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Leader of DPS leaving for Texas

Michael H., who served in the Navy for six years, pets Kersey prior to adopting the cat during the Dumb Friends League’s waived fee special in honor of Veterans Day.

Cordova at helm during changing times, including board transition

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wenty-two veterans and active duty military from all over the metro area added a furry friend to their family between Nov. 9 and 13. During that

week, the Dumb Friends League waived adoption fees for veterans and active military in honor of Veterans Day. The waived fees were sponsored by the Petco Foundation.

Courtesy of Lockheed Martin, the Dumb Friends League offers a 50% adoption discount for veterans and

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active military year-round.

The Dumb Friends League has a mission to end pet homelessness and animal suffering. In addition to adoptions, it offers a variety of services to the community, including some veterinary care. To learn more, visit www.ddfl.org.

Less than two years after being appointed superintendent of the school district where she was once a student, Denver Public Schools Superintendent Susana Cordova announced she is leaving the district and her home city to take a job in Texas.

She will be the deputy superintendent of leading and learning in the Dallas Independent School District, according to an email sent to Cordova district families Nov. 13.

“As the child of Mexican-American parents and a firstgeneration college graduate, I know that I owe a debt of gratitude to DPS, and I have been honored to spend the past 31 years as a member of Team DPS,” said Cordova, who started as a teacher in the district in 1989.

“I want you to know that Denver will forever be home to me.”

Cordova does not have a firm departure date, but she said she would work with the district “over the coming weeks to ensure a smooth transition.” School board Vice President Jennifer Bacon said the board will first select an interim superintendent and then build a timeline for hiring a permanent replacement, hopefully by next school year.

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New rules prohibit indoor dining, personal gatherings Denver metro counties move to new COVID-19 dial level red

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As Denver metro counties continue to inch closer to local stay-at-home orders under Colorado’s system of coronavirus-related restrictions, the state announced a new level of rules that prohibits indoor dining and personal gatherings — a change that applies to the majority of the Denver metro area and many counties in other regions.

The state’s COVID-19 dial, which has been in effect since September, is the set of different levels of restrictions that each county is required to follow based on the severity of a county’s local virus spread. The dial grew out of the state’s safer-at-home order, the policy that came after the statewide stay-at-home order this spring and allowed numerous types of businesses to reopen.

The state recently switched to color identifiers — levels blue, yellow and orange rather than numbered levels — to avoid confusion. Until Nov. 17, level red meant a stay-at-home order.

Now, level red — “severe risk” — is the second most restrictive level. The purple level, deemed “extreme risk,” amounts to a stay-at-home order.

The new level red, announced by the Colorado Department of Public

Health and Environment on Nov. 17, encompasses the vast majority of the metro area. The new level took effect in counties with severe enough virus spread on Nov. 20, according to the department. Most area counties had been at level orange.

The counties that moved to the new level are Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson in the metro area. Other counties across the state that transitioned that day are Clear Creek, La Plata, Logan, Mesa, Morgan, Routt, Summit and Washington counties.

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dining with members of a person’s own household is allowed.

• Indoor events, both seated and unseated, are closed.

• Outdoor events, both seated and unseated, are now allowed to be attended only by groups that consist of people from the same households.

A spokesperson for the State Joint Information Center, which takes questions for the state public-health department, provided the new thresholds of virus spread that would trigger a county to move to the new level red.

Similar to a threshold for the old level red, the line a county would have to cross is 350 new cases per 100,000 people over a two-week period.

Based on that standard, roughly three dozen counties around the state qualified for the new level red based on the state’s data as of Nov. 17, but many appear likely not to move to that level for at least a few weeks. For example, Costilla, Custer, Lake, Montezuma, Pitkin and San Juan counties moved to level orange — one step below red — on Nov. 20.

As COVID-19 cases continue on a steep spike across Colorado, several public-health agency directors signed a Nov. 5 letter to the state public-health department, urging the state to speed up the process of moving counties to tighter restrictions on the dial.

The letter included signatures from health agency leaders from Denver,

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The following are some of the differences between Level Orange and the more-restrictive Level Red on the state’s COVID-19 dial. For a complete list, go to https://covid19.colorado.gov/covid-19-dial High-risk populations: Moves from “strongly advised” to stay at home to ordered to stay at home.

