in class have been noticeably more engaged.

Less-advanced dancers don’t feel left behind in a big group and end up discouraged.

“They knew they weren’t the best in the class, but all of a sudden they were the best in their house,” Jaramillo said.

They say dance like no one’s watching, Jaramillo said.

“For some of them, it was actually true.”

The pre-ballet students, from ages 3 to 6, have been the most difficult to engage. Students are sometimes left without a parent watching at home and become distracted.

Instructors have to be more expressive and praise the students as much as possible. Lisa Leafgreen, director of education at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, said the instructors have to give twice the effort to get half the output from the students.

“It’s just not an ideal format for a performing art,” Leafgreen said. “But we adjusted. They pivoted their teaching style like we all did to put more into their teaching. It’s not that they didn’t before, but it takes more excitement and exuberance.”

Jaramillo said the Littleton Ballet Academy may not be back to full inperson teaching for several months.

The academy is operating under a “hy-

Students at the Parker Dance Academy do plie squats led by Studio Director Lexie Steinhaus. Some students say their strength has improved over the months because they have been forced to relearn some of the basics from home.

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Students at the Parker Dance Academy are back in the studio, and some say in better shape than when they left. Being away and struggling with learning how to improve from home, some say they’ve gone back to basics, and are better for it.

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brid” model, letting students choose to stay home or find spots in a class. The school won’t be holding any performances until at least spring, hoping to perform “The Nutcracker” as soon as they can.

“The ones that started coming every day because they had nothing else to do realized they started improving, which helped them keep up,” Jaramillo said.

High school students lost their proms, graduations and most of their spring semester. Lisa Leafgreen, director of education at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, said the center set out to make sure its art programs were one of the few things that didn’t close or cancel.

“As writers need to write, dancers need to dance,” Leafgreen said. “It is such an important time to stay connected.”

The Arvada Center is offering in-person classes for its all its usual dance courses. Capacity is limited to about half as many students with social distancing maintained. Lessons are available online as well.

Leafgreen said the shift to a virtual teaching format has given the center more opportunities to reach a wider range of people as well. Leafgreen said the center has had people take virtual lessons from across the country. One person tuned in from Guatemala.

“As a director of education, that was something that wasn’t on my trajectory of what I thought our program would be doing, but we shifted, we pivoted, we’re nimble and it opens different possibilities,” Leafgreen said.

Dance instructors are just beginning to venture into this world of virtual

Students at the Parker Dance Academy take part in an outdoor lesson in a parking lot near the studio. Dancers and teachers are adjusting to virtual and socially distanced learning, creating unique obstacles and opportunities.

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teaching, Leafgreen said.

“I wake up each day thinking, ‘OK, is this going to happen? Is that going to happen?’” Leafgreen said. “How do we stay relevant here? How do we continue to keep kids engaged? It’s rethinking everything we do.”

Without any competitions to work toward, no thunderous applause to look forward to and no “The Nutcracker” over the holidays, instructors are also finding new ways to motivate their students.

Steinhauser says she tries to remember what makes dance important to the kids.

“A lot of these kids, the reason they dance is for the friends and community and the relationships you only get with someone in an artistic way,” Steinhauser said. “We’ve been continuing to think outside the box to move together.”

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“The whole bottom fell out of the industry,” said Justice, the band’s lead singer and saxophone player.

He listed the major hurdles the band has faced: The two-and-a-halfmonths shutdown in which local musicians weren’t playing at all; the many venues that have stayed closed throughout the summer; and an ongoing Denver County order requiring performers to wear masks, preventing those who play brass or wind instruments from performing in Denver.

Now, there are only two places Justice has been performing in the area, he said. In August, he’ll play two gigs and in September, three — less than a third of the number of gigs he played over the same two months in 2019.

Across the board, bands are facing a different extent of what Justice calls a disaster, based on the band’s following, whether it’s a local, regional or national act and other factors.

But regardless of how deeply musicians have been affected by COVID-19, Denver artists agree: No one’s made it unscathed, making every show a blessing.

