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Downtown Denver hotels still struggling Mike Michalek takes a ballot from a voter at the drive-through drop-off site in front of the City and County Building on Election Day in November 2019. He has worked at this site for the last four elections in Denver.

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Denver voters to decide 12 ballot measures Issues include homelessness, pit bulls, council power

BY ALAYNA ALVAREZ COLORADO POLITICS

From sales tax increases intended to help the homeless and combat

climate change to deciding whether to lift the city’s pit bull ban and strengthen the Denver City Council’s power, Denver voters have a lot to consider about Denver’s future this November.

This year’s stacked lineup is as follows: 2A: Climate Funding This measure will ask voters if their sales taxes should be raised by

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The six youths who participated in the Conversations with Gen Z forum

may be teens, but a recent discussion with community leaders was certainly at the adult level.

“They (the community leaders) valued our opinions and listened,” said Zarion Crews, 16, of Denver.

“Just having conversations with people older than I am helps develop ideologies.”

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BY TAMARA CHUANG AND JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

munity leaders on a variety of contemporary issues. Conversations with Gen Z happens every year as part of RedLine Contemporary Art Center’s annual 48 Hours of Socially Engaged Art & Conversation Summit.

PlatteForum is a Denver-based, nonprofit arts, youth development and artist-in-residence program.

The Sheraton Denver Downtown hotel, nearing the completion of its $80 million renovation, is operating at about a quarter of its usual capacity. Business in the time of the coronavirus has picked up a bit from the disastrous early months, but even if a vaccine were announced tomorrow, the hotel doesn’t expect to get back to full capacity until the end of 2021.

Nearly 70% of its business comes from hosting large meetings or housing business travelers attending events at the nearby Colorado Convention Center. Most of those events have been canceled or moved online for the next year.

The Convention Center? Its exhibit floor was a designated COVID hospital until Sept. 12, though at press time it had not been used for any patients.

It’s not just that the conventions and conferences aren’t happening these days. Here is what else is bad for business: Guests are reporting that they’re scared of the downtown area, that the 16th Street Mall — once one of the city’s prime tourist attractions — is now filled with too many panhandlers and people sleeping outdoors.

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0.25%, or 2.5 cents on a $10 purchase, to generate $40 million annually to reduce the city’s climate footprint.

If approved, the city would begin allocating in January 2021 the tax revenue on a monthly basis to renewable energy efforts, including “steep reductions” in fossil fuel consumption and “significant improvements” in air and water quality, the bill states.

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‘They learn their voice is important’ Youths talk with community leaders on Afrofuturism

And woes may not end with a COVID-19 vaccine

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RiNo gets ‘new look and feel’ to help tame traffic

BY ALAYNA ALVAREZ COLORADO POLITICS

Say goodbye to the last remaining one-way street in Denver’s rapidly developing River North neighborhood.

Crews from Denver’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure earlier this month converted a 1-mile, one-way stretch of Walnut Street through RiNo to help ease traffic, reduce vehicle speeds and improve circulation in the busy corridor.

The makeover, three years in the making, is intended to encourage more walking and biking on two-way streets, which have been shown to reduce traffic speeds. It also falls in line with the Hancock administration’s goal to reduce Denver’s greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2040.

Denver’s transportation department also upgraded the traffic signal at the Broadway and Walnut intersection “to accommodate two-way travel with new pedestrian countdowns to help facilitate safer crossings for people walking and riding bikes,” the department said in a release.

Later this fall, crews will be back to change all parking on the stretch of Walnut Street to parallel parking.

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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A corporate parking garage customer asked the hotel for a security escort for its workers who must walk across the mall to their office at Republic Plaza.

“They’re finding it very unsafe. It’s the amount of homeless downtown, the encampments,” said Tony Dunn, the Sheraton’s general manager.

“We see in our guest commentary right, now since we are getting some customers back, they’re saying, ‘Love your renovation. Great new rooms.

Your staff are great. What is going on outside your building? It’s unsafe. We don’t feel comfortable walking down the street. We would reconsider ever staying here again due to the fact that we don’t feel safe.’”

The Sheraton’s situation is not unlike what’s happening nationwide, especially in urban areas that normally attract commerce, conventions

A rendering of the new two-way Walnut Street.

and business travelers with expense accounts. And the hotel’s problem is one shared by businesses throughout downtown Denver, which is now nearly devoid of the office workers who used to fill the streets during the day and stood in long lines for fancy salads over the lunch hour.

Several business owners reported to The Colorado Sun that the situation is getting worse, and at least one company already moved to the suburbs.

“I challenge anyone to walk a single block on the 16th (Street) Mall, the heart of downtown, and not see, smell or step in all of the five P’s — pee, poop, puke, pot and panhandlers,” Mark Cutright, manager of RTA Petroleum, wrote in a letter to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s office.

The small engineering company that operated out of downtown for several years officially vacated Sept. 1.

The firm moved from The University Building at 16th and Champa streets, formerly home of William Crow Jewelers, to the south suburb of Centennial.

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Workers finish up construction on the new entrance to the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel on the city’s 16th Street Mall on Sept. 9. The hotel is nearing completion of an $80 million remodeling project.

PHOTO BY JOHN INGOLD/THE COLORADO SUN “Denver, as the largest city on the Front Range, is very important to the region and without a healthy core, I fear for the Front Range,” Cutright said.

64 events canceled at Convention Center There has been an increase in people who are homeless in the city since January. Denver Homeless Out Loud volunteers counted 664 tents — estimated to be sheltering 1,328 people — on a single night in downtown Denver in July. That’s about 30% more people than the annual census taken in January (which was at nearly twice the number from a year earlier).

The coronavirus impact on unemployment has been staggering. At the end of August, there were nearly 280,000 Coloradans receiving some form of unemployment benefits, or more than four times the average weekly number in 2010, during the Great Recession. And without a job, it’s hard to pay the rent.

But homelessness in the city isn’t

new and has long been cited as a negative factor in surveys of visitors, said Tyler Jaeckel, director of policy and research at The Bell Policy Center.

“That’s been true pre-COVID and I’m sure it’s probably true now. And I think that’s true of most major cities across the country. I don’t think Denver is unique in any way,” Jaeckel said. “With that being said, I don’t want to say that homelessness is not a problem. I think it has been a problem and continues to be a big problem. …

In my mind, it’s not a Denver issue but a state issue.”

It’s difficult to know how much of the city’s future convention, meeting and hotel business has been impacted directly by COVID safety measures versus the growing homeless population downtown.

But the Colorado Convention Center puts the economic devastation at nearly $1 billion. Some 64 events at the convention center plus another 505 SEE HOTELS, P4

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at individual hotels were canceled, which were projected to bring in $703 million and $203 million, respectively, in direct and indirect economic benefits. The indirect part reflects added sales for nearby restaurants, stores and services that are now lost because of fewer visitors.

“These cancellations are for groups that would have met between March and December of 2020,” Rachel Benedick, Visit Denver’s executive vice president of sales and services, said in an email. “We are in conversations with our first-quarter groups and they are all discussing their options.”

Police calls along mall are down Whether a business can recover may just depend on where it is downtown. Closer to the Capitol, summer protests supporting or opposing racial justice or defunding police have been lumped together with vandalism, anarchy and civil strife.

J.W. Lee, president of the Wasabi & Menya Group of restaurants, said all of Menya’s restaurants have reopened for in-person dining except one: the Capitol Hill location, near Colfax and Washington.

