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2019 ENGLEWOOD CITIZEN OF THE YEAR

‘I’ve been surrounded by wonderful people’ Former councilmember Bill Clayton has served community for decades

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Know anyone who has been an Englewood city councilmember, neighborhood watch captain, volunteer elementary-school reading coach, leader of a low-income assistance nonprofit and chamber of commerce president?

That’s Bill Clayton, a community staple born and raised in Englewood — and, now, the city’s 2019 Citizen of the Year.

Inspired by family members who volunteered, Clayton has lived a lifetime of service, holding positions like president of the board of The Family Tree, a nonprofit that helps address homelessness and domestic violence in the Denver metro area. He’s also been president of what’s now Integrated Family Community Services, a nonprofit that helps low-income residents in the south metro area.

The man who’s seen Englewood from so many different angles received a unanimous vote by the city council, which selected him as citizen of the year March 18.

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Bill Clayton, 72, sits March 20 at his home in northern Englewood. The Englewood City Council selected him as the 2019 Citizen of the Year earlier that week.

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THE BOTTOM LINE PERIODICAL

“With race, I can’t solve it. I’m gonna try to make you laugh about it — maybe the humor makes you think about it differently.”

Comedian Sam Adams about his videotaped routine that went viral | Page 6 INSIDE

VOICES: PAGE 14 | LIFE: PAGE 16 | CALENDAR: PAGE 27 | SPORTS: PAGE 29

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Rotary foundation hits million-dollar mark Endowment supports charitable organizations in Littleton

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Rotary Club of Littleton President Bill White speaks at the group’s gala on March 19, celebrating the Littleton Rotary Foundation passing the milliondollar mark.

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The Littleton Rotary Foundation’s bank account topped $1 million in December, adding a seventh digit and another comma to the group’s endowment for the first time — which translates into a lot more help for charitable causes in Littleton.

“Hitting that milestone was a shock,” said Paul Parish, the foundation’s president. “To see a million dollars is just incredible.

The more we raise, the more we can give.”

The foundation is a central project of the Rotary Club of Littleton, founded in 1922 and today boasting

more than 80 members.

Members pushed the foundation over the million-dollar mark in December thanks to a “challenge grant” — an anonymous donor pledged to donate $50,000, if Rotarians would come up with another $50,000.

The group delivered, and the cash means they’ll be able to issue two additional grants this year, Parish said. The group gave out nearly two dozen grants last year, totaling more than $50,000.

Rotary grants mean big things for recipients, according to several who spoke at a gala to celebrate the milestone at Pinehurst Country Club on March 19.

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House fire hits day before demolition hearing Littleton home was condemned last year; owner can’t be found

a demolition order was issued in November 2018.

Lynch requested a hearing to appeal the demolition order, which was held on Jan. 16. The hearing, which ran to four hours, was continued until March 7. Lynch failed to show up at that hearing, saying he was stuck in traffic.

The hearing was rescheduled for March 20, but in the early hours of March 19, the house caught fire.

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A long-running battle over a condemned house in south Littleton took an ugly turn on March 19, when the home burst into flames the day before a hearing to determine if it should be demolished.

The homeowner, David Lynch, was nowhere to be found after the fire, as of March 21, and did not appear at a hearing he requested before the Building Board of Appeals to fight a demolition order for the house on March 20.

As a result, the board effectively closed the current pending demolition order against the house at 7874 South Windermere Circle, and opened a new case to be based on the house’s condition after the fire.

The fire’s cause has yet to be determined, said Tyler Everitt, a deputy fire marshal with South Metro Fire Rescue, who told the Board of Appeals he

A home on South Windermere Circle was damaged by fire on March 19, a day before a hearing to determine if the house should be torn down after years of code violations.

COURTESY PHOTO wasn’t sure how long the joint investigation with Littleton Police would take.

Declared uninhabitable In the meantime, a lot of people would like to talk to Lynch.

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tioned,” Littleton Mayor Debbie Brinkman said. “Neighbors would like to know where he is.”

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The house was declared uninhabitable in May 2018, according to a city news release, and after the owner failed to correct issues with the house,

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Senate bill would address youth mental health needs Stronger system of care would result in cost savings, better outcomes for young people, officials say

BY ALEX DEWIND ADEWIND@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Kari Eckert lost her 15-year-old son, Robbie, to suicide five months ago. The Lakewood High School student was an athlete, a leader, everyone’s friend, Eckert said. She saw no signs of struggle.

“Robbie struggled silently and he suffered alone,” said Eckert, sitting in a small room at the state Capitol on March 21, an hour before a bill aimed at curbing youth suicide would go to a Senate committee for debate.

The Senate Health and Human Services Committee unanimously agreed to send the bill to the Senate Committee on Appropriations.

Eckert was joined by parent Leslie Kobi, who spent eight years fighting for her son’s mental health, and Heidi Baskfield, vice president of Population Health and Advocacy at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Also in attendance at the intimate press conference were Sen. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora, and Rep. Lois Landgraf, R-Colorado Springs, sponsors of Senate Bill 19-195.

The bipartisan bill addresses what public officials and health experts call a youth mental health crisis. In Colorado, suicide is the leading cause of death for people ages 10-24, and one in six teens

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has a diagnosable mental health condition, Children’s Hospital reports.

Over the last decade, the hospital has seen a six-fold increase in admissions to its emergency departments and urgent care locations following a suicide attempt.

Fragmented services, a shortage of screenings and costly care are some of the barriers to adequate mental health care, experts and advocates in the field say.

“Our hospital continues to serve, in a way, as a warehouse for kids with complicated mental health needs because the system is not there to support them out in the community or in their own homes,” Baskfield said.

SB 19-195 — which is also sponsored

by Sen. Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs, and Rep. Tracy Kraft-Tharp, D-Arvada — aims to create that system.

The bill would create the Office of Children and Youth Behavioral Health Policy Coordination in the governor’s office, along with a commission and advisory council.

The commission would serve as a “behavioral health backbone” for the state, with representation from counties, the Legislature, multiple state departments, the state attorney general’s office and others. It would work

From left, Kari Eckert, who lost her 15-year-old son to suicide, discusses Senate Bill 19-195 with Heidi Baskfield, vice president of Population Health and Advocacy at Children’s Hospital Colorado; Rep. Lois Landgraf, R-Colorado Springs; and Sen. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora.

ALEX DEWIND to increase public awareness of youth behavioral needs and facilitate collaboration between communities, state departments and political subdivisions, the bill outlines.

The commission’s immediate actions would be to implement cost-effective “wraparound” services — which provide a continuum of care for young people with complex needs — develop standardized assessment and screening tools, and design an integrated funding pilot project, according to the bill.

For the 2019-20 fiscal year, the bill would increase state spending by at least $1.3 million, according to the bill’s fiscal note. Over time, legislators say the bill would save $25 million to $30

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Eckert agreed, emphasizing the significance of screening and assessing children for mental health issues.

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His comedy gives black-and-white conversation a new hue

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omedian Sam Adams had just finished auditioning for a commercial the afternoon of Aug. 22, 2018, when he saw the text from a friend: “Dude, you are blowing up Facebook.”

A video showcasing a piece of his routine, which Dry Bar Comedy filmed in 2017, was catching fire. Called “True Color,” it took a humorous look at race by pointing out we aren’t truly white or black, but rather shades of many colors. It had a million views and counting.

He drove to his Parker home, loosAnn Macari ened his tie, sat on the couch, stared at Healey his phone, watching the number of views on his Facebook homepage climb. He switched to his laptop, hitting the refresh button every five minutes: 1.4 million. 2 million.

3 million.

Messages poured in, from Germany, Switzerland, Vietnam, across the U.S. “I’m going to go the hardware store now — I bet I’m Paisley Pink.”

“We are Sahara Sands and Cashmere Pink.”

“We love this.”

Adams was stunned.

“Some people had already gone to the hardware store, sending me pictures of them holding up paint chips,” he remembers. “It was just mesmerizing.”

He stayed up until 4 in the morning, answering every message, saying “thank you, thank you,” posting smiley faces.

Eventually, the video surpassed 29 million views.

And Adams — whose true color, he will tell you, is not black — took a breath.

“I think people are tired of the divisiveness that comes with race,” he says, sitting in a Starbucks recounting the moment, still as awed by it seven months later as he was then. “With race, I can’t solve it. I’m gonna try to make you laugh about it — maybe the humor makes you think about it differently.”

••••• In Harrison, Arkansas, a town of 13,000 people in the heart of the Ozark Mountains near the Missouri border, the “True Color” video popped onto Veda Remington’s Facebook feed.

She smiled as she watched, then promptly shared the video with friends — one of them Eric Stefanski, president of the Ozarks Arts Council who also books acts for the local theater.

“I feel like racism is something that people battle against or something they try to hold onto — it depends on which side of the coin they’re on,” says Remington, a mother of two young boys who has lived in Harrison all but a few of her 26 years. “That bit spoke to me in such a way — stop worrying about what you’re not, identify

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Denver-area comedian Sam Adams’ “True Color” routine went viral last August, inspiring people around the world to match their skin tones to paint chips. “We’re all people of color,” Adams says, “so go find out what color you are.”

COURTESY PHOTO what you are, be OK with that, and move onto something that actually matters.”

Stefanski, 56, also a longtime Lutheran pastor, loved the routine, too, and thought Adams just might be a game-changer for the town.

“We have a reputation we have to live down,” says Stefanski, who moved to Harrison about 19 years ago with his wife and their two young daughters. But “for all the attempts people make to get rid of that reputation, really the only way to get rid of it is to have someone who understands the problem in the country and who is able to look at it with humor, is not afraid to address it and who can bring people together.”

So, on Aug. 23 at 10:17 p.m., Stefanksi

emailed Adams’ agent with an invitation to perform in Harrison’s Lyric Theater in the historic district of a town that has been called the most racist in America.

••••• In 2001, Adams, now 59, was a sports writer — he covered the Broncos and other sports teams for The Denver Post and the defunct Rocky Mountain News. He did stand-up comedy at night as a hobby. On Tuesdays, his day off because the Broncos had the day off, he would head to Cherry Creek mall, one of his “think-tank places” for comedy ideas.

On this day, he was standing on the second floor, peering over the railing

at the children’s breakfast-themed play area below. Kids were playing on the curvy strip of bacon, the fried egg, the waffle. He didn’t see the little boy, but his voice carried clearly through the air: “Look at all the pink people.”

The words struck Adams: “There’s a little kid who sees actual color. He’s looking at white people, but he’s not calling them white. He sees the true color.”

That night, he tried out a new routine.

“I don’t know why we say black and white — they’re the blandest colors on the color wheel,” he told the audience.

“This mic stand is black. I’m brown.

White people, you’re not white. Grab a napkin, put it on your hand. You’re pink. It had people laughing, no matter where I did it.”

With some polishing, he thought, that could be his signature bit.

It was in McCook, Nebraska, about six years later, that Adams — by then working full-time at comedy — nailed the home run.

He was wandering around in the small town’s Super Walmart, killing time before his show, when he saw the paint chips in the hardware area. He grabbed some brown ones, noticing the funny names.

“This really old man asks: ‘What are you doing?’ ” “I’m trying to find my true color.” “ ‘Well, you’re black.’ ” “No, I’m not. I’m Hoot Owl. Other shoppers in the area start gathering, thinking maybe I’m confronting him.

I say to the old man, ‘Let’s see what color you are.’ I grabbed some pink ones, put it up against his arm. You’re Papaya Smoothie. Now people are laughing — they see what’s happening.”

That night, the mic stand is black.

Adams is Hoot Owl. He pulls out the chip. The place erupts.

“Every time I went someplace, I went to Walmart, got some more paint chips. They didn’t all have the same ones. Caramel Nut is my favorite.

Sumptuous Spice, this is my all-time favorite. Chocolate Indulgence. I have four that I like. I just like saying them.”

••••• Mike Raftery, Adams’ agent, forwarded him Stefanski’s email. “What are your thoughts on this?” he asked.

“I think Mike thought I would say ‘I don’t think so.’ ” But Adams took a long look at the offer. He researched the town, read the stories about its past — and its present.

White race riots in the early 1900s drove out all but one of the 115 black residents, who although poor were a vibrant community with deep roots, according to The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture.

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TRUE COLOR

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Today, the head of the Ku Klux Klan, designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, lives 15 miles from town. News photos show the driveway to his compound lined with Confederate and KKK flags. Harrison is the organization’s postal address, and white-pride billboards sometimes appear along roadways, news reports say.

The 2010 U.S. Census put the town’s population as 96 percent white and 0.3 percent black — who are generally students at the junior college or employees at the FedEx freight carrier company, Stefanski says.

The Community Task Force on Race Relations, founded in 2003, openly acknowledges on its mission statement the town’s ugly history and racial challenges, and emphasizes its commitment to promoting diversity and an inclusive environment. A victory: In 2016, the town won the Dream Keeper Award, given by the state’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission for noteworthy efforts to improve race relations, specifically among young people.

With some resident-organized peace rallies and town-sponsored diversity marches, as reported in local news accounts, Harrison is working toward rebranding its image.

But the past lingers. The reputation still makes African-Americans reluctant to live there, Stefanski says. And there are still people in the community who display prejudice and hate toward others different from them, Remington says. Her late grandmother was one.

But, she says, “The majority are not that way.”

She credits her father — whom she describes as a man with a heart open to all kinds of differences — for instilling in her the creed “that people are people, that women and men need to be respected equally, that color doesn’t define a person.”

“We have some really truly wonderful people that live here,” Remington says of the town she learned to love in recent years, when she started looking for the good.

In the end, the astonishing reaction that “True Color” had inspired in so many people around the world persuaded Adams to accept Stefanski’s invitation.

“Race stimulates conversation, positive and negative, like no other topic,” Adams says. “It’s really just a comedy bit, not intended to stoke political fires.

But the people, in their comments, were finding a message they deemed positive in that conversation about race. For me it’s a funny-yet-true look at skin tones. Nothing more. But if people believe the bit can be a positive in the conversation, then I will deliver it. To do it in place where the reputation is stained with racism, I wanted the challenge.”

••••• Adams knows racism. He heard it, saw it, felt it. He attended, he says, one of the most racist high schools in America in the 1960s and ‘70s in Cleveland. But his first experiences with discrimination started earlier.

“We would get off the city bus for

From left, Caramel Nut, Chocolate Indulgence, Hoot Owl and Sumptuous Spice are some of Sam Adams’ original paint chips when he was refining the delivery of his “True Color” routine. He found them in different Walmart stores in the towns where he was performing.

COURTESY PHOTOS A Harrison resident gave Adams this paint chip after his Dec. 7 performance in the town.

Adams keeps it in his “me” room, along with other memorabilia important to him.

junior high school, walk down the street. It was eerily quiet, sun’s out, too silent. Then white kids would pop out from behind the trees, throwing rocks.”

During a drive to visit family in Georgia one July, a 9-year-old Adams and his family stopped at a restaurant.

