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Battle shaping up over testing COVID shutdowns have scrambled routines for schoolchildren, educators

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Kayla Waters kisses her son Christopher, 3. The family lost their apartment in October. Waters called the Holiday Motel “the PHOTOS BY DAVID GILBERT best hotel on earth.”

‘What will happen to these people?’

For those sheltering with motel vouchers amid pandemic, the future is murky

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James and Desiree Jackson felt like they had life pretty well under control.

The couple, together for nearly a decade, lived in a comfortable home in Aurora. Desiree stayed home to care for their two young daughters while James worked at

his longtime job at King Soopers.

But late last year, when James came down with an autoimmune disorder that began consuming his internal organs, their situation degraded quickly.

Unable to work, they couldn’t pay rent and lost the house. Desiree’s family was mired in substance abuse issues and was no help. Now pregnant with a third daughter, the family moved in with James’ mom — who soon passed away.

The family struck out on the streets with little more than backpacks and a stroller, lugging a heavy weighted blanket to keep the girls warm at night. They slept SEE MOTEL, P11

Michael Curtis moved into the Holiday Motel after months living in his Jeep while nursing a broken shoulder.

Colorado shouldn’t use standardized tests to judge the performance of schools or teachers amid a pandemic, a group of education leaders and advocacy groups agreed.

But should the tests be given at all next spring? And if so, should the data be publicly released? The same working group couldn’t agree in a debate that speaks to long-running questions about what these tests are even for.

“Our assessments are designed for an education system that doesn’t exist” this year, Peter Hilts, superintendent of District 49 in Colorado Springs, said in a recent meeting. “We’re not measuring anything remotely like a consistent system.”

“The inconsistent conditions are the reason to administer the assessment if possible,” countered Luke Ragland, head of the conservative education group Ready Colorado, in the same meeting. “The lack of consistency in educational services is why we would want to measure” where students are.

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COVID took his friends, then it took his health Pool table helped pass time in months before illness struck

BY TINA GRIEGO COLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE

Eddie Kemm found the pool table early in the pandemic. It was the second one he had scouted after the governor’s order shut down the bars — including Kemm’s favorite pool hall — in late March. When the halls went dark, so, too, did a significant part of the social life of an 81-yearold man who lives alone. It was like an amputation. He was, he says, miserable.

In ordinary circumstances, Kemm would not have committed himself to a purchase impractical for a man living on $1,200 a month in Social Security. But then the stimulus check arrived and, even if it hadn’t, the difference between luxury and necessity lies in the eye of the beholder during the long, isolated days of the pandemic.

What he knew after just a couple weeks away from his social circle, unable to play the game he practiced in his mind while lying in bed, was that he was “going crazy.”

Kemm had been living alone in the same house in Denver’s Westwood neighborhood for almost 40 years.

Overall, he’s never minded it. He and his ex-wife had two sons and both died — one years ago and one not so long ago. When loneliness strikes it comes in the shape of their absence, a knee-buckling aloneness.

“It comes and goes and it will until I die,” he says.

He keeps himself busy because the skills of a former maintenance man and groundskeeper are never out of demand and Kemm is generous with his time and his tools.

When he’s not busy, well, that’s why God invented popcorn, TV trays and Westerns.

So, when the pandemic hit in March, it wasn’t the “being alone” part that got to him. It was the denial of the choice to be alone. It was the disruption to his routine, the inability to head into BC’s bar in Lakewood for Monday night tournaments. It was missing that first swallow of an O’Doul’s and Clamato, listening to the banter and the bull

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while observing his opponents work their angles.

“What makes me special is my ability to study people and see how they shoot,” he says. “That’s a gift that God gave me.”

Kemm is not a man to consider mental health counseling, having been raised firmly in the “you have a problem, you figure it out,” tradition. When isolation descended, his solution was getting a pool table of his own. It was never going to fit in his 876-square-foot house. “It would have looked stupid,” he says. So, in preparation, he added more pavers to his backyard patio, making sure everything was level, and added some crossbeams to an existing frame so it would support a roof of plywood.

The table he bought from a pool hall and has a couple of beer stains, but he plans to replace the gold felt with the best he can afford. The quarter slot is still attached. It was $400, plus the $40 each he paid the guys who drove to Montbello to load and then unload it again at his place.

When the bars were still closed in the spring, about four or five guys from BC’s would come over and practice and that was a tiny beachhead of normalcy. When the bars at least partially reopened, Kemm returned to his Monday night games, but a couple guys still come over from time to time.

His world is small by design. He knows himself. He knows that when he finds himself eating while standing that he is nervous. He knows

Eddie Kemm has lived in the Westwood neighborhood of Denver for more than 40 years after leaving New Mexico to study to be an auto mechanic here in Denver. COVID has derailed his hobby of shooting pool with buddies as bars were forced to close for some time. He purchased a used pool table and set it up in his backyard to continue to PHOTO BY MARC PISCOTTY play.

that if he allows too much of the bigger world through the front door right now, it will swamp him. He does not worry about the pandemic.

He knows that he needs to prioritize his concerns to what is right in front of him, like whether the Department of Human Services will mess around with his food stamps again.

The world is a cacophony. The game is governed by rules. The world throws curve balls. The game is geometry. Clean, precise, predictable if you know what you’re doing.

The world narrows to his backyard, to the surface of the table, the clack of ball striking ball, and the drop, solid, satisfying, into the pocket.

In early November, Kemm contracted the virus and ended up at St. Anthony Hospital. Even from his bed, talking on the phone, he insisted that he was not going to worry, that he has had a good life and “this is part of my life now.”

He just wanted to know where his breakfast was.

But he took a turn for the worse and had to be placed on a ventilator for more than a week. As of early

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December, he had been transferred to the VA hospital, teetering between stable and critical condition.

His granddaughter has had to step into the role of decision-maker. His longtime neighbor collects his mail and gets updates through Kemm’s sister in New Mexico — all of them forced to work angles even he never saw coming.

The pool table remains covered.