“I got vandalized,” Lee said. “Glass was broken at Colfax. Myself or yourself, would you go there? There’s no point to opening that business.”

RTA Petroleum manager Cutright, who wrote the mayor’s office about the five P’s, cited the city’s “failure to control the riots” or control the homelessness crisis as his main reasons for moving the business to Centennial. The oil company executive also complained about the parking situation and a lack of progress in improving the light-rail system, which “will continue to decline as people avoid public transportation and use personal cars” because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Cutright said the mayor’s office has not yet replied.

The Denver Police Department has a dedicated homeless outreach team that primarily works downtown and focuses on connecting people who are homeless with shelters and other resources. A spokesman said the police department’s budget was cut because of the pandemic and that it doesn’t have the resources to assign additional officers to the problem areas downtown, including around the hotels.

“DPD hears their concerns and values their partnership, however,

X marks the spot of the temporary entrance to the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel on the city’s 16th Street Mall on Sept. 9. The hotel is nearing completion of an $80 million remodeling project.

PHOTO BY JOHN INGOLD/THE COLORADO SUN due to budget cuts brought on by the pandemic, DPD is unable to allocate additional resources in response to their request,” the spokesman said.

Dunn, who is also chairman of the Colorado Hotel and Lodging Association, said he realizes money is tight but there’s a snowball effect. If guests aren’t booking rooms in the city, that means fewer tax dollars to provide revenues for future city budgets.

“Everybody’s been cut back and I get it and I understand it,” Dunn said.

“But if we don’t have any tax dollars because our stores are closed and my hotel, what if my hotel closed?

What if you had a 1,230-room hotel on the mall sitting empty? … We talk about having no tax dollars today, but tomorrow, it’s going to be worse.”

While downtown, with fewer workers and more folks who are homeless, might seem less safe these days, the statistics don’t support that.

Crime is in fact down along 16th Street Mall. The Denver Police Department “calls for service” along the mall have been nearly 30% lower from March 17 to Sept. 1 than they were during the same time period in 2019.

Of course, this mainly is due to the fact that downtown has far fewer people this spring and summer than it did last year.

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While police initiated 914 calls for service during that time frame last year, they initiated 803 this year, a 12% drop. Citizens called for police assistance 1,600 times in those four and a half months last year, but called 977 times this year — a 40% drop.

The calls for service include everything from a person sleeping on the sidewalk to a robbery or shooting.

The data includes calls along 16th Street, from Broadway to Chestnut.

Cathy Alderman, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, said that when stay-athome orders went into place in March, some people who didn’t have a home stayed on the streets. The rise of encampments is a sign of the growing economic disparity as folks have increased difficulties finding affordable housing and, due to coronavirus impact, a job. But this is an ongoing issue, she said.

“I don’t feel like Denver is less safe now than before the pandemic,” Alderman said. “We certainly had some civil unrest, and we’ve seen protest activity, and we’re experiencing spikes in crime here and there, but to attribute that to homelessness paints too broad of a brush.”

Hotel rooms are at half price, low occupancy Hotels suffered the brunt of coronavirus layoffs and furloughs in March and April, with storied establishments like the Brown Palace Hotel & Spa in Denver or the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs closing for two months. Hotels were considered critical businesses and allowed to remain open, but many closed anyway as demand dwindled and travel pretty much stopped.

The recovery has been much worse for hotels in Denver, which saw their average daily rates plunge to $70.17 in April, nearly half what they charged a year earlier. And occupancy rates fell to 21.2%, according to STR, a company that tracks the hospitality industry. Statewide, hotels saw higher occupancy rates and average rates than Denver’s as tourists returned.

In Denver, average daily rates improved in July to $89.55 per night with 44.5% of the rooms occupied.

Both of those numbers are about half

of what they were a year ago.

Top-25 markets, including Denver, have been “hit disppropriationaly harder because that is where large meetings normally go to meet,” said Jan Freitag, STR’s senior vice president of Lodging Insights. “There are no corporate groups, there is no meeting demand to speak of. And there is limited corporate demand. Now, Denver is lucky in that it’s close to nature, close to the Rockies and that has been very attractive this summer as people holed up at home for 100 days said they need to get out.”

But STR doesn’t see the convention and business traveler market fully recovering for another year.

“We’re talking right now, realistically, about a real recovery in group travel being next summer or maybe next Labor Day,” he said. “Because keep in mind, what will make people come back into a ballroom with 200 to 300 people? They need to feel safe.”

During March to July, hotels were the among the most frequent types of businesses warning about furloughs and layoffs, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filings with the state Department of Labor and Employment. More than 11,000 hotel workers were impacted, but plenty of others were among the unofficial job cuts in the hospitality industry, which led the state’s new unemployment claims each week since March.

But for now, there’s a 100-person limit on the number of people who can congregate in indoor spaces, provided that the room is big enough to allow it. Variances are available, but according to a social-distancing calculator used by the state’s Department of Public Health & Environment, 100 people can fit in a 20,000-square-foot room. To host a crowd of 1,000 guests, one would need a 200,000-square-foot ballroom. The Sheraton Denver has 131,670 square feet of event space available.

And without knowing when those restrictions will be lifted, uncertainty is what’s really hurting the industry, said Dunn, with the Sheraton Denver hotel and also chairman of the Colorado Hotel and Lodging Association.

“There’s pent-up demand to have meetings, but these meetings take months if not years (to plan). People say, ‘I don’t even know if I want to book in 2021 because, based on what I see today what the restrictions are, I don’t know if I’ll be able to have 1,000 people in your building,’ and we can’t tell you yes or no either,” Dunn said. “We’ll all be doing small, 50-to100 person meetings, which is fine because they’re the short-term stuff that happens year to year. But the big ones book seven years out. (Everyone) is staying away from 2021.”

Guests and travelers will feel safer when there’s a vaccine or a very rapid saliva test so travelers are tested before they board a plane or as they enter a hotel lobby, Freitag said.

Only then will meeting planners start rebooking events. Freitag strongly believes business will return.

“After 9/11, we felt we’d never fly again. And we were wrong. Post 2008, we thought we’d never be in a resort again, and we were wrong. So you know the Mark Twain quote, ‘The rumors of my death are exaggerated’ is very true,” he said. “People want to travel, people want to meet. Right now they can’t. But they will again.”

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

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South High student receives community volunteer award Abrahm honored for work with Generation Ocean, school food pantry

BY CINDY PIGGOTT SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

The importance of youth volunteering is worth noting.

Young people who volunteer regularly practice skills like collaboration and problem solving. They build relationships and strengthen their support network. Volunteering provides the opportunity to work through real challenges and make meaningful change. Young people who volunteer regularly develop civic identity as leaders and changemakers.

Kyle Abrahm, an upcoming senior at Denver South High School, is one of those leaders and changemakers. The Minoru Yasui Community Volunteer Award Committee recently honored Abrahm for his extraordinary volunteer efforts.

Abrahm, one of the youngest recipients of the award, was nominated for his work as one of the founders of Generation Ocean. Generation Ocean is a group of passionate young people who advocate for change. They lead river and park cleanups, campaign to educate locals about the alternatives to single use plastics and take expeditions abroad to participate in coral restoration, citizen science and research projects.