Personal gatherings: Moves from up to 10 people from no more than two households to no gatherings allowed.

Restaurants: Moves from 25% capacity, up to 50 people, to no inside dining allowed — only take-out, curbside, delivery or outdoor dining with those from same household permitted.

Last call for alcohol: Moves from 10 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Bars (without food service): Remain closed.

Offices: Moves from 25% capacity to 10% capacity, with remote work strongly encouraged under both levels.

Gyms/fitness centers: Moves from 25% capacity, up to 25 people, to 10% capacity, up to 10 people.

Indoor events: Moves from 25% capacity, up to 50 people, to no events allowed.

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Finding the beauty in the holidays as a single parent New book aims to provide insight and hope during a challenging time of year

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Colorado native Deanna Johnson knows the challenges of single-parenthood during the holiday season very well — she’s been a single parent for almost 30 years, with two adult daughters and four grandchildren. But she also knows the beauty the time of year offers for those who are open to it.

Now Johnson is sharing that knowledge in her new book, “A Single Parent’s Guide to Enjoying the Holidays,” published by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. The book is designed to be a selfhelp guide to help single parents approach and enjoy the holiday season.

“As an African American woman, it is easy to think of myself as a statistic or listen to others describe what may or should be my circumstances,” Johnson said. “I believe in the power of positive thinking, and the focus on domestic happiness and health were my best tools.”

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Cordova said she wasn’t actively looking for another position but rather was approached about the job in Dallas, a city she said “reminds me a lot of the Denver I grew up in.” She said she admires and respects the Dallas superintendent, Michael Hinojosa, and is excited for the challenge of working in a new community.

Uneasy going The past two years in Denver Public Schools have been tumultuous, partly due to long-simmering disputes.

About a month after Cordova took the helm in January 2019, the teachers union went on strike. Cordova was at the bargaining table for every session and took part in an all-night negotiation that ended the strike after three days.

Last November saw a contentious school board election in which control of the seven-member board “flipped” for the first time to members backed by the teachers union.

The union had long opposed the education reforms shepherded by Cordova’s predecessor, Tom Boasberg, including the expansion of independent charter schools. Cordova served as a deputy superintendent under Boasberg, overseeing district-run schools.

Her departure gives the board an opportunity to select a superintendent who could shift the district even further away from some of those remaining reform policies.

For the past eight months, Cordova has led the 92,000-student district through the COVID-19 pandemic. In

November 26, 2020 learning pods, Schoales said he saw consultation with public health ofboard members working more directly ficials, she decided to close schools, with the community than with Corthen partially reopen them, a move dova. some teachers feel is unsafe. As “The board should have a superinschools have experienced staffing shortages, Cordova herself has helped tendent and a superintendent should have a board that are on the same to fill in at a district elementary page,” Schoales said. “Some people school one day a week. are going to say she’s leaving in a Tiffany Choi, president of the Denpandemic, and ver Classroom I don’t think Teachers Assopeople realize all ciation, said in the challenges a statement that she’s had to manunion members age.” thank Cordova Even the and “wish her process by which well in her jourCordova became ney.” superintendent “We underwas controverstand that sial, with some students and community educators may members objectbe feeling a sense ing to the selecof uncertainty with the sudTiffany Choi, tion of a single finalist and den structural president of Denver Classroom concerned she change within the district,” she Teachers Association would lead in the same manner as continued. “The Boasberg. Advohealth of our stucates for educadents and staff is tion reform, meanwhile, worried she still DCTA’s top priority during these would not be as supportive of charter uncertain times.” schools or school accountability.

Cordova strived to build bridges and Rough relationship find common ground. She leveraged Some district observers believe Cordova’s relationship with the school her long history in the district and her classroom experience to build connecboard played a role in her departure. tions, often beginning anecdotes with Van Schoales of the advocacy group “When I was a teacher ...” and she A Plus Colorado described Cordova’s converted some critics into allies. leaving as “tragic” for the district.