They ordered waters and soda. A little boy in a nearby booth asked for a soda, too. His father said no. The boy noted Adams’ sister, then 3, had one, but referred to her by the N word. It was the first time Adams had felt the word directly aimed at him or his family. It made him feel small. He and his family walked out.

“I knew a lot of white kids were sort of hiding behind this thing that’s been passed down ... the cloak of racism” as he calls it. But “in class we would see how people really are. I was in band — the same kid who played trombone in the brass section, laughing and joking with me, was the same kid who would pop from behind the tree and throw rocks.”

And Adams thought: “ ‘I know who you really are — you’re the trombone player, you’re not the rock thrower.…

Eventually that’s how we worked it…

I’m just going to be me — when everybody started being themselves, things started getting better.”

He looks back on that time and wishes he’d displayed more leadership, more willingness to try to defuse situations, to find a way to connect.

Humor, he thinks, could have been a good tool.

••••• On Dec. 6, Adams flew into Little Rock, Arkansas, then drove to Fayetteville, about 75 miles from Harrison.

He wasn’t afraid. He was concerned, as he would tell his audience the next night.

He had prepared, trained, for months.

“Like a boxer getting ready for a big fight. . . . I let myself believe I was going to fight racism.”

He studied the town’s everyday life to find ways to connect. He knew the high school football team was on a winning streak and congratulated it in promotional videos for the show. He found the diversity task force’s Facebook page and contacted it to gauge interest in his show. He knew about the town’s annual hot air balloon race.

He envisioned every possible scenario — from no one showing up to the performance to being the target of heckling or violence — and how he would respond.

As Adams left for the drive to Harrison, he made sure his gas tank was full.

He bought plenty of water and snacks so he wouldn’t have to stop along the way.

In Harrison, he parked by the town gazebo. The night was cold, quiet.

Whatever happens, happens, Adams thought, as he got out of the car.

He looked up and saw the Lyric Theater across the street, its neon sign announcing: “Comedian Sam Adams Dec. 7 @7:00.”

He met Stefanski inside. They exchanged pleasantries, talked about how to introduce him. Make your announcements and I’ll just walk on, Adams said.

As he did, a loud roar swelled through the hall, where almost all 350 seats were filled. Adams’ knees slightly buckled. The cheering seemed to go on and on.

He hadn’t envisioned that scenario: “What if you go out there and they give you this great ovation? I didn’t know what it meant to them.”

Sitting in the audience for her first comedy show ever, Remington felt her heart fill.

“It just validated for me that the town is what I like to believe it is, and that we have people here that are supportive and find good humor, and they’re not what our reputation says we are. . . .

Just to hear the entire place light up like that — it was incredible.”

A few seconds of silence passed as Adams composed himself.

Stefanski finds it difficult to capture the moment in words. “It was a matter of him being honored and us being honored. It’s hard to describe apart from being there — it’s kind of one of these awesome moments.”

Time flew. Adams’ 45-minute show stretched into 90 minutes. He emptied his bag of fun. At the end, he invited people to shake his hand or have a picture taken with him for $5 — to raise money for the local food bank, which Adams had read was in need of donations.

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A line formed down the aisle.

There was the 13-year-old girl with the pink-and-white “I (heart) comedy” sweatshirt who wants to be a comedian.

And the woman who told Adams he would never know how much this meant to the town, because by showing up he had helped dissolve some of the reputation they were working so hard to erase.

“It was my pleasure to perform for them,” says Adams, who was deeply moved by the warm reception. “They were genuinely nice to me … I saw that they weren’t what the internet portrayed them to be.”

The crowd that night was mostly white, with a few Hispanic women, Remington says. But a cross-section of the town had shown up, Stefanski says — politicians, businesspeople, everyday residents, young and old. And after the show, many lingered in conversation.

“I would have never seen them talking to one another,” Stefanski says.

“That dialogue is exactly the sort of thing we have to have going on here.

That’s where a lot of things are going to get repaired.”

••••• That his “True Color” bit has touched so many still amazes Adams. At the end of the day, he says, his job is to make people laugh, not to make a political statement.

But, he reflects, we’re conditioned to

I Harrison resident Veda Remington recently posted this note to Adams’ Facebook page. Her outreach to the local theater was instrumental in bringing Adams to Harrison to perform in December.

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see what’s different from the time we’re little. If you’re given three triangles and a circle, we’re always told to pick out the one that’s different, not the ones that are alike.

“Maybe,” he says, “if we stop seeing black and white, stop looking at color, we’ll get on to more important things.”

Adams, who is most likely returning to Harrison for a fall show this year, still has his original paint chips — Hoot Owl, Caramel Nut, Sumptuous Spice, Chocolate Indulgence. He also has the paint chip a woman in Harrison handed him that night. On it, she signed her name, circled the Peach Medley shade

and wrote “We love you. You are great!”

The paint chip sits on his desk, in the “me” room, alongside the trophies and photos with famous people — a reminder of an unforgettable night in which hundreds of true colors swirled into a tapestry of humanity at its joyful best.

Ann Macari Healey writes about people, places and issues of everyday life.

An award-winning columnist, she can be reached at ahealey@coloradocommunitymedia or 303-566-4100.

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DeGette discusses flight paths, homelessness Congresswoman holds annual visit with Englewood council, staff

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Englewood reached out for a federal helping hand on its ongoing homelessness issue and on a plan that may reroute more air traffic over the city when U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette came to town.

“We and the city are really concerned with the lack of community involvement in these decisions,” said DeGette, a Democrat, about the Federal Aviation Administration’s NextGen Denver Metroplex project. That plan aims to optimize arrival and departure at local airports, including Denver DeGette International Airport, Centennial Airport and some others.

DeGette spoke to Englewood City Council members and city staff March 15 at the Englewood Civic Center, the city hall. The congresswoman makes an annual visit with city council.

“I’m going to coordinate with (U.S. Rep. Jason) Crow on hearings (about the air-traffic plan) for the whole region because it’s not just Englewood,” said DeGette, who represents Denver, Englewood and nearby areas. Crow, a Democrat, represents Centennial, Littleton and Greenwood Village, other areas that could be affected.

The part of the Metroplex plan that worries many mayors in the south Denver suburbs is a possible moving of flight paths that generally stay east of Interstate 25 and south of DIA to a new corridor that could run

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During February, citizens were invited — through notices on social media and on the city’s website — to nominate an Englewood resident for the award.

The council chose from among three nominees.

Clayton served on council after being elected in 1987 until 1991.

Here’s a look at how Clayton, 72, got his start, the memories that stick with him and what he thinks of how Englewood has evolved through the years.

How much time have you lived in Englewood?

I was on the staff of Walt Disney World for three years. So, other than that, I’ve lived here all my life.

When the concept for Disney World started to solidify, I decided I really wanted to be part of that opening. I went there as a construction coordinator.

above the areas of Littleton, Englewood and Cherry Hills Village, for example.

The Metroplex plan isn’t finalized, and it’s unclear exactly what areas would be affected and what degree of added air traffic they could end up with. But DeGette pointed to the controversy in Phoenix, where new air routes drew a loud outcry from residents.

“In Arizona, it’s been a real mess down there,” DeGette said outside the March 15 meeting. “The big concern is big changes without (enough) community input.”

Despite the lack of clear details on what changes could happen, the mayors of Sheridan, Englewood, Littleton, Greenwood Village, Cherry Hills Village and Centennial have been recently discussing the issue, according to Englewood Mayor Linda Olson.

Olson and Littleton Mayor Debbie Brinkman hope to round up community and business leaders, as well as Colorado’s senators, and Crow and DeGette, to keep the issue in the public eye.

DeGette also discussed the way forward on homelessness with Englewood councilmembers and staff at the meeting, calling attention to the complexity of the issue.

“You have homeless families,” DeGette said. “Drug issues, mental issues — it’s a complex problem with complex populations. And it’s really hard to crack, which is why the wraparound services are often the best way to go because you can identify exactly what that person needs.”

Wraparound services, a term for resources that address different areas of a person’s life rather than focusing on just one, appear to be a necessary tool in addressing homelessness, as Englewood Police Chief John Collins alluded to at the meeting.

“It’s the social aspects, the mental health issues and substance abuse,” What motivated you to get involved here?

My dad was a ball turret gunner in World War II. He had been stationed at Lowry Air Force Base and settled down. The first thing he did was sought out the Red Cross and volunteered. He didn’t have any money, only some savings. He just felt it was important to volunteer. He joined the Englewood Lions Club, and he was president when he died. He was in charge of military services for the Red Cross when he passed away.

My other life example was my uncle David. David was a city councilman here in Englewood and was quite active in his church, but more than that, David was just the kindest man I’ve ever known in my life. If you were walking down the street in snow without a coat, and he was driving by, he would literally stop and give you his coat.

I wanted to make the world a little better place every day. My son said, “Dad, something I learned from you is, when I was a kid and we were camping, you’d make us go and pick up everything. I’d say, ‘Dad, we didn’t drop this stuff.’” And I’d say yeah, but let’s

Collins said. “Not one particular agency can deal with this. It’s not a citywide problem or regional or state — it’s a national problem.”

Although exact numbers are difficult to come by, police and city officials agree Englewood’s homeless population has increased in recent years. Change the Trend Network, a coalition of churches, nonprofits, a health-care provider and the Englewood Police Department, organized in 2017 in response to concerns over the increasing homeless population.

But Englewood isn’t a “social services city,” Olson said, and the council is unsure how to fund potential solutions.

“What we don’t want to do is (enact) camping bans,” Olson said, while adding that homeless activity on the South Platte River can be a health problem. “We’ve got to do something, but … little cities like Sheridan, Littleton and Englewood, we don’t have many services.”

DeGette’s office could look at what federal funding is available to address the issue, the congresswoman said, adding that someone with the city could communicate with her staff.

Olson mentioned that Change the Trend is collaborating with the TriCities Homelessness Policy Group, a partnership between Englewood, Littleton and Sheridan to coordinate the cities’ response to the issue. The policy group aims to make use of funds from the region, county, state and federal governments.

The group is considering a proposal from the University of Denver’s Burnes Center on Poverty and Homelessness — under its Graduate School of Social Work — to interview people experiencing homelessness in the area to understand the underlying causes of homelessness and barriers that prevent people from getting back in housing, according to a February/ March Littleton newsletter. leave it a little better than we found it.

I wish more people in the world would adopt that notion.

What was most rewarding to you?

I’m happy to have participated in all the activities because I’ve been surrounded by wonderful people. And I really believe that. And as you look around, even when you find a councilmember and think, gee, what a jerk, you really have to respect the fact that he was willing to do it. Or the library board, zoning board, water board — if we didn’t have those volunteers, we would not have any of the benefits we have in our lives.

What’s your view of city council today?

I wouldn’t say it was more or less combative than when I was on it. I think the city was a little more fiscally solvent back then than it was now.

Think about who you live with: When you’re both bringing home lots of money, you’re happy. Everybody gets along. But if you don’t have the money, or if your roommate spent the money you were going to buy dinner with on a new pool cue, you

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Contact Darren Hollingsworth at 303762-2599. have discord. Well, cities are like that.

When there’s a ton of money to spend, everyone gets along. When there’s not, it’s always somebody else’s fault.

Englewood went through the recession just like everyone else did.

And Englewood has struggled to make the shopping center (CityCenter) down here successful. And as a consequence, there hasn’t been much money.

What’s surprised you about Englewood through the years?

Englewood seems to have a built-in reluctance to modernize and to become a more forward-looking, nicer place to live. We’ve kind of resisted upgrades to our housing stock, and now, what’s happening is developers are coming in and upgrading it but not necessarily in a way most residents would like to see.

Anything else you’d like to say?

This truly is a tremendous honor to be selected, and I’m humbled and grateful and, at the same time, I’m reminded of all the other volunteers in our life … Our life is made better every day because there are people volunteering.

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CALM AFTER THE STORM

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Further inspection showed the rest of the house was in extreme disrepair, Thompson said, and she issued an “order of correction” to compel Lynch to make repairs.

Lynch, meanwhile, pleaded guilty to the animal cruelty charges and served six months in jail, according to court records.

The home was re-inspected numerous times in subsequent years but the corrections were never made, Thompson said. Lynch never requested permits from the city to work on the house, and the home suffered severe water damage.

A church group helped Lynch clean out some of the garbage in the house after the condemnation order was issued in 2018, Lynch testified on Jan. 16.

Asked why he didn’t comply with the correction orders for the house, Lynch gave a variety of answers, saying he had been overwhelmed by the cost and bureaucracy of the process and was waiting on government grants to make repairs.

Asked why he didn’t sell the house, Lynch said a friend had once offered to line up an investor to buy it.

“He said, `If we get someone to

offer you $200,000 for this, will you take it?’ ” Lynch testified. “And I said, `Go to hell.’ The government has taken everything I’ve got. This is the last thing. This is do or die, literally, because I got nothing else.”

Neighbor issues The ordeal has proven exhausting for Wendy Landin, Lynch’s nextdoor neighbor who said she has pressured the city for years to take action on the house.

“It has brought all of our property values down,” Landin said of her neighbors. “It is a grave concern to my entire neighborhood that we live (with) this filth and disgust next door to us... We have nowhere to go.

We can’t afford to live somewhere else. We’re not going to be driven out of our neighborhood by Lynch.”

Landin’s issues with Lynch go back to the 2000s, she said. Lynch bought the house in 2000, and Landin filed a restraining order against him in 2006, according to court records. In 2008, Lynch was cited for stealing water from Landin’s hose spigot.

Landin said she’s frustrated with the city’s response.

“He’s been given extension after extension after extension,” Landin said. “We have rights too. The city hasn’t taken it seriously. What will it take for this to end?”

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Art for one, art for all Littleton’s Paint Box Guild artists on display in Centennial

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Next time you hit the gym, you could leave with a painting from your local art scene.

As part of South Suburban Parks and Recreation’s ongoing art displays at recreation centers, pieces from the Paint Box Guild — a Littleton-based group of artists that goes back decades — are hanging, for sale, at Goodson Recreation Center in Centennial.

“We’ve been an organization since 1973, but still, a lot of people don’t know about us,” said Fredia Cox, the guild’s president. “So we try to exhibit anywhere there’s wall space.”

The not-for-profit group includes 40 active members, and the art on Goodson’s walls included many watercolor, oil and oil pastel, and other types of pieces that ranged from as the $300s to as low as $35.

Paint Box Guild supports beginner artists, but it also provides the chance to rub elbows with longtime members of the local art scene, like Cox, who has been with the guild

since 1988.

Other members, like 76-year-old Paul Savageau, got back into art after holding a passion for it earlier in life — he was the eighth-grade arts representative at what’s now the Good Shepherd Catholic School in Denver, designing cards for the nuns as a child.

“I slowly got back into art through the Art Students League of Denver,” said Savageau, a Centennial resident. There’s “representation for artists in the Paint Box Guild … there’s a lot of talent here on the walls.”