When Abrahm was 12, he became scuba certified and had an internship

Kyle Abrahm, center, a Denver South High School student who was recognized with the Minoru Yasui Community Volunteer Award, stands with Sarla Thal, left, Minoru Yasui committee member, and Ali Miller with Generation Ocean during the recent award presentation in Abrahm’s backyard.

Abrahm decided to donate his $2,000 cash award to Generation Ocean.

ABOUT THE AWARD The Minoru Yasui Community Volunteer Award is a program of Spark the Change Colorado. The award was conceived by the Commission on Community Relations to recognize and promote volunteerism by honoring an individual each month whose contributions are constructive, unique and outstanding.

To learn more about this award, donate or nominate an extraordinary volunteer, visit website www.minyasui.org. at Denver Divers. Inspired by a scuba research trip in Cuba, he and some older high school students approached Denver Divers about starting a nonprofit with a focus on environmental conservation and climate change. As a founding member, Abrahm helped to establish the vision, mission and the goals of Generation Ocean. As the student representative on its board of directors, Abrahm takes on the responsibility of ensuring those objectives are met.

In addition to his volunteer efforts with Generation Ocean, Abrahm volunteers with the South High School Food Pantry. Abrahm would spend his lunch hour helping unload and unpack food deliveries, and volunteered every Wednesday as the coordinator for the Student Senate volunteers, which entailed scheduling and making sure the bases were always covered. Abrahm spent more than 20 hours each month making certain that the Food Pantry was a success and ensuring that families did not go hungry. During these challenging times, Abrahm has continued packing

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food boxes in the mobile pantry for families in need.

Abrahm also coordinated three blood drives at South High in the past two years. He recruited donors, helped with the set up and breakdown of the events, organized snacks and water for donors and worked closely with the phlebotomists to make sure the drives were successful.

Kyle coordinated nearly 40 donors at each event, constituting 120 donations and helped to save hundreds of lives.

“Kyle is one of the most natural leaders that I have come across in my twenty years of teaching,” said Jason Brookes, Denver South High School’s director of activities and student leadership. “He is an exemplary citizen in-and-out of the classroom, and is respected by his peers, teachers, coaches, advisers and administrators. He is

intelligent, enthusiastic, creative, well spoken, entertaining and dedicated to making Denver South High School and the surrounding community the best it can be.”

In addition to his volunteer activities, Abrahm is a talented athlete, playing both tennis and lacrosse for South High.

Above everything else, Abrahm continues to do all of this while maintaining a cumulative GPA of 5.129 and is currently ranked first in his graduating class of 2021.

Abrahm’s integrity, passion and leadership make him the epitome of the next generation of volunteers and a most-worthy candidate for the Minoru Yasui Community Volunteer Award.

Cindy Piggott is the chairperson of the Minoru Yasui Community Volunteer Award Committee.

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Fans at a Broncos game: How it’ll work Team will admit 5,700 to watch Brady’s Buccaneers

BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

Gov. Jared Polis announced Sept. 8 that the state will allow fans to attend Denver Broncos games in person starting on Sept. 27 when the NFL team takes on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Empower Field at Mile High Stadium.

“We all know it’s just not the same if they are playing to an empty stadium,” Polis said, wearing an orange tie and donning a Broncos mask.

Polis said 5,700 paying fans will be allowed to attend the Sept. 27 game, most of them season ticket holders.

Polis made the announcement at a news conference at the governor’s mansion in downtown Denver. He was joined by Brittany Bowlen, the Broncos’ vice president of strategic initiatives.

The move marks one of the significant unwinding of coronavirus restrictions in Colorado since the pandemic reached the state in early March. Polis said it is a major step in the return to normalcy.

“Today’s announcement would not be possible without … the hard work that our entire community has put into place,” Bowlen said.

Bowlen said seating will be done in small pods and seating will be broken into groups. She said fans should

expect Empower Field to look a lot different this season.

Here’s how it will work, according to Bowlen: - There will be mask-wearing requirements, as well as social distancing guidelines in place. A maximum of six people will be allowed per seating pod.

- Pods will be separated by at least six feet.

- Sections will be separated as well, with fans encouraged to use the concessions and restrooms closest to their seating area.

- Concessions and restrooms will be “touchless and cashless.”

“Season-ticket members will be entered into a lottery,” Bowlen said.

“It will be based on their priority number, or weighted by their priority number. … Details will be shared with our season-ticket members.”

A small percentage of tickets will be sold at half-price to non-season-ticket holders.

Polis said there will be an opportunity to examine whether additional fans can attend Broncos games in the coming weeks.

Polis said he hopes the return of fans at Broncos games will provide a model for not only other professional sports teams in Colorado, but for other large events.

Only a handful of NFL teams and the cities they play in are allowing fans to attend games in person as the season opened Sept. 10.

The Kansas City Chiefs played before 16,000 fans, about 30% of Arrowhead Stadium’s capacity, at their first 2020–21 season game. A week later, on

Gov. Jared Polis, right, speaks to reporters alongside Brittany Bowlen, the Broncos’ vice president of strategic initiatives, on Sept. 8.

PHOTO BY JESSE PAUL/THE COLORADO SUN Sept. 17, the Cleveland Browns were set to play the Cincinnati Bengals in front of 6,000 fans, about 10% of their stadium’s capacity.

The Dallas Cowboys, Indianapolis Colt and Miami Dolphins are also planning to host fans at their stadiums when the season begins.

Polis rejected the idea that the state was playing favorites by allowing the Broncos to welcome back fans while other large venues and events are still waiting to resume operations. Colorado only allows events of up to 175 people right now.

“The Broncos are beloved, but frankly they are playing by the same rules here as every other type of large event,” Polis said.

Bowlen said it took three months to come up with plans to allow fans to safely watch games at Mile High Stadium. That process included construction work building upgrades.

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Its ArtLab is a “year-round, out-ofschool paid internship program for a cohort of 17 high school youth from historically marginalized populations that integrates the creative process and art-based learning with academic, personal and professional skill development,” according to program literature.

RedLine is also a Denver-based nonprofit. It serves as a “contemporary art center and artist residency that fosters education and engagement between artists and communities to create positive social change,” as stated on the website.

Both organizations are located in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood, and serve the metro-wide community.

This year’s theme for the 48 Hours summit, as well as the topic for the Aug. 8 Conversations with Gen Z, was Afrofuturism & Beyond.

The youths participating in the forum got to speak with Dr. Christopher Bell, an associate professor of media studies in the Department of Communication at the University of ColoradoColorado Springs who specializes in the study of popular culture; Rep. Leslie Herod, D-Denver; and Toluwanimi Obiwole, a Nigerian-born, Coloradoraised multidisciplinary artist, healer, educator and organizer.

Afrofuturism is loosely defined as “a movement in literature, music, art, etc., featuring futuristic or science fiction themes which incorporate elements of Black history and culture,” according to Oxford’s English Dictionary online.

With the panelists, the youths were

Jojo Valdez, 19, of Denver was one of six PlatteForum ArtLab interns to participate in this year’s Conversations with GenZ on the topic of Afrofuturism.

COURTESY OF ESTHER HERNANDEZ to discuss “Black thought/philosophy, inclusivity and representation in media and the arts,” said Esther Hernandez, creative programming manager at PlatteForum.

They were charged with coming up with all the questions on their own, and, she added, leading the conversation.