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Miles of secrets in the Mile High City Authors take readers on fascinating journey into Denver and surrounding areas

WANT TO BUY IT? The book can be purchased at www. secretdenverbook.com, Amazon and bookstores around town.

BY CLARKE READER SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Most people are familiar with Rocky Flats in northwest Jefferson County, and the role it played in creating nuclear weapons parts. But if one lives on the east side of Denver, it’s entirely possible there might be a former federal missile launch facility nearby that you don’t even know about.

There are 11 of these facilities on the plains east of Denver: six Titan I and five Atlas E sites. Both varieties were equipped to fire intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) with nuclear payloads halfway around the planet beginning in the early 1960s. After the facilities were decommissioned, the government sold them to a variety of public and private owners. One has been converted into a park, others are being used for commercial purposes, and some are being converted into private residences.

That’s just one thing readers can learn from Denver resident Eric Peterson and Arapahoe County resident David Lewis’ new book, “Secret Denver: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure,” published by Reedy Press. The book

Readers can learn secrets about Lakeside amusement park in “Secret Denver.”

The book cover for “Secret Denver” by Eric COURTESY PHOTOS Peterson and David Lewis.

is part guidebook, party history, part Ripley’s Believe It or Not! “Some things are interesting conversation starters, others are things to think about, and still others are old stories that have been bulldozed over,” Peterson said. “But then there’s places like the Capitol that you can see but may not know everything about. We tried to keep it about 50-50 things people can see and things that can’t be accessed.”

The pair have worked for various outlets in the metro area writing on a wide variety of topics, so when they got together in May 2019 to begin working on the book, they had a few questions to settle, the most pressing of which was, what exactly constitutes a secret? They used their accumulated knowledge and a variety of library, in-person and online research methods to delve into the question.

“Secrets are to be found all around the Denver area, especially since it has to be one of the supernatural centers of the known world. Ghosts are everywhere around here,” Lewis explained. “There are amazing places that nobody knows, but they should.”

One such place is Lamb Spring Archaeological Preserve in High-

lands Ranch, which just looks like any undeveloped patch of prairie.

But the 35-acre preserve is actually a place where scientists discovered evidence that Paleo-humans lived and hunted in North America more than 8,000 years ago. According to Peterson and Lewis’ research, it was a favorite drinking spot for animals like ground sloths, camels and Columbian mammoths. The presence of animals is what drew human hunters to the spot.

“One thing we wanted to make sure we had was good images to go with the 85 vignettes in the book,” Peterson said. “The images help tell the story of off-the-radar places for the general Denverite, even places that are well-known like Red Rocks and Capitol that have their secrets.”

While both authors hope the book is illuminating and fascinating to readers, they also have the aim of getting people to explore the city and surrounding areas and appreciate all there is to discover.

“We wanted to put an emphasis on finding places that you can visit and places where people can relate to,” Lewis said. “There’s all kinds of history and quirky stuff around here, and I hope people go on tours and visit these places to see some of the history.”

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Summer is likely timetable for most to get vaccine Colorado to start with workers in health care, residents of nursing homes

BY JESSE PAUL AND JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

The general public in Colorado likely won’t have access to a coronavirus vaccine until the summer of 2021, state officials said, though inoculations for health-care workers and nursing home residents could start as early as this week.

A distribution plan unveiled Dec. 9 by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment prioritizes health-care workers, namely those who interact with COVID-19 patients, and nursing home residents and staff for the first doses of vaccine in what’s being referred to as “Phase 1A.” Since coronavirus reached Colorado early this year, nearly 1,400 residents of nursing homes and senior care centers have died from COVID-19. More than 5,700 nursing home staff have caught the disease and as many as 10 have been killed by it.

In “Phase 1B,” which is expected to continue through the winter, first responders — like firefighters and police officers — and people who work in home health, hospice care and dental settings will be prioritized to receive vaccines.

A vaccine developed by Pfizer, which requires two doses, could be approved for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration this week. Another vaccine being manufactured by Moderna, which also requires two doses, could be available as soon as a week after the Pfizer vaccine gets the OK from federal regulators.

“We know that in the early weeks and months of vaccine distribution, supplies will be limited. This have been a historic effort to create this vaccine in a record period of time,” said Scott Bookman, Colorado’s coronavirus incident commander. “And while we’re going to get there, it’s going to take many months to get this out to the general public.”

Colorado officials have been racing to prepare for the arrival of the vaccine, running tests and developing protocols to ensure the state doesn’t waste any doses.

CDPHE and Gov. Jared Polis’ office are also working to ensure the vaccine is stored securely and can’t be stolen or tampered with.

“The vaccine is really a gateway to the end of the pandemic,” Polis said Dec. 10 “We can see the end in sight.”

“Phase 2” of Colorado’s vaccine plan is expected to begin in the spring and include essential workers — like teachers, grocery store staff and meatpacking employees — and people over 65 years old.

Anyone with a preexisting condi-

tion, like diabetes, chronic lung disease, heart disease and cancer, or who is immunocompromised will also get a vaccine during this phase.

Anyone between the ages of 18 and 64 without high-risk conditions will be vaccinated in “Phase 3.” Bookman said it’s unclear how long the third phase will last and that it depends on how much supply Colorado receives from the federal government.

Availability is crucial

Health officials cautioned that all of their timelines for vaccine

distribution could change based on availability.

“We know that early doses will be limited,” Bookman said, “but they will expand.”

Bookman said the vaccine will be provided for free for anyone who wants it.

The new plan differs in significant ways from the initial version that the state submitted to the federal government in October.

People who live in nursing homes have been moved up in priority. Health-care workers who are SEE VACCINE, P13

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VOICES Music won’t stay silent, for better or worse

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hat’s science got to do with it?

What’s science but a secondhand emotion?

Music, eventually, finds its way into almost everything, including a pandemic. The same is true for all of the arts.

Visual artists, QUIET filmmakers, writDESPERATION ers, and others have been reacting to COVID-19 ever since it began to hit America and, in many ways, limit Americans.

Musicians have responded to dire conditions, authority, wars, prejudice, Craig Marshall Smith and innumerable hardships forever.