Cordova made equity her top priorBut he also pointed to her comity, and she cited the concept frequentplicated relationship with the new union-backed board. On a whole range ly, especially as she guided the district through constantly changing reopenof issues, from budgeting to police in ing plans. She instituted training for schools to the district’s controversial educators in culturally responsive school rating system to support for

‘The health of our students and staff is still DCTA’s top priority during these uncertain times.’

education, supported ethnic studies classes, and held regular Facebook Live briefings for parents in Spanish.

Bright spot Cordova is bilingual, having learned Spanish as an adult. As the district’s chief academic officer starting in 2010, she oversaw English language acquisition programs in a district that has spent decades under a court order that governs how English language learners are educated. While large gaps remain, Denver’s English language learners regularly outpace statewide averages on state literacy and math tests.

Vernon Jones, executive director of the Northeast Denver Innovation Zone and an education activist, said in an emailed statement that Cordova “represented us” and that the district should have tried harder to learn from her lived experience. Instead, he said, she paid the price for unresolved tensions from the Boasberg era.

Cordova, however, said she believes conflict is healthy in an organization the size of Denver Public Schools — and also important to democracy.

“I have not shied away from engaging in difficult conversations,” Cordova said. “But I think it’s also really important to acknowledge that difficult conversations don’t mean that we are difficult people. If we always are just agreeing with each other, we’re probably not talking about the real issues.

“And I think that’s really important.”

Erica Meltzer contributed to this report. This story is from Chalkbeat Colorado, a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.

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VOICES Going forward and looking back

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t won’t be long before we’ll start to see trees strapped to cars and colored lights outlining houses; maybe a few front lawn inflatables; countless advertisements; and familiar holiday songs.

But it won’t be the same or even QUIET close.

DESPERATION The projections — if you believe in science — are grim: as bad as the Spanish flu numbers, by the fall of 2021.

The fall of 2021?

Have you, like me, looked back?

At first the virus Craig Marshall seemed disconSmith certing; then it became pernicious and deadly.

One thing after another was canceled or rescheduled.

We were ordered to stay at home, asked to wear masks.

Some adamantly refused and still do.

Large gatherings were discour-

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Since 1926

Ready?

My father and mother lived across the street from five houses of different colors, each occupied by man of a different nationality.

Every man had his favorite drink, his favorite brand of cigarettes and kept a particular kind of pet.

An Englishman lived in the red house.

The Swede kept dogs.

The Dane drank tea.

The green house was just to the left of the white one.

The owner of the green house drank coffee.

The Pall Mall smoker kept birds.

The owner of the yellow house smoked Dunhill.

The man in the center house drank milk.

The Norwegian lived in the first house.

The Camel smoker had a neighbor who kept cats.

The man who smoked Marlboro drank beer.

The man who kept horses lived next to the Dunhill smoker.

The German smoked Lucky Strike.

The Norwegian lived next to the blue house.

The Camel smoker had a neighbor who drank water.

Now: Which of the men kept fish?

Perhaps that will keep you or your children or grandchildren busy for a while. But it comes with a warning: 98% are incapable of solving it.

If that one is too daunting, try this: What is more useful when it is broken?

How many times can you subtract 5 from 25?

What, if anything, is wrong with this famous Groucho Marx comment?

“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.”

Finally, rearrange “saving knight” and put the word “happy” in front of it; from Harry and me.

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

Behavior clears path and motivation follows

ne question that I seem to be getting more of these days is around motivation. Not only are people asking how to get motivated, but they are also asking how they can stay motivated.

“People often say that motivation doesn’t WINNING really last. Well neither does bath- WORDS ing, that’s why we recommend it daily.” - Zig Ziglar Mr. Ziglar certainly knew a lot about how to motivate us and more importantly how to keep us motivated. And Michael Norton he would also be the first one to remind us that motivation is temporary unless it is coupled with action. It is one thing to be motivated about setting a goal or getting inspired by the thought of a new project, and it is something completely different in taking the actions necessary to achieve our goals or complete our projects.

Sometimes we can use a mo-

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aged and then prohibited.

But “What, me worry?”

Thousands of Notre Dame students filled the field after the football team upset Clemson.

Weddings have gone on. Parties.

Religious services.

Some businesses have suffered irreparable losses.