The guild meets at 10 a.m. the first Wednesday of each month at the First Presbyterian Church of Littleton at South Windermere Street and West Littleton Boulevard.

Those meetings run from September to May. “We have workshops once a month with excellent artists,” said Suzanne Maxwell, 77, of Denver, a guild member.

Goodson Recreation Center sits at 6315 S. University Blvd., and the exhibit runs through March 31. You can also see the guild’s work at an exhibit from April 7-May 13 at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch.

For more information on the guild, go to www.paintboxguildlittleton. org.

Monique Moore, 72, a Centennial resident, talks about one of her pieces March 19 on display at Goodson Recreation Center in Centennial. Moore has painted for more than two decades and joined the Paint Box Guild in 2012.

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Sears, Macy’s to be redeveloped at shopping center Streets at SouthGlenn may add more apartments, offices, entertainment

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The tide of big-box redevelopment has hit The Streets at SouthGlenn, where a recently closed Sears and a Macy’s whose days may be numbered are likely to be redeveloped in the coming years.

A crowd of more than 100 came to a March 19 meeting inside that empty Sears, where some residents voiced concerns about traffic in the nearby neighborhood and a need for affordable housing in the area. Developers and City of Centennial staff shared information and answered questions at that open house-style meeting.

“With dramatic changes happening in the retail industry due to changing consumer preferences, traditional retail centers throughout Centennial and the United States need to start looking at non-traditional retail uses like entertainment-based retail and non-retail uses to reinvigorate the centers,” said Neil Marciniak, Centennial’s economic development manager, in an email.

Here’s a look at what could change at SouthGlenn, located at South University Boulevard and East Arapahoe Road, as plans move forward.

People walk into an open house-style meeting held by developers and Centennial city staff March 19 in the vacant Sears building at The Streets at SouthGlenn.

The shopping center in Centennial is poised to undergo redevelopment that will likely add apartments, office space, other retail and entertainment businesses in the coming years. ELLIS ARNOLD

Who the players are Northwood Investors owns the Sears property, and Alberta Development Partners owns the Macy’s, along with controlling the rest of nearly all of SouthGlenn. But because the City of Centennial passed a master development plan in 2007 that deviates from normal zoning — the rules for what can be built where in the city — Northwood and Alberta need the city’s approval to make certain changes.

What could change Northwood wants to turn the Sears property mainly into apartments, with retail possible on the ground floor, said Kyle Whitaker, a development manager with Northwood. Alberta wants to put apartments and office space, and possibly retail and entertainment — think something like Lucky Strike Bowling — where Macy’s stands, within a few years.

Demand doesn’t appear to be sufficient for a hotel at SouthGlenn, said Donald Provost, founding principal with Alberta. Northwood doesn’t have plans for adding a hotel at the moment, Whitaker said.

On both the Sears and Macy’s land, 800 apartment units could be possible on each property, but Alberta is aiming for about 400. It’s hard to say how close to 800 the number would be for Northwood, Whitaker said. Its plan is for five stories, based on the market, he added.

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percent to 20 percent higher in price than the current apartments at SouthGlenn, where a one-bedroom’s lowest price range is $1,465 to around $2,300.

A possible green area with a fountain could also be added to the Macy’s land, Provost said.

Timeline The Macy’s isn’t likely to close in the immediate future, but developers have to think about the possibility, Provost said.

“I’d be surprised if it was here in five years,” Provost said.

Sears closed near the end of last year.

Whether the plans go through is still up to the city’s determination of whether they meet the requirements of the city’s Land Development Code, which sets zoning districts and design standards.

After some preliminary talks, city staff and developers met with a group of 14 representatives from homeowners associations in the area to talk about opportunities and constraints associated with possible redevelopment March 5. On March 18, staff updated the city council and the Planning and Zoning Commission — citizens who make development recommendations to council — about the plans. The March 19 community meeting at Sears will be followed by a second meeting likely in late April.

After that, Planning and Zoning will hold a public hearing and decides whether the plans meet the city’s code.

If approved, the plan moves to a city council public hearing, which makes the final decision on whether the plans meet code.

History of SouthGlenn SouthGlenn was originally the large, indoor Southglenn Mall built in the 1970s, and the Sears and Macy’s were components of that mall, said Marciniak, the city’s development manager.

It “is now a successful lifestyle center with main street elements that make it one of the top retail and entertainment destinations in Centennial,” he added.

SouthGlenn’s outdoor shopping center layout replaced the former mall in 2009.

The Macy’s building was constructed in 1981, according to Arapahoe County assessor’s records. Macy’s West Stores Inc. sold it to Alberta in February 2018 for $10 million, records show.

Remaining relevant Despite the drastic changes in the retail industry in recent years, SouthGlenn has the potential to stay successful, Marciniak said.

“Offices, a variety of residential types (and) activated public spaces have the potential to help these centers evolve and remain relevant while providing housing opportunities for existing and new residents, attracting new companies to the city,”’ Marciniak said, “and ensuring Centennial residents have a high-quality neighborhood destination.”

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Lawmakers seek ballot question on roads, schools Voters would decide in November if state could keep excess tax revenue

BY JAMES ANDERSON ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Colorado’s Democratic House speaker said she wants to ask voters this November if the state government can keep excess tax revenue to spend in future years on underfunded roads and schools.

House Bill 19-1257 would ask voters if the state can keep revenue it currently is required to return to taxpayers under the 1992 Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, state Rep. KC Becker, D-Boulder, told reporters on March 20.

A companion bill, HB 19-1258, would allocate any of that excess revenue in thirds to transportation infrastructure, K-12 schools and higher education each year.

Coloradans voted in 2005 to let the state avoid tax refunds for a five-year period. The new ballot question would make the change in tax law permanent, Becker said.

Becker called the initiative “a common-sense first step,” but not a permanent solution, to investing in schools and roads that have been underfunded for years because of Colorado’s inability to raise taxes without voter approval.

Democratic Sen. Lois Court, of Denver, and Republican Sen. Kevin Priola, of Brighton, joined Becker in announcing the initiative. They said they hoped they could build bipartisan support in the Democratcontrolled Legislature. Becker read a message from Democratic Gov. Jared Polis endorsing it.

Colorado voters consistently have rejected ballot measures asking them to raise state taxes for education and other priorities. In November, they defeated an education tax hike and competing measures to raise money for the state’s aging road network.

The constitutional amendment known as TABOR allows government to ask voters to raise taxes or keep excess revenue. Many local municipalities have done so. In November, voters in Lakewood authorized the city to keep excess revenue for public safety and other purposes.

TABOR sets an annual income limit that can trigger tax refunds based on a formula that involves population and inflation. It’s blamed by many Democrats for contributing to a $9 billion backlog in road projects and a multimillion-dollar debt to schools — all at a time when Colorado’s economy is one of the nation’s strongest.

Colorado Republicans, in contrast, credit TABOR and its tax limits for the strong economy.

Assistant House Minority Leader Kevin Van Winkle, R-Highlands

Ranch, called TABOR “an important safeguard against government overreach” in a statement opposing the ballot proposal.

The amount to be retained should a November ballot question pass isn’t known. Becker cited legislative and executive branch forecasts released last week that suggest growth could slow over the next two to three years in part because of trade disputes initiated by the Trump administration and global economic uncertainty.

Republicans began this legislative session wanting to build on a biparti-

san effort last year that could generate $2.8 billion for transportation through bonding and direct spending.

That measure will go before voters in November. If it fails, a 2017 law kicks in authorizing $1.9 billion in bonding for roads.

Priola said he hopes to generate Republican support for the new initiative. He noted that Colorado hasn’t raised its 22-cents-per gallon state gasoline tax, a primary funding source for roads, since 1993.

“The power of TABOR is that you can go to the voters and let the voters decide,” Priola said.

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K. Here we go. It all comes down to this. With 4.8 seconds left, Smith takes the inbounds pass and dribbles the length of the court, maneuvering around the bewildered Missouri Tigers along Craig Marshall the way. He dribbles behind his back — Smith it’s something to see — and enters the lane. The crowd is going crazy. Two seconds. One second. He goes to the basket for an awkward right-handed lay-up and ...”

The men’s college basketball season began last November and it will end in April at the intimate U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The stadium has a capacity of 66,655. It’s where the Minnesota Vikings and the Minnesota Gophers play their home football games.

The stadium opened in 2016.

Despite requests for a “bird-friendly” exterior design by the Audubon Society and others, the stadium’s designers used highly reflective glass for “aesthetic reasons.”

The stadium is in the Mississippi Flyway route, and resulting bird deaths are double any other building in Minneapolis.

The women’s college basketball

season will end in April as well, at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida.

The arena opened in 1996 (as the Ice Palace), and seats 20,500 for basketball, and it is a much more sensible choice.

Some fans at the U.S. Bank Stadium will be so far away from the action that they won’t know who won until they get home that night.

I have attended regional and Sweet Sixteen games in the past, and even a Final Four, when the Final Four games were played in basketball-dedicated facilities.

But when someone figured out how much money could be made, the finals were moved to these behemoths.

At its best, basketball is a wonderful and very simple game. It even can

Nor do they want to know why she voted to cede Colorado citizen’s votes to California, New York, Texas, Illinois and Florida in the presidential elections. Nor did you bother to ask her why the people of her district are mounting an attempt to recall her. Insert sheep noises here. Indeed a hardhitting interview. The Fourth Estate has succumbed to Snowballs rants.

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Have faith, keep the faith, share the faith

LETTER TO THE EDITOR A weak interview In the Orwellian ethos of the current times your “hard-hitting” interview with Rep. Froelich really fits well. Certainly, the representative’s constituents don’t want to know why she voted to banish parents from making decisions on how their children are educated about matters sexual. Or they don’t want to know why she is supporting an oil and gas bill that goes far beyond the restrictions on petroleum production in the state that were rejected overwhelmingly by voters in Arapahoe County and the state in last the General Election.

be played one-on-one. That’s what my best friend Mike and I did, hundreds of times in his driveway when we were in high school, in little Greenhills, Ohio, during the years when the nearby University of Cincinnati Bearcats were the men’s powerhouse.

The game has evolved, and it has been tarnished in a number of ways, by recruiting and academic scandals, and diminished (I believe) by what are called “one-and-dones,” with the University of Kentucky leading the way. The Wildcats have completely different rosters every year.

Winning is an absolute. Coaches can be — and are — fired in mid-season.

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hen you read the headline whether it’s our religious convictions, belief systems, or people on today’s column you could be easier than keeping that might have felt like we faith going over sustained periods were going to dive into a of time. However, for some religious or spiritual converWINNING who have lost their hope sation.

WORDS or faith along the way, we And you might have been should not minimize the right. But if the headline importance of finding that of the column was changed hope again and reestabjust slightly to read, “Have lishing our faith. hope, keep the hope, share the Have the faith, keep the hope,” you might have had a faith, share the faith. Have different perspective or feel hope, keep the hope, share differently. the hope. Which one is the We can probably agree that most important? Which most people have faith or hope in something or in someone, Michael Norton one is the hardest to live in our everyday lives? The or at some point they did, and answer will be different for each of for reasons uncontrollable or not, us and each season of life that we they have lost that faith or hope. experience. The answer will be difSo, as we go through our lives, we ferent based on our past experienchave faith and hope, the hard part es, challenges, losses, and victories. is keeping or maintaining our faith We can’t lose something that we and hope. And it’s not just when we do not have. So, we must first start struggle, but also when we succeed. by having faith and hope. To keep What does that mean? When we the faith and hope alive, we need to struggle or lose, it can become easy trust in and stay true to our core to disengage from our beliefs and beliefs in the good times and in the abandon hope. And even in our successes and victories, we can quickly bad times. I think the harder part, is forget how our faith and hope sharing the faith and the hope with brought us to the realization of our others. goals and dreams.

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What we need to learn from New Zealand

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ou might be thinking, “But I’m from Colorado. We’ve learned plenty from Columbine, Aurora, and GUEST Arapahoe.” Yes, we have. We’ve improved COLUMN our first responder techniques, learned better school planning and assessment, and tightened our firearms laws. We’ve also learned how to worry — about our kids, our teachers, ourselves just going Linda Newell to the movies.

Some of us live in fear every day when we step out in public or go to temple or mosque. We have learned how to do that well.

But as a country, New Zealand’s leadership is also showing us two things we haven’t yet mastered here in the United States — authentic empathy and decisive action, two critical

SMITH

FROM PAGE 14

There is always some local talent in the tournament games. I think most of us remember where Chauncey Billups went to high school. If not, the answer is at the end. Billups could have gone anywhere he wanted to, and played with a more already-successful program.

Instead, he went just up the road to the University of Colorado, and made a lot of Buffalos fans happy.

Highlands Ranch High School’s girls teams have provided starters for Connecticut and Notre Dame. And then there was Abigail Nellie “Abby” Waner, who attended ThunderRidge, and

NORTON FROM PAGE 14

It seems more and more each day we live in such a way that we want to maintain a privacy around our faith and beliefs, protect them for ourselves.

It seems like we would rather not share with others how our faith and hope helped us through some of the darkest days and times in our lives.

We would rather not acknowledge or give credit to our faith and hope when good things happen in our lives or as we meet with happiness and success.

My experience and belief tell me that when we do have the courage and conviction to share our faith and hope openly, it moves from being the hardest part to the easiest part of having the faith, keeping the faith, and sharing the faith philosophy.

The more we do it, the more comfortable we become, and the more comfortable we become the greater our chances become of truly being a difference maker in the lives of other

components of any good leader in crisis. Within hours of the shootings, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was walking among the affected Muslim community wearing a hijab out of respect and genuinely comforting the surviving family members. Shortly after that, she made a bold public commitment to get the assault weapons (used in the shootings yet meant for warfare) out of the hands of regular citizens.

With her leadership, she was able to get support from across all political divides. Why? Because it was the moral action to take. How? Through decisive crisis leadership. She didn’t wait till she talked with her gun lobbyist or major campaign donors. She stood up, said it, and took action for her constituents. Granted, this is only the first part of triage — stopping the bleeding, so to speak, of her community. Next comes the harder part — addressing the root cause of the problem.

This is where you and I as global

wound up at Duke.

My men’s team didn’t make it into the tournament this year. And my coach was handed his hat after an unacceptable, mid-season, home loss to Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University Flames.

The search is on for a new coach, and Kentucky’s John Calipari has been rumored. Calipari is a winner, but everywhere he has gone there has been some of that tarnish I mentioned.

Quite understandably, Harry is rooting for the Wofford Terriers this year.

Billups was a George Washington High School Patriot.

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

people simply by having faith, keeping the faith, and sharing the faith. Simply by living with hope, maintaining our hope, and sharing our hope with others. It is life changing.

For those of you who communicate with me via email, you have seen my signature. There are two that I primarily use, but the one that you will see most often is this one; Have faith, keep, the faith, share the faith, Michael So how about you? Do you see faith and hope as the same thing? Do you have it? Do you find it harder to keep the faith and hope alive or share the faith and hope with others? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@ gmail.com, and when we can find our faith, keep our faith, and share our faith, it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Highlands Ranch, the chief revenue officer at Eventus Solutions Group, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.

citizens come in. Getting to the root cause is our job as fellow humans living in community with each other.

