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Demand slams supply of affordable housing Denver takes lottery approach amid continuing crunch

BY DONNA BRYSON DENVERITE.COM

Corbin Smith uses headphones and a laptop during his virtual learning experience at the Shai Learning Labs, which is offered by the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center in Denver.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF DANIEL SIEGEL/CAMP SHAI

Learning labs offer option in trying time Shai Learning Labs provide support for virtual learners in small groups

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Sometimes 8-year-old Griffith Saxe will say that he doesn’t like school.

“But, really, I love it,” he said.

Griffith is a third-grader at Teller Elementary School in Denver’s Congress Park neighborhood. His favorite subjects are P.E. and science, but what he really enjoys about going to school is making friends and the peer-to-peer learning experience.

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Alan Alvarado works on his virtual learning assignments at the Shai Learning Labs, located at the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center in Denver.

Here are some numbers that illustrate Denver’s housing crisis: Nearly 23,000 people entered a lottery for federal rent subsidies conducted recently by the Denver Housing Authority.

Last year, after a similar number of entries, fewer than 1,000 people were given new subsidies.

Recipients of the subsidies under what is known as the Section 8 or housing choice voucher program must meet income limits and other requirements and pay 30% of their income toward rent. (It’s named after a section of federal housing legislation that has its roots in Depression-era efforts to house low-income Americans.) The federal government pays the difference directly to landlords. Local agencies such as DHA administer the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development program across the country.

This year’s Denver lottery entry period started Sept. 17 and closed the next day. Loretta Owens, the Denver Housing Authority’s housing choice director, said her online lottery system had braced for “high impact.”

DHA’s Section 8 lottery has been online for more than a decade, operating around-the-clock so that people could enter any hour of the day over the two days it is open.

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In the end, this year’s entries totaled 22,908, under the 23,388 last year.

DHA could not say how many winners will be drawn from this year’s lottery. Last year, approximately 1,800 names were drawn from the 23,388 entrants. Of those 1,800 lottery winners, 883 new vouchers were issued. Some of the 1,800 whose numbers were drawn in the lottery were not eligible because they earned too much (this year, for example, a family of four cannot make more than $40,000 a year) or had certain crimes on their records.

Federal rules prohibit the distribution of vouchers to people who have manufactured or produced methamphetamine on federally assisted housing premises or who are sex offenders.

Owens said some people were unable to find housing even with vouchers, or declined a voucher after finding other housing.

No simple task Mary Anna Thompson entered the lottery three times before her number was drawn. That was nine years ago, when Thompson was living in a transitional housing program. She’d moved from Florida to Colorado, where she had long wanted to live, and found that her salary as a nurse did not cover the cost of housing.

Thompson was unable to find a landlord who would take her voucher. It was only last year that a law went into effect in Denver banning landlords from refusing to rent to people who relied on Section

those who get subsidies in the seven 8. Gov. Jared Polis signed a similar buildings he manages, one of which statewide ban into law this July. he owns, in the Denver area.

Thompson ended up surrendering Accepting Section 8 vouchers her Section 8 voucher and taking means Martin must fill out forms to a City Park West apartment where send to housing authorities, undershe has lived since, utilizing a difgo periodic government inspection ferent affordable housing program. of the apartments to be rented, and She had been on a wait list for the other steps that can delay payapartment for three years. ment. But once he overcomes those Thompson is an activist with the hurdles, he can advocacy group count on steady Denver Homepayments from less Out Loud. the government.

She said she “The landadvises people lord’s going to experiencing get the rent,” homelessness to said Martin, get on as many who has been housing wait renting apartlists as they can ments for 17 as well as enter years. voucher lotterSome landies. Navigating lords may want wait lists and to avoid the red lotteries can tape. But Martin be difficult for said that over people without the years, he’s transportagotten to know tion or an case workers address, she and inspectors said. Thompson and has seen found shelter that they want in hotels and to make the relatransitional protionship work. grams until she “They want finally got an Oriana Sanchez, to get it done,” apartment.

Denver-based developer Martin said.

“I still conof affordable housing While Martin sider myself so said he has seen fortunate I was that mental never on the illness and street,” Thompsubstance abuse son said, adding can play a role in an individual’s she worried about “all these people struggles to stay housed, it’s clear nowadays in a tent and being swept to him that housing insecurity “is all the time.” also a wage growth problem. The John Martin has tenants who pay rent goes up and up, but the wages the full rent on their own as well as don’t.”

According to city data, median income in Denver grew less than 10% a year between 2005 and 2018, while rents started growing faster in 2010 and grew about 13 percent a year between 2015 and 2018.