Some of us may have been initiated by Woody Guthrie’s politically charged anthems. He also wrote “This Land is Your Land.”

The decade of the 1960s was a ripe period for musicians, many of whom were tagged as “protest singers,” especially Bob Dylan, but also

Peter, Paul, and Mary, Phil Ochs, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Nina Simone, even Marvin Gaye.

A British band at the time, Them, was uninvolved, and recorded hits such as “Gloria,” “Baby, Please Don’t Go,” and “Here Comes the Night.”

The lead singer, who was born in 1945, went solo and still performs.

I was half-surprised to read about a song he’s written and recorded titled “No More Lockdown,” and anti-lockdown tune.

“No more celebrities / No more celebrities telling us / Telling us what we’re supposed to feel / No more lockdown.”

He takes a bigger swing at “experts.”

“No more Imperial College Scientists making up crooked facts.”

It’s not smooth and pretty, is it?

Neither was Dylan’s “Masters of War,” a song I have outgrown; not one I’m likely to listen to on a Sunday in 2020.

As an artist, I have always avoided current events, choosing instead to find solace in painting and drawing rather than a forum.

The news right now is a bombardment.

Listening to music is one of the ways I (try to) overcome the frustrations and anxieties. I don’t invite “protest” music into that as I did during, for example, the Vietnam War. Music and movies are my antidote. After a day saturated with “Breaking News” I want comedy, romantic comedy, drama, but I don’t want violence, revenge, meanness or cruelty. There’s plenty of that in the paper.

After he left Them, Van Morrison recorded “Brown Eyed Girl,” which you can hear at least once a week on the radio.

“Skipping and a jumping / In the misty morning fog with you” is a long old way away from “No more celebrities.”

Often it’s the other way around.

Artists protest when we’re young, then soften (or resign) as we get older.

Of course, many go down fighting whatever it is.

Pete Seeger was still being Pete Seeger until the day he died (2014 at

the age of 94).

I probably won’t add “No More Lockdown” to my playlists. However, I understand Morrison’s desire to produce such a song.

I’ll let you in on a secret: These columns give me an opportunity to achieve the very same thing, albeit without the edge or the angle.

Morrison is adhering to the unwritten “Artist’s Responsibility.”

Choosing to will cost him some of his audience.

A best friend and I have been exchanging daily messages, each swathed in humor, wordplay, and nonsense.

Another friend and I dwell on the pandemic and politicians.

Which do you think I look forward to the most?

One day, Mark and I exchanged, explained, and debated our favorite humorists. It was hotly contested, meaningless, without importance or merit.

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

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special thanks to one of our community families, Mr., and Mrs. Arthur Emerson, for inspiring this week’s column, your encouragement is greatly appreciated.

Who is on your Do Not Call list? I don’t mean the businesses you have asked to stop calling you, or the Do Not WINNING Call lists that you have registered your WORDS telephone number with to stop telemarketers from trying to reach you. No, I am referring to the people in your life who have made your Do Not Call list.

Well, maybe we don’t refer to it as a Michael Norton Do Not Call list, but for too many of us, somehow along the way we have intentionally or inadvertently created our own Have Not Called list. Life gets in the way, we grow apart, work is too demanding, our calendars are already jam packed, we have been on video calls and conference calls all day and just can’t make time for one more call. Our ears are sore, our voice is

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Let’s back up eight months to when this pandemic became more real than many people had predicted. As we were going through restrictions and quarantines, many families took advantage of the time to schedule family video conferences, bringing in aunts, uncles, cousins, in-laws, and friends together as a way to stay in touch during a crisis. It was more than we had ever done before the pandemic came around. And it was awesome, tiring maybe, but awesome all the same.

It seems that the longer this virus hangs around, the more serious it has become; the more our calls and video conferences may have slowed down as well. For those of us who were all working remotely, and in some cases, going to an office or other place for that human touch, we had some of our needs met through interactions or engagement with others. Unfortunately, this is not the case for many other folks. And they are not “just other folks,” they are our folks, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers, and friends who have been shuttered in place for a very long time.

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There is that saying about being lonely, even when we are not alone. And when I think about that, I think about the nurses, doctors, first responders, military personnel, teachers, and others who have been on the front lines from day one. They are usually never alone, but many have shared that they have never felt lonelier. I’ll bet that each one of us knows someone who serves our community who would love to receive a call, a text, a card or anything letting them know that they are not alone, and that they are in our thoughts.

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will think to ourselves that we could have tried harder, we should have called, written that letter, or drove by their home so they can see us through the window. We will wish that we would have let those on the front lines know how much we appreciate, respect, and love them.

One of my very favorite motivational speakers and influencers on my life was a man by the name of Jim Rohn. His quote here may just sum up my encouragement to you this week, “Don’t say, If I could, I would. Instead say, If I can, I will.” You can make that call, you can reach out, and you can make the difference in the life of someone who really needs to not feel lonely or alone today.

So how about you? Is there someone on your Have Not Called list? I can’t wait to hear what happened when you contacted them or let them know how much you care when you email me at mnorton@ tramazing.com. And trust me, when you make that call, it really will be a better than good week.

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TESTING FROM PAGE 1

Federal and state law require standardized tests — in Colorado, that’s CMAS for students in third through eighth grade and the PSAT and SAT for high school students — and describe how the tests should be used for school accountability and teacher evaluations. Any changes will ultimately require federal waivers as well as legislative action or an executive order from Gov. Jared Polis.

Outgoing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had indicated the U.S. Department of Education was unlikely to grant testing waivers this school year. Whether to stick with that policy or give states more flexibility will be one of the first questions confronting incoming President Joe Biden and his education secretary. The decision not to administer the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often known as “the nation’s report card,” in pandemic conditions led some federal lawmakers to say state assessments are more important than ever this year.

The Colorado Department of Education convened a working group in September to make recommendations on many of the most pressing questions. The members, who included representatives of school districts, teachers unions, and advocacy organizations, reached agreement on several areas:  High school students should still take the PSAT and SAT in the spring, assuming public health conditions allow it.  The social studies test typically given to fourth- and seventh-graders and the science test typically given to fifth-, eighth- and 11th-graders should not be given this year.  Any standardized tests shouldn’t be used for high-stakes accountability purposes, including teacher evaluations.  Colorado should not issue school or district performance ratings next fall based on tests given in the spring.

