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Ryan Anderson organizes packages of candies for sale at the Cherry Creek Holiday Market. The Denver-based, family-owned company makes traditional Scottish confections. Visit The House of Stewart at www. thehouseofstewart.com.

Superintendent Scott Siegfried can look at his meticulous charts and see a day in early November where his suburban Denver district “broke.” On the graph, it’s marked “operationally impossible to continue in-person.”

Dozens of new COVID cases among students and staff were being reported every day, each one triggering quarantine requirements that sent dozens more people home for 14 days. In the first weeks of November, the 53,000-student Cherry Creek district sent out more than 100 letters notifying the community of positive COVID cases in schools and associated quarantines.

“We had so many positive cases coming into schools that we were running schools without principals, without office managers, without entire groups of teachers,” he said. And without substitutes, there was no one to fill those gaps.

“You can’t keep up.”

State quarantine rules have been the price students, parents, and teachers paid to hold school in person. Now, as a growing number of school districts move to fully remote learning, many superintendents are pointing to widespread quarantines and associated staffing shortages as key factors. Some district leaders are calling for public health officials to give them more flexibility about who to send home when students or staff members test positive.

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COVID-19 contact tracing apps not gaining much traction Many Americans steer clear of smartphone technology that fights disease spread

BY RAE ELLEN BICHELL KAISER HEALTH NEWS

The app builders had planned for pranksters, ensuring that only people with verified COVID-19 cases could trigger an alert. They’d planned for heavy criticism about privacy, in many cases making the features as barebones as possible. But, as more states roll out smartphone contact-tracing technology, other challenges are emerging. Namely, human nature.

The problem starts with downloads. Stefano Tessaro calls it the “chicken-and-egg” issue: The system works only if a lot of people buy into it, but people will buy into it only if they know it works.

“Accuracy of the system ends up increasing trust, but it is trust that increases adoptions, which in turn increases accuracy,” Tessaro, a computer scientist at the University of Washington who was involved in creating that state’s forthcoming contact-tracing app, said in a lecture in October.

In other parts of the world, people are taking that necessary leap of faith.

Ireland and Switzerland, touting some of the highest uptake rates, report more than 20% of their populations use a contact-tracing app.

Many Americans balk Americans seem not so hot on the idea. As with much of the U.S. response to the pandemic, this country hasn’t had a national strategy. So it’s up to states. And only about a dozen, including the recent addition of Colorado, have launched the smartphone feature, which sends users a notification if they’ve crossed paths with another app user who later tests positive for COVID-19.

Within those few states, enthusiasm appears dim. In Wyoming, Alabama and North Dakota, some of the few states with usage data beyond initial downloads, under 3% of the population is using the app.

The service, built by Google and Apple and adapted by individual countries, states or territories, either appears as a downloadable app or as a setting, depending on the state and the device. It uses Bluetooth to identify other phones using the app within about 6 feet for more than 15

minutes. If a user tests positive for COVID-19, they’re given a verification code to input so that each contact can be notified they were potentially exposed. The person’s identity is shielded, as are those of the people notified.

“The more people who add their phone to the fight against COVID, the more protection we all get. Everyone should do it,” Sarah Tuneberg, who leads Colorado’s test and containment effort, told reporters on Oct. 29. “The sky’s the limit. Or the population is the limit, really.”

But the population could prove to be quite a limit. Data from early-adopter governments suggests even those who download the app and use it might not follow directions at the most critical juncture.

According to the Virginia Health Department, from August to November, about 613 app users tested positive and received a code to alert their contacts that they may have exposed them to the virus. About 60% of them actually activated it.

In North Dakota, where the outbreak is so big that human contact tracers can’t keep up, the data is even more dire. In October, about 90 people tested positive and received the codes required to alert their contacts. Only about 30% did so.

Researchers in Dublin tracking app usage in 33 regions around the world have encountered echoes of the same issue. In October, they wrote that in parts of Europe fewer people were alerting their contacts than expected, given the scale of the outbreaks and the number of active app users. Italy and Poland ranked lowest. There, they estimated, just 10% of the app users they’d expect were submitting the codes necessary to warn others.

“I’m not sure that anybody working in this field had foreseen that that could be a problem,” said Lucie Abeler-Dörner, part of a team at the Big Data Institute at England’s University of Oxford studying COVID-19 interventions, including digital contact tracing. “Everybody just assumed that if you sign up for a voluntary app … why would you then not push that button?”

So far, people in the field only have guesses. Abeler-Dörner wonders how much of it has to do with people going into panic mode when they find out they’re positive.

Clarity of instructions questioned Tessaro, the University of Washington computer scientist, asks if the health officials who provide the code

need more training on how to provide clear instructions to users.

Elissa Redmiles, a faculty member at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems who is studying what drives people to install contact-tracing apps, worries that people may have difficulty inputting their test results.

But Tim Brookins, a Microsoft engineer who developed North Dakota’s contact-tracing app as a volunteer, has a bleaker outlook.

“There’s a general belief that some people want to load the app so that they can be notified if someone else was positive, in a self-serving way,” he said. “But if they’re positive, they don’t want to take the time.”

Abeler-Dörner called the voluntary notification a design flaw and said the alerts should instead be automatically triggered.

Even with the limitations of the apps, the technology can help identify new COVID cases. In Switzerland, researchers looked at data from two studies of contact-tracing app users.

They wrote in a not-yet-peer-reviewed paper that while only 13% of people with confirmed cases in Switzerland used the app to alert their contacts from July to September, that prompted about 1,700 people who had potentially been exposed to call a dedicated hotline for help. And of those, at least 41 people discovered they were, indeed, positive for COVID-19.

