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VOLUME 93 | ISSUE 46

No Stock Show for 2021, officials decide Denver tradition won’t be held in January due to COVID-19 uncertainty

BY ESTEBAN L. HERNANDEZ DENVERITE.COM

Misty Butterfield said she couldn’t find her backpack after a sweep of a homeless camp beside the South Platte River. She was one of many residents of the camp who said they feared their belongings were thrown out.

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Homeless sweep starts process over again After homeless camp removal, the unhoused are left scared, lonely

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Misty Butterfield couldn’t find her backpack.

“It’s green,” Butterfield said, her voice shaking, as she scanned the landscape beside the South Platte River, where her camp sat just hours before. “Everything I had was in it.

Clothes, a bag of rice — but also a lot of sentimental things.”

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Englewood and Denver police officers man a roadblock as Denver city staff sweep a nearby homeless camp.

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City officials and event organizers recently said that the 2021 National Western Stock Show has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 115th edition will move to 2022.

It’s just the second time in the show’s history it’s been postponed. An outbreak of hoof and mouth disease in 1915 among livestock caused it to be postponed, according to National Western Stock Show President and CEO Paul Andrews. He joined other event and city officials during a press briefing on Sept. 14.

“We’re extremely saddened by the need to announce today the postponement of the 115th National Western Stock Show by one year to January 2022,” Andrews said.

Calling the Stock Show the “Super Bowl of livestock shows,” Western Stock Show Association board chairman Doug Jones said rules governing gatherings of this size for social distancing and masking meant the show could not go on next year. Andrews also mentioned health rules in place made it “impossible” to put on the multi-day event.

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September 24, 2020

Some counties qualify for eased COVID rules For some counties, personal gatherings allowed up to 25, event crowd cap loosens

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Colorado released another round of new social-distancing rules, updating the state’s current “safer-at-home” policy to raise the cap on personal gatherings and event crowds for counties that qualify based on local severity of the coronavirus’s spread.

Arapahoe, Douglas and Elbert are among counties eligible for the new least-restrictive level of Colorado’s safer-at-home rules as of Sept. 16.

The vast majority of Colorado counties still operate under the saferat-home phase, which came after the statewide stay-at-home order this spring and allowed numerous types of businesses to reopen.

The state’s new framework, referred to as a “dial,” indicates when counties should operate under different shades of Colorado’s “safer at home” phase as well as when they should follow stay-at-home rules or the state’s third and loosest phase, called “protect our neighbors,” which allows for virtually all activities at 50% of pre-pandemic capacity with up to 500 people in one setting.

That third phase, reserved for counties with notably low coronavirus spread, is likely months away for metro Denver localities.

“We hope the dial can provide communities with clarity and predictability,” Jill Hunsaker Ryan, executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said in a Sept. 15 news release. “Recognizing that Colorado is a diverse and vast state, the dial is based on local conditions. Local governments can always choose more protective (strict) standards than the dial requires.”

The new rules come amid a “slight upward trend” in Colorado’s rate of new COVID-19 cases after the virus’s spread had been reduced for much of July and August, according to a Sept.

16 state news release.

Another gradual move to reopen The state public-health department’s new proposed framework breaks the safer-at-home phase itself into three levels that counties are placed under based on local COVID-19 spread, according to the final version of the rules, which went into effect Sept. 15.

State officials had heard from the public that Colorado should make recognizing local differences in rules simpler and more predictable, according to the draft of the framework.

For the past few months, counties have been able to apply for exemptions — or “variances” — from certain parts of the state’s safer-at-home rules, allowing for larger crowds at some types of businesses.

The new framework does away with the ability to apply for variances unless a county is already in the leastrestrictive new level of the safer-athome phase.

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ARAPAHOE, DOUGLAS, ELBERT QUALIFY FOR NEW LEVEL

Part of the Denver metro area was eligible for the new least-restrictive level of Colorado’s safer-at-home rules as of Sept. 16.

Arapahoe, Douglas and Elbert counties qualified, while Adams, Jefferson, Denver, Broomfield and Boulder counties fell into the new middle level of safer-at-home.

See what crowd size and gathering size levels apply to which contexts — including in restaurants, gyms, indoor and outdoor events, and others — on the state’s website at tinyurl.com/ColoradoNewSaferatHome.

Eligibility for the different levels depends on a county’s rate of new COVID-19 cases, the percentage of COVID-19 tests that come back positive and whether hospitalizations are stable or declining.

Continued reopening, aside from some bars

Counties don’t lose the variances they already were granted, though.

All variance allowances remained intact when the new framework launched — either because the variance standards are still possible by default under the new framework or because variances that do not fit into the new framework are still recognized, according to the state’s summary.

“This way, we transition to the new framework without any changes,” and counties’ future changes occur according to that framework, the summary says.

What changes mean for businesses, gatherings Previously, the highest exemption a county could achieve under the variance process included a 175-person cap for indoor events and 250-person cap for outdoor events, according to the state’s summary.

Those are the same capacities allowed in the least-restrictive new safer-at-home level, and it’s easier to qualify for that level than to meet the benchmarks set in the original variance process. In other words, the state has loosened the requirements for allowing larger crowds.

Although the new framework eliminates the possibility of new blanket, countywide exemptions, the state public-health department will still consider applications for “site-specific” variances for unique facilities, such as zoos, theaters or other large venues or events, according to the summary.

To fall into the highest exemption under the state’s previous rules, a county had to have a two-week rate of below 25 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people — a notably low rate for highly populated areas. In the new framework, to fall into that same level — which is the least-restrictive new safer-at-home level — a county has to have a two-week rate of up to 75 new cases per 100,000 people.

Among other items, that new level allows for: • 50% capacity or up to 175 people indoors at places of worship; • 50% capacity or up to 175 people indoors at restaurants; • 25% capacity or up to 75 people at gyms and fitness establishments; • Perhaps most notably, 50% capacity or up to 175 people at indoor events and 50% capacity or up to 250 people at outdoor events. In June, Colorado set the limits generally at up to 100 people for indoor venues and up to 175 people for outdoor venues.

• Also of note: The new level allows personal gatherings of up to 25 people, up from the limit of 10 the state

has maintained since spring after the stay-at-home order was lifted.

For counties where the virus’s spread is more dire, the two morerestrictive proposed levels of safer-athome phase — or, in the extreme case, the stay-at-home phase — apply, with restrictions tightening the worse the virus’s spread is.

For example, a county under the tightest new level of safer-at-home — seeing between 175 and 350 new cases per 100,000 people within two weeks — would fall under guidance for P-12 schools as follows: “Remote (online) or hybrid suggested, limited in-person as appropriate.”

The middle new level, on the other hand — for counties seeing between 75 and 175 new cases per 100,000 people within two weeks —gives guidance as follows: “In-person, hybrid, or remote as appropriate.”

