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County moves to blue on COVID dial Officials hope for normal capacity at events by summer BY TABATHA STEWART SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

trend in employment in building construction,” said Leanne Cook, who serves at the post-secondary options and internships liaison for the school district. Students had the opportunity to interview Tim Craft, developer of Independence, and Jim Yates, the Independence project manager, and learn more about how to become a developer and what a career in development looks like, and

Elbert County was moved to level blue — cautious — on the COVID dial March 9, which will allow for increased capacity in restaurants, indoor gatherings and fitness centers. The number of positive cases in the county has been dropping, with the county’s two-week average positivity rate being at 6.12% as of March 17. That’s a huge decline from the county’s highest rate of 14.75 in November. “Amazingly, we are one year into the pandemic,” said Elbert County Board of Health Director Dwayne Smith. “In many ways it’s hard to comprehend, but we have experienced a lot of challenges, and will continue to experience challenges for the next couple of months, but we are looking forward to a summer of activities that hopefully will be normal.” Since the beginning of the pandemic, Elbert County has seen 1,228 positive cases of COVID-19, with 79 hospitalizations and 12 deaths. Approximately 7,500 people in the county have been tested.

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Independence residents Robert and Jamie Liptak spoke with students from Elizabeth High School about purchasing a new COURTESY OF CRAFT COMPANIES home in a growing development.

Elizabeth students get taste of life in trades Trip to Independence community shows possible career paths BY TABATHA STEWART SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Students from Elizabeth High School left the classroom behind March 10 and traveled to the Independence community, where they

learned about the many career opportunities in trade industries such as new construction, water management, storm drain management and road construction. The EZTV crew from Elizabeth High filmed the outing and created a video that will be used to educate students about the various careers. “We came up with the idea of making career videos, and doing a video on building construction made sense because Elbert County is right on the start of a major

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what the scope of the Independence community will look like when it’s completed. “Being involved with the youth is something that is important to Craft Companies,” said Yates. “It’s important to help them find their way if college is not a choice for them. There are so many skills that can be learned to help them attain a career.” Chris Sandelli and Chris Landry, project managers for Scott Contracting, fielded questions from students about career choices in the field of contracting, specifically land development, before touring a water reclamation facility and a potable water facility. Students wrapped up the tour with interviews of two new residents to the community. The project was paid for through the Homegrown Talent Initiative grant the district received nearly two years ago. Resident David Eddy, who helped secure the grant, said projects and videos like this one will help a lot of students in Elbert County. “In my opinion, I don’t feel the standard high school curriculum was addressing the need and opportunity for a lot of their students when it came to career choices,” said Eddy. “This project provides students a top level glimpse of job opportunities and careers that they really aren’t exposed to in the current curriculum.” Eddy said they hope to use more HTI funds in the future to create new programs to offer students, including internships, concurrent enrollment and certificate programs that students can use after leaving high school. “Today was important to the home building industry as a whole,” said Yates. “These are very smart kids, and maybe they don’t want to sit behind a desk all day. These are not lesser career paths. These programs will help them learn skills and gain real life experience.”

The EZTV crew from Elizabeth High School chronicled a question-and-answer session about development careers with developers. PHOTOS COURTESY OF CRAFT COMPANIES

Students from Elizabeth High School visited the Independence community, where they learned about various careers in construction and development.

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Blizzard was good news for water supplies Heavy snowfall brought Denver from below normal to well above

Denver metro area and was helpful in replenishing the Gross, Marston, Chatfield and Ralston reservoirs. According to NWS data, snowfall at Gross Reservoir is still at only 77% of normal rates, but the storm did add 12 inches of snowfall. The snow was also unusually high in moisture content, which helped deliver one to two months of water to some areas of Colorado, Hartman said. Denver has recorded 4.24 inches of liquid this year, making it the city’s wettest start to a calendar year on record. “The weekend’s water results were like winning the first-round of March Madness,” Hartman said. “A nice thrill, but still a few wins short of a title.” Since Colorado is still recovering from a very dry spring and summer, the melting snow will have to replenish dry soil before being able to flow into streams, rivers and reservoirs. Denver Water suggests residents stay vigilant and continue irrigation and water conservation efforts. Denver Water’s summer watering rules take effect on May 1, limiting watering to three days a week and no watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Further limits may be implemented depending on temperatures and snow/rain fall in the coming weeks.

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As Colorado battles statewide drought conditions, the March 1415 massive snowstorm brought a welcome boost to snowfall levels and water supplies. The storm dropped 19.7 inches of snow on Denver and 27.1 inches at the airport, according to the National Weather Service. Other parts of the state were hit even harder, with more than 40 inches in Aspen Springs, Buckhorn Mountain, Four Corners in Larimer County and Pingree Park. “Snowfall is mostly near to above normal now,” NWS said in a statement. “The recent snowstorm also increased the north-central Colorado snowpack, especially east of the Continental Divide.” Before the snowstorm, Denver’s snowfall total for the season was 32.7 inches, below the 38.8-inch average, according to NWS data. As of March 15, Denver’s snowfall total was at 59.8 inches, 1.54 times normal rates for this time of year. The March 14-15 snowstorm also pushed Boulder, Fort Collins, Longmont, Loveland, Waterdale and Wheat Ridge from below to above

Jeff Klenske pulls his boys in a sled to Golden City Brewing for a pint during the snow COURTESY OF HEATHER KLENSKE storm.

normal snowfall rates. However, on Colorado’s eastern plains, the impact of the storm is more mixed. Only Lindon and Woodrow were brought from below to above normal snowfall. Akron, Briggsdale and Crook were already above normal rates, and Holyoke, Leroy and Sedgwick remain below normal. Similarly, though the snowfall gave a much-needed boost to mountain snowpack, Colorado’s snow water is still falling short compared

to previous years. Even including the weekend’s storm, Denver Water’s collection system is below average for snowpack in the upper Colorado River Basin, North Platte Basin and South Platte Basin at 88%, 96% and 97% respectively, according to NWS data. Despite this, Todd Hartman with Denver Water said the storm was still “a big victory” for water supplies in a Denver Water article. Hartman said the snowfall recharged soil moisture across the

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‘Art Strut’ celebrates women Dairy Block is venue for works built around female mannequins BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Eleven invited local artists participated in The Athena Project’s pop-up art market, “Art Strut,” on March 13 at Denver’s Dairy Block and in the Alley and each will continue to exhibit their works, all built around female mannequins, through March 31 — inside of Denver Milk Market and throughout Dairy Block establishments. Visitors can bid for the art at auction throughout the month of March. The address is 1800 Wazee St. and there is a parking garage. The pop-up exhibit features works by Michelle Lamb of Littleton and other Colorado professional artists: Adri Norris, Autumn T. Thomas, Jana Hope, Lindsey Gutman, Deborah Jang, Tatiana Jordan, Karlee Mariel, Mel Aman and Samantha Doom Donen. Artists received an initial stipend when they accepted the invitation, Lamb said. Lamb’s piece, “Full Speed Ahead,” includes “things associated with women” such as thimbles and bobbins, that “make her look powerful, versus a vision of Betty Crocker,” Lamb said. She’s a “modern winged Nike,” Lamb adds. All pieces will be displayed through this month — in Lamb’s case, inside the Denver Milk Market — and in other busi-

nesses on the block. The Athena Project is a Colorado nonprofit that “celebrates and nurtures women’s artistic expression. Working actively for equality of opportunity, recognition and pay based on artistic merit alone,” according to the website. Started by playwright/activist Angela Astle, the project recognizes that “women account for just 25% of playwrights produced across the Rocky Mountain Region. Only 5% of music producers are women. Only 30% of major American museums have women directors right now ...” Additional examples are easy to find through conversation with just about any female arts professional. Although Denver celebrated Frida Kahlo recently, how many other feature exhibits come to mind? Starting with a women’s play festival some years ago, the Athena Project is expanded to women in visual arts here and explains that “we want to create a safer space for the expression and growth for all women, trans and gender nonconforming individuals.” The Dairy Block is filled with artwork already (715 pieces) due to a conscious collection effort and these new works will hopefully attract new collectors for the participating artists — and perhaps they will find a home on the block! The block contains 15 shops, 19 restaurants, business co-working space and a 172-room boutique hotel, the Maven. And an alley that hosts events, including live jazz ... and there is covered parking. A glance at the website (dairyblock.com) inspires this art lover to head on down there pretty soon!

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Retro Colorado plates likely coming back Tags with green mountains would be available for an extra fee BY JESSE PAUL THE COLORADO SUN

The green mountains are (really) poised for a comeback next year. Colorado lawmakers are quickly advancing legislation that would make the state’s retro license plates — green mountains instead of white ones — available for an upcharge as soon as 2022. That’s thanks to Senate Bill 69, which also would require Coloradans to get new plates when they purchase a new or used car. The retro plates would cost up to $75 extra, with $25 of that going to a disability support fund. State Sen. Kevin Priola, a Henderson Republican and champion of the legislation, tried last year to bring back the green license plates, but the 2020 bill was vetoed by Gov. Jared Polis because of a problem with the legislation. It allowed the state Division of Motor Vehicles to collect new fees but not spend them.

“We encourage the sponsors and the General Assembly to bring this bill again next session,” Polis, a Democrat, wrote in his veto letter. Priola listened — and made some changes. Last year’s bill would have switched all new Colorado plates to the retro style. But under the 2021 bill, the white mountains stay put as the default plate and the old school option is a specialty plate like one you might buy if you’re a University of Colorado alumnus or a fan of Nolan Arenado’s former baseball team. The one hitch: If not enough people want the retro plates, they may not become available. That seems unlikely, though. Access to the retro-style plates is just a perk of the legislation. Priola says the real reason for the bill has to do with public safety. Right now, motorists can keep their license plates forever. That’s problematic because over time the numbers fade, making it difficult for law enforcement to read them and impossible for toll-road cameras to scan them. Priola was recently driving to the Capitol and saw a Toyota Corolla with a rear license plate so SEE PLATES, P9

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Law will give financial relief to Colorado schools Districts will receive funds that were expected before enrollment decline BY JASON GONZALES COLORADO SUN

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rado schools are funded based on enrollment. The legislation approved by Polis ensures Colorado school districts will receive the money they originally expected for the 2020-21 school year despite about 30,000 fewer students showing up, a 3.3% decline in enrollment. The law also sends millions to rural school districts to meet the unique needs of small and isolated schools. Lawmakers quickly approved the bill this year, which represents one of the first major pieces of education legislation to see Polis’ signature. Bill sponsor and Joint Budget Committee Vice Chair Rep. Julie McCluskie, a Dillon Democrat, said legislators are doing everything they can to put students, teachers, and parents at the center of the pandemic recovery. “This funding boost protects schools across our state from catastrophic budget cuts at the worst possible time,” McCluskie said in

a news release. Every year, Colorado withholds millions from schools to pay for other priorities. Known as the budget stabilization factor, this amount grew to $1.2 billion this budget year due to major economic uncertainty last spring. The bill reduces that amount by $121 million. Colorado’s K-12 budget is about $7.2 billion. Colorado will also send an extra $60 million to school districts — $41 million to make up for lost local tax revenue and another $19 million to districts that saw particularly large enrollment declines or that experienced a notable decrease in the number of students living in poverty. Education officials don’t believe child poverty really declined. Instead, they think fewer families filled out paperwork for federal lunch subsidies because schools didn’t require them this year. For that reason, lawmakers decided to SEE RELIEF, P9

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faded it looked like the numbers were covered in Wite-Out. Also, people have been known to skirt registration fees by paying rates for older vehicles attached to their old plates even when they purchase a new car. Older cars have cheaper annual registration fees. Priola said the goal is to protect state coffers from being drained by people abusing the system that way. “It forces folks to actually be upholding the law,” he said.

schools the funding they need to get back on track and start bridging the COVID education gap,” McLachlan said. Colorado lawmakers are also working on complex tax changes that could bring in more money for K-12 over time. Meanwhile, Colorado schools also expect to see a major infusion of money from the American Rescue Plan, 20% of which must be used to make up for lost learning time during the pandemic. This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. Used by permission. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com.