In the U.S., another non-peer-reviewed modeling study from Google and Oxford looking at three Washington state counties found that even if only 15% of the population uses a contact-tracing app, it could lead to a drop in COVID-19 infections and deaths.

Abeler-Dörner, a study co-author, said the findings could be applicable elsewhere, in broad strokes.

“It will avert infections,” she said.

“If it’s 200 or 1,000 and it prevents 10 deaths, it’s probably worth it.”

That may be true even at low adoption rates if the app users are clustered in certain communities, as opposed to being scattered evenly across the state. But prioritizing privacy has required health departments to forgo the very data that would let them know if users are near one another.

While an app in the United Kingdom asks users for the first few digits of their postal code, very few U.S. states can tell if users are in the same community.

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allow app users to select an affiliation with a college or university. At the University of Arizona, enough people are using the app that about 27% of people contacted by campus contact tracers said they’d already been notified of a possible exposure. Brookins of Microsoft, who created Care19 Alert, the app used in Wyoming and North Dakota, said that offering an affiliation option also allows people who’ve been exposed to get campusspecific instructions on where to get tested and what to do next.

“In theory, we can add businesses,” he said. “It’s so polarizing, no businesses have wanted to sign up, honestly.”

The privacy-focused design also means researchers don’t have what they need to prove the apps’ usefulness and therefore encourage higher adoption.

“Here there is actually some irony because the fact that we are designing this solution with privacy in mind somehow prevents us from accurately assessing whether the system works as it should,” Tessaro said.

In states including Colorado, Virginia and Nevada, the embedded privacy protections mean no one knows who has enabled the contacttracing technology. Are they people who barely interact with anyone, or are they essential workers, interacting regularly with many people that human contact tracers would never be able to reach? Are they crossing paths and trading signals with other app users or, if they test positive, will their warning fall silently like a tree in an empty forest? Will they choose to notify people at all?

Colorado’s health department said it’s issuing thousands of COVID codes a day. As of Nov. 18, 3,400 people have used the codes to notify their contacts, it said. An automated system issues codes for positive COVID-19 tests even if the infected people don’t have the app, making it impossible to know how many users are acting on the codes.

“I have hope that the vast majority of Coloradans will take this opportunity to give this gift of exposure notification to other people,” said Tuneberg.

“I believe Coloradans will do it.”

This story is from Kaiser Health News, a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente. Used by permission. For more, khn.org.

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What does it take to be an actor?

University of Denver professors use research to find the answer in recently published study

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Michael Doherty believes he has a secret power — the ability to make people laugh.

As an actor, however, Doherty realizes there are many important messages delivered through various stage productions — raising awareness, providing insight, presenting an understanding or spreading compassion.

“Acting is about empathy to me,” Doherty said. “The best part,” he added, “is sharing that with an audience.”

Doherty, 31, is a professional actor who resides in Philadelphia and recently was on a research team, along with two University of Denver professors, to study the psychological characteristics of actors.

The two DU professors who conducted the study are Denis Dumas and Peter Organisciak.

Both hold Ph.Ds and both are assistant professors of research methods and statistics at DU’s Morgridge College of Education. Dumas is an educational psychologist, focusing on “understanding student learning, cognition and creativity,” and how to make education better, states a news release. Organisciak is an informa-

tion scientist and his work “focuses on massive-scale text analysis, information retrieval and data issues in crowdsourcing,” states a news release.

Dumas is “fascinated by the human mind,” he said, adding that he believes “some of the best thinking comes from the creative arts.”

Dumas The peer-reviewed study identifies key psychological characteristics that set actors, both professional and student, apart from non-actors. It is expected that the study will help better education of the performing arts.

Organisiack It was published in late October, and DU paid for the study to be open access, meaning anybody can access it for free, including the data and statistical files.

Dumas and Organisciak expect that actors and student actors will find it interesting, but they also hope performing arts educators and other scientists will find it valuable.

“It’s an interesting and impactful study,” Organisciak said. “We’re seeing a strong signal and we’re excited to share it.”

Doherty and Dumas became friends in high school in Pennsylvania. Fast forward to a few years ago when the two got together and were playing mini golf with the rest of that year’s cast of “A Christmas Carol.” In his line of work, Dumas had done studies SEE ACTING, P5

Michael Doherty stars as Jason/Tyrone in “Hand to God” in 2017 at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in California.

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READ THE STUDY The study by Denis Dumas, Peter Organisciak and Michael Doherty is called The psychology of professional and student actors: Creativity, personality, and motivation. It is free to anyone who wishes to read it. It can be accessed with the following link: https://bit.ly/2UGQpkt.

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on engineers and medical doctors, he said. But during that game of mini golf, he realized how interesting actors are, he said.

“Acting has a demand for the creative,” Dumas said.

Organisciak got involved — tasked with developing a way of scoring creativity — and the study got underway in late 2017.

For the research, more than 20 psychological tests were administered to three different groups of participants — professional actors, undergraduate students majoring in acting and adults who are not actors — totaling nearly 300 participants. The tests focused on creative thinking, personality and motivations.

The study states that the non-actors were recruited through a crowdsourcing platform; the student actors were recruited primarily via existing social media listservs, but some participating students also shared the participation opportunity with their classmates; and the professional actors were recruited via existing email and social media listservs that connect members of professional actor’s unions — Actors Equity, which focuses on the representation of stage actors; and SAG-AFTRA, which focuses on the representation of screen actors.

The research sought to answer three main questions: 1) how do studentand-professional actors differ from non-actors with their psychological attributes; 2) “can actors be effectively distinguished from non-actors based on their psychological attributes,” and 3) “can professional actors be effectively distinguished from undergraduate

student actors,” states the study.