Care to go on a cruise?

Amid all of this, traditionalists will nevertheless observe and celebrate as always in the weeks ahead.

Undoubtedly, there will be some adjustments and compromises.

My own plans are next to none.

But for years, I made travel agent (remember?) arrangements to fly into Traverse City, Michigan, and spend a week under cloudy skies.

That part is not missed, but the irreplaceable opportunities to be around our little family is missed.

Home-cooked meals, bowl games and the constant drone of judgment.

“Don’t you own a comb, Craig?”

And along with all of the festivities, I’ll miss their unusual neighborhood.

tivated mindset as the spark that leads us to take the actions necessary for our productivity or success. For some of us, this how we are wired. When we are feeling good and life is better than good, finding sources of motivation is easy, our creativity is inspired, we are filled with hope, and we end up crushing our tasks and to-do lists. When we are feeling motivated, we may exercise a little longer and push a little harder. When we are feeling motivated, we may make better choices in what we do, what we eat, and how we treat our bodies.

But what happens when we aren’t feeling so good, or when life isn’t going quite the way we want it to be going? What happens when we really don’t feel like exercising, going to work, or staying on our eating plan? And let’s face it, we all have those days from time to time, don’t we? Again, for some of us, we can adjust our thinking, fill our minds with powerful and positive thoughts, and motivate ourselves to get after whatever it is that needs getting after. We can turn on a song that gets us fired up. We can listen to

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Motivated behavior happens when we are first motivated by behavior. David Sandler, and many other experts have written and spoken about doing the behaviors even when we don’t feel like doing them. David Sandler said it this way, “It’s not how you feel that determines how you act. It’s how you act that determines how you feel.”

How many of us have had the experience of not feeling like getting our workout in, but after the first few minutes on the treadmill, we were fired up to keep going.

For those of us in the profession of selling, we have all had those moments or days when we knew that we needed to prospect but we just didn’t feel like it. And when we don’t feel like prospecting, we can easily become demotivated, talking ourselves right out of picking up the phone. But knowing our career and income depend on prospecting, we start doing the behavior, and once we begin it’s almost impossible to stop us.

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tivational book and choosing to read it is doing a behavior. Spending a few minutes to think about what motivates us is a behavior.

Selecting our most energizing song and pushing play is a behavior. This underscores that motivated behavior happens when we are first motivated by behavior.

And once we become committed to doing the behaviors that will motivate us the most, layering in some form of daily motivation as Zig Ziglar mentions in his quote above, it will help us along our journey of becoming motivated and staying motivated.

How about you? Are you in search of how to get or stay motivated? Are you doing the behaviors whether you feel like it or not? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@tramazing.com and when we combine our behaviors with our motivation, it really will be a better than good week.

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

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November 26, 2020

Columbine Memorial donation box stolen

BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Lora Knowlton, a member of Columbine Memorial Foundation Board 0f Directors, first discovered the crime.

“Its truly mind-boggling and disheartening,” she said. “It’s hard to believe.”

What she knows is that one or more people went into Clement Park sometime between the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 13 and Sunday, Nov. 15, and stole the memorial’s donation box. Knowlton said in the 11 years it has been there, this is the first time there’s been any issues.

“It’s a big steel box that has double security features in it,” she said “It was secured to a concrete base and they plucked it right out of the ground.”

The description of the memorial on the foundation’s website reads as follows: “The Columbine Memorial is designed to be a place of peace, comfort and reflection remembering all those who were touched by the events of April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School, those who were injured and those whose lives were taken that day.” The Memorial was dedicated and opened to the public on Septem-

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ber 21, 2007.

Jeffco Sheriff ’s Department Public Information Officer Mike Taplin said there are no known suspects right now, and no leads.

“Someone out there knows what happened and knows who did this, Taplin said. “We need those people to call us and let us know.”

Knowlton said as a volunteer organization, the foundation relies on donations to help maintain the the memorial. “People come from all over to see the memorial and pay their respects,” she said.

For now, it’s unclear whether the foundation will install a new donation box. Knowlton said it’s always been a convenient way for people who visit to donate, but she’s not sure what the board will decide moving forward.

