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VOLUME 93 | ISSUE 51

Health insurance rates in Colorado hold steady Numbers barely budge amid uncertainty linked to pandemic

BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

that the city is thoughtful about the orders it issues. He suggested that requiring people to wear face covering outside since the first face covering order began in May could have possibly meant even more fatigue, leading to less compliance by this point.

He said you can still go to your favorite restaurant or hair salon or store or hike. You just need to do it with the proper safety measures, such as wearing a face covering and physical distancing.

A spike in cases is no longer being driven solely by college-age students, though McDonald said people in their 20s and 30s do make up a big chunk of cases in the city.

McDonald said what’s leading to

Amid a historic public health crisis, something curious has happened with health insurance prices: Nothing.

When state officials this month unveiled the approved rates for next year’s health insurance plans, they announced the smallest change in years. Average prices for plans in the individual market — where people shop for insurance if they don’t get coverage through an employer — are set to decline by 1.4%. Average prices in the small-group market — where small employers buy plans for their workers — are set to rise by 3.8%.

Given that prices in both of these markets were increasing annually by double-digit percentages not long ago, the non-news of next year’s rates comes as welcome news for consumers. But it also raises a question. Why hasn’t the coronavirus pandemic — and all the costly medical care that can go along with it — led to higher insurance prices?

The answer can be found in dozens of pages of regulatory filings that insurance companies submitted to the state when seeking approval for next year’s rates. The upshot is that health insurers seem to be as unsure as the rest of us about what next year will look like.

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Katelyn Trujillo and Moses Malavet were already wearing a mask outside when Denver’s tighter rules on face coverings was announced. Oct. 16.

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Fatigue complicates efforts to fight COVID-19 Precautions wear people down as numbers of disease cases rise

BY ESTEBAN L. HERNANDEZ DENVERITE.COM

Both public health and health care experts agree many people are experiencing at least one collective feeling about all these coronavirus rules at the moment: fatigue.

It’s happening during the worst possible time, as COVID-19 cases continue to surge in Denver and as the state enters its third wave.

City Public Health Executive Director Bob McDonald said last week that cases are now higher than

they’ve ever been in the city.

The spike prompted the city recently to beef up its public health orders, including one that requires people to wear face coverings outside and limiting groups of unrelated folks hanging out to five or fewer people. It’s a step up from the requirement for people to wear face coverings while in most indoor spaces for people working and visiting businesses. That first face covering order was put in place in May. “I think people are tired of having to comply with public heath orders.

But we can’t give up now,” McDonald said last week.

Every possible action urged McDonald said the city needs to take every action possible to stop the upward trend in cases, adding

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Suburban women are key in 2020 political races Demographic has shifted between parties in past elections

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

Cathy Lees, a stay-at-home mom in Highlands Ranch, is picking candidates this year based on her values, and that includes how they treat people. She’s been put off for four years by President Donald Trump’s language and demeanor.

“I have a 14-year-old daughter, and I would never want her to put up with someone speaking to her like he speaks to women,” she said. “Nor would I want my 16-year-old son speaking to anyone the way he speaks to people.”

In Grand Junction, Rose Pugliese is voting with her two children in mind, too. But two of her biggest concerns are the economy and law and order.

“Grand Junction hasn’t had quite the protests or the riots, but we are still watching it as moms and we want to make sure that it doesn’t come here,” said Pugliese, a Republican Mesa County commissioner who lives on the outskirts of Grand Junction. “We want to be prepared if it does.”

The two suburban women are a target demographic for candidates from the top of the ticket down to the local contests, and the way candidates try to sway them is often through concern for their kids. That’s nothing new. But while their top worries in past years

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were school shootings, gun laws and foreign terrorism, in the 2020 election candidates are trying to woo the women by talking about COVID-19 and public safety in the wake of sometimes violent protests.

One campaign flier mailed to women from the Colorado Republican Party features a picture of a woman with scrunched eyebrows and a worried expression and it says former Vice President Joe Biden will cut funding to police, though Biden has said repeatedly that he would not defund the police if he is elected. “The Democrats have moved way too far to the left and that worries me,” the mailer says. “We

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can’t risk our children’s future with Joe Biden.”

The Colorado Democratic Party, meanwhile, called out U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner with a mailer on abortion rights. “Cory Gardner supports criminalizing abortion and putting doctors in jail for up to five years,” it says, referring to a failed Senate vote. “Four years of medical school. Five years in jail.” The mailer refers to 2018, when Gardner voted in favor of opening debate on a proposal to ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

The suburban-women vote — also known as the middle-class, whitewomen vote — is a target because it’s traditionally a persuadable group that can swing between party affiliations.

And this election cycle, the suburbs are more racially diverse than they were four years ago.

In 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton barely won the suburban-women vote, according to Pew Research Center. And research shows that the portion of women identifying with the Democratic Party has increased significantly since Trump’s election.

In general, more women vote than men. In the last presidential election, 63% of eligible women voted, compared with 59% of men, according to Pew. Trump made it clear during a rally in Pennsylvania last week just how much he needs their support. “Suburban women, will you please like me? I saved your damn neighborhood, OK?” he said in front of a cheering crowd.

“We saved suburbia.”

So far the message is not resonating in Colorado. Two polls in recent months showed a substantial gap in the women’s vote for president, with Biden receiving 58% support and Trump at 36% or less.

The gap is even more pronounced among suburban women — upwards of 36 points more support for Biden than Trump, according to a survey conducted recently by Keating Research, a Democratic firm that is one of the state’s leading pollsters.

And Rick Ridder, a veteran Colorado pollster, said a survey he released recently showed Biden with a major advantage in Colorado — one built on the women’s vote. For women under age 50, he said, Biden gets 69% support and Trump 25%. “That’s a stunning number,” Ridder said. “This is one of the most amazing polls I’ve ever done. These people have made up their minds.”

Seeking mothers’ votes In the 1990s, the target was socalled soccer moms — the suburban women hauling their kids and gear bags to practice, many of whom were persuaded to vote for former Democratic President Bill Clinton. Security moms were the post-9/11 mothers concerned mainly about terrorism as they went to the polls and favored former Republican President George W. Bush.

More recently, in 2016, “Walmart moms” were defined as those with kids at home who shopped at Walmart at least once a month. Now “rage moms” are the ones so fed up with racial injustice and Trump that they’ve joined the street protests. And then there are “Zoom moms,” the women bearing the brunt of the pandemic as they manage online work meetings alongside their children’s cyberlearning.

The buzz term this election cycle, though, is the more general: “suburban women.” It’s inclusive of women without children, and moms who aren’t soccer moms or, as former Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin used to call them, hockey moms.

They’re all pretty much the same demographic.

“It’s a coded way to say middle- and upper-class white women,” said Sara Chatfield, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Denver. “The way Trump has used this term has been very racialized: `You don’t want minorities moving into your neighborhood and ruining them’ seems to be his underlying message.”