The group could not agree, however, on whether the CMAS tests that measure reading, writing, and math skills should be given to third-

through eighth-grade students or on whether the results of any testing should be made publicly available.

Parents fear academic setbacks

Jen Walmer of the Colorado chapter of Democrats for Education Reform said she talks to parents who are “in panic mode” about their children’s academic progress. The tests would provide data to take stock of learning loss. One administrator on the working group said she was struggling to reconcile her role as a district representative opposed to giving tests with her perspective as the parent of a student receiving “really uneven” online instruction.

Bret Miles, executive director of the Colorado Association of School Executives, a group that represents superintendents, said the disagreement boiled down to whether the assessments will yield accurate information.

“We’re at an impasse because of the different values we’ve placed on this assessment,” he said.

Colorado superintendents for months have called for the state to cancel the administration of CMAS, as well as other required assessments for young readers and English language learners.

Given the wide range of ways students are learning, the tests wouldn’t provide valid information, they argue, and administering them would be a logistical nightmare, whether students are at school or at home. Could remote students be compelled to come to school to take the tests? How many extra weeks would be spent in testing if districts adhere to social distancing? What if someone tests positive in the middle of testing, sending their classmates and teacher into quarantine?

Or if students are allowed to take the tests from home, how could you compare the results of a student who has their own room and laptop with those of a student working at the dining room table while she helps three younger siblings with their schoolwork or the student taking the test on a cell phone?

“Our overwhelming and energetic consensus is that state-administered and state-required assessments are counterproductive during the current health crisis and therefore we recommend that they be canceled or made optional this year,” wrote 26

Confusion clouds perceptions

Some parents may mistakenly believe their child is learning if they like their teacher or don’t balk at online learning, while others may be aware their child is struggling academically but mistakenly think it’s their own fault.

“When you see that it’s an entire system that failed, you can lean on your community and make changes,” he said.

Van Schoales, president of A Plus Colorado, an advocacy group that promotes the use of data to improve schools, said he strongly agrees with the recommendation not to use testing for high-stakes purposes, but he does want tests to be given.

“It’s really important that we do standardized testing so that we can better understand the impact of the pandemic and target resources, in terms of money and people and programs,” he said. “We’re completely blind in Colorado about this. It’s all anecdotal.”

In a recent survey, many superintendents reported that loss of reading skills among early elementary students was their top concern. Superintendents say they use internal assessments and diagnostic tools related to their curriculum to measure student learning, and that these tools, unlike CMAS, provide information they can use to help students within the current school year.

But such data is not available to the public or easily comparable across schools or districts.

Derek Briggs, a professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder and director of the Center for Assessment Design Research and Evaluation, describes himself as “certainly not anti-testing” — and

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Students typically take CMAS in March and April. With most Colorado students learning remotely and an uncertain timeline for returning to the classroom, many students will have just recently reconnected with their teachers when the testing window opens. That time would be better spent on actual teaching than test administration, he said.

“Is the ability to quantify the impact of COVID worth the cost?” he asked.

The data itself would be difficult to interpret, he said, because there is so much variability, even within schools, in how much in-person learning students are getting. One third-grader might have months of uninterrupted schooling, while another had to quarantine three times.

Even among students learning at home, some are in pods with private teachers while others are fending for themselves.

National test results released this week present many of the same challenges. Students did better than many experts had feared, losing some ground in math but largely holding steady on reading. But fewer students took the tests than usual, and some of the students who opted out might be those who struggled the most. It’s hard to say whether the results give an accurate picture.

Instead, Briggs suggests targeting resources like summer school and tutoring at the students we know struggled more, those with poor internet access and those whose schools already struggled to meet students’ needs.

“Most parents know they are in a suboptimal situation for learning, so why not operate under that assumption?” he said. “Do you need me to give you an assessment as a researcher to say that non-white students lost on average three months of learning and the white kids only lost 1 1/2 months of learning? Do you need a test for that?”

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Rink at the Rock, Castle Rock ABOUT: The covered ice rink in downtown Castle Rock is open through Feb. 15. The rink is reserved for private sessions MondayWednesday.

WHERE: 414 Perry St., Castle Rock OPEN SKATE HOURS: Thursday 4-8 p.m.; Friday 4-8 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-

5 p.m.

COST: Adult (12 and up), $10; child (11 and under) $8; skate rental, $4 MASKS: Required to be worn while skating.

Highly encouraged in waiting areas.

RESERVATION: Not required.

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Discovery Park Ice Trail, Parker

Outdoor skating a holiday refuge amid pandemic

Alora Rankin smiles skating with her father, Bryan, at the Discovery Park Ice Trail in downtown Parker Dec. 3.

The skating loop is available by reservation only, and is one of a few outdoor ice rinks still open following level red public health orders.

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up), $8; child (10 and under), $6; skate rental, $4 MASKS: Not required to be worn while skating.

RESERVATION: Required two days in advance online.

WEBSITE: www. parkerrec.com/1954/ Parker-Ice-Trail

Olde Town Arvada Ice Skating Rink, Arvada

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ABOUT: The new, synthetic ice rink opened in Olde Town Arvada this fall to bring a little joy to people’s holiday season amid the pandemic.

WHERE: 57th and Old Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada OPEN SKATE HOURS: Sunday-Saturday noon-8 p.m. (Hours

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ryan Rankin did his best to keep up with his daughter on the ice.

Alora, the Ponderosa High School sophomore, darted around the Parker Ice Trail Dec. 3, at times lapping her father.

Alora egged on her father, urging him to try synchronized spins as they glided around the short loop at Discovery Park.

Bryan relished the daddydaughter time.

“I feel extremely blessed we even have a place like this to go to because I know a lot of cities don’t have an ice-skating rink, especially outdoors and as nice as this one,” Alora said. “Also, amid COVID, it’s nice that we’re still able to come have an outlet.”