Knowlton said the foundation has received an enormous amount of support from the community since the crime occurred. For now, donations can be made through their website at www.columbinememorial.org.

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usic of various genres. Podcasts. Work presentations on a green screen.

Slam poetry. Music videos.

Making movies for film school.

These are the types of works patrons have produced at free recording studios through the Arapahoe Libraries district that stretches across a swath of the south Denver metro area.

“And this is all free to anyone — not just our library (members),” said Tim Fritz, a digital media librarian for the library district. “We don’t ask for a card.”

It’s a service that has seen patronage from both younger and older local residents — from people living around the Sheridan Library studio in the district’s western end, to residents of other areas utilizing the district’s other two studios in the west and east ends of Centennial.

“We had a (kid) come in and use the Sheridan studio, and he’s now a touring rapper,” Fritz said, referring to a performer with the stage name Jay The Rarest. “There a high school right next to the studio, and when school gets out, the studio’s booked.”

The district’s three studios closed in March, along with Arapahoe Libraries locations as a whole, as the spread of COVID-19 gripped Colorado. But the libraries are considering checking out some of the studio equipment — such as for digitizing film or possibly loaning out keyboards — as the trend in public-health restrictions signals that studios may stay locked up into 2021.

On the other hand, some commercial recording studios in the Front Range have seen their work pick up as Coloradans have more time at home amid the pandemic, said Dave Devine, a senior lecturer of jazz guitar at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Artists have used that time to “record the basic parts at home and send the parts in to finalize them in a studio,” said Devine, who has played the role of producer in metro-area studios. He’s also set foot in studios as a member of bands and ensembles and as a session musician to record for other artists.

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Arapahoe Libraries creative specialist Sivan Johnson works in the Southglenn Library recording studio before the pandemic. The library district offers three studios: one each in west and east Centennial at Southglenn and Smoky Hill libraries, respectively, and one at Sheridan Library in the city of Sheridan.

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At three Arapahoe Libraries locations, visitors can use recording studios for free, whether they are library members or not.

The studios remain closed as the pandemic continues, but the libraries may start checking out some of the recording equipment. Call 303-542-7279 for more information.

Under regular conditions, the studios offer equipment including the following: • Software for audio recording such as GarageBand, Logic Pro and Audacity • Video editing software such as iMovie and Adobe Premiere, along with cameras, iPads and green screens for recording • Microphones, keyboards, electric and acoustic guitars, and electronic drum pads In Centennial, Smoky Hill Library’s studio opened in 2013 and Southglenn Library’s studio opened in 2014.

Sheridan Library’s studio opened in 2014. Visit arapahoelibraries.org/recording-studios for more information.

Some local spots are well-known Metro-area residents looking to step into a recording studio have a variety of options, including some that have seen big-name music artists.

One that might be “shocking” to hear about is west Denver’s Side 3, located in an industrial area near North Santa Fe Drive.

The studio has recorded Kanye West, Devine said, as its website shows.

Their clients also include “Green Day, Ed Sheeran, Lil Wayne — it’s insane,” he added.

Mighty Fine Productions in east Denver is “renowned and does a variety of music,” said Devine, who lives in Lakewood. Colorado Sound in the Westminster area — another spot Devine mentioned — lists Colorado folk band The Lumineers and neo soul pioneer D’Angelo among its clients.

In response to the pandemic, Mighty Fine started livestreaming concerts from its studio, Devine said. Avoiding the virus has turned some to home recordings, he added.

“You can record yourself on your computer and drop the file in the ‘cloud,’ and the engineer can turn them into magic,” Devine said. “The engineer I was talking to today from Longmont said he has more work than he can handle because people have more time.”

Some recording studios are located in people’s homes, too, which may make them more cost-effective without “overhead” costs of a building with plumbing, electricity and taxes, Devine

The Douglas County Libraries location in Parker offers “state-of-the-art software and equipment to create videos, musical compositions, animations, e-books and more,” according to the district’s website. For more information, see dcl.org/reserve-a-space.

Denver Public Library locations also offer multiple recording studios listed at denverlibrary.org/studios.

