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November 12, 2015 VOLUME 120 | ISSUE 41 | 75¢

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Voters keep term limits for sheriff Mistrust of government seen as probable factor

By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media

Birdie Dimples (Kristi Strachan) Dogleg Gooseneck (David Saltzman) and Gloria Greenfee (Deborah Maul) worry over the discovery of an overdue mortgage. Photos by Rick Gustafson

Performance all in good fun Fairgrounds stage offers play rich in golf puns

By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media Boos, hisses, and cheers filled the Fellowship Hall at the Elbert County Fairgrounds over the weekend for the Kiowa Creek Ladies Aid production of “The Villain Took a Chip Shot or …

Thar’s Gold in Them Thar Greens.”

Linda Ehmann of the Kiowa Creek Community Church Ladies Aid, who played the role of villainess Sue Sandtrappe, said: “We just appreciate our support and following over these years. We’ve become quite a large production.”

Ladies Aid sponsors the theater tradition in Kiowa that dates back more than 30 years. The community theater group originally performed in the Lions Club to audiences of 25 people, and the funds raised helped pay for the construction of the Kiowa Creek Community Church fellowship hall.

“It started out as a fundraiser to build the fellowship hall,” Ehmann said.

“Once we got the fellowship hall built, then we continued to raise money to build the stage, add curtains, carpet, doors, all that sort of stuff.”

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For at least the second time since Colorado voters established term limits for local officials in 1994, Elbert County voters defeated a question to eliminate term limits for the office of Elbert County sheriff. Despite an active campaign supporting the measure and no organized opposition, question 1A was defeated on Nov. 3, 54.7 percent to 45.3 percent.

Chris Richardson, committee chairman for Citizens for Free Elbert County Elections, the group that petitioned the Elbert County commissioners in July to have the question placed on this November’s ballot, said he was disappointed in the outcome.

“We had an overwhelming response from the rest of the county with the petition. We did a phone poll last month and had a lot indicating were in favor,” Richardson said.

With 8,142 ballots case, voter turnout in Elbert County reached just over 44 percent, and Richardson speculated that the low turnout might have been one of two factors that led to the defeat of the question.

“A lot of folks indicated they supported the measure that at the end of the day did not cast a vote, and I think within our county there is a strong mistrust of government and politicians in general. That’s a strong baseline to overcome,” he said.

In 1994, Colorado voters approved Article 18 to the Colorado Constitution, which established across-the board-term limits for most of Colorado’s local government officials; however, a provision in the amendment allows local voters to “lengthen, shorten, or eliminate the limitations on terms of office imposed by this Section 11.”

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TWO ELECTED TO SCHOOL BOARD

A hypnotized Dogleg Gooseneck (David Saltzman) regressed to childhood while Nash T. Sandtrappe (Jim Emig) and his sister Sue Sandtrappe (Linda Ehmann) watch.

Dee Lindsey and Richard Smith won the two open seats on the Elizabeth Public Schools Board of Directors in the Nov. 3. election.

Incumbent Lindsey received 2,597 votes, or 38.9 percent of those cast in the three-way race.

Richard Smith got 2,257 votes (33.8 percent), and Amy Lunt had 1,828 votes (27.4 percent).

Individuals on the five-member board of directors serve four-year terms.

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Elizabeth harvest festival brings ’em in Candy, creatures and contests among the draws at annual event

By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media Each year, the Harvest Festival and Trick or Treat Street in Elizabeth draws large crowds, but this year visitors to Main Street came out in droves. For the second fall in a row, Batman and zombies, lots of zombies, were welcomed by a perfect fall afternoon as they roamed the tents and booths set up by more than 50 vendors, searching for candy under a cloudless sky.

The Town of Elizabeth’s booth was so busy Oct. 31, staffers were forced to make a candy run an hour after the festival kicked off at noon. According to Dick Eason, Elizabeth town manager, his crew was watching their supplies carefully and anticipating a second trip to resupply before the festival wrapped up at 3 p.m.

In addition to candy, vendors provided games, contests, and face painting. This year’s Harvest Fest featured a separate food court in the parking lot across from the chamber of commerce offices on Main Street. In addition to hamburgers and hotdogs, hungry trick-or-treaters and their parents had a variety of options, ranging from homemade baked goods to freshly made Mediterranean food.

A newcomer to events held on Main Street, Jasmine Parks-Papadopoulos, aka Sugar Mama, offered a variety of baked “Treats and Eats.” Parks-Papadopoulos has been baking her cookies, cakes, and Rice Krispy treats for more than a year for fundraisers and in support of the families of airmen at Buckley Airforce Base, where her husband works for Satellite Command.

Jasmine, originally from Naples Italy, grew up in Athens and worked as a chef in one of the three restaurants that her family owns in the city.

Walking dead Hannah Totten distributes fliers for the Halloween party after dark, sponsored by Elizabeth Parks and Recreation Photos by Rick Gustafson For those who were looking for something a little more savory, Lucy’s Armenian-Mediterranean Grill served up delicious (and sometimes messy) Mediterranean food, gyros, falafel and chicken shawarma. Lucy Moore is an Armenian who grew up in Jordan. She and her husband Erskine have been serving their Armenian Mediterranean Grill in Elizabeth for three years and at Harvest Fest for two.

“I mix all my own spices and Tsatziki,” Lucy says as she fills a pita with a mix of lamb and beef, lettuce, and onions before running a generous squirt of the yogurtbased sauce down the middle of her creation.

The Harvest Festival is held each year and is sponsored by the Elizabeth Area Chamber of Commerce and its members.

The event is billed as a safe community celebration.

Crowds pack Historic Main Street in Elizabeth for Harvest Fest and trick-or treating.

Janson and Callie Bakke watch daughter Krissy Drummond toss a ball to win a prize.

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Returning troops have options for transition Adjusting to civilian life difficult for some veterans

By Chris Michlewicz cmichlewicz@coloradocommunitymedia.com Chad Ritter knows the difficulty of returning home.

The U.S. Marine Corps veteran served during the push into Iraq in 2003. After sustaining wounds — including a traumatic brain injury — in three separate attacks, Ritter was sent home with little idea of what was to come. The 34-year-old Franktown resident now has a host of physical ailments and post-traumatic stress disorder, which limit job opportunities and participation in social settings.

Going from a combat zone, where life-and-death decisions are made daily, back to civilian life was an exasperating transition, one fraught with questions that seemingly had no answer.

“When you try to reconnect with society, you’ve got to think every day that people don’t do those same things,” Ritter said. “They don’t experience it.”

According to a study by the Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, between 25 percent and 56 percent of combat veterans using U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs services reported “some” to “extreme” difficulty in social functioning, productivity and community involvement.

The 2010 study focused on the prevalence and types of reintegration problems among Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans while identifying levels of interest in interventions to promote readjustment to community life. The research also explored associations between probable PTSD and reintegration problems.

Ritter continues to seek ways to make sense of it all through VA counseling and has made strides in recent months with Warrior Voices, a nonprofit that teaches returning troops voiceover skills. The goal is to provide them with talents and job opportunities suited for those with PTSD and other lasting conditions.

Programs come in wide range There are a number of organizations willing to help; it’s a matter of finding the right fit, as returning veterans have varying degrees of issues and methods of coping. The Douglas County Office of Veterans Affairs helps those seeking mental and physical care to connect with the right people.

David Maxwell, veterans service officer, says there are adjustments needed in multiple facets of everyday life. The

surroundings and daily activities separating civilian and military life are stark: work responsibilities, living situations, different “lingo,” proximity to home, and even kinship.

“You lose that camaraderie. They’re your buddies and family, everybody around you,” Maxwell said. “The military emphasizes teamwork, and when you leave that all of a sudden, it’s just you. Co-workers are not the same.”

Ritter knows the feeling and has created a motorcycle club for veterans that gives him that missed sense of “brotherhood” from his deployment.

It’s Maxwell’s job to find those groups that help returning veterans rediscover that military connection.

Job-seeking help offered Aside from nonprofits like Warrior Voices, job placement organizations often have specialists that point veterans in the right direction. Arapahoe/Douglas Works!, a workforce center run by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, provides free services to job seekers and businesses. It hosts employment events geared toward veterans and offers one-on-one assistance that delves into the skill sets of service members in hopes of finding the perfect job for them.

Taking into account uncontrolled responses that are not conducive to certain environments is similarly important, Ritter says.

“It all might be different: Mine is people and crowds. For others, it might be super-loud noises,” he said.

There are groups like “We Hire Heroes,” a national job board for military veterans, and state-run websites like www.hireacoloradovet.gov. It’s also worth researching a prospective employer’s history of hiring veterans.

The 18th Judicial District Attorney’s office, for example, earned the Pro Patria award this year for its efforts. Prior to the 2013 election of District Attorney George Brauchler, himself an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel, the DA’s office had few vets in the ranks. It now has six active National Guard and Army Reserve members and eleven veterans, including officers from the Marine Reserve, Navy Reserve, and Colorado Army National Guard, the latter of which recently completed a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan.

Housing for vets highlighted Homes for Our Troops, a national nonprofit foundation with a heavy presence in Colorado, has built numerous adaptive homes for disabled military veterans, particularly a cluster of houses in a neighborhood near Elizabeth.

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The members of Post 4266 officially launched their support Oct. 29 with a $5,000 cash donation. The donation and visit were part of a three-point plan devised by Post 4266 that includes fundraising, “boots on the ground” mentoring and a life-skills training program for veterans in CCH facilities.

VA home loans are available to any veteran, reducing the down payment needed to buy a home.

Transition assistance available The pride that some veterans carry can prevent them from getting the right assistance.

Each branch of the military has a transitions-assistance program, and it’s a matter of taking advantage of that as well as the many options available for successful re-acclimation into society, said Maxwell, who also connects vets with addiction treatment experts and mental health therapists.

“Anyone who is leaving can go through the transitionassistance program for a number of months, take classes on how to do resumes and that sort of stuff, to get them adjusted back to civilian life,” he said.

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Class offered for baking takes high road Elevation can lead to kitchen catastrophes

By Rick Gustafson Special to Colorado Community Media The slideshow image of a lopsided angel food cake resembling a misshapen “B.C.” comics wheel flashes on the white wall of the Exhibit Building at the Elbert County Fairgrounds.

“How many of you have had this happen? I have.” Lois Illick’s last two words rise an octave, drawing chuckles from an audience of bakers and cooks who have undoubtedly experienced something similar.