If you like your license plate’s numbers and letters and don’t want to change them when you buy a new car, you would be able to keep them for a fee under Senate Bill 69. (In case you are wondering, there are currently 180 license plate types in Colorado.) Senate Bill 69 cleared its first committee hearing with unanimous support on March 8. This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. Used by permission. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com.

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Documentarians are manic about Titanic

he Titanic is a sunken scab that keeps getting picked on. There’s a new Titanic documentary. There will be a new one next year and the year after that QUIET and the year after DESPERATION that. I wish they would let her rest in peace, like Ethel Merman. New technologies explain how they continue to make new documentaries. Explaining why is different. Craig Marshall In the first place, Smith there has to be an audience. I guess there is. Apparently there’s still enough of a mystery about it, and everyone loves a mystery. One of the newer documentaries showed the ocean emptied like a bathtub, leaving the Titanic’s carcass easier to see like the desert bones of a goat. I wish I had millions to throw away at a sunken ocean liner. It was foggy. The captain refused

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to slow down. There were icebergs. The invincible Titanic sunk. There were reasonable and conclusive explanations. Weren’t there? Apparently not. One documentary was titled “The Titanic’s Final Mystery.” If only it were. What more can we learn? Tons, apparently. The scenes I like best are the ones in the control rooms when men and women sit around pensively while very expensive deep water diving subs and cameras plunge into the darkness to see what really happened to this unsinkable ship that sank. Look: Those bolts weren’t fastened properly. Look: The speedometer wasn’t working. Look: Someone forgot to turn on the iceberg detector. What do you get when you cross the Atlantic on the Titanic? About halfway. What kind of lettuce did they serve on the Titanic. Iceberg. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers on board, more than 1,500 died. One who survived, Molly Brown, and her

wealthy husband James, moved from Leadville into a $30,000 mansion on Pennsylvania Street in Denver. It’s now a museum. An abysmal movie, “The Unsinkable Molly Brown,” starring Debbie Reynolds, was released in 1964. It’s a musical, if that helps. Another documentary? Oh, why not? Men, and women, with money have to spend it on something. It might as well be on a sunken ship instead of college scholarships. If only the Titanic could talk and put an end to all of this. I think it would say two words, “Slow down.” Other ships in the area sat for the night. But Captain Smith was intent. He said, “Nothing can catch her, nothing can touch my 409.” Trouble is, the ship’s iceberg scanning technology consisted of two young men without binoculars. One, Frederick Fleet, 25, survived. He died at the age of 77 (cause of death: suicide by hanging). Fleet testified, “We could have seen it a bit sooner” if they had been issued binoculars.

Incomprehensible, isn’t it? The largest ship afloat relied on two lookouts keeping their eyes peeled. The Titanic was almost the length of three football fields. Binoculars, good ones, are $19.99. In 1912? Half that. Sometimes it takes a disaster for improvements to be made. Improvements in ocean crossing liner safety measures were instituted. If only Smitty had said, “Slow down. Let’s wait until morning, men.” If Fleet had been issued binoculars. If either or both had happened, the Titanic might be sitting pretty in Long Beach near the Queen Mary, open for tourists, serving high tea. If, if, if. Captain Smith’s last words: “Where’s all this water coming from?” Now, let that last joke sink in. Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net.

You are tremendously amazing — let that sink in

ne of the things that I have learned many years ago is that we should never assume, that at any given moment, the person we WINNING are speaking with or communicating WORDS with does not need a word of encouragement or appreciation. And whether we are in the same boat or not, receiving a little positive feedback never hurt any of us, has it? Just imagine Michael Norton for a moment that someone we work with, maybe a customer, or even a close friend whom we know and trust said to us, “I think that you are tremendously amazing.” My guess is that it would probably feel pretty good. That one statement, said in less than two seconds, could be a gamechanger to anyone who receives such an impactful message. Just like offering kindness, giving a well-deserved compliment costs us absolutely nothing. As a matter of fact, most times provid-

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very sad statistic and something that many people and organizations are trying to do something about. Ending hunger is an awesome cause and an incredible opportunity for even more of us to help the fight against hunger if we can. Here’s the thing, it has also been said that as many people that there are in the world who go to bed hungry each night for something to eat, there are more than twice that number who go to bed each night hungry for a word of hope and encouragement. The solution to that problem seems so much easier to solve, doesn’t it? Just tell someone close to you that they are tremendously amazing. And if saying tremendously amazing still seem a little long, try doing what we do in our business, we tell our team, our customers, and our partners that they are “Tramazing.” We have fun as it becomes contagious, and everyone jumps in to let those they work with that they are “Tramazing.” Maybe giving kudos and acknowledging appreciation is something that is already happening

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and being done consistently in our personal and professional lives. If so, that is wonderful, and you are already tremendously amazing, or “Tramazing.” However, if a demonstration of gratitude, respect and love can be achieved through just a few spoken or written words, why wouldn’t we say or write something that could bring another person the feeling that what they do and who they are is so very much appreciated? How about you? Are there people in your life who are going to bed hungry for a word of hope and encouragement? Or are you already lifting up those around you and letting them know how special and appreciated they are? Either way, I would love to hear your story at mnorton@tramazing.com, and when we can let others around us know that they are tremendously amazing, or “Tramazing,” it really will be a better than good year. Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

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Planning during tax law changes

ost Americans just filed their 2019 taxes in October and here we are again at tax time. By the time we file this year, oneFINANCIAL fourth of the year is gone and some STRATEGIES opportunities along with it. This is the time to start planning for potential tax law changes under the new administration if you are one of the affected groups. We do Patricia Kummer not know if all of these changes will be implemented or even in what year that will take place, but it is important to plan ahead and be prepared. The Biden Tax Plan calls for tax increases on incomes over $400,000, and higher capital gains tax on income above $1 million. Only the top 1.8% of Americans earn more than $400,000 per year according to the IRS. Incomes over $1 million are less than one-tenth of 1% of U.S. wageearners. While no one likes tax increases of any kind, these are not designed to impact the general population much. If you do fall in the top income levels, you should meet with your advisors soon to strategize the best opportunities. Since the typical wage-earner

is far below these income limits, you may actually benefit from new tax credits. This may include the Child Tax Credit increase from $2,000 to $3,000 and a $600 bonus credit for children under age 6. There is also a First-Time Homebuyers’ Tax Credit, and the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit is expanded with a higher reimbursement rate. Childless workers over age 65 may benefit from the expanded Earned Income Tax Credit and there are renewable-energy-related tax credits to individuals.¹ The average wage-earner should still be planning for future tax changes. The current tax plan will sunset at the end of 2025. If there are no other changes before then, our tax code reverts back to higher brackets across the board. It is important to be planning for taxes year-round. First, for filing taxes for 2020: If you are self-employed or have an opportunity to push more income into 2020, or even for those funding a self-employed retirement plan, consider voluntarily paying more taxes on 2020 income. This includes considering your final Solo 401(k) contribution to be a Roth instead of pre-tax. These final contributions are not due until your tax filing date this year. While you are gathering your data for the tax preparer for last

year, do some planning for this year as well. Try to determine what your income for this year will be. Do you have any opportunities to realize more income in this year? If not, then consider a Roth conversion, or bunching itemized deductions for future years. Some investors may want to think about realizing capital gains and avoid harvesting losses this year as well. Remember “the only constant in life is change.”² There will be a lot more information coming on the new administration and tax law changes. In the meantime, there is a large policy agenda for this year that may supersede personal taxes. Biden has stated he is focused on getting the pandemic under control, passing another stimulus package, jobs creation, criminal justice reform and steps to reduce climate change. Biden also stated that foreign policy, immigration, infrastructure and voting rights are on his near-term agenda. When he finds time to get to the topic of taxes, his recent statements have centered on repealing the corporate tax cut first, creat-

ing incentives for products made in America, and then looking at income taxes on the wealthiest Americans. He has also pledged to improve health care and education and has vowed not to increase taxes on wage-earners under $400,000.³ Meet with your advisor early in the year to plan what is best for you and your family… and keep your seatbelts on. 1.The Tax Foundation 2. Hericlitus. 3. NPR This article is informational only and is not designed to include all tax law changes. Patricia Kummer has been a Certified Financial Planner professional and a fiduciary for over 35 years and is Managing Director for Mariner Wealth Advisors, an SEC Registered Investment Adviser. Please visit www.marinerwealthadvisors.com for more information or refer to the Investment Adviser Public Disclosure website (www.adviserinfo.sec.gov). Securities offered through MSEC, LLC, Member FINRA & SIPC, 5700 W. 112th Suite 500, Overland Park, KS 66211.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR American Rescue Plan needed The American Rescue Plan is big. Real big. $1.9 trillion. With millions of people unemployed or underemployed, schools trying to reopen safely, and lines for food banks extending around blocks, this is a time for big solutions to big challenges. America’s challenges will not resolve through inaction, especially when a thousand people a day are dying from COVID-19. The American Rescue Plan includes billions of dollars to administer and distribute vaccines, diagnose infections, and purchase testing supplies and protective equipment. There are also funds for hospitals, public health agencies, and biomedical research. During a global pandemic, our communities and healthcare workers need resources. The American Rescue Plan also aggressively targets the economic

crisis resulting from the pandemic. Families and individuals will get help through direct payments, as will those who remain unemployed. Small business loans, emergency rental assistance, and grants for restaurants are included to boost the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) resources. An expansion of the child tax credit will lift tens of millions of children out of poverty. Emergency health coverage will be given to those who have slipped through the cracks of a system badly in need of repair. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and congressional leadership has developed an ambitious piece of legislation. It’s big. It’s comprehensive. It responds to a crisis. This is the kind of action we need to deliver relief for working people. Erik Clarke Denver

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Heritage reaches new heights in swimming competition Eagles swim team takes 4A state championship BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Heritage made a statement about the future while Cherry Creek relived the past during the Colorado state girls swim and dive championships held at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Thornton. The Eagles, sparked by the record-setting performances of Anna Shaw, won the Class 4A state championship in the March 12 state finals. Heritage, which had about 14 underclass swimmers at the state meet, earned its first state title with 495.5 points after opting this season to drop from Class 5A to 4A. Mullen was second with 322 points, and Niwot third with 307 points. “We are pretty well-balanced and obviously have a pretty strong sophomore and freshman class,” said Heritage coach Tom Byorick. “The whole team really jelled together.” Cherry Creek, spurred by last season’s runner-up finish, captured the Class 5A title on March 11 with 430 points. Defending champ Fairview was second (392) and Regis Jesuit third (298). It was the 27th girls state swimming and diving title trophy for the Bruins but the first since 2010. “It feels great,” said Creek coach Eric Craven. “This was a real special one. It’s been a long, long time since we’ve been in this position. It was the attitude of the girls. They were just determined to win it this year. I was just happy to go for the ride.” In the 4A meet, Shaw was on two winning relay teams and won the 50 and 100 yard freestyle events

Cherry Creek coach Eric Craven holds the state championship trophy during a celebration in the pool of the VMAC in Thornton. Creek won its 27th girls state swimming and diving title on March 11, which was the first state crown for the Bruins since 2010. PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON

Arapahoe senior Lyndsehy Wehr won the state individual Class 5A championship in the 50 freestyle with a time of 23.22 seconds.