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Rents are high despite dip The median rent for a twobedroom apartment in Denver in August was $1,342, down slightly from July, continuing a trend that the online real estate company Apartment List has reported since the coronavirus led to an economic slowdown. That would eat up 40% of the income of a family of four earning the $40,000 limit to qualify for a Section 8 voucher. The federal government says a family spending more than 30% of its income on housing is cost-burdened, meaning it might struggle to afford food, clothing, medical care and other necessities after paying the rent.

The city, citing the most recent figures available, estimates more than 110,000 Denver households were housing cost-burdened in 2016.

Section 8 is the federal government’s biggest low-income housing assistance program. But an estimated three out of four people who are eligible for the housing subsidies are not served because of budget constraints. HUD acknowledges that in many parts of the country, agencies administering the program have long wait lists that can be hard

to keep updated as applicants move or change phone numbers or their family circumstances change. The Denver Housing Authority moved to a lottery instead of a wait list because of the challenge of keeping a list up to date.

“I don’t know that there’s really any good way to hand out this scarce resource,” said Oriana Sanchez, a Denver-based developer of affordable housing.

Sanchez used to be a property manager, and said that from that vantage point she had seen Section 8 vouchers help people pull themselves out of poverty.

“I used to call it in my property management days the golden ticket,” Sanchez said, adding that a voucher “could help someone be able to go to school … to not have to choose between paying the rent or buying groceries.”

“It affords you the peace of mind and the time to do whatever is is you need to do to better your life,” Sanchez said.

Tax credits provide help For developers, another federal program, low-income housing tax credits, is key. Developers who are awarded tax credits sell them to investors for cash they can use to build, allowing them to borrow less and, because those costs are lighter, charge less in rent. As a project manager for BlueLine Development, Sanchez also has been able to use what are known as project based Section 8 vouchers to pay for utilities or repairs at apartment complexes.

“From the development side, the tax credit program would be the biggest, most productive program that they’ve had in place for us to build,” Sanchez said. “From the tenants’ perspective, Section 8 has helped the most people.”

Both programs have been part of the political debate as elections near. Sanchez is hopeful that could lead to more funding.

“Anything’s possible. I will keep advocating for that,” she said.

“There are certainly those in Congress on both sides of the aisle that really see the benefits of the lowincome housing tax credit program and the subsidizing of the voucher program,” Sanchez added.

Peter LiFari, who heads the housing authority in neighboring Adams County, said the pandemic has underlined the need for a better funded Section 8 program. He said if more people had been receiving subsidies, which can be adjusted as incomes decline, there would have been less need to have ramped up emergency rental assistance during the COVID-19 outbreak.

“The voucher program is a COVID-19 fighter,” LiFari said. “The program has just tremendous power and value if we would invest in it.

“We’re keeping people housed, we’re flexing with their income based on the economy” with Section 8, LiFari added. “And landlords are directly benefiting.”

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

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State plan would unify mental health services Fragmented system now in place needs to improve, task force says

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

When Vickie Zacher found out her 11-year-old daughter was getting notes from kids at school suggesting that she kill herself, the Eagle County mom took her to a mental health counselor.

A program through Zacher’s job paid for three, onehour sessions. But the price for more sessions was $270 per hour, and Zacher couldn’t afford it.

When her daughter turned 12, the girl’s pediatrician discovered she had been cutting herself and suggested she take medication. The first psychiatry appointment Zacher could get for Olivia was two months out.

A few weeks before that January 2018 appointment, 12-year-old Olivia tried to kill herself. The girl spent a few days in an in-patient Denver behavioral health program and was released after telling doctors she was no longer suicidal — a lie that other hospitalized children suggested

Colorado Department of Human Services executive director Michelle Barnes announces a new action plan to consolidate mental health services in Colorado as she stands with Gov. Jared Polis outside the governor’s mansion on Sept. 23.

PHOTO BY JENNIFER BROWN/THE COLORADO SUN the girl tell if she wanted to go home.

Zacher knew her daughter was still struggling, so she restarted her search for help and found a partial-hospital-

ization program. Olivia attended for 12 days — until the family’s insurance company said it would no longer pay.

On Feb. 7, 2018, three days after her 13th birthday, Olivia

came home from school and killed herself. “My worst nightmare became real,” Zacher said.

Zacher shared her story Sept. 23 in a garden outside

the governor’s mansion, recounting one of dozens of stories highlighting the massive failures of a fragmented mental health system told during the last year to Gov. Jared Polis’ statewide behavioral health task force.