The Studio at the Wright Farms library in the Thornton area also offers “state-of-the-art video, audio and design equipment and software,” according to the website for the Anythink library district in Adams County. For more information, see anythinklibraries.org/location/anythink-wrightfarms.

The recording studio at Wright Farms was closed, according to its website in mid-November. Other metroarea library studios are likely to be temporarily closed or restricted as well amid the pandemic, but see contact information on the websites above for current information.

said. “But another thing is it feels (like) a much more comfortable environment. They’ll go make you coffee … it feels much more communal.”

For amateur artists, a home studio can be a great place to start, Devine said.

“You can look online for home studios where maybe the time is more flexible,” Devine said. Some will start there, and if an artist thinks a recording needs something more, they can take the project to a bigger studio, Devine added.

Prices can be steep: Devine estimated most places in town can cost between $500 and $750 for a day of recording. He wasn’t sure on home studio prices.

An artist recording a vocal performance might say, ‘$700, that’s a lot of money,’” but it’s an opportunity to sing into equipment that may be worth thousands of dollars, Devine said.

Free studios still a quality bet Fritz, the digital media librarian for the Arapahoe Library District, said that in Smoky Hill and Southglenn libraries in Centennial, “you get a professional-grade studio,” and at Sheridan Library it’s a little less sophisticated but still capable.

Electric guitars, keyboards, DJ equipment and electronic drum pads are among the gear patrons can use at the library studios, Fritz said.

Middle-aged residents often come in to produce audiobook readings, he added.

Fritz helps newcomers learn about the equipment, too, and before the pandemic, studios could be booked for up

to three hours daily.

As the studio closure continues, Arapahoe Libraries is planning to check out some equipment but isn’t as certain about providing large items such as guitars because of the cleanup they require, Fritz said.

“I think we’re all hoping like January” to open the studios back up, Fritz said. But the library district has to play it by ear given changing public health guidelines.

The Douglas County Libraries location in Parker offers “state-of-the-art software and equipment to create videos, musical compositions, animations, e-books and more,” according to the district’s website. Denver Public Library locations also offer multiple recording studios listed on that district’s website.

The Studio at the Wright Farms library also offers “state-of-the-art video, audio and design equipment and software,” according to the website for the Anythink library district in Adams County.

Wright Farms library sits near East 120th Avenue and North Holly Street in the Thornton area. The recording studio at Wright Farms was closed, according to its website in early November.

Other metro-area library studios are likely to be closed or restricted as well.

Fritz wants to get the word out, particularly to “underserved populations,” about the fact that his libraries offer studios.

“Many people don’t know that the places exist, and then when they (find out), they’re quite shocked,” Fritz said.

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Frascona, Joiner, Goodman & Greenstein, P.C. /s/ Karen J. Radakovich By: Karen J. Radakovich, #11649 Attorneys for Plaintiff 4750 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 803035 Phone: 303-494-3000 Fax: 303-494-6309 E-mail: karen@frascona.com Legal Notice No. 80766 First Publication: November 26, 2020 Last Publication: December 24, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Consistent with the requirement for lender approval in the current Condominium Declaration of Nine Hundred Penn, and with the procedures set forth in C.R.S. 38-33.3-217(1)(b), the Association requests your approval of the Amendment.

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You are hereby summoned and required to appear and defend against the claims of the complaint filed with the court in this action, by filing with the clerk of this court an answer or other response.

You are required to file your answer or other response within 35 days after the service of this summons upon you. Service of this summons shall be complete on the day of the last publication. A copy of the complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the court.

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This is an action to obtain a declaratory judgment that Plaintiff Guadalupe Lujan Vazquez is the sole owner of property he purchased in 2015 that is commonly known as 3600 Martin Luther King Blvd., Denver, Colorado 80205, and to quiet title to that property in his name.

Dated: November 10, 2020.

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 26, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

/s/ Robert W. Smith, Attorney for Plaintiff

Lorrie Damian Personal Representative 4252 Eliot Street Denver, Colorado 80211

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

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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 26, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

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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 26, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

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All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Probate Court of Denver County, Colorado on or before March

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Roger F. O’Dorisio, also known as Roger Fredrick O’Dorisio, a/k/a Roger O’Dorisio, Deceased.