“By the time March rolled around, we had to cancel three months’ worth of shows,” said Amy Brophy, bassist in rock, blues and alternative band Riverside Drive. “Even now, 90% of our venues are able to pay what they did last summer. It’s been a big step back for a band trying to gain momentum, but we’re so grateful these venues are having live music at all.”

Despite the discouraging nature of the challenges local musicians have faced over the past five months, those challenges made it all the more rewarding this summer, when musicians have been able to return to the stage. As he considers the hurdles, Justice remembers a night a couple of months ago, when he and a fellow musician played their first gig since Feb. 29.

“For the two of us to be able to play music together, it was really incredible. Music is the reason I get up in the morning and put my horn together and keep practicing, keep writing,” he said. “There are gigs coming back, but it’s been a wild ride.”

The state of live music now Not all venues in the Denver area that previously had live music have brought that element back, or even reopened at all. Justice said several of his regular venues have told him that, due to the cost of opening at limited capacity, they plan to keep their doors shut until March or April of 2021.

However, the state of Colorado does have guidelines, last updated in June, for those who choose to reinstate live music. The guidelines require that patrons are seated 25 feet or further from performers.

Working within these guidelines hasn’t been possible for every area venue. But for some, like Blue Spruce Brewing Company, bringing back live music has been both possible and a priority in recent months.

The brewery, which has locations at 4151 E. County Line Road in Centennial and 10577 W. Centennial Road in Littleton, held its first show since the pandemic on July 4 and has been inviting more musicians to play since then.

“Even from last year, we doubled our sales (made during live shows) just because people are dying to experience live music,” said co-owner

Band members of Riverside Drive, drummer Sean Hartel, bassist Amy Brophy and guitar player Daniel Brophy, at a gig at Morrison Holiday Bar at the end of June 2020.

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WHERE TO FIND LIVE MUSIC The following is a list of some venues in and around Denver that currently offer live music on a regular basis: Jake’s Roadhouse, 5980 Lamar St., Arvada Rockabillies Bar and Grill, 12363 W. 64th Ave., Arvada Colorado Cork & Keg, 971 Park St., Castle Rock Blue Spruce Brewing Company, 4151 E County Line Road, Centennial Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 South Broadway, Denver Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver In the Zone, 15600 W. 44th Ave., Golden The Buffalo Rose, 1119 Washington Ave., Golden The Rusty Bucket Bar and Grill, 3355 S. Wadsworth Blvd., Lakewood Fraco’s Bar, 5302 South Federal Circle, Littleton Lincoln Station Coffee/Pizza/Music, 9360 Station St., Lone Tree @ Cheers, 11964 Washington St., Northglenn Tailgate Tavern & Grill, 19552 E. Main St., Parker Takoda Tavern, 12365 Pine Bluffs Way, Parker Hoffbrau Colorado, 9110 Wadsworth Pkwy, Westminster Theresa Kane.

In the Littleton location specifically, the brewery holds weekly shows on Thursday nights on its patio, which it expanded to accommodate social distancing through a county variance.

During shows, guests fill the patio and some bring lawn chairs and listen to musicians while staying six feet apart in the parking lot, Kane said.

“They’re excited to get out of the house and be able to do something different that’s not in their house or just eating at a restaurant,” she said.

“We’ve been known for our music and since we could bring it back, we did.”

As they navigate the new normal for live music, venues have tried a variety of new tactics. For instance, Herman’s Hideaway at 1578 S. Broadway in Denver has taken a slow approach to reintroducing shows, has asked musicians to bring their own microphones and even had one singer stand behind a Plexiglas barrier during a performance, said talent buyer Chris Thomas.

“We’re a little bit more on the cautious side,” he said. “It’s not business as usual. But the community in general has had a desire to make it work, and I’m optimistic.”

Just as much as the teams at Herman’s Hideaway and Blue Spruce Brewing wanted to restore a part of normal life for guests, they also reinstated the music for the benefit of local musicians.

“The musicians I have brought back are so excited to be able to play and they’re very grateful,” Kane said.

Local restaurants’ and bars’ commitment to hiring musicians when they can has made all the difference for many of the acts in the area, including Twenty Hands High, a country and southern rock band that plays in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and other regional states.