The group produced an action plan that calls for creating a centralized office for mental health — named the Behavioral Health Administration — instead of the splintered system that now includes 75 programs spread across three state agencies.

The state’s suicide prevention office is part of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, yet crisis services — including 24-hour, walk-in services for mental health — are overseen by the Colorado Department of Human Services, for example. Substance abuse programs are housed within the human services department, but many are funded by state Health Care Policy and Financing.

“If we’re trying to prevent suicides, we also need to make sure we have a response to suicide and they are connected to each other,” said Robert Werthwein, the director of the state Office of Behavioral Health, which will oversee the new administration.

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LEARN MORE To learn more about the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center (JCC Denver), visit www.jccdenver.org. A direct link to the Shai Learning Labs is: www.jccdenver. org/communities/youth/learning-labs.

That webpage has information on cost of enrollment to the learning labs, a sample schedule, COVID-19 precautions the JCC Denver is taking and more.

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“He’s very bright,” said his mother, Meredith Goldburg. “But he did not adapt well to virtual learning. We had a difficult time with it.”

Still, the family was not comfortable with Griffith going back to school full-time for in-person learning during the 2020-2021 academic year because of the pandemic. They researched some private schools, but decided that wasn’t a good fit for them — they wanted to continue to supporting Denver Public Schools and keep Griffith part of the Teller community.

Then they found an option that met their needs — the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center’s (JCC Denver) Shai Learning Labs.

“He seems less stressed,” said Gareth Saxe, Griffith’s dad. “As odd as it all still is (the pandemic), he’s having a much more normal school year.”

JCC Denver, 350 S. Dahlia St., opened its Shai Learning Labs on Aug. 31. The learning labs are available to students from any school district in grades kindergarten through fifth grade.

They provide small-group support for students who are doing virtual learning. The students’ work is assigned by their school district, and parents still interact directly with their child’s teacher. What the learning labs do is provide a socially distanced space where the students can learn with adult supervision to ensure students are completing their assignments and following a school-like routine; as well as tutoring, homework help and tech support, if needed.

“It creates a school atmosphere for virtual learning,” said Daniel Siegel, associate director of Camp Shai at JCC Denver. “We’re not their teachers, but we’re there, helping them (the students) through all of it.”

Care providers experienced JCC Denver is a licensed childcare provider, so the adults in the learning labs have experience working with children in the K-5 age group, Siegel said. The learning labs are being hosted through JCC Denver’s Camp Shai, which is a day camp offered for Denver-metro youths in grades kinder-

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“We’ve really got to pull substance abuse and mental health together.

Ava Strote plays soccer as one of the physical activities part of her Shai Learning Labs experience.

COURTESY OF DANIEL SIEGEL/CAMP SHAI garten through eighth grade.

Parents of youths who attended Camp Shai had asked if JCC Denver would consider hosting a learning lab, Siegel said, because they trusted that JCC Denver would be able to provide a structured learning environment that would be safe during the pandemic.

With the learning labs, students are divided into small, separate groups of six to eight children, and the groups do not intermingle to adhere to social distancing. During virtual learning time, each student has a divider between them, similar to some office setups. These dividers serve two purposes, Siegel said. One is for social distancing, and the other is to provide a focus zone for learning. Games and recreational activities during breaks, and/or once virtual learning is completed, have been adapted to be socially distanced, Siegel said. Additionally, both the students and staff wear masks the entire time and practice frequent hand washing.

Students also stick to a schedule, like they would at in-person school, Siegel said.

“It’s hard to be in a routine when stuck at home,” he said. “This gives

them routine. And the kids are super happy to be around kids their age.”

Though JCC Denver is “not the only one doing this,” Siegel said, it is one way the organization is helping to fill a need in the community. The additional responsibility for parents to navigate their children’s educational needs every day can be difficult — whether they’re working from home or away from home, Siegel said.

Additionally, JCC Denver is a nonprofit, Siegel said. The learning labs, he said, are a creative way for JCC to bring in revenue. Although Camp Shai hosted youths this summer, it was nowhere near the amount in past years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

We’ve got to stop treating them like they’re two different systems.”

The task force, which included 27 members ranging from mental health experts to county commissioners, wants the new state office to serve as a single point of entry for

behavioral health care. The point is to avoid stories like the one shared

by Zacher, who felt alone and without an advocate for her daughter as she tried to navigate the complex systems of treatment and insurance coverage.