Research has shown that moms — more than women who are not moms — are more concerned about law and order, and more supportive of police, said Chatfield, who teaches a course on women and politics.

And while moms in the past several years have been concerned about gun laws and protecting kids from school shootings, 2020 has pushed other problems to the forefront. “They are more worried about whether their kids can go to school at all,” Chatfield said.

This is why Democrats are focusing much of their messaging on the pandemic and how they will get kids back in school, and why Republican candidates are amplifying the violence in the streets, including some of the Black Lives Matter protests across the country.

Abortion rights are on the line this year, too, as Colorado votes on a proposal to ban abortion after 22 weeks of gestation, without exception for a lethal fetal diagnosis or the health of the mother, and as the U.S. Senate decides whether to confirm a new U.S. Supreme Court justice to replace abortion rights advocate Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But contrary to assumptions, Chatfield said, the abortion divide in the United States is not based on a gender gap — it’s primarily a Democrat-Republican line.

Outgoing state Rep. Lori Saine, who is knocking doors in Weld County as she competes for a spot on the county commission, said the potential for violent protests is “the No. 1 concern I’ve heard at the door lately.”

Saine, a Republican, said she keeps hearing from “women who are pretty afraid the riots are coming up here to their neighborhood.” They are looking at local and national news footage and feeling anxious. Many are talking about getting trained to carry a gun, she said.

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‘Law and order’ debate Pugliese, who has two kids ages 9 and 6, said the Mesa County women working to reelect Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner and elect 3rd Congressional District candidate Lauren Boebert are concerned about the riots and protests.

“Obviously, law and order,” she said. “They want to make sure their kids are safe when they drop them off at school.”

Her Western Slope community has a big “back-the-blue” effort to support law enforcement, and that matters to moms who see firefighters and police officers coming into schools to talk about safety, she said.

As for the coronavirus pandemic, it’s a concern, but Pugliese doesn’t blame Trump.

“This pandemic was unprecedented and nobody was prepared for it,” she said. “People may not agree with how the president handled it. There are people who don’t agree on how the governor handled it.”

The issues she hears women talk about most often, she said, are the economy and transportation because they drive their children to various activities across town. “They want to make sure they can take care of their family,” she said.

Mary Dambman, president of the Republican Women of Broomfield, said COVID-19 is the latest fear tactic in politics. The mother and grandmother, and lifelong Republican, has been around long enough to see how candidates have used fear of war, terrorism, the county’s direction and

now the pandemic to sway voters, she said.

“I think I share with everyone, no matter what her age, the economy is No. 1,” Dambman said. “You are concerned about the needs of the family.

As you grow older, you think of your retirement. You hope that the cost of living doesn’t go crazy.”

“COVID is the fearmonger at the moment,” she added. “It will pass when we get a vaccine.”

But Lees, the Highlands Ranch mom, said she’s annoyed that conservative candidates, as she views it, are trying to use the protests around racial reckoning to evoke fear in women. “I’m not scared of violence in the streets,” she said. “I’m not scared of it coming to the suburbs.

“They are not here to take away my stuff,” continued Lees, who has taken her children to some of the Black Lives Matter protests in Denver and Highlands Ranch. “They are protesting because they don’t have the same options that we do.”

And whether or not candidates are talking about it, Lees is still concerned about gun violence. “We haven’t been in school so there haven’t been any school shootings,” she said, noting that Americans typically talk gun politics in the wake of a mass shooting.

Darien Wilson, also a Highlands Ranch mom, first became involved in politics five years ago by working to replace Douglas County School Board members who enacted a nowrepealed school voucher program.

Then she signed up to help elect Democratic U.S. Rep. Jason Crow in 2018. And this year, she put her own name on the ballot, for Douglas County commissioner.

Wilson calls 2016 “a dark time”

— the year her dog died, a family member was struggling with mental health issues, and Trump was elected. “I literally woke up every day after the election for months just nauseated to realize how many people are OK with sexual assault and how my daughters are not safe,” she said, refering to the then-candidate’s comments on an “Access Hollywood” tape.

As a candidate for commissioner, she tweeted in support of Black Lives Matter. In return, Wilson said, she’s been called a Marxist and a communist by supporters of her opponent, incumbent Republican Commissioner Lora Thomas. “The fear of this rioting is all about racism,” Wilson said. Scaring voters about riot violence works only if they are “primed for it,” she said.

Wilson’s campaign wasn’t getting that much traction until the current commissioners moved to withdraw from Tri-County Health Department after the department ordered a COVID-19 mask mandate. “My campaign just blew up,” she said. “I didn’t sleep for two weeks.”

Her campaign has focused on the pandemic and science, which is a “huge divide right now,” she said.

“Imagine if a terrorist had killed 60 people in Douglas County since March?” referring to the 63 coronavirus deaths in the county.

Thomas said her constituents aren’t concerned about whether Douglas County breaks up with TriCounty Health Department — they want to talk about how to keep the historically conservative county safe, she said.

“I have had many people ask me if they are safe here” and whether the protests will move to the suburbs,

she said. Thomas, a former county coroner now fighting her first competitive race against a Democrat, said voters care most about “quality of life,” including public safety and open spaces.

“I’ve been knocking on doors since 2004 and what I’ve found through all of my years knocking on doors and talking to voters, is that there is no one-size-fits-all for a suburban woman voter,” she said. “They’re conservative, they’re liberal … They love Douglas County the way it is.

And they want to keep it that way.”

Karen Middleton, president of the abortion rights organization Cobalt, has been making phone calls to women in the suburbs to ask if they will vote against Proposition 115, the abortion ban measure.

One woman cut her off and said, “I’m not at all into politics,” before hanging up. Middleton felt like the woman meant “politics is a yucky thing that other people are involved in,” and it reminded her of the times she’s knocked on doors for various campaigns — including her own for state representative in 2008 — and women would take her fliers and promise to ask their husbands.

This year, though, Middleton has been encouraged not just by the numbers of women fired up about politics, but by their enthusiasm.

“This time,” she said, “I’m seeing people come out of the woodwork.”

This is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. Staff writer John Frank and Sun contributor Sandra Fish contributed to this story. Used by permission. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com.

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‘We’re the people who take care of people’ Desmond Fulton becomes chief of the Denver Fire Department

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Denver Fire Department is more than 150 years old.

Along with that age has come some various traditions within the department, but one mainstay value has always been helping the community during an emergency.

“We have an opportunity to make a positive difference in somebody’s life every day,” said Desmond Fulton, who has been with the department for 22 years. “We’re the people who take care of people.”

The Denver Fire Department serves the City and County of Denver, Glendale, Sheridan, Englewood and the Skyline Fire District.

In early October, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock appointed Fulton as chief of the Denver Fire Department.