It was expected that actors would be different from non-actors to a degree, Organisciak said. Dumas added the actors did stand out in a variety of ways when compared to non-actors, including their level of openness to new experiences, their extroverted assertiveness and their ability to elaborate their creative ideas.

Doherty also had some theories on the traits that would set actors apart, he said. But something that particularly surprised him was learning that actors tend to take more risks than non-actors, even with ordinary, day-today tasks such as cooking.

There were a number of interesting finds when comparing professional actors to student actors, the DU professors said. For example, professional actors are more volatile in their personality and they have more originality in their creative thinking than student actors. Additionally, professional actors spend much more time doing related literary activities such as reading and writing scripts, even though both groups were comparably doing roughly the same amount of acting.

Something to note about the acting profession, Dumas said, is that most student actors don’t become professional actors and/or leave the profession shortly after graduating. This makes the study particularly worthwhile, he added, especially concerning

education of the performing arts, and for individuals considering pursuing a career in acting. The study can possibly help determine “who has what it takes to keep going” in a high-risk profession in which the prospect of achieving professional success is less secure than many other career fields, and additionally poses economic uncertainty and large temporal gaps in employment throughout the career, Dumas said.

Both Doherty and his wife, Alex Keiper, are professional actors.

Doherty has been involved in theater since he was 9. He decided to pursue acting as a career, rather than his original thought of becoming a teacher, when he was choosing colleges. He earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, but started working at local-and-regional theater companies

before he graduated. He eventually joined the Actors Equity union, which, Doherty guesstimated, has about 51,000 members nationwide.

Doherty has an interest in filmand-television acting, and has been in a couple of independent films, but especially enjoys theater because “you get to share so much more on stage and you get back so much more” from a live audience, he said.

However, theater is pivotal right now during COVID, with only some of the professional actors being able to stay working with virtual shows.

“As an actor in an industry that’s on pause right now,” Doherty said, the study is “moving and life-affirming.”

“The things that make actors, actors, isn’t whether you’re working right now,” Doherty said. “It’s more about the qualities that come from within us.

(Acting) is just a part of us.”

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A good memory is a visitor that’s welcome anytime

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or at least a month, I’d end the day in my no great shakes West Los Angeles apartment listening to “Desolation Row” on a cheap turntable.

It’s an 11:23 song on Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 RevisQUIET ited” album.

DESPERATION I didn’t know what the song meant (I still don’t), but its somberness kept me in the mood required at the time to be a sullen and introspective college student.

Craig Marshall Usually I Smith would drift off before the song was over, but wake when I heard the eloquent biology of the record player.

The tone arm would lift, return to its home, and the unit snicked off. For some reason the sounds were very comforting.

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get.

After hundreds of motel and hotel rooms, why do I remember the shower head in a Columbia, Missouri, hotel? That was 35 years ago.

The older I get the more memorable moments I’ve had. But it’s likely many I once was archiving have disappeared.

My father was hospitalized for the last nine months of his life. I had a lot of questions, but I kept them to myself.

Near the end, he couldn’t talk (or walk, eat, or drink). I wondered if he still had memories.

He once told me having good memories was the best thing about growing old.

I wondered if he remembered where he met my mother: at a corn roast when they were both 13.

And if he remembered what it was like to return to the United States on the Queen Mary after his missions in World War II were completed.

As a captain in the Army Air Corps he was treated royally.

I listen to homemade playlists whenever I paint; some over and over.

Again, inexplicably, as one song is ending I know what the next one is going to be.

The joke is: But don’t ask me what I had for breakfast.

If I were being grilled under hot lights and badgered into admitting what I was doing on the night of the 14th, I’d have to make something up.

Why do we keep some of the memories that we do and not others?

And how many are we capable of storing?

Undoubtedly, the answers to my questions are online somewhere.

Maybe I don’t want to know.

There’s magic in a good memory making an entrance after years have gone by, isn’t there?

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Showing gratitude for life’s unlikely game-changers

efore we completely turn the page and allow last week’s Thanksgiving holiday to pass us by, I wanted to take a moment to thank every one of you who have done your very best to truly focus on what you have been most grateful for this past year.

WINNING You may not think it matters, WORDS but I can assure you that your sense of gratitude and appreciation never goes unnoticed.

And as we roll into the new year, I firmly believe that it Michael Norton is our gratitude and appreciation for the three C’s that may still be ahead of us — Challenges, Chaos and Confusion — that will make the difference. I know that these don’t sound like “Winning Words,” but they are, and let me explain and why I see them as game-changers.

If we had to list all the challenges or difficulties that we have witnessed or that we are

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nisce, and it’s about “Desolation Row” and a thousand other things, some very minor, that inexplicably the brain can hold on to forever.

Some nights I decide what I want to reminisce about and some nights unexpected memories will be cued by something that happened during the day.

Or a film I might have seen when I was much younger and then again recently. The films don’t change, but I have.

How and why certain moments are retained is beyond me. One night recently I remembered the heady smell of the plantings in front of the Los Angeles train station. Why? And I haven’t been to the train station since 1973.

In the hallway of an elementary school in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, I kissed Bonnie.

We were both in the first grade.

It was my first kiss.

Certainly the retention of a few other firsts is understandable.

But it’s the odd ones I don’t

experiencing personally, we would have a very lengthy list.

Collectively the list would seem insurmountable. So why would I intimate that a challenge is something we should be grateful for? It’s because in every challenge we see someone who emerges and goes out of their way to help someone else. We see people sharing God’s love, pursuing God’s will, doing God’s work, and doing it for all of God’s people. And that is a gratitude game-changer right there.