We can blame our public officials or “someone else,” but they are only mirroring back what you and I have elected, what we have consciously or subconsciously chosen as our leaders.

There is no “us or them,” we are them.

It is our job (in addition to our leaders’) to look at Christchurch, New Zealand, as we should have done with Pittsburgh, and acknowledge that they too are our brothers and sisters. No matter someone’s faith, or no faith, or citizenship status or ethnicity, we are all humans. We are all interconnected as fellow inhabitants of this ball we’re living on together. The root cause is the myth that we are separate from each other so we feel the need to be fearful or hateful of one another.

We can tinker all we want with gun legislation or mental health services

(and I hope we continue to do so), but even more foundational than that is the need for basic acceptance and empathy for one another as people just trying to live our lives as best as we can. Until we do that as a community in our country or state, we will continue to see hate crimes, homicides, suicides, and people locked inside their homes with a gun or baseball bat at the door in fear. Is that really how we want to live? I say we’re better than that. Now, we just have to prove it.

Formerly a Colorado state senator, now a seminary student at Iliff School of Theology, Linda Newell is a speaker, filmmaker, facilitator and consultant. She may be reached at senlindanewell@gmail.com, www. lindanewell.org, www.senlindanewell. com, @sennewell on Twitter, Senator Linda Newell or @TheLastBill on Facebook.

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March 28, 1929 - March 13, 2019

Ina Ree Dreiling, neé Boe, 89, passed away on March 13 in Littleton, Colorado, due to heart failure. Born to Albert and Josephine Boe on March 28, 1929, Ina Ree was raised in Cut Bank, Montana, with her younger sister Marjie.

She met and married Clarence Dreiling (1921-2003) in 1947 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Together, they raised three children: Pat, Di Ann and John. After establishing a successful drilling company, the Dreiling family settled in Colorado, where all of the family still resides to this day.

Friends and family will always

remember Ina Ree as a wonderful grandmother, a masterful seamstress, and an amazing cook, all with a delightful touch of orneriness and humor. She is survived by her children: Pat and Les Olson, Di Ann Dreiling and John Dreiling; grandchildren: Kirstin and Doug Smith, Jeff and Amy Olson, and Annie and Mike Gorka; great-grandchildren: Jacob and Allyson Smith, Daniel, Dane, Davis and Beckem Olson; as well as nieces, cousins and friends.

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‘Ballet Masterworks’ program opens with ‘Serenade’

Getting kids comfy with nature pays back bigtime

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alanchine’s choreography for “Serenade” at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver, set to Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings,” will open Colorado Ballet’s “Ballet Masterworks” program, which runs April 5-14. Director Gill Boggs has chosen SONYA’S “Carmina Burana,” SAMPLER as choreographed

by Canadian Fernand Nault, for the balance of the program. The Evans Choir, performing with the Colorado G Ballet Orchestra, will accompany n h the dancers as they add this work Sonya Ellingboe to the company’s t repertoire. Fonds m Choreographique’s Andre Laprise t traveled from Ottawa to stage the a work of Colorado Ballet’s dancers.

Performances: 7:30 p.m. April 5, 6, 12, h 13; 2 p.m. April 6, 7, 14. Tickets $30 to o $155, coloradoballet.org, 303-837-8888, s a ext. 2.

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hen Jenn Ray’s son Dylan was 2, he started showing signs of sensory processing disorder and autism.

“His brain struggles to filter out all the sounds of life that you or I can filter out without a second thought — the dryer going in the background or a drippy faucet,” Ray said. “I didn’t always know how to help him find his peace.”

But soon she discovered a miracle: hiking.

“It was the first time I noticed he slowed down,” Ray, of Littleton, said.

“He wanted to take in every single aspect of the trail: bugs, plants, flowers, weeds, sticks and rocks.”

These days, Ray and Dylan, now 6, go hiking every chance they get, and are branching out into far-flung destinations: Moab, Fruita and the Great Sand Dunes among them.

“This time in nature has really changed the lives of my son and me, and it’s where some of our best memories have been made,” Ray said.

More creative, less aggressive Dylan’s peace in the wilderness is no fluke, said Rosemary Dempsey, the communications director for Great Outdoors Colorado, or GOCO, an organization that uses state lottery proceeds to preserve and enhance Colorado’s outdoors.

Getting kids outdoors pays big dividends, Dempsey said.

“We know that playing outside is important for many facets of a child’s development,” Dempsey said. “There’s an increasing body of research showing that kids who play outside are more creative, less aggressive, less stressed, and even show fewer ADHD symptoms.”

One of GOCO’s signature campaigns is Generation Wild, which encourages parents to get kids outside.

“On average, we’re finding that many kids get maybe four to seven minutes of unstructured outdoor play time a day,” Dempsey said.

“That’s compared to hours of screen time. Doctors are starting to literally prescribe outdoor play for kids.”

Parents don’t need to light out for the territory to connect kid with nature, Dempsey said.

“We can experience the benefits of getting outside just out the back door,” Dempsey said. “It doesn’t have to be a daunting experience.”

Part of the struggle is overcoming stigmas that come with modern parenting, Dempsey said.

“Parents often feel a pressure to

Parker mom Rebekah Eddy with her son Nolan, 1. Eddy said spending time outdoors teaches her kids independence.

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CHECK ‘EM OFF Great Outdoors Colorado’s Generation Wild campaign publishes a list of “100 things to do before you’re 12.”

• Tube down a creek

• Build a bike jump

• Make mud pies

• Catch a crawdad

A sampling:

• Play freeze tag in the moonlight

• Create a sidewalk mural • See what’s hiding under a rock • Dig up worms

• Find a secret hiding place

• Cook over a campfire • Wade in a stream

• Find a columbine in the wild

• Bury a time capsule

• Identify animals by their tracks

• Pick up pennies from the deep end of the pool

have kids involved in activities and complicated routines,” Dempsey said. “But unstructured time is so good for them. Studies are showing it builds creativity, curiosity and independence. This isn’t a campaign to

tell parents to be a certain way, but to maybe question our parenting styles or modes.”

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t Spring at Town Hall “The World Goes Round” brings a k revue of the music we have inherited o from the Kander-Ebb songbook (“Chi- t cago,” “Cabaret” and more), opening March 29 and running through April h s 28 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St. in downtown Littleton. Eve- P ning, 7:30 performances: Thursdays, w Fridays, Saturdays (and 2 p.m. on April 13) and 2 p.m. Sundays (and 6:30 w p.m. on April 21). Tickets cost $22-$44, 303-794-2787, ext. 5 or townhallartscenter.org or at the box office. Also new at Town Hall: “Tangible Terrain” exhibition in the Stanton Gallery March 29 through April 28, with art by Stephanie O’Malley, Herb Dreo, Vanessa Martin and Andi Burnum. (Story next week.)

Opera singers compete The final 2019 competition hosted by the Denver Lyric Opera Guild offers opera lovers a free seat to hear competitors sing from 1 to 5 p.m. on March 30 at Calvary Baptist Church, 6500 E. Girard Ave., Denver. (One can come and go during this time.) On that day, the guild will also be holding a Vintage Treasures Sale to raise funds for prizes awarded to the winners, which aids as they develop a career in opera. Awards will be made at the April 9 “Opera on Tuesday” Awards Luncheon at Pinehurst Country Club, 6255 W. Quincy Ave., Denver.

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HIT THE TRAILS Denver is ringed by great state parks to go hiking with kids. Here are five favorites from Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson Rebecca Ferrell: • Barr Lake in Brighton has tons of birds, including a pair of nesting bald eagles.

• Roxborough, southwest of Littleton, is famed for its soaring sandstone spires.

• Chatfield, also southwest of Littleton, is a boater’s paradise, but the park’s south end features tranquil cottonwood groves for strolling.

• Golden Gate Canyon west of Golden has dramatic views, and for those who want to unplug, no cell phone service.

Denver is ringed by top-notch kid-friendly hiking trails, like this route up South Table Mountain in Golden.

PHOTOS BY DAVID GILBERT

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Getting dirty For some parents, instilling a love of nature and fostering independence go hand-in-hand.

“Letting kids outside, they learn their limits,” said Rebekah Eddy, a mom of two from Parker. “They’re able to understand what they’re capable of and what they’re not.”

One of the Eddy family’s favorite hikes is Maxwell Falls, west of Denver off Highway 285. Daughter Ella, 3, sometimes runs ahead of the pack — and Eddy lets her go.

“She’ll turn around when she feels too far away,” Eddy said. “Instinctually, kids need to develop their own sense of danger. They’ll either do it when they’re kids or when they’re adults.”

Eddy grew up in Montana, and her husband Jason grew up in Alaska, so sometimes the suburban landscape of Parker can feel a bit blah.

“As kids, we’d run all over the place with zero supervision, so when we went house shopping, it was bizarre

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Guests and new members are welcome: Denverlyricoperaguild.org.

1930s Harlem jazz “Trav’lin: The 1930 Harlem Musical” opens April 9 at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., featuring music of Harlem Renaissance songwriter J.C. Johnson, and runs through April 28. Three quintessential love stories set in 1930s Harlem, with classical American jazz. Performances Tuesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesdays at 1 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays: 2 p.m. Tickets: arvadacenter.org, 720-898-7200.

‘Art of Brunch’ Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe will host a Spring Art of Brunch

to look at houses with tiny yards and no trees,” Eddy said. “We bought the house with the biggest yard we could find.”

Eddy is happy to let her kids get muddy.

“The natural world is generally safer than the constructs we put up that we think are safe,” Eddy said. “We’re increasingly in a sterile environment, and it affects immune systems. Synching your system to the natural microbes in the world is an answer that’s right in front of us.”

Learning to deal with discomfort is crucial, Eddy said.

“I tell my kids: it’s OK if you’re cold,” Eddy said. “Our generation, for some reason, wants so badly to take away all levels of discomfort.”

Eddy’s methods are paying off, she said.

“Nolan can’t even say `mama’ yet, but he can ask: `outside?’ ” Out there For parents who are ready to venture beyond the backyard with their kids, tempering expectations is important, said Rebecca Ferrell, a spokesperson with Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

“You don’t want to force things,” Series on Sundays March 31, April 28 and May 6. Galleries will offer brunch bites and an array of art works for home, office, gifts. Free. Stroll and enjoy.

Storytellers in Golden Rocky Mountain Storytelling will hold a conference, public concert and Story Slam on April 12-14 at the American Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St., Golden. The April 12 evening “Stories in Concert” at 7 p.m. is open to the public, featuring Irish storyteller Liz Weir, Angel Vigil and Carolina Quiroga-Stultz.

Tickets, $15 ($45 family of four or more.) The April 13 “Story Seeds” conference is 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a keynote talk by Weir, workshops and performances. See website at rmstory.org for information and tickets.

‘Women/Work/Justice’ exhibit The Center for Colorado Women’s

• Castlewood Canyon, south of Parker, has historic structures like a collapsed dam and an abandoned homestead.

Ella Eddy, 3, splashes in a creek. Her mom Rebekah Eddy said kids learn their limits when left to their own devices outside.

Ferrell said. “You don’t want to start thinking about their first fourteener.”

Parents worry kids raised in a world of high-octane entertainment will get bored on a trail, Ferrell said, but Denver is surrounded by top-notch state parks and open space parks that offer ways to keep them interested.

“Are they into dino fossils? Wildflowers? Birds? Try to connect the hike with things from their favorite movies or shows, for instance,” Ferrell said.

For Jenn Ray and her son Dylan, trail time will always be family time.

“Some of our most meaningful conversations have happened on the trail,” Ray said. “That time is just priceless.”

History, located in the Byers-Evans House, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, opens a new exhibit on March 30, spotlighting movements that highlight women’s involvement and where they drove the change. The exhibit will run through March 2020. Free admission to gallery.

Acrylics workshop Painter Christa MacFarlane will hold a workshop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on April 28 at First Presbyterian Church of Littleton about techniques she calls “Loose and Drippy and Brave and Intuitive.” The workshop, offered by Heritage Fine Arts Guild, is for all skill levels and runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Skills like scraping, dripping, stamping will be discussed.

She is inspired by nature in her own works. Pre-registration is required: form on heritage-guild.com/currentworkshops. Cost is $30/members; $50 non-members. Doors unlocked at 8:30 a.m.

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‘Beehive’ is all about the music Lone Tree Arts Center show explores sounds of days gone by

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

We wondered if Lone Tree’s director/choreographer Candy Brown had ever performed in “Beehive” during her long career. “No,” she answered, “I’m not really a singer — I’m a dancer who can carry a tune …

But I grew up with this music. It’s a new experience — I never did a show that doesn’t have a book. (A script.)

Of course we had the invasion from England then. But this just goes from song to song to song.” She says there are elements in the set that evoke her teen years …

Imagine: Aretha Franklin, Lesley Gore, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, the Shirelles and more …

She expects the audience will consist of people who lived through the era — and hopes it will put a smile on their faces. “Maybe they’ll remember their first white buckskin

shoes … If you’ve never seen it before, “Beehive” runs there’s no particular April 3-13 at dialogue with the audience — nothing said to Lone Tree the audience — three Arts Center, 10075 Com- or four songs, then another little set-up mons St., …” Think: “My BoyLone Tree. friend’s Back,” “You For tickets, see lonetree- Can’t Hurry Love,” “Proud Mary,” “Me artscenter. and Bobby McGee …” org or call The cast is local and 720-509includes: Sharon Kay 1000.

White, Piper Arpan, Sheryl Renee, Karen Jeffreys, Melody Moore, Valerie Igoe. Shannan Steele is understudy. The music director is Dr. Michael Williams, a keyboardist and director who teaches music and has performed with Cleo Parker Robinson, at the Aurora Fox, at Denver Center and more, including the recent “Lady Day at Emerson Bar and Grill.”

“They’re not `Singin’ MamaJamas,’” Brown said. “We’re not trying to imitate Amazon … We hope for happy memories, nothing gimmicky…”

Brown hasn’t met the band members yet. (They always appear late in the rehearsal process.) “That’s always my favorite part when doing a show (when musicians appear). “We always rehearse with a piano until the end. Hearing all the instruments can change the delivery of a song.”

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About choreography for “Beehive”: Brown says most songs feature a singer and back-up. There’s little choreography on each. Most dance moves as a group. “We’re not trying to create but to honor the music — all songs of women. We’re not trying to send a message … not trying to tell you how this relates to you … Don’t look for anything deep!”

“A young person not familiar with the music is in for a treat,” Brown said.

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t’s that time of year, where our hemisphere comes to life, and that means your gardens are ready for some sprucing up, observation, and finally, Take a walk around the yard It’s been months since time has been spent in the garden so it’s important to walk around and observe changes. Maybe the perennials you planted in the fall didn’t make it. This will help you stay ahead of any bare spots or unwanted aesthetics as you prepare to grow.