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with record times. The Stanford-bound senior led off the winning 200 freestyle relay team (1:42.86) in the first event and was the anchor on the meet’s final event, the state champion 400yard freestyle relay team (3:27.50). Shaw won the 50 freestyle at last season’s 5A meet and broke the 50 state standard of Missy Franklin, the former Regis and Olympic swimmer, with a time of :22.22. Franklin set the previous mark of :22.41 in 2011. In the 100 freestyle, Shaw established a new low of :48.24 and bettered Franklin’s time of :48.45 set in 2012. “I swam those two races for the time but it felt like a conclusion of all my hard work,” said Shaw, who will be going to the U.S. Olympic trials in June. “I’ve looked up to Missy since I was nine. I had the opportunity to meet her once. “There is something magical for a Colorado swimmer just about the name of Missy Franklin. It makes it even more special to get those records.” Heritage had another individual state champion in sophomore Aislyn Barnett, whose strong finish resulted in winning the 100 breaststroke in 1:02.44.

Heritage senior Anna Shaw won four titles on March 12 (two in relays and two individuals) and set two state records previously held by former Regis Jesuit and Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin. She won the 50-yard freestyle in 22.22 seconds and the 100 freestyle in 48.24. Shaw PHOTOS BY JIM BENTON helped the Eagles capture the Class 4A team championship.

Cherry Creek did not have an individual state champion. Sophomore Lawson Ficken was the runner-up in the 50 freestyle and junior Elizabeth Brock was second in the 200 freestyle and third in the 200 freestyle. “We kind of wanted to redeem what we did last year because we were so close,” said senior Hannah Eckerman. “This whole

season we were so hungry for this win. To finally get it feels absolutely amazing.” Arapahoe senior Lyndsey Wehr won the 50 freestyle in Class 5A with a time of :23.46 and was second in the 100 freestyle. “I am more of a person that likes to chase people rather than the one being chased,” said Wehr. “I was nervous about that. I was

seeded first going in and I put a lot of pressure on myself.” Emma Weber, a junior at Regis Jesuit, won the 200 IM (2:01.72) and set a set record of :59,93 in capturing the 100 breaststroke. “I’m real excited,” said Weber. “I was so tired. It (breaststroke) was my last race of the day. When I finished I was super happy with my time.”

Heritage High School senior Anna Shaw won four titles on March 12 in the state finals at Thornton.

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state meet held on March 12 at the VMAC. 200 medley relay – 1. Heritage (Anna Shaw, Aislyn Barnett, Inge Ehm, Amaia Sherman) 1:42.86.

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200 freestyle – 9. Kenzie Myco, Heritage, 1:56.58; 10. Caroline Dimig, Heritage, 1:56.60. 200 IM – 3. Barnett, Heritage 2:06.02; 7. Ehm ,Heritage, 2:08.78; 9. Sherman, Heritage, 2:10.29. 50 free – 1. Shaw, Heritage, :22.22. Diving – 4. Morgan Davita, Heri-

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:48.24; 8. Cora Buelow, Heritage, :53.90. 500 free – 6. Elizabeth Dimig, Heritage, 5:11.05; 8. AmyLee Hawkins, Littleton, 5:17.97, 200 free relay – 4. Heritage (Urroz, Alyssa Lopez, Sherman, Myco),1:37.57. 100 backstroke – 7. Sherman, Heritage, :58.08. 100 breaststroke – 1. Barnett,Heritage, 1:02.44; 6. Urroz, Heritage, 1:06.70; 8, Hawkins, Littleton, 1:07.29; 9. Isabella Cole, Heritage, 1:07.62. 200 free relay – 4. Heritage (Urroz, Lopez, Sherman, Myco) 1:37.57. 100 backstroke – 7. Sherman, Heritage, :58.07. 400 free relay – 1. Heritage (Myco, Dimig, Buelow, Shaw) 3:27.50. Team – 1. Heritage 495.5; 16. Highlands Ranch 65; 18. Littleton 52; 26. Ponderosa 13. Class 5A Top 10 finishers from South Metro schools in the Class 5A state meet held on March 11 at the VMAC: 200 free relay – 3. Regis Jesuit (Allie Sanchez, Emma Weber, Greta Leege, Rosie Jump) 1:43.12; 4. Cherry Creek (Charlotte Wilson, Teagan Steinmetz, Alexia Greenhawt, Avery Hall) 1:43.26. 7. Valor Christian (Daciana Colon, Karley Bennett, Makayla Hoehn, Ashley Stenstrom) 1:47.16; 9. Rock Canyon (Abigail Gardner, Mandy Fleetwood, Grace Gardner, Morgan Edstrom) 1:47.74; 10. Arapahoe (Lindsay Louder, Ryan Johnston, Marina Huster, Piper Prince) 1:47.93. 200 free – 3. Elizabeth Brock, Cherry Creek, 1:509.77; 5. Samantha Aguirre, Regis Jesuit, 1:53.12; 5. Madison Saldanha, Cherry Creek, 1:53.86. 200 IM – 1. Emma Wilson, Regis Jesuit, 2:01.71; 5, Steinmetz, Cherry Creek, 2:05.04; 6. Kate Baker, ThunderRidge, 2:05.32; 7. Quinlan Hinerfeld, Rock Canyon, 2:05.73.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals City and County Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR PORTER REZONE - AND – ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION FOR A MINOR DEVELOPMENT CASE NUMBERS: RZ-20-0071& MP-20-0072 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE 1280 COUNTY ROAD 166, ELIZABETH, CO, PROPERTY SHALL BE CONSIDERED FOR A REZONE AND MINOR DEVELOPMENT, PURSUANT TO ELBERT COUNTY REGULATIONS. THE HEARING IS TO BE HELD BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION ON THE 20TH DAY OF APRIL 2021: • IN PERSON AT THE AGRICULTURE BUILDING AT THE ELBERT COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS, 95 UTE AVENUE, KIOWA, COLORADO, AT 7 P.M., OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS POSSIBLE. • ALSO AVAILABLE ON ZOOM AT 7 P.M. – MEETING ID: 927 3180 4644 PASSCODE: 123123. - AND – THE HEARING IS TO BE HELD BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ON THE 12TH DAY OF MAY, 2021, IN THE AGRICULTURE BUILDING AT THE ELBERT COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS, 95 UTE AVENUE, KIOWA, COLORADO, AT 1 P.M., OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS POSSIBLE. AN ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION WILL BE MADE BY THE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY & DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ON THE REFERENCED MINOR SUBDIVISION BY THE 13TH DAY OF MAY 2021. CONTACT ELBERT COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FOR MORE INFORMATION: 303-621-3136 LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY: SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 7, RANGE 65SE4NW4: S2NE4NW4: E 30' OF N2NE4NW4 LESS A PAR IN NE4NW4 SUBDIVISION: GIESING MINOR SUBDIVISION LOT: 2, COUNTY OF ELBERT, STATE OF COLORADO. Legal Notice No. 24577 First Publication: March 25, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Publisher: The Elbert County News

Metropolitan Districts Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 4 (CASE NUMBER: SR-21-0020) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED SERVICE PLAN FOR THE SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 4 (CONSISTING OF THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED BELOW) SHALL BE CONSIDERED PURSUANT TO ELBERT COUNTY REGULATIONS. THE HEARING IS TO BE HELD BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION ON THE 20TH DAY OF APRIL, 2021, IN THE ELBERT COUNTY BUILDING, COMMISSIONERS’ BOARD ROOM, 215 COMANCHE STREET, KIOWA, COLORADO, AT 7:00 P.M., OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS POSSIBLE. - AND – A HEARING IS TO BE HELD BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ON THE 12TH DAY OF MAY, 2021, IN THE ELBERT COUNTY BUILDING, COMMISSIONERS’ BOARD ROOM, 215 COMANCHE STREET, KIOWA, COLORADO, AT 9:00 A.M., OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS POSSIBLE. CONTACT ELBERT COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FOR MORE INFORMATION: 303-621-3185 SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN DISTRCT NO. 4 LEGAL DESCRIPTION: A PARCEL OF PROPERTY LOCATED IN SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 6 SOUTH, RANGE 64 WEST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF ELBERT, STATE OF COLORADO; BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SECTION 30 AND CONSIDERING THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 30 TO BEAR S 89°58'56" E WITH ALL BEARINGS CONTAINED HEREIN RELATIVE THERETO; THENCE S 89°58'56" E ALONG SAID NORTH LINE A DISTANCE OF 500.03 FEET; THENCE S 00°38'25" W A DISTANCE OF 1000.00 FEET; THENCE S 48°49'25" E A DISTANCE OF 1791.43 FEET; THENCE N 90°00'00" E A DISTANCE OF 229.84 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG THE ARC OF