For context, the 14-day rate per 100,000 for Arapahoe County was 76.2, the rate for Adams County was 107.1 and Douglas County’s rate was 65.3 as of Sept. 17, according to the Tri-County Health Department.

Where a county lands among the three proposed safer-at-home levels also depends on the percentage of COVID-19 tests that come back positive and whether hospitalizations are stable or declining.

Similar to Colorado’s previous process for applying for variances, a county that is eligible for and would like to move to a less-restrictive level would notify the state public-health department. A county can submit a letter signed by the local public health agency, local hospitals, and a majority of county commissioners or other county-level governing body.

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September 24, 2020

A day for those who ‘answered the call’ At Fort Logan National Cemetery, volunteers remember the fallen

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Doug Robinson worked in the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s, as a young hotshot at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

Before moving west to Denver, he got to know Rick Rescorla, the company’s head of security and a British Army veteran.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Rescorla led a column of evacuees down a stairwell of the Twin Towers. After the second plane hit, knocking out the power, panic exploded in the corridor as the lights went dark.

Rescorla, at the head of the column, picked up a megaphone and began belting out the Cornish battle hymns of his youth. Many survivors said his singing kept them calm enough to escape.

After escorting the group outside, Rescorla charged back into the building to look for survivors.

He was last seen sprinting up the 10th floor, megaphone in hand.

Rescorla was on Robinson’s mind on Sept. 12.

Robinson led volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, together with a group from Catholic Charities led by Mark Hahn, as they cleaned up and beautified the grounds at Fort Logan National Cemetery in southwest Denver for the annual National Day of Service and Remembrance.

“There’s so much divisiveness lately, but we have more in common than we think,” Robinson said as he unrolled sod over a bare spot on Fort Logan’s lawn. “This is a day to honor people who gave their lives for others. People who answered the call when it came. It’s a solemn anniversary, but it’s a day to look past our differences and give back to each other.”

Kathryn McEntire picks up leaves and trash amid the headstones at Fort Logan National Cemetery.

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September 24, 2020

A look at key races in the battle to control state Senate Parker Republican says GOP flip would ‘provide balance’

BY EVAN OCHSNER THE COLORADO SUN

Republicans in Colorado look unlikely to reclaim the state Senate majority they lost two years ago, observers from both sides of the aisle say, relegating the party to another two years in the background as Democrats control Colorado’s government.

The party is grappling with an election year that forces them to play defense and the unpopularity of President Donald Trump, who could harm down-ballot candidates. Less than three months to the election, GOP lawmakers and candidates say they remain optimistic about their odds, but most acknowledge they are just hoping to hold control of three key swing seats Democrats want to win.

“Flipping the Senate is going to be a pretty heavy lift,” said Republican strategist Ryan Lynch. “I think the hope out there is that we’re able to maintain the status quo going into redistricting.”

Republicans need to gain two seats in order to retake control of the upper chamber and disrupt the complete power Democrats have over lawmaking in Colorado. Along with a 19-16 majority in the Senate, Democrats hold a 41-24 advantage in the state House and Gov. Jared Polis isn’t up for reelection until 2022. At best this year, Republicans are looking to regain a

Sen. Kevin Priola, R-Adams County, and Sen. Julie Gonzales, D-Denver, listen as the Senate Health and Human Service Committee hears debate on a bill that would change Colorado’s vaccine exemption rules on Feb. 19.

PHOTO BY JESSE PAUL/THE COLORADO SUN couple of House seats they lost in 2018.

In 2018, Democrats seized power and have passed legislation to require employers to provide sick leave, set pollution reduction targets to address climate change, added new police accountability measures and toughened regulations on the oil and gas industry. The party’s lawmakers are pledging to take on other progressive priorities should they remain in control and prioritize increased funding for transportation, education and

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“A majority will continue (to) help ensure we will be able to deliver on the types of policies we’ve passed,” Senate President Leroy Garcia, D-Pueblo, said in an interview.

In addition to flipping two seats, Republicans need to win every seat they currently hold and stave off Democratic challengers in open seats.

It’s a big ask, and some Republicans believe that the party is more likely to have a net loss of one seat than it is to gain any. Democrats said they feel confident about holding the seats Republicans are targeting.

The electoral fortunes are a big reversal from the predictions from GOP leaders in the past two years.

Conservatives suggested that voters would see the downsides of one-party control and Democratic overreach and demand a return to split partisan power at the Capitol.

Republican Senate leader Chris Holbert declined an interview request, but in a statement, the lawmaker from Parker said voters in swing districts want bipartisan powerbrokers. “Putting Republicans back in control of the state Senate would provide balance, which is what those voters tell us that they want,” Holbert said.

GOP strategist Andy George, who ran the Republican state Senate campaign operation for more than a decade, said the party is facing an unfavorable map this year and is forced into a defensive stance. “Even is the best outcome they could hope for,” George said.

Jeffco seat seen as vulnerable Republicans’ best shot likely is in two suburban Denver districts.

The most vulnerable state Senate seat for Democrats is believed to be the 19th District, which sits in Jefferson County and includes part of Denver’s northwest suburbs around Standley Lake.

Rachel Zenzinger, an Arvada Democrat, won the seat from Republican incumbent Laura Woods in 2016. The district has more unaffiliated voters than it does members of any political party and continues to trend in that direction, according to an analysis from conservative-leaning Magellan Strategies.

Republicans hope Zenzinger’s support for progressive policies during

her term will alienate those unaffiliated voters. Jesse Mallory, who was chief of staff for Republicans the last time they held the Senate, from 2015 to 2018, and is now a senior advisor for Americans For Prosperity Action, said he thinks Zenzinger may have voted for more liberal bills than her constituents would be comfortable with.

But Zenzinger says her record is bipartisan and her independent-minded voters will see through the criticism.

“They just don’t buy into those kinds of partisan attacks,” she said. To buttress her support, she also landed the endorsement of the pro-business, conservative-leaning Colorado Chamber of Commerce.

Though unaffiliateds now make up over 40% of her district, there are still slightly more Democrats than Republicans in it. Zenzinger also has a significant fundraising edge, having hauled in eight times more money than her Republican opponent Lynn Gerber, according to campaign finance records analyzed by The Colorado Sun. Campaign funds allow candidates to spend on materials like mailers and flyers and also serve as an indicator of how much support they have and how well their campaign is run.

Bridges faces challenge in Arapahoe In the eyes of many Republicans, their next-best chance for picking up a seat is District 26 in Arapahoe County, which is held by Greenwood Village Democrat Jeff Bridges.

Bridges, who previously served in the House, was appointed to the seat in 2019 after the resignation of his predecessor, Daniel Kagan.

November’s election will provide all voters in his district with their first chance to weigh in on that appointment. But many Republicans see their chances in that district as even less favorable than in the race to unseat Zenzinger.

Like Zenzinger, Bridges has a large fundraising edge, raising more than 10 times what Republican challenger Robert Roth has collected, according to campaign finance records.