There is no doubt that we are in for more uncertainty in the coming months and the word “challenging” may wind up being an understatement. However, if we look at the word “challenge” differently, challenging ourselves to maintain our attitude of gratitude, this alone will go a long way toward changing the game and keeping us active in the game.

Now how can we possibly use chaos to help us get through what may be a difficult time? Well for some of us, we need the energy that only chaos can provide. We become alive, creative, and once we see the problem in front of us,

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Confusion is different than chaos. And confusion is good because it is when we are knocked off balance that we seem to learn the most. In a state of confusion, we try and sort things out, solve problems, and come up with elegant solutions. As we know that we cannot recognize light without the contrast of dark, similarly we cannot know what clarity is without feeling what it is to be confused. It’s in that aha moment, as things become abundantly clear, that we realize just how grateful we are for our initial confusion. And any type of personal growth is always a game-changer.

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the traditional responses that we give when asked what we are grateful for. We offer up things like our family, friends, health, and other blessings. And those are still wonderful responses.

May we all be thankful for our health and the people in our lives as well. And maybe this year we can give a nod and express gratitude for the challenges, chaos and confusion surrounding us as we see each one as a game-changer that will help us to learn, grow and come together in whatever is headed our way.

How about you? How is your attitude of gratitude these days?

Have you learned how to be grateful for the unexpected gamechangers of life? I would love to hear your story at mnorton@ tramazing.com, and when we can find the elegant solutions in the challenges, the chaos and the confusion, 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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There is no consensus on whether the current rules should change, especially as hospitals around the state feel the strain of a COVID surge, and data that would inform a change is in short supply.

District leaders are under immense pressure from parents and advocates who want more in-person learning, on the one hand, and teachers and their unions who worry that safety will be compromised, on the other.

‘Nothing smooth about quarantine’ Since Colorado students returned to classrooms in August, thousands of teachers and tens of thousands of students have had to abruptly enter quarantine after learning they had been exposed to COVID. Thousands more have had to learn from home due to “operational closures” when so many adults were out that it was not possible to run the school safely.

Even earlier in the year, when most districts were holding classes in person, managing quarantines was a challenging job. Many school districts had to do the bulk of their own contact tracing and communications because public health agencies didn’t have the resources. Some teachers worried these efforts weren’t thorough enough to keep everyone safe.

People who tested positive sometimes found themselves the target of resentment for exposing others and sending them home.

Students and teachers had to rapidly switch from in-person to online instruction and back again. Everyone lived with uncertainty about daily changes.

“There is nothing smooth about quarantine,” said Sydney Slifka, a Jeffco elementary teacher who has had to quarantine twice due to exposure from the high school volleyball team she coaches.

As a remote teacher, students were constantly coming in and out of her online classes due to quarantine. “It is abrupt, unplanned, and extremely disruptive to the flow of curriculum and instruction for students.”

“My students and I had just gotten used to in-person routines and had just started making progress,” said Denver second-grade teacher Lindsay Knickerbocker, who was back in school for 10 days before getting an exposure notification. “Many kids seemed defeated coming back to class online the next day. I felt defeated as well.”

Many teachers describe quarantine as stressful and wondered how well people who potentially had been exposed were being tracked. In particular, educators who work across classrooms and cohorts — art, music, and drama teachers, school psychologists, behavior specialists, special education providers — worry that they’re more exposed and at risk of exposing others.

“My admin doesn’t know where I am at any given moment because I might get called in to deal with something,” said Devani Lemmon, who helps resolve student conflicts at Bear Creek High School in the Jefferson County district.

“Now I’m counting on teachers who are dealing with all this other stuff to tell me if I was in the room with a sick kid.”

Each call about a positive case has provoked a feeling of, “Oh no, here we go again,” said Westminster Superintendent Pam Swanson. “We all have that dread.”

Westminster’s first positive cases and quarantines came the same week buildings opened in August. At least one outbreak traced back to students socializing outside of school. Next spring, the district will ask students who play sports to switch to remote learning during their season so cases on athletic teams don’t also take down academic classes.

A big job Each positive case requires a school district to convene a team to figure out where the person was in the previous 48 hours, whether they rode the bus and where they ate lunch, whether they participated in any sports or received special services.

Cherry Creek’s team includes four people, said Siegfried, the superintendent, down from 15 to 20 in the beginning.

Many public health departments — including Tri-County Public Health, which supports more than a dozen school districts, and Jefferson County Public Health — have teams to assist school nurses but not enough staff to follow up on every case associated with a school.

Instead, they advise school districts on how to do contact tracing, an additional task for school nurses, building principals, and others.

Lori McCarty, health services coordinator for the Greeley-Evans district, said school nurses have gotten little outside help.

Over the summer, Gov. Jared Polis promised rapid response teams would respond to school-based outbreaks. But when McCarty asked if one of these teams could help her district with tracking a growing number of COVID caes, she was told there was no one available.

“There aren’t enough bodies anywhere to do this work,” she said.

A Polis spokesman said that the rapid response team assisted with 20 schoolbased outbreaks but are not currently helping on any.

The sheer size of the task has meant that sometimes people slip through the cracks.

“Sometimes you find out the kid rode the bus 12 days into the quarantine,” McCarty said. “It’s kind of late to quarantine at that point, but you can track those kids, at least.”

When the Greeley-Evans district moved to remote learning in mid-November, the district had 160 confirmed cases among students and staff, one confirmed outbreak, numerous suspected outbreaks, and more than 3,000 people in quarantine.