CURVE TO THE RIGHT HAVING A RADIUS OF 57.00 FEET, A LENGTH OF 31.34 FEET AND A DELTA ANGLE OF 31°30'16" (CHORD BEARS S 74°14'52" E, 30.95 FEET); THENCE N 31°30'16" E A DISTANCE OF 56.77; THENCE N 90°00'00" E A DISTANCE OF 117.55 FEET; THENCE S 00°00'00" E A DISTANCE OF 372.31; THENCE S 10°06'38" W A DISTANCE OF 85.80 FEET; THENCE S 23°28'11" W A DISTANCE OF 107.14 FEET; THENCE N 58°50'01" W A DISTANCE OF 120.00 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG THE ARC OF A NON-TANGENT CURVE TO THE LEFT HAVING A RADIUS OF 280.00 FEET, A LENGTH OF 16.75 FEET AND A DELTA ANGLE OF 3°25'40" (CHORD BEARS S 32°52'48" W, 16.75 FEET) TO A POINT OF REVERSE CURVE; THENCE ALONG THE ARC OF A CURVE TO THE LEFT HAVING A RADIUS OF 13.19 FEET, A LENGTH OF 20.71 FEET AND A DELTA ANGLE OF 89°55'39" (CHORD BEARS S 10°34'20" E, 18.65 FEET); THENCE S 42°23'11"W A DISTANCE OF 180.00 FEET; THENCE S 41°52'28" E A DISTANCE OF 60.00 FEET; THENCE S 30°34'24" E A DISTANCE OF 60.00 FEET; THENCE S 26°40'14" E A DISTANCE OF 42.43 FEET; THENCE S 26°46'41" E A DISTANCE OF 214.82 FEET; THENCE S 38°40'21" E A DISTANCE OF 77.44 FEET; THENCE S 46°40'25" E A DISTANCE OF 77.44 FEET; THENCE S 54°40'30" E A DISTANCE OF 77.44 FEET; THENCE S 62°40'34" E A DISTANCE OF 77.44 FEET; THENCE N 23°19'23" E A DISTANCE OF 125.00 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG THE ARC OF A NON-TANGENT CURVE TO THE RIGHT HAVING A RADIUS OF 430.00 FEET, A LENGTH OF 287.22 FEET AND A DELTA ANGLE 38°16'14" (CHORD BEARS S 85°48'44" E, 281.91 FEET); THENCE S 30°56'18" E A DISTANCE OF 85.13 FEET; THENCE S 45°19'00" E A DISTANCE OF 39.31 FEET; THENCE S 55°04'39" E A DISTANCE OF 88.24 FEET; THENCE S 68°40'02" E A DISTANCE OF 89.24 FEET; THENCE S 75°30'03" E A DISTANCE OF 468.22 FEET; THENCE N 60°31'29" E A DISTANCE OF 15.16 FEET; THENCE S 24°16'30" E A DISTANCE OF 9.97 FEET; THENCE S 00°00'00" E A DISTANCE OF 950.15 FEET; THENCE S 05°39'58" E A DISTANCE OF 222.85 FEET; THENCE S 03°36'56" W A DISTANCE OF 60.00 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG THE ARC OF A NON-TANGENT CURVE TO THE RIGHT HAVING A RADIUS OF 870 FEET, A LENGTH OF 64.17 FEET AND A DELTA ANGLE OF 4°13'34" (CHORD BEARS S 84°16'17" E, 64.16 FEET); THENCE S 07°50'30" W A DISTANCE OF 120.00 FEET; THENCE S 00°00'00" E A DISTANCE OF 424.73 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTH LINE OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 30; THENCE S 89°57'38" W ALONG SAID SOUTHEAST 1/4 A DISTANCE OF 1310.97 FEET TO THE SOUTH 1/4 CORNER OF SAID SECTION 30; THENCE S 89°58'07" W ALONG THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 30 A DISTANCE OF 2222.04 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 30; THENCE N 00°38'08" E ALONG THE WEST LINE OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 30 A DISTANCE OF 2655.22 FEET TO THE WEST 1/4 CORNER OF SAID SECTION 30; THENCE N 00°38'25" E ALONG THE WEST LINE OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 30 A DISTANCE OF 2655.11 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 30 AND THE POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL CONTAINS 11,267,229 SQUARE FEET, 258.66 ACRES MORE OR LESS. Legal Notice No. 24579 First Publication: March 25, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Publisher: The Elbert County News Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGFOR THE SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 5 (CASE NUMBER: SR-21-0020) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN AMENDED AND RESTATED SERVICE PLAN FOR THE SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 5 (CONSISTING OF THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED BELOW) SHALL BE CONSIDERED PURSUANT TO ELBERT COUNTY REGULATIONS. THE HEARING IS TO BE HELD BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION ON THE 20TH DAY OF APRIL, 2021, IN THE ELBERT COUNTY BUILDING, COMMISSIONERS’ BOARD ROOM, 215 COMANCHE STREET, KIOWA, COLORADO, AT 7:00 P.M., OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS POSSIBLE. - AND – A HEARING IS TO BE HELD BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ON THE 12TH DAY OF MAY, 2021, IN THE ELBERT COUNTY BUILDING, COMMISSIONERS’ BOARD ROOM, 215 COMANCHE STREET, KIOWA, COLORADO, AT 9:00 A.M., OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS POSSIBLE. CONTACT ELBERT COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FOR MORE INFORMATION: 303-621-3185 SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 5 LEGAL DESCRIPTION:

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OF SECTION 30, AND CONSIDERING THE EAST LINE OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 30 TO BEAR S 00°39'45" W WITH ALL BEARINGS CONTAINED HEREIN RELATIVE THERETO; THENCE S 00°39'45" W ALONG THE EAST LINE OF SAID NORTHEAST 1/4 A DISTANCE OF 2653.20 FEET TO THE EAST 1/4 COR OF SAID SECTION 30; THENCE S 00°41'30" W ALONG THE EAST LINE OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 30 A DISTANCE OF 2652.52 FEET TO THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 30; THENCE S 89°57'38" W ALONG THE SOUTH LINE OF THE SOUTHEAST 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 30 A DISTANCE OF 1233.28 FEET; THENCE N 00°00'00" E A DISTANCE OF 424.73 FEET; THENCE N 07°50'30" E A DISTANCE OF 120.00 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG THE ARC OF A NON-TANGENT CURVE TO THE LEFT HAVING A RADIUS OF 870.00 FEET, A LENGTH OF 64.17 FEET AND A DELTA ANGLE OF 4°13'34" (CHORD BEARS N84°16'17"W, 64.16 FEET); THENCE N 03°36'56" E A DISTANCE OF 60.00 FEET; THENCE N 05°39'58" W A DISTANCE OF 222.85 FEET; THENCE N 00°00'00" E A DISTANCE OF 950.15 FEET; THENCE N 24°16'30" W A DISTANCE OF 9.97 FEET; THENCE S 60°31'29" W A DISTANCE OF 15.16 FEET; THENCE N 75°30'03" W A DISTANCE OF 468.22 FEET; THENCE N 68°40'02" W A DISTANCE OF 89.24 FEET; THENCE N 55°04'39" W A DISTANCE OF 88.24 FEET; THENCE N 45°19'00" W A DISTANCE OF 39.31 FEET; THENCE N 30°56'18" W A DISTANCE OF 85.13 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG THE ARC OF A NON-TANGENT CURVE TO THE LEFT HAVING A RADIUS OF 430.00 FEET, A LENGTH OF 287.22 FEET AND DELTA ANGLE OF 38°16'14" (CHORD BEARS N85°48'44"W, 281.91 FEET); THENCE S 23°19'23" W A DISTANCE OF 125.00 FEET; THENCE N 62°40'34" W A DISTANCE OF 77.44 FEET; THENCE N 54°40'30" W A DISTANCE OF 77.44; THENCE N 46°40'25" W A DISTANCE OF 77.44 FEET; THENCE N 38°40'21" W A DISTANCE OF 77.44 FEET; THENCE N 26°46'41" W A DISTANCE OF 214.82 FEET; THENCE N 26°40'14" W A DISTANCE OF 42.43 FEET; THENCE N 30°34'24" W A DISTANCE OF 60.00 FEET; THENCE N 41°52'28" W A DISTANCE OF 60.00 FEET; THENCE N 42°23'11" E A DISTANCE OF 180.00 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG THE ARC OF A NON-TANGENT CURVE TO THE RIGHT HAVING A RADIUS OF 13.19 FEET, A LENGTH OF 20.71 FEET AND A DELTA ANGLE OF 89°55'39" (CHORD BEARS N10°34'20"W, 18.65 FEET) TO A POINT OF REVERSE CURVE; THENCE ALONG THE ARC OF A CURVE TO THE RIGHT HAVING A RADIUS OF 280.00 FEET, A LENGTH OF 16.75 FEET AND DELTA ANGLE OF 3°25'40" (CHORD BEARS N32°52'48"E, 16.75 FEET); THENCE S 58°50'01" E A DISTANCE OF 120.00 FEET; THENCE N 23°28'11" E A DISTANCE OF 107.14 FEET; THENCE N 10°06'38" E A DISTANCE OF 85.80 FEET; THENCE N 00°00'00" E A DISTANCE OF 372.31; THENCE N 90°00'00" W A DISTANCE OF 117.55 FEET; THENCE S 31°30'16" W A DISTANCE OF 56.77 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG THE ARC OF A NON-TANGENT CURVE TO THE LEFT HAVING A RADIUS OF 57.00 FEET, A LENGTH OF 31.34 FEET AND A DELTA ANGLE OF 31°30'16" (CHORD BEARS N74°14'52"W, 30.95 FEET); THENCE N 90°00'00" W A DISTANCE OF 16.16 FEET; THENCE N48°49'25" E A DISTANCE OF 1791.43 FEET; THENCE N 00°38'25" W A DISTANCE OF 999.01 FEET TO A POINT ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SAID SECTION 30; THENCE S 89°58'39" E ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 A DISTANCE OF 1381.71 TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL CONTAINS 9,302,696 SQUARE FEET, 231.56 ACRES MORE OR LESS. Legal Notice No. 24580 First Publication: March 25, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Publisher: The Elbert County News Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 6 (CASE NUMBER: SR-21-0020) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A SERVICE PLAN FOR THE PROPOSED SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 6 (CONSISTING OF THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED BELOW) SHALL BE CONSIDERED PURSUANT TO ELBERT COUNTY REGULATIONS. THE HEARING IS TO BE HELD BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION ON THE 20TH DAY OF APRIL, 2021, IN THE ELBERT COUNTY BUILDING, COMMISSIONERS’ BOARD ROOM, 215 COMANCHE STREET, KIOWA, COLORADO, AT 7:00 P.M., OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS POSSIBLE. - AND – A HEARING IS TO BE HELD BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ON THE 12TH DAY OF MAY, 2021, IN THE ELBERT COUNTY BUILDING, COMMISSIONERS’ BOARD ROOM, 215 COMANCHE STREET, KIOWA, COLORADO, AT 9:00 A.M., OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS POSSIBLE.