The two-and-a-half months that CW Wooten, guitar player and singer in the band, couldn’t play any gigs, “it was like sliding into a complete halt,” he said. “It was awful to be cut off from your fans and even your bandmates.”

About $25,000 worth of gigs were canceled for Wooten, including shows as far in advance as September.

That said, since the summer began, things have been looking up for the musician and his fairly well-known band, which has tens of thousands

of followers on Facebook. In July and August 2019, Wooten played 32 gigs; in July and August 2020, he’ll play 29.

Not all venues can pay their typical rates, he added, but many are trying their best to do so.

“We did 150 shows last year, and we’re on track do more than 100 shows this year,” Wooten said. “Outdoor venues are probably the biggest thing keeping live music going right now because you have a little more leeway with the restrictions.”

Considering that, Wooten said it’s important for musicians that the rate of COVID’s spread declines before the winter months, when outdoor venues will no longer be an option.

He remains optimistic, adding how grateful he’s been for venues’ support and his fans’ support — even some higher-risk fans have found ways to listen to outdoor shows by setting up in nearby parks, away from crowds, he said.

Similarly to Wooten, Brophy said she hopes the industry could rebound — she just doesn’t know when.

“I think a lot of people will retain that fear, but my hope is that we will return to normal because we have to move forward,” she said. “That our fans are going to get out there and weather the storm, that’s the hope and the dream that most musicians are holding onto.”

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C R O S SWO R D Denver ranks among P U Z Z L E cities with highest income

needed to pay rent

BY AUSTIN FLESKES SPECIAL TO COLORADO POLITICS

As the COVID-19 pandemic brings even more economic turmoil, Coloradans are facing a need for higher income to afford where they live.

A study by the personal finance website SmartAsset ranks Denver ninth among the 10 U.S. cities with the highest income needed in order to pay rent.

The report found that the income needed to pay rent in Denver without being “cost-burdened” is about $82,300, calculated as if the renter paid no more than 28% of their income on rent. That price has risen by nearly $10,000 since a 2018 study by SmartAsset, which moved Denver from 10th most expensive city to ninth.

“Cost-burdened” refers to a household that spends more than 30% of its annual income on rent or mortgage payments and may have difficulty affording necessities such as food, clothing, transportation and medical care, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Between January 2020 and April 2020, the study found, the average two-bedroom monthly rent in Denver was roughly $1,900.

The problem is reflected nationwide: the study found that in over a quarter of large U.S. cities, renters

needed to earn six figures annually to avoid being cost-burdened.

The state of Colorado, however, has moved to try and help those struggling to reach rent during the pandemic. In July, Gov. Jared Polis announced a new state program aimed at spending nearly $20 million of the federal CARES Act fund to help those struggling with payments House Bill 1410 led the way to the Property Owner Preservation Program, which will help people with rent and mortgage payments, as well as other housing services. The program will be part of the state Department of Local Affairs.

“This has been an incredibly challenging time for many Coloradans,” Polis said in a statement at the time.

“I want to thank the legislators who worked on this bill and applaud them for their efforts. This fund will help Coloradans who have been financially impacted by the pandemic and need rent assistance.

The Apartment Association has also assembled a list of more than 100 COVID-19 resources for Coloradans, which can be accessed www. aamdhq.org/news/coronavirushere.

This story is from Colorado Politics, a statewide political and public policy news journal. Used by permission. For more, visit coloradopolitics. com.

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cated just off East Colfax Avenue in the Congress Park neighborhood.

“Cerebral is a classic modern beer story for Denver, in that it is a local taproom started by a homebrewer — his first business venture — who found a good spot in a great neighborhood. That’s a very Denver story,” Shikes said.

When Cerebral opened in 2015, founder Sean Buchan didn’t feel Jonathan Shikes, beholden to stanCerebral Brewing author of “Denver Beer: A History dard styles on the He went a To capture of Mile High Brewing” market. different direction another element and is well known of the current for hazy IPAs. Denver beer scene, “Like a lot of these homebrewers Shikes points to Cerebral Brewing, loa sour golden ale aged on seconduse cherries and raspberries in barrels, first brewed in February 2019. The funky and lightfruit flavor, paired with the tartness of the sour style, certainly made for a complex sip.