“It’s really important for youth to talk with community leaders about current issues. It can affect change,” Hernandez said. She added that the hope is, following the conversation,

that the youth will be able to create the world they want to live in. “Having this experience gives them (the youth) the ability to go forward in their future. They learn their voice is important.”

She added that the community leaders were also genuinely interested in the conversation, and seemed to enjoy discussing the topic with the teens.

It was valuable to “be able to see and understand different peoples’ perspectives on Afrofuturism,” Crews said.

This was the second time he had

participated in the Conversations with Gen Z, which is voluntary for ArtLab interns.

“Afrofuturism has always been relevant, but now more than ever, it’s in the limelight,” said Jojo Valdez, 19, of Denver, who participated in the Conversations with Gen Z for the fourth time. “We as Gen Z need to know what’s going on in the world.

We can’t make a difference if we don’t understand what’s happening.”

The panelists hold a variety of different — but each important — roles in the community, which made the conversation even more valuable, Valdez said.

“Art is a universal form of communication,” Valdez said. “That’s why it’s so important to talk with community leaders. It’s valuable to learn how other people view Afrofuturism.”

Afrofuturism is very much a part of today’s youths’ lives, said JC Futrell, director of education at RedLine.

“Our young people have grown up with this culture” of Afrofuturism, Futrell said. “It is their norm.”

Being a generation that’s post-Black Panther Party, young people today have been influenced by figures such as Kanye West, who is an American rap artist; and former U.S. President Barack Obama, Futrell said.

It is important for youth to be able to engage with leaders who they can identify with, Futrell said.

Because “one day,” Futrell said, “they will become the future leaders.”

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e are living in interesting times. Just a while ago our calendars were jampacked with events. That quickly changed to having a wide open calendar and spending more time at home and in the beautiful outdoors.

Just because you’re LIVING & at home doesn’t mean AGING WELL you have to cancel on being physically active! Often, it is believed that physical activity and exercise can only be completed in a gym setting or through sports, but physical activity can actually be found all around you even in Deni Jacobs your daily activities.

You just need the motivation to move!

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that adults over the age of 65 participate in at least 150 minutes of moderate activity per week or 75 minutes of vigorous activity. In addition to the aerobic ac-

tivity recommendations, the CDC also recommends that older adults complete strength training a minimum of 2 days per week. There are many ways you can meet these minimums outside of a formal setting.

Want to meet the recommendations for aerobic activity? Moderate activity is considered continuous activity that makes you take a breath after every sentence you speak. Walking is an excellent and simple form of exercise that’s good for almost everyone, from beginners to people who have been physically fit for years.

According to National Institute on Aging, studies have shown that walking is great exercise, and like other endurance activities has wonderful benefits, from weight loss to stress control and much more. For some, walking for the recommended 30-minutes a day can be difficult. If so, try building up to it by walking for 10-minutes at a time, three times a day.

As your endurance improves, work on walking longer to hit that goal of a single 30-minute walk. When you hit that goal, add new challenges,

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Vote green, not Gardner I spent this Labor Day weekend taking in the views of three of Colorado’s iconic fourteeners in the San Juan Mountains.

I couldn’t have asked for better hiking weather — clear skies, comfortable temperatures and no afternoon thunderstorms. That all changed Monday, when I drove back to Denver amid a thick blanket of ash. Later that evening, the temperature plummeted 60 degrees, and the ash turned to snow.

It isn’t normal to go from record high temperatures in the 90s and 100s straight into a snowstorm in early September. And it certainly isn’t normal to watch uncontrollable wildfires destroy our beautiful state. But it will become Colorado’s new normal if our federal elected leaders don’t face the facts and take action now to tackle climate change.

Our best chance to fight back and change course is by sending John Hickenlooper to the Senate. As governor, he helped Colorado take groundbreaking action to combat the climate crisis, expanding public transit and shifting the state toward renewable energy. He’ll do the same as our senator.

Cory Gardner’s environmental record is abysmal, despite his recent efforts to greenwash it. He has stood silent while the Trump administration has rolled back myriad environmental rules, and voted to appoint a former coal lobbyist to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

Cory Gardner has made it clear that he’s not willing to fight for the future of Colorado. We deserve a senator that will preserve what’s great about our state. We must elect John Hickenlooper in November.

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activity can be completed anytime and anywhere. You just need to get creative and get motivated! Get out and take a walk, run or ride. See what a wonderful job our Parks Department has done on all the trails. Add strength and balance exercises to your daily activities. Exercise with hand weights or substitutions you have available at home like soup cans. Practice yoga or tai-chi using free videos online or sign up to take virtual classes from your local recreation center.

Deni Jacobs, CTRS is therapeutic/senior programs coordinator with Parker Parks and Recreation. For additional information, questions or resources needed, please email djacobs@parkeronline.org. This column is hosted by the Seniors’ Council of Douglas County.

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other Nature spent more time naming some of her children than she did others. Allegedly it took her three days to come up with “platypus.”

It’s known she spent over an hour deciding on “hamster.” My understanding is that she was especially pleased with herself after creating “gnu” and “gnat” on the same day, confounding QUIET friends with two different “gn” proDESPERATION nunciations.

But when it came to naming one — the story goes — she said, “Let’s get this over with as soon as possible.”

Why? Because an example was whizzing around her office, annoying the Craig Marshall heck out of her.

Smith One followed me inside today after I mowed the lawn.

Therefore, this essay.

They’re forgotten about in the winter because they’re more active in the summer, even though the female can reproduce year-round.

If you haven’t guessed, I’ll give you some clues.

In 1958, a film that ended with the words, “Help me. Help me,” was named after this aerial pest.

Its name was also the title of a 1961 Chubby Checker dance song

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such as extending the time you walk, increasing your walking pace, or even adding an extra day of walking to your weekly routine. A helpful tip; be sure to wear sturdy shoes that give you proper footing when you do your walking.

Want to meet the strength training requirement but don’t feel comfortable going to the gym, have time to go the gym or have special equipment? You can easily add it in as you are unloading the groceries from the car. Hold onto the handles of a bag of groceries and do some bicep curls with it.

Bicep curls can also be done with a jug of milk - just make sure the lid is on tight. When doing strength training, it is important to work opposite muscle groups, so if you work your biceps, grab a can of vegetable soup and do some triceps extensions, too. You can also do some work on your shoulders while you have the soup cans in your hands. Just lift your arms straight in front of you or out to the sides; for safety just don’t lift your arms above shoulder height while doing these exercises.

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that reached number seven on the U.S. pop chart.

The song is almost as annoying as the insect.

All of Mother Nature’s children, no matter how bad they are or seem to be, have something good about them.

This is true for spiders and snakes.

Bats have been getting some bad press lately, but bats eat a lot of insects, and that means fewer insects to bother us.

However, a fly is good for nothing.

The fly, and specifically the housefly, is a nuisance.

They are worldwide, including the Artic and the tropics (where they are abundant.)

My sixth-grade teacher, Mr. Thomas at Acacia Elementary in Fullerton, California, used to catch them in mid-air.

A Venus flytrap is fun to watch.

It will eat a variety of insects and arachnids, not just flies.

An assortment of papers, traps, and ribbons, including the Catchmaster 931 Giant Fly Glue Trap, is available online and in hardware stores. Warning: They work, but it’s not a pretty sight, and they don’t know the difference between a fly and a ladybug.

Ladybugs, along with being cute little devils, dispose of crop-damaging aphids.