The ice trail at Discover Park is one of only a handful of outdoor ice rinks still open following the level red public health orders. Masks are not required to skate, but capacity is limited.

In order to skate, visitors must fill out a registration form online and schedule a reservation two days in advance.

Visitors can request a spot in a two-hour time slot. The trail is open through the winter. For more information, visit ParkerRec.com.

Mary Colton, Parker’s parks and recreation director, said in a Dec. 4 email that the ice loop is a winter activity that lends itself to being a safe, family atmosphere.

“With such limited recreational options available due to COVID-19, Discovery Park offers a unique opportunity to recreate outdoors for improved physical and mental health, which are so important to all of us right now,” Colton said.

But many communities aren’t

ABOUT: An outdoor, loop ice trail in downtown Parker, open through the winter.

WHERE: 20115 Mainstreet, Parker OPEN SKATE HOURS: Monday-Friday 5-9 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

COST: Adult (11 and

subject to reservations).

COST: Adult (11 and up) $8; child (10 and under) $5. Ticket includes skate rental.

MASKS: Required at all times.

RESERVATIONS: Required for one-hour time slots. Online only.

Website: oldetownarvada.org/skating-rink/

Longmont Ice Pavilion, Longmont

Dozens of skaters occupy the Parker Ice Trail during time blocks reserved two days in advance. The Ice Trail is open Monday through Friday, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., 11 a.m.-9 p.m. on Saturdays and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Sundays, with special times for holidays. For more information, visit ParkerOnline.org.

so lucky.

The Rink at Belmar in Lakewood was forced to close after the state moved to level red orders Nov. 20. The 7,000-squarefoot rink at the Belmar Shopping Center is a popular spot for outdoor skating in any other year.

Tom Quinn, executive director of Alameda Connects, a business association for the Alameda corridor, said the organization is searching for new ways to give people a holiday feel despite closures and indoor shopping limitations.

“What we really focused on is: ‘What can we do, with the restrictions, to keep the holiday spirit alive?’” Quinn said.

The shopping district will be decked out with holiday lights. The City of Lakewood is holding its yearly lamp post decorating contest at Belmar Park Dec. 18. Santa is making appearances at Belmar through Dec. 24 as well. For details, visit BelmarColorado.com.

Arvada unveiled its synthetic ice rink this fall in Olde Town Square, thanks to the Arvada Business Improvement District.

Executive Director Joe Hengstler told Colorado Community Community Media it was the perfect time to open a rink following the strife caused by the pandemic.

The Streets at SouthGlenn decided against putting up its annual ice-skating rink this year due to COVID-19 concerns and looks forward to bringing it back in 2021, according to a spokesperson for the shopping district.

Evergreen could open skating at Evergreen Lake Dec. 18, weather permitting, according to the city’s recreation department’s website.

Bryan Rankin, able to catch his breath at the Parker Ice Trail Dec. 3, is thankful just to spend time with his daughter on the ice.

“Hopefully, normalcy kicks in soon,” he said.

ABOUT: A seasonal, full-service ice facility offering public skating as well as private rentals throughout the winter.

WHERE: 725 Eighth Ave., Longmont OPEN SKATE HOURS: Monday 11:15 a.m.-1:30 p.m., 3-5 p.m.; Tuesday 3-4:45 p.m.; Wednesday 11:15 a.m.-1:30 p.m., 3-5:15 p.m.; Thursday 3-5:15

p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.6:15 p.m.; Saturday 12:15-6:15 p.m.; Sunday 1:15-6 p.m.

COST: Adult resident/nonresident (1854) $5.75/$7.25; youth resident/nonresident (11-17) $5/$5.75; child resident/nonresident (2-10) $4.50/$5.50; senior resident/nonresident (55 and up) $5/$5.75; tot (under 2) free.

Coming soon: Evergreen Lake, Evergreen ABOUT: The 55acre lake in the Rocky Mountain foothills is nationally renowned for its ice skating, and it is scheduled to return just before Christmas.

The tentative open date is Dec. 18, pending bad weather.

WHERE: 29612 Upper Bear Creed Road, Evergreen OPEN SKATE HOURS: Monday-Friday 3-7 p.m.; Saturday

8 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

COST: Adult (19-59), $8; youth (4-18), $7; seniors (60 and up), $6; military, $6; tot (3 and under), free.

MASKS: Not required.

Reservations: Required by time slots.

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Mary McDonald, left, and Peter Shaw, holding his chihuahua Slabbo, sit outside McDonald’s room at the Holiday Motel in Englewood. McDonald’s Christmas tree came from the home of a former caregiving client who died of cirrhosis.

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where they could.

The situation grew far more dire as the COVID-19 pandemic swept over the land: Hoarders wiped out baby supplies at grocery stores, and libraries and rec centers where the family sought refuge closed their doors. James, his organs still being consumed, feared that contracting COVID-19 could kill him.

The couple had long dreaded confessing their situation to social workers, for fear of losing their children to foster care. Out of options, they presented themselves to Arapahoe County caseworkers.

Instead of taking the children, a caseworker connected them to Bonnie DeHart of HAAT Force, a nonprofit that provides motel vouchers to families and people with disabilities living on the streets.

DeHart booked the family a twoweek stay at Englewood’s Holiday Motel, and for the first time in months, the weary couple and their little girls had a bed and shower of their own.

As the two-week voucher ran out, Holiday Motel co-owner Dwight Kim offered James a job helping maintain the place. The couple’s third daughter was born in August, and today the family of five shares a room beside the motel office.

“You can think you have everything together,” Desiree said outside the room as her girls napped. “And you can get down so low you think there’s no coming up. But things happen for a reason. I have such gratitude. My eyes are open.”

Now, James and Kim help each other take care of the motel. Nearly three-quarters of the motel’s 32 rooms are occupied by people who are elderly, disabled, ill, or caring for young children, none with anywhere else but the streets to go, all depending on vouchers to ride out a pandemic raging like never before.

James has taken on a mentor role for some of the other voucher recipients, trying to steer them toward outreach agencies, and even helping convert a room of the motel to use for meetings and classes.