Care coordinators at this new office would link Coloradans with the right programs and help set up funding, replacing a system that, for example, sends a person to one office for mental health care and another office to set up addiction treatment.

“If people walk in the door and say we need help, we’ve got to adapt to them, not them adapting to us,” Werthwein said. “We will walk with you through this very hard time.”

But there is no new money for what Lt. Gov. Dianne Primavera called a “massive transformation” of the behavioral health system, at least not initially.

Michelle Barnes, executive director of the state human services department, said the governor “has made it very clear that this isn’t the time to be putting a lot of budget proposals forward.”

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Need will determine future Currently, Shai Learning Labs has 35 students enrolled, and there are only a few spots still available. JCC plans on operating the learning labs through this semester, and possibly next semester depending on the need, Siegel said. The organization is also exploring options to possibly open the learning labs for students who attend hybrid school, meaning part virtual and part in-person learning.

Like Griffith Saxe, Nina Visser enjoys the social aspect of school. She is an only child, and it’s important to her parents that she has interaction with other children her age. Nina, 8, is in the third grade and has attended Palmer Elementary School in Denver’s Hale neighborhood since she was in kindergarten.

“We believe strongly in public education,” said Sara Visser, Nina’s mother, adding she wanted Nina’s school get the funding for her enrollment in the 2020-2021 school year.

Nina’s father, Klaas Visser, is a pilot and is sometimes away from home for three to four days at a time. Sara Visser works part time as an aide to a Denver city councilmember. The family was able to make their schedules work to balance virtual learning last year, but there were times that Nina’s grandmother had to come over so Sara could attend a virtual meeting or a conference call.

“Grandma couldn’t help with the computer,” Nina said.

So, for the 2020-2021 school year, the Vissers looked into hiring a teacher to facilitate a learning pod for about five to eight of Nina’s classmates, but that didn’t work out, Sara Visser said.

Then, Sara Visser, who is a Denver native and grew up involved with the JCC, heard about the Shai Learning Labs.

“We knew they would do it well,” she said.

Nina enjoys seeing her teacher from Palmer every day, even though it is in a virtual format. But what’s exciting about the learning labs, she said, is that she has made two new friends.

The learning labs “are very helpful,” Nina Visser said. Although it’s not quite as good as going to school with a teacher in the classroom every day, she said, “you still learn better there (at JCC) than at home.”

For now, the office will operate on existing funding within the state human services department. It’s unclear, however, how it would provide coordinated care navigators without additional resources.

Polis, who established the task force in 2019, praised the group for designing a “system that puts people first.”

The current system is too fragmented, he said.

“It means too many Coloradans are slipping through the cracks when there are ways to help them,” Polis said. “We need to streamline this.”

For Zacher, help never came, no matter how many calls she made and how many times she argued with her insurance company.

“I do feel my daughter could have been saved, but she was just a number pushed through the system that failed us,” she said. “No one took the time to completely understand what my daughter was going through so they could help her.”

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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Planners urge approval of Tears-McFarlane rezone Café concept proposed for historic site

This rendering shows a new design for the annex building at the TearsMcFarlane House adjacent to Cheesman Park.

Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods, which is headquartered at the house, would use the annex space as a new community cafe.

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods’ board president, Travis Leiker, believes the future plans for the Tears-McFarlane mansion will be an amenity for the neighborhood.

“It will be a place that neighbors can truly enjoy and cherish as an integral part of their community,” Leiker said.

On Sept. 2, Denver’s Planning Board decided to give a recommendation to approve the rezone proposal for the Tears-McFarlane mansion, 1290 Williams St. It will now head to Denver’s Land Use, Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, which is a subcommittee of city council, for review.

The meeting will be public, but there will not be a public hearing. Denver City Council will make the final decision, with an expected date of Oct. 26 for another public hearing and city council’s vote on the matter.

“I want to thank all of the neighbors who participated in this process thus far — providing ideas during focus groups, completing community-wide surveys in Cheesman Park and coauthoring the Good Neighbor Agreement,” Leiker said. “We are energized by the days awaiting the Tears-McFarlane.”

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style mansion was built in 1899 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. It was gifted to CHUN in 2005, and the organization took full ownership of it in 2015.

In 2016, selling the mansion was brought up as a relief to CHUN’s financial struggles, but the board of directors voted to keep the mansion because of its value to the community, Leiker said.

CHUN entered into a partnership with City Street Investors LLC, a Denver-based real estate investment company, and eventually the current concept came about that potentially generate revenue while also serving as a community gathering spot.