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THENCE N72°08'40"W, A DISTANCE OF 233.25 FEET; THENCE N87°49'16"W, A DISTANCE OF 227.36 FEET; THENCE N00°15'56"E, A DISTANCE OF 594.78 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE RIGHT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 365.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 32°16'46", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 205.63 FEET; THENCE S31°46'19"E, A DISTANCE OF 244.53 FEET; THENCE S72°08'40"E, A DISTANCE OF 92.69 FEET; THENCE N32°26'09"E, A DISTANCE OF 230.46 FEET TO A POINT OF NON-TANGENT CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 430.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 15°19'18", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 114.99, WHOSE CHORD BEARS S60°38'04"E, A DISTANCE OF 114.65 FEET; THENCE S21°42'24"W, A DISTANCE OF 200.61 FEET; THENCE S72°08'40"E, A DISTANCE OF 275.08 FEET; THENCE S56°50'08"E, A DISTANCE OF 729.00 FEET; THENCE N87°30'10"E, A DISTANCE OF 576.72 FEET; THENCE N21°48'46"E, A DISTANCE OF 302.81 FEET; THENCE N27°20'27"W, A DISTANCE OF 765.81 FEET; THENCE N34°52'56"W, A DISTANCE OF 433.37 FEET; THENCE N43°51'07"W, A DISTANCE OF 667.11 FEET TO A POINT OF NON-TANGENT CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE RIGHT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 565.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 21°09'10", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 208.59 FEET, WHOSE CHORD BEARS N44°12'56"E, A DISTANCE OF 207.41 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENT; THENCE N54°47'31"E, A DISTANCE OF 137.46 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE RIGHT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 765.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 34°27'12", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 460.01 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENT; THENCE N89°14'43"E, A DISTANCE OF 385.32 FEET; THENCE N00°45'17"W, A DISTANCE OF 65.00 FEET; THENCE N89°14'43"E, A DISTANCE OF 14.15 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 23.95 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 90°13'10", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 37.72 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENT; THENCE N00°51'52"W, A DISTANCE OF 169.85 FEET; THENCE S87°31'13"W, A DISTANCE OF 188.78 FEET; THENCE S85°43'15"W, A DISTANCE OF 507.95 FEET; THENCE S16°11'32"E, A DISTANCE OF 188.88 FEET TO A POINT OF NONTANGENT CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 835.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 19°00'57", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 277.13 FEET, WHOSE CHORD BEARS S64°17'59"W, A DISTANCE OF 275.86 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENT;THENCE S54°47'31"W, A DISTANCE OF 137.46 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 635.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 10°55'46", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 121.13 FEET; THENCE N46°08'15"W, A DISTANCE OF 145.85 FEET; THENCE S86°21'56"W, A DISTANCE OF 40.47 FEET; THENCE S45°55'59"W, A DISTANCE OF 180.88 FEET; THENCE S15°58'08"W, A D I S TA N C E O F 1 8 1 . 6 9 F E E T; T H E N C E S38°09'15"W, A DISTANCE OF 152.65 FEET; THENCE N58°11'16"W, A DISTANCE OF 64.21 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE RIGHT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 470.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 03°38'09", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 29.82

FEET; THENCE N35°26'53"E, A DISTANCE OF 179.11 FEET; THENCE N05°51'34"W, A DISTANCE OF 130.12 FEET; THENCE N37°47'19"W, A DISTANCE OF 174.56 FEET; THENCE N29°22'53"W, A DISTANCE OF 70.85 FEET; THENCE N29°22'53"W, A DISTANCE OF 344.60 FEET; THENCE S68°49'30"W, A DISTANCE OF 235.69 FEET TO A POINT OF NON-TANGENT CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE RIGHT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 470.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 04°15'12", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 34.89 FEET, WHOSE CHORD BEARS N19°02'54"W, A DISTANCE OF 34.88 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENT; THENCE N16°55'18"W, A DISTANCE OF 45.48 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE RIGHT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 270.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 16°15'49", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 76.64 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENT; THENCE N00°39'29"W, A D I S TA N C E O F 5 0 . 1 0 F E E T; T H E N C E N89°35'52"W, A DISTANCE OF 60.01 FEET; THENCE S00°39'29"E, A DISTANCE OF 51.22 FEET; TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 330.10 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 16°15'28", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 93.67 FEET T O A P O I N T O F TA N G E N T; T H E N C E S16°55'18"E, A DISTANCE OF 45.48 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 533.52 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 04°13'33", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 39.35 FEET; THENCE S68°49'30"W, A DISTANCE OF 190.84 FEET; THENCE S22°44'23"E, A DISTANCE OF 458.44 FEET; THENCE S39°20'51"E, A DISTANCE OF 456.01 FEET; THENCE S88°13'54"E, A DISTANCE OF 80.60 FEET; THENCE N35°26'53"E, A DISTANCE OF 158.94 FEET TO A POINT OF NON-TANGENT CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 530.01 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 03°38'09", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 33.63 FEET, WHOSE CHORD BEARS S56°22'11"E, A DISTANCE OF 33.63 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENT; THENCE S58°11'16"E, A DISTANCE OF 114.13 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 530.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 03°58'25", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 36.76 FEET; THENCE S27°40'51"W, A DISTANCE OF 244.47 FEET; THENCE S61°28'30"W, A DISTANCE OF 494.31 FEET; THENCE S41°55'11"W, A DISTANCE OF 305.60 FEET; THENCE S05°23'18"E, 110.67 FEET; THENCE S72°39'58"E, A DISTANCE OF 139.66 FEET TO A POINT OF NON-TANGENT CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 435.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 17°04'07", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 129.59 FEET, WHOSE CHORD BEARS S08°47'59"W, A DISTANCE OF 129.11 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENT; THENCE S00°15'56"W, A DISTANCE OF 867.62 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 535.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 06°38'50", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 62.07 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENT; THENCE S06°22'54"E, A DISTANCE OF 605.75 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE RIGHT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 465.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 31°27'16", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 255.28 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENT; THENCE S25°04'22"W, A DISTANCE OF 277.35 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 335.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 76°38'08", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 448.08 FEET TO A POINT OF TANGENT; THENCE S51°33'46"E, A DISTANCE OF 290.86 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 535.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 30°07'10", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 281.24 FEET; THENCE S04°33'26"W, A DISTANCE OF 184.73 FEET; THENCE S40°02'43"E, A DISTANCE OF 88.63 FEET; THENCE S85°34'03"E, A DISTANCE OF 440.56 FEET; THENCE N80°43'11"E, A DISTANCE OF 354.20 FEET; THENCE N73°31'29"E, A DISTANCE OF 238.53 FEET; THENCE N14°18'13"E, A DISTANCE OF 156.93 FEET; THENCE N34°39'16"W, A DISTANCE OF 238.37 FEET; THENCE N55°20'44"E, A DISTANCE OF 48.03 FEET TO A POINT OF CURVE; THENCE ALONG SAID CURVE TO THE RIGHT, HAVING A RADIUS OF 965.00 FEET, A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 15°53'39", FOR AN ARC LENGTH OF 267.69 FEET; THENCE S04°05'52"E, A DISTANCE OF 239.82 FEET; THENCE S08°13'04"W, A DISTANCE OF 279.29 FEET; THENCE S26°12'47"E, A DISTANCE OF 216.94 FEET; THENCE S61°39'09"E, A DISTANCE OF 198.44 FEET; THENCE N74°30'49"E, A DISTANCE OF 161.98 FEET; THENCE N48°18'42"E, A DISTANCE OF 216.09 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, SAID PARCEL CONTAINING 138.44 ACRES MORE OR LESS, COUNTY OF ELBERT, STATE OF COLORADO. Legal Notice No. 24581 First Publication: March 25, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Publisher: The Elbert County News

Bids and Settlements Public Notice DEER CREEK WATER DISTRICT NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Deer Creek Water District (the “District”) of Elbert County, Colorado, will make final payment at the offices of Special District Management Services, Inc., 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Co 80228, at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, April 12, 2021, to:

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Public Notices HPM, Inc. 9200 E. Mineral Avenue, Suite 355 Centennial, CO 80112 for all work done by said Contractors for the Deer Creek Water District – Water System Improvements Project # 0022.0004B, all of said work being within or near the boundaries of the Deer Creek Water District, in Elbert County, State of Colorado. Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, provisions, team hire, sustenance provender or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done and whose claim therefore has not been paid by the Contractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a written verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim, Attn: David Solin, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado, 80228, with a copy to Evan D. Ela; Esq., Collins Cockrel & Cole, P.C., 390 Union Boulevard, #400, Denver, Colorado, 80228, at or before the time and date hereinabove shown. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such written verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release Deer Creek Water District, its Board, officers, agents, and employees of and from any and all liability for such claim. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Deer Creek Water District By: /s/ David Solin, Secretary Legal Notice No. 24576 First Publication: March 25, 2021 Last Publication: April 1, 2021 Publisher: The Elbert County News

Property to meet post-pumping augmentation requirements. Applicant requests the Court approve the above augmentation plan, find that Applicants have complied with C.R.S. § 37-90-137(4) and water is legally available for withdrawal, find there will be no material injury to the owners of or persons entitled to use water under any vested water right or decreed conditional water right, and grant such other and further relief as is appropriate. 3 pages. WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY 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 APRIL 2021 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 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. Legal Notice No. 24573 First Publication: March 25, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Publisher: The Elbert County News Public Notice

Water Court

DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO FEBRUARY 2021 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION

Public Notice

TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1

DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO FEBRUARY 2021 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 FEBRUARY 2021 for each County affected. 21CW3021 FREEDOM ONE HOLDINGS, LLC, 11825 Partenio Court, Las Vegas, NV 89183. Matthew S. Poznanovic, Eric K. Trout, Hayes Poznanovic Korver LLC, 1999 Broadway, Suite 3200, Denver, CO 80202. APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION IN THE NONTRIBUTARY LOWER DAWSON AQUIFER AND THE NOT-NONTRIBUTARY UPPER DAWSON AQUIFER, IN ELBERT COUNTY. Subject Property: 84.007 acres generally located in the NW1/4, Section 15, Township 8 South, Range 65 West of the 6th P.M., Elbert County, State of Colorado, as shown on Exhibit A (“Subject Property”). Applicant is the sole owner of the Subject Property. Well Permits: There is one existing stock watering well on the Subject Property under Well Permit No. 4453. This well will remain as a stock watering well. Additional well permits will be applied for prior to construction of additional wells. Source of Water Rights: The Upper Dawson aquifer is not-nontributary as defined in C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.7), and the Lower Dawson aquifer is nontributary as defined in C.R.S. § 37-90-103(10.5). Prior Decree Information: Decreed in Case No. 1997CW094, District Court, Water Division 1, on January 16, 1998 (“97CW094 Decree”). The Applicant was deeded 19.3 acre-feet annually of Upper Dawson Aquifer water and 15.9 acre-feet of Lower Dawson Aquifer water underlying the Subject Property via a Quitclaim Deed dated April 26, 2019 and recorded at Reception No. 585267 with the Elbert County Clerk and Recorders Office. Prior Decree Information: Decreed in Case No. 1997CW094, District Court, Water Division 1, on January 16, 1998 (“97CW094 Decree”). The Applicant was deeded 19.3 acre-feet annually of Upper Dawson Aquifer water and 15.9 acre-feet of Lower Dawson Aquifer water underlying the Subject Property via a Quitclaim Deed dated April 26, 2019, and recorded at Reception No. 585267 with the Elbert County Clerk and Recorders Office. Decreed Uses: All beneficial purposes, including, but not limited to, municipal, domestic, industrial, commercial, manufacturing, irrigation, stock watering, agricultural, recreational, piscatorial, wildlife propagation, fire protection, augmentation, exchange, replacement, and substitution purposes. Including the right of reuse, and successive use and disposition by sale, exchange or otherwise to extinction. Jurisdiction: The Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this application pursuant to C.R.S. §§ 37-90137(6), 37-92-203(1), 37-92-302(2). Summary of Plan for Augmentation: Groundwater to be Augmented: Approximately 4.8 acre-feet per year, for 300 years, of not-nontributary Upper Dawson aquifer groundwater. Water Rights to be Used for Augmentation: Return flows from the use of not-nontributary Upper Dawson aquifer groundwater and return flows and direct discharge of nontributary groundwater. Statement of Plan for Augmentation: The Upper Dawson aquifer groundwater will be used for domestic purposes, including in-house use, irrigation, commercial, stockwatering, and fire protection, through one or more wells, both on and off the Subject Property and all other uses described in the 97CW094 Decree. Applicants reserve the right to amend the amount and uses without amending the application or republishing the same. Sewage treatment for in-house use will be provided by non-evaporative septic systems. Return flow from in-house use will be approximately 90% of that use, and return flow from irrigation use will be approximately 15% of that use. During pumping Applicant will replace actual depletions pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-90-137(9)(c.5). Depletions occur to the Cherry Creek stream system and return flows accrue to that creek system and are sufficient to replace actual depletions while the subject groundwater is being pumped. Applicants will reserve an equal amount of Lower Dawson nontributary groundwater underlying the Subject