Arapahoe County was long a politically moderate part of the state, but Democrats swept into power in that area in 2018, led by U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, who defeated five-term Republican incumbent Mike Coffman. Voters also pushed out other Republicans, including Sheriff David Walcher, County Clerk Matt Crane and state Rep. Cole Wist.

Democratic lawmakers and strategists believe they are likely to hold Bridges’ seat. Senate Majority Leader Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, said he thinks Bridges has served his district well and hopes he will be rewarded for it. “He is a good, solid representative of that community,” Fenberg said.

Republicans, meanwhile, are most vulnerable in a formerly friendly seat.

Republicans are two seats away from a majority, but that’s only if the party is able to hold on to all of its other seats. In all, 18 seats are in play this cycle. And on paper the breakdown would appear to favor Republicans.

GOP incumbents occupy four seats up for grabs, Democrat incumbents hold seven, and seven others are open.

But two of the Republicans seeking reelection are facing tough challenges from Democrats and one of the open seats, formerly held by a Republican, is at risk of switching loyalties.

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September 24, 2020

New director to lead business development center STAFF REPORT

The Denver Metro Small Business Development Center (SBDC) has named China Califf as its new director.

The Denver Metro SBDC is an affiliate of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.

As director of the Denver Metro SBDC, Califf will “oversee a team committed to providing educational programming, one-on-one free consulting and virtual resources to Colorado entrepreneurs,” a news release stated.

“We are excited to have Califf join our Denver Metro SBDC and the chamber family at the time our small business community needs us most,” said Kelly Brough, Denver Metro Chamber’s president and CEO, in a news release. “Califf understands the strengths and changing needs of this community.”

Califf brings her experience of helping entrepreneurs and small businesses start and grow to the Denver Metro SBDC, the release said. For 17 years, Califf was involved with Colorado Lending Source where she led branding and marketing strategies, worked with Colorado’s Congressional Delegation and oversaw operations. Colorado Lending Source has been a key partner of the Denver Metro SBDC for two decades, and in her new role, Califf will continue to foster that partnership.

“Particularly at this moment in time, the types of education and opportunities needed by entrepreneurs are shifting and I firmly believe the Denver Metro SBDC network is wellpositioned to adapt to the changing environment of where and how we do business,” Califf said in the release. “I feel honored to continue the work of helping small businesses and the visionary entrepreneurs behind them to start, grow and prosper through the Denver Metro SBDC.”

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Open race in Centennial Republicans’ most difficult defense is likely Senate District 27, where Sen. Jack Tate, of Centennial, is stepping down. Vying to replace him is Republican Suzanne Staiert, who strategists from both sides say will have her work cut out for her to defeat Democrat Chris Kolker.

Staiert is a former deputy secretary of state who recently litigated the ethics case brought by a conservative nonprofit against former Gov. John Hickenlooper. She’s running in part on her role helping to create Colorado’s mail-in voting system during her time in the secretary of state’s office.

But Staiert said she isn’t getting much help from the Republican Party and instead is leaning on friends to help her win the Arapahoe County district. “I don’t have party activists,” she said.

She’s been outraised by Kolker, and even if she wins, Staiert said she thinks she will likely be legislating from the minority. “I think it’d be tough to take the majority,” she said. “We’d need to pick up two more seats.”

Kolker sought a seat in the state House in 2018, but came up short in his bid to unseat Republican Rep. Susan Beckman. Kolker is a financial planner and former high school teacher.

More tough challenges for GOP Republicans also have potentially vulnerable incumbents in northwest Colorado’s District 8, held by Bob Rankin, and the eastern Adams County District 25 represented by Kevin Priola.

Each incumbent has outraised his Democratic challenger so far but will need to attract a significant portion of the unaffiliated vote to win.

Rankin will need over 40% of unaffili-

ated voters to pick for him, according to an analysis by Republican strategist Ben Engen.

There’s some disagreement among strategists and legislators about how vulnerable Rankin is, but all political strategists who spoke with The Sun said his race was among the most competitive on the map.

Rankin, who moved from the House to fill the vacant GOP seat earlier this year, is running against Western Slope attorney Karl Hanlon, who lost in the 2018 Democratic primary for Colorado’s 3rd U.S. House district.

In state Senate District 25, which includes Thornton, Priola will need just under 60% of unaffiliateds to vote for him, according to Engen’s analysis. His Democratic challenger is Paula Dickerson, a longtime teacher.

Priola is a moderate Republican who often serves as a bipartisan vote on more Democratic-led legislation. But Democrats say they’re still hoping to knock him out of office.

“When you’re playing for the majority, you’re playing for the majority, and every seat counts,” said Ian Silverii, executive director of the liberal group ProgressNow Colorado.

But in an election year that has been shaken by a racial reckoning, an economic disaster and a pandemic that has killed over 160,000 Americans, a lot could change in the months between now and Election Day. In interviews with The Sun, multiple senators emphasized the volatility of the race, and said they’re looking for a curveball that could shift the race in their favor.

Sen. Paul Lundeen, R-Monument, a member of the Senate Republican leadership team, said he’s an “eternal optimist” and his party will continue to fight for seats through Nov. 3.

“They say in politics 90 days is a lifetime,” Lundeen said.

Colorado Sun correspondent Sandra Fish contributed to this report.

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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September 24, 2020

‘COVID claim misinterprets data,’ health experts argue Local health official addresses misinformation circulated on social media

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The notion widely shared on social media that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reduced the U.S. COVID-19 death count by 94% — from nearly 154,000 down to just over 9,000 — is a misinterpretation of the data, a Denver metro epidemiologist explains.

Fact-checking reports from late August and early September focused on social media posts that used a misreading of a CDC data table to claim the agency had “admitted” its numbers were inaccurate. President Donald Trump was among those who tweeted the inaccuracy, which appeared to gain traction in late August.

“CDC just backpedaled (quietly) and adjusted the U.S. COVID deaths from 153,504 to 9,210. Admitting that their numbers are so (expletive) that they are off by a whopping 94%,” said a post that was shared on Facebook, the Associated Press reported.

The CDC data table in question — located on the agency’s site at tinyurl. com/COVIDdeathcount — is based on an analysis of death certificates that mention COVID-19 as a cause.

For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned, the CDC notes. The table showed 174,470 total COVID-19 deaths recorded as of its

Tri-County Health Department is based in Greenwood Village. The health department serves Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties.

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That regularly updated data table shows other health conditions that those who died of COVID-19 had, including Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and obesity, as well as problems that are caused by COVID-19 itself, such as respiratory failure and pneumonia, the AP reported. A death isn’t excluded from the COVID-19 death count just because the person had other health conditions at the time.

‘Well-established process’ The claim that COVID-19 deaths were over-reported “is an incorrect statement,” said Bernadette Albanese, a medical epidemiologist with the TriCounty Health Department.