We don’t have flies around here in the numbers they do in other parts of the country. The same goes for mosquitoes, another one of Mother

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“Mosquito” is Spanish for “little fly.”

Mosquitoes cause the deaths of over 700,000 people every year. Some estimates are even higher.

Male mosquitoes don’t bite humans, but females do. Most of us don’t even try to make a distinction, and dispose of both whenever possible.

Male and female mosquitoes buzz, by the way.

According to Mosquito Squad, “Today, 90% of all malaria deaths in the world occur in Africa, south of the Sahara.”

Fortunately for us, mosquitoes prefer humid, tropical regions.

Which brings me to humidity. Few things vex me as much as humidity.

Houseflies, mosquitoes, and humidity.

You can watch all three in “Deliverance,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and “The Prisoner of Shark Island.”

The prisoner referred to is Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was sent to Shark Island as punishment for treating John Wilkes Booth after Booth shot President Lincoln.

Mudd was eventually pardoned, partly because, as a physician, he was able to stem a yellow fever outbreak on the island caused by mosquitoes.

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Half of the revenue would be dedicated directly to underserved communities with a “strong lens toward equity, race and social justice,” and exemptions for food, water, fuel, medical supplies and feminine hygiene products would be built into the legislation.

2B: Funding to address homelessness Similar to the proposed climate tax, this question will ask Denverites to raise sales taxes by 2.5 cents for every $10 spent — or an average of $5.25 per household a month, according to the mayor’s office — to collect $40 million a year directed to housing, shelter and services to support job training and mental and physical health for people experiencing homelessness. The issue was led by Denver City Councilwoman At Large Robin Kniech and backed

by Mayor Michael Hancock, who said the city is “pulling every lever available to help people and ensure that episodes of homelessness are brief and one-time occurrences.” There are more than 4,100 people experiencing homelessness in Denver, according to the latest Point-in-Time survey.

2C: Professional services for the Denver City Council If approved, this city charter amendment, led by Denver City Councilwoman At Large Debbie Ortega, would grant City Council the authority to hire professional services, including legal counsel, without needing a green light from the executive branch upstairs. The need, she says, has come to the forefront on multiple occasions, including just a few years ago when council members were required to review a massive contract for the Great Hall Project at Denver International Airport, which ultimately went sour and cost nearly $184 million to terminate. This bill is one of a series on the ballot that would empower the city’s legislative branch.

2D: DOTI advisory board A second charter amendment led

by Ortega would create an advisory board for the city-run Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, which was created with voters’ approval last year. The Board of Transportation and Infrastructure would provide policy and operational strategy advice to the director, currently Eulois Cleckley, and review the proposed annual budget. The board will be made up of 19 people, all of whom will go unpaid. Six members will be appointed by the mayor, and 13 will be chosen by each of the 13 City Council members. Those selected to the board must live in the districts of their appointing council member and represent “a variety of interests, backgrounds and geography,” according to the bill.

2E: Denver City Council approval of mayoral appointments Part of a series of ballot questions that would give the legislative branch more oversight of the executive branch, this charter change would give council members the authority hto approve 11 cabinet appointees, plus the sheriff, and fire and police chiefs. The initiative is spearheaded .by Councilwomen Amanda Sawyer and Candi CdeBaca with the intent of ensuring more accountability and transparency within the city’s executive leadership. “Now more than ever, we owe it to our constituents to give them a more representative government,” Sawyer said.

Hailey Hayes, a 2020 Denver South High School graduate and co-founder of the metro-wide Youth Sustainability Board, speaks during a campaign kickoff event on Aug. 4 for Denver’s ballot measure 2A: Climate Funding.

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by Denver Clerk and Recorder Paul Lopez, would allow for the office to be restructured into three divisions, each with a director at the top. Lopez’ thinking is that all high-ranking employees should be appointed, so this change will let him appoint those people instead of having a mix of appointees and hired employees. The goal is clarity, and no impacts are anticipated to the city budget.

Vikki Otero drops off her ballot at the Washington Park Recreation Center drop-off site on Election Day in November 2019.

PHOTO BY KAILYN LAMB 2F: Removing outdated language from city charter Another bill led by Sawyer, this ballot referral will remove outdated language from the city charter, first created in 1904 and has been updated over time, to modernize the way the Denver City Council conducts public business. The issue came to light during the coronavirus emergency, when council members said it became clear that the city charter could potentially restrict the body’s ability to do business during times of emergency. The goal is to remove overly prescriptive language to give the council more flexibility to adapt the way they meet in times of uncertainty.

2G: Expanding Denver City Council’s budgeting authority Also part of Denver City Council’s effort to strengthen its own power, this ballot measure – the second led by Kniech – would give council members the authority to change the city’s budget mid-year. Denver’s governing document currently does not allow the Denver City Council to initiate a spending proposal, even with supermajority support, to address a pressing city need in the middle of a fiscal year that may not have been known or

possible to take up during the annual budget process. If the mayor doesn’t agree that the spending proposal is urgent or approve of the proposed approach, funds may have to wait a full year to be addressed in the next regularly scheduled budget.

2H: Closing the broadband gap Denver voters will be asked to decide whether to help bridge the city’s broadband divide. The bill, pushed forward by Councilman Paul Kashmann, would exempt the city from Senate Bill 152, which prevents municipalities from directly addressing broadband. The exemption, if passed, would not devote any public dollars to broadband, but provide the possibility to examine all options to broadband service. Currently, Denver is tied to mainstream providers, such as CenturyLink and Comcast. “I don’t want Denver to necessarily go build its own broadband infrastructure and say, ‘To heck with Comcast.’ I don’t want to do that,” Kashmann said. “But what I want to be able to do is have more flexibility.”

2I: Clarification on the Clerk and Recorder’s appointees The ballot measure proposal, led

2J: Allowing pit bulls in Denver Denver voters will also decide whether to lift the city’s pit bull breed ban, beginning in January, after more than three decades. The bill is led

by Councilman Chris Herndon and would establish a permitting system for pit bulls, breeds that include the American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier and Staffordshire Bull Terrier. If approved, pit bull owners would need to obtain a “breedrestricted permit.” If no violations for the dog are recorded for three consecutive years, it would be allowed to register like any other dog in Denver.

The measure was vetoed by Hancock earlier this year for safety reasons.

4A and 4B: Funding for Denver Public Schools Denver Public Schools is asking voters whether to provide $827 million in more funding for the school system through bond and mill levy proposals.

The bond measure would provide $795 million to build and maintain schools in the district. The second ballot initiative, called “Debt Free Schools,” would invest $32 million into mental health, nursing, special education and teacher compensation, with $15 million for DPS employees, including an increase in the minimum wage to $14.77 an hour and cost of living increases for teachers. The bond measure would help schools with maintenance, capacity, air conditioning, technology, a rebuild or remodel of the Montbello High School campus and $31.7 million in school funds to invest in communal spaces like classrooms, cafeterias, playgrounds, libraries, gyms and auditoriums.

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donated everything from an extra gallon of milk to a 60-inch flat-screen TVs and entire living room sets. One family had no space to accommodate visiting relatives, so a neighbor offered up a spare bedroom.

“We’re building one of the oldest kinds of economies,” Powers said.

“Giving your extra to your neighbors.”

Powers said the group has successfully introduced her to neighbors she now calls friends.