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 FEBRUARY 2021 for each County affected. 21CW3015 APPLICATION OF KAREN E. WORKMAN LIVING TRUST. APPLICATION FOR REVISION OF PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION IN ELBERT COUNTY. I. Name and Address of Applicant. Karen E. Workman Living Trust, 499 W. Triboulet Lane, San Tan Valley, AZ 85143 (“Applicant”). Name and Address of Attorneys. David M. Shohet, #36675, Emilie B. Polley, #51296 MONSON, CUMMINS & SHOHET, LLC, 13511 Northgate Estates Dr., Ste. 250, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80921, (719) 471-1212. E-mail:dms@cowaterlaw.com; ebp@cowaterlaw.com. II. Background and Summary of Application. A. Applicant seeks to revise a portion of an existing augmentation plan concerning groundwater supplies underlying a 12.12-acre parcel of land located in Section 12, township 8 South, Range 65 West of the 6th P.M., in Elbert County, Colorado, more specifically described as Lot 3 of the Elizabeth Minor View Development Subdivision, and depicted on attached Exhibit A (“Applicant’s Property”). B. Underground water rights within the Dawson, Denver, Arapahoe, and Laramie-Fox Hills aquifers, along with a plan for augmentation, were decreed in Case No. 18CW3094 (“18CW3094 Decree”) by District Court, Water Division 1. The 18CW3094 Decree established an augmentation plan for approximately 36.5 acres of land located in the W½ NE¼ of Section 12, Township 8 South, Range 65 West of the 6th P.M., known as the Elizabeth Minor View Development Subdivision consisting of four lots. The augmentation plan decreed that up to a combined 2.25 acre-feet of water per year may be withdrawn from the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer from three individual wells on each of the lots, or 0.75 annual acre-feet per lot. The 18CW3094 Decree set forth the water use as in house (0.4 annual acre feet), irrigation of 5,000 square feet of lawn, garden, and trees (0.3 annual acre-feet), and stockwatering of up to 4 large domestic animals (0.05 annual acre-feet). The Decree reserved a total of 675 acre-feet for replacement of post-pumping depletion obligations (a 300-year aquifer life/plan for augmentation) underlying the entirety of the Elizabeth Minor View Subdivision. The 18CW3094 Decree was amended by a decree entered in Case No. 19CW3189, District Court, Water Division 1, on January 24, 2020 (“19CW3189 Decree”). The 19CW3189 decree amended the augmentation plan awarded in 18CW3094 Decree by increasing pumping from the Dawson aquifer, and authorizing the use of 4 wells to withdraw 0.75 acre-feet to serve four residential lots. Subsequent to entry of the 19CW3189 decree, the Elizabeth Minor View Subdivision was platted as 3 lots instead of 4. C. Applicant is the current owner of Lot 3 of the Elizabeth View Minor Development Subdivision. Applicant owns the following water in the Denver Basin aquifers underlying Lot 3, as depicted on the attached Exhibit B Deed: Aquifer

Annual Amount – 100 years (Acre-Feet)

Upper Dawson (NNT) Lower Dawson (NT) Denver (NT) Arapahoe (NT) Laramie-Fox Hills (NT)

1.0 2.4 4.3 4.96 4.0

Total (Acre-Feet) 100 240 430 496 400

III. Proposed Revision. Applicant is the owner of Lot 3 of the Elizabeth View Minor Development Subdivision, along with water subject to the plan for augmentation approved and decreed by the Division 1 Water Court in the 18CW3094 Decree, amended by the 19CW3189 Decree (“Prior Decrees”), and additional water and water rights underlying Lot 3 as described above. Applicant does not seek any change or revision to the Prior Decrees affecting the remainder of the 2 lots within the Elizabeth View Minor Development. Rather, the Applicant seeks only to increase the pumping entitlements to Lot 3 utilizing additional available augmentation supplies. By this application, Applicant requests the following revisions to the plan for augmentation set forth in the Decrees only as to Lot 3, as follows: A. Structures to be Augmented: The structure to be augmented is one well, with existing DWR Permit No. 84984-F,

attached as Exhibit C, to-be constructed to the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer on Lot 3 (“the Workman Well”), including any future replacement or substitute wells as may be constructed to the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer formation underlying the Applicant’s Property. The existing well permit will be cancelled and re-permitted upon approval of this plan for augmentation. B. Water Rights to be Used for Augmentation. The water rights to be used for augmentation during pumping are the septic return flows and possibly lawn irrigation return flows resulting from pumping of the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer by the Workman Well, as well as return flows from any replacement/substitute wells, as set forth in this plan for augmentation, together with water rights from the nontributary Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer for any injurious post pumping depletions. C. Statement of Plan for Augmentation. Applicant wishes to provide for the augmentation of stream depletions caused by pumping the not-nontributary Dawson aquifer well proposed for Applicant’s Property. Potential water use criteria and the consumptive use component for replacement of actual depletions for the lot is estimated as follows: 1. Uses. i. Household Use Only: Consistent with the determinations in Prior Decrees, a single-family dwelling on Lot 3 will utilize 0.40 annual acre-feet with a maximum of ten percent consumptive use based on a non-evaporative septic leach field disposal systems. The annual consumptive use for the lot will therefore be 0.04 acre feet, with return flows of 0.36 acre feet annually. ii. Landscape Irrigation: 0.05 acre feet annually per 1,000 square feet (2.18 acre feet per acre) per year, with an 85% assumed consumptive use rate. The annual consumptive use for each 1,000 square feet of lawn and garden irrigated is therefore 0.042 acre feet. iii. Horses (or equivalent livestock): 0.011 acre feet annually (10 gallons per day) per head with a one hundred percent consumptive use component. 2. The Workman Well will pump a maximum of 1.0 acre feet of water per year from the Dawson aquifer (the Prior Decrees provided only for 0.75 acre feet of pumping). Such use shall be a combination of household use, irrigation of lawn and garden, and the watering of horses or equivalent livestock. An example breakdown of this combination of use, utilizing the factors described above, is household use of 0.40 acre feet of water per year, with the additional 0.60 acre feet per year available for irrigation of lawn and garden and the watering of up to ten horses or equivalent livestock. D. Depletions. Pursuant to C.R.S. §37-90-137(9) (c.5), replacement of actual stream depletions attributable to pumping of the Workman Well will be required to the extent necessary to prevent injurious effect, to the extent the well is constructed to the Dawson aquifer. The Prior Decrees found that maximum stream depletions over the 300-year pumping period for the Dawson aquifer amounts to approximately 20.8% of pumping. Maximum annual depletions for total pumping from Lot 3 of the Elizabeth Minor View Development Subdivision is therefore 0.20 acre-feet. Applicants are required to replace a maximum of 0.20 acre feet annually as a result of pumping the Workman Well (i.e. 20.8% of pumping). Should Applicants’ pumping be less than the 1.0 total per year, as described herein, resulting depletions and required replacements will be correspondingly reduced. E. Augmentation of Depletions During Pumping. Applicants will replace depletions resulting from the pumping of the Workman Well during the pumping life of the well utilizing residential return flows from a non-evaporative septic system from in house uses of the lot served by the Workman Well, as well as lawn irrigation return flows, if necessary. The annual consumptive use for non-evaporative septic systems is 10% per year per residence. At a household use rate of 0.40 acre feet per residence per year, consistent with the Prior Decrees, 0.36 acre feet is replaced to the stream system per year, utilizing the non-evaporative septic systems. Thus, during pumping, stream depletions will be more than adequately augmented thereby preventing injury to other vested water rights. F. Augmentation for Post Pumping Depletions. Applicants seek to revise the reservation of the Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer in the Prior Decrees for replacement of any injurious post-pumping depletions as to Lot 3. Under the 18CW3094 Decree, the Applicant’s 1/3rd reservation of the Laramie Fox Hills Aquifer is 225 acre feet, also consistent with the 19CW3189 Decree. The Applicants now reserve 300 acre feet of the Laramie-Fox Hills Aquifer, thereby adding 75 acre-feet to postpumping augmentation supply, sufficient to replace depletions from increased pumping on Lot 3. Applicants also reserve the right to substitute other legally available augmentation sources for such post pumping depletions upon further approval of the Court under its retained jurisdiction. Even though this reservation is made, under the Court’s retained jurisdiction, Applicants reserve the right in the future to prove that post pumping depletions will be noninjurious. The reserved nontributary Laramie-Fox Hills groundwater will be used to replace any injurious post-pumping depletions. Upon entry of a decree in this case, the Applicant will be entitled to apply for and receive a new well permit for the proposed Workman Well for the uses in accordance with this Application and otherwise in compliance with C.R.S. §37-90-137. G. Other Remarks. 1. Applicant notes that no revision of Prior Decrees is requested regarding Lots 1 and 2. 2. Applicant requests a finding that it have complied with C.R.S. §37-90-137(4), and that the ground water requested herein is legally available for withdrawal by the requested wells upon the entry of a decree approving an augmentation plan pursuant to C.R.S. §37-90-137(9) (c). 3. The term of this augmentation plan is for 300 years, however the length of the plan for a particular well may be extended beyond such time provided the total plan pumping allocated thereto is not exceeded. Post pumping stream depletions accrue to a particular well or wells only to the extent related to that well’s actual pumping. 4. The Court will retain jurisdiction over this matter to provide for the adjustment of the annual amount of ground water withdrawals to be allowed in order to conform to actual local aquifer characteristics from adequate information obtained from well drilling or test holes. IV. Remarks. A. The Applicant requests a finding that vested water rights of others will not be materially injured by the additional use requested herein. B. Upon entry of a decree in this case, the Applicant shall be entitled to apply for and receive a new well permit in accordance with the provisions of any decree entered in this case. C. The Water Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this application pursuant to §§ 37-90-137(6) and 37-92-302, C.R.S. D. The Applicant intends to waive the 600 feet well spacing requirement for any wells to be located upon the Applicant’s Prop-