The “CDC shares data on COVID-19 deaths for which the virus was the only identified cause of death (about 6% of all COVID-19 deaths) and deaths for which the virus infection was coupled with other underlying health problems that led to death (about 94% of all COVID-19 deaths),” Albanese wrote in a statement to Colorado Community Media. “Both are valid counts that add up to the totality of COVID-19 related deaths.”

The CDC runs through a “longstanding, well-established process” in gathering death data, said Albanese, whose department covers Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties.

“They do it for injuries, they do it for heart attacks, they do it for flu … and they do it now for COVID. They do it on behalf of states and every death in the United States,” Albanese said. She added: “There’s nothing new about that process at all.”

The far ajority of COVID-19 deaths occur among people 55 and older, who also often have other health conditions that make them more vulnerable to the severe impacts of COVID-19, such as pneumonia, Albanese noted.

Public health officials have pointed to that trend for months.

“It is to be expected that those persons who die from COVID-19 also have other complicating health conditions contributing to death,” Albanese said.

Cause of death vs. other contributing conditions For example, a person with an existing condition such as hypertension who dies due to COVID-19 would have COVID-19 listed as the underlying cause of death, according to the CDC’s guidance for filling out death certificates. Hypertension would be listed in a separate section as a condition that contributed to, but did not directly cause, the death.

Death certificates are records that officials register for every death occurring in the United States, offering a complete picture of mortality nationwide, according to the CDC. The CDC requires a physician, medical examiner or coroner to list a cause

of death followed by other conditions that contributed to the death, according to Albanese.

The underlying cause of death is “the disease or injury which initiated the train of morbid events leading directly to death,” the CDC’s guidance says.

“In many cases, it is likely that (COVID-19) will be the (underlying cause of death), as it can lead to various life-threatening conditions, such as pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome,” the guidance says.

Probable vs. confirmed COVID-19 cases The CDC’s guidance adds: “Ideally, testing for COVID-19 should be conducted, but it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate without this confirmation if the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty.”

The agency gives an example of an elderly person who ends up pulseless before emergency medical workers could respond — a situation where, although no COVID-19 testing was done, the coroner determines that the likely underlying cause of death was COVID-19 given the patient’s high fever and severe cough and exposure to a family member who was diagnosed with COVID-19.

In cases where a definite diagnosis cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely, it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as “probable” or “presumed,” the guidance says, while noting that COVID-19 testing should be conducted whenever possible.

It was unclear from the CDC data table what portion of COVID-19 deaths listed were those for which COVID-19 was listed as a “probable” or “presumed” cause.

As of Sept. 9, Colorado had seen 1,979 deaths among people with COVID-19, and 350, or 17.7%, were listed as “probable,” according to the state’s online data.

The state had tallied 1,889 people who died due to COVID-19, as opposed to the total who died with COVID-19 but not necessarily due to it.

However, the true death toll from the virus is widely believed to be higher than what the official numbers show, as experts say many victims died of COVID-19 without ever being tested for it, the AP has reported.

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September 24, 2020

Denver’s Wash Park becoming a haven for muskrats Animals may multiply this fall at park’s Grasmere Lake

BY KIRSTEN DAHL COLLINS SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

These days, visitors to Washington Park may catch themselves humming a truly awful 1976 pop hit called “Muskrat Love.” Why? Because more of these semi-aquatic rodents have been spotted in and around Grasmere Lake. And that may be a very good sign.

Once plentiful in North American marshes, muskrat populations have declined over the past few decades.

Scientists are beginning to pay attention. The National Institutes of Health has tagged muskrats as a sentinel species for environmental contamination, and studies are now underway to discover exactly what these furry creatures are telling us about our wetlands.

Locally, muskrats are paddling around Grasmere Lake with enthusiasm. Cleaner water and the lake’s relatively new wetland areas are probably a big draw. This rotund rodent eats one-third of its body weight every day in cattails, sedge and water weeds.

With long whiskers, buckteeth and amiable gaze, the roly-poly muskrat resembles an absent-minded professor on a swim. The animals are not closely related to rats, despite their name.

The Colorado Parks and Wildlife website describes the muskrat as “an

overgrown, semi-aquatic vole.” They generally weigh two to four pounds and measure about two feet long, almost half of which is tail.

Early English colonists knew them as “mushquash,” probably derived from the Algonquin tribal name “muscascus,” which refers to the reddish tint in their brown fur. Sources seem a bit confused as to whether the “musk” in muskrat was derived from their American Indian name or from the musk glands they use to mark their swampy territory.

In 19th-century America, trappers sought muskrats for their soft, thick, water-repellent fur. Fancy restaurants along the Eastern seaboard served muskrat meat under the pseudonym “marsh hare,” according to one New Hampshire conservationist.

Today, seasonal muskrat dinners are still popular in southern New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland — at least with people who like meat described by some as “dark, fishy and bony.”

The creatures were equally important to Native American tribes.

Several tribal creation myths credit the muskrat with diving deeper into the primordial floodwaters than any other animal, where it retrieved enough mud to construct a new world for mankind.

Muskrats are well-equipped for such an important mission. Although awkward on land, they excel in water. They can stay under the surface for 15 minutes or more, propelled along swiftly by large hind legs with partially webbed paws. Their long, scaly tails, vertically flattened, act like rudders.

Underwater, muskrats stay busy

A muskrat swims around in Grasmere Lake in Denver’s Washington Park.

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eating plants, which helps keep waterways clear. Less helpfully, however, they often burrow into the banks of lakes and streams with their long front claws, damaging the shoreline and infuriating property owners.

But from a muskrat’s point of view, a submerged burrow entrance is the best kind of home security system.

Not only does it help them evade such predators as owls, coyotes and enthusiasts for seasonal muskrat dinners, it also provides a safe place to raise their little ones.

And usually there are lots of little ones to raise. While The Captain and Tennille’s hit “Muskrat Love” was voted one of the 10 worst songs of the ‘70s by Rolling Stone magazine readers, its title is right on the mark.

Muskrats are both loyal and prolific mates, producing two to five litters annually, with an average of six kits each time.

So keep an eye on Grasmere Lake this fall. Muskrats may be multiplying — because they have a lot of love to give.

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VOICES Hope, encouragement open endless possibilities ope may not be a strategy, but then again it just might be, especially when we tie it to encourage-

ment.

Although I have WINNING personally limWORDS ited the amount of time I spend reading or watching the news, and have scaled back on the time I spend on certain social media platforms, it seems like I still find Michael Norton news and posts that focus on what seems hopeless instead of what is possible. We all see how some choose to tear others down instead of putting their energy into the encouragement of a better and positive outcome.

Perhaps hope and encouragement are not top of mind for everyone. And if that’s you, it’s OK. We are living in unprecedented times that may have eroded our once hopeful disposition. And if you find yourself feeling this way, one of the best ways we can regain our hope is to find a way to encourage others around us.