New plants Colorado has a unique climate, sometimes making it difficult to know when to plant.

Landscaping plants should go in late spring or fall, while edible gardening plants can go in various times of the year from March to September.

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Prune By removing dead and old plant matter your plants can thrive. Be sure your pruning at proper lengths and times, as each plant is different. A quick google search or email to Rooney Bloom can make all the difference in the life of your plants.

Compost area After trimming and raking, you’ll have organic matter that can be a great addition to other parts of your garden. Most counties offer a composting service, however if not, start one in your backyard! Just remember brown (dead organic matter such as sticks), greens (apple cores, leftover lettuce, grass trimmings) and water!

Never use pesticides These kill and gravely harm creatures/pets, people and our environment. There are a plethora of other ways to address invasive species and unwanted creatures into your garden. Try industrial strength white vinegar for weeds, or planting African marigolds to keep bindweed away! Speaking of...did you know Lavender repels fleas?

planting! By keeping these tips and tricks in mind, you can ensure a healthier more vibrant garden, a garden that will allow birds, bees and other creatures to flourish. I’ve got all the details to keep your gardening flourishing, these are just a few. When in doubt ask for help, after all, plants are living.

Tools A few tools are necessary for proper garden upkeep and care.

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Organic mulch Mulch assists in suppressing weeds, retaining moisture, and improves soil fertility as it decomposes. Using mulch to top off your veggie garden or flower beds helps, especially in Colorado’s arid climate. BE SURE the mulch your purchasing is organic and hasn’t been treated with dyes.

Editor’s note: Rooney Bloom has been gardening for more than 10 years from east to west coasts, with a focus on landscapes, edible gardens and house-plant care and maintenance. In the winter you can find him in his plant room propagating and organizing his cache of 40,000+ seeds. Contact him on instagram @rooney_bloom or rooneybloom@gmail.com to chat everything plants.

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CHERRY CREEK FRESH MARKET LOCATION: E. 1st Ave. and University Blvd.

DETAILS: The award-winning Cherry Creek Fresh Market is the largest farmers’ market in Denver. Find a highquality mix of Colorado growers and unique local gourmet food vendors representing the best of the Rocky Mountain region. Also enjoy chef events, gardening tips from Master Gardeners and Master Composters.

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WHEN: Saturdays, May 4–Oct. 26, 8 a.m.–1 p.m.; Wednesdays, June 12– Sept. 25, 9 a.m.–1 p.m.

CITY PARK ESPLANADE FRESH MARKET LOCATION: E. Colfax Ave. and Columbine St. DETAILS: Now in its 22nd season, the City Park Esplanade Fresh Market sets up around historic Sullivan Fountain among the majestic statues and architecture of City Park. A strong agricultural market, you’ll find the best selection of local growers on a Sunday complemented by a fun mix of fresh food vendors in an urban park setting.

WHEN: Sundays, June 2–Oct. 27, 9 a.m.–1 p.m.

SOUTHWEST PLAZA FARMERS’ MARKET LOCATION: Southeast Parking Lot at Wadsworth and Bowles Ave. DETAILS: Local suppliers come to the Southwest Plaza Farmers’ Market with their fresh peaches, plums, apricots and cherries mid-season, and you’ll also find fresh baked goods, honey and greens.

WHEN: Saturdays between May 4 and Oct. 26 STAPLETON FRESH MARKET LOCATION: E. 29th Ave. and Roslyn St. DETAILS: The Stapleton Fresh Market takes place from June to October on the Founders’ Green. Don’t miss freshly popped kettle corn and other tasty snacks while you browse for healthy produce. This year’s kickoff is on Father’s Day, making it the perfect way to spend the morning with Dad. WHEN: Sundays, June 16–Oct. 13, 8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

of farmers and producers from the areas surrounding Denver, this is a fun, fresh market that is worth the drive to Highlands Ranch. Fill all of your fruit and veggie needs and then explore some of the other, more unique booths of the Highlands Ranch Farmers’ and Street Market, offering everything from handbags to cooking utensils to garden adornments.

WHEN: Open Sundays between June and October LITTLETON FARMERS’ MARKET LOCATION: 7301 S. Santa Fe Dr., Littleton DETAILS: Venture outside of the city to the Littleton Farmers’ Market at the Aspen Grove Lifestyle Center. If you

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LAKEWOOD FARMERS’ MARKET LOCATION: Mile Hi Church, Alameda Ave. and Garrison St., Lakewood DETAILS: At the Lakewood Farmers’ Market, a large lineup of vendors will tempt you with beautiful leafy greens, glistening grape tomatoes, fragrant green chili and shiny string beans. And you’ll also have the chance to munch on kettle corn and cheese samples while you browse knitted shawls and handmade soaps.

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Lifetree Café: “Breaking the Cycle of Sexual Abuse: One Brave Woman’s Story”: 6-7 p.m.

Sunday, March 31 at Castle Rock Adventist Hospital, Ridgeline Conference Room, 2350 Meadows Blvd., Castle Rock. Group discussion about sexual abuse.

Contact roykoerner@msn.com or 303-814-0142.

Write and Workshop Series: 6:308:30 p.m. the first Monday of each month at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcos St., Castle Rock. Call 303-521-8615 or go to www.castlerockwriters.com. 2019 schedule: April 1, Speaker for Poetry Month; May 6, Write-out and Workshop; June 3, Write-out and Workshop; July 1, “Out-of-Date Stereotypes in Character Development,” by Bonnie McCune; Aug. 5, Write-out and Workshop; Sept. 27-28, Writing-inProgress conference; October, Write-out and Workshop; Nov. 4, Write-out and Workshop; and Dec. 2, Holiday Party.

Young Writers’ Guild: 4:30 p.m. April 2 at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock.

For ages 12-18.

No registration required. Call 303791-7323 or go to DCL.org.

Artist Reception Celebrates Yoga and Spirituality: 6-8 p.m.

Friday, April 5 at Inner Connections Yoga & Wellness, Rock Salt Therapy & CommuniTea, 821-A Park St., Castle Rock. Go to LisaSchwartz34.com.

Making the Grade Through Community Engagement: Recreating the Benefits of Home Ownership for the Children of Renting Families: Friday, April 5.

Presented by the Douglas County Parenting Coalition and Red Rocks Credit Union. For details and to receive an invitation, email dcparenting@usa.com. The product of this working group will be a compilation of ideas, best practices, and policy solutions that communities and individuals can implement to help level the playing field for renter’s children and replicate the benefits that homeowners’ children enjoy.

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this week’s TOP FIVE The Music Man: 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 29-30 at Colorado Christian University School of Music, 3651 E. Easter Circle North, Centennial. Presented by Artios Academies of Littleton. Go to https://squareup.com/store/ artios-academies-of-littleton ThumbleMania Thumb Wrestling Tournament: Saturday, April 6 at Burly Brewing Co., 680 Atchison Way, Castle Rock. Sessions at 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. with a finale at 7 p.m. to determine the overall winner. The competition is open to all ages. Go to www.BurlyBrewing.com.

Youth Sport Sampler: 10:45-11:30 a.m. Saturdays from April 6-27 at Jason Park, 4299 S. Jason St., Englewood. Children ages 3-5 experience a new sport each week including soccer,

t-ball, basketball, and flag football. Parents must participate. Visit englewoodrec.org to register.

Hummingbird Program: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, March 31 at Castlewood Canyon State Park, 2989 South State Highway 83, Franktown. Presentations at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.

Program is free. Call 303688-5242.

Dueling Pianos in Highlands Ranch: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, April 5 at Southridge Recreation Center, 4800 McArthur Ranch Road, Highlands Ranch. Ages 16-plus. Go to hrcaonline.org.

9-Hole Golf Club: open to women ages 21 and older. Applications accepted through April.

Call 303-470-9292 or contact Sherrie Mitchell at 303-799-4583 or mmlinksladies18@gmail.com

Castle Rock. Presentation of the Castle Rock Historical Society features re-enactor Jeff Norman as Buffalo Bill Cody. Call 303-8143164, email museum@castlerockhistoricalsociety.org or go to www. castlerockhistoricalsociety.org.

Wildland Fire Evacuation Seminar: 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 16 at the County Commissioners Hearing Room, 100 Third St., Castle Rock. Learn about wildland fire alerts and warnings, and also about evacuation preparedness.

RSVP to 303-814-4356 or alwalton@dcsheriff.net.

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The Great Egg Scramble: Saturday, April 13 at Belleview Park, 5001 S. Inca Drive, Englewood.

Gates open at 9:30 a.m. and hunt begins promptly at 10 a.m. For ages 1-8; donations accepted. Go to https://www.englewoodco. gov/parks-recreation-library/thegreat-egg-scramble

Enchanted Castle: 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 6 at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Costumes encouraged.

For ages 6-12. Registration required.

Call 303-791-7323 or go to DCL.org.

Natura Obscura: on display through April 28 at the Museum of Outdoor Arts, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood. Features more than 30 Colorado-based artists and creatives. Go to http:// www.naturaobscura.org/

Experience the Old West: 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 11 at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St.,

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Spring Flower Sale FUNdraiser: Potted flowers can be purchased now for pickup Saturday, May 4, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Westridge Recreation Center.

Therapeutic recreation gets 45 percent of proceeds from sales.

Purchase flowers at https:// hrcaonline.org/classes-campsactivities/therapeutic-recreation/ therapeutic-recreation-flowersale. Contact 303-471-7043.

Highlands Ranch Genealogical Society Meeting: 7-9 p.m.

Tuesday, April 2 at Lone Tree Public Library, 10055 Library Way, Lone Tree. Tips and tricks to focus research and writing. Go to hrgenealogy.wordpress.com.

9Health Family Affair: 7 a.m. to noon April 6 at Eastridge Recreation Center, 9568 University Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Free and low-cost screenings. Organized by Highlands Ranch Lions. Contact 303-8880423 or ddcc@ddccnotary.com. Go to https://hrcaonline.org or www. highlandsranchlions.org.

Denver Ballet Theatre Presents “Coppelia”: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 5-6, and 2 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, April 6-7 at Denver Ballet Theatre Performing Arts Center, 5690 County Line Place, Highlands Ranch. Call 303799-6609.

Denver Mob Tour: 10:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, April 11 and Tuesday, May 14. Small group tour to 20 sites in Denver, followed by lunch. Presented by the Highlands Ranch Historical Society. Meet at Gaetano’s Restaurant, 3760 Tejon St., Denver. Call Nancy at 9326990 or go to http://thehrhs.org/.

“Mary Poppins Returns” Auditions: 4 p.m. Friday, April 12 at Spotlight Performing Arts Center, 6328 E. County Line Road, Ste. 102, Highlands Ranch. Class for ages 6-18 years runs for 15 weeks; performance is in July. Contact 720-44-DANCE or go to www. spotlightperformers.com.

Littleton

“The World Goes ‘Round”: on stage Friday, March 29 to Sunday, April 28 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., Littleton. Showtimes are Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. (and 2 p.m. April 13) and Sundays at 2 p.m. (and 6:30 p.m. April 21). Get tickets in person at the box office, by calling 303-794-2787 ext. 5, or online at townhallartscenter.org.

Swing Dance Aerobics: 7:30-8:20 p.m. Mondays from April 1-22 at Adventures in Dance, 1500 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton. Call 720276-0562 or email info@adventuresindance.com. Go to https:// www.adventuresindance.com Potluck Ballroom and Latin Dance Party: 8-9:30 p.m.

Friday, April 5 at Adventures in Dance, 1500 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton.

Call 720276-0562 or email info@ adventuresindance.com. Go to https:// www.adventuresindance.com Ballroom Dance Sampler: 7 p.m.

Fridays from April 5-26 at Adventures in Dance, 1500 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton. Call 720-276-

Walk with a Doc at South Denver Cardiology: 9-10 a.m. Saturday, April 6 at South Denver Cardiology Associates, 1000 Southpark Drive, Littleton. Visit southdenver. com/event-registration.

Lone Tree

Live Rock and Craft Beer: 5-8 p.m. Friday, March 29 at Lone Tree Brewing Company, 8200 S. Park Meadows Drive, Lone Tree. Paul Lechner performs solo acoustic rock music. Go to paullechnermusic.com.

Flaunt Spring PopUp Shopping Event: 1-4 p.m. Saturday, March 30 at Lone Tree Golf Club & Hotel, 9808 Sunningdale Blvd., Lone Tree. Jewelry, fine arts and crafts, boutique owners, skin care, bath and body products and more. Go to http://flauntevent.com Soul Brunch: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, March 31 at Lone Tree Brewing, 8200 Park Meadows Drive, Ste. 8222, Lone Tree. DJ Steve Cervantes of Mile High Soul Club and the PinkTank Food Truck. Go to http://www.swingindenver. com Summer Camp and Activities Fair: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, April 7 at CU South Denver, 10035 S. Peoria St., Lone Tree. Go to http://bit.ly/MKDCSCF2019Tickets. Learn about camps, summer activities and more in and around Douglas County.

Parker

Lenten Fish Fry: 4-6:30 p.m.

Fridays, March 29, April 5 or April 12 in Brownstein Hall at Ave Maria Church, 9056 E. Parker Road, Parker. Put on by Knights of Columbus. Call Len Bertagnolli at 720-468-2630.

Easter Interfaith Night of Music: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Sunday, March 31 at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 11755 Tara Lane, Parker. Vocalists and musicians from three local community churches.

Autism and Special Needs Night: 4-6 p.m. Monday, April 1 at Sky Zone Parker, 9851 S. Parker Road, Parker. Learn about local community providers. Go to www.tbh.com/events. Contact Caroline Turner at Caroline.Turner@tbh.com or 720-414-3488.

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Well-known Littleton educator and community figure Kenneth Coddington died on March 10. He was 78.

He was born Aug. 19, 1940 in Hawarden, Iowa, grew up in Centerville, South Dakota and received his bachelor of arts degree from Sioux Falls (South Dakota) College in 1962. He taught sixth grade in Sioux Falls and attended the University of South Dakota, receiving his master of arts degree in 1965, then became an elementary school principal in Mitchell, South Dakota. While there, he met Barbara Anderson and they married June 15, 1968. They moved to Iowa City, where Coddington earned his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa in 1972. Their son, Matthew, was born in Iowa City.

The family moved to Littleton, where Coddington became principal at Mark Hopkins Elementary, the beginning of 28 years as an elementary school principal in the Littleton Public Schools.

Son Steven was born. Principals’ offices at Lenski, Ames and Wilder followed before he retired in 2000. Despite a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in 2000 he remained active. Littleton United Methodist Church was important to the family and he sang in the chancel choir and served on numerous committees.

Travel, photography, video editing, gardening and woodworking interested Coddington and he traveled on Habitat for Humanity missions and with the Bega-Littleton Sister City organization.