erty. E. The well shall be installed and metered as reasonably required by the State Engineer. The well will be equipped with a totalizing flow meter and Applicant shall submit diversion records to the Division Engineer on an annual basis or as otherwise requested by the Division Engineer. The Applicant shall also provide accountings to the Division Engineer and Water Commissioner as required by them to demonstrate compliance under this plan of augmentation. F. The Applicant owns the Subject Property in this Application free and clear of all liens and encumbrances and no other person or entity has a financial interest in the land or underlying groundwater. Accordingly, the Applicant certifies compliance with the notice requirements of C.R.S. §37-92-302(2). WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY 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 APRIL 2021 (forms available on www. courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 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. Legal Notice No. 24571 First Publication: March 25, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Publisher: Elbert County News Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO FEBRUARY 2021 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 FEBRUARY 2021 for each County affected. 21CW4 STACEY AND PAULA COLLIS, APPLICATION FOR UNDERGROUND WATER RIGHTS IN THE DENVER BASIN AQUIFERS IN ELBERT COUNTY. Please send all correspondence to Stacey and Paula Collis, 38695 CR 13, Elizabeth, CO 80107, 303-717-7124, 2020safeschools@gmail.com All Applicant(s) listed have joint ownership of the parcel and/or joint consent to withdraw the water underlying the parcel(s), which is/are the subject of this application. Parcel of land consists of 35 acres, more or less, in Elbert County, located generally in Section(s) 24, Township(s) 75, Range(s) 65W, of the 6th Principal Meridian. The claim of Applicant(s) to the water underlying the parcel described previously is based on ownership of the parcel. The Applicant seeks to adjudicate the Denver Basin ground water underlying the Subject Property in all of the available aquifers. Applicant certifies that Applicant owns the Subject Property free and clear of all liens and encumbrances and that no other person or entity has a financial interest in the Subject Property. There is one well located on the property. Those wells are permitted/registered under well permit No. 192948. The application is seeking to adjudicate the existing well(s) located on the property. WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY 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 APRIL 2021 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 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. Legal Notice No. 24570 First Publication: March 25, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Publisher: The Elbert County News Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO FEBRUARY 2021 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 FEBRUARY 2021 for each County affected. 21CW3017 SCOTT PAUL ENGLISH AND WANDA ENGLISH, 17079 East Mansfield Ave., Aurora, CO 80013. James J. Petrock, Eric K. Trout, Hayes Poznanovic Korver LLC, 1999 Broadway, Suite 3200, Denver, CO 80202. APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION IN THE NOT NONTRIBUTARY UPPER DAWSON AQUIFER, IN ELBERT COUNTY. Well Permits: Well permits will be

applied for prior to construction of any wells. Subject Property: Lot 1 Palmer Divide Ranches on East Cherry Creek, per plat recorded June 6, 2005, Plat Book 12, page 113 recorded February 3 2006, Reception No. 470987 consisting of 10.010 acres located in the NE1/4 NE1/4 of Section 34, Township 9 South, Range 65 West of the 6th P.M., Elbert County, Colorado, as described and shown on the attached Exhibit A ("Subject Property"). Applicants are the sole owners of the Subject Property, which is included within the property described in Case No. 04CW157. Source of Water Rights: The Upper Dawson aquifer, which is not nontributary as described in C.R.S. § 3790-103(10.7). Amount: 2 acre-feet per year of Upper Dawson Aquifer groundwater decreed in Case No. 2004CW157 (“04CW157 Decree”). The Upper Dawson and Denver aquifer groundwater is owned by Applicants pursuant to the deed granting 6 acre-feet annually from each aquifer recorded on February 3, 2021 at Reception No. 2021013925 in the records of the Douglas County Clerk & Recorder, being part of the annual amount decreed for use in Palmer Divide Ranches on East Cherry Creek in the 04CW157 Decree. Proposed Uses: Domestic, including in-house, irrigation of home lawn and garden, livestock watering, and augmentation purposes. Jurisdiction: The Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this application pursuant to C.R.S. §§ 37-90-137(6), 37-92-203(1), 37-92-302(2). Summary of Plan for Augmentation: Groundwater to be Augmented: 2 acre-feet per year of Upper Dawson Aquifer groundwater as requested herein. Water Rights to be Used for Augmentation: Return flows from the use of not nontributary Upper Dawson Aquifer and return flows from use of, or direct discharge of, nontributary Denver Aquifer groundwater as specified in the 04CW157 Decree. Applicants are the owners of 6 acre-feet per year of the decreed Upper Dawson Aquifer groundwater of which 2 acre-feet per year will be used in this plan. Statement of Plan for Augmentation: The Upper Dawson Aquifer groundwater will be used to serve one residential lot on the Subject Property through an individual well for in house use (0.3 acre-feet per year), irrigation of up to 40,000 square-feet of home lawn, garden and trees (1.6 acre-feet per year), and stock-watering of up to eight (8) large domestic animals (0.1 acre-feet). Sewage treatment for in-house use will be provided by a non-evaporative septic system. Return flows associated with in-house use will be approximately 90% of water used for that purpose and return flow associated with irrigation use will be 15% of water used for that purpose. During pumping Applicants will replace actual depletions to the affected stream system pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-90137(9)(c.5). Depletions occur to the Cherry Creek stream system. Return flows accrue to the South Platte River stream system via Cherry Creek and those return flows are sufficient to replace actual depletions while the subject groundwater is being pumped. Applicants will reserve an equal amount of nontributary Denver Aquifer groundwater to meet post-pumping augmentation requirements. Applicants request the Court approve the above underground water rights, find that Applicant has complied with C.R.S. § 37-90-137(4) and water is legally available for withdrawal, find there will be no material injury to the owners of or persons entitled to use water under any vested water right or decreed conditional water right, and grant such other and further relief as is appropriate. 4 pages. WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY 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 APRIL 2021 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 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. Legal Notice No. 24572 First Publication: March 25, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Publisher: The Elbert County News

Notice to Creditors Public Notice District Court of Elbert County, Colorado Court Address: 751 Ute Ave. Kiowa, CO 80117 In the Matter of the Estate of: Virgil W. Mock, Deceased Attorney: Jerry Fairbanks Fairbanks Kling Law, P.A. 1011 Main Ave. – P.O. Box 743 Goodland, KS 67735 Phone Number: 785-890-6622 Email : jerry@fairbanksklinglaw.net Atty. Reg. # 32574 Case Number: 2021PR30012 NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF INFORMATION OF APPOINTMENT To: Brian S. Amphavana and any unknown heirs of Thomas R. Russell aka Thomas R. Mock, deceased son of decedent Virgil Mock: Last Known Address, if any: none known. Please take notice that the following Information of Appointment was filed in the District Court of Elbert County, Colorado, on March 17, 2021: Important Notice The court will not routinely review or adjudicate matters unless it is specifically requested to do so by a beneficiary, creditor, or other interested person. All interested persons, including beneficiaries and creditors, have the responsibility to protect their own rights and interests in the estate

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Public Notices in the manner provided by the provisions of the Colorado Probate Code, § 15-10-101, et seq., C.R.S, by filing an appropriate pleading with the court by which the estate is being administered and serving it on all interested persons pursuant to § 15-10-401, C.R.S. All interested persons have the right to obtain information about the estate by filing a Demand for Notice pursuant to § 15-12-204, C.R.S. To the heirs and devisees who have or may have an interest in this estate: 1. The decedent died on December 2, 2020. 2. [x] The decedent left a will dated June 2, 2015. The dates of all codicils are: none . The will and any codicils were admitted to probate on March 16, 2021 (date). 3. [x] Proceedings in this matter are informal. 4. Dana S. Volfing was appointed as personal representative on March 16, 2021. 5. [x] No bond has been filed with this court. 6. Administration of this estate is unsupervised.

The court will consider ordering supervised administration if requested by an interested person. (§ 15-12-501, et. seq., C.R.S.) 7. This Information of Appointment is being sent to persons who have or may have some interest in the estate being administered. 8. Papers relating to this estate, including an inventory of estate assets, are either on file with this court or, if not, papers may be obtained by interested persons from the personal representative. (§§15-12-705, C.R.S. and 15-12-706(2), C.R.S.) 9. Interested persons are entitled to receive an accounting. (§§15-12-1001 to 15-12-1003, C.R.S.) 10. The surviving spouse, partner in a civil union, children under twenty-one years of age, and dependent children may be entitled to exempt property and a family allowance if a request for payment is made in the manner and within the time limits prescribed by statutes. (§15-11-401, et. seq., C.R.S.) 11. The surviving spouse or partner in a civil union may have a right of election to take a portion of the augmented estate if a petition is filed within the time limits prescribed by statute. (§15-11-201,

et seq., C.R.S.) 12. Any individual who has knowledge that there is or may be an intention to use an individual’s genetic material to create a child and that the birth of the child could affect the distribution of the decedent’s estate should give written notice of such knowledge to the personal representative of the decedent’s estate. 13. Any individual who has knowledge that there is a valid, unrevoked designated beneficiary agreement in which the decedent granted the right of intestate succession should give written notice of such knowledge to the personal representative of the decedent’s estate. Dana S. Volfing, Personal Representative, 2 Burd 3101, Nyack, NY 10960 Legal Notice No. 24575 First Publication: March 25, 2021 Last Publication: April 8, 2021 Publisher: Elbert County News

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Virgil W. Mock, Deceased Case Number: 2021PR30012

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public Notice is given on March 15, 2021, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a Adult has been filed with the Elbert County Court.

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Elbert County, Colorado on or before July 25, 2021 or the claims may be forever barred.