“Before my mom passed, she always told me I would find a way to help people,” he said. “I know she’s looking down and smiling.”

‘A bandage on the situation’ In the past, HAAT Force and sister organizations provided overnight shelter to people living on the streets on nights when temperatures plummeted or blizzards blew.

As the pandemic reshaped society last spring, the groups shifted their focus, seeking longer-term shelter for families and those whose age or health meant they were under serious threat from living without access to hygiene or the ability to get distance from others.

As unemployment surged and churches closed their doors, donations dried up, but were replaced with funding from the federal CARES Act. But federal funds came with a catch: they had to be spent by the end of the year.

Now, as New Year’s approaches, local governments are scrambling to line up more funding to keep paying for vouchers.

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Meanwhile, shelter groups face a convergence of other factors: eviction and foreclosure moratoriums are due to expire just as a new round of public health restrictions is putting more people out of work, potentially pushing many more people in tenuous situations into life on the streets.

“My biggest worry is, what will happen to these people?” asked Betsy Keyack, a board member at HAAT Force, who is running much of the group’s operations as longtime board chair DeHart struggles to recover from a severe case of COVID-19.

HAAT Force is currently providing long-term shelter to 59 people in 25 groups, Keyack said, but the future is tenuous.

“They’re supposed to figure out what to do when they have to leave the hotels,” Keyack said. “But that’s really, really difficult.”

Many of the services they are instructed to work with require computer access, but many of those in the motels don’t have computers, or are elderly and struggle to use them. Access to computers at libraries or places like Englewood’s Giving Heart outreach agency is limited or cut off. Volunteers who would normally help people navigate complicated systems — many of them elderly themselves and therefore at greater risk from the virus — are unavailable. Meanwhile, affordable housing is extremely limited, and wait lists stretch years long.

“We’re putting a bandage on the situation,” Keyack said. “These are people who desperately need stability. Places where they can improve their situations, find steady employment, or for kids somewhere they can get a steady education. Right now, people are making it by the skin of their teeth.”

‘Value in human life’

Other shelter groups are facing similar challenges. The Severe Weather Shelter Network, a sprawling consortium of churches primarily in Arapahoe and Jefferson counties that open their basements to unhoused single adults on cold winter nights, is unable to operate as normal this year.

Many of its member churches remain closed to the public, said director Lynn Ann Huizingh, and public health guidelines disallow so many people in such tight quarters.

Many of the group’s volunteers are elderly, and are staying away from group gatherings anyway.

The group has shifted to a motel voucher system, lining up dozens of rooms at nine different motels.

The shift hasn’t come cheap. In a normal year, the group might reg-

ister 500 people for shelter between October and April. This year, Huizingh said, they registered 500 people by early December, with more added to the ranks every week.

“We’re seeing a huge increase in people living on the street,” she said.

“Maybe a fifth of our guests this year are new to the street, and most have lost their jobs and their housing since March.”

Providing motel accommodations is much more complex than providing cots in church basements, and the shift has not come cheap.

Faced with increasing duties and a lack of volunteers, the network has had to hire several employees to handle administrative tasks and check in on guests. Paying for motel rooms for a three-day stretch of bad weather can cost $20,000, Huizingh said.

A silver lining, she said, is that the group’s registry is exposing the true scope of homelessness in the suburbs.

“We’ve known for years the number of people on the streets is majorly undercounted,” she said.

“We’re starting to get a real count.

It could mean more funding from governments and foundations to help people.”

The work is difficult, but Huizingh called it a calling.

“For me personally, it’s an extension of my faith,” she said. “Jesus said, ‘What you have done for the least of my brothers and sisters, you have done for me.’ There’s value in human life. These are people who are marginalized, shunned, turned away. They’re isolated and invisible.

It’s a burden on our hearts, and we have to do something.”

‘We don’t want people freezing’

Local government officials say they see the need and are doing everything they can to maintain the voucher programs after the federal money must be sent back to the national treasury.

Arapahoe County has already allocated nearly $900,000 of its CARES Act allotment toward emergency housing, said Nancy Sharpe, chair of the board of county commissioners.

After the first of the year, Sharpe said the plan is to use community development block grant funding, and there is even some hope that limited CARES funds can be held over.

“We don’t want to see these families back on the street,” Sharpe said. “We should be able to get them through at least until spring.”

Meanwhile, the county is beefing up its outreach programs, and working to provide “navigators” who can help walk people in need through the struggle of building personal stability.

In Jefferson County, officials have allotted $250,000 of CARES Act funds toward the Severe Weather Shelter Network’s efforts, said Kat Douglas, the county’s regional homelessness and housing development coordinator.

She said she feels confident the county will be able to provide additional funds, some drawn from grants from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, to cover the network’s need until spring.

The network is doing vital work, Douglas said.

“We don’t have a great shelter network in Jefferson County,” Douglas said. “Motels have proven to be a critical resource. Having families, veterans and people with disabilities on the street isn’t good for anyone. With hospitals already taxed, it’s no good to have people in there being treated for frostbite. We don’t want people freezing to death.”

‘A helping hand’

At the Holiday Motel, Dwight Kim, the co-owner, makes the rounds checking on guests riding out the pandemic.

There’s Mary McDonald, a 1980 graduate of Arapahoe High School, who lost all her cleaning service’s clients early in the pandemic. She salutes every fire truck, ambulance and police car that drives past.

There’s Peter Shaw, a once successful contractor who lost his home after he got too sick to work. Recovering from a brutal car crash, he is hoping to access the final $5,000 of his late wife’s life insurance to buy a van to live in.

There’s Michael Curtis, who found his way to the motel after months spent nursing a broken shoulder while living in his Jeep behind the convenience store where he worked until being forced out when he was fired.

There’s Kayla Waters, raising two sons, ages 8 and 3, whose ADHD gives them such severe fits of rage that she was not allowed to renew the lease on her last apartment.

“Even once this pandemic is over, homlessness is not going away,” Kim said. “It can happen to anyone. We live in a fragile world. All people need is a helping hand.”

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not directly treating patients with COVID-19 have been moved down slightly.