He belonged to the Littleton Breakfast Optimists Club and worked with youths through that organization. He sang with Voices West (formerly the Littleton Chorale). Littleton’s Western Welcome Week Board named him grand marshal in 2016, as an honor to him and to past educators.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara, sons Matthew (Michele) and Steven, a granddaughter, brother, sister-in-law, nieces and nephews.

A celebration of life will be held at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton at 10 a.m. April 6.

Memorial contributions in his name may be made to the Parkinson Association of the Rockies, the Michael J. Fox Foundation or the Littleton United Methodist Church.

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Her assistant with “Beehive,” Nadiya Jackson, is a former DSA student, she added. Two in the show have worked in New

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Littleton senior comes back strong ‘Not being able to finish the season last year, I’ve come out harder this season.’

Littleton senior soccer player Elizabeth Hernandez.

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Elizabeth Hernandez missed most of last soccer season to injury

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lizabeth Hernandez learned a lot last season by watching.

Hernandez, a senior at Littleton, had an injured groin and sat out most of last season, so this season is a comeback year.

The 5-foot Hernandez has played a big role in the Lions’ fast start this season.

“I was injured so I stopped playing halfway through the season,” she explained. “I was going to be out for six weeks. Yeah, for sure, this is a comeback season.

“It’s been going really, really good. I just like the new coaches (head coach Andrew Coons and player development coach Alex Rios) and the new style and everything. Not being able to finish the season last year, I’ve come out harder this season.

“I did learn a lot from the seniors last year.

Being on the varsity my freshman year, I have improved a lot. Especially the dribbling. I never really had the courage to dribble in a game.”

COACH’S TAKE: ‘She is our top scorer and one of our best players this season. She is the key player in our attack this season.’

Andrew Coons, Littleton head soccer coach

Q&A with Hernandez Who is your favorite athlete?

Lionel Messi. I really look up to the way he plays and how he dribbles and how he can do whatever he wants and controls the game just by himself.

What or who motivates you most to excel in sports?

I think my parents. They have really helped me out a lot in everything I’ve wanted to do. That has been a huge motivation for me.

year and really liked it.

What are your plans after high school?

I am planning on going to college but not entirely sure where. I’m using this season to determine my next step. Coach Alex has some connections and we’ve been talking about going out of the country possibly.

What would be a perfect performance in soccer?

Working with my team and just being able to play as a team and win the game.

What do you think about the U.S. women national team’s suing the USSF? I honestly think women do deserve equal pay. The sport is the same for both genders.

I don’t see why women should get paid less for doing the same thing as men.

What do you like to do away from sports and school?

I like writing a lot, just what I’m thinking and feeling.

Poetry sometimes too. I took a poetry class my sophomore

What improvements to you need in your game?

I want to get better with split-second decisions and just try not to think about it right at the moment.

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Key stats | In the first three games this season, Hernandez has two goals and four assists for eight points.

Colorado roots shape game of premier women’s golfer

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ennifer Kupcho of Wake Forest won the 2018 women’s NCAA golf championship and then soared to No. 1 in the women’s World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR), which she has held for 23 weeks dating back to last July.

And this is a golfer who developed her game in Colorado, where it is often OVERTIME difficult to keep all the basics of a competitive golf swing tuned during the winter because of elements like sub-freezing temperatures, snow, slush and ice.

“Yeah, it was Jim Benton a little difficult,” said Kupcho, who won two Class 4A girls state high school individual championships while playing for Jefferson Academy in Westminster.

“I guess it was kind of good for me just because it is cold in the winter, so I played basketball pretty much my whole life. I played that during the winter and it kind of gave me a little time away from golf.

“I haven’t got burned out and that’s the main mistake with juniors nowadays. They just get burned out and don’t want to play later.”

Kupcho will be honored for her stellar 2018 accomplishments by the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame as the Amateur Athlete of the Year at its annual awards dinner on April 3 at the Hilton Denver City Center.

“Both my parents (Mike and Janet) play golf and I have an older brother (Steven) that started playing. It sort of became a family thing. My brother and I both loved it and we became pretty competitive. That’s how it all started.”

Last season she was a first team Women’s Golf Coaches Association All American, broke her own Wake Forest record with a 70.60 scoring average and became the first wireto-wire NCAA champion since 2002. Kupcho was also a member of the victorious United States Curtis Cup and Palmer Cup teams.

Kupcho was the runner-up in the 2017 NCAA championships when she wound up losing by one stroke after recording a triple bogey on the 17th hole.

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Cohlton Schultz ends amazing preps career Ponderosa student named South Metro Wrestler of Year

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During his senior season at Ponderosa High School, Cohlton Schultz didn’t leave behind any doubts that he is one of the best-ever Colorado high school wrestlers.

Schultz won his fourth consecutive state championship at the CHSAA State Championships Feb. 14-16 when he pinned Legend’s Colin Lavell in 52 seconds in the title match.

He became the 24th wrestler to win four state titles. Schultz won two at 220 pounds and the last two in the 285-pound weight class.

Schultz amazingly never lost a point all season, had a 46-0 record and finished four years of wrestling at Ponderosa with a 188-2 record.

In his four state tournament title conquests, he won 15 of 16 matches by pins.

He is the 2019 Colorado Community Media South Metro Wrestler of the Year.

Tim Yount is a guru of high school wrestling in Colorado and publishes the On The Mat rankings each season. He claims Schultz is one of the state’s best.

“It is one thing to win matches, another to dominate every match,” said Yount. “He never made it to the second period this year. I can’t recall that every happening.

“Cohlton might be the best kid to ever compete at the high school level all four years. Some might argue that point but he is so, so gifted that few will be able to do what he

Cohlton Schultz of Ponderosa, top, has been named Colorado Community Media’s South Metro Wrestler of the Year. has done in Colorado and the many out-of-state tournaments where he has met some amazingly great competition.”

Schultz went into each match with a simple plan.

“I have a game plan going into every match but I am willing to take whatever my opponent gives me,” he explained. “If I put him on his back, I want to finish him every time.

“Being a big guy as a freshman, I wasn’t the biggest or the strongest.

I was able to use a little bit of my savvy or whatever. Now my physi-

cal ability has caught up with me a little bit and it feels good. It has definitely been a grind. It’s been a lot of hard work, a lot of hours, but I’ve got a hold on it and it feels real good.”

Schultz, who won the Cadet Greco World Title in 2017, will wrestle next year at Arizona State and possibly in the 2020 Olympics.

“I love Colorado,” he said. “I was born and raised in Colorado. It will always have a special place in my heart. It will mean a lot to represent Colorado on a national stage.

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“The Olympics is a definite possibility. Outside of high school matches, I’m in there wrestling with some of the best guys in the world.

I’m right there with them. I know it’s something I can do and I will make sure I put in the work to get there.”

Yount and many wrestling fans will continue to watch Schultz.

“He is a joy to watch,” said Yount.

“I am so looking forward to his career at ASU and the next level.

He will continue to make Colorado proud for many years to come.”

Pirates play hard in lacrosse opener George Washington wins 13-4; Englewood plans for rest of season

BY TOM MUNDS TMUNDS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Englewood High School lacrosse coach said he was proud of the fact that his team played hard until the final horn in their first game of the season against a very talented George Washington squad in the March 12 non-league contest. The Commanders won the game 13-4.

“Today was the chance to get over the first-game jitters. This game also helps us as coaches and players plan for the rest of the season,” Pirates coach Matt Thomas said after the game. “It is also lets the players and coaches see what we need to work on.

We have a lot of new players learning the sport out there on the field as they play. As coaches we will plan drills and practices that will help our team improve the areas where we need to get better.”

He said on offense he wants to see the Pirates slow the pace down a bit, working together as a team. “We do those things in practice. I guess we got caught up in the excitement of the season opener and playing another team, a good team that plays lacrosse very well.”

On offense, the Pirates looked to move quickly into the Commander’s side of midfield territory where they set up and worked to get in position to put shots on the net. Englewood did get off a number of shots at goal and put 13 of them on target. But the Commander goalie played well and only four Englewood shots made it into the net. Blake Kats, Destin Bick, John Altenhofen and Grant Webster scored

the goals for Englewood. Kats and Webster each also had an assist.

Junior Riley Graves was in goal for Englewood and made 24 saves.

“My freshman year I played attack but last year we needed a goalie so I moved to that position,” Graves said after the game. “That first year was a real learning experience for me and I am using what I learned last year to improve my play in goal this year.”

He said the hardest shot to block is when the attacker bounces the ball off the ground near the goal to send the ball high in the air at the net.

“When an attacker is moving in I try to keep watching his eyes but I am more focused on his stick or shoulders. He can try to fake me out with his eyes but his stick and shoulders tell me if he is going high or low.”

He said he has improved as a goalie. He noted he made 24 saves against George Washington while he made only about 100 saves all last season.

‘My freshman year I played attack but last year we needed a goalie so I moved to that position.’

Riley Graves, junior at Englewood High School

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purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/01/2019, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

LOT 16, BLOCK 3, FOXRIDGE IV, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 8195 SOUTH NEWPORT WAY, CENTENNIAL, CO 80112.

Outstanding Principal Balance $39,105.50

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Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

www.ColoradoCommunityMedia.com/Notices First Publication: 3/7/2019 Last Publication: 4/4/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICES IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 01/02/2019 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

First Publication: 3/7/2019 Last Publication: 4/4/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

Public Notices callBritney Sheree 303.566.4088 D. Beall-Eder #34935 Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0004-2019

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 2, 2019, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Scott A. Dressen Original Beneficiary(ies) Level 1 Mortgage Llc Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC Date of Deed of Trust July 11, 2007 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust July 13, 2007 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B7089911 Original Principal Amount $154,050.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $150,295.93

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Lot 31 and 32, Block 19, Speer's Broadway Addition, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado Also known by street and number as: 2965 S Bannock St, Englewood, CO 80110.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/01/2019, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 3/7/2019 Last Publication: 4/4/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 01/02/2019 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Britney D. Beall-Eder #34935 Jonathan A. Goodman, Esq. #15015 Karen J. Radakovich, Esq. #11649 Frascona Joiner Goodman and Greenstein PC 4750 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305-5500 (303) 494-3000 Attorney File # 7192-12800 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

Jonathan A. Goodman, Esq. #15015 Karen J. Radakovich, Esq. #11649 Frascona Joiner Goodman and Greenstein PC 4750 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80305-5500 (303) 494-3000 Attorney File # 7192-12800

Public Trustees

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO.: 0004-2019 First Publication: 3/7/2019 Last Publication: 4/4/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0002-2019 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 2, 2019, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Augusto A. Gonzalez and Edna C. Gonzalez Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Citywide Home Loans Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust July 01, 2014 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust July 07, 2014 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D4058994 Original Principal Amount $274,829.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $231,924.15 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 4, BLOCK 21, CENTENNIAL ESTATES, SECOND FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 5052 South Newton Street, Littleton, CO 80123.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/01/2019, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 3/7/2019 Last Publication: 4/4/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/15/2019, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

CONDOMINIUM UNIT 5855, CHATEAUX BEAUMAR CONDOMINIUM, ACCORDING TO THE MAP THEREOF, FILED FOR RECORD AND CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR CHATEAUX BEAUMAR CONDOMINIUM, RECORDED MAY 19, 1975 IN BOOK 2338 AT PAGE 458, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 5855 South Lowell Blvd., Littleton, CO 80123.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL legals@coloradocommunitymedia.com OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY

DATE: 01/02/2019 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee

Public Trustees

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Steven Bellanti #48306 Jennifer Cruseturner #44452 Holly Shilliday #24423 Courtney Wright #45482 Erin Croke #46557 Jennifer Rogers #34682 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-18-846528-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO.: 0002-2019 First Publication: 3/7/2019 Last Publication: 4/4/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0019-2019 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 11, 2019, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) DENISE R. O'MALLEY AND WILLIAM SEAN O'MALLEY Original Beneficiary(ies) PUBLIC SERVICE CREDIT UNION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt CANVAS CREDIT UNION Date of Deed of Trust November 22, 2016 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 30, 2016 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D6137183 Original Principal Amount $140,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $135,216.55 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 16, BLOCK 3, FOXRIDGE IV, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 8195 SOUTH NEWPORT WAY, CENTENNIAL, CO 80112.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

DATE: 01/02/2019 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/15/2019, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the

First Publication: 3/21/2019 Last Publication: 4/18/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

Public Trustees

First Publication: 3/21/2019 Last Publication: 4/18/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 01/11/2019 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Alison L Berry #34531 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Elizabeth S. Marcus #16092 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 19-020513 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice NO.: 0019-2019 First Publication: 3/21/2019 Last Publication: 4/18/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0034-2019 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 22, 2019, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) MONIQUE D. CROSS Original Beneficiary(ies) WESTERRA CREDIT UNION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt WESTERRA CREDIT UNION Date of Deed of Trust June 09, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 15, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D7066953 Original Principal Amount $40,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $39,105.50 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. CONDOMINIUM UNIT 5855, CHATEAUX BEAUMAR CONDOMINIUM, ACCORDING TO THE MAP THEREOF, FILED FOR RECORD AND CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR CHATEAUX BEAUMAR CONDOMINIUM, RECORDED MAY 19, 1975 IN BOOK 2338 AT PAGE 458, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 5855 South Lowell Blvd., Littleton, CO 80123.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE

Public Trustees

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/22/2019, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 3/28/2019 Last Publication: 4/25/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

DATE: 01/22/2019 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is:

Neal K. Dunning #10181 Douglas W Brown #10429 Rachel H Connor #50831 Brown Dunning Walker PC 2000 S. Colorado Blvd., Tower Two, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80222 (303) 329-3363 Attorney File # 3006-222

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice No.: 0034-2019 First Publication: 3/28/2019 Last Publication: 4/25/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0035-2019

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust:

On January 22, 2019, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Melissa Meza Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Freedom Mortgage Corporation, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Freedom Mortgage Corporation Date of Deed of Trust July 17, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust July 24, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D7083197 Original Principal Amount $225,834.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $222,350.19

Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT TWENTY-THREE (23), BLOCK ONE (1), SOUTHLAWN GARDENS ANNEX, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as:

2087 W Wesley Ave, Englewood, CO 80110.

Littleton Englewood 3.28.19 * 1

ence of debt secured by the deed of trust and 40 The Independent other violations thereof. - The Herald THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT TWENTY-THREE (23), BLOCK ONE (1), SOUTHLAWN GARDENS ANNEX, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Public Trustees

Also known by street and number as: 2087 W Wesley Ave, Englewood, CO 80110.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE

The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/22/2019, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 3/28/2019 Last Publication: 4/25/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 01/22/2019 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Heather Deere #28597 Toni M. Owan #30580 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # 80798-FMC The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice No.: 0035-2019 First Publication: 3/28/2019 Last Publication: 4/25/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0036-2019 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 22, 2019, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) David T. Nelson, II Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for American Financing Corporation Current Holder of Evidence of Debt AmeriHome Mortgage Company, LLC Date of Deed of Trust March 17, 2018 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 26, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D8028689 Book: n/a Page: Original Principal Amount $283,373.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $282,152.69 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 20, BLOCK 3, BROOKRIDGE HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 5301 South Sherman Street, Littleton, CO 80121.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday,

OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

Public Trustees

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/22/2019, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 3/28/2019 Last Publication: 4/25/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 01/22/2019 Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan K Ryden, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: David W Drake #43315 Scott D. Toebben #19011 Randall S. Miller & Associates PC 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710 Attorney File # 19CO00005-1 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 Legal Notice No.: 0036-2019 First Publication: 3/28/2019 Last Publication: 4/25/2019 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

City and County Public Notice LITTLETON NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to the liquor laws of the State of Colorado, MS Liquor LLC, d/b/a MS Liquor, 250 E. Dry Creek Road, Unit B, Littleton, CO, has requested the licensing officials of the City of Littleton, Colorado, to grant a Retail Liquor Store liquor license. Applicant(s): Manjit Singh 18728 E. Hamilton Dr. Aurora, CO The public hearing on the application will be held on Wednesday, April 10, 2019, at 6:30 p.m., in the Council Chamber of the Littleton Center, 2255 West Berry Avenue, Littleton, Colorado.