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November 26, 2020

How Break Bread broke out to send love

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Three years ago, Break Bread started bringing together neighbors for weekly meals, with the idea of feeding people hungry not just for a good meal but for companionship.

The nonprofit served a no-charge chef-prepared dinner at Littleton United Methodist Church every Saturday, drawing dozens of lonely seniors, people struggling with homelessness and addiction, and young families just scraping by. Neighbors became friends over taco nights and lasagna dinners.

But last spring, as the COVID-19 pandemic uprooted life, it also uprooted Break Bread. With the dining room shut down, the group switched to togo meals served from a folding table outside.

Now, as Break Bread celebrates its third birthday, that little folding table has become a hub of a network that spans Littleton and the south metro area, spreading the warmth once felt in the dining room into hundreds of homes and motel rooms. People can travel to the church for outdoor pickup, or request delivery of meals.

“We’re doing pretty well,” said Paul Parish, the chairman of Break

Bread’s board. “Before the pandemic, we might have fed 100 people, once a week. Now it’s 400 or higher. We’re reaching a lot of people, but we’d still like to reach more.”

The group now prepares meals on Wednesdays and Saturdays, but has also branched out into providing diapers, childrens’ toys and games, coats and clothing, and bags of nonperishable groceries for families and people without homes.

A coterie of volunteers drives meals and goods to places where people can’t make it to the church: public housing complexes, senior facilities, weekly motels home to destitute families on vouchers, and the homes of low-income families in COVID quarantine.

“I’ve been really blessed, and so many people have so many needs right now,” said volunteer driver Barb Lee as she loaded her minivan with diapers and meals on Nov. 11. “We’re the richest country in the world, but we have people going hungry. It’s rewarding to see the power of giving just a little time and a little money.”

Though most of the group’s meals are now delivered elsewhere, those who come to the pickup site at the church find camaraderie that means more than ever now.

“Just this interaction raises my

MEAL TICKET Break Bread provides to-go dinners for no charge at Littleton United Methodist Church at 5894 S. Datura St., from the church’s south entrance, which faces Sheppard Avenue.

Meals are distributed every Wednesday from 4 p.m to 6 p.m, and every Saturday from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Meals can be delivered within a threemile radius of the church every Wednesday from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Break Bread is also seeking donations and more volunteers to deliver meals.

For more information, visit break-bread. org, email jengquist@break-bread.org or call 303-794-6379 and leave a message. spirits,” said Elaine, who asked that her last name be withheld, as she picked up a meal from volunteers.

“For months I didn’t have visitors. For a while I could only see my grandkids through a screen door. People don’t want to be near you. What better place than a church to give and receive some loving energy?”

Sue Snyder, who is raising her four grandchildren, said the communal meals before the pandemic were a wonderful break. The kids could go play safely while someone else cooked her a meal for a change.

Now, though, Break Bread nights still mean a night without the hassle or dishes of cooking for her whole brood.

“Most nights I’m just swamped,” Snyder said. “It means so much to get an evening where I can relax a little bit.”

It’s good to see people get a bit of face-to-face interaction, said Kathryn Kramer, who runs operations alongside founder Jen Engquist.

“It’s not ideal, but people get to hang out and talk — some folks have told us we’re the only people they see all week,” Kramer said.

Littleton United Methodist Church has happily donated the time of their in-house chef to Break Bread, said John Ostermiller, who sits on the church’s board.

“We’ve always been involved in the community, and we have a long history of providing meals,” Ostermiller said. “We work well together.”

Parish said it’s not clear when or if Break Bread will get to host meals indoors again, but he doesn’t see the takeout and delivery service going away.

“It’s hard to believe, but we’re hoping to grow by another 50% this year,” Parish said. “We want to keep this going. People are depending on us.”