“I was up in Loveland, Colorado; that’s only 4,000 feet and something. I made an angel-food cake because it’s so healthy, flipped it over, and yep, it went phfffffft.”

Illick is a high-altitude cooking specialist and Colorado State University extension agent from Pueblo. On loan to Elbert County for the evening, she is here to share her high-altitude baking expertise with an enthusiastic group of Elbert County foodies and Master Food Safety Advisors Program volunteers.

Colorado State University sponsors the Master Food Safety Advisors Program.

Volunteers train in the science of food preparation. They complete intensive training on topics such as food preservation and food safety in addition to committing to 30 hours of volunteer service each year with a CSU county extension office.

“Cooking With Altitude” is just one of seven cooking and food safety classes presented this year through the program in Kiowa. Past classes have covered topics from making preserves and jams to gluten-free cooking.

All classes are open to anyone with an interest and cost $10 per person. The next and final offering for 2015 is “Homemade Food Gifts from the Kitchen,” scheduled

Lois Illick presents to local foodies and Master Food Safety Advisors about high-altitude baking. Photo by Rick Gustafson for Dec. 5 at the fairgrounds.

In addition to being a baking expert, Illick specializes in health, food safety and wellness, so she begins her class with a brief food-safety demonstration.

She squirts a glob of Glogerm, a liquid resembling hand lotion that glows under UV light, on the hands of two volunteers.

Once they have rubbed it in, they are sent off to the sink to wash their hands.

After a thorough scrubbing, Illick inspects the volunteers’ hands under an ultraviolet light. Their palms and fingertips glow, simulating the germs remaining on their hands. Illick uses the experiment to alert her students to how easy it is to pick up germs and spread them around the kitchen.

“How do you get by all that? Hand washing and more hand washing. The number one way that food-borne illness happens is right here,” she says, raising her hands, palms out. She also warns that the dirtiest thing in the kitchen is the kitchen towels.

But Illick’s lessons in cleaning and sanitizing are just an appetizer to her main course on baking at high elevation, and she dives into the class with some basic science.

At sea level, water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. As the elevation increases, atmospheric pressure drops, lowering the temperature at which water boils.

The reduced temperatures (around 200 degrees in Kiowa) increase the cooking

time required for foods such as pasta and potatoes.

The reduced atmospheric pressure that lowers water’s boiling point also allows the gases in baked goods to expand more rapidly, which can lead to a myriad of culinary disasters such as bread that climbs out of a pan or exploding muffins.

“The gas, the air, the leavening expands really quickly, because there is nothing pushing it down,” Illick says.

Leavening is the term for the ingredients in baked goods that generate the gases that cause them to rise.

“As they produce that air, phfffffft.”

She makes an exploding gesture with her hands. “They release it really quickly. Now we’re going to fix it.”

Altering the basic structure of the food is the key to controlling the rate at which the gases are released while baking.

“You’ve got to have structure with your baking, and the structure is flour and liquid which make gluten, which is in wheat flour. Gluten catches all the expanding gases.”

Varying recipes, such as slightly increasing the amount of flour, increases the gluten, which slows the rate of gas release, but increasing the gluten by too much can slow the rate of gas release so much that a cake or muffin will not rise at all.

“If you go home and want to make a cake from scratch, these are the things you think about. You reduce your leavening agent by one-eighth to one-quarter of a teaspoon. That isn’t very much, but it can make all the difference in your recipes.”

Increasing baking temperatures by 25 degrees can also make a difference, and Illick encourages her bakers to experiment.

“Write down what you did,” she implores near the end of her class. “There’s nothing worse than making it come out perfectly and you don’t remember how you did it.”

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Colorado facing cuts amid budget shortfall state tax revenue, is $10.4 billion. Here’s a look at how the shortfall materialized and what the plans are to deal with it. Next year’s budget takes effect July 1.

TABOR among factors causing difficult choices

By Ivan Moreno Associated Press Colorado is facing a $373 million budget shortfall next year, despite a healthy state economy that has an unemployment rate of 4 percent. Years of uncoordinated fiscal policies, spending restrictions that require refunds to taxpayers, and mandated funding for schools are among the moving parts colliding to create the budget deficit, the governor’s budget staff says.

Lawmakers and Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper still have many months to deliberate the budget before approving it next spring. And two more estimates of tax collections before then could move numbers around. However, the budget plan Hickenlooper released Nov. 2 serves as a roadmap for discussions.

The state’s total budget, which includes federal funds, is about $27 billion, and the general fund, which is comprised of

What led to the shortfall?

Before lawmakers even begin deliberations, the budget for next year includes $830 million in new spending the state must honor, said Henry Sobanet, the governor’s budget director. There’s $301 million in new funds budgeted to schools to keep up with inflation and enrollment growth; $289 million in taxpayer refunds, which are constitutionally required under the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR, when revenue exceeds the rate of population growth and inflation; $80 million for new Medicaid enrollees; and $160 million to pay back money the state is using from its budget reserves to deal with a shortfall in the current budget year, which resulted in part because of a slight slowdown in the economy this spring as the oil and gas industry decreased production.

While there’s $830 million already spoken for in next year’s budget, the state

is expected to bring in only $457 million in new revenue, hence the $373 million shortfall.

What’s at stake?

Hickenlooper said last week that the state must make tough choices to balance the budget. The governor’s plan suggests several moves to close the $373 million deficit.

Higher education, which has a state budget of $857.4 million, could see its funding reduced by $20 million, possibly resulting in higher tuition for students.

Funding for state building projects could be reduced from nearly $272 million to $58.5 million.

To help with school funding, which takes up a big portion of the general fund at $3.5 billion, Hickenlooper is suggesting using nearly $240 million from a state’s rainy day fund for education, bringing the account’s balance down to about $103 million.

Here’s where it gets trickier One major point of contention in Hickenlooper’s plan will be a legal maneuver

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This year’s community theater production chronicles the fate of the Greenfee Lodge and its owner, Gloria Greenfee, after she inherits the hotel from an uncle but does not have the money to pay off a loan on the property. Enter the hero, Frank Lee Fairway, a sympathetic banker and golf enthusiast who immediately falls for Gloria’s niece, Birdie.

Fairway and the Greenfees must foil the dastardly plots of the villain-

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Since then, 58 of 64 counties have either removed the limit or increased the number of terms their sheriffs may serve.

Citizens for Free Elbert County Elections created a website advocating for the question, and its countywide campaign included road signs, social media and direct mailings.

Richardson was uncertain whether, or how soon, his organization would revisit the issue.

Students of the Douglas Elbert Music Teachers Association will perform from 10-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at Parker Senior Living, 18900 E. Mainstreet, Parker.

The public is welcome. Call 720-273-6592.

Yuletide Bazaar The Mountain Pine Woman’s Club plans its 10th Yuletide Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Parker Fieldhouse, at Plaza Drive and Dransfeldt Drive, Parker. The bazaar features more than 100 vendors and the Mountain Pine craft booth, which includes an array of handmade items such as scarves, home décor and doll clothes. The bake shop will offer a number of delectable goodies. The café offers coffee, water, snack or sweet treat. The bazaar is a major fundraiser for the Parker Woman’s Club and the money goes toward scholarships and to organizations such as the Parker Task Force, Arising Hope, Operation Smile, Santa’s Workshop,

Freedom Service Dogs, Skycliff and other projects as needed. A special gift bag will be given to the first 100 customers.

Colorado Historic Newspapers Parker Genealogical Society presents “Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection: Reading Yesterday’s News Online Today” by Regan Harper of the Colorado State Library and History Colorado. The presentation us at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Stroh Fire Station, 19310 Stroh Road in Parker. Event is free and all are welcome.

Fundraising Poker Tournament The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4266 will host a poker tournament Saturday, Nov. 14 to raise money to fight homelessness among veterans in Colorado. Sponsors are needed. Homelessness among veterans in Colorado is estimated to be around 600 men and women, according to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. Post 4266 plans to work with CCH to get the state to Functional Zero, which is achieved when a city or state can temporarily provide housing to any homeless veteran within 24 hours. For information about the event, or to become a sponsor, contact

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Kelsey Holden, of Elizabeth, graduated with a bachelor’s degree, with high distinction, from Concordia University.

Zachary Holden, of Elizabeth, graduated with a bachelor’s degree, with high distinction, from Concordia University.

Brandon Michael Siebert, of Elizabeth, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in justice studies from Fort Hays State University.

Alexandria Jane Winters, of Elizabeth, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in art from Doane College.

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he’s proposing to reduce the amount the state collects from a fee charged to hospitals for occupied beds. The collected fees are used to get a federal match to help with Medicaid costs. Hickenlooper is suggesting capping collections at $656 million, instead of an anticipated $756 million. The $100 million that is not collected would reduce the state’s refund liability to taxpayers because the money would not count as revenue that exceeds Colorado’s TABOR limit. But that reduction in fee collections also means hospitals would lose $100 million in federal matching dollars to serve Medicaid patients.

Republicans view the charges to hospitals as taxes disguised as fees to get around TABOR’s requirement that taxes be approved by voters.

And they’ve said they will not support any plans that reduce refunds to taxpayers, so Republicans who control the Senate could kill that portion of Hickenlooper’s budget-balancing plan. If that happens, lawmakers will have to find $100 million to cut from elsewhere, the governor’s office says.

ous pair Nash T. Sandtrappe and his sister Sue Sandtrappe, who are trying to swindle the old woman out of her land for the gold vein running through the property. Written by Craig Sodaro, this tongue-in-cheek melodrama is piled high with golf puns and classic melodramatic lines such as “Woe is us” and “We’re doomed.”

Ehmann estimated that the troupe entertained and fed more than 450 people over the four-day run, which began with a Thursday family night on Nov. 5 and continued through the weekend with Friday and Saturday dinner performances before winding up with a Sunday afternoon dessert

performance on Nov. 8.

“We always have a good time,” she said. “We start in August. It is a huge commitment, but we do it for our love of Jesus, and we are thankful for the support of the community.”

The players and support crews spent Nov. 6 and 7 preparing brisket, pulled pork and chicken enchiladas for the two dinner performances, which included an all-you-can-eat barbecue buffet.

“We do a full salad bar, green beans, homemade rolls, baked potatoes and homemade cakes. It’s a huge buffet. For 20 bucks, you get to eat and see the play. You can’t even go to the movies for that,” Ehmann said.