Evolving rules Colorado’s case and outbreak guidance for schools, which runs 22 pages, initially required anyone to stay home for 14 days if they were in a class, on a sports team, or in an after-school program with a person who tested positive or had COVIDlike symptoms and a known exposure.

In school districts that don’t maintain careful cohorts — particularly at the middle and high school level where students change classes more frequently and have more exposure — a single case could send hundreds of students home.

State officials made a significant change in early October to allow schools in counties with lower levels of transmission to take a more targeted approach. If they maintained detailed seating charts and made sure students stayed in those seats, only close contacts — people who were within 6 feet of the COVID-positive person for more than 15 minutes — would have to quarantine.

The number of people sent home dropped. As recently as late October, many Colorado superintendents said the quarantine system was working.

“We’ve actually got a good system down,” Siegfried said in late October, when in-person learning still seemed feasible. “We understand the health guidance and health metrics, and we’re able to do the right thing, not go too far and not do too little.”

Polis also praised the quarantine rules for limiting transmission in Colorado schools.

“Outbreaks have been contained early,” he said at an October press conference.

The dramatic rise in COVID cases over the last month and a half meant many

school districts lost the ability to do targeted quarantines. State rules require districts in communities at higher levels of restrictions to quarantine entire classrooms or cohorts. While Colorado school districts are allowed to offer in-person learning even under the tightest restrictions, school leaders say the staffing shortages and disruption make it impossible to keep school buildings open.

“The disruptions are getting to the place where it is impacting our ability to deliver a quality education,” said Jeffco school board President Sue Harmon at a recent meeting.

Some of them want the state to change its rules again to keep more flexibility.

Parents who want kids to stay in school through the pandemic are also pushing for modified quarantine rules.

“Schools are going to have to figure out how to keep operating regardless of what is going on in the community,” said Cindy Myers, a nurse and Denver parent who is part of a coalition calling for a return to school.

In the middle of an experiment It’s an idea that alarms many teachers, who already question whether current rules are adequate.

“Any changes to the guidance should be based on science and not driven by other reasons,” said Amie Baca-Oehlert, president of the Colorado Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union. “We believe low spread in schools is because they are strictly implementing the guidance.”

What the science says about how much quarantine is enough is still evolving.

While children are at lower risk of serious illness from COVID, they can get sick and can infect others, said Elizabeth Carlton, an associate professor at the Colorado School of Public Health at Anschutz and an environmental epidemiologist who runs the state’s COVID

modeling team. Quarantine is part of a multilayered approach to stop transmission in schools, she said.

“Quarantine is really frustrating for people who are put in it, and one of the struggles is to get buy-in, but it can be a really powerful tool for shutting down transmission,” Carlton said.

School quarantine practices around the country range from keeping anyone exposed out of school for a full two-week quarantine to telling people to wear a mask and monitor for symptoms while continuing to go to school, said David Rubin, a professor of pediatrics and director of PolicyLab at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Schools are so critical to children’s well-being that Rubin supports more limited quarantines when community rates are low or moderate, but the rate of COVID in Colorado raises questions about whether it’s safe to be in schools.

Colorado public health officials have said they are not looking at any changes to the rules, and some local public health officials said they don’t believe a more targeted approach is appropriate when community spread is so high.

“It leaves school communities vulnerable to increased COVID-19 transmission when there is a large prevalence of disease in the community,” Melanie Rogers, a nurse epidemiologist with Jefferson County Public Health, in an email. “When the prevalence decreases, then that opens up additional infection control options.”

Little data has been collected that would help answer the question of which quarantine policies strike the best balance.

“We’re in the middle of this national experiment,” Rubin said. “We need that data desperately.”

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efore the pandemic hit, Kim Mangle’s nonprofit consultancy business was booming. Then, COVID-19 arrived and her income dried up almost overnight.

“I had this 48-hour period where I went from super busy to having no clients whatsoever,” said Mangle, a Golden resident. “I started to panic.”

When a friend working as a nurse asked her if she could help out by sewing some masks, Mangle used her newfound free time to start making the sought-after product.

Before long, Mangle realized she enjoyed the work and began getting compliments on the masks, which she also made for friends and family. In August, she decided to launch her own business: 5280Masks, LLC. With the help of her grandmother’s vintage sewing machine, Mangle has now made and sold more than 800 masks.

“It’s been a lot of work, but for me it’s been a really positive outlet,” Mangle said.

Across the metro area, businesses have shuttered left and right since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. But not all doors are closing. Some businesses, like Mangles, have actually been sprouting up during this financially tumultuous time.

Grocery opens doors While Mangle is capitalizing on demand of a new product, other businesses opening up are seeking customers looking for more traditional goods.

The Gold Line Grab and Go, for example, is a new convenience and grocery store that opened in Olde Town Arvada.

When the owners of the shop bought their storefront in February, not a single confirmed case of COVID-19 had entered the state yet.

A month later, owners had to make an impossible choice: to open their doors in the middle of a pandemic or give up on their vision of bringing this type of store to Olde Town, said Josh Schwartz, co-owner and manager.

“We had to have a big decision to see if we even wanted to open it,” Schwartz said.

“Then we recognized that there was a need for basic essentials that you couldn’t get from stores at that time.”

The store is also owned by Sheena and Drew Gordon, who also own and operate the two Bluegrass Lounge locations in Arvada. Because of the Bluegrass Lounge, the owners were able to secure

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products like toilet paper, hand sanitizer, rice and other high-demand items through distribution chains separate from other grocery and convenience stores.

Still, the pandemic has dragged on and business has been hard to come by.

“Things have been tough, to be honest,” Schwartz said.

“The amount of people working in the area has diminished quite significantly.”