Public Notices Case Number: 2020-PR-31185 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 12, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Person Giving Notice: Martha Diss Sundby Personal Representative 1900 East Girard Place, #600 Englewood, CO 80113 Legal Notice No. 80740 First Publication: November 12, 2020 Last Publication: November 26, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice Estate of Pauline Wyoma Steege, aka Pauline W. Steege, aka Pauline Steege, aka Pauline Wyoma Crossan, aka Pauline W. Crossan, aka Pauline Crossan, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR031374 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 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

David T. Lark, Personal Representative 7487 Robb Court Arvada, Colorado 80005 Legal Notice No. 80754 First Publication: November 19, 2020 Last Publication: December 3, 2020

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of NANCY C. VIKMAN, also known as NANCY COLLEEN VIKMAN, and NANCY VIKMAN, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31364

Legal Notice No. 80756 First Publication: November 19, 2020 Last Publication: December 3, 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 March 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sally Rae Gass, aka Sally R. Gass, aka Sally Gass, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 31385

Gregory A. Eitreim, Personal Representative 10519 Mississippi Circle North Brooklyn Park, MN 55443 Legal Notice No. 80764 First Publication: November 19, 2020 Last Publication: December 3, 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 March 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sara S. Price, Esq. Attorney for Personal Representative Frazer-

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 March 26, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Alan G. Gass Personal Representative 602 S. Harrison Lane Denver, Colorado 80209 Legal Notice No. 80768 First Publication: November 26, 2020 Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jo Ann Schiano, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30959 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 15, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Todd Mackintosh Attorney to the Personal Representative P.O. Box 200782 Denver, Colorado 80220 Legal Notice No. 80742 First Publication: November 12, 2020 Last Publication: November 26, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

William Forington Personal Representative 2812 Quitman St. Denver, CO 80236 Legal Notice No. 80744 First Publication: November 12, 2020 Last Publication: November 26, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Patricia Mary Weiss, a.k.a. Patty Weiss, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31352

Public Notice

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 26, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kevin Scott, Personal Representative c/o Daniel R. Klein, Attorney 7535 E. Hampden Ave., Suite 400 Denver, CO 80231 Legal Notice No. 80769 First Publication: November 26, 2020 Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Carol Forington, Deceased

Case Number: 2020PR31278

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 12, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of William J. Barr, aka William Judson Barr, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31348

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 12, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sherri Lynn Barr, Personal Representative 801 Josephine Street Denver, CO 80206 Legal Notice No. 80741 First Publication: November 12, 2020 Last Publication: November 26, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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MY NAME IS

CHARLES GOODWIN

Young father went to war as a sailor ‘Guys became soldiers’ I grew up in Illinois. Before Pearl Harbor, me and my friends, we were all just guys. Things changed overnight. Guys became soldiers.

When I got out of school, there were three of us from my hometown who signed up. President Roosevelt had actually started drafting men in 1940, trying to build up the Army, because we knew the war was coming. It had to be a draft, because who wanted to march across Europe? So I joined the Navy.

Wedding in wartime I was sent to the Naval Air Station in Washington, D.C. They needed stenographers too, and the girl who became my dear wife had just graduated high school two weeks before. She signed up and came out to Washington and joined me. She arrived on June 26, and we were married on July 18, 1942.

I was assigned to the USS England, a destroyer. I’ll never forget. It was February 14, 1944 — Valentine’s Day. We steamed out of San Francisco Bay, and my wife was standing on the Golden Gate Bridge, holding our boy, watching us sail beneath them and out into the Pacific.

I was praying. First, praying she didn’t drop him! Second, I was praying for their safety. We had no idea what would happen. But we were all doing what we had to do.

Charles Goodwin is 97, but his memories of his World War II service are still crystal clear.

Battle stations Out at sea, we would see the submarines come up from time to time.

Then in May of ‘44, it was a beautiful day. About 2 in the afternoon, we felt something rumble under the ship. The captain came over the speaker and said “Gentlemen, we just sank our first sub.” Then he called us to battle stations, and we stayed there for 12 days. We sank six submarines in those 12 days — nothing like that had been

done before.

In that time, I would think about what my wife was going through, sitting there in the dark in the air raid drills. They had blackout drills on the West Coast. Everything would be locked down. You had to keep the lights off. It must have been scary, sitting there alone with that baby.

The baby on the bridge After the war, I went back to my

PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT

hometown of Aurora, Illinois and served on the fire department. I moved to Colorado in 1992, after I retired.

My son is 77 now, and I’m 97, but in my mind I’m still that young man looking up at that little baby on the bridge.

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