“People are so caught up in their own busy lives, it’s hard to know the neighbors even two or three houses away,” she said. “People have a lot of junk in their homes. It’s a great way to help each other out.”

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n March, as the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic washed over the nation, Jennifer Lisiecki of Denver posted on Facebook that she was available to provide child care for friends.

Soon, as grocery stores ran out of important items and businesses shut down, other friends followed suit, adding to her post with what they had to offer one another.

Before long, Lisiecki and her husband Kane started “Help Needed in Denver Metro COVID-19,” a Facebook group dedicated to connecting people in need with those able to help.

Soon the group was seeing 10 to 15 posts an hour, particularly from hungry people seeking food, and young parents desperate to find child-care items that had been wiped out at stores.

“Once we recognized the initial need, it was just go time,” Kane said.

Kane, a Denver shoe store manager, was sent home from work, so he and Jennifer devoted their days to managing the group.

“We would log on at 8 in the morning and stay on until 11 at night, seven days a week,” approving posts and moderating comment threads, Kane said. Among the rules: No requests or offers of cash, in an effort to keep scammers at bay.

“In the first couple weeks it was food and baby items,” Kane said. “Lots of people wanted cleaning supplies, but no one could get them. Diapers were a constant need.”

In one thread, a young mother explained that she, her husband and baby were living in a motel, out of formula and nearly out of diapers. They had burned up most of the gas in their car driving to local grocery stores, only to find bare shelves.

Littleton resident Kathy Powers started a chapter of the Buy Nothing Project to bring her neighborhood together.

COURTESY PHOTO The group lit up with people willing to drive diapers and formula to them.

In the span of a couple hours, the young family went from despair to elation and gratitude at the generosity of strangers.

Other stories abounded. A homeless mother who received assistance finding an apartment, then donations of furniture, dishes and food. A homeless man who received a ride to a shelter.

Group members gave away everything from guitars to painting canvases.

Today, the group stands just shy of 12,000 members. While it’s not as busy as it was during the height of the shutdowns, it stays lively with gifts of school supplies, furniture and more.

Kane and Jennifer still spend seven days a week managing the group.

“What if there is that mother or father in need and they have no money or car?” Kane said. “What if we aren’t on the page, and the post sits in the queue for hours? Where does that leave them?”

Even beyond the pandemic, Kane said the group filled a niche.

“For most Americans, if you have a

box of old clothes, you take it to Goodwill,” he said. “Well, people scraping by don’t have five bucks for a shirt.

This opens the door for those really in need. There are service organizations that give items away, but some people are embarrassed. This is connecting people with people. It’s true community.”

The oldest kind of economy Around the Denver metro area, others have cultivated community through cash-free exchange.

In Littleton, Kathy Powers is the moderator of a thriving local chapter of the Buy Nothing Movement, which focuses on gifts of goods, time or talent, and doesn’t allow for bartering or monetary exchanges.

The key, Powers said, is each chapter is bound to a small geographic area, and discourages “porch pickup,” encouraging neighbors to meet one another.

“It’s not about the stuff,” Powers said. “It’s about the people and the community.”

In Powers’ group, neighbors have

Bonding over food Others find food is the key to building community.

Eve Orenstein of Boulder heads Mile High Swappers, a “food swap” group with chapters in Boulder and Denver. The group meets in different locations, with attendees bringing multiple portions of homemade food to trade with one another.

“Bringing people together over food is a natural thing,” Orenstein said.

“You’ve got people with all sorts of skills: bakers, gardeners, fermenters — one woman has chickens and rabbits, and she brings eggs and Angora wool.”

While some people bring extravagant items, others bring simple foods.

But it’s not about calculating value, Orenstein said.

“It feels good to say here’s this thing I took the time to put together,” she said. “It has value to me and others.

Cash value is irrelevant if it’s done with love and care and skill.”

Homemade butter and honey are big hits, she said. Others bring unusual items — one member of the group, an astrophysicist, brings items like fermented black walnuts.

Orenstein admitted she sometimes accepts more than she wants to stay in the spirit.

“I have more jam and pickles than I’ll probably ever eat,” she said. “But it’s about sharing our passions and love with one another.”

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Break Bread food program soldiers on amid pandemic Church offers pickup service, limited delivery to help people who are struggling

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When Littleton United Methodist Church started its generous Break Bread program, it was aimed at young families with children, who lived in the surrounding neighborhood and needed a bit of food help, but the website says it “serves anyone who wants to enjoy it...” A one-night-a-week sitdown dinner in the church building was the plan.

Then a pandemic came to its community as well as the rest of the world, and the popular program, which had grown to distribution two times a week, had to work within county health guidelines of social/ physical distancing. Food is at present available for pickup only at the Shepperd Avenue entrance to the church, just east of South Datura Street (Saturdays 4 to 6 p.m.; Wednesdays: 4 to 5 p.m.). People unable to visit the church may be able to arrange for delivery within a three-mile radius on Wednesdays from 5 to 6 p.m. by calling 303-794-6379 (leave message for Jen Engquist.)

Numerous volunteers are involved in making this successful program work in the church’s recently remodeled professional kitchen, overseen by chef Joe Ruder and program director Engquist.

There is also a crew of volunteer vegetable gardeners, who supply fresh vegetables each week ...

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Sue and Randy Poet maintain this garden south of Littleton, where produce is grown for the Break Bread program.

Poet share a garden site on their large property south of Littleton, where those volunteers raise fresh food crops: tomatoes, corn, several varieties of squash, leeks, asparagus, cabbage, cucumbers, kohlrabi, raspberries, salad greens and more. We were fortunate to visit there recently, to better realize the generosity in this church community.

Fencing surrounds the garden — to preserve the produce for human consumption.

Hungry bunnies abound in the area, Sue says. And then, there were the elk — who had a fondness for raspberries and decimated a first crop! A tall electric fence now protects the berries and other tender produce.

Ruder told Sue Poet he could use anything available from the garden.

“Corn came in all of a sudden in a three-week period,” she said. “We gave away 1,800 ears of corn.” Overflow is stored in a commercial freezer in the church kitchen.

White plastic bins stand at ready on the edges of the garden, to convey batches of produce to the church kitchen. Volunteers work when they can during the week and the Poets supplying water and fencing.

“We actually could handle more — we have the capability,” said Sue Poet.

With last week’s snow in the forecast, volunteers came to cover tender plants with plastic protection. Hopefully the coming weeks will have more

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Plants were started from seed during a couple weeks in early March at the Poets’ home and carried to the site when ready to plant, tend carefully and eventually share.

Sue Poet grew up in Littleton and received this land from her late mother, Littleton Realtor Phyllis Dowell, whom longtime readers will probably remember, since she was active in community affairs.

The Littleton couple is building a contemporary-style home with a spectacular view of the mountains.

In 2014, the Poets were able to install power on the property, which meant that the well could have a pump installed to water the garden.

Annual art show runs through October

he Littleton Fine Arts Guild has opened its annual “This is Colorado” show of members’ works through Oct. 31 at Town Hall Arts Center’s Stanton Gallery, located in downtown Littleton at 2450 W. Main St. (Town Hall’s first show of SONYA’S the season will be SAMPLER presented at Hudson Gardens, but the box office and building will be open to visitors. LFAG will curate future exhibits at Town Hall, but some will be open to outside artists. See townhallartscenter. org for Stanton Art Gallery hours. (Note Sonya Ellingboe that the Heritage Fine Arts Guild’s annual show is also called “This is Colorado,” but is a completely separate exhibit, which this year will be a virtual presentation on the Arapahoe Community College Gallery of Fine Arts website from November through January.