Eatery sees up and downs Alfred Wilson, manager at the new Cuca’s Eatery in Highlands Ranch, has felt hard-core ups and downs while opening a business during this time, he said. The American restaurant, with a bit of Latin influence, serves breakfast and dinner.

“If you’re not a seasoned person … I could see how it would really bring you down and make you want to close your shop up,” he said. “This unique scenario is not made for the lighthearted.”

Wilson said while it’s difficult to see negative numbers coming in, he and the owners of the store have had a bullish attitude about their venture since they first decided to take the plunge. Originally, they were set to begin serving customers a month before the pandemic began, but the opening got pushed back and then the pandemic set them even further back. They finally opened in late September.

“It would have been dumb not to open,” Wilson said.

“We’d be giving up and all three of us aren’t the kind to give up, so we took it as a challenge, and our mentality was if we can survive through this, we can survive through anything.”

Pair stayed positive RPO Framing in Denver is another example of a business that opened in the midst of the pandemic. Owners Bob Platz and his wife Julie Lizak had their eye on the Platt Park location for about 25 years before they were able to move in.

The couple started talking to the previous owner — who also had a frame shop and gallery — about a year ago about buying the shop. The deal was moving forward until the pandemic hit.

“And then the city shut down and we had to put it on the backburner for a couple months,” Platz said.

By Sept. 1, the couple had finalized the deal and opened their store, focusing on handmade, custom framing made from scratch. The store also serves as a gallery space for Platz’ paintings and Lizak’s photographs.

Kim Mangle, a Golden resident, partners with several local businesses that sell her masks. The masks are also available at etsy.com/shop/5280masks.

COURTESY OF KIM MANGLE “It’s been amazing,” Platz said.

Both Platz and Lizak were somewhat hesitant about getting started on this project in the middle of a pandemic, he said.

“When the opportunity presented itself, we just stayed positive and kept moving forward believing that this is our time to make this happen and opportunities like this don’t come along very often,” he said. “We were hesitant … but this may not happen again, this opportunity. So we had to take it. And we’re really excited that we did.”

Platz, who is thrilled to be working in a field where he can be creative all day, feels optimistic about the future of his business, he said.

“I know these are tough times,” he said. “Take the chances when they’re given to you. We feel really positive and excited about the future and are excited to be here finally.”

Inside RPO Framing, a new frame shop and gallery that opened during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denver.

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Denver’s Jessica Nelson loves to tell stories.

She has been employed in the public relations/communications field for about a decade. But in June, she was laid off from her position in the entertainment and film industry because of hardships caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

As she searched for a job, Nelson came across the Taproot Foundation, which is a national nonprofit that connects organizations with volunteers who provide their professional services pro bono.

“I wanted to give back and make an impact,” Nelson said. “There is always something to learn and something you can teach others.”

Through Taproot, Nelson provided free public relations work for a New York nonprofit called Harlem Film House, which provides “services and resources to filmmakers and content creators in underserved communities interested in building careers in film, theatre and related pursuits,” states a news release. Its services and resources include workshops, theatre productions, live events and film and music festivals. When Nelson got involved, the film house needed a public relations professional to help promote its fifth annual Hip Hop Film Festival, which took place Aug. 6-9 for the main event and into September for the festival’s virtual watch parties and awards ceremony. Proceeds from the festival benefit the participating filmmakers and the film house’s mission, and Harlem Film House particularly needed help promoting the event this year because it took place virtually.

“I was able to assist them with press materials, messaging and pitching, as well as securing coverage with outlets like IndieWire, Forbes, Evening Standard, Bloomberg and more,” Nelson

LEARN MORE To learn more about Persist Publicity, visit https://persistpublicity.com. said. “I am so proud of the passion, dedication and hard work that Harlem Film House puts into everything they do. I’m so thankful to be a part of their team and hope I can continue doing pro bono with them for a long time.”

While working with Harlem Film House, Nelson continued to search for a fulltime job. With no luck, however, she eventually decided to open her own firm and launched Persist Publicity near the end of October.

“I didn’t know if I’d fail or succeed,” Nelson said. “But I feel lucky that it is going well so far.”

Persist Publicity focuses on Colorado businesses and Nelson has been working with businesses in the wellness and health-care industries, technology and community events -- although Nelson feels there are no limitations to what types of industries she can work with.

“Businesses are realizing there’s a need for communications,” Nelson said. “Especially in crisis situations.”

Nelson enjoys helping businesses tell the stories of not only their mission, but also of the people the business impacts.

Despite the challenges of starting her own business -- such as learning new skills not related to public relations work like building a website -Nelson enjoys working independently, she said.

Nelson, 32, has been living in Denver for nearly seven years and currently resides in the Washington Virginia Vale neighborhood. She and her husband Kenny have been married for five years, and they have a two-year-old son named Elias and a rescue dog named Oliver. The family enjoys hiking, cooking and trying new restaurants in Denver’s dining scene.

It is hard to think about what the future may hold, especially in these unprecedented times, Nelson said.

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Defendants: Beneficial Mortgage Co. of Colorado; U.S. Bank National Association, as Indenture Trustee for the Holders of the CIM Trust 2017-6, Mortgage Backed Notes, Series 2017-6; and all unknown persons who claim any interest in the subject matter of this action Attorney for Plaintiff Karen J. Radakovich, Esq. Reg. No. 11649 Frascona, Joiner, Goodman and Greenstein, P.C. 4750 Table Mesa Drive Boulder, CO 80305-5541 Phone Number: 303-494-3000 Fax #: 303-494-6309 E-mail: karen@frascona.com Case No.: 2020CV33043 Division: 203 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: Beneficial Mortgage Co. of Colorado; U.S. Bank National Association, as Indenture Trustee for the Holders of the CIM Trust 2017-6, Mortgage Backed Notes, Series 2017-6; and all unknown persons who claim any interest in the subject matter of this action.