“Before them people were making sours,” Shikes said, “… but they really helped launch things in a different direction that everyone wanted to follow up on.”

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Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales One chapter on modern Denver beer in Shikes’ book is titled “Sours and Social Media.” Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales is the poster child.

“They were just a brewery that pushed things enormously forward in the modern beer scene. Spontaneous fermentation was something totally different,” he said. “Their ability to market themselves was a big deal.

And it came just as the demand for sour beers was exploding.”

The brewery, located on South Broadway in Denver, specializes in spontaneous fermentation, a process that exposes the wort to the natural air where wild yeast and bacteria can work their magic. The huge additions of fruit into the beer also added a twist.

When it started, the novel approach generated long lines for beer releases and supersized aftermarket prices online. The beer we tasted was Butcher,

‘Cerebral is a classic modern beer story for Denver, in that it is a local taproom started by a homebrewer — his first business venture — who found a good spot in a great neighborhood.’

… he didn’t feel like he needed to be constrained by tradition or anything else,” Shikes said. “And that (beer) was hot in the homebrewing scene.”

The brewery became a trendsetter and keeps innovating with adjunct stouts and oak-aged lagers. “He continues to push,” Shikes said of Buchan. “He has a way of being on trend before it becomes a trend.”

A good example was the one we tasted, Smile With Your Eyes. Packed in a 16-ounce can, it’s a collaboration beer brewed with New Image Brewing in Arvada. The double dry-hopped Triple IPA was made with blueberry blossom honey.

Like other hazy IPAs, it pops with tropical fruit flavors and a softer bitterness than the traditional style.

It’s a far cry from the simple lagers of yesteryear Denver beer, but an indication of how far the industry has come in 161 years.

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NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an amendment to the 2020 budget of the District may also be considered at the above-referenced meeting and public hearing of the Board of Directors of the District.

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Dated: August 25, 2020 COLFAX BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT By: /s/ Anna Jones, District Manager Legal Notice No. 80646 First Publication: September 3, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO ELIGIBLE ELECTORS OF DENVER ROCK DRILL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that one or more vacancies exist on the Board of Directors of the DENVER ROCK DRILL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT (the “District”), City and County of Denver, State of Colorado. Pursuant to Section 32-1808(2)(a)(1), C.R.S., any qualified eligible elector of the District may file a letter of interest in filling the Board’s vacancies. A letter of interest may be filed at the office of Icenogle Seaver Pogue, P.C. located at 4725 South Monaco Street, Suite 360, Denver, Colorado 80237.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: DENVER ROCK DRILL METROPOLITAN DISTRICT /s/ ICENOGLE SEAVER POGUE, P.C. Legal Notice No. 80648 First Publication: September 3, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Summons and Sheriff Sale Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO City and County Building 1437 Bannock Street Denver, CO 80202 720-865-8301 Plaintiff: CLAIRE CAMERON WOLFE, v.

DECEDENT’S TRUST “B”, also known as DAWSON TRUST B and PAUL LOPEZ, in his capacity as Public Trustee of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, Defendants.

Case No. Attorneys for Plaintiff, Claire Cameron Wolfe Douglas W. Brown, Atty. Reg. No. 10429 BROWN DUNNING WALKER FEIN PC 2000 South Colorado Blvd.

Tower Two, Suite 700 Denver, CO 80222 Telephone: 303-329-3363 E-Mail: dbrown@bdwf-firm.com Case No. 2020CV32161 Div. 215 SUMMONS

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 fourteen (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.

TO THE CLERK: If the Summons is issued by the clerk of the court, the signature block for the clerk or deputy should be provided by stamp, or typewriter, in the space to the left of the attorney’s name.

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

DATED this 23rd day of June, 2020.

Respectfully submitted, BROWN DUNNING WALKER FEIN PC s/ Douglas W. Brown Douglas W. Brown, Reg. No. 10429 Attorneys for Plaintiff, Claire Cameron Wolfe This Summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(h), C.R.C.P., as amended.

Legal Notice No. 80612 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: September 10, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO 1437 Bannock Street Denver, Colorado 80202 Telephone: 303-606-2300 Re: Allocation of Parental Responsibilities.