Fulton was sworn in on Oct. 12.

“The job of a Denver firefighter is one of the most critical public safety jobs in our city,” Hancock said in a news release. “Fulton knows this department and has served alongside men and women up and down the ranks, and he is committed to making Denver’s fire department the best, most inclusive it can be.”

Fulton was serving as deputy chief prior to his current appointment as chief, and in that role, he managed

the daily operations of the department. He also served as the Incident Plan Commander and liaison for the department’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic; the fire department’s representative on the city’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity Team; and on the mayor’s Office of Equity Reconciliation Task Force Team, which focuses on tackling the public health crisis of racism.

As chief, Fulton will lead the department’s more than 1,000 firefighter personnel and will oversee all the services the department provides. These include fire suppression, emergency medical services, technical rescue, hazardous materials response, water and high-angle rescue. Fulton added that he will be placing priority on additional engagement with the community, and professional/career development opportunities within the department — calling the latter “reinvesting in our people,” Fulton said.

Fulton, 50, joined the Denver Fire Department on Sept. 16, 1998. Starting out as a firefighter technician, Fulton has spent his entire career with the Denver Fire Department. To date, he is the only active member to have run two divisions as a division chief.

Some of his accomplishments with the department through the years include creating the department’s Mentorship Program, which guarantees highly coveted positions to people of color and women; organizing the development of many new department policies, including a progressive maternity policy; developing cutting-edge hazmat awareness

Desmond Fulton was sworn in as chief of the Denver Fire Department on Oct. 12.

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and training practices; helping to develop and implement new wellness initiatives and programs with a focus on physical and behavioral wellness; and, in response to the prevalence of cancer illness and deaths in the fire service, leading the development of the nation’s first Cancer Resource

Guidebook, which has proven to be instrumental in helping affected members of fire departments and their families cope with serious illness, a news release states.

Fulton is a Colorado native and currently resides in unincorporated Adams County. He is married, and has one daughter who is a senior in high school and one son who is studying business at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

While attending college in Greeley, Fulton was considering a career in law enforcement. However, he eventually got acquainted with some fire service professionals “who loved their job,” Fulton said. He ended up going on a going a ride-along, and “that was it,” Fulton said. “I just knew.”

Fulton said the Denver Fire Department team is like a family, and added he is honored “to serve alongside the men and women of this department who show up to serve every single day to protect the people of this great city.”

No matter if the emergency is putting out a fire or helping a senior who has misplaced medication, the Denver Fire Department is “here to make a difference,” Fulton said.

“Denver is a diverse city. I recognize the importance of social equity and will work to ensure our department is as diverse and inclusive as the residents and communities we serve,” Fulton said. “We take pride in recognizing everybody’s emergency is different. And we’re here for them, no matter what that emergency may be.”

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A place for art and creativity Shop owners Daneen and Bob Terrell are eager to bring in neighbors

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BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It’s tough to say exactly what Carousel Emporium is.

Is it an antique shop? A makerspace? A consignment shop? An art gallery? A community gathering place?

How about all of the above?

Daneen and Bob Terrell opened the Englewood shop at 3665 South Broadway in August, after a long journey to get the place up and running.

“We had everything lined up last spring,” Daneen said. “Our grand opening date was supposed to be in April — we had a band lined up and everything. Then, of course, COVID hit, and we just hunkered down and waited.”

The couple used their time well, lining up unique local artists like oil painter Stacy Harrigan and watercolorist and jewelry maker Nancy Thorn to line the walls with paintings.

They also stocked the shelves with curios and antiques, some gleaned from their other business running estate sales. Bob brought in his collection of antique clocks and radios, and crowned the shop floor with a 1951 Sears & Roebuck canvas canoe.

But perhaps the most exciting part of the shop isn’t yet fully realized: a versatile classroom and makerspace area, meant to meet community needs

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IF YOU GO d friends learning to cook from chefs in “We could see it being used for Italy. It can be pretty neat.” guitar lessons, cooking classes, art Carousel Emporium is at 3665 S. Broad- n The shop’s aesthetic has a retro flair, groups — there’s a lot of possibility way, in a brick building on the west side of E perhaps an outgrowth of Daneen’s there,” Daneen said, though much of the street that once housed an ice cream h h childhood helping relatives operate that will probably need to wait until shop. a shop and milk delivery business in the pandemic is in the rearview mirThe shop is open Friday through Monday i Northglenn back when Denver’s north ror. “In the meantime, we might see from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and closed on Tuesside was still home to barns and cows. day, Wednesday and Thursday.

Bob, also a Colorado native like his Phone: 720-226-8679 wife, grew up in Kiowa, still something of a cowboy town far southeast of Denver.

Life took them on plenty of journeys, with Daneen leaving a career in oil and gas to pursue a more authentic life, and Bob retiring from construction with hopes of relaxing, only to be whisked into Daneen’s energetic projects like the shop.

Despite the challenges of opening a shop during the pandemic, Daneen said word has been getting around about the wonders behind the door of the little storefront.

“We really love the word-of-mouth we’re getting,” Daneen said. “That’s the whole idea — we want to be part of the community, and for people to One of Bob Terrell’s many antique tell us what they want this place to radios. Carousel Emporium has a be.” midcentury modern flair.

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Some companies project a modest increase in the amount of medical care they will have to cover due to coronavirus — on the order of 1% or so. Others think people will continue to avoid seeking treatment for non-urgent conditions, resulting in lower expenses.

And some companies openly say they don’t know and don’t want to guess.

“It kind of nets out once you look at the savings that came from this year and you try to forecast that forward,” said Michael Conway, Colorado’s insurance commissioner.

Nationwide trend What’s happening with health insurance prices in Colorado matches what’s happening nationwide. When the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health-research organization, looked at filings across the country, it found an average 1.1% increase in prices for individual market plans next year. Digging deeper, the organization found that COVID-19 had an average 0% impact on next year’s prices.

“The term `uncertainty’ came up a lot,” said Nisha Kurani, a senior policy analyst at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Part of that uncertainty is trying to figure out how much medical care unrelated to coronavirus people are going to need next year. When the pandemic hit this spring, hospital and doctor’s office visits for elective and non-urgent medical care plummeted.

Even people potentially experiencing heart attacks stopped showing up at hospitals — possibly leading to an increase in cardiac arrests at home.

Michael Kleinrock, a research director at the health care analytics company IQVIA, said hospital patient volume nationwide has rebounded after steep drops earlier this year.

Overall for the year, the system is seeing about 20% less utilization than expected pre-pandemic. Patient volume is close to normal but not enough to make up for all those missed visits earlier in the year.

“The system appears to be learning how to walk and chew gum, learning how to manage COVID in this environment and still deliver necessary health care for other people. Which is positive,” he said. “But there’s still that lingering issue of the where-didthey-go people.”