By order of the Licensing Authority of the City of Littleton, Colorado. /s/ Colleen L. Norton, Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No.: 522798 First Publication: March 28, 2019 Last Publication: March 28, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice LITTLETON NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to the liquor laws of the State of Colorado, Bacon Restaurant Denver, LLC, d/b/a Bacon Social House, 2100 W. Littleton Boulevard Suite B, Littleton, CO, has requested the licensing officials of the City of Littleton, Colorado, to grant a Hotel & Restaurant liquor license. Applicant(s): David Dill 200 S Franklin Street Denver, CO The public hearing on the application will be held on Wednesday, April 10, 2019, at 6:30 p.m., in the Council Chamber of the Littleton Center, 2255 West Berry Avenue, Littleton, Colorado.

By order of the Licensing Authority of the City of Littleton, Colorado. /s/ Colleen L. Norton, Deputy City Clerk Legal Notice No.: 522800 First Publication: March 28, 2019 Last Publication: March 28, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Metropolitan Districts Public Notice NOTICE OF VACANCIES ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF SOUTH ENGLEWOOD SANITATION DISTRICT NO. 1

Public Notice Metropolitan Districts NOTICE OF VACANCIES ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF SOUTH ENGLEWOOD SANITATION DISTRICT NO. 1 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, and particularly to the electors of the South Englewood Sanitation District No. 1 (the “District”), located in the cities of Englewood, Littleton, Centennial and Greenwood Village, Colorado.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that two vacancies currently exist on the Board of Directors of the District. Any qualified, eligible elector of the District interested in serving on the Board of Directors may file a letter of interest on or before 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at the office of the District’s general counsel, Semple, Farrington, Everall & Case, P.C., Attention: Darryl L. Farrington, 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1308, Denver, Colorado 80203, or via email to dfarrington@semplelaw.com.

SOUTH ENGLEWOOD SANITATION DISTRICT NO. 1 By /s/ Darryl L. Farrington, General Counsel Legal Notice No.: 522737 First Publication: March 7, 2019 Last Publication: March 28, 2019 Publisher: The Englewood Herald The Littleton Independent and The Centennial Citizen

Bids and Settlements PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT FOR THE SHERIDAN SANITATION DISTRICT NO. 2 NOTICE is hereby given by the Board of Directors of the Sheridan Sanitation District No. 2 that final settlement of a contract with C&L Water Solutions Inc. of Littleton, Colorado for the 2018 Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project will be held at the regular meeting of the Sheridan Sanitation District No. 2, at 6:00 p.m. on the 10th of April 2019, at the Sheridan Recreation Center, Dream Room at 3325 West Oxford Avenue, Sheridan, CO 80236. Payment to the Contractor is scheduled to be released no sooner than April 12, 2019.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by the Contractor, or his or her subcontractors, in or about the performance of the work contracted to be performed who has not been paid by the Contractor or its subcontractor may file with the Sheridan Sanitation District No. 2 a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim, addressed to: Sheridan Sanitation District No. 2 %Dryden Broyles, Manager Water Resources Engineering Co. P.O. Box 3864 Englewood, CO 80155 Upon receipt of such claim, on or before the date and time of such final settlement, the Sheridan Sanitation District No. 2 shall withhold from all payments to the Contractor sufficient funds, not to exceed the 5% retainage amount, to insure the payment of said claim. The Sheridan Sanitation District No. 2 shall hold such funds until the claim has been paid as filed or withdrawn. Such funds shall not be withheld longer than ninety (90) days following the date fixed for the final settlement unless an action is commenced within that time to enforce such unpaid claims and a notice of lis pendens is filed with the Sheridan Sanitation District No. 2.

DATED this 14TH day of MARCH, 2019.

SHERIDAN SANITATION DISTRICT NO. 2 /s/ Ron Trujillo, President Legal Notice No.: 522787 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: March 28, 2019 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

Summons and Sheriff Sales Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Case No.: 2018CV32019 COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE Plaintiff: THE TALLYN’S REACH MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado non-profit corporation Defendant: MARC A. MONESTIME; PAIGE L. MONESTIME aka PAIGE L. MIKELSON; BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.; DITECH FINANCIAL LLC fka GREEN TREE SERVICING, LLC; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; SU RYDEN, Arapahoe County Public Trustee TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: RE: Sheriff’s Sale of Real Property pursuant to Order on Verified Motion for Default Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure and §38-38-101 et seq., C.R.S. This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to the Order on Verified Motion For Default Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure issued by the

RE: Sheriff’s Sale of Real Property pursuant to Order on Verified Motion for Default Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure and §38-38-101 et seq., C.R.S.

Summons and Sheriff Sales

This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to the Order on Verified Motion For Default Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure issued by the Arapahoe County District Court case number 2018CV32019 captioned The Tallyn’s Reach Master Association, Inc. v. MARC A. MONESTIME et al, dated December 20, 2018, and §3838-101 et seq., C.R.S., by the Tallyn’s Reach Master Association, Inc., the current holder and owner of a statutory lien against the real property located in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The foreclosure is based on the Master Declaration for Tallyn’s Reach recorded on December 2, 1999 with the office of the Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder at Reception Number A9189335 which establishes a lien for the benefit of The Tallyn’s Reach Master Association, Inc. (“Declaration”) WHICH LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS legally described as follows, to wit: Lot 27, Block 3, Tallyn’s Reach Subdivision Filing No. 3, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado also known as 24345 E Briarwood Ave, Aurora CO 80016.

The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10:00 a.m. on 9th day of May 2019, at the Sheriff’s Office Administration Building, 13101 E. Broncos Pkwy., Centennial, CO 80112, phone number 720-874-3851. **BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR HIGHEST BID AT TIME OF SALE. ** All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 720-874-3851. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is: Tammy M. Alcock, Esq. Alcock Law Group, PC 19751 E Mainstreet, Suite 225 Parker, CO 80138 Dated: February 5, 2019 Tyler S. Brown, Sheriff Arapahoe County, Colorado By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff Legal Notice No.: 522690 First Publication: March 14, 2019 Last Publication: April 11, 2019 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225, Englewood, Colorado 80110 Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO Case No.: 2016CV030881, Div: 402 NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY PLAINTIFF: AURORA HILLS VILLAGE HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION v.

DEFENDANTS: BRUCE J LEE; FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION; and CYNTHIA MARES, AS PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY. Regarding: LOT 6, BLOCK 1, AURORA HILLS VILLAGE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO; Also known as: 11924 E. Nevada Cir., Aurora, CO 80012.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice: You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Sheriff's Office of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado at 10 O’clock .A.M., on the 9th day of May 2019, at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, phone number 720-874-3850. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder.

Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. 38-38-103 (4) (a) (IX) **BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR HIGHEST BID AT TIME OF SALE. ** PROPERTY. Judgment is in the amount of $5,658.00.

First Publication: March 7, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225, Englewood, CO 80110 RE: Sheriff Sale of Real Property under Order Approving Settlement Stipulation and Decree for Judicial Foreclosure, pursuant to Court Order and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq., County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to Order Approving Settlement Stipulation and Decree for Judicial Foreclosure dated July 15, 2016, and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq. by AURORA HILLS VILLAGE HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION, the holder and current owner of a

Approving Settlement Stipulation and Decree for Judicial Foreclosure, pursuant to Court Order and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq., County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

March 28, 2019M

This is to advise you that a Sheriff’s sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to Order Approving Settlement Stipulation and Decree for Judicial Foreclosure dated July 15, 2016, and C.R.S. 38-38-101 et seq. by AURORA HILLS VILLAGE HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION, the holder and current owner of a lien recorded on June 25, 2014 at D4055009 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The foreclosure is based on a default under the Declaration of Aurora Hills Village Homeowners' Association recorded on June 22, 1982 at Reception#2179689 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The Declaration establishes a lien for the benefit of Aurora Hills Village Homeowners' Association against real property legally described as follows:

Summons and Sheriff Sales

LOT 6, BLOCK 1, AURORA HILLS VILLAGE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO; Also known as: 11924 E. Nevada Cir., Aurora, CO 80012.

All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 720-874-3850. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is Azra Taslimi, Esq., Reg No. 44317, Altitude Community Law P.C., 555 Zang Street, Suite 100, Lakewood, Colorado 80228-1011, 303.432.8999.

DATED: February 12, 2019.

Tyler S. Brown, Arapahoe County Sheriff By: Sgt. Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff Legal Notice No.: 522706 First Publication: March 7, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO Case No.: 2018CV030926, Div: 402 COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY

PLAINTIFF: SUMMERFIELD VILLAS HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION v.

DEFENDANTS: AMANDA HERNANDEZ; CITIMORTGAGE, INC.; ALLEGIANT RECEIVABLES SOLUTIONS, INC. DBA ALPINE CREDIT, INC.; and SUSAN KAY RYDEN AS PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY.

Regarding: Lot 13, Block 2, of the recorded Plat of Summerfield Villas, recorded February 23, 1972 as Reception No. 1294996, and as described in Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for Summerfield Villas, recorded September 8, 1972 in Book 2055 at Page 460, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado; Also known as: 1330 Sable Blvd., Aurora, CO 80011.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice:

You and each of you are hereby notified that a Sheriff's Sale of the referenced property is to be conducted by the Sheriff's Office of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado at 10 O’clock .A.M., on the 23rd day of May 2019, at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, phone number 720-874-3933. At which sale, the above described real property and improvements thereon will be sold to the highest bidder.

Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in and to said real property in connection with this sale.

**BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR HIGHEST BID AT TIME OF SALE. **

Further, for the purpose of paying off, curing default or redemption, as provided by statute, intent must be directed to or conducted at the above address of the Civil Unit of the Sheriff’s Office of Arapahoe County, Colorado.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Judgment is in the amount of $10,100.85.

DATED: February 19, 2019.

Tyler S. Brown, Arapahoe County Sheriff By: Trent Steffa, Deputy Sheriff ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF: ALTITUDE COMMUNITY LAW P.C. 555 Zang Street, Suite 100 Lakewood, CO 80228 Legal Notice No.: 522724 First Publication: March 28, 2019 Last Publication: April 25, 2019 Published In: Littleton Independent 750 W. Hampden Ave., Suite 225 Englewood, Colorado, 80110 Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac, Centennial, CO 80112 Plaintiff(s): THE FAIRWAY 16 HEATHERRIDGE ASSOCIATION

Defendant(s): MATTHEW A. MARTIN; WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; SU RYDEN, ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE; AND OCCUPANT(S) Attorney for Plaintiff(s):

Littleton Englewood *2 Name: Richard W. Johnston, 3.28.19 Esq.

Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac,

March 28, 2019 Centennial, CO 80112

Plaintiff(s): THE FAIRWAY 16 HEATHERRIDGE ASSOCIATION

Defendant(s): MATTHEW A. MARTIN; WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; SU RYDEN, ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE; AND OCCUPANT(S)

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Attorney for Plaintiff(s): Name: Richard W. Johnston, Esq. Address: Tobey & Johnston, P.C. 6855 South Havana Street, Suite 275 Centennial, CO 80112-3813 Phone Number: (303) 799-8600 Fax Number: (303) 799-6977 E-mail: rjohnston@tobeyjohnston.com Atty. Reg. #: 19823 Case Number: 19CV30379; Division 21 SUMMONS THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO DEFENDANT(S) NAMED ABOVE: You are summoned and required to file with the Clerk of this Court an answer or other response to the attached Complaint within twenty-one (21) days after this summons is served on you in the State of Colorado, or within thirty-five (35) days after this summons is served on you outside the State of Colorado, or within sixty-three (63) days after this summons is served upon the United States or one of its agencies.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within the applicable time period, judgment by default may be entered against you by the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, without any further notice to you.

The following documents are also served with this Summons: Complaint In Foreclosure, District Civil Case Cover Sheet.

DATE: February __ , 2019 TOBEY & JOHNSTON, P.C. By: /s/ Richard W. Johnston Richard W. Johnston, Reg. No. 19823 This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4, C.R.C.P., as amended.

A copy of the Complaint must be served with this Summons.

This form should not be used where service by publication is desired.

WARNING: A VALID SUMMONS MAY BE ISSUED BY A LAWYER AND IT NEED NOT CONTAIN A COURT CASE NUMBER, THE SIGNATURE OF A COURT OFFICER, OR A COURT SEAL. THE PLAINTIFF HAS 14 DAYS FROM THE DATE THIS SUMMONS WAS SERVED ON YOU TO FILE THE CASE WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTACTING THE COURT TO FIND OUT WHETHER THE CASE HAS BEEN FILED AND OBTA I N T H E C A S E N U M B E R . IF T H E PLAINTIFF FILES THE CASE WITHIN THIS TIME, THEN YOU MUST RESPOND AS EXPLAINED IN THIS SUMMONS. IF THE PLAINTIFF FILES MORE THAN 14 DAYS AFTER THE DATE THE SUMMONS WAS SERVED ON YOU, THE CASE MAY BE DISMISSED UPON MOTION AND YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO SEEK ATTORNEY’S FEES FROM THE PLAINITFF. Amended and Adopted by the Court, En Banc, October 10, 2013, effective immediately Legal Notice No.: 522763 First Publication: March 14, 2019 Last Publication: April 11, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice District Court, Arapahoe County, Colorado Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac St. Centennial, CO 80112 In the Matter of the Petition of: LEROY DESHAWN BACHICHA For the Adoption of a Child Case Number: 2018 JA 235 Division: 22 NOTICE OF HEARING To: TYLER ANTHONY PERLICK (Full Name of Parent).

Pursuant to §19-5-208, C.R.S., you are hereby notified that the above-named Petitioner(s) has filed in this Court a verified Petition seeking to adopt a child.