The rezone for the Tears-McFarlane mansion proposes new development plans that include opening a small café with a full coffee shop. The café will serve breakfast snacks and juices;

grab-and-go salads, fresh deli sandwiches and desserts; and beer, wine and specialty cocktails.

It is envisioned to be an amenity to Cheesman Park’s neighbors and visitors, Leiker said.

“The new café concept … promotes a stronger sense of community while contributing to the preservation of this grand home,” said CHUN board member Debbie Young. “Houses like the Tears-McFarlane make Denver interesting and they make Cheesman Park an extraordinary park for all.”

The rezone application, which was filed on Jan. 2, is for a Planned Unit Development — which allows for customized, site-specific development — with general urban neighborhood standards. It also requests to create two subareas so development standards can be addressed separately for the house, which is roughly 6,000

square feet; and the adjacent Hedlund Hall, better known as the mansion’s annex building, which is about 2,000 square feet.

The café is proposed to be custombuilt where the hall is today. Unlike the mansion, the hall does not have historic designation — it was built in the early 1980s to serve as an event center. The new café will be roughly the same size as the structure that’s already there, said Pat McHenry, principal with City Street.

As for the mansion itself, CHUN plans on keeping its headquarters there, leasing office space to small businesses and nonprofits, as well as making it available for small public events and meetings and CHUN programming.

However, it is in need of some costly renovations.

City Street is partnering 50-50 with CHUN on the proposed project, which could cost north of $3 million, including financing the mansion’s revitalization costs, McHenry said. CHUN will sell 50% of the property equity to City Street, and retain a 50% interest.

Proceeds of the sale will go toward an endowment for CHUN services.

The Tears McFarlane mansion is “an icon and treasure to be preserved to maintain the character of historic Capitol Hill to live on for future generations,” said CHUN board member Peggy Randall. “I believe in creating something new and visionary for our Capitol Hill community. What’s better planning our future than a cup of coffee or glass of wine after a beautiful walk or bike ride around specular, historic Cheesman Park.”

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o you know anyone, you know, who says “you know” excessively?

Watching a documentary the other night, I started counting the number of QUIET times a commentator said “you know.” DESPERATION He reached 14 during one short stretch.

However, if I blocked out the “you knows” (a near impossibility) he made many good points, which raised the question about Craig Marshall form vs. content.

Is it forgivable Smith to overlook hems, haws, uhs, and other filler words, if, nevertheless, there’s significant content?

Is it forgivable when the English language is taken for a ride in car with four flat tires, if there are genuine insights and observations that provide meaning, wisdom or humor?

The answer, of course, is yes.

Take “Huckleberry Finn.” Take the Joads, who weren’t exactly scholars in “The Grapes of Wrath.”

Purists would probably want Bob Dylan to go back and add a “g” to all of his gerunds.

Saying “you know” apparently give the speaker time to think of what to say next.

Many of us can think faster than we can talk. Consider your ability to form an intelligent comment extemporaneously. It’s almost a miracle.

It’s a snap if you have a script.

Winging it, off the cuff, takes some doing.

No one writes with interjections such as “you know” or “uh.”

(Did you know that “uh” is a legitimate Scrabble word?)

This column will take up to an hour to write. If I were to be interviewed instead, I might triple the number of words in half the time.

Writing enables me to take my time, proofread, edit, and edit some more until what I have written is expressed to the best of my ability.

Stick a microphone in front of me

and I might say “you know” and not even know it, which I think was the case with the man in the documentary.

He was discussing Eric Clapton’s output in the 1970s in luminous terms that were littered with “you knows,” referred to as “acknowledgment words.”

I’m sure I have said “you know,” but not 14 times in two minutes.

There was an art history teacher, a distinguished man who had written art history texts, who lectured from a lectern.

He couldn’t get from one end of a sentence as short as this one to the other without saying “uh” two or three times.

Try listening to that for an hour.

I couldn’t. I began to keep track.

Art historians are a lot of fun.

They always require a book they’ve written.

One of the presidential candidates has talked about his boyhood stutter.

One of the presidential candidates seemingly talks without filtering his thoughts.

As we age, many of us lose our fluency.

I watched Johnny Carson, the late night talk show host, lose his fluency.

Instead of crisp and clean monologues, they turned into garbled ones.

Carson’s gift for recovery, however, saved him. He’d tap the overhead microphone when they were no laughs and ask, “Is this thing on?”

There was a Time magazine article written by an author who knew the day would come when he would be “unable to make the connections” as he wrote.

The next sentence wouldn’t come to him as easily as it once did.

In art classes we were taught form and content are equally important.