Colorado hospitals have also seen a rebound in patient visits, but not enough to make up for earlier losses.

Julie Lonborg, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Hospital Association, said inpatient discharges are down 12% for the year and emergency room visits are down around 25%.

Hospitals expect that lower volume to persist through the end of the year and much of next year, far longer than what the hospital association thought when the pandemic first hit the state.

“We all thought at the time, `Oh gosh, surely by October life will be a little back toward normal,’” she said.

“I think we all recognize now that that is not the case and will continue not to be the case for some time.”

The certainty of `uncertainty’ But there are also other factors that make it complicated to project how coronavirus will impact medical costs next year. How much will the virus spread? Will there be a safe and effective vaccine and when will it be ready? Will new treatments be ap-

proved and how much will they cost?

Will the election mean a change in the White House and a different approach to fighting the virus? Will pandemicrelated job losses cause more people to buy coverage in the individual market — or drop coverage altogether?

“We note,” the Denver Health Medical Plan wrote in a filing with the state, “that there is substantial uncertainty regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on premium rate development, including whether the pandemic will increase or decrease costs in 2021.”

Some of the information that companies provided to the state is redacted to protect business confidentiality, and it is possible that the insurers were more candid with their assessments of the pandemic in those sections. But, just like the Kaiser Family Foundation saw nationally, the word “uncertainty” keeps popping up in insurers’ public filings.

“Due to the limited information available on the pandemic,” the insurance company Oscar wrote in an actuarial memo filed with the state, “any analysis is subject to a substantially greater than usual level of uncertainty.”

Regulatory limitations There’s also one other coronavirusrelated reason that rates will stay relatively flat next year, and it involves regulatory muscle.

When insurers filed their preliminary rates earlier this summer, they asked the state to approve an average 2.2% increase for the individual market and 5.7% increase for the small group market. But the state Division of Insurance, led by Conway, knocked those rates back before final approval.

When coming up with proposed rates, insurers have to make calcu-

lated guesses on how much certain components of health care costs will increase or decrease in the coming year. For instance, insurers will estimate how much rising prices or how much frequency of health care utilization will impact their costs. This is called “trend” in regulatory parlance.

One reason regulators knocked next year’s proposed rates down is that the state imposed a cap on how much of an increase insurers could predict for health care utilization — setting the amount at no more than 1%. Conway said that was done because the state last year approved projected utilization increases that were way higher than what insurers have actually seen, because of the pandemic. That meant rates were likely set higher than ultimately needed last year, which could lead insurers to having to refund money to customers in the coming years.

“It just really hadn’t come to fruition, the increase we had approved last year,” Conway said. “So we didn’t think it would be appropriate to grant a typical utilization trend.”

Amanda Massey, the executive director of the Colorado Association of Health Plans, an insurance industry trade group, said the Division of Insurance also limited how other coronavirus-related costs could be factored into the 2021 rates. She said it’s important that the long-term costs of coronavirus be fully accounted for.

Not doing so, she said, “could have serious consequences for health insurance premiums in the future if not accurately reflected in rates.”

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arge dark dog, running unleashed through front yards, zoomed to the greenbelt trail and out of sight.

Way behind, dog’s owner lopes along.

Small child on QUIET her first bicycle DESPERATION encounters the dog, is frightened, falls off her bicycle and is seriously injured.

Father rushes up, spots the owner, an argument ensues.

Unattended dog runs to the other Craig Marshall end of the greenSmith belt and into the street.

High school girl taking a driving lesson with her father runs over and kills dog.

The argument on the greenbelt escalates into a fistfight.

The daughter screams in pain and fear, watching her father being beaten by the dog’s owner.

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etrates walls — solid walls — and enters my eardrums like darts.

These are, mostly, little things.

But an accumulation of little things can become a problem.

Richard Carlson beat me to it.

He’s the author of “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff ... and It’s All Small Stuff.” It was published in 1997.

It spent over 101 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list.

In December 2005, on his way to promote “Don’t Get Scrooged: How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, Incompetent, Arrogant and Downright MeanSpirited People” he suffered a pulmonary embolism on a flight from San Francisco to New York.

Age 45.

There is “small stuff ” everywhere.

Unless someone isn’t paying attention, there are at least “Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door.”

That’s the subtitle of Lynn Truss’ book “Talk to the Hand.” It was published (2005) long before COVID-19; none of the six, therefore, is related.

Quoting from it would only depress me — and you too. I bought it knowing it would only deepen my existing grievances.

That’s called “confirmation bias.” While it is reaffirming, it generally leads to a limited view of things.

Truss has a sense of humor, so her complaints about the “apparent collapse of civility” are both insightful and entertaining.

Unless you’re one of the perpetrators.

The thought of becoming a perpetrator myself has crossed my mind. Why bother with respect and civility?

There’s a free range dachshund in the neighborhood. He’s a cute, skinny little guy.

Every time I see him, unleashed, dashing from yard to yard and his too-cool owner walking behind, I’m angered.

Why? Because we also have unleashed drivers.

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

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roactive or reactive. I did or did not. I can or cannot.

I will or will not. When we look at those statements quickly, which words resonate with us personWINNING ally? What I typically see is WORDS that people who connect with the words “proactive,” “I did,” “I can” and “I will” tend to be more action-oriented and results-focused.

There is no right or wrong an- Michael Norton swer here. Those of us who may have felt more comfortable with the words “reactive,” “I did not,” “I cannot” and “I will not” are sometimes less action-oriented and not as worried about the results. Some of us in this group are comfortable letting others take the actions necessary to achieve the results we are seeking.

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Unfortunately, we’ve already had one unhappy ending on the block.

Loose dog attacked a neighbor’s dog. The neighbor’s dog had to be taken to the Emergency Center.

She survived. The attacker dog was euthanized.

“Dogs must be on a leash when off the owner’s property except when walking in a designated offleash area.”

Of course, regulations are restrictive, just like the ones about masks and social distancing.

With people dying left and right and riots and protests ongoing, an unleashed dog here and there doesn’t seem like much.

And maybe it isn’t as long as no one gets hurt.

Unless you’re the perpetrator or someone who’s immensely tolerant, it’s one more thing in a year of things. Maybe you’ve noticed your tolerance for failures in civility and common sense has diminished in 2020?

There’s a dog that’s let out at night and yaps about the time I’m writing or painting.

And yaps.

The yap is piercing; it pen-

ence between “Will” and “Skill.”

In most cases, “Skill” can be something we acquire over time.

Yet no matter how proficient we become at a certain “Skill”, if we do not have the “Will” to actually use the skill, we will always come up short when it comes to the achievement of our goals and dreams. Action orientation begins with “Will.”

“Skill” without “Will” usually manifests itself with poor performance and low productivity.