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“We’re still dipping into the numbers. We’re going to sit down next week and do our own little postmortem,” he said. “Right now we have a record of about 4,500 folks that felt strongly enough to say no, so if we were to ask — again — the county commissioners to put a question on the ballot, we have to demonstrate that 4,500 or more now believed this should be pursued.”

Citizens for Free Elbert County Elections accepted donations for its campaign, and according to its website, it will donate any remaining funds to the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office Deputies Fund, a nonprofit

501(c)(3) supporting serving officers, employees, and the family members of officers killed or injured in the line of duty.

Currently all of Elbert County’s elected officials are limited to two terms. In November 2009, Elbert County voters defeated a general ballot measure that would have eliminated term limits for the offices of assessor, clerk and recorder, coroner, sheriff, surveyor and treasurer.

Elbert County Sheriff Shayne Heap is currently serving his second term in office. He was first elected in November 2010 and re-elected in 2014.

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Artifact could be most significant of 2015 Dog effigy found during reservoir construction

By Chris Michlewicz cmichlewicz@coloradocommunitymedia.com It could be a pendant or an amulet or a child’s toy. No one really knows for sure.

What is known is that it was handcrafted by a hunter-gatherer living around 5,000 years ago in what is now Douglas County, and many agree that the clay figurine depicts a dog.

The Oeškeso zoomorphic effigy found during the construction of Rueter-Hess Reservoir is among the historic items being considered for the title of Colorado Most Significant Artifact of 2015. The effigy was deeply buried and relatively wellpreserved when Centennial Archaeology uncovered it in 2005 among a village of pit-dwellings at the reservoir site in New-

lin Gulch, just southwest of Parker.

“An effigy in itself is very unique.

There are no plains effigies — definitely not from Douglas County or the greater plains region of Colorado,” said Mary Ann Gabriel, a volunteer who nominated the canine-like object on behalf of the Douglas County History Repository.

The annual search for the state’s most significant artifact was launched three years ago by Colorado Collections Connection at the Center for Colorado and the West at Auraria Library, in part to draw interest and funding to help preserve them for future generations.

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This Oeskeso effigy of a dog was found during the construction of Rueter-Hess Reservoir.

It was nominated by the Douglas County History Repository to be named Colorado’s most significant artifact in 2015. Courtesy photo Colorado, said Dana Echohawk, program director for Colorado Collections Connection.

Although there is debate over what the effigy depicts — some say it could be a deer, rabbit or antelope — the prevailing thought is that it shows man’s best friend.

Catherine Traffis, a member of the Parker Area Historical Society, said she feels a special connection to the effigy because it reflects how long dogs have been stalwart companions of people living in the area. She posted a message about the effigy to the historical society’s Facebook page so “people from Parker could get behind voting for one of their own artifacts,” particularly because such finds are rarely made in Parker.

Effigies had great importance to those who made them.

“The idea is that when you create these objects and possess them, the possessor can perhaps take on some of the qualities of the animal represented,” Traffis said, adding the creators are ancestors of familiar local Native American tribes like the Cheyenne, Ute and Arapaho.

Artifacts like this often go overlooked, Gabriel says, because residential and commercial developers are not required to report the existence of archaeological objects. But because the reservoir was federally approved, the Parker Water and

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Aside from larger discoveries, like the mammoth skeleton found when Stonegate was being built in the late 1990s, many artifacts are “pulverized” by large construction machinery, said Gabriel, who called them a “fast-disappearing resource.”

“We’re losing a lot of our history and prehistory as a result,” she said.

The Oeškeso zoomorphic effigy is kept in a climate-controlled environment at the Douglas County History Repository in Castle Rock and wrapped in a cushioning acid-free material. The fact that it was “so clearly crafted by a person” makes it especially interesting to local historians, Gabriel said.

“Every time I’m out working on a survey and find something, I always wonder, ‘Who created this? Who last touched it?

How did it end up here? How did they lose it?’” she said.

Gabriel has been informing the public about the discovery and urging them to vote at www.collectioncare.auraria.edu.

With funding for historic preservation drying up, there is a dire need to steer attention toward significant pieces of history.

“People don’t care about what they don’t know about,” Gabriel said.

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Trying a new angle can be eye-opener

The other night I was out to dinner with a couple of clients in an Italian restaurant down in Castle Rock, a place called Rose’s Bella Cucina. If you have not had the chance to dine there, I highly recommend it. The food is fantastic and the owners, Steve and Donna, are awesome.

While we were walking out, we noticed an enlarged photograph of New York City, an aerial photo taken of the city from the south and looking north. Although some of the city looked the same, the view and the perspective made the city look very different from what it looks like today. This particular photograph was probably from the 1950s and obviously taken long before the Twin Towers were ever built, before the South Street Seaport was built up, and before the modern glass-framed architecture had replaced many of the older concrete-dominated structures. Having grown up in New Jersey just across the river, this photo gave me a completely different perspective.

How often are we all used to seeing or hearing the same thing? I mean, we get conditioned to certain sights, sounds, smells

and just the norm of life, don’t we? We get so used to something, so set in our ways, so accustomed to things being just the way they are, we sometimes forget to try looking at things from a different angle or viewpoint.

Now here’s the deal: People make new deMichael Norton cisions based on new information.

WINNING So how do we do WORDS that? How do we break the cycle of the status quo? How do we get out of that same-old-same-old routine? Well, if we are going to see things differently, make new decisions based on new information, we must first acquire that new information, right? So the way to do that is to develop a sense of curiosity. Maybe you already are someone who asks a lot of questions and has a heightened sense of curiosity, and that’s

terrific. However, if you are someone who would like to start seeing the world a little differently, get your head around the political landscape or the economy, deepen your relationships, or view your job in a new and different way, try enhancing or developing a stronger sense of curiosity.

Start including statements and questions like: “Tell me more about that.” “Can you share with me why you feel that way?” “What was the experience like?” “How did that happen?” You get the idea, right? It’s the “who, what, why, where, when and how” questions instead of simple questions that only require a yes or no answer.

If you want a different perspective or view, try researching articles and blogs in the areas that interest you the most. I know, you can’t believe everything you see or read on the Internet, but there are some very credible sources available to you to expand your views and ideas on particular subjects.

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Behind closed doors, the weather’s perfect I can’t think of anything good to say about Black Friday.

So. For a recluse there is no better time of the year than right now.

I am all winterized, and I am ready to go further into the interior, if that is possible.

What that means is that I lay low and paint more, write more, read more, think more, and take another inventory.

Some people go into a winter funk.

Not me.

Sure, people ski.

And get stuck on I-70.

Not me.

Colorado winters are perfect. Now and then we have a blizzard. But most of the time it’s clear, crisp, and sunny.

I thought I wanted to retire in California.

Now I am glad I didn’t.

California doesn’t let you winterize. Parts of it are exactly the same all year.

You are outdoors all the time.

William Blake said, “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.”

That quote led to a rock and roll band’s identity. I’ll let you think about it.

It starts to get dark at 5, and I begin to howl.

Not really. But that’s about the time my thoughts turn into something that is meaningful to me.

What validates my life?

The answer is always the same. Being creative.

That and being a good father to a dachshund.

I have wondered what kind of real father I would be.

The answer is Craig Marshall Smith always the same. I would be too good.

QUIET for a fact DESPERATION thatI know I would be preoccupied with Junior, and never get anything done.

Maybe not. Maybe I would learn how to measure my time.

I just don’t have to measure it at all right now, and I haven’t since I retired.

If I wanted to go to DIA and hop on the next flight to anywhere, I could do it.

But I won’t.

All I want is right here, not on an island or a cruise or a slope or a low house with a broad front porch in Étables-sur-Mer. I have given this some thought. In fact, I give it some thought every year at this time.

I watch Anthony Bourdain. He’s a moving target. His life is enriched by travel.

I go along with him, in my mind.

And that’s good enough.

While I was zipping back and forth to Detroit, my best friend was flying to Milan, Florence, and London, before heading back to Denton, Texas, where he is a university dean.

He spent more time in airports than I spent in Michigan.

I left Colorado twice in 2015. That’s one more than my average.

Greg leaves the country about three times a year.

He thrives on it. One day it will help to make him a college president. I’m sure of it.

I hire the same crew to clean up my yard every November. That means that the yard is shut down.

I don’t get very wistful about it, because it also means that I can concentrate on these four walls.

There’s no cabin fever. What’s the opposite?

One morning I’ll look out — if it hasn’t happened already — and the yard will be white. And that will be perfect. Except for one thing.

My roommate refuses weather, even if I provide him with a clear pathway.

Jim Morrison took the name of his band, The Doors, from Aldous Huxley’s book “The Doors of Perception,” which was a reference to Blake’s quote.

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

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Man goes from observing to serving

Historic church welcomes former photojournalist as new priest

By Shanna Fortier sfortier@coloradocommunitymedia.com Brian Winter spent a dozen years as a photojournalist, hoping his work would somehow change the world. From time to time, however, he experienced moments of insight in which he felt that maybe he really belonged on the other side of the lens, serving people in moments of need rather than simply observing and capturing their images.

During his career in photojournalism, Winter covered the Super Bowl, the NCAA Final Four, the Democratic National Convention and the Iowa caucuses. But it was the dramatic moments of human suffering that he captured that led Winter to question his vocation.

There’s one spot news event that keeps playing in Winter’s head. In Tucson, Arizona, a father came home and killed his wife and two children. Winters and other photojournalists were across the street from the crime scene when a lady pulled up and asked what was happening, saying that it was her sister’s house.

“I got this picture of her collapsing

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in the sheriff deputy’s arms and it won all sorts of awards, but it really made me think that I should be there catching her — walking on the other side,” Winters said. “Seeing the heartbreaking loss in the woman’s eyes, I felt a strong sense of needing to be engaged in these scenes, offering comfort like the deputy, not just observing them from the detached, journalistic side of the line.”

Making the change Now an Episcopal priest, Winter arrived at the 109-year-old Christ’s Episcopal Church in Castle Rock on Oct. 1 to begin his ministry as the parish’s new priest.

But making the switch to ministry wasn’t an easy decision.

“I always expected this big transformational moment to happen — for lightning to strike,” he said, while sitting in his office at the Castle Rock church.