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 thirty-five (35) days after service of this Summons upon you. Service of this Summons will be complete on the day of the last publication.

A copy of the Complaint may be obtained from the clerk of the Court.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within thirty-five (35) days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, without any further notice.

This is an action to quiet the title of the Plaintiff in and to the real property situated in City and County of Denver, Colorado, more particularly described on Exhibit A, attached to and made a part of this Summons by this reference.

EXHIBIT A Unit A, Building 31, Park Monaco, Seventh Supplement, according to the recorded Map thereof recorded July 12, 1978 in Book 7 at Page 65 and according to and subject to the Condominium Declaration recorded June 25, 1973 in Book 718 at Page 493 and the Seventh Supplement to said Declaration recorded July 12, 1978 in Book 1703 at Page 462, together with the exclusive right to use that certain limited common elements of said building designated as Garage A and X, City and County of Denver, State of Colorado. a/k/a 6795 E. Arizona, Ave., Apt. A, Denver, CO 80224 Date: November 16, 2020.

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 Public Notice District Court, Denver County, Colorado 437 Bannock Street, Room 256 Denver, CO 80202 Plaintiff: Ally Bank v.

Defendant: Joseph Terrones Case Number: 2020CV032748

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SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO THE FOLLOWING NAMED DEFENDANT: Joseph Terrones You are summoned and required to file with the clerk of this court an answer or other response to the complaint filed with the court. You are required to file your answer or other response within thirty-five (35) days after the service of this

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within thirty-five (35) days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.

This is an action for Replevin regarding property known as: 2015 Infiniti Q50 AWD Premium V.I.N. JN1BV7AR5FM406621, believed to be located at 2886 S. Fenton St., Denver, CO 80227.

Caleb C. Wilkins CO Reg. No. 49282 Attorney for Plaintiff Dated: November 17, 2020 Legal Notice No. 80770 First Publication: November 26, 2020 Last Publication: December 24, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice Crown Castle proposes to build a Utility Pole Communications Tower at two locations. A 26foot Utility Pole at the approx. vicinity of 2112 N Broadway, Denver, Denver County, 80205. A 26foot Utility Pole at the approx. vicinity of 10171 E Harvard Ave, Denver, Denver County, CO 80231.

Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Alison, a.cusack@trileaf.com, 1515 Des Peres Rd, Suite 2600, St. Louis, MO 63131, 314-997-6111.

Legal Notice No. 80775 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles Public Notice Notice of Sale Broncos Towing (Richard Gallegos), 3160 South Federal Boulevard, Denver, Colorado 80236, 303-722-3555 be applying for title to the following abandoned vehicle.

1) 2016 Ford Escape White: Vin B40145 2) 2006 Ford Green: Vin 144545 3) 1995 Colman Popup Cream: Vin 951346 Legal Notice No. 80751 First Publication: November 26, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Notice to Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Katrina Maria Damian, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 365 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.

Lorrie Damian Personal Representative 4252 Eliot Street Denver, Colorado 80211 Legal Notice No. 80767 First Publication: November 26, 2020 Last Publication: December 12, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sally Rae Gass, aka Sally R. Gass, aka Sally Gass, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 31385 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 Ty Everett Touslee, a/k/a Ty E. Touslee, a/k/a Ty Touslee, Deceased

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Case Number: 20PR31333 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.

Allyson Trull Personal Representative 1413 Meadowcrest Circle Franklin, TN 37064 Legal Notice No. 80772 First Publication: November 26, 2020 Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Defendants: 1. THE ESTATE OF JUANITA A. GURULE; 2. HELEN L. DENNIS; and, 3. ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WHO MAY CLAIM ANY INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS ACTION. Attorney: Robert W. Smith, Attorney for Plaintiff 3900 East Mexico Avenue, Suite 300 Denver, CO 80210 Phone Number: (720) 506-9218 Email: BobSmith@rwsmithlaw.com FAX Number: (303) 927-0809 Atty. Reg. #: 9513 Case Number: 2020CV33349 Division 414

Public Notice

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

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

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The Estate of Juanita A. Gurule and All unknown persons who may claim any interest in the subject matter of this action.

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.

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.

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 Michael Lance Glaser Sr., aka Michael Lance Glaser, aka Michael L. Glaser, aka Michael Glaser, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31313 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.

Michael Glaser Jr. and Casey Glaser Co-Personal Representatives c/o Opfer Campbell Beck P.C. 19751 E. Mainstreet, No. 215 Parker, Colorado 80138 Legal Notice No. 80752 First Publication: November 19, 2020 Last Publication: December 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Danny F. Sanchez, a/k/a Danny Frank Sanchez, a/k/a Danny Sanchez, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR031314 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 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. /s/ Tony C. Rossi Tony C. Rossi, Esq. #45051 ROSSI LAW, LLC 6215 Corporate Dr, Ste 101 Colorado Springs, CO 80919 Telephone: (303) 859-4173 E-Mail: tony@rossilawllc.com Legal Notice No. 80761 First Publication: November 19, 2020 Last Publication: December 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of NANCY C. VIKMAN, also known as NANCY COLLEEN VIKMAN, and NANCY VIKMAN, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31364 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.

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 DISTRICT COURT, CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, STATE OF COLORADO Court Address: 1437 Bannock Street Denver, CO 80202 Plaintiff: GUADALUPE LUJAN VAZQUEZ. v.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint in writing within 35 days after the date of the last publication, judgment by default may be rendered against you by the court for the relief demanded in the complaint without further notice.