“Will” without “Skill” does not really help either. We would be left with awesome desire and a positive attitude, but no knowledge of what to do and how to get things done. When this happens, it could lead to inaction, which consequently compromises our results.

Over the years I have interviewed, hired, trained, managed and led hundreds of people. And I would say that more often than not, when a new hire didn’t work out, as I looked back at the reason why, it was because I hired based on perceived “Skill” instead of “Will.” If given a choice today, I would always hire for “Will” before “Skill” assuming that there

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And the way I try and identify “Will’ is to ask questions like, “Tell me about a time where being proactive helped you in your previous position.” “Have you ever been in a situation where you had to make a decision to take action or choose not to take a specific action?” “Can you share a time where having a `can do’ attitude made a difference for you and the results that you achieved?”

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Here’s the thing, inaction and taking action are both a choice.

We can sit back and hope that the outcome or result is something that we can accept or just live with. Or we can get in the game and be a part of the achievement and success that we have dreamed about.

So how about you? Are there any “woulda,” “shoulda” or “coulda” moments where you could have taken action to create a better outcome or result? Are you already someone who has the skill and is applying the will that leads to success? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@ tramazing.com, and when we are action-oriented and resultsfocused, it really will be a better than good week.

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Denver Restaurant Week to advocate for local eateries November event will take place across the metro area

ver Restaurant Week will feature specially-priced menus from some of the finest restaurants across the metro area. Restaurants will choose one of three available price points — which are $25, $35 or $45 — and create a multi-course dinner at that price. The fall event, however, will feature the option for takeout and delivery from some of the restaurants, including those that offer alcohol alongside to-go and delivery orders.

“Restaurants play a vital role in Denver’s communities — they make our city unique. And right now, they are navigating an unprecedented crisis. If they’re going to survive the winter, they need our support,” said Sonia Riggs, president and CEO of the Colorado Restaurant Association.

“We ask the public to consider what they’d lose if they lost their local restaurants, and to dine out and take out — during Denver Restaurant Week and then all winter long — to ensure that doesn’t happen.”

Participating restaurants and menus were announced Oct. 26.

Diners are able browse the wide variety of options on www.denver.org/denver-restaurant-week.

Diners may also make reservations or plan their takeout orders by contacting the individual restaurants.

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an increase in cases is people’s resistance to wearing face coverings and choosing to gather in large numbers.

McDonald said the city’s enforcement teams are still seeing people of all ages gathering in large, maskless groups at parks and outside places like restaurants on Friday and Saturday nights. More than 2,600 mask-related warnings have been issued since the city moved to a saferat-home phase in May, according to figures provided by the city’s public health department. Businesses have been cited and some cases closed for violating other public health orders.

Figures from the city’s public health department showed that between May 14-31, 84% of businesses the city visited were observed to be in compliance. But a larger look, between May 14 until Oct. 20, shows 70% of businesses visited were observed to be compliant.

Dr. Michelle Barron, an infectious disease doctor at UC Health, said she’s been involved with COVID-19 response as the medical director of infection prevention for the hospital system. Barron has been following the disease’s progression since January.

Confusion reigned early Early on, Barron said there was confusion about whether face masks were effective as people got mixed messages from the media and elected officials. But data now shows that using face coverings has a significant impact on reducing transmission.

Wearing face coverings helps protect others from your droplets, which is that little bit of spit you may unknowingly send out while you talk.

Wearing a mask indoors while being 6 feet apart is appropriate; that 6-foot barrier is recommended because that’s roughly how far droplets can travel. Being outside is a bit of a different story, though. Barron points out that there likely isn’t an issue with taking the mask off once hyou step outside as long as you keep maintaining that 6-foot barrier.

But oftentimes, human nature . comes into play. Barron acknowledges how weird it could feel to meet up with someone and have to stay 6 feet apart.

“The problem is, I think everyone’s so tired and just wants to be like normal — whatever normal is,” Barron said. “And so, especially if you’re

meeting with your friends, you intend to stay 6 feet away, but you end up getting closer to them than you planned and you were talking and then you didn’t realize it.”

So even though you’re outside, the potential for transmission is still there without a face covering, Barron said. She suspects this is why the city changed its rules, as it went with an all-hands-on-deck approach. The upcoming flu season is another reason why the city said it wants people to make sure they’re following the health orders.

University of Denver psychology professor Kim Gorgens serves as a COVID-19 response coordinator for the university, which has had several COVID-19 outbreaks among its students.

Gorgens said requiring people to wear masks outside could have a “social norm” aspect for people. She referenced a study released recently

by Marquette University researchers that looked at shoppers in Wisconsin and suggested women, urban and suburban residents were more likely to wear face coverings. She said Denver, as an urban setting, likely has higher compliance rates for face coverings.

Gorgens said it’s now a tipping point where mask-wearing become the norm for most people.

“There’s the flip side of mask-wearing become the norm, which is this conversation about COVID fatigue,” Gorgens said. “That compliance fatigue, that people have perception that they’ve made sacrifices and (say) `OK, I’ve been wearing a mask since March …’”

Another question McDonald said he often gets is about a legal right not to wear face coverings.

“This is not about one’s individual rights, this is about public health,” McDonald said. “No one has the right to put others at risk.”

Even health care staff isn’t immune to that sense of fatigue and confusion over the right practices. Barron said the science and data behind certain rules evolved as the pandemic progressed.

“It’s just like, `Wait, you told us this and now you’re doing this? Why didn’t we do this all along?’” Barron said. “The answer is because the data may not have supported it early on.

And also, we’re learning. All of this is a learning experience.”

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Restaurants have endured particular hardships amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and with a focus on advocacy for the restaurant industry, Visit Denver — the city’s convention and visitors bureau — has announced a fall Denver Restaurant Week to take place Nov. 13-22.

With COVID-19 precautions in place to keep the community safe, the November “program will still showcase the creative, exciting menus that diners have come to expect,” states a news release on Visit Denver’s website.

“For the past 16 years, we have been able to applaud the phenomenal growth of Denver’s culinary community with Denver Restaurant Week,” said Richard Scharf, president and CEO of Visit Denver in the news release. “Now, it is time for the city to come together for this industry by dining out or taking out, so we have their hospitality, creativity and good food to enjoy for many years to come.”

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olorado high school sports coaches and administrators have adjusted practices, games and meets to satisfy public health requirements amid the COVID-19 pandemic in hopes of returning to high school sports this fall.

While sports like cross-country were more easily able to manage social distancing and symptom regulation, team sports had more hoops to jump through — crowded buses, pep rallies, student sections are a thing of the past. Meanwhile, schools continue to experiment with virtual learning, having mixed results.

The scramble to bring back high school sports has opened a new door for a sport without the inherent intermingling issues other sports have: esports.

The Colorado High School Activities Association is considering making esports an official high school sport.

The CHSAA esports pilot program begins its second regular season Oct. 15.