Confirmation came to him one evening while talking with his wife, Cheri. There was a storm off in the distance and a tiny strike of lightning could be seen on the horizon.

“There’s your lightning,” Cheri told him.

“For me, there was an understanding of God saying, OK, you want lightning, here it is,” Winter said.

In August 1999, the New Mexico native

information today than at any other time in history.

If you were to look at New York City today, from the same angle that was used in the photo I saw hanging in Rose’s Bella Cucina, and compare them side by side, you would absolutely see the city in a whole new and different way.

What do you need to see in a whole new or different way in your own life?

What would happen if you changed the

left his job and his career, sold the house, packed a truck and moved across the country with his wife and two young sons to begin his formal, but still uncertain, journey into the priesthood.

After completing his training for the ministry at Virginia Theological Seminary, Winter was ordained into the Episcopal deaconate in July 2002 and into the priesthood in January 2003. He began his pastoral ministry serving St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Brigham City, Utah, and then moved on to Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Winter served 10 years as the rector of St. Chad’s Episcopal Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, before accepting the call from Christ’s Episcopal Church and moving to Castle Rock.

Reaching Castle Rock “It’s very exciting to see all the ideas and positive energy flowing through this community,” Winter said. “I am thrilled to have these new opportunities to walk with the people of Christ’s Episcopal Church, and the people of the Castle Rock area, in ways that will welcome everyone into the love of God and empower each of us to carry that love out into the greater community.”

Winter is spending his first bit of time in town getting to know the community.

His goal is to expand the church spiritually

angle or perspective, or became more curious and sought new information about something that was important to you personally or professionally? I would bet you just might make some new decisions based on altered views, different perspectives and new information.

How about you, is there a view or perspective you would like to change? I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com, and sometimes when we

Brian Winter started as priest at Christ’s Episcopal Church in Castle Rock Oct. 1.

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and numerically “The yearning is to expand it out into the community,” he said. “The priest before me did an amazing job with the spirituality of there congregation. Now, I feel like my call is to take the spirituality and seek and serve Christ in all people in the community.”

can get some new information and make new decisions, it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock and the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation. He works as a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.

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November 12, 2015

CULTURE FA I T H FA M I L Y FOOD HEALTH

The Riley kids help build a shed at Drifter’s Hearts of Hope, a nonprofit horse rescue.

Izzy Henwood helps out during bath time during a family mission trip to Haiti. Courtesy photos

Impacts broaden with family volunteers Donating time with spouse, kids promotes giving spirit

By Chris Michlewicz cmichlewicz@coloradocommunitymedia.com For Whitney and Justin Henwood and their six children, volunteering became a family affair when they relocated from Parker to Haiti to help a community recover from a devastating earthquake.

A Castle Rock family discovered that working for an organization that helps neglected horses and special needs youth not only fosters a good work ethic, it also teaches gratitude and thoughtfulness.

And a retired couple in Littleton decided to give back by helping their local police department with the little things like crowd control and reporting graffiti.

They are part of a growing trend of volunteerism that brings a family’s collective might to extend a friendly hand — whether it’s helping out in a kitchen to feed the homeless on Thanksgiving, organizing a neighborhood cleanup campaign or seeking an international destination where relief is needed.

GenerationOn, a national volunteer organization that provides family project ideas and guides, is encouraging parents to sign up for family volunteer day Nov. 21. Moms and dad who work alongside their children can share observations and later talk about their experience.

“Volunteering together enhances values such as kindness, compassion and tolerance, plus family members learn new skills and feel appreciated for their contributions and talents,” the group’s website says.

Desire to help leads to Haiti Whitney and Justin Henwood, of Parker, traveled to Haiti in 2011 before returning the following year with their six children. The second excursion wasn’t a short-lived mission: the family put down temporary roots, becoming a part of a community outside of Port-au-Prince for seven months and helping out in any way they could.

“We thought it would be a good experience for not only the people of Haiti, but also for our children to see what the world is like,” said Whitney Henwood, a registered nurse who worked alongside her children at clinics in the poor village.

Justin Henwood took a leave of absence from his job as a geotechnical

engineer to shore up walls in homes, many of which are constructed in a way that can jeopardize the safety of those inside. Structures were damaged during a massive earthquake that struck the impoverished nation in 2010 and have not been repaired.

The kids, then ranging in age from 2 to 10, assisted when they could, but most of the time they were befriending the Haitian children. Whitney Henwood snapped a photo of her then-2-year-old son sitting among orphaned children during a feeding program funded year-round by money raised through the Henwood’s nonprofit, Believe in Haiti.

The Henwoods wanted to use their skill set to make a difference, as well as provide a good example for their kids.

Whitney Henwood remembers during the 2012 trip that her 8-year-old daughter was eager to help in the clinic, which provides basic screenings, education and assistance to new mothers, some of whom walked miles to receive care.

“While I was doing exams on women, she was holding the newborn babies,” she said. “That was really neat to see.”

Teaching kids a life lesson At a more local level, Castle Rock residents Tiffany and Rob Riley and their four children — Abby, 15, Lance, 13, Sydnie, 9, and Tessa, 4 — are pitching in at Drifter’s Hearts of Hope, a horse rescue near the Douglas-Elbert county line. After adopting one of the horses for Abby, the family decided Drifter’s Hearts would be the perfect venue to volunteer.

“We saw the amazing work they’re doing out there and we decided that it would be a good cause,” Tiffany Riley said.

A Facebook post informed the family the nonprofit organization needed a shed to store tools and other goods to care for the horses. The family had considered helping with Special Olympics, but schedules did not align. However, because Drifter’s Hearts works with special needs clients, two of the Riley kids will likely continue volunteering.

“The kids are definitely developing a good work habit and learning that it’s important to help others and be mindful of others’ needs,” Tiffany Riley said. “They’re learning to be grateful for what they have as well.”

The littlest ones love feeling they are a part of something important, even if they are simply cleaning up sawdust or handing their parents a two-by-four for

TIPS FOR FAMILY VOLUNTEERING Choose an activity together. Discussing possible volunteer opportunities can be a great way to help kids think about what matters to them and can help you learn about each other as a family in new ways.

Invite the whole family. Use your volunteer activities as an opportunity to spend time with family members you don’t see every day.

Strengthen your entire family by including grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.

Consider letting kids bring their friends. This may make the service experience more fun and could also inspire more families to get involved in volunteering.

Volunteer as part of a family vacation. Serving together can be a great way to have lots of fun, explore a new place together and make a difference at the same time.

Look for opportunities that can accommodate skills, interests and maturity of all family members, especially the younger children.

Plan your own event. Talk with your local park district or nonprofit and arrange your own project.

Teach life lessons. By volunteering as a family, you have a chance to expand the perspectives of your children and expose them first-hand to new issues. Talking them through their activities can help them reflect on their experience and grow in their understanding.

Start your own family tradition. It may be ringing bells to raise money during the winter or assisting with a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service project every January, but you can start a tradition of service that will create lifelong memories.

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the shed.

Community safety is pair’s focus Joe and Sue Henson, of Littleton, also feel proud to be a cog in the larger, well-oiled machine of the Littleton Police Department. They are members of the Community Safety Volunteer Program, and with funding from a justice assistance grant, they drive a marked vehicle to keep an extra eye on the community.

They help with crowd control at large events like Western Welcome Week and Trick or Treat Street, assist at accident scenes, report new graffiti for cleanup, and created the Friends of Littleton K9s citizen support group for the police department’s K9 unit.

“We both retired early, so I figured what the heck,” said Joe Henson, a member of the department’s alumni association.

A citizen police academy, which allows the public a behind-the-scenes glimpse at law enforcement, convinced the Hensons that donating their extra time was the right thing to do. They had always wanted to help out, but never had the time because of Joe Henson’s extensive work travel.

Now, the civilian volunteers work as partners outside of their 46-year marriage. Their duties are specified, much as

Encourage life-long volunteering. When families volunteer, children are more likely to develop the habit of giving to their communities, and are more likely to volunteer on their own in the future.

they are at home, Joe Henson points out.

When they’re on patrol, he is the contact person and she is the cover, and they cruise through areas known for vehicle break-ins and check on homes when owners are on vacation. Since Sue Henson also serves on a handful of boards and helps vet new officer candidates, she is in the know.

“I’ve done patrols with other guys, but obviously I feel much more comfortable going out with Sue,” Joe Henson said.

“She knows more officers than I do and she gives me a lot of good insight with what’s going on out there with the guys on the street.”

Family volunteerism rewarding Just as the Hensons’ work frees up on-duty officers to concentrate on other, more pressing tasks, the same goes for other nonprofit organizations that reap the rewards of family volunteers. They not only help a good cause, but also create a sense of solidarity and purpose.

The effects are obvious and life-changing, Whitney Henwood said.

“Our kids’ lives have for sure been changed by our experiences” in Haiti, she said. “They’ve become more compassionate and have less desire for material things.”

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November 12, 2015

Groups renew state’s brew brouhaha Sales in grocery stores debated

THE TWO SIDES OF THE ISSUE

By Jennifer Smith jsmith@coloradocommunitymedia.com

What opponents say Not everyone loves the idea — small, independent liquor stores, for example.

Dozens have signed on to “Keep Colorado Local,” along with a number of breweries, distilleries and wineries.

“Out-of-state corporations are interested in changing the way we do business in Colorado by allowing all chain grocers and convenience stores to sell alcohol,” reads the website. “Their goal is to boost profits. What they won’t tell you is that the effort will send money out of our communities, force hundreds of small businesses to close, curtail Colorado’s thriving craft industries, undermine safety and give underage kids more access to alcohol.”

Littleton’s 38 State Brewery, the city’s first, is at the top of the list of the movement’s supporters. Open for two years, it just expanded from a single-barrel capacity to seven, and the owners and staff worry that it might get its legs knocked out from under it while it’s just learning to walk.

“If convenience is the No. 1 consideration, well, is it convenient to put all our liquor stores out of business?” said Steve Schuett, manager. “In our case specifically, it will hurt our distribution. We’re in our infancy. Now we just go to the stores, drink our beer with them, shake hands and get our beer on their shelves within a week. I don’t have a distribution company fighting for me. If we can’t charm them in that way … selling a product via email is not really what sharing a beer is all about. … It’s just not the Colorado spirit. It’s not the craft brew way.”

Schuett notes that Anheuser Busch recently bought MillerCoors, pending final approval by regulators, and will have 30 percent of the global market.