I have since learned it’s not always true.

But you know that, don’t you?

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

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The N Line is finally here Commuter rail line from Thornton to Denver opened Sept. 21

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After 16 years spent waiting for a proposed commuter rail line, Thornton and Northglenn residents are celebrating that the N-Line is finally here.

The 13-mile commuter rail line opened Sept. 21 with a socially distanced and live-streamed ceremony held at the Eastlake Station in Thornton, located at Claude Court and 124th Avenue.

The N-Line runs from Union Station in Denver through Commerce City, Northglenn and Thornton, stopping at seven stations in a 29-minute period.

Two future stops further north are proposed for creation in 2042.

The rail line is part of RTD’s transit expansion program, FasTracks, which was approved by voters in 2004. Now that the N Line is open, more than 70% of FasTracks is complete, RTD Board Chair Angie Rivera-Malpiede said at the opening ceremony.

In addition to providing a new level of service for northern area residents, the N-Line also represents another dmilestone, said Paul Ballard, RTD’s interim CEO and general manager.

The line is the seventh major project that RTD has completed in the past four years.

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From Sept. 28 through March 27, 2021, the N-Line’s fare will be discounted at $3 for a 3-hour pass and $6 for a day pass.

The line’s opening is good news for Northglenn and Thornton residents, who highlighted the stations, specifically Eastlake Station, for their accessibility.

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Wandering eyes may pick up on odd or unusual sights in the Denver metro area — such as a Native American tipi near an upscale suburban neighborhood or, say, a 30-foot cowboy statue overlooking a busy city road.

Here’s the story behind some sights that may inspire curiosity around the Denver metro area.

A cowboy on Federal Those who have driven north of Denver on North Federal Boulevard may have been struck with the sight of a giant cowboy looming over the traffic.

“I have people who pull over and want to take pictures of him, especially with tourists,” said Jeffry Cook, park manager at Rustic Ranch Mobile Home and RV Park.

The park just south of Interstate 76 is home to the detailed cowboy statue, which was originally intended as part of an amusement park that never materialized, according to an old news article clipping Cook has. But it ended up as part of the mobile home park instead.

Built in the 1950s by Colorado artist John Sutton, the cowboy has become something of a local landmark. Cook, 54, remembers seeing the statue as a child.

“A fun fact for you is that the ‘American Pickers’ came to this park,” Cook

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some sentimental meaning for those who call the place home.

“I guarantee you that if the cowboy wasn’t there tomorrow, everybody would be knocking on my door asking where the cowboy went,” Cook said.

The park sits just outside northwest Denver in unincorporated Adams County, near Arvada and Westminster.

Adams City High School sits along North Quebec Parkway near East 72nd Avenue. The name Adams City is a relic of an area that is now part of Commerce City. PHOTO BY ELLIS ARNOLD

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said, referring to the show on the History Channel. The show tried to buy the cowboy several years ago, according to Cook.

In the mobile home park’s 106 units, most residents have lived at the park for at least 20 to 25 years, Cook estimates. He hopes the cowboy carries

Tipi along the prairie Along Aurora’s east edge, not far from east Centennial, stands a large gate that bears the word “Plains.”

It’s the entrance to Plains Conservation Center, a nature preserve and educational center that houses replicas of a Native American tipi camp and homestead village, showcasing life on the plains in the late 1800s, according to the City of Aurora’s website.

The center encompasses more than 1,100 acres of short-grass prairie with views of the Rocky Mountains, located at 21901 E. Hampden Ave., west of toll highway E-470.

In June 1950, the land was deeded to what became the West Arapahoe Conservation District, and the land was formally christened the Plains Conservation Center, according to the center’s website.

In 1997, 1,100 acres were sold to the City of Aurora to remain as passiveuse open space, with the center continuing to manage the land and offer programs, the site says.

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of about 300 residents voted for incorporation of Commerce Town, comprising neighborhoods such as Rose Hill, Adams City, Dupont and Irondale.

Commerce Town annexed part of the Derby area in 1962, increasing the population fourfold. That was enough for the town to gain status as a city, and its name was then changed to Commerce City, according to the historical society.

At least one business — Adams City Liquor — still carries the area’s old name along with Adams City Middle School.

Four Mile, 17 Mile, 20 Mile Drivers who frequent South Parker Road may recall a large barn a short drive south of East Arapahoe Road.

Located just south of Centennial, the 17 Mile House is one of several inns that emerged along Cherry Creek for travelers and freighters when the 1859-60 gold rush caused large-scale settlement of the state, according to the Arapahoe County website.