By season’s end, CHSAA could decide whether to make esports a sanctioned sport.

“These are kids who are not typically involved in their high school community and experience outside of the classroom,” CHSAA Spokesperson Ryan Casey said. “By and large, this is a population which is not involved currently in sports or activities, so we see this as a way to get them more involved with the community aspect of a school.”

The regular season includes eight games and four rounds of playoffs, with the championship scheduled for Dec. 11. A varsity team for “Rocket League” has three players, and a team for “League of Legends” has five. Most schools participating have at least a varsity and junior varsity team.

‘Level one’ Matt Flori moved to Colorado in 2017 to teach science at Gateway High School in Aurora. One year later, Flori heard rumblings of people organizing esports matches at the high school level.

Bouts of “League of Legends” and “Rocket League” took place in classrooms as clubs and developed a popular following. Dozens of Denverarea schools formed their own teams.

Flori stepped in to organize the first high school esports tournaments as Gateway’s first coach.

“When I was growing up, not every single student played video games,” Flori said. “It wasn’t the cool thing to do. Nowadays, every student — male or female — plays video games.”

Flori was hired at Castle View High School in Castle Rock this year, and has yet to meet his new esports team face-to-face. Coaching his players virtually is a challenge, he said, but students have been able to remain connected through playing.

“There are a lot of clubs and sports that are just not playing or meeting right now,” Flori said. “The fact we can do this at home, from the comfort of our couch, to comfort each other and talk to each other — it’s really helpful for the students to keep up with that social engagement.”

Flori said he believes competitive gaming will play a larger role at the high school level as the sport continues to gain popularity.

“The difference between esports and every other sport is in the amount of students who already do this,” Flori

said. “Esports isn’t new for students.

It’s new for adults, but it’s not new for students. They already play these video games, whether they’re professional or not.”

More colleges are beginning their own esports programs and several offer scholarships. The top gamers can make a living off esports. In 2019, esports viewership through apps like Twitch and YouTube totaled 454 million, according to Business Insider.

The industry surpassed $1 billion, according to a 2019 report from Newzoo, a games and esports analytics group.

Breaking into the professional realm of esports can be daunting, which is where high school coaches can come into play, Flori said.

“A lot of amateur teams and collegiate teams are looking for the next big thing and next big student,” Flori said. “This will start to open up those avenues for the kids.”

‘More than a fad’ Chandler Farnsworth has been competitive his whole life.

The 17-year-old from Highlands Ranch grew up in a “golf family,” he said, and attributes his hours spent on the links to his fiery “Fortnite” play. A student at SkyView Academy, Farnsworth started gaming his freshman year. Now, as a senior, he feels can safely say he can beat anyone at his school in any video game.

“It’s a hobby for me,” Farnsworth said, “and I really wanted to do it for more than just for fun outside of school.”

Though “Fortnite” is not a CHSAA esports game title, students can still play exhibition matches with other titles during practices. The pilot program only includes “League of Legends,” a five-on-five battle-arena game, and “Rocket League,” a two-ontwo game akin to soccer, for now.

Farnsworth helped start the first esports team at SkyView this year.

“We had more interest in esports than we did golf,” Farnsworth said.

To coach the team, the school hired Chris Curtis, a former esports pro and current program director for South Suburban Parks and Recreation’s esports department. Curtis has organized tournaments across the Front Range and is an advocate for the sport.

“Everybody is starting to realize this is a bit more than a fad,” Curtis said. “Schools are learning how to incorporate this more … You’re seeing students who wouldn’t enter in a physical sport enter this and it becomes the driving factor in increasing their grades.”

Curtis added that esports players are subject to academic requirements set by CHSAA similarly to other sports, adding a layer of academic motivation for interested players.

Farnsworth believes esports will continue its rise in popularity and will eventually help debunk the stereotype of the isolated, antisocial gamer.

“If you’re good at the game, people will find you eventually and you will get a community around you,” Farnsworth said.

And earning that CHSAA seal of approval could be crucial to the sport’s attempt at establishing credibility.

There are 17 states nationwide that have esports as a sanctioned activity.

“More often than not, there is a big spike in participation once a sport is sanctioned,” CHSAA spokesperson Ryan Casey said.

Flori and Curtis agree esports will continue to surge in popularity. Flori said some teams are working on adding a “unified” team for students with special needs.

“I think it starts at high school and leads into college,” Curtis said. “I would not be surprised if within the next five to seven years you’re seeing a handful of high schools offering esports as a competitive offering with any other sport.”

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October 29, 2020

Spaceman Guitars flying high in Lakewood Change of address, global pandemic haven’t stopped independent music store

BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On a stretch of West Colfax, nestled between a phone store and a Kava bar, is a little guitar shop that you may have never noticed. But if you love music, play guitar or simply want to while away some time flipping through stacks of vinyl, you should do yourself a favor and pop in to say hello. Spaceman guitars is a labor of love. A small store doing its part to keep the music flowing in Lakewood and beyond. Owner Chris Thomas has a downright solid musical history that started taking shape at a young age.

“I always was a fiddle, gadget type of guy fooling around with electronics of all kinds and amps and was wiring up radios and stuff, and when I started playing guitar it just kind of fit, because you could definitely tweak and fine-tune your instruments to perfect them the way you want them and your amplifiers, so that was about age 14 or 15-years old” Thomas said. “I used to help all of my friends work on their equipment, but it didn’t really dawn on me, “hey, you should be working at a music store, or have a music store, so I’m kind of slow on the uptake sometimes” While he might have been slow to focus in on the business ownership idea, he quickly became a mainstay as a guitarist on the local scene, gigging in bands for decades. He also spent more than 20 years working on instruments and overseeing the guitar operations at Rockley Music before taking the reins of his own six-string empire about five years ago when the owners at Rockley decided they didn’t want to be in the guitar business any longer.

“The third generation owners, they weren’t guitar players anymore and they just didn’t have the drive to keep the retail thing going,” said Thomas.

Originally setting up shop in a small section of Rockley, Thomas was able to transition into business ownership while making it easy for local guitar players to keep receiving the kind of service they were accustomed to. In October 2019, Thomas relocated his shop to its current location when the owners of Rockley decided it was time

Chris Thomas and his daughter behind the counter at Spaceman Guitars in Lakewood. to put their building up for sale.

The new store is a decidedly family affair, with Thomas still doing repairs and sales while his wife Kristy does the books and other behind-the-scenes magic. He gives her huge props for helping the business to thrive.

“We couldn’t run this place without her,” he said. “And I’m training my daughter on repairs. So, it’s a real family kind of thing.”

A special space Walking through the door is like taking a step into the past at Spaceman Guitars, in the best sort of way.