Petitioner: CHRISTINE MAE THORNTON and Respondent: ADAM DAVID PARKES Attorneys for Petitioner: Teddi Ann Barry, Esq. #31283 TEDDI ANN BARRY, P.C. Admin Office: 12500 1st Street, Suite 5 Thornton, Colorado 80241 720-722-0776 E-Mail: TeddiAnn@DivorceInColorado.com CASE NUMBER: 2020DR30454 SUMMONS FOR ALLOCATION OF PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES To the Respondent named above this Summons serves as a notice to appear in this case.

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

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

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

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

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

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: DECEDENT’S TRUST “B”, also known as DAWSON TRUST B

Automatic Temporary Injunction – By Order of Colorado law, you and the other parties:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to file with the Clerk of this Court an answer or other response to the attached Complaint within twenty-one days (21) 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 of the State of Colorado.

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 fourteen (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

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

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

Respectfully submitted this 1st day of July 2020.

TEDDI ANN BARRY, P.C. Teddi Ann Barry, Esq. #31283 Legal Notice No. 80640 First Publication: September 3, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher:The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Notice to Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Joseph Kevin Burke, aka Joseph K. Burke, Joseph Burke, Joe Kevin Burke, Joe K. Burke, and Joe Burke, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31030 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 January 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sean C. Burke Personal Representative 3357 S. Xanthia Ct. Denver, CO 80231 Legal Notice No: 80642 First Publication: September 3, 2020 Last Publication: September 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Cyndi Rae Emery, aka Cyndi R. Emery, aka Cyndi Emery, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30901 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 December 21, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert Brady Siegrist, Co-Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203 Legal Notice No. 80625 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sukeo Ishida, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30904 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 December 28, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Attorney to the Personal Representative Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 80636 First Publication: August 27, 2020 Last Publication: September 10, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bernadette H. Zawatzki, aka Bernadette Zawatzki, aka Bernie Zawatzki, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31033 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 January 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Theresa Councell & Mark Zawatzki Personal Representative c/o Groves Law, LLC 281 S. Pearl Street Denver, CO 80209 Legal Notice No: 80643 First Publication: September 3, 2020 Last Publication: September 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Racquel Loretta Avila, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30923 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 December 28, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

JoAnn Gau, Personal Representative 7555 East Hampden Avenue, Ste 600 Denver, CO 80231 Legal Notice No. 80641 First Publication: August 27, 2020 Last Publication: September 10, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Angelos Petratos, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31003 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 December 28, 2020 or the claims may be forever barred.

Peter Bill Petratos, Personal Representative c/o Goddard & Hawkins, PC 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 625 Denver, CO 80246 Legal Notice No. 80637 First Publication: August 27, 2020 Last Publication: September 10, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JoAnn Margaret Warford, aka JoAnn M. Warford, Deceased Case Number: 20PR0249 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 December 28, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

James Warford Personal Representative 2700 S. Pennsylvania Street Englewood, Colorado 80113 Legal Notice No. 80633 First Publication: August 27, 2020 Last Publication: September 10, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 80635 First Publication: August 27, 2020 Last Publication: September 10, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Roger Lee Wersch, aka Roger L. Wersch, aka Roger Wersch, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30982

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 December 28, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kerry L. Wersch, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203 Legal Notice No. 80634 First Publication: August 27, 2020 Last Publication: September 10, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Irene Carol Sulzberger, a/k/a Irene C. Sulzberger, a/k/a Irene Sulzberger, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30968

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 December 21, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Thomas K. Alison, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 80629 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Carol Jane Holley Morrison, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30842

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of CRUZ GUTIERREZ, aka Cruz V. Gutierrez, aka Cruz Velligas Gutierrez, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30910

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to Denver Probate Court, Denver, Colorado on or before January 5, 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 the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before December 27, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Donna Boskovic-Gutierrez Personal Representative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Legal Notice No. 80631 First Publication: August 27, 2020 Last Publication: September 10, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Homer P. Dunn, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30805 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to Denver Probate Court, Denver, Colorado on or before January 5, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Cary Strauss, Personal Representative 6837 W. Fellet Lane Lakewood, CO 80227 Legal Notice No. 80649 First Publication: September 3, 2020 Last Publication: September 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Shirley Jean Hunt, aka Shirley J. Hunt, aka Shirley Hunt, aka Shirl Hunt, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30989 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 December 28, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Eldon Carl Hunt Personal Representative 2966 Rising Moon Way Castle Rock, CO 80109