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. /s/ Robert W. Smith, Attorney for Plaintiff (This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(g), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure. This form should not be used where personal service is desired.)

(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.) *Rule 12(a), C.R.C.P., allows 35 days for answer or response where service of process is by publication. However, under various statutes, a different response time is set forth; e.g., ยง38-6-104, C.R.S. (eminent domain); ยง38-36-121, C.R.S. (Torrens registration).

Legal Notice No. 80760 First Publication: November 19, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Toma Janus, a/k/a Tomo Janus, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR031071

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 April 3, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

James McQuade, #36110 Attorney to the Personal Representative 7555 E. Hampden Ave, Suite 600 Denver, CO 80231 Legal Notice No. 80776 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of MARY T. HOAGLAND, aka Mary Tiedeman Hoagland, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31459.

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the Probate Court for the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before April 5, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ann W. H. Simonds Personal Representative 1418 Mount Curve Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55403 Legal Notice No. 80777 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Robert Edward Hughes, aka Robert Hughes, aka Bob Hughes, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 399

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of WILLIAM TAFT EVANS, JR., a/k/a WILLIAM T. EVANS, JR., a/k/a WILLIAM T. EVANS, a/k/a WILLIAM EVANS , Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31272

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

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before April 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kim Elaine Zeller, Personal Representative 17319 Pondlilly Drive Parker, CO 80134 Legal Notice No. 80774 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Public Notice

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 April 3, 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 March 19, 2021, 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

Public Notice

Legal Notice No. 80753 First Publication: November 19, 2020 Last Publication: December 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Frank Joseph Stasko, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR442

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Frank Denton Jones, a/k/a Frank D. Jones, a/k/a Frank Jones, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31200.

Legal Notice No. 80756 First Publication: November 19, 2020 Last Publication: December 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Robert Hughes Jr. Personal Representative 1715 S. Bryant Street Denver, Colorado 80219

Sharon L. Stasko, Personal Representative 2345 W. 33rd Ave Unit 2 Denver, CO 80211 Legal Notice No. 80779 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Earskine Brown, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31260

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

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SCHOOLS FROM PAGE 7

Testing the limits Colorado doesn’t collect information on individual cases in schools, how many people have had to quarantine, and how many of them or their household members later test positive.

Siegfried has been collecting data from Cherry Creek and 34 other school districts, asking them every week how many students and staff were in quarantine after being exposed and how many of those people later tested positive. Out of 29,160 students who had to quarantine, 142 — 0.5% — later tested positive. Out of 5,196 staff members, 118 — or 2.3% — tested positive.

To Siegfried, this is evidence that schools are not major drivers of transmission, especially for children. There is a limitation, though: Not everyone in the groups was tested.

In the classroom Teachers have struggled to cope with quarantines. Among more than four dozen who responded to a Chalkbeat survey, even those who found the experience stressful often praised their administrators’ handling of difficult situations and said they were able to make smooth transitions to remote learning.

But others described chaotic notification and contact tracing procedures that left them worried about how well students and people who work in schools are protected. Teachers in multiple districts described students who were supposed to be home on quarantine showing up to school anyway. In some cases, they made it into their first class before anyone noticed.

Quarantine makes teaching difficult.

One counselor told Chalkbeat she had to cancel multiple appointments because she had nowhere private to talk to students while at home with her own children.

One Jeffco teacher said she felt like parents were angry at her for contracting COVID, even though she took numerous precautions in her personal and professional life.

Sara Price, a teacher at Animas High School in Durango, was in the grocery store when she got a text. A student in her 12th-grade humanities class had tested positive for COVID-19, and she would need to quarantine for the next two weeks.

Price thinks her school administration did everything right, from a quick notification process to setting up drivethrough testing for students, but that didn’t make it easy.

She couldn’t see her adult daughter, who has an autoimmune disease. She couldn’t see her mom. She couldn’t go hiking with friends. She couldn’t run out to the store to get ingredients to bake a pie.

When she did leave the house, she wore a mask even if she was going to be outside, something that made her stand

Public Notices on or before March 26, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Larry Gholston, Personal Representative 920 S. Geneva Denver, CO 80247 Legal Notice No. 80771 First Publication: November 26, 2020 Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Donald F. Cheadle, a/k/a Donald Frank Cheadle and Donald Cheadle, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31298 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.

Colin North Cheadle, Personal Representative 5258 S. Jebel Street Centennial, CO 80015 Legal Notice No. 80759 First Publication: November 19, 2020 Last Publication: December 3, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch ______________________________________ Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JERRY DeCARLO, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR031464 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 April 5, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred. /s/ signature on original in office Signature of Attorney for Person Giving Notice Mary Anna Seno, Personal Representative c/o: BOATRIGHT, RIPP & LUSK, LLC 4315 Wadsworth Blvd.

Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Ph: 303-423-7134 Legal Notice No. 80778 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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out in her southwest Colorado community. And of course she wondered if she had caught COVID at school.

Price, who ultimately stayed well, kept teaching online through quarantine. She found herself making daily phone calls to students having a hard time learning at home.

“In those two weeks, those kids who struggle the most did fall off the cliff,” she said. “I don’t think most students are developmentally prepared to selfmotivate at home.”

Most disheartening, though, was the news that a group of students had attended a Halloween party the Saturday they were released from quarantine.

“I don’t think I can teeter-totter between quarantines for the next four months,” she said.

This story is from Chalkbeat Colorado, a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools. Used by permission. For more, and to support Chalkbeat, visit co.chalkbeat.org.

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