“We’re fighting monopolies like you can’t believe,” he said. “If the monopoly gets ahold of the big chain stores, how big is that fight going to be?”

Mark Mack, owner of the busy neighborhood Woodlawn Liquors in Littleton, also worries for his future.

“We have several hundred liquor stores in the Denver-metro area right now,” he

Your Choice Colorado says: Expanding sales to grocery stores will provide consumers with more choices over when and how they shop and cut beer and wine prices by about 18 percent.

Colorado ranks third in total craft breweries per capita. The other four states among the top five sell alcohol in grocery stores. In our grocery stores, expanded options will increase local craft beer sales by about $125 million.

More choices equal more sales, which will grow the state’s economy. Over several years, increased hiring and sales will produce $2.2 billion in economic activity and 20,000 local jobs.

Bill Barnes, left, and Josh Engelhardt keep things moving at the busy Woodlawn Liquor store. The store’s owner, Mark Mack, worries it won’t be so busy if a proposal to allow liquor sales in all grocery stores passes. Photo by Jennifer Smith

Keep Colorado Local says: Colorado has 1,650 small independent liquor stores and almost half of those small businesses would be forced to close within the first three years.

Altogether, 10,000 Coloradans would lose their job in the first five years.

Colorado would lose $240 million in revenue in the first five years.

Colorado’s liquor-store industry, which contributes $1.9 billion to our state’s economy, would be in jeopardy.

Fifty-two percent of revenue from local retailers returns to Colorado, compared to just 14 percent for national chain retailers.

Manager Lael Callaway serves up 38 State’s custom brews. File photo said. “Probably in the first year, there will only be about 100 left. We can’t compete.

Think of all the jobs that will be lost, and not just at the liquor stores, but at the beer companies, the wine companies. The small, wholesale distributors will vanish.

Selection will vanish. Customer service will be gone.”

Jesse Vance owns Advance Liquors in the shopping center just south of the Safeway that carries full-strength alcohol.

It is anchored by a King Soopers, so he predicts a struggle should the law change.

If it does, he’d like it to include a provision for the chain to buy out his license.

“The way it is now for the independent stores, we’re not allowed to collaborate with each other to increase our buying power,” he said.

A big part of his business is selling beer from breweries like 38 State.

“But wait until they try to get it into a corporation,” he said. “I try to support the small guys as much as possible, because I’m a small guy. … I’ve got my life savings into this place.”

What supporters say St. Patrick’s Brewing Co. in Littleton is one of the exceptions among breweries.

“We’re for it,” said co-owner Dave Barron. “We think it gives us more opportunities to distribute our beer, and it gives us bigger outlets. … (Other breweries) think the grocery stores are going to bring in more imported beer. But we’re the Napa Valley of beer, so I don’t think that’s going to happen. … We do more sales on site now, but we’re cultivating and working on our wholesale in order for us to grow our business the way we want.”

The grocery chains themselves say that want to keep a focus on local products.

“We see ourselves as Colorado’s neighborhood markets and take great pride in highlighting locally sourced products and

entrepreneurs,” said Kelli McGannon, public affairs director for King Soopers, during the Glendale event. “We want to support Colorado’s booming beer scene and blossoming wineries, and provide these great products to our customers, who are clamoring to buy them.”

McGannon was joined by Russ Novotny, Safeway’s regional liquor sales manager, and Michael Cooke, former Douglas County Commissioner and executive director of the Colorado Department of Revenue and the Colorado Department of Regulatory Affairs, along with Brackney and Robinson.

Brackney notes that even though Colorado is home to the third-largest number of breweries per capita in the country, it’s one of only eight states where people

can’t buy their beers in the grocery store.

“We’ve seen the rise of consumer-driven conveniences like ride-sharing and online retail, healthcare and banking, yet we still have to travel to two different stores just to complete a dinner,” said Brackney.

“These outdated laws prevent our thriving craft breweries from entering grocery store shelves and prevent consumers from having the choice, convenience and competition that would benefit their family budget and tightly packed schedules.”

As to the allegation that kids would have more access to alcohol at grocery stores, Robinson noted it’s already being done.

“Grocery stores are great partners in the community and will be a safe place to sell beer and wine,” he said. “When I was sheriff, there were numerous grocery stores that chose to place their one location with a liquor license in areas under my jurisdiction, and they never gave me any problems.”

Luke Ouellette is the manager at Davidson Liquors, itself the size of a grocery store. He says he’ll reserve judgment on any legislation until he sees exactly what it says. The store has been in Highlands Ranch since 1998 and survived the 2007 changes, when one grocery store in each chain began selling hard liquor.

“We maybe saw a slight decrease in business, but not dramatic,” said Oullette.

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While supermarket chains and even some breweries across Colorado are hopped up about the idea of allowing all grocery stores to sell full-strength alcoholic beverages, some neighborhood liquor stores have a case of sour grapes about the whole thing.

Forty-two states allow full-strength liquor sales at all grocery stores. But because liquor store owners may only operate one location under Colorado law, each grocery chain has to choose just one store.

Safeway, for instance, chose the Littleton location at Mineral Avenue and Broadway, where a security guard stands watch over a large liquor department at the rear of the building.

Other locations, as well as convenience stores, are restricted to selling 3.2 percent alcohol products, like beer and wine coolers. So for now, liquor stores have the upper hand when it comes to selling the hard stuff. There are around 1,600 of them in Colorado, employing somewhere around 15,000 people.

The topic comes up now and again in Colorado, with the last time being in 2007, when the ban on Sunday sales was lifted. This time, the effort has enlisted the help of two people with south metroarea name recognition — John Brackney, former Arapahoe County commissioner and former president of the South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce, and former Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson.

The two helped kick off the “Your Choice Colorado” campaign on Oct. 21 in front of the liquor display at the Glendale King Soopers.

“Your Choice Colorado aims to reform Colorado’s Prohibition-era alcohol laws via legislation or a ballot initiative in 2016 to provide consumers with the option to purchase real beer and wine in their neighborhood supermarkets,” reads a news release.

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Elements 5280 puts ‘Signature’ on display “Signature” is an exhibit running through November at Elements 5280 Gallery, 5940 S. Holly Street, Greenwood Village. It will feature works by Buffalo Kaplinski, who lives in Douglas County; Colorado native Don Hamilton; Michigan colored pencil realist E.P. Lewandowski; and local painter Victoria Ekelund. Information: elements5280.com or 303-8045280.

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Sat. Nov. 14, 2015 1:00 - 3:00 American Legion Hall | 228 S Banner St. Elizabeth

`Geek Out’ contest Enter your creation (book, show, sport, etc.) to the annual Arapahoe Libraries Geek-Out Contest for teens. Write a story, draw a picture, cosplay, bake a cake.

Submissions accepted through Nov. 30 and winners will be notified by Dec. 10.

An awards ceremony will be Dec. 12. See arapahoelibraries.org/geek-out, or call 303-LIBRARY. Religious folk art “Santos and Santeros: The Religious Folk Art of Colorado and New Mexico” will be Jose Raul Esquibel’s topic when he speaks from noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 18 at the Aurora History Museum, 15051 Alameda Parkway, Aurora, in the Brown Bag and White Linen Series. Cost is $4 ($3 resi-

It’s magic Magician and television star Joe Monti will perform Sonya Ellingboe at 7:30 p.m. Nov. SONYA’S 20 and 21 at Theatre of Dreams Arts SAMPLER and Events Center, 735 Park St., Castle Rock. Tickets: $22.50/$25, 303-660-6799, Tickets.AmazingShows.com.

Show for kids “Snow Glow” is a Lone Tree Arts Center Family Tree production for the younger audience, with a story about Denver Christmas 1914, music and song. Performances: 1:30 and 7 p.m. Nov. 22 *plus a SF Family Tree Sensory Friendly performance at 4 p.m. Nov. 22 on the Mainstage at Lone Tree Arts center, 10025 Commons St., Lone Tree. Tickets: $15, lonetreeartscenter.org, 720-509-1000.

Nat King Cole holiday “Nat King Cole Christmas” with Allan Harris will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 29 on the Main Stage at Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree.

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`Shared Visions’ Students from Arapahoe Community College and the Colorado Center for the Blind in Littleton will present a collaborative, accessible exhibit of multi-sensory and tactile art, “Shared Visions,” on Nov. 19 and 20 at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts at ACC in the Annex, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Hours: 5 to 9 p.m. Nov. 19 and noon to 5 p.m. Nov. 20. Admission is free.

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Cardinals girls take 12th at state Ellizabeth team scores 316 points at crosscountry championships

By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia. com

Elizabeth senior Cori Small placed 35th in the field of 187 runners, and the points she eearned helped the Cardinals finish 12th among the 24 Class 4A girls team running at the Oct. -31 state cross-country meet in sColorado Springs.

“It was very competitive out -there on the course today, and it helped me that our team was so close that when other runners got close we pushed hard to stay together and stay ahead,” she said after her race. “This was my first year at state, and I thought the race was hard today. But I felt our team deserved to be here, and I really enjoyed running with my teammates here today.”

Although she is a senior, she said she is excited about the future of the Elizabeth team.

“We had 14 girls out for the team this season,” she said. “We had a great season. I am a senior and today was a good way to close out my high school crosscountry career. I also will be cheering for the Cardinals next season because Elizabeth should .be strong because the other six runners here at state are all freshmen.”

Cross-country is an individual and a team competition. Runners earn team points based on where they finish in the field. For example, the medalist earns one team point and the 10th place finisher earns 10 points.

In Class 4A, a school can enter seven runners, but only the points earned by the top five finishers are added together to determine the team score.

Small was the first Elizabeth runner across the finish line with a time of 20:40.1. Small’s teammates and their places were Ashten Loeks, 49th, Alaina Jones, 74th, Brenna Jones, 75th, Ella Benkendorf, 84th, Issabella Tebrugge, 127th, and Adelaide Anderson, 133rd.

There were 24 teams in the Class 4A girls race. Air Academy won the team title with 60 points and Battle Mountain was second with 77 points.

Elizabeth posted a team score of 316 points to finish 12th, just 12 points behind 11th place Cheyenne Mountain.

Small and the Elizabeth team were among more than 1,200 prep runners who traveled to the Penrose Center for the state cross-country championships.