Thomas Morrison, Personal Representative 5469 Uinta Way Denver, CO 80238 Legal Notice No. 80650 First Publication: September 3, 2020 Last Publication: September 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of PAUL K. FREEMAN a/k/a PAUL KENNETH FREEMAN a/k/a PAUL FREEMAN, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30762

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 January 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Connie B. Freeman Personal Representative 3402 East Eastman Ave. Denver, CO 80210 Legal Notice No: 80644 First Publication: September 3, 2020 Last Publication: September 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of William Stuckey, a/k/a William S. Stuckey, Deceased Case No:. 2020PR30873

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court, City and County of Denver, Colorado, on or before December 21, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Andrea Wangaard, Personal Representative 13783 Milwaukee Ct. Thornton, CO 80602 Legal Notice No. 80630 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Controversial new state holiday shines spotlight on Mother Cabrini Colorado state legislature voted to replace Columbus Day with holiday for Cabrini last March

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

that while the Shrine’s staff are happy Mother Cabrini “will continue to be celebrated in Colorado” they did not have anything to do with the effort to make a Cabrini Day holiday.

“I don’t really know what to say,” Lewis said when contacted by CCM about his reaction to the new holiday.

“That’s more of a political thing and we really have nothing to do with that.”

Since 1938, visitors have flocked to the mountains just west of Golden to learn about and pay tribute to Frances Xavier Cabrini, the Catholic saint who established 67 schools, hospitals and orphanages around the U.S., including in Colorado.

Now, the rest of the state is about to become more familiar with Cabrini as well, as a result of the Colorado state legislature’s decision to establish Cabrini Day, a state holiday that will take the place of Columbus Day as a state holiday on the first Monday in October.

Colorado House Bill 20-1031, signed into law by the governor in March, declares the new holiday is “a recognition of Cabrini’s contributions to the state of Colorado and creates an opportunity to promote an appreciation, tolerance and understanding of the different cultures that make up our state.”

In 1909, Colorado became the first state in the nation to observe Columbus Day as an official state holiday at the urging of Angelo Noce, a prominent figure in Denver’s Italian immigrant community.

The bill also states that Columbus never traveled to the territory that became the United States and had no contact with the state of Colorado, “providing no rationale for a Colorado state holiday bearing his name.” It also states that Columbus participated in the extermination of the Taino people who initially welcomed him to the island of Quisqueya, which he renamed Hispanola.

While many Italian Americans continue to regard it as an important celebration of their heritage and its

Who was Mother Cabrini?

So who exactly was the subject of Colorado’s newest holiday?

Sr. Roselle Santivasi, who works at the shrine, said Cabrini was ultimately a humanitarian who dedicated herself to those who had very little help.

“She just had a sensitivity for the needs of people and had a talent for making their needs met whether it was housing or education,” said Santivasi. “Just simple things like her and the sisters reading their mail because they were illiterate or writing letters back to their home countries or just being with people.”

Cabrini is also someone who has much to teach America today, Santivasi said.

“She would certainly see that every person is entitled to all the privileges of whatever country they live in and so she would work toward that for whomever,” she said. “She would not limit herself to immigrants, she would definitely open herself to the needs of anyone who had needs that were not being met by the government of whatever country they came from.”

Santivasi said an estimated 100,000 people visit the shrine each year and the staff now thinks it might see more with the new holiday.

“We weren’t part of the development of the holiday but if they want to celebrate Mother Cabrini because she’s a woman that’s wonderful,” she said.

“And if it’s someone else for the same reason that’s wonderful too. The more we celebrate people who have done humanitarian things and done good, social justice things for other people that’s good, let’s celebrate them.”

A stained glass image of Mother Cabrini inside the Mother Cabrini chapel at Mother Cabrini’s Shrine.