If you’re old enough to remember the a time before the digital revolution, when experts still fixed beautiful objects and you could hold recorded music in your hands as you gazed at amazing cover art, you’ll feel right at home. And chances are, the owner will remember your name by your second visit — a detail that might go unnoticed at a big-box guitar store. A visit to Spaceman may just transport you back to an age when small mom and pop shops like this ruled the suburban landscape and Amazon was a river you studied in geography class. It’s a 13-year old’s dream, a 40-something’s coolest musical memory all rolled into one.

Thomas said that’s by design.

“We kind of have the shop set up like the kind of place we would have

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They (Rockley) were more rigid in their thinking and didn’t really see the value in consignments and used guitars, and it certainly is messy and discombobulated at times, but it’s fun,” Thomas said. “It’s always changing and you never know what’s gonna be happening in here. Guitar players are really scrounges. They like to dig around and dig through records and dig through boxes of old guitar parts or see old guitars or old amps, so we kind of appeal to that sort of nature that guitar players often have.”

With many business being hit hard

by COVID-19, Spaceman has weathered the storm well so far, and Thomas is grateful for the loyalty of the customers he’s built up over the years and the new ones just finding their way to his door. He realizes a move to a new location just months before the pandemic hit could have had far dif-

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Guitars hang on a wall at Spaceman Guitars. ferent results.

“We’re super blessed and feel lucky compared to what a lot of people have been going through. We can see our numbers compared to last year and they’re steadily going up every month,” he said. “Covid being an indoor activity kind of thing, everything is booming. We’re selling more records than ever, selling guitars, people are breaking instruments out that haven’t been serviced or played in years and so we’re so unbelievably busy.”

As for the future, Thomas and his family are hoping to add a couple of additional guitar brands to the lines of new instruments he carries, and finish up working on the store so in his words, “it’s really in the groove.”

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Denver invests in affordable housing Affordable housing has marked two milestones in Denver, one in the Capitol Hill neighborhood and another in the Baker neighborhood: Capitol Square Apartments Denver’s Department of Housing Stability broke ground on Oct. 1 on a project that will provide 103 new income-restricted apartments in Capitol Hill.

To be called the Capitol Square Apartments, the development is located on the corner of 13th Avenue and Sherman Street, which is about one block away from the Colorado Capitol.

The project totals 120,405 square feet and the building will be six stories tall.

It will house 73 one-bedroom units and 30 two-bedroom units, a fitness room for tenants, a landscaped outdoor terrace and parking for 68 vehicles.

Capitol Square Apartments is being developed by Mile High Development and Brinshore Development.

“It is a deep honor to mark this moment in time,” said George Thorn, president and founder of Mile High Development, in a news release. “Our team has been dedicated to making this project a reality, and this event represents new beginnings for more than 100 new neighbors. This building will rise up just steps away from Colorado’s lawmakers, setting a powerful example of the importance of highquality affordable housing.”

All the apartments in the development will be income restricted, available exclusively for households earning between 30% and 80% of the area median income, which is up to $54,950 for a single-person household, according to a news release.

The project is expected to cost $33.9 million. The City and County of Denver provided $1,545,000 in financing for it from the Affordable Housing Fund. Other public finance funds came from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs. Colorado Housing & Finance Authority is issuing the bonds for the project.

The Colorado State Land Board has entered into a long-term lease with the developers, and lease proceeds will support the board’s mission to raise funds for education and the K-12 BEST program. The BEST program provides competitive grants for new school construction and renovation projects

for existing schools, according to the Colorado Department of Education’s website.

Construction on the Capitol Square Apartments began in October, and it is expected to open to tenants in July 2022.

“We’re proud to utilize Denver’s Affordable Housing Fund to help create 103 new, affordable homes for hard-working residents,” said Denver Mayor Michael Hancock. “Projects like Capitol Square help ensure that Denver remains affordable and accessible for future generations.”

Atlantis Apartments A new income-restricted housing development called the Atlantis Apartments celebrated its grand opening with Denver’s Department of Housing Stability on Sept. 29.

The Atlantis Apartments, 201 S. Cherokee St. in Denver’s Baker neighborhood, boasts 60 apartments primarily for individuals with disabilities.

The building is four stories tall and has 36 one-bedroom units and 24 twobedroom units, a community conference room, technology/media centers, common-area laundry facilities on each floor and a workshop/mud room for repairing wheelchairs and bicycles. Additional features include enhanced accessibility features such as sensory elements and wayfinding cues in common areas.

All the apartments are income restricted, available only for households that earn no more than 60% of the area median income, which is up to $42,000 for a single-person household, according to a news release.

The project cost $18.1 million, and the City and County of Denver provided $800,000 in financing for it.

The project also received other public finance funds from the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, and lowincome housing tax credits through the Colorado Housing & Finance Authority, a news release states.

Atlantis Apartments’ first residents moved in in September.

“We’re proud to invest not only in affordable housing, but in much-needed homes for people living with physical or cognitive disabling conditions,” said Britta Fisher, executive director of Denver’s Department of Housing Stability, in a news release. “These apartments will make a lasting difference for decades to come and add to the great progress made by the Atlantis Community Foundation in housing individuals.”

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James A. Little, Personal Representative PO Box 69 Wetmore, CO 81253 Attorney for Personal Representative Bryan T. Fredrickson Fredrickson Johnson & Belveal, LLC 831 Royal Gorge Blvd. Ste 329 Canon City, CO 81212 Legal Notice No. 80729 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: November 12, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Lottie Dorothy Cowan, aka Lottie D. Cowan, aka Lottie S. Cowan, aka Lottie Cowan, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31087

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Faith Arlene Nigh, aka Faith A. Nigh, aka Faith Nigh, aka F.A. Nigh, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31205

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 15, 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 February 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Cindi A. Cowan Personal Representative c/o Meurer Law Offices, P.C. 3801 E. Florida Avenue, Suite 906 Denver, Colorado 80210

Cindy L. Martinez Personal Representative c/o 3801 E. Florida Ave., Suite 906 Denver, Colorado 80210

Legal Notice No. 80705 First Publication: October 15, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of SANDRA JOAN GORALNIK, a/k/a SANDRA J. GORALNIK, a/k/a SANDRA GORALNIK, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31238 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 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Nathan Seth Goralnik, Personal Representative 115 Norfolk Street, Apt. 102 New York, NY 10002 Legal Notice No. 80713 First Publication: October 15, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of PHYLLIS CLARICE MARCUS, a/k/a PHYLLIS C. MARCUS, a/k/a PHYLLIS MARCUS, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 31249 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 March 1, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeffrey H. Marcus, Personal Representative 3050 S. Garfield St. Denver, CO 80210 Legal Notice No.80724 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: November 12, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Richard Samuel Gildar, AKA Richard S. Gildar, AKA Richard Gildar, Deceased Case Number 20PR31235 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 February 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kimberly Raemdonck, Esq. Attorney to the Personal Representative 899 Logan Street, Suite 308, Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 80721 First Publication: October 22, 2020

Legal Notice No. 80715 First Publication: October 22, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Frank Denton Jones, a/k/a Frank D. Jones, a/k/a Frank Jones, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31200.