The Penrose Center usually echoes to the thunder of hooves of rodeo competitions, but on Oct. 31 the thunder was created by the pounding of hundreds of pairs of feet racing for the finish line of the 5-kilometer course.

The weather was sunny and warm, and the mountains cre-

Cori Small heads for the finish line at the Oct. 31 Class 4A state girls cross country championship race. The Elizabeth senior finished 11 individually and helped the Cardinals finish 12th in the team standings. Photo by Tom Munds ated a backdrop for the sprint to the finish line inside the stadium.

The 3.1-mile course went up and over small hills, and runners

then turned onto level ground as they headed for the stadium.

Times in just about all classes were better this year. That is partially due to the fact the state

meet was run at the same location as last year, but this year’s course route didn’t include the very steep hill that was part of the 2014 course.

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CLUBS Ongoing Douglas-Elbert County Music Teachers’ Association meets at 9 a.m. every first Thursday at Parker Bible Church, between Jordan and Chambers on Main Street. All area music teachers are welcome. Call Lucie Washburn, 303-814-3479.

Dave Peontek at 303-646-5456.

The Elbert County Sheriff’s Posse is a nonprofit volunteer organization that is part of the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office. As volunteers we support the Elbert County Sheriff’s Office, all law enforcement in our county, and the community at large. For more information or a membership application, go to http://www. elbertcountysheriff.com/posse.html, or contact

Elizabeth American Legion Post 82, a 96year veterans association supporting veterans, their families, their survivors and the community, meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month at the Legion Post Hall at South Banner Street and Elm Street in Elizabeth. All veterans are invited to attend these meetings to learn of their eligibility for membership in the National American Legion Organization.

The Elizabeth Food Bank, 381 S. Banner in Elizabeth (next door to Elizabeth Presbyterian Church) needs to let the public know that we are available to help anyone who needs food.

The hours are Friday 12:30-3 p.m. and Satur-

days from 9-11:30 a.m. Other times by appointment.

Finding Our Way Together, a group for anyone who is alone, left out, picked on or overwhelmed by life. Since it is just forming, the group will evolve to fit the needs of the participants.

Group will meet at 10 a.m. Sundays at 34061 Forest Park Drive, in the lower level of Elizabeth Family Health. Leaders are Mary, 720-638-9770, and Karen, 303-243-3658, and both welcome phone calls. Group participation is free, and building is accessible.

month at the Elizabeth Library, 651 W. Beverly St. Volunteer attorneys will answer questions, help fill out forms and explain the process and procedure for the areas of family law, civil litigation, criminal defense, property law, probate law, collections, appeals, landlord-tenant law and civil protection orders. Walk-ins are welcome. Everyone will be helped on a first-come, first-served basis.

Mystery Book Club meets at 9:30 a.m. the first Saturday of each month at the Simla Public Library. The group enjoys talking about a variety

Lawyers at the Library, a free legal clinic for parties who have no attorney, will be offered from 6-9 p.m. the second Tuesday of every

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Peter Solano, Post 4266 Adjutant, at adjutant@ vfwpost4266.org or at 303-718-4256.

Community Blood Drives

A number of community blood drives are planned in the area. For information or to schedule an appointment, contact the Bonfils Appointment Center at 303-363-2300, unless otherwise ynoted. Go to www.bonfils.org. Upcoming blood drives are: Saturday, Nov. 14, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock; Sunday, Nov. 15, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Providence Presbyterian Church, 18632 Pony Express Drive, Parker (contact Steve Mato at 281-799-8348); Friday, Nov. 20, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker; Saturday, Nov. 28, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Walmart, 4400 Front St., Castle Rock; Saturday, Nov. 28, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Walmart, 11101 S. Parker Road, Parker.

Free Child Heart Screening Free heart screenings for students, athletes and young adults ages 12 and older are offered through the Anthony Bates Foundation. Sharon Bates, whose 20-year-old college footballplaying son died from a sudden cardiac arrest, helps parents avoid the heartbreak she and

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of mystery authors and titles. We also periodically host a Colorado author during our meetings. Everyone may join us, and registration is not required. Visit the Simla Branch of the Elbert County Library District at 504 Washington Avenue, call 719-541-2573, or email farabe@ elbertcountylibrary.org.

The Outback Express is a public transit service provided through the East Central Council of Local Governments is open and available to

other parents have experienced by providing this service to communities. A nearby screening is Sunday, Nov. 15, at Chaparral High School, 15655 Brookstone Drive, Parker. The screening checks children for heart conditions leading to sudden cardiac arrest. Go to www.anthonybates.org/preregistration-az.html to register, or www.anthonybates.org/donations/index.html to make a donation. For information, contact Sharon Bates at 602-482-5606 or go to www.

AnthonyBates.org.

Vienna Boys Choir The world famous Vienna Boys Choir will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. For more than 500 years the Vienna Boys Choir has delighted and thrilled listeners of all ages. Their program includes favorite Strauss waltzes, classical masterpieces by Mozart and Haydn, as well as folk songs from around the world. For tickets and information, go to www.ParkerArt.org or call 303-805-6800.

Wayne and Wingnut Perform Castle Country Assisted Living will host Cliff Spratt at each of its three houses Monday, Nov. 16. Wayne and Wingnut will perform at 11 a.m. at Cantril House, 221 Cantril St., Castle Rock; at 1 p.m. at Valley House, 255 S. Valley Drive, Castle Rock; and at 3 p.m. at Victorian House, 19600 Victorian Drive in Parker. For information or to RSVP, call 303-482-5552.

Castle County Assisted Living is a nonprofit or-

all residents of Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson and Lincoln counties and provides an economical and efficient means of travel for the four-county region. Call Kay Campbell, Kiowa, at 719- 541-4275. You may also call the ECCOG office at 1-800-825-0208 to make reservations for any of the trips. You may also visit http:// outbackexpress.tripod.com. To ensure that a seat is available, 24-hour advance reservations are appreciated.

ganization serving seniors in Douglas County.

Public Transit Outback Express is a public transit service provided through the East Central Council of Local Governments and is available to all residents.

Call Kay Campbell, Kiowa, at 719- 541-4275 or go to http://outbackexpress.tripod.com. Advance reservations appreciated. November schedule: Monday, Nov. 16, Matheson and Simla to Colorado Springs; Tuesday, Nov. 17, Elizabeth, Kiowa and Elbert to Parker; Wednesday, Nov. 25, Matheson and Simla to Colorado Springs; Thursday, Nov. 26, Simla and Matheson to Limon.

Estate Planning Workshop Protecting your family’s assets and future is easier than you think. A few easy steps can save you, and your beneficiaries, a lot of money and heartache. Don’t wait until it’s too late, or your beneficiary could be our federal government. A free educational workshop on estate planning runs from 4-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the Parker Library, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive, Parker.

RSVP is required; call 720-440-2774.

Medicare Part D Clinics Medicare prescription plans change yearly and so do their premiums and deductibles. It is in your best interest to look at your plan and have an updated comparison completed to assure you are getting the best coverage for your money. Open enrollment for Part D runs through Monday, Dec. 7. Colorado East Community Ac-

a.m. for food, fun and fellowship at Elizabeth Senior Center, 823 S. Banner St. Bring a dish for potluck on the first Monday of each month.

Other Mondays, bring a sack lunch. Bingo, games and socializing. New leadership. Call Agnes at 303-883-7881 or Carol at 303-6463425 for information.

Overeaters Anonymous meets from 10-11 a.m. and from 7-8 p.m. Wednesdays in the Sedalia Room at New Hope Presbyterian Church, 2100 Meadows Parkway, Castle Rock.

Therapeutic riding. Promise Ranch Therapeutic Riding in Parker offers free therapeutic riding for developmentally disabled adults and children. Scholarship money is available for Douglas County residents to provide 10 therapeutic riding lessons. Call 303-841-5007 or visit www.promiseranchtherapeuticriding.com.

Seniors meet in Elizabeth every Monday at 11

Sky Cliff Adult Day Center Support Groups:

tion Agency, 1114 Main St., Limon, has trained Medicare counselors on hand to answer your questions and help you compare and choose the best Prescription Drug Coverage (Part D) plan that meets your needs for 2016. Clinics are planned from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, at the Elizabeth Library; from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19 at the CSU Agricultural Building in Kiowa; and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 24, at Elizabeth United Methodist Church in Running Creek Plaza. Bring driver’s license or photo ID, Medicare card, current Part D card, proof of income for your entire household, prescription medication bottles or a current list of your medications that include name, dosage, frequency and how many you receive each month. To make an appointment for these or additional dates, or for questions, call 719-7758586.

‘Beauty and the Beast’ Castle View Theatre Company invites you to “Be Our Guest!” as it presents Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” Wednesday, Nov. 18, through Saturday, Nov. 21 at Castle View High School, 5254 N. Meadows Drive, Castle Rock. Performances are at 7 p.m. Nov. 18-21, with a 1 p.m. matiness on Nov. 21. Tickets available at www.

SeatYourSelf.biz/CastleView or at the box office one hour before each show. Concessions will be sold and doors open 30 minutes prior to curtain.

Email CastleViewTheatre@gmail.com or call 303-387-9113.

Stoke Victors meets from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. the second and last Wednesday of each month.

Lunch is provided. Contact Sue Parson, 303814-2863. Evening Stroke Victors meets from 6-7:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month.

Cookies and coffee provided. Contact Sue Parson, 303-814-2863. Caregivers Support Group meets from 10-11:30 a.m. Tuesdays. All groups meet at Sky Cliff Adult Day Center in Castle Rock. Contact Sky Cliff at 303-814-2863.

Visit www.skycliff.org.

VFW Post 10649 meets monthly at 8:30 a.m. the first Saturday of every month at 24325 Main St., Elbert. Go to http://www.vfwpost10649. org. Contact Alan Beebe at 303-435-2560 for questions.

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amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of OCTOBER 2015 for each County affected.

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Public Notices PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Donald R. Krull, Deceased Case Number: 15 PR 17

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Elbert County, Colorado on or before January 31, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on September 9, 2015 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Elbert County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Connie Sue Tackett be changed to Connie Sue Marshall Case No.: 15 C 46 Cheryl A. Layne, Clerk of Court By: J. Jenkins, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 23270 First Publication:November 12, 2015 Last Publication: November 26, 2015 Publisher: Elbert County News

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Lori K. Johnson Personal Representative 24250 David C. Johnson Loop Elbert, Colorado 80106

Notice To Creditors

Legal Notice No: 23265 First Publication: November 5, 2015 Last Publication: November 19, 2015 Publisher: Elbert County News

Misc. Private Legals PUBLIC NOTICE DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO OCTOBER 2015 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of OCTOBER 2015 for each County affected.