PHOTO BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO contributions to America (Columbus was Italian), the holiday had become mired in controversy in recent decades by Native Americans who say it is culturally insensitive to continue to celebrate a figure who led the extermination of native peoples and can only be said to have discovered the Americas if their presence here is disregarded.

The Denver Post reported the move to replace Columbus Day represented an attempt to reach a compromise with Colorado’s Italian American community after previous bills that would’ve replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day or made Election Day into a state holiday were defeated.

However, some members of Denver Italian heritage groups say their community did not respect the change and that the legislature did not reach out to them as they have claimed.

“Mother Cabrini has a feast day and it’s not in October,” said Pam Wright, a former president of the Order Sons of Italy Grand Lodge of Colorado. “A lot of us feel that we have celebrated Columbus Day for years and years and it’s not so much the man we celebrate but his journey and that journey is what brought a lot of our ancestors here along with Christianity and that kind of thing so that disappointed us.”

Anna Vann, a first generation Italian immigrant, also questioned the choice to replace the celebration of Columbus with one for Cabrini.

“Mother Cabrini was an actual friend of people in my family in the past here,” said Vann. “She was a very honorable woman but to make a state holiday for her and take away Columbus Day was very wrong.”

Jeff Lewis, the Executive Director of the Mother Cabrini Shrine, said

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JOAN MURRAY, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030666

NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of: Mary M. Gallegos, a/k/a Mary Gallegos, a/k/a Maximana Gallegos, a/k/a Maxima Gallegos, a/k/a Maxine Gallegos, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31024

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 January 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jessica Murray Personal Representative c/o 7555 E Hampden Ave, Ste 600 Denver, CO 80231 Legal Notice No. 80647 First Publication: September 3, 2020 Last Publication: September 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Lillian Kay Russell, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30980 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 December 31, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Daniel P. Kapsak Attorney to the Personal Representative 1610 Hover Street, Suite 203 Longmont, Colorado 80501 Legal Notice No. 80638 First Publication: August 27, 2020 Last Publication: September 10, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Denver County, Colorado on or before January 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dated this 27th day of August, 2020.

Sabrina Salazar Personal Representative to the Estate 4473 Yates Street Denver, CO 80212 Phone: 720 266 3144 Legal Notice No.: 80651 First Publication: September 3, 2020 Last Publication: September 17, 2020 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of: Lorenzo Sanchez, a/k/a Lorenzo Sanchez H, a/k/a Lorenzo Sanchez Herrera, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR30853 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court, Colorado on or before January 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dated this 27th day of August, 2020.

Romelia Torres de Sanchez Personal Representative to the Estate 3015 East 40th Avenue Denver, CO 80205 Phone: 7204963978 Legal Notice No.: 80652 First Publication: September 3, 2020 Last Publication: September 17, 2020 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of MICHAEL DOUGLAS COLLINS, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30929 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 December 20, 2020 or the claims may be forever barred.

JAMES K. COLLINS, Personal Representative 2500 South Knox Court, Denver, CO 80219 Legal Notice No. 80627 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald Dispatch Public Notice Estate of Judy V. Bensberg, a/k/a Judy Virginia Bensberg, a/k/a Judy Bensberg, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30984 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 December 21, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Myka M. Landry, Attorney for Personal Representative J. William Bensberg PO Box 2276 Elizabeth, Colorado 80107 Legal Notice No. 80626 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of William Pierce Honer, aka William P. Honer, aka William Honer, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 030933 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 December 20, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dual C. Schneider, Esq. Lakewood Legal Center Attorney to the Personal Representative 7475 W. 5th Avenue, No. 202 Lakewood, Colorado 80026 Legal Notice No. 80628 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ROBERT DANIEL DAVIS, a/k/a ROBERT D. DAVIS, a/k/a ROBERT DAVIS, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30159

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 December 20, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Barbara W. Davis, Personal Representative c/o Griffin Bridgers, Esq. Hutchins & Associates LLC 1999 Broadway, Suite 1400 Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No. 80623 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on July 24, 2020, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult was filed with the Denver County Court .

The Petition requests that the name of Alec Micah Hahm be changed to Alec Micah Black Case No.: 20 C 00409 By: K. Leer Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 80653 First Publication: September 3, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch

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