Call for entries Heritage Fine Arts Guild’s annual statewide juried exhibition, “This is Colorado,” will accept submissions from Sept. 28 through Oct. 9 midnight.

Up to three images may be entered — $35 for members; $40 for non-members

office. ($47, $52.) 303-794-2787, townhallartscenter.org. Masks required, social distancing, e-tickets, wheelchairaccessible. Performances at 7 p.m.

Wednesdays through Saturdays and 2 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays. All tickets, whether purchased at the box office, online or by phone, will be print-athome, received by email. They will be sold in “Pods,” socially distanced from others. Bring folding chairs or blankets, or request Hudson Gardens chairs. Box office hours: Tuesdays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Aurora Fox The Aurora Fox season will include: “Tomfoolery” Sept. 18 to Oct. 11; “Black Nativity” Nov. 27 to Dec. 20; “The Pavilion” Jan. 29 to Feb. 21; “Queens Girl in the World” March 12 “South Valley Sky” is an oil by Merrie Wicks, exhibited in the Littleton Fine Arts Guild’s “This is Colorado” show at Town Hall Arts Center.

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Larkspur festival Larkspur Autumn Arts and Crafts Fest, at Larkspur Community Park on Sept. 19 and 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. will have 50 booths, food and refreshment area. More information at larkspurchamberofcommerce.com.

New hours in Littleton Littleton’s Bemis Library and Littleton Museum announce expanded hours. Library: Monday through Friday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Museum: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Reservations required: 303-795-3950. Timed entry required.

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‘Almost Heaven’ “Almost Heaven,” presented by Town Hall Arts Center at Hudson Gardens through Oct. 11, is based on John Denver’s music. Tickets at THAC box

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Kendrick Castillo nominated for national heroes garden The garden, ordered by President Trump, is to be completed by 2026

BY ELLIOTT WENZLER EWENZLER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Douglas County commissioners have nominated Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old who was killed in the May 7, 2019, shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch, to be memorialized in a national statue garden.

Kendrick, who lunged at one of the attackers in an attempt to stop him before being shot, was a senior at the school. Eight other students were injured in the shooting.

“What a hero is to me is somebody who puts others before themselves in every aspect,” Kendrick’s father, John Castillo said in an interview with Colorado Community Media bout the nomination. “On May 7, that’s what (Kendrick) did. He made the ultimate

choice to give up his life for others.”

President Donald Trump announced the idea for the National Garden of American Heroes in a July 4 speech at Mount Rushmore.

He signed an executive order for the monument to American heroes the day before.

Other nominations of people who may be featured in the garden, suggested by local and state leaders, include George Floyd, Rosa Parks and Sacagawea. In the executive order, Trump listed Ronald Reagan, Frederick Douglass and George Washington in a list of those to be honored.

The executive order calls for the national garden to be opened by the Fourth of July 2026.

The U.S. Department of the Interior reached out to the Douglas County board of commissioners to ask if the county had any nominations or ideas for where the statue garden could be placed, Commissioner Lora Thomas said.

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Thomas looked up the word hero and found “a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements or noble qualities,” she said.

“When I read that, I was like, ‘Well this is Kendrick Castillo,’” she said.

Thomas and her fellow commissioners Roger Partridge and Abe Laydon were in a meeting together on the day Kendrick was killed, she said.

“This was very personal for all three of us,” she said.

“That was very emotional for all of us.”

The decision to nominate Kendrick was unanimous, Thomas said.

In a letter nominating Kendrick, commissioners describe the young man’s sacrifice.

“According to a classmate, ‘Kendrick lunged at (the suspect), and he shot Kendrick, giving all of us enough time to get underneath our desks, to get ourselves safe and to run across the room to escape,’” according to the letter.

Commissioners also recommended Rocky Mountain National Park as a possible location for the statue.

“Kendrick being honored is just so fitting ... He always had a great spirit to serve others,” John Castillo said. “It would be somebody like Kendrick not just because he’s our son but because of how he lived his life through and through.”

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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 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.

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

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 Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO Court Address: 1437 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80202 Plaintiff: Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC vs.

Defendant: Guaranty Mortgage Corporation

Attorneys for Petitioner: Amanda Ferguson, #44893 Toni M. Owan, #30580 Heather Deere, #28597 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, P.C. 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250 Lakewood, CO 80228 Ph: 303-274-0155 Fx: 303-274-0159 E-mail: infoco@hwmlawfirm.com File No: CO10364 Case Number: 2020CV32247 SUMMONS To the Defendant named above: Guaranty Mortgage Corporation You are summoned and required to file with the clerk of this court an answer or other response to the complaint seeking Declaratory Judgment within 21 days after this summons is served on you in the State of Colorado, or within 35 days after this summons is served on you outside the State of Colorado.

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.

The following documents are also served with this summons: District Court Civil Case Cover Sheet; Complaint for Declaratory Relief Pursuant to C.R.C.P. 57; and Exhibits A through E. Dated: September 8, 2020 By /s/ Amanda Ferguson Amanda Ferguson, #44893 Toni M. Owan, #30580 Heather Deere, #28597 This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4, C.R.C.P., as amended.

Legal Notice No. 80670 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 15, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Misc. Private Legals PUBLIC NOTICE: Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless are proposing to collocate antennas on a 34-foot Public Lighting Structure Communications Tower near 196 N Hudson St, Denver, Denver County, CO 80220.

Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to, Environmental Resources Management, C/O Danna Allen, Wireless Projects, 235 Magrath Darby Boulevard, Suite 130, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464, or by email vzwnepa@erm.com, or by phone 1-615-656-4633.

Legal Notice No. 80675 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: September 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE: Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless are proposing to collocate antennas on a 34-foot Public Lighting Structure Communications Tower near 5293 E 2nd Avenue, Denver, Denver County, CO 80220.

Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to, Environmental Resources Management, C/O Danna Allen, Wireless Projects, 235 Magrath Darby Boulevard, Suite 130, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464, or by email vzwnepa@erm.com, or by phone 1-615-656-4633.

Legal Notice No. 80674 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: September 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Notice to Creditors Public Notice 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 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

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Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John Henry Teeter, Jr., Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31045 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 January 11, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Devin Michael Teeter Personal Representative 11117 Timmerman Street Quantico, Virginia 22134 Legal Notice No. 80658 First Publication: September 10, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 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 Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Phyllis C. Copland, Personal Representative 4592 S. Jebel Way Aurora, Colorado 80015 Legal Notice No. 80673 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 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 DANIEL H. CRESPIN, SR., a/k/a DANIEL HAROLD CRESPIN, SR., aka DANIEL H. CRESPIN, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030885

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 January 10, 2021 , or the claims may be forever barred.