15CW3130 Roger and Amy Grimes, 34987 County Road 13, Elizabeth, CO 80107 (James J. Petrock, Petrock & Fendel, 700 17th Street, #1800, Denver, CO 80202), APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF WATER RIGHT, ELBERT COUNTY. Decree information for which change is sought: Case No. 01CW011, Water Division 1, decreed on August 13, 2001. The property which is the subject of the decree is 37.5 acres located in the NE1/4 of Section 12, T8S, R65W of the 6th P.M., Elbert County, as shown on Attachment A (Subject Property). Proposed change: In the original decree, an augmentation plan was approved for the use of 2 acre-feet per year for 300 years of not nontributary Upper Dawson aquifer groundwater for commercial use (1.5 acrefeet), irrigation of 4000 square-feet of home lawn and garden and trees, and stockwatering of 20 large domestic animals. Applicants request that the augmentation plan be revised to allow 0.8 acre-feet of the 1.5 acre-feet of commercial use water to be used for inhouse use in two residences (0.4 acre-feet per residence).

Commercial use will be limited to 0.7 acrefeet. The return flow from inhouse use is the same as the commercial use pursuant to the original decree and there is no change in replacement of depletions from pumping and use of the water for inhouse use. Depletions occur to the Running Creek stream system. No other parts of the original decree are changed herein.

Further, Applicants pray that this Court grant the application and for such other relief as seems proper in the premises. (3 pages).

Misc. Private Legals

THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.

Notices

THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of DECEMBER 2015 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office), and must be filed as an Original and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

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Legal Notice No.: 23271 First Publication: November 12, 2015 Last Publication: November 12, 2015 Publisher: The Elbert County News

Government Legals PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX LIEN SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED TSC# 2012-01695

TSC# 2012-01695

To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or Specially Assessed, and to all Persons having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and To Whom It may Concern, and more especially to:

November 12, 2015

CRYSTAL BRIAN VAN NESS You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 20th day of November A.D. 2012 the then To advertise your public notices call 303-566-4100 County Treasurer of the County of Elbert, in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax lien sale to HARMONY LAND AND CATTLE, LLC the following described real estate situate in the County of Elbert, State of Colorado, to wit:

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Legal Description: Section: 27 Township: 8 Range: 62 Section: 28 Township: 8 Range: 62 Section: 29 Township: 8 Range: 62 Section: 32 Township: 8 Range: 62 Section: 33 Township: 8 Range: 62Subdivision: SEVERED MINERALS SW4, S2SE4: 27 8 62 (240 A), SE4, W2W2: 28 8 62 (320 A), E2NE4, SE4: 29 8 62 (240 A), E2: 32 8 62 (320 A), W2, SE4: 33 8 62 (480 A) UNDIVIDED 1/144 INTEREST TOTAL MRA 11.11 and said County Treasurer issued a certificate of purchase therefore to HARMONY LAND AND CATTLE, LLC. That said tax lien sale was made to satisfy the delinquent taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2011; That said real estate was taxed or specially assessed in the name(s) of CRYSTAL BRIAN VAN NESS for said year 2011.

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SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1-3 NOTICE CONCERNING 2015 BUDGET AMENDMENT AND PROPOSED 2016 BUDGET

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all interested parties that the necessity has arisen to amend the Spring Valley Metropolitan District Nos. 1-3 (“Districts”) 2015 Budgets and that proposed 2016 Budgets have been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Districts; and that copies of the proposed Amended 2015 Budgets and 2016 Budgets have been filed at the District's offices, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado, where the same is open for public inspection; and that adoption of Resolutions Amending the 2015 Budgets and Adopting the 2016 Budgets will be considered at a public meeting of the Board of Directors of the Districts to be held at Running Creek Investments, L.L.C., 7108 South Alton Way, Bldg. M, Englewood, Colorado, on Monday, November 16, 2015, at 2:00 P.M. Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the Resolutions to Amend the 2015 Budgets and Adopt the 2016 Budgets, inspect and file or register any objections thereto.

To Every Person in Actual Possession or Occupancy of the hereinafter Described That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for 15CW3130 Roger and Amy Grimes, Land, Lot or Premises, and to the Person said real estate to the said Elbert County 34987 County Road 13, Elizabeth, CO in Whose Name the Same was Taxed or NOTICE TO CREDITORS at 3:00 o’clock P.M., on the 11th day of Specially Assessed, and to all Persons 80107 (James J. Petrock, Petrock & Estate of Donald R. Krull, Deceased February, A.D.2016, unless the same has having an Interest or Title of Record in or Fendel, 700 17th Street, #1800, Denver, Case Number: 15 PR 17 been redeemed. to the said Premises and To Whom It may CO 80202), APPLICATION FOR YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any Concern, and more especially to: CHANGE OF WATER RIGHT, ELBERT All persons having claims against the Said property may be redeemed from said party who wishes to oppose an applicaCOUNTY. Decree information for which above-named estate are required to sale at any time prior to the actual execution, or an amended application, may file SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN CRYSTAL BRIAN VAN NESS You and change is sought: Case No. 01CW011, present them to the Personal Representtion of said Treasurer’s Deed. Witness my with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, DISTRICT NOS. 1-3 each of you are hereby notified that on the Water Division 1, decreed on August 13, ative or to the District Court of Elbert hand this 19th day of October, 2015 A. D. Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement 20th day of November A.D. 2012 the then 2001. The property which is the subject of County, Colorado on or before January of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why By /s/ Lisa A. Johnson County Treasurer of the County of Elbert, the decree is 37.5 acres located in the 31, 2016 or the claims may be forever Richard Pettitt the application should not be granted, or Secretary in the State of Colorado, sold at public tax NE1/4 of Section 12, T8S, R65W of the barred.

County Treasurer of Elbert County why it should be granted only in part or on lien sale to HARMONY LAND AND 6th P.M., Elbert County, as shown on Atcertain conditions. Such Statement of OpLegal Notice No.: 23268 CATTLE, LLC the following described tachment A (Subject Property). Proposed Lori K. Johnson position must be filed by the last day of Legal Notice No.: 23260 First Publication: November 12, 2015 real estate situate in the County of Elbert, change: In the original decree, an augPersonal Representative DECEMBER 2015 (forms available on First Publication: October 29, 2015 Last Publication: November 12, 2015 State of Colorado, to wit: mentation plan was approved for the use 24250 David C. Johnson Loop www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s Publisher: The Elbert County News Last Publication: November 12, 2015 of 2 acre-feet per year for 300 years of not Elbert, Colorado 80106 office), and must be filed as an Original Publisher: The Elbert County News Legal Description: nontributary Upper Dawson aquifer and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of Section: 27 Township: 8 Range: 62 groundwater for commercial use (1.5 acreLegal Notice No: 23265 each Statement of Opposition must also Section: 28 Township: 8 Range: 62 feet), irrigation of 4000 square-feet of First Publication: November 5, 2015 be served upon the Applicant or Section: 29 Township: 8 Range: 62 home lawn and garden and trees, and Last Publication: November 19, 2015 Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or Section: 32 Township: 8 Range: 62 stockwatering of 20 large domestic animPublisher: Elbert County News certificate of such service of mailing shall Section: 33 Township: 8 Range: als. Applicants request that the augmentabe filed with the Water Clerk.

62Subdivision: SEVERED MINERALS tion plan be revised to allow 0.8 acre-feet SW4, S2SE4: 27 8 62 (240 A), SE4, of the 1.5 acre-feet of commercial use waLegal Notice No.: 23271 W2W2: ter to be used for inhouse use in two resFirst Publication: November 12, 2015 28 8 62 (320 A), E2NE4, SE4: 29 8 62 idences (0.4 acre-feet per residence).

Last Publication: November 12, 2015 Public Notice Commercial use will be limited to 0.7 acre(240 A), Publisher: The Elbert County News feet. The return flow from inhouse use is E2: 32 8 62 (320 A), W2, SE4: 33 8 62 PaymeNts For PublicatioN the same as the commercial use pursuant (480 A)october 2015 to the original decree Cty. andHealth therePool is no UNDIVIDED 1/144 INTEREST TOTAL GeNeral FuNd 010 $766,268.45 Payroll Payable $99,624.30 Joel Heap Reimbursement $39.03 Rich Clawson Contract Services $20,175.00 HealtH FuNd 015 Cty.depletions Sheriffs Offrom Co Operating Expense $200.00 John Butler Reimbursement $267.96 Parker Porta Potty Rental Operating Expense $195.00 change in$12,004.05 replacement of MRA road & bridGe FuNd 020 Co Civil Process $7.00 John Deere Credit Operating Expense $11,783.14 Rock Parts Operating Expense $3,572.02 pumping$251,483.62 and use of the Credit waterService for inhouse 11.11 sales aNd use tax FuNd 025 $541,071.39occurCristina Reimbursement $33.70 John Deere Tools & Supplies $655.16 Rky Mtn Spring & Susp.

Equipment Parts $1,945.68 use. Depletions to theRustad-Mejia Running lea FuNd 040 $5,946.77 Stanko Reimbursement $100.00 Kali Reimbursement $45.22 Rod Wilson Contract Services $200.00 andBenson said County Treasurer issued a certiCreek stream system. Curtis No other parts of HumaN services FuNd 050 $30,043.85 Schroeder Reimbursement $8.00 Keith Birkholz Reimbursement $53.99 Ruegsegger Simons Smith Civil Process $13.00 ficate of purchase therefore to HARthe original decree areDalla changed herein. coNservatioN trust FuNd 090 $8,637.10 pray Dans Trash Utilities $2,358.52 Sheila Kelley $126.56 Runbeck Election Services Operating Expense $126.17 MONY LAND AND CATTLE,Reimbursement LLC. That Further, Applicants that this Court total all FuNds $1,615,455.23 A Bauer Civil Process $40.00 Kelly $256.40 Running Creek Quick Lube Auto Rep & Maint $98.50 saidDore tax lien sale was made toReimbursement satisfy the grant the application andDavid for such otherPcreRock Operating Expense $8.45 Kelsey Berends Travel said $456.00 Ryan Cole Contract Services $2,950.00 delinquent taxes assessed against lief as seems proper inDeep the premises.