With a little spark of hope and with the encouragement of others, the possibilities of what we can do become endless. Some of us have tremendous hope, but that may have not always been the case. Those who are filled with hope today may have been feeling hopelessness yesterday. And then one day someone showed them a little encouragement, and with a little encouragement and a little hope, who knows what we can accomplish?

Now imagine that it wasn’t just a little hope and a little bit of encouragement, imagine if we allowed our hearts and minds to be filled with hope, with so much hope that we couldn’t help but feel encouraged and compelled to encourage everyone around us.

When we are of the belief that hope is not a strategy, it may be a good time to reassess our thinking. And if we remain sold on the fact that hope is not a strategy, perhaps we can also believe that hope does give us a tactical advantage in all aspects of life.

Hope is the great activator and has contributed so much to what has been accomplished by others throughout history.

Can we rely simply on hope

and encouragement? No, probably not. However, when we use hope and encouragement as our foundation, and then build upon that foundation with preparation and planning, we will be much better positioned to come through all challenges, adversities, and opportunities that we are facing today.

None of us can truly predict the future. Yet the successful businesses of today are working on the possibilities of tomorrow. They are aware of what is happening in the world today and what the potential impact could be, considering the negative impact as well as the positive impact. And the companies that I speak with begin with the hope for a better future and know that one way that they can increase their chances of success is through the positive encouragement of the people on their team who will drive their desired results.

Encouragement ignites hope; Hope activates purpose; Purpose fuels passion; Passion drives performance; Performance leads to results. And after working with individuals and businesses over many years, and especially

through the past several months, they all tell me how important hope is and how purpose, passion, and performance are inspired by encouragement and activated by hope. And these are the people and companies whose possibilities are endless as they prepare for whatever comes next.

Here’s the good news: We can choose to be hopeful instead of hopeless. We can choose to be encouraged or discouraged. And we can decide if we want to see the impossible or the possible. What will you choose?

How about you? Hopeful or hopeless? Encouraged or discouraged? Have you tried encouraging others to provide a little hope? I would love to hear all about your hope and encouragement story at mnorton@tramazing.com.

And when we live with hope and encouragement, and recognize that the possibilities are endless, it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

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I guess it must be good for something.

QUIET But not a day goes by that DESPERATION someone isn’t apologizing or being shamed, slammed or threatened because of something they posted on Instagram.

Is it worth it to put a comment or Craig Marshall photo on Instagram?

Smith People: People are mean. When are you going to learn?

It sounds like you can troll and run. Or leave your fingerprints and start a feud.

Why? Who needs this? One billion is who.

As of May 2019, Instagram had 1 billion users.

I keep noticing celebrities and

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others apologizing for or pouting about something on their Instagram accounts.

No one is forced into social media, except, I suppose, by the urgency of peer pressure.

But by now it should be apparent that almost anything posted is likely to be subjected to ridicule, flak, and (a word that social media seemed to spawn) shaming.

Yahoo! must think informing us whenever a personality is shamed is a requisite of good journalism.

And it seems some personalities can’t win. I’d name them, but it would just be dogpiling, like ballplayers used to do after a walkoff home run. Now they simply gather and hop up and down near home plate.

I don’t have any evidence, but I am going to pretend I do and say many of us have taken to the internet as never before during the coronavirus as a source of entertainment as well as information.

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Remember barbershops? Before appointments became routine, you’d wait your turn and look at magazines and newspapers that you’d never see anywhere else.

It’s where I first saw the National Enquirer. The lurid headlines beckoned me.

“Dachshund abducted by aliens, becomes their leader.”

Who isn’t fascinated by the behavior of others?

The behavior of others is credited with the genesis of an expression.

“What was he thinking?”

Jay Leno famously asked Hugh Grant, “What were you thinking?”

If none of us made bad choices, we’d have no news, no documentaries, no films, no literature, and fewer attorneys.

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Likewise, shaming.

There was a back-and-forth debate online about a photo posted by a woman you may know that showed her, fully clothed, with her husband, fully clothed. It was criticized because of the location of her husband’s hand on her body.

There are far racier hamburger commercials, but for certain conservatives it was highly inappropriate and deserving of backlash.

I am not on social media. Good thing. If I were I can only imagine.

“Don’t you own a comb?”

“Looks like you’ve discovered donuts.”

Kids (remember Art Linkletter) say the darndest things. So does everyone else. Some of us even do the darndest things.

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Things like family photos, from before Butterfield wound up living on the streets. Poetry she and her sister wrote. Drawings done by her mom, who died in 2014.

Butterfield was one of numerous residents of a sprawling homeless camp in Denver that stretched along East South Platte River Drive between Dartmouth and Harvard avenues.

Composed of dozens of tents, RVs and campers, the camp was sandwiched into a narrow stretch of grass between the South Platte River and the barbed wire-topped fence of a sewage treatment plant.

On the morning of Sept. 15, Englewood and Denver police blocked off the street at both ends of the camp, making way for an armada of trucks, trailers and garbage trucks.

Over the next several hours, staff from the Denver Fire Department, as well as the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment and the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, dismantled the camp.

‘Losing everything’ By early afternoon, a handful of stragglers remained. Butterfield was one of several who told Colorado Community Media that despite promises from Denver city staff to store their belongings for later retrieval, it was clear many items had been thrown out.

None said they had any idea where they would sleep that night.

“It’s just inhumane,” Butterfield said through tears as a garbage truck rumbled away. “If everyone, if whitecollar people had to go through losing everything, maybe they wouldn’t keep doing this to us.”

Many of those who had been staying in the camp said they knew the sweep was inevitable, especially after the Aug. 25 knife slaying of Joe Hix, who had been living in the camp. Englewood Police have yet to announce any arrests in the slaying that occurred in Englewood just south of the camp.

In an email, Englewood Police spokesman Sgt. Tracy Jones said the department mainly provided security for the sweep, and said the action was unrelated to the Hix homicide investigation.

‘Wonderful people’ Greg Pixley, a captain with the Denver Fire Department, said the sweep was heartbreaking but necessary.

“These are wonderful people,” Pixley said as he walked through the remains of the camp. “You know what they did when we showed up this morning? They offered us breakfast.”

Pixley said recent inspections of the camp had found 91 gallons of gasoline — to power numerous small generators and the still-running vehicles in the camp — in a variety of containers, often stored in close proximity to propane tanks used for cookstoves. Tents were too close together, exacerbating the fire hazard. Health officials found problems with garbage and human waste. h Crews counted 25 trailers, 50 residents and dozens of tents on the day of the sweep, Pixley said. .

“The proximity of all those people, all those tents, all that fuel presented a serious hazard,” Pixley said. “People here are trying their best, but we have to do our best as firefighters.”

Why not provide portable toilets, trash receptacles and other sanitation services to the camp?