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 22, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sara S. Price, Esq. Attorney for Personal Representative FrazerAbel Law, LLC. 4704 Harlan Street, Suite 250 Denver, Colorado 80212 Legal Notice No. 80719 First Publication: October 22, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of THOMAS JOHN ALBERT MARICK, A/K/A THOMAS JOHN MARICK, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31193 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Denver Probate Court, Colorado on or before February 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Timothy Marick, Personal Representative. c/o The Hickey Law Firm, LLC 1075 South Yukon Street, Suite 260 Lakewood, Colorado 80226 Legal Notice No. 80706 First Publication: October 15, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Salvador Bonilla, aka Sal Bonilla, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 031219 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 26, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Juventina Bonilla Personal Representative 1901 Grove Street Denver, Colorado 80204 Legal Notice No. 80712 First Publication: October 15, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Andrew William Morrell, a/k/a Andrew W. Morrell, a/k/a Andrew Morrell, and Andy Morrell, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030889 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 February 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Oren Von Limbaugh, Attorney for Personal Representative 13791 E. Rice Place, Ste 100 Aurora, CO 80015 Legal Notice No. 80709 First Publication: October 15, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Gloria Mae Buckins, a/k/a Gloria M. Buckins, a/k/a Gloria Buckins, Deceased Case Number 2020PR000221 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Denver, County, Colorado on or before March 1, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Artis Annette Harrison Rains, Personal Representative PO Box 5031 Denver, CO 80217 Attorney for Personal Representative Bryan T. Fredrickson Fredrickson Johnson & Belveal, LLC 831 Royal Gorge Blvd. Ste 329 Canon City, CO 81212 Legal Notice No. 80730 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: November 12, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Deborah T. Owen, aka Deborah Owen, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31266 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 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Laurie T. Manso, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203 Legal Notice No. 80720 First Publication: October 22, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Janis E. Calhoun, Deceased Case Number 2020PR31214 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 February 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Craig Calhoun Personal Representative 3332 Kearney Street Denver, Colorado 80207 Legal Notice No. 80718 First Publication: October 22, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice Denver Probate Court Denver County, Colorado Court Address: 1437 Bannock Street, #230 Denver, CO 80202 In the Matter of the Estate of: Oleta L. Crain Party Without Attorney: Valentino Jefferson 10621 Chevy Drive - Knoxville, TN 37922 Phone Number: 865.776.3711 E-mail: 4jeffersonfam@gmail.com Case Number: 2020PR382 Courtroom 224 NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO ยง 15-10-401, C.R.S. To: Heirs of Oleta L. Crain Last Known Address, if any: 2102 N. Marion Street in Denver, CO A hearing on the Estate of Oleta L. Crain for the assignment of a new Personal Representative to clean up Title of Property Deed she transferred prior to her death, will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued: Date: 11/30/2020 Time: 8:00 a.m.

Denver Probate Court 224 Address: 1437 Bannock St. Room 230, Denver, CO 80202

and Norma Crowell, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31118

The hearing will take approximately 15minutes.

Legal Notice No. 80731 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: November 12, 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 February 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kristi Radosevich Personal Representative PO Box 2708 Elizabeth, Colorado 80107

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JAYNE LYNN JOHNSON, aka JAYNE LYNN HOLCOMB, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31154 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 February 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Neal K. Dunning, Esq. Brown Dunning Walker Fein PC Attorney to the Personal Representative 2000 S. Colorado Blvd, Tower 2, Ste 700 Denver, CO 80222 Legal Notice No. 80703 First Publication: October 15, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Legal Notice No. 80710 First Publication: October 15, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Michael David Gutzait, a/k/a Michael D. Gutzait, a/k/a Michael Gutzait, a/k/a Mike David Gutzait, a/k/a Mike D. Gutzait, a/k/a Mike Gutzait, Deceased.

Case Number: 2020PR31321

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

Public Notice PROBATE COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, COLORADO City and County Building, Rm 230 437 Bannock St Denver, CO 80202

Eric S. Gutzait, Personal Representative c/o KATZ, LOOK & ONORATO, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 80728 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: November 12, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

In the Matter of the Estate of MARY E. AUNSPAUGH, aka MARY AUNSPAUGH, Deceased

Public Notice

Attorney for Nanci Phillips: Justin W. Blow, Esq. #41085 John Phillips, Esq. #11834 Phillips & Blow, P.C. 7700 E. Arapahoe Rd., #100, Centennial, CO 80112 Phone: (303)741-2400 Fax:(303)713-9150 E-mail: justinb@jrphillipslaw.com Case Number:17PR31488

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Kay F. Harlan, aka Kay Franklin Harlan, aka Kay Harlan, aka Kay L. Harlan, aka Kay Louise Harlan, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31244

NOTICE TO INTERESTED PERSONS

BY PUBLICATION To all unknown interested persons: a petition has been filed alleging that the decedent, Mary Ellen Aunspaugh (nee, Garland), died in 2017 leaving probate assets. All persons related to the decedent are requested to submit a Demand for Notice either to the Attorney for the Personal Representative or to the Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before January 1, 2021.

Justin W. Blow, Attorney for Personal Representative 7700 E. Arapahoe Rd., Ste 100 Centennial, CO 80112

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 February 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

John F. Harlan, Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 80707 First Publication: October 15, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Edward G. Asuncion, a/k/a Edward Gonzales Asuncion, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31211

Legal Notice No. 80722 First Publication: October 22, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 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 Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before February 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Charlotte King, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31257 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 22, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dennis A. King, Personal Representative c/o Goddard & Hawkins, PC 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 625 Denver, CO 80246

Gilbert G. Asuncion, Personal Representative c/o Goddard & Hawkins, PC 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 625 Denver, CO 80246 Legal Notice No. 80704 First Publication: October 15, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Legal Notice No. 80716 First Publication: October 22, 2020 Last Publication: November 5, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Carol Ann Kemper, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31067

Estate of ELIZABETH MARIE SCRIBNER, a/k/a E. MARIE SCRIBNER, a/k/a ELIZABETH SCRIBNER, a/k/a ELIZABETH MARIE McFARLAND, a/k/a E. MARIE McFARLAND-SCRIBNER, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31270

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 February 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Thomas Michael Kemper Personal Representative 1658 Milwaukee Street Denver, Colorado 80210 Legal Notice No. 80711 First Publication: October 15, 2020 Last Publication: October 29, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Norma Rae Crowell, aka Norma R. Crowell,

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

Anne Grimes McFarland, Personal Representative 1652 S. Washington St. Denver CO 80210 Legal Notice No. 80732 First Publication: October 29, 2020 Last Publication: November 12, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

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