(3 vendor Name description pages). amt Denver Industrial Sales Asphalt Repair $636.16 Dhs Iv-E Waiver Expenditure $995.28 Safe Built Inc Operating Expense $47,411.64 realClient estate for the year 2011; Diamond Bolejack Reimbursement $100.00 Kimley-Horn & Assoc Professional Service $4,000.00 Safety-Kleen Corp.

Operating Expense $256.25 A And E Tire Tires $4,862.88 Digitcom Electronics Equipment Repairs $323.61 Kiowa Equipment Repairs $19.74 Sam’s Club Gecf Operating Expense $207.77 That Repair said real estate was taxed or speTHE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY A1 Chipseal Capital Outlay THESE $484,421.10 Dj Petroleum Fuel $36,577.62 Kiowa Operating Expense $60.00 Scanner One Equipment Under $5K $424.00 cially Storage assessed in the name(s) of CRYSAPPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT Double ElRIGHTS Soil Snow Fence $1,401.48 Kiowa & Waste Expense $9,478.95 Aarms Operating Expense $350.00 Schmidt Construction Operating Expense $46,108.30 TAL Water BRIAN VAN Auth.

NESS forOperating said year IN PRIORITY ANY WATER Abila Fees Drive Train Industries Equipment Parts $55.12 Larry Ross Reimbursement $264.60 Signal Graphics Office Supplies $197.88 2011.

CLAIMED $3,811.00 OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICAdvanced Quality Auto Operating Expense $6,360.71 E470 Public Hwy Auth Travel $10.35 Law Offices Of Frank J Ball Operating Expense ($16.00) Staples Advantage Office Supplies $1,017.89 ATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND Afd Pavement Operating Expense $23,179.74 Eccog RIGHTS Dues $4,500.00 Legal Shield Payroll Payable $515.15 State Of Co Operating Expense $5,632.56 That a Treasurer’s Deed will be issued for OWNERS OF AFFECTED Aflac Payroll Payable $4,010.14 El Paso Cty. Autopsies $4,050.00 Leif A Nelson Pc Civil Process $15.00 State Wire & Terminal Equipment Parts $192.39 said real estate to the said Elbert County MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN Agate Mutual Telephone Utilities $26.39 Elbert Cty Abstract & Title Professional Service $125.00 Levi’s Rags Ii Shop Supplies $160.00 Stenger & Stenger Civil Process $7.00 at 3:00 o’clock P.M., on the Office Supplies 11th day of PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR Airgas Shop Supplies THE TIME $1,393.73 Elbert Cty. Road& Bridge Gasoline $9,364.11 Lewan & Associates $30.00 Stephani Turner Uniforms $30.00 February, A.D.2016, unless the same has BE FOREVER BARRED. Al Rogers Reimbursement $100.00 Elbert Cty. Trsr Operating Expense $72,864.85 Life Support Behavioral Inst.

Professional Service $546.00 Stericycle Operating Expense $157.91 been redeemed.

American Fidelity Contract Services $1,194.50 Elbert Water & San. Operating Expense $3,145.00 Limon Chrysler Plymouth Auto Rep & Maint $46.00 Stone Oil Co Inc Operating Expense $17,966.70 thatDept any Anderson Bottrell Sanden Civil Process YOU ARE HEREBY $11.00 NOTIFIED Elizabeth Fire Blood/Alcohol Analysis $450.00 Lyle Sign Inc Operating Expense $588.75 Sun Badge Co. Uniforms $804.58 Said property from said party who $6,969.00 wishes to oppose applicaArrowhead Fencing Building Repairs Enertiaan Consulting County Engineer $19,268.80 Marini Diesel Incmay be redeemed Equipment Repairs $500.00 Sysco Food Svcs Prisoner Meals $6,498.21 sale Hendricks at any time prior to the actual execution, or an amended file Auto Chlor System Maint. Agreement $346.78 application, Entry Teammay Tactical Equipment Repairs $1,100.00 Mark Reimbursement $100.00 Ted Dole Reimbursement $142.80 tion ofMarietta said Treasurer’s Deed. Operating Witness my with the $17,848.75 Water Clerk, Everything For Offices P. O. Box 2038, Bank Of The West Operating Expense Equipment Under $5,000 $2,686.23 Martin Expense $6,660.90 Terry Tweedy Reimbursement $100.00 hand this 19th day of October,Contract 2015 A.Services D. Greeley, CO$375.00 80632, a verified Statement Bart Greer Reimbursement Ez Messenger Civil Process $7.00 Matt Martinich $12,075.00 The Artworks Unlmt Operating Expense $244.00 of Opposition, setting forth Bender Menders Equipment Parts $5,491.81 Fairfacts Pointas to why Telephone $251.90 Mcafee Inc Operating Expense $363.78 The Hartford Payroll Payable $1,143.45 Richard Pettitt the application should not be granted, or Berg Hill Greenleaf Professional Service $513.50 Fastenal Company Equipment Parts $186.48 Mechanical Solution Building Repairs $737.50 The Lighthouse Equipment Parts $83.92 CountyCo Treasurer of Elbert County why it should$200.00 be grantedFirst onlyCall in part or on Bill Hendrix Reimbursement Of Co Operating Expense $320.00 Medved Operating Expense $41.86 Thomas Reuters West Contract Services $109.71 certain conditions.

Such Statement of OpBlack Hills Energy Utilities $822.11 Force America Distributing Equipment Parts $1,234.62 Mhc Kenworth Operating Expense $884.74 Todd Pederson Contract Services $200.00 position must be filed by theRange last day of Legal Notice No.: 23260 Blue Star Police Uniforms $120.83 Front Kubota Blades, Teeth $448.32 Mike Cowan Reimbursement $100.00 Tone Tuskan Operating Expense $994.44 2015 (forms available FirstPeavler Publication: October 29, 2015 Brazos Tech E Ticket Grant DECEMBER Expense $2,500.00 Frontier Businesson Operating Expense $276.15 Mike Reimbursement $100.00 Town Of Simla Utilities $81.55 www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s Last Publication: November 12,Other Benefits 2015 Brite Operating Expense $2,046.00 Frontier Communications Copier Expense $742.64 Mines & Associates Pc $565.60 Tracker Software Training $400.00 office), and $100.00 must be filed as KanServices Original Publisher: The Elbert County News Casey Craven Reimbursement G And Operating Expense $1,151.34 Mountain View Electric Utilities $308.36 Transwest Trucks Equipment Parts $344.66 Caterpillar Financial Operating Expense $6,300.64 Girsh & Rottman Civil Process $24.00 N.A.R. Inc Civil Process $20.00 Truckhugger Tarp Syst Equipment Repairs $112.50 and include $158.00 filing fee.

A copy of Cdw Government Operating Expense $274.20 Glaser Gas Co also Fairgrounds Propane $88.11 Neve’s Uniforms Inc Uniforms $50.99 True Value Hardware Equipment Parts $410.79 each Statement of Opposition must Centennial Mental Health Fees Dust Control $7,665.00 Nextel Communications Telephone $2,575.14 Tyler Technologies Software Support $8,081.00 b e s e r v e$2,509.95 d u p o n t h Gmco e A p Corporation plicant or Centurylink Telephone Grainger Equipment Parts $1,523.51 Office For Less Office Supplies $2,115.00 Ultramax Ammunition Operating Expense $906.00 Applicant’s$1,152.95 Attorney and an affidavit or Certified Labs Operating Expense Great West Life Payroll Payable $39,229.13 18Th Judicial Operating Expense $384,393.75 United Reprographic Spply Contract Services $677.05 certificate of$602.43 such service of mailing shall Chemtox Blood/Alcohol Analysis Harry L Simon Pc Civil Process $5.00 Officechairs.Com Office Furniture $386.00 Ups Postage & Shipping $31.60 be filed with$542.90 the Water Clerk.

Chief Supply Corp Operating Expense $667.29 Heather Harcourt Contract Services $937.50 Oxford Recycling Inc Operating Expense $5,780.00 Verizon Wireless Telephone $1,874.95 Clean Designs Inc Operating Expense $4,375.00 Empoyment First Exp $2,832.02 Parker Port-A-Potty Operating Expense $468.00 Wagner Equipment Equipment Parts $216.41 Legal Notice No.: 23271Hewlett Packard Cliff Mcknight ReimbursementFirst Publication: $100.00 High12, Plains Food Store Gasoline $777.27 Phoenix Technology Group Operating Expense $9,100.00 Witt Boys Operating Expense $1,374.07 November 2015 Co Assessors Assoc Dues $325.00 Home Depot Fees $308.42 Pitney Bowes Global Financial Postage & Shipping $1,001.58 Xerox Corp Copier Expense $2,480.05 Last Publication: November 12, 2015Credit Co Community Advertising Publisher: The$51.25 Honnen Equipment Equipment Parts $575.64 Postmaster General Postage & Shipping $1,000.00 Y Time Contract Services $65.80 Elbert County News Cci Foundation Operating Expense $350.00 Integrated Electric Operating Expense $1,639.02 Power Equipment Company Inc Operating Expense $4,720.00 Zee Medical Operating Expense $130.00 Co Dept. Of Public Safety Operating Expense $2,648.00 Intergrated Voting Postage & Shipping $7,005.65 Power Motive Corp Equipment Repairs $12,973.79 Co Dept Of Health Fees $853.75 Irea Utilities $7,657.89 Psychological Dimensions Operating Expense $200.00 legal Notice No.: 23269 Csu Extension Payroll Reimbursed $7,255.00 Istonish Operating Expense ($3,826.46) Purewater Dynamics Shop Supplies $100.00 First Publication: November 12, 2015 Comcast Telephone $27.15 J&A Traffic Signs $1,890.00 Quill Corporation Operating Expense $2,134.49 last Publication: November 12, 2015 Community Media Advertising $217.25 Jason Miller Reimbursement $58.89 Ralph Burns Reimbursement $100.00 Corporate Billing Equipment Parts $7,866.52 Jay Walp Reimbursement $121.65 Ranchland News Dues $25.00 Publisher: elbert county News Correctional Healthcare Medical Services $23,571.78 Jimmie Pettit Reimbursement $100.00 Recycled Aggregate Prod Gravel $163.05 PUBLIC NOTICE

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