But the biggest change is that the state has removed people who live in congregate housing situations — namely prisoners — from the priority list entirely.

People in those living situations — such as college students living in dorms, seasonal workers at ski areas living in shared housing, people experiencing homelessness living in shelters, and people who are incarcerated — had been at a now-deleted “Phase 2A” of the initial plan. Public health experts had urged making them a priority because they are at high risk of catching and transmitting the virus, creating large outbreaks that can spread across entire communities.

As of last week, 14 of the state’s 15 largest COVID-19 outbreaks had been in correctional facilities or on college campuses. At least 14 Colorado prisoner deaths have been tied to COVID-19.

But, in his announcement on Dec. 9, Polis made clear that the main consideration for the new priority list was whether someone is at increased risk of death from COVID-19.

“If we want to save lives, we need to prioritize based on who is the most vulnerable from this virus,” Polis said. “… The moral path for society to take is to protect those who are far more likely to lose their lives to the virus.”

Bookman echoed that sentiment.

“It does not matter where you live, it matters what you’re susceptibility to this illness is,” Bookman said.

The new plan still prioritizes people who are “workers serving people that live in high-density settings.” Those individuals are placed in Phase 2 of the vaccine rollout, meaning, for instance, that people who work in homeless shelters will likely be eligible for vaccination before many people experiencing homelessness are.

Public health and medical experts worked for months on creating the state’s initial vaccination priority plan. An advisory committee of medical experts — the Governor’s Expert Emergency Epidemic Response Committee — drafted one plan. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment had its own teams also working on roll-out plans, and the two were ultimately merged to create the plan the state sent to the federal government earlier this year.

That initial plan largely followed the advice of a committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, which also singled out people living in congregate housing as being worthy of priority. Two Colorado experts — Dr. Ned Calonge, the president and CEO of The Colorado Trust, and Dr. Jonathan Samet, the dean of the Colorado School of Public Health who is leading Colorado’s pandemic modeling efforts — reviewed and provided feedback for the National Academies report before it was released.

The governor also promised Dec. 9 that vaccination information about Coloradans will not be shared with the federal government. That’s despite the fact that The New York Times reported Dec. 9 that the Trump administration is requiring states to submit the personal information of people who get the COVID-19 vaccine so that it can better track who is inoculated and any adverse reactions.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo balked at the idea, warning that the information could be used to deport people living in the U.S. illegally.

Polis asked Coloradans to be extra vigilant in protecting themselves and others against coronavirus in the next few months.

“It’s a marathon,” he said.

“We’re getting there.”

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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 Court Address: 1437 Bannock Street Denver, CO 80202

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the complaint [petition] 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 [petition] without further notice.

This is an action: Dissolution of Marriage Dated: November 30, 2020 /S/ James Darnel Attorney for Plaintiff(s)/Petitioner(s) (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., §38-6-104, C.R.S. (eminent domain); §38-36-121, C.R.S. (Torrens registration).

Legal Notice No. 80782 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: January 7, 2021 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

Division 424

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 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.

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

Storage Liens/Vehicle Titles Public Notice Notice of Sale

In re the Marriage of: Petitioner: HELEN ELIASE YESAKE v.

Respondent: WARSAME HUSSEIN ISMAIL

Broncos Towing (Richard Gallegos), 3160 South Federal Boulevard, Denver, Colorado 80236, 303-722-3555 be applying for title to the following abandoned vehicle.

Attorney: James Darnel, P.C. 1250 So. Parker Road, Ste 205 Denver, CO 80231 Phone Number: 303-587-0585 E-mail: jamesdarnel@comcast.net FAX Number: 303-751-0660 Atty. Reg. #: 26381 Case Number: 2020 DR 30448 Courtroom. 309

1) 2016 Ford Escape White: Vin B40145 2) 2006 Ford Green: Vin 144545 3) 1995 Colman Popup Cream: Vin 951346

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

Legal Notice No. 80751 First Publication: November 26, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice Notice to obtain title- The following vehicles

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were towed and abandoned; VIN WBAVB13586KX62564, 2006 BMW 325I, M1 Towing lot address 2810 W. 62nd Ave, Denver, CO 80221, 720-364-1160 is applying for title.

Legal Notice No. 80794 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Roberta Monica White Lamers, Deceased - Case Number: 2020PR31452 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 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Joseph G. Lamers Personal Representative 1268 South Otis Street Lakewood, Colorado 80232 Legal Notice No. 80791 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Michael E. Spaulding, a/k/a Michael Eugene Spaulding, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31428 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 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

David C. Spaulding, Personal Representative 4250 S. Elati Street Englewood, CO 80110 Legal Notice No. 80788 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Vivian Bergliot Bengtson, also known as Vivian B. Bengtson, Deceased Case Number: 20PR31401 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 12, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Katherine L. Cruson Personal Representative 12906 E. Villanova Drive Aurora, CO 80014 Legal Notice No. 80780 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 24, 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 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Frank Joseph Stasko, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR442 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.

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 MARIA DELOSANGELES ESTRADA also known as MARIA ESTRADA, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR158 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 19, 2021 or the claims may be forever barred Margaret Dubach Personal Representative 7931 South Broadway, Suite 174 Littleton, CO 80122 Legal Notice No. 80786 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald Dispatch

a/k/a D.M. Washington, a/k/a DeLois Marion Burgin, a/k/a DeLois M. Burgin, a/k/a DeLois Burgin, a/k/a D.M. Burgin, a/k/a DeLois Marion Wright, a/k/a DeLois M. Wright, a/k/a DeLois Wright, a/k/a D.M. Wright, a/k/a DeLois Marion Jones, a/k/a DeLois M. Jones, a/k/a DeLois Jones, or D.M. Jones, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31335

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 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jerome A. DeHerrera Attorney to the Personal Representative 146 W. 11th Avenue Denver, CO 80204

Public Notice Denver Probate Court City and County of Denver, Colorado 1437 Bannock Street, Room 230 Denver, CO 80202 In the Interest of: In the Matter of the Estate of: DELAYNE R. SMITH, Deceased.