The property is an Arapahoe County park that sits at 8181 S. Parker Road, just north of the Town of Parker.

The “mile houses” sat every two to three miles along the Cherokee/ Smoky Hill wagon trails from Kansas, named based on their distance to the intersection of Colfax Avenue

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and North Broadway in Denver, according to the website. Out of the original six mile houses, only 17 Mile House and Four Mile House exist in their entirety today, the website says.

The buildings also included Seven Mile House, Nine Mile House, 12 Mile House and 20 Mile House, according to the National Register of Historic Places.

At mile houses, travelers could get a meal, spend the night, rest their animals and have minor repairs made to coaches or wagons, according to the Arapahoe County website.

The 17 Mile barn was constructed in the late 1870s, according to a county news release.

Construction likely began on what was to become the 20 Mile House around the mid-to-late 1860s, according

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The 20 Mile Post Office sits on Mainstreet, a short drive west of Parker Road — and close to Twenty Mile Road.

Four Mile Historic Park sits in Denver, a short drive from South Colorado Boulevard and Leetsdale Drive.

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Legal Notice No. 80672 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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

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

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Shea Gillespie, a/k/a Shea Michael Gillespie, Deceased Case Number 2020 PR 31034

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Legal Notice No. 80676 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Dennis Giannangeli Personal Representative 13844 E. Bellewood Dr Aurora, CO 80015

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mary Jean Washington, a/k/a Mary J. Washington, and Mary Washington, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR031088

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Charles Christopher Hill, Deceased, Case No. 2020PR31076

Timothy M. Watters, Personal Representative 3765 W 7750 S Victor, ID 83455

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 February 1, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 80690 First Publication: October 1, 2020 Last Publication: October 15, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 80679 First Publication: September 24, 2020 Last Publication: October 8, 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 17, 2021 , or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 80677 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Estate of Mary Louise Giannangeli, aka Mary L. Giannangeli, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31052

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

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 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of DAVID ROBERT MELTON, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31175

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 February 1, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. s/ John J. Vierthaler Attorney for Estate John J. Vierthaler, #10770 8441 W. Bowles Ave., #210 Littleton, CO 80123 303-972-4448 Legal Notice No. 80692 First Publication: October 1, 2020 Last Publication: October 15, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Leonard Lavern Nixon, Jr., aka Lenny L. Nixon, Jr., aka Lenny Nixon, Jr., aka Lenny Nixon, aka Leonard L. Nixon, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31090 All persons having claims against the above-

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Scholarship honors noted watercolorist

riends of late artist rita derjue have established a scholarship fund at Arapahoe Community College for women and minority students who are studying art at the college. To donate to the fund, go online to https://interland3. donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink. aspx?name=E330750&id=30 or send a check and explanaSONYA’S tion to Arapahoe Community ColSAMPLER lege Foundation, 5900 S. Santa Fe Dr., Campus Box 43, Littleton, CO 80120. derjue, who passed away in June, was internationally recognized for her dramatic watercolors of mountain scenery and historic Sonya Ellingboe sites.

Lone Tree performances Lone Tree Arts Center’s Main Stage Theater is starting some live performances in October, featuring local artists as well as some on tour.

“Motones & Jerseys in Harmony” plays Oct. 16-18, featuring Emcee Mary Louise Lee overseeing an evening of 60s music in a competition between these two groups. The audience will decide the winner in each performance Oct. 16-18. Think Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons,

Matter, other real-world challenges, with 50% of proceeds to be donated to 4Oceans’ Pound + program to fund removal of trash from the oceans.

Each ticket ($30) equates to a pound and a half of trash removed. Masks required. betsystage.com. For ages 16 and older.

The Temptations, Beach Boys …

“Adam Pascal: So Far” plays Oct. 24 at 1:30 and 8 p.m. On Oct. 25 at 7 p.m., the feature attraction will be “Rene Heredia’s Flamenco Fantasy Theatre,” Spanish dance with castanets, foot stomping, syncopated clapping and beautiful costumes, accompanied by guitarist Andreana Cortes, Heredia’s niece. Tickets, 720-509-1000, lonetreeartscenter.org.

Depot Art Gallery The Depot Art Gallery and Caboose, 2069 W. Powers Ave., Littleton, will reopen on Oct. 2 with the first live show since that nasty virus appeared on the scene. “Best of the Best” will feature two- and three-dimensional works by member artists.