Seen from across the South Platte River, a Denver city worker walks through a homeless camp during a sweep.

Stephanie Wallace said she had no idea where she would go after authorities swept the homeless camp where she had been living, but said shelters can be more dangerous than the streets for a woman on her own.

“We’ve tried that in some places, but the problem becomes access,” Pixley said. “It becomes difficult to empty the Dumpsters. People stop using the toilets if they get too gross.”

Pixley said the sweep was the culmination of weeks of outreach, seeking to connect residents of the camp with resources like numbers for housing agencies, drug and alcohol counseling and assistance signing up for government services before clearing the area.

“It’s unfortunate there’s not a simple, single fix,” he said. “If people let us know what they need, we do our best to help them.”

Social workers accompanied the cleanup crews on the day of the sweep, making efforts to guide camp residents to assistance.

‘Half an hour to clear out’ In practice, camp residents called the outreach efforts sporadic and ineffectual, and said information about the forthcoming sweep was garbled and confusing.

“Last night I heard we had 48 hours, but this morning I wake up and I’m told I have half an hour to clear out,” said an older man who gave his name as Vegas, as he loaded a shopping cart with clothes.

Several others in the camp said they heard shifting timelines for when the sweep would take place. The camp had swollen in size since Colorado Community Media visited in March.

Barely inside Denver city limits, the camp sat just two blocks north of a similar camp swept by Englewood authorities in 2019.

“They let everyone stay so long that

Denver Fire Captain Greg Pixley called the homeless camp sweep heartbreaking but necessary. people began accumulating the necessities of life,” Vegas said. “Cookware.

Supplies. People had started to enterprise — doing day labor, painting gigs, hauling scrap.”

Vegas called the sweep chaotic. He said each time he ventured from his camp to speak to representatives of city departments, he would return to find more of his belongings gone.

“These are supposed to be civil servants,” he said. “They’re nothing but thieves.”

Where to go?

Farther from the camp, along Santa Fe Drive, Stephanie Wallace said the primary housing advice she was given by aid workers was to call 211, Mile

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High United Way’s hotline.

But, she said, that isn’t much help.

Local housing authorities are overwhelmed with demand. Many require leaving messages and waiting for a return call, but Wallace doesn’t have a phone. Homeless shelters, she said, “can be more dangerous than the streets” for a young woman on her own.

“We try to stay together” in camps, Wallace said. “I felt safe there. But we get moved out of everywhere.”

Even with robust outreach, homeless camp sweeps do little to combat underlying issues, said Mike Sandgren, who heads Change The Trend, a network of agencies and nonprofits seeking to address homelessness in the south metro area.

“Sweeps of homeless camps are an unfortunate symptom of a deeper problem: the lack of housing options for people who find themselves experiencing homelessness,” Sandgren said in an email. “Sweeps are costly to the taxpayer in that they require time and effort from city officials and law enforcement. Worse, they are deeply disruptive to the homeless community and compound the inherent vulnerability within the experience of homelessness. Until we in the Englewood, Littleton, and Sheridan communities secure a reliable array of housing services, we will continue in a difficult cycle of encampment formation and sweeps.”

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Records going back more than a century are being digitized

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ore than a century’s worth of records now packed into boxes and storage containers in the basement of the Colorado Center for the Blind will soon be transformed into a comprehensive, digital history and made available to the public.

Members of the National Federation of the Blind of Colorado are in year two of a five-year project to digitally preserve records of the state’s blind community — before the documents deteriorate or are lost.

Most importantly, project leaders said, the history will finally be accessible to the very community it’s written about.

“This is a really big project, and this is important because blind people’s history is not being told,” said Peggy Chong, who is leading the archival effort. “By and large, we don’t learn about our own history.”

Both the National Federation of the Blind Chong of Colorado and the Colorado Center for the Blind are based in Littleton.

Chong, an Aurora resident, has been a member of the national organization for 50 years, joining at age 14 because her mother and three sisters were blind, she said.

She moved to Colorado two years ago and quickly set to work learning the local organization’s history, cataloging artifacts and taking on the archival project.

There are a variety of documents and artifacts waiting to be digitized, Chong said.

Meeting minutes dating back to the early 1900s are hand-written. Documents exist in several versions of braille and need transcribing. Old newspaper clips are fading. Some records were damaged by a basement flood at the center, or simply old age.

Chong’s main goal is to make this history available to the blind community in Colorado, she said, but she also aims to better inform the community at large. The organization will make the digital archive available to libraries and universities once it’s complete.

Then maybe, Chong said, creators in entertainment like screenwriters or playwrights will be inspired by characters that don’t fit tropes about the blind. She envisions stories about the blind legislators making a difference in their states, or blind entrepreneurs opening their own businesses.

Scott LaBarre, president of National Federation of the Blind of Colorado since 2005, said Colorado is lucky to have Chong.

She has become known as “the blind history lady” for her efforts preserving history about the blind, said LaBarre, who is blind and lives in Centennial.

“I think it’s critical that we understand where we came from as a population, as a community,” LaBarre

Julie Deden is the director of the Colorado Center for the Blind. said. “It gives us a lot of information about how much we’ve accomplished and how much more we have yet to accomplish. So, I think it’s a very important project.”

LaBarre said he’s most eager to see the early part of his organization’s history clearly laid out, which he described as the dawn of a “growing movement of blind people taking matters into their own hands.”

LaBarre, a lawyer who runs his own Denver law firm, said the public can learn about the National Federation of the Blind of Colorado’s roots, how they organized and advocated for blind residents in the state.

“For a long time and all throughout our country’s history and much of the world’s history, there have always been organizations for the blind,” he said. “But they weren’t the blind representing themselves and determining for themselves what the future would be.”

Julie Deden, director of the Colorado Center for the Blind, said the finished digital archive will show how far blind Coloradans have come. Deden grew up in modern day Centennial and was born blind. She has served as

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Historical records now sit in boxes in the Colorado Center for the Blind’s basement but will soon be digitally preserved.

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the center’s director for 22 years.

“When we have access to our own history, it gives us the opportunity and I guess the impetus to look at, where do we come from, and where do we

want to go from here,” she said.

Having history available to them also gives blind community members “a newfound reverence” for the pioneers who helped create organizations like the National Federation of the Blind of Colorado, she said, or advocate for the community’s needs.

The project’s next step will be finding dozens of volunteers to help transcribe documents that do not scan well, she said.

Time is ticking. Chong said records about the blind are disappearing across the country.

As schools for the blind have closed in various states, the facilities’ records were often discarded or lost. When blind individuals pass on, their families sometimes toss items like diaries or records written in braille, because no one can read them.

In Colorado, Chong wants to stop that from happening.

“Our history is not important enough for storage. It’s not important enough to spend precious archiving money on. It’s up to us to do that,” Chong said. “It’s important that we preserve it and we do it before it’s destroyed or lost to the wind.”