The Petition requests that the name of Kesa Alex be changed to Nash Alex Privratsky. Case No.:2021CV30021

Dana S. Volfing, Personal Representative 2 Burd 3101 Nyack, NY 10960

By: Gina Parker Clerk of the Court / Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. 24574 First Publication: March 25, 2021 Last Publication: April 8, 2021 Publisher: Elbert County News

Legal Notice No. 24578 First publication: March 25, 2021 Last publication: April 08, 2021 Publisher: Elbert County News

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Elbert County Warrants Public Notice PAYMENTS FOR PUBLICATION FEBRUARY 2021 GENERAL FUND HEALTH FUND ROAD & BRIDGE FUND SALES & USE FUND LEAF FUND HUMANS SERVICE FUND GRANT FUND RETIREMENT FUND IMPACT FUND CONSERVATION TRUST FUND BOND SERVICE FUND TOTAL ALL FUNDS

010 015 020 025 040 050 060 070 085 090 090

786,255.98 15,047.98 619,390.89 6,044.55 17,547.28 31,873.90 31,982.50 7,332.14 22,625.24 76.54 230,855.45 1,769,032.45

Vendor Name Description Amount A AND E TIRE INC Tires $3,074.08 AARMS Software Support 175.00 ADVANCED QUALITY AUTO REPAIR Auto Rep 3,998.76 AFLAC Benefits Payable 1,138.02 AIRGAS INTERMOUNTAIN Welding Supplies 1,638.62 ALLDATA Software Support 1,500.00 AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES INC Supplies 1,431.97 AMERICAN FIDELITY ASSURANCE COMPANY Benefits Payable 4,473.31 AMERICAN FIDELITY HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION Benefits Payable 12,212.68 ARAMARK Uniforms 1,182.73 Attenti US Inc GPS Monitoring 374.40 AUTO CHLOR SYSTEM OF DENVER Equipment Rental/operating 463.31 AXIOM HUMAN RESOURCE SOLUTIONS INC. State County Administration 68.60 BANK OF THE WEST Credit Card 19,619.61 BB&T GOVERNMENT FINANCE Bond Interest/principal 230,855.45 BENDER MENDERS Insurance Repairs 6,596.17 BERG HILL GREENLEAF AND RUSCITTI Contract Litigation 510.00 BESTWAY LLC dba LOCAL SHIPPING CONTAINERS Equipment Under $5,000 4,900.00 BLACK HILLS ENERGY Utilities 4,214.62 BLEACHERS INTERNATIONAL Operating 4,981.00 BOBCAT OF THE ROCKIES Equipment Parts 178.40 Brannan Aggregates Sand Salt 21,626.44 BRENDA JANSEN Impact fees 4,451.00 CAROLYN BURGENER Contract Services 1,200.00 CASTLE ROCK CHEVROLET Auto Rep 928.23 CASTLE ROCK CHRYSLER DODGE JEEP RAM Equipment Repair 424.73 CCNC INC Dues 100.00 CCP INDUSTRIES INC Safety Supplies 463.56 CCS PRESENTATION SYSTEMS COLORADO COVID 19 99,932.39 CDLE-DIVISION OF OIL AND PUBLIC SAFETY Blding Repairs 40.00 CENTRAL STATES HOSE Equipment Parts 129.09 CENTURYLINK Telephone Maint 1,358.12 CERTIFIED LABORATORIES Equipment Repair 282.76 CHERIS CHIC PHOTOGRAPHY Operating 150.00 CHRIS KELLEY Reimbursement 36.05 CINTAS CORPORATION AED/equipment/Safety Supplies 5,168.56 CO DEPT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT DIV OF OIL AND PUBLIC SAFETY Fuel 70.00 COLORADO BARRICADE CO Signs 3,550.50 COLORADO BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION CONCJ1522 CCW CBI 4,576.00 COLORADO COMMUNITY Advertising 197.00 COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA Advertising 409.00 COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT Septage Program 1,160.00 CONSOLIDATED COMMUNICATIONS Utilities 320.81 CONTROL SOLUTIONS INC HVAC Service 1,771.88 CORRECT CARE SOLUTIONS Medical Services 23,836.45 COUNTY HEALTH POOL Benefits Payable 122,974.54 COUNTY WORKERS COMPENSATION POOL Worker’s Compensation 212,732.00 CREDIT SERVICE COMPANY Civil Process 30.00 CTSI Insurance/Bonds 321,078.80 DALLAS SCHROEDER reimbursement 25.00 DHS CONFIDENTIAL State County Administration 49.50 DEEP ROCK Shop Supplies 18.90

DENNIS PHILLIPS II DIGITAL DATA SERVICES DJ PETROLEUM INC Dominion Voting Systems DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE E470 PUBLIC HWY AUTHORITY EAST CENTRAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS ELBERT COUNTY ROAD AND BRIDGE ELBERT COUNTY TREASURER ELBERT CTY SHERIFF OFFICE ELITE K9 EMAINT ENTERPRISES LLC EMERGENCY VEHICLE SPECIALISTS EMPLOYERS COUNCIL SERVICES INC ENVIROTECH SERVICES INC EXPRESS SERVICES INC Force America Distributing LLC FORENSIC PATHOLOGY CONSULTANT FRANCY LAW FIRM PC FRONT RANGE KUBOTA GALLS LLC DBA NEVES UNIFORMS GARY PASTORE GLASER GAS COMPANY GOVERNMENT FINANCE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION GPS SERVERS LLC GRAINGER GREAT WEST LIFE AND ANNUITY HBS HIGH PLAINS FOOD STORE HOME DEPOT CREDIT SERVICE HONNEN EQUIPMENT COMPANY INTEGRATED ELECTRIC INTEGRITY AUTO REPAIR INTEGRITY COACHING AND CONSULTING LLC INTERMOUNTAIN RURAL ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION INTERSTATE ENERGY INC JEFFERSON COUNTY DEPT OF HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT JOHN DEERE FINANCIAL JOHN TODD CO JOHNSON CONTROLS JON PRUITT KIMLEY-HORN & ASSOCIATES KIOWA AUTO REPAIR AND ALIGNMENT CENTER KIOWA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT KIOWA WATER & WASTE WATER AUTHORITY LAURA OR PAUL ROSELL LAWSON PRODUCTS INC. LEGAL SHIELD LEWAN & ASSOCIATES, INC. LEXIPOL LLC LN CURTIS AND SONS LUKE KERCHER MARC DETTENRIEDER MARSHALL & SWIFT (LPT) MATT MARTINICH MATTHEW BENDER MCCANDLES INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS OF COLORADO METRO COLLECTION SERVICE INC MHC KENWORTH-DENVER MIKE BILLERA MILE HIGH TRAILERS MINES & ASSOCIATES PC MOUNTAIN VIEW ELECTRIC NAPA CALHAN NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES NATIONAL TIRE WAREHOUSE NELSON & KENNARD

Auto Rep Professional Service Fuel License Fee Software Support Operating Dues Gasoline/MAINT Postage State County Administration CANINE UNIT Software Support Auto Rep Operating Mag Chloride Contract Services Equipment Parts Autopsies Civil Process Equipment Repair Uniforms Reimbursement Utilities

1,852.56 3,525.00 35,289.70 27,329.25 2,000.00 13.25 4,500.00 9,483.78 711.32 9.00 774.90 1,509.96 947.46 328.00 12,797.76 1,924.00 52.15 1,250.00 7.00 2,575.19 429.45 90.00 486.77

Dues 375.00 Civil Process 15.00 Blding Repairs & Maintenance 565.09 Benefits Payable 90,524.75 Trash 1,231.69 Fuel 37.63 Equipment Parts 99.80 Equipment Repair 2,046.34 COVID 19 2,925.00 Auto Rep 966.96 COVID 19 8,600.00 Utilities Blding Repairs

11,146.37 1,026.01

Operating Blding Repairs/supplies Contract Services Blding Repairs Reimbursement Professional Service Auto Rep COVID 19 Utilities Impact fees Equipment Parts Benefits Payable Copier Operating COVID 19 Reimbursement Reimbursement COVID 19 Social Services Admin Operating

1,890.00 651.28 480.00 459.50 75.00 33,262.00 89.99 245.00 1,650.11 6,058.08 610.75 385.79 132.10 495.00 31,095.00 98.00 40.00 3,120.00 262.50 95.50

NICK CLARK NMS LABS OFFICE FURNITURE EZ PARKER PORT-A-POTTY INC. PHOENIX TECHNOLOGY GROUP LLC PITNEY BOWES GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC PLATTE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT POWER EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC POYSTI AND ADAMS PRAIRIE TIMES PROCOM LLC PRONTO PROCESS PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES PUREWATER DYNAMICS INC QUILL CORPORATION RAFTELIS RANCHLAND NEWS ROBERT HALF FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING ROBS SEPTIC SERVICE AND PORTA POT RENTAL ROCK PARTS COMPANY ROYAL B THREADS LLC SAFARI AUTO GLASS SCOTT FLODEEN SHADE SETTERS SHERWIN WILLIAMS CO SIGNAL GRAPHICS SIGNATURE PUBLIC FUNDING CORP SILVER CLOUD PROPERTY MAINTENANCE LLC SPECIALIZED ATTORNEY SERVICES STAPLES ADVANTAGE STATE OF COLORADO STERICYCLE STONE OIL CO INC SUNDANCE PRINTING SYMBOL ARTS LLC SYSCO FOOD SERVICES TEX AND LINDA ADUDDELL TEXAS LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY THE DANNY PAUL ARDREY ESTATE TRUST THE LAW OFFICE OF JEFFREY J TIMLIN THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR CORPORATION TINDALL BARTELS AND ASSOCIATES LLC TLO LLC TONY MCCORMICK TOWN OF SIMLA Transwest Truck Trailer RV TRUCKHUGGER TARP SYSTEMS TURNKEY CORRECTIONS UNITED REPROGRAPHIC SUPPLY INC US BANCORP US BANK EQUIPMENT FINANCE VERIZON CONNECT NWF INC VERIZON WIRELESS VIAERO WIRELESS WAGNER EQUIPMENT CO INC WAKEFIELD AND ASSOCIATES INC WALK N ROLL WAXIE SANITARY SUPPLY WEAR PARTS & EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC. WELLS FARGO FINANCIAL LEASING WITT BOYS-NAPA WRIGLEY ENTERPRISES XEROX CORPORATION TOTAL ALL FUNDS

Reimbursement Autopsies Social Services Admin Equipment Rental Network Operating

98.00 147.00 2,077.75 402.00 27,838.16

Postage Meter Child Support Equipment Parts Financial Public Outreach Drug Testing Service Civil Process Operating Equipment Rental Office Supplies Professional Service LEAP Professional Service

1,003.77 (50.00) 1,268.96 1,500.00 3,930.00 120.00 7.00 405.00 115.00 815.33 5,280.00 807.00 18,750.00

Equipment Rental 440.00 Auto Rep 4,595.25 Office Supplies 65.00 Equipment Repairs 789.00 Impact fees 6,058.08 Auto Rep 340.00 Fencing Supplies 839.80 Office Supplies 208.43 Lease/Purchase 108,847.66 COVID 19 6,700.00 Civil Process 22.00 Office Supplies 2,557.42 Motor Vehicle Renewal Card 2,409.39 Haz Waste Rem 144.10 Fuel 17,692.80 FB Royalty (95.44) Operating 4,216.02 Prisoner Meals 1,731.47 Gravel 4,226.25 Benefits Payable 624.95 Equipment Rental 600.00 Contract Services 11,557.10 Elevator Service 721.73 Contract Services 1,600.00 Software Support 189.70 Employee Recruitment 5,000.00 Utilities 106.57 Equipment Parts 829.14 Equipment Repairs 910.00 Operating 3,662.34 Copier 98.10 Lease/Purchase 24,440.49 Copier 169.00 Radio Pager 404.75 Telephone Maint 9,282.11 Utilities 1,698.16 Equipment Parts 8,374.99 Civil Process 10.00 Equipment Parts 187.77 Janitorial Supplies 2,950.17 Blades, Teeth 6,445.36 copier 431.07 Equipment Parts 137.19 Operating 270.00 Copier 4,518.43 1,769,032.45

Get Involved! Equipment Parts Civil Process Fuel Impact fees Equipment Under $5,000 Other Benefits Utilities Equipment Parts Dues Tires Civil Process

Facts do not cease to exist b ybecause g they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley

1,107.54 30.00 2,499.23 6,058.08 3,795.00 734.40 1,210.16 4.88 460.00 277.06 15.00

Legal Notice No.: 24582 First Publication: March 25, 2021 Last Publication: March 25, 2021 Publisher: Elbert County News

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