Safety restrictions will be posted and at first, the gallery will only be open Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The guild will also keep its Virtual Gallery operant (depotartgallery.org) as well as work displayed at Nixon’s Coffee House in Englewood, the Arapahoe County Justice Center, Vita, Stanton Gallery at Town Hall ... 303-795-0781, depotartgallery.org.

Night lights ...

Digital projection celebrating Colorado Women in Architecture will be shown Tuesday through Sunday in October, from dusk to 10 p.m. on the Daniels and Fisher Tower on the 16th Street Mall. It will

rita derjue.

Virtual Insider tours Doors Open Denver, presented by the Denver Architecture Foundation, offers 12 tours over three weeks, including the new Freyer-Newman Center at Denver Botanic Gardens, Fitzroy Place/Iliff Mansion and the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library. Dates: Through Oct. 15, Monday through Thursday, one tour per day, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Visit denverarchitecture.org. DAF’s audio tours are accessible year-round at denveraudiotours.org, featuring two journeys, 24 locations-historically significant to Denver and Colorado.

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show works designed by female and binary architects, with the hope of inspiring young women to consider an architecture career. Sponsored by Colorado AIA. Betsy Stage The Betsy Stage, at 1137 S. Huron St., Denver, presents “Being Here,” a compilation of monologues chosen by the actors, dealing with issues such as homelessness, Black Lives

Center for Visual Art “The Walls Between Us” presented by the collective, Artnauts, continues through Oct. 17 at the Center for Visual Art, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. Artnauts has a social justice focus and the theme of his show came from a discussion of crossing borders. Patricia Aaron of Greenwood Village is a member and has a painting in this show. 303-294-5207, www.msudenver.edu/cva/. Admission free.

Gothic horror authors come back from the grave to spook you this October Versions of Victorian Horrors @ Molly Brown House Museum offered as in-person or at-home STAFF REPORT

Victorian Horrors @ the Molly Brown House Museum will be offered again this year with in-person and at-home options for the spooky experience.

Victorian Horrors is environmental theater presented by Castle Lion Development, set within the Molly Brown House Museum, 1340 Penn-

sylvania St. in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.

The in-person experience starts with a pre-recorded video transmission of a story from a Gothic horror author who has come back from the grave. This takes place onsite, and after listening to the tale, attendees are invited to tour the 14-room Molly Brown House Museum. It will be decorated by Denver’s authentic oddities dealers, The Learned Lemur and Atomic Folk Art, to create a Victorian cabinet of curiosities — creepy taxidermy, spiny specimens and rattling bones. The tours are primarily self-guided with audio narrated by specters from the past, but docents will be present.

A ticket also includes additional

video transmissions of Victorian Horrors actors presenting tales that can be viewed before or after your visit.

Those who prefer the at-home version will have access to the pre-recorded video transmission of the story, which can be viewed from anywhere, but the ticket does not include access into the Molly Brown House Museum.

A different story and author will be featured each night.

This year’s stories include “The invisible Man,” “Frankenstein” and “La Llorona.” “La Llorona,” translated to “The Weeping Woman” in English, will be presented in both Spanish and English. The authors of these Gothic horror tales will be portrayed by local actors David and Julia Payne, Jim Hunt, Trina Magness, Josh Hartwell,

Gabriella Cavallero and John Wittbrodt.

Victorian Horrors @ the Molly Brown House Museum is being offered on Oct. 16, 17, 23, 24, 29 and 30.

Advance ticket purchase is required.

Ticketed admission will take place every 20 minutes between 6 and 9 p.m.

Tickets for in-person Victorian Horrors cost $18 for non-member adults, and $16 for members, seniors and juniors age 6-18. This event is advised for ages 12 and up, per parental discretion.

Masks are required.

Tickets for the at-home spooky story access is $8 per household.

To purchase tickets, call 303-832-4092 ext. 16 for tickets or go online to www. mollybrown.org.

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 February 2, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lonny J. Nixon, Personal Representative 1002 Xenophone Street Golden, Colorado 80401 Legal Notice No. 80686 First Publication: October 1, 2020 Last Publication: October 15, 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.

be forever barred.

Judy Stapp, Personal Representative 500 Elm Street Denver, CO 80220

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

Legal Notice No. 80669 First Publication: September 17, 2020 Last Publication: October 1, 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

Marcel A. Smith, Personal Representative 20300 E. 47th Place Denver, Colorado 80249 Legal Notice No. 80691 First Publication: October 1, 2020 Last Publication: October 15, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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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 LADONNA A. MULLINS, aka LADONNA ANN MULLINS, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31141

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION OF TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS HEARING

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

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

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 February 1, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

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.

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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