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A salute to first responders, health-care workers

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lassic cars and antique fire trucks took to Denver’s streets on Sept. 13 to honor first responders and health-care workers for their continued response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The parade featured members of Mile High Hook & Ladder, which is the Colorado Chapter of the Society for the Preservation & Appreciation of Antique Motor Fire Apparatus in America; the Collector Car Council of Colorado; the Model T Car Club; and the Denver Fire Department.

Staging took place at George Washington High School in Denver’s Washington Virginia Vale neighborhood. From there, the parade made its way throughout Denver, circling Denver’s fire stations 15, 18 and 19; and four hospitals — Rose Medical Center, Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Hospital and National Jewish/St. Joseph Hospital.

A group of Denver firefighters gather for a photo outside of Fire Station 19, 300 S. Ivy St., as they wait for the parade of antique fire trucks on Sept. 13.

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A group holds a sign while driving by Denver Fire Station 19 during a parade on Sept. 13 that took place to thank first responders.

A Pink Panther stuffed animal waves to firefighters at Denver Fire Station 19 from a classic Mustang convertible during a parade on Sept. 13.

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exhibitors, volunteers and staff in January. He said exhibitors travel to Denver from more than 40 states and 35 countries. He noted they explored the idea of having a virtual model, but that and other options were rejected due to financial projections and the risk of spreading the disease.

Making the decision now was important, Andrews added. While a vaccine is in the works and could potentially be available by the end of the year, he said the decision needed to be made this early due to the planning and expenses that go into putting the Stock Show together.

Founded in 1906, the livestock show, rodeo and horse show happens every January for 16 days, attracting some 650,000 guests. The 2021 edition was scheduled to take place from Jan. 9 to 24.

Mayor Michael Hancock said the decision to cancel the show was the right one, even if it was difficult. He noted not having the show would result in

The Westernaires, a youth equestrian organization based in Jefferson County, perform during the Stock Show Kick-off Parade in downtown Denver in January. PHOTO BY CHRISTY STEADMAN

He thanked the Stock Show board for making the decision he said considers the health and safety of residents, visitors, exhibitors and volunteers He alluded to the last time the Stock Show was postponed.

“The Stock Show, to make this step, 100 years later, quite frankly shows the wisdom and the real commitment they have not only for the show itself but to the people who support it and the people who would show up here to be a part (of it) from all over the world,” Hancock said.

One silver lining: The pause will mean the construction of the National Western Center, the Stock Show’s future home, will make a little more progress. Andrews said the grand opening for the new stockyards will take place in the 2022 edition. And Andrews said youth exhibitors who would have been too old to participate in the 2022 edition but were planning on participating in 2021 as 18-year-olds will be allowed to compete in 2022.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals City and County Public Notice: Dish Wireless proposes the collocation of antennas on an existing 94-ft AGL building located at 2225 E Buchtel Boulevard in southern Denver, CO (Parcel No. 0523423016016). Dish Wireless also proposes an associated access and utility easement and rooftop equipment area. Please submit any written comments within 30 days of the publication of this notice regarding the potential effects, if any, that the proposed construction may have on Historic Properties that are listed or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places to: Tower Engineering Professionals, Inc. (Attn: George T. Swearingen) 326 Tryon Road, Raleigh, NC 27603 Telephone: (919) 661-6351 Fax: (919) 661-6350 Legal Notice No. 80680 First Publication: September 24, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Summons and Sheriff Sale 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 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

Notice to Creditors 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 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

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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

Case Number: 2020PR031088 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.

Oren “Von” Limbaugh, Attorney For Personal Representative 13791 E. Rice Pl., Ste. 100 Aurora, CO 80015

Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 24, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Aneta Shoemaker, Personal Representative Joseph D. Findley Kaufman, Findley & Smith, P.C. 200 East 7th Street, Suite 318 Loveland, CO 80537 Telephone: (970) 667-8888 Fax: (970) 667-8899 Legal Notice No. 80678 First Publication: September 24, 2020 Last Publication: October 8, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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 Gloria Jean Thomas, aka Gloria J. Thomas, and Gloria Thomas, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30832

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Une Suk Loeb, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30499

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bobby L. Dees, ak Bobby Lee Dees, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 30809

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.

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.

Peter Loeb, Personal Representative 555 E. Hampden Ave. Suite 600 Denver, Colorado 80231

Brian S. Taylor, Personal Representative 8416 Arapahoe Peak Street Littleton, Colorado 80125

Legal Notice No. 80660 First Publication: September 10, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 80656 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

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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

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Meghan Marie Swanson, aka Meghan M. Swanson, aka Meghan Swanson, aka Meggie Swanson, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31094

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 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.

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.

Vern B. Swanson, Jr. – Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203

Dan Gutrich Personal Representative c/o Groves Law, LLC 281 S. Pearl St., Denver, CO 80209

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 Estate of STEPHANIE M. BECKER, also known as STEPHANIE MARIE BECKER, aka STEPHANIE BECKER, aka STEPHANIE M. BECKER-PEREZ and STEPHANIE BECKER-PEREZ, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30074 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 24, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Estate of Stephanie M. Becker Lotus Fiduciary Services, Inc. P.O. Box 101775 Denver, CO 80250 Legal Notice No. 80679 First Publication: September 24, 2020 Last Publication: October 8, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 80664 First Publication: September 10, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 80671 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of NANCY K. WATTERS, a/k/a NANCY WATTERS, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31111

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

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

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mary Lorian Horvat, a/k/a Mary L. Horvat, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30684

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 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

Paul Lawrence Crespin Personal Representative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

Legal Notice No. 80665 First Publication: September 10, 2020 Last Publication: September 24, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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 Mary Jean Washington, a/k/a Mary J. Washington, and Mary Washington, Deceased

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

Legal Notice No. 80667 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 10, 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 19, 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 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 Artie Zaffer, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31107

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Brett Alan Shoemaker, a/k/a Brett A. Shoemaker, a/k/a Brett Shoemaker, Deceased

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.

Case Number: 2020PR31108 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate

Pana Mingus Personal Representative 17137 E. Dorado Circle

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Telehealth is ‘here to stay’ Local providers reflect on patient care during pandemic

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Back in February, many health-care providers in Colorado relied only sparingly on telehealth, or virtual medical visits.

Only about 10% of appointments were online across all of Kaiser Permanente. Similarly, only 10% to 15% of visits were virtual for some Centura providers like Dr. Oswaldo Grenardo. And SCL Health, which had not yet even launched its telehealth operation, was faced with the task of rolling out a telehealth operation almost overnight when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, said Dr. Amy Scanlan, Front Range medical director and family medicine physician.

But after the pandemic prompted health providers nationwide to rely heavily on telehealth, providers say the practice got them through the unprecedented crisis — and will play a major role in the industry’s future, with patients opting for virtual options even with in-person options available again.