Paul Lawrence Crespin Personal Representative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Legal Notice No. 80662 First Publication: September 10, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bobby L. Dees, ak Bobby Lee Dees, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 30809 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 11, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Brian S. Taylor, Personal Representative 8416 Arapahoe Peak Street Littleton, Colorado 80125 Legal Notice No. 80656 First Publication: September 10, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mary Lorian Horvat, a/k/a Mary L. Horvat, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30684 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Denver County, Colorado on or before January 10, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Person Giving Notice: Personal Representative, Patricia J Fischer 3785 Marshall St. Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Phone: 303-431-6646 patty@granatotax.com Legal Notice No. 80665 First Publication: September 10, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch 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 Gloria Jean Thomas, aka Gloria J. Thomas, and Gloria Thomas, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30832

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 NANCY K. WATTERS, a/k/a NANCY WATTERS, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31111 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 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Timothy M. Watters, Personal Representative 3765 W 7750 S Victor, ID 83455 Legal Notice No. 80676 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Une Suk Loeb, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30499 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 11, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Peter Loeb, Personal Representative 555 E. Hampden Ave. Suite 600 Denver, Colorado 80231 Legal Notice No. 80660 First Publication: September 10, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JOAN MURRAY, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030666 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 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 Susan Elaine Weil, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR031102

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 and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

William B. Hayes Attorney to the Personal Representative 257 Jackson Street Denver, Colorado 80206 Legal Notice No. 80668 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Artie Zaffer, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31107

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 17, 2021 , or the claims may be forever barred.

Pana Mingus Personal Representative 17137 E. Dorado Circle Centennial, CO 80015 Legal Notice No. 80677 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Raymond Leroy Terrell II, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30985

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 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

William B. Hayes Attorney to the Personal Representative 257 Jackson Street Denver, Colorado 80206 Legal Notice No. 80667 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Carolyn Billick, a/k/a Carolyn G. Billick, and Carolyn Grace Billick, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31042

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

Leslie Halstedt, Personal Representative 1242 West Boxelder Circle Chandler, AZ 85224 Legal Notice No. 80661 First Publication: September 10, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 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 Mary Jean Washington, a/k/a Mary J. Washington, and Mary Washington, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR031088

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Practice amid pandemic is ongoing challenge Masks, temperature checks, sanitized gear among features of athletics during COVID-19

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Mountain Vista boys tennis players with face masks on hiked up to the tennis facility, then checked in and had their temperatures taken before heading onto the courts.

It’s all part of the guidelines created because of the COVID-19 pandemic for practices for those sports in the CHSAA’s Sports A category (cross country, boys tennis, softball and boys golf) that are currently competing.

“It’s one of those things where you are grateful for the fact that you get to play, that you are in a social distancing sport,” said Vista boys tennis coach and Athletic Director Jim Flanigan.

“So you just say, what do we have to do so we can get to play?

“We’ve had to take the numbers down so we can’t have as many kids on the court as we did before,” he continued. “I’ve always had a no cut policy. This year, we’ve had to cut some kids. We usually have about 70 kids come out for tennis at Vista and we had to cut it down to 52.”

Football was one of the sports moved to spring as part of the CHSAA’s plan for the 2020-21 year that included four, seven-week seasons and reduced schedules.

In August the CHSAA stated that as part of a return-to-play plan traditional fall sports would switch to the spring as part of four seasons (A, B, C and D).

For now softball players, boys golfers, boys tennis players and cross country runners are practicing and playing.

Cross country runners this season must follow COVID guidelines like all other sports that are currently playing during the CHSAA’s Season A. PHOTO BY JIM BENTON “As far as practices, no changes” said Douglas County softball coach Dane Craig. “Players have to show up with a mask on and if they take a break they have to put a mask on. We have to take their temperatures every single day before a practice or game.

We have to have balls sanitized before we use them. We were supposed to extend our dugouts but actually ours are big enough.

“We have to put in more work preparing everything. We are dealing with one thing after another, most of them kind of driven from COVID. We had to mark off our bleacher for where people can and cannot sit. The biggest obstacle is those whether they are spectators

or whatever. If people see us out there without a mask on or kids without a mask, without knowing the rules and guidelines, they call our athletic director and say softball is not following the rules. They don’t know what we’ve been told and what we haven’t.”

Arapahoe boys golf coach Harry Buckner has seen no changes in practice sessions, “Our practices have been about the same as always,” he explained. “They work on their games individually and are separated when are working on chipping and putting. Golf is the safest game to play during these times.

Just hope we can get through the season.”

Douglas County School District athletic director Derek Chaney feels coaches are doing a good job.

“Practices aren’t the same,” admitted Chaney. “They are a little different for sure, as far as screening people when they first go to practice, taking temperature checks and social distancing when we can. We’re trying to do as much as we can. Some things remain the same but some things have to change.

“Coaches want to coach and it takes away a little bit from that when they have to all this other stuff. They are still doing the best they can with it and they have responsibilities to go with it.”

Public Notices 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 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Oren “Von” Limbaugh, Attorney For Personal Representative 13791 E. Rice Pl., Ste. 100 Aurora, CO 80015 Legal Notice No. 80672 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JILL HOPKINS CLINTON, a/k/a JILL H. CLINTON, a/k/a JILL CLINTON, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30998 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 18, 2021 , or the claims may be forever barred.

Judy Stapp, Personal Representative 500 Elm Street Denver, CO 80220 Legal Notice No. 80669 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Stephen Duane Mitchell, Jr., a/k/a Stephen D. Mitchell, Jr., a/k/a Stephen Mitchell, Jr.,

a/k/a Stephen Mitchell, a/k/a Duane Mitchell, Jr. and Duane Mitchell, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30994 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 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Virginia S. Vogelsong, Personal Representative c/o Law Office of Byron K. Hammond, LLC 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 960 Denver, CO 80246 Legal Notice No. 80657 First Publication: September 10, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 2020 Publisher: The 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 Meghan Marie Swanson, aka Meghan M. Swanson, aka Meghan Swanson, aka Meggie Swanson, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31094 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 18, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Vern B. Swanson, Jr. – Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203 Legal Notice No. 80671 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John Cann Taylor, Jr., a/k/a John C. Taylor, Jr., a/k/a John Taylor, Jr., a/k/a John Cann Taylor, a/k/a John C. Taylor, a/k/a John Taylor, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30925 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 11, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Louise H. Taylor, Personal Representative c/o KATZ, LOOK & ONORATO, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 80663 First Publication: September 10, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ROY SHIBATA, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31002 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 11, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lisa M. Hays, Personal Representative 524 Farmhouse Way Brighton, CO 80601 Legal Notice No. 80655 First Publication: September 10, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 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 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.

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 Thomas Robert Gutrich, a/k/a Thomas Gutrich, a/k/a Thomas R. Gutrich, a/k/a Tom Gutrich, a/k/a Tom R. Gutrich, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30999

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

Dan Gutrich Personal Representative c/o Groves Law, LLC 281 S. Pearl St., Denver, CO 80209 Legal Notice No. 80664 First Publication: September 10, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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All the flavors to entice kids.

All the nicotine to keep them hooked.

E-cigarette makers and vape shops are enticing kids with flavors like cotton candy, gummy bear and bubble gum. And nationally, over 5 million kids are using these flavored e-cigarettes.

Vape shops and tobacco companies say their products aren’t ending up in kids’ hands, but that’s just not true. Many retailers still sell to minors, and many of them in Denver even illegally sold products during the COVID-19 shutdown violating emergency orders.

Let’s stop pretending vape shops and the industry care about public health or the health of our children. It’s time to stop the sale of flavored tobacco products to protect our kids.

Take action now by visiting FlavorsHookKidsDenver.org to tell City Council Members Jolon Clark and Paul Kashmann to end the sale of all flavored tobacco products, including e-cigarettes.

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