Legal Notice No. 80787 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Donald Byron Francis, a/k/a Donald B. Francis, a/k/a Donald Francis, a/k/a Don Byron Francis, a/k/a Don B. Francis, a/k/a Don Francis, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31493

Attorney: R. Eric Solem, Esq. SOLEM WILLIAMS & McKINLEY, P.C. 3333 S. Bannock St., Suite 900 Englewood, CO 80110 Phone Number: 303-761-4900 E-mail: eric@solemlaw.com FAX Number: 03-761-2989 Atty. Reg. #: 6464 Case Number: 2020 PR 31518 NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO § 15-10-401, C.R.S. To: Melvin Henry Smith and unknown heirs of Delayne R. Smith Last Known Address, if any: A non-appearance hearing on Petition for Formal Probate of Will and Formal Appointment of Personal Representative (title of pleading) for (brief description of relief requested) appointment of Ron Bulkley to act as Personal Representative of Delayne R. Smith’s Estate. will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued:

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before April 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Christopher B. Francis, Personal Representative c/o KATZ, LOOK & ONORATO, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 80895 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Phyllis Mae Babish, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR031433

Date: January 7, 2021 Time: 8:00 a.m.

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

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

The hearing will take approximately Not Applicable non-appearance Hearing Legal Notice No. 80784 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 24, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Pat Hanna Kuehl, aka Pat Kuehl, aka Patricia A. Kuehl, aka Patricia H. Kuehl, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31509 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 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Todd W. Babish Personal Representative 5932 Van Gordon Street Arvada, CO 80004 Legal Notice No. 80785 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 24, 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.

Defendants:

Kathleen M. Cronan Personal Representative 17505 E. Dickenson Place Aurora, CO 80013

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.

Legal Notice No. 80789 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Robert Lane White, aka Robert L. White, and Lane White, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31290 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court, City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before April 17, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sandra Nicholls, Personal Representative 558 Newark Street Aurora, CO 80010 Legal Notice No. 80792 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of DeLois Marion Washington, a/k/a DeLois M. Washington, a/k/a DeLois Washington,

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 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

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.

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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Public Notices 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., §38-6-104, C.R.S. (eminent domain); §38-36-121, C.R.S. (Torrens registration).

Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Personal Representative or to the Denver Probate Court, City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before April 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

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.

Legal Notice No. 80793 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice

/s/ signature on original in office Signature of Attorney for Person Giving Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Keith S. Campbell, also known as Keith Stuart Campbell, and Keith Campbell, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31505

Mary Anna Seno, Personal Representative c/o: BOATRIGHT, RIPP & LUSK, LLC 4315 Wadsworth Blvd.

Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Ph: 303-423-7134

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

Legal Notice No. 80778 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John Charles Grummel, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31304 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the

Legal Notice No. 80760 First Publication: November 19, 2020

Robert L. Grummel Personal Representative 30098 Berkshire Court Evergreen, Colorado 80439

Lindsay R. Campbell aka Nancy Lindsay Rinehart Campbell 3333 E. Florida Ave., Unit 122 Denver, CO 80210 Legal Notice No. 80783 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 24, 2020

Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on or before April 4, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Toma Janus, a/k/a Tomo Janus, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR031071

Kim Elaine Zeller, Personal Representative 17319 Pondlilly Drive Parker, CO 80134

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

Legal Notice No. 80774 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Carol Ann Helen McClure, A/K/A Carol McClure, A/K/A Carol Brussel, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31343

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 19, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice 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 above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Denver Probate

Leo Brussel, Personal Representative 201 Massachusetts NE Ave Apt. 302 Washington, DC 20002 Legal Notice No.80790 First Publication: December 17, 2020 Last Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: The Denver Herald-Dispatch

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Tattered Cover bookstores change hands again Pair who purchased shops in 2017 faced challenges in pandemic year

BY HANNAH METZGER THE DENVER GAZETTE

Denver’s famous Tattered Cover bookstores are changing ownership for the second time since the retirement of longtime owner Joyce Meskis in 2017.

The independent bookstores were purchased by a team of Coloradobased investors in a private sale announced Dec. 9, ending 49 years of private ownership.

Previously, the stores were owned by husband-and-wife duo and book industry veterans Len Vlahos and Kristen Gilligan.

The pair assumed operational control in July 2017 after a two-year apprenticeship under Meskis and transition of power beginning in July 2015.

The new owners are Denver natives and longtime friends Kwame Spearman and David Back, founding partners of Bended Page, LLC. “We see Tattered Cover as more than a bookstore,” said Back, whose first job at age 15 was as a cashier at Tattered Cover’s Cherry Creek store. “It’s a place where memories are made and where everyone should feel at home.”

Back said, as owners, he and Spearman plan to increase com-

In this photo from 2015, Margaret Shaheen, general manager of the Tattered Cover formerly located at the Highlands Ranch Town FILE PHOTO Center, sets up a display of books prior to the store’s move to the Aspen Grove shopping center in Littleton later that year.

munity engagement and connection through the bookstores’ operations.

“As we approach Tattered Cover’s 50th anniversary we are honored and excited to invest in this important community treasure and ensure it remains a piece of the Colorado experience for generations to come,” Spearman said.

The 2015 sale of Tattered Cover came as a shock to the Denver community as Meskis had owned the bookstore since 1974 when it was just a single struggling shop in

Cherry Creek.

Under Meskis, Tattered Cover became the state’s largest bookstore chain, a staple of Denver’s independent literary culture and an international tourist destination, growing from one location to four throughout the decades.

In 2015, Vlahos told NPR that he and his wife were “humbled” by receiving ownership and would “try to continue the legacy.”

However, by May 2020, Vlahos told Westword that the COVID-19

pandemic was “knocking us on our butt,” having cut sales to only a fraction of what they were before.

Earlier this year, Vlahos and Gilligan made the decision to close Tattered Cover’s 1994 location at the corner of 16th and Wynkoop streets in favor of a move to McGregor Square near Coors Field in early 2021.

A fifth Tattered Cover location is still in the works, planning to open in Westminster.

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