As of August, 60% to 70% of Kaiser

Permanente appointments were held via telehealth, said Wendy Gozansky, a Kaiser geriatrician and Kaiser’s vice president of quality.

At Grenardo’s and Scanlan’s practices, virtual numbers aren’t quite as high as Kaiser’s. Grenardo estimated about half of his patients still opt for virtual visits. Scanlan estimated that only about 12% of her visits occur over telehealth.

“I definitely think it’s here to stay,” said Grenardo, a family medicine doctor. But as for the extent it is used by each patient, “I think it depends a lot on their doctor — there are doctors who really want to do it versus those who feel uncomfortable with it.”

One reason the future of telehealth looks bright is because so much can and has been done via virtual visits, the providers said.

For instance, Gozansky highlighted several tasks accomplished daily by Kaiser physicians working over telehealth, from conducting behavioral health consults to writing prescriptions.

“There’s so many people who realized, ‘I could get a lot of care (virtually),’” she said.

Across the metro area, some patients said they found cost-effective, virtual care during the pandemic.

Denver area resident Carolyn Whitehurst, for instance, said she was able to get a prescription for antibiotics

from her Kaiser physician just by sending a picture of her finger.

But for others, telehealth has come up short. Area resident Donna DeVisser, for instance, claimed that in mid-August, her 87-year-old father, a Kaiser patient, was asked to schedule a physical via telehealth. According to her, his provider declined to have him come in for an in-person visit.

“How is it possible to touch, feel, listen and treat someone through a computer screen?” DeVisser said. “He pays his premiums and he is entitled to an annual physical.”

Providers agreed that telehealth cannot serve every need.

“Physical exams and getting vital signs are a little bit more challenging,” Scanlan said. Particularly for patients with abdominal pain, in which she feels exams are required for accurate diagnoses, diagnosing patients over telehealth alone was not usually her best option, she said.

Grenardo said in situations in which he felt he could not diagnose a patient over telehealth, he would recommend they call DispatchHealth, which visits patients in their homes. He would also refer some patients to urgent care centers, he said.

Scanlan likewise referred some patients to DispatchHealth, she said.

Other drawbacks of the pandemic that could not necessarily be addressed through telehealth included

significant, months-long drops in the number of patients requesting immunizations and numerous procedures, including mammograms, colonoscopies and bone density scans, at least at Grenardo’s office.

“A lot of the preventative care issues that we typically dealt with had to be put on hold,” he said.

He also highlighted a challenge with seeing some older patients who do not have access to or are not comfortable using certain forms of technology.

“We try our best to really accommodate those people who have been lost during the shuffle,” he said. “We’re making sure we try and do as much as we can.”

But even for everything that telehealth cannot address, the doctors feel the practice has also had numerous unexpected benefits.

“I asked a patient what he was taking and he couldn’t remember.

So he ran upstairs, found the bottle and showed me exactly what he was taking, which is fantastic,” Grenardo said. “We’re really being able to examine ‘what are you doing, is your home safe, what is your environment?’”

Gozansky agreed, saying at Kaiser, telehealth has been overwhelmingly well-received by patients.

“People find video to be quite personal. I’m coming to them in their home in a way,” Gozansky said. “This really is the modern-day house call.”

State to add up to 62 ballot drop boxes for fall election Griswold says boxes are ‘safe, secure and convenient way’ to vote

BY MARIANNE GOODLAND COLORADO POLITICS

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has announced that there will be 368 ballot drop boxes statewide for the Nov. 3 election.

“I am happy to announce that over the last two years Colorado has added 121 new drop boxes across the state for the 2020 General Election,” Griswold said in a Sept. 1 statement. “No American should have to choose between risking their health and exercising their right to vote. Drop boxes are a safe, secure and convenient way for Colorado voters to make their voices

heard while social distancing, and are one of the reasons our elections are the nation’s gold standard.”

Funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act to the tune of $160,000 has paid for 42 new boxes. Twenty-seven Colorado counties applied for those additional drop boxes, and an additional 20 additional boxes may be added across the state by Election Day, Nov. 3, according to the statement.

Saguache County Clerk and Recorder Trish Gilbert said her county is getting three new ballot drop boxes, for a total of four. It’s one of the largest counties in Colorado geographically, with a scarce population in comparison, Gilbert said in the statement.

“Many of our towns are located a great distance from our Voter Service and Polling Center, and many of our voters are without reliable transpor-

tation. Additional drop boxes will provide a safe and efficient method for voters to return their ballots without needing to travel to our VSPC and putting themselves, and others, at risk.”

Colorado has twice set new records for voter turnout, in 2018 and for the June 2020 presidential primary, in which 99.3% of those voting used mail-in ballots.

Griswold has been a staunch defender of mail-in voting in the wake of attacks by President Donald Trump, who has falsely claimed mail-in voting will result in fraud. There is no evidence of voting fraud tied to mail-in voting, either in Colorado or nationwide. Trump himself votes by mail, and did so for the Florida primary.

Ballot drop boxes are sturdy, metallic, weather-resistant and bolted to the ground. Colorado law also requires that all drop boxes be kept under 24-

hour video surveillance with adequate lighting.

When drop boxes are emptied, they are done so at least every 24 hours by a team of bipartisan election judges who must maintain a detailed chain of custody log when transporting ballots between drop boxes and the central counting facility.

With 368 drop boxes statewide, there is now one drop box for approximately every 9,400 Colorado active registered voters, according to the statement.

Colorado will also have approximately 330 voting centers open, with many opening 15 days before Election Day per Colorado state law. Each voting center will have COVID-19 related procedures in place to ensure in-person voting is as safe as possible.

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

Public Notices 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 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 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 Charles Christopher Hill, Deceased, Case No. 2020PR31076 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Probate Court, City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 24, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Destiny Forrester, Personal Representative c/o Siffring Law Office 2000 Wadsworth Blvd., #157 Lakewood, CO 80214

of the Clerk of Court for Polk County, a Petition in case number JVJV248331, which prays for a termination of your parent-child relationship to a child born on the 3rd day of August, 2020. For further details contact the Clerk’s office. The petitioner’s attorney is Sarah E. Wilson.

Legal Notice NO.: 80682 First Publication: September 24, 2020 Second Publication: October 1, 2020 Last Publication: October 8, 2020 Publisher: Denver Herald Dispatch

You are notified that there will be a hearing on the Petition to Terminate Parental Rights before the Iowa District Court for Polk County, at the Historic Courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa, at 8:30 a.m. on the 7th day of October, 2020.

Adoption / Guardianship Public Notice NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION OF TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS HEARING

CLERK OF THE ABOVE COURT Legal Notice No. 80681 First Publication: September 24, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

In the Iowa District Court for Polk County No. JVJV248331 TO: NICOLE JACOBSEN, MOTHER OF A FEMALE CHILD BORN ON THE 3RD DAY OF AUGUST, 2020 IN AMES, IOWA.

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