An Affidavit of Abandonment has been filed alleging that you have abandoned the child for a period of one year or more and/or have failed without cause to provide reasonable support for the child for one year or more.

You are further notified that an Adoption hearing is set on May 23, 2019, at 1:40 P.M. in the court location identified above.

You are further notified that if you fail to appear for said hearing, the Court may terminate your parental rights and grant the adoption as sought by the Petitioner(s).

Legal Notice No.: 522770 First Publication: March 14, 2019 Last Publication: April 11, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice District Court, Arapahoe County, Colorado Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac St. Centennial, CO 80112 In the Matter of the Petition of: LEROY DESHAWN BACHICHA For the Adoption of a Child Case Number: 2018 JA 236 Division: 22

Public Notice District Court, Arapahoe County, Colorado Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac St. Centennial, CO 80112

Misc. Private Legals

In the Matter of the Petition of: LEROY DESHAWN BACHICHA For the Adoption of a Child Case Number: 2018 JA 236 Division: 22 NOTICE OF HEARING To: TYLER ANTHONY PERLICK (Full Name of Parent).

Pursuant to §19-5-208, C.R.S., you are hereby notified that the above-named Petitioner(s) has filed in this Court a verified Petition seeking to adopt a child.

An Affidavit of Abandonment has been filed alleging that you have abandoned the child for a period of one year or more and/or have failed without cause to provide reasonable support for the child for one year or more.

You are further notified that an Adoption hearing is set on May 23, 2019, at 1:40 P.M. in the court location identified above.

You are further notified that if you fail to appear for said hearing, the Court may terminate your parental rights and grant the adoption as sought by the Petitioner(s).

Legal Notice No.: 522771 First Publication: March 14, 2019 Last Publication: April 11, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Notice To Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Inez Janet Jefferies, also known as Inez J. Jefferies, and also known as Inez Jefferies, Deceased Case Number: 2019PR30215 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 15, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

David A. Simmental, Esq. Attorney to the Personal Representative 9085 East Mineral Circle, Suite 190 Centennial, CO 80112 Legal Notice No.: 522759 First Publication: March 14, 2019 Last Publication: March 28, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Kendall Steven Fligg, a/k/a Kendall S. Fligg, a/k/a Kendall Fligg, Deceased Case Number: 2019PR30206 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 15, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Edward Ewing, Personal Representative 3059 Cool Meadow Pl. Castle Rock, CO 80104 Legal Notice No.: 522761 First Publication: March 14, 2019 Last Publication: March 28, 2019 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of: MARY ANN GUSTAFSON, aka Maryann Gustafson, Deceased Case Number: 2019PR30112 All persons having claims against the Abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 15, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Dated this 14th day of March, 2019.

MELISSA CORINE FAHRNKOPF Personal Representative to the Estate 6334 Pilgrimage Rd. Colorado Springs, CO 80925 Home Phone: 720-201-5923 Legal Notice No.: 522764 First Publication: March 14, 2019 Last Publication: March 28, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Audrey Marion Jordan, a/k/a Audrey M. Jordan, a/k/a Audrey Jordan, Deceased Case Number: 2019PR30192 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 15, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

P.R.: Christopher Jordan c/o BOATRIGHT, RIPP & LUSK, LLC 4315 Wadsworth Blvd.

Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Ph: 303-423-7131

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 15, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Notice To Creditors

P.R.: Christopher Jordan c/o BOATRIGHT, RIPP & LUSK, LLC 4315 Wadsworth Blvd.

Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Ph: 303-423-7131 Legal Notice No.: 522767 First Publication: March 14, 2019 Last Publication: March 28, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Stuart A. Schneck, a/k/a Stuart Austin Schneck, a/k/a Stuart Schneck, Deceased Case Number: 19PR30238 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 17, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Christopher D. Schneck Personal Representative 2517 S. St. Paul Street Denver CO 80210 Legal Notice No.: 522772 First Publication: March 14, 2019 Last Publication: March 28, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of LINDA L. KELSEY, a/k/a LINDA L. KELSEY ARMBRUSTER, Deceased Case Number: 19 PR 30212 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 22, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Robert C. Armbruster Personal Representative 1566 E. Nichols Drive Centennial, CO 80122 Legal Notice No.: 522782 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Grafton Jhung, Deceased Case Number: 2019 PR 30154 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 29, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Carolyn Sue Jhung, Personal Representative c/o Donald A. Burkhardt 501 S. Cherry St., Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80246 Legal Notice No.: 522793 First Publication: March 28, 2019 Last Publication: April 11, 2019 Publisher: The Englewood Herald PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Earl Ladewig, Deceased Case Number: 2019 PR 30167 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 29, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Roy David Ladewig Personal Representative C/O Glatstein & O'Brien, LLP Ryan B. Scott, Esq. 2696 So. Colorado Boulevard, Suite 350 Denver, Colorado 80222 303-757-4342 Legal Notice No.: 522796 First Publication: March 28, 2019 Last Publication: April 11, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Lawrence E. Garretson, a/k/a Lawrence Garretson, Deceased Case Number: 2019PR30250 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 29, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lance E. Garretson Personal Representative 17297 E. Harvard Avenue Aurora, Colorado 80013 Legal Notice No.: 522797 First Publication: March 28, 2019 Last Publication: April 11, 2019 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of David E. Dennison, Deceased Case Number: 2019 PR 30251 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to

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Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 22, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Public Notice

Notice To Creditors

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of David E. Dennison, Deceased Case Number: 2019 PR 30251 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to Arapahoe County District Court on or before July 29, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kevin M. Dennison, PR c/o Chayet & Danzo LLC 650 South Cherry St., Suite 710 Denver, CO 80246 Legal Notice No.: 522811 First Publication: March 28, 2019 Last Publication: April 11, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Brian William Meadows, Deceased Case Number: 19PR30222 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 21, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michell M. Huber, Personal Representative c/o Patrick A. Schilken, P.C. 7936 E. Arapahoe Court #2800 Centennial, CO 80112 Legal Notice No: 522773 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Lynda Kay Banner, Deceased Case Number: 18 PR 243 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before April 10, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Leland Heathershaw Personal Representative 13952 E. Marina Dr., Apt. 109 Aurora, CO 80014 Legal Notice No: 522776 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Patricia Ann Deweese, Deceased Case Number: 18 PR 31187 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 22, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Skipton Reynolds Attorney to the Personal Representative 12835 E. Arapahoe Road, Tower 1, Suite 250 Centennial, Colorado 80112 Legal Notice No: 522777 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Janet K. Ohl also known as Janet Kay Ohl Personal Representative 13871 Haileigh Street Westminster, California 92683

Notice To Creditors

Legal Notice No: 522786 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Terry Jo Jorba, aka Terry Jo LeFree, aka Terry Jo Mahoney, Deceased Case Number: 19 PR 30252

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 29, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeff LeFree Personal Representative 3049 S. Bannock Englewood, Colorado 80110 Legal Notice No: 522790 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Englewood Herald PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Sandra Courtney Downing, aka Sandra C. Downing, and Sandra Downing, Deceased Case Number: 2019 PR 30242

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 29, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

John C. Downing Personal Representative 4910 Sanford Circle Cherry Hills Village, Colorado 80110 Legal Notice No: 522810 First Publication: March 28, 2019 Last Publication: April 11, 2019 Publisher: Englewood Herald

Name Changes Public Notice Arapahoe County Court, Colorado 1790 W. Littleton Blvd.

Littleton, Colorado 80120 In the Matter of the Petition of: Parent/ Petitioner: Angela Elicerio For Minor Child: Emi Celine Taylor To Change the Child’s Name to: Emi Celine Taylor-Elicerio Case Number: 19 C 100198 NOTICE TO NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT BY PUBLICATION Notice to: Christopher A. Taylor, non custodial parent.

Notice is given that a hearing is scheduled as follows: Date: April 23, 2019 Time: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Arapahoe County Court Division A2 1790 W. Littleton Blvd.

Littleton, Colorado 80120

PUBLIC NOTICE

For the purpose of requesting a change of name for Emi Celine Taylor.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jon Lynn Clark, aka Jon L. Clark, aka Jon Clark, Deceased Case Number: 2019PR30217

At this hearing the Court may enter an order changing the name of the minor child.

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 1, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kelly Belue Personal Representative 19146 E. Low Drive Centennial, Colorado 80015 Legal Notice No: 522778 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Margaret M. Moomey, aka Margaret Mary Moomey, and Margaret Moomey, Deceased Case Number: 2019PR30230 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 22, 2019, or the claims may be forever barred.

Janet K. Ohl also known as Janet Kay Ohl Personal Representative 13871 Haileigh Street Westminster, California 92683 Legal Notice No: 522786 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent

To support or voice objection to the proposed name change, you must appear at the hearing.

Date: 3.12.19 Legal Notice No.: 522780 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on March 19, 2019, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of James Everett Walker be changed to Sarah Marie Walker Case No.: 2019C100215 By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 522806 First Publication: March 28, 2019 Last Publication: April 11, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice Arapahoe County Court, Colorado 1790 W. Littleton Blvd.

Littleton, Colorado 80120 In the Matter of the Petition of: Parent/ Petitioner: Angela Elicerio For Minor Child: Mia Denyse Taylor To Change the Child’s Name to:

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The petition requests that the name of Sheryle Reta Edwards be changed to Sheryle Reta Clardy Case No.: 2019 C 100167

Public Notice Arapahoe County Court, Colorado 1790 W. Littleton Blvd.

Littleton, Colorado 80120

Name Changes

In the Matter of the Petition of: Parent/ Petitioner: Angela Elicerio For Minor Child: Mia Denyse Taylor To Change the Child’s Name to: Mia Denyse Taylor-Elicerio Case Number: 19 C 100196 NOTICE TO NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT BY PUBLICATION Notice to: Christopher A. Taylor, non custodial parent.

Notice is given that a hearing is scheduled as follows: Date: April 23, 2019 Time: 10:00 a.m.

Location: Arapahoe County Court Division A2 1790 W. Littleton Blvd.

Littleton, Colorado 80120 For the purpose of requesting a change of name for Mia Denyse Taylor.

Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on March 8, 2019, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Diana Kay Montoya be changed to Diana Kay Deutrich Case No.: 19 C 100190 By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 522758 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

At this hearing the Court may enter an order changing the name of the minor child.

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

To support or voice objection to the proposed name change, you must appear at the hearing.

Public notice is given on February 26, 2019, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Date: 3.12.19 Legal Notice No.: 522781 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent

The petition requests that the name of Sheryle Reta Edwards be changed to Sheryle Reta Clardy Case No.: 2019 C 100167 By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 522769 First Publication: March 14, 2019 Last Publication: March 28, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

Name Changes

Legal Notice No: 522769 First Publication: March 14, 2019 Last Publication: March 28, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on March 7, 2019, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Mackenzie Lee Danielson be changed to Mackie Lee Danielson Case No.: 19 C 100181 Shana Kloek, Clerk of Court By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 522774 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on March 8, 2019, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Jordan Daniel Brown be changed to Jordan Daniel Beer Case No.: 19 C 100187 Clerk of Court By: Kim Boswell, Deputy Clerk

City of Littleton Warrants

Legal Notice No: 522775 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public notice is given on March 8, 2019, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Jordan Daniel Brown be changed to Jordan Daniel Beer Case No.: 19 C 100187

Name Changes

Clerk of Court By: Kim Boswell, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 522775 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on March 12, 2019, that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Asma Abdihakim Omar be changed to Asma Kader Mohamud Case No.: 19 C 100197 By: Clerk of Court Kim Boswell, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 522783 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on March 12, 2019, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Muna Pirrin be changed to Mirna Casey Case No.: 19 C 100195 By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

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PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on March 12, 2019, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Name Changes

The petition requests that the name of Muna Pirrin be changed to Mirna Casey Case No.: 19 C 100195 By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 522784 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on March 15, 2019, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Danita Marie Bollacker be changed to Danita Marie Sportsman Case No.: 19 C 100206 By: Brittany Sill Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 522791 First Publication: March 21, 2019 Last Publication: April 4, 2019 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on March 15, 2019, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Ahmedameen Z Sadkhan be changed to Ahmed Zaidan Case No.: 2019 C 100209

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San Luis Valley is seasonal paradise for birders BENTON

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

From late February to early April, and again in the fall, one can easily watch — and hear — a huge, distinctive bird, the greater sandhill crane, as flocks stop to rest, en route from winter homes in New Mexico to nesting sites in northern Yellowstone and along Wyoming’s northern border, and again during the return flight in September ...

Colorado’s San Luis Valley and an area along the Yampa River both serve as a refuge for these four-foot-tall birds with a six-foot wingspan, as they call back and forth to each other.

Members of my family look forward to an annual mid-March trek to Monte Vista to watch and listen for a few days ... Rites of spring!

And once you’ve seen a flock of these flying fossils take flight in the early evening, against an orange sky — still calling to the others — you’ll never forget it.

Nor will others, who write ...

Colorado naturalist Mary Taylor Gray, who lives in Castle Rock, says in her book, “Guide to Colorado Birds”: “The passage of up to 20,000 sandhill cranes through the San Luis Valley in mid to late March is a stunning sight not to be missed. The fields around Monte Vista and the wet meadows of the Monte Vista and Alamosa National Wildlife Refuges fill with four-foot-tall birds, all calling loudly. Here and there birds bow and leap, fan their wings and prance around as part of an elaborate courtship dance ... the air fills with their raucous calls, which merge into a kind of trilling when many birds are calling ... The sight of dozens of sandhill cranes feeding in a stubble field seems like a scene from another epoch ...”

Famous conservationist/ writer Aldo Leopold commented: “Our appreciation for the crane grows with the slow encroachment of earthly history. His tribe, we now know, stems out of the remote Eocene. He is the symbol of our untamed past with that incredible sweep of the millennia that underlies and conditions the daily affairs ...”

Somewhere in the San Luis Valley, there is 5,000-year-old rock art that shows a flock of cranes in flight — just as a visitor sees them today.

And, there’s an ancient cottonwood tree where a great horned owl is sitting on a nest ...

The wildlife refuge is planned with cranes in mind — wetlands where they can forage for small water creatures and nearby fields where farmers leave a goodly portion of barley and wheat after they harvest. One sees thousands of birds in the morning — until about 10, when they fly away to good places to eat through the day. They return to several sites near the refuge about 4 p.m. and forage — and call and dance until sunset, when groups begin to take to the air, still communicating in that ancient language, as they leave to roost in water for the night.

Next morning, same routine — they need to store up multiple calories for the next long flight north, where pairs — mated for life — will nest and raise one, or possibly two chicks who will accompany them back south in the fall. They keep the offspring with them for about a year, so a visitor will notice smaller brownish adolescent birds hovering near a pair — not ready to mate for another year or two.

One wonders how to spell the sound of that call — is it “kraaak? kraall? krooll?” (all with a definite rhythm and the

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The petition requests that the name of Ahmedameen Z Sadkhan be changed to Ahmed Zaidan Case No.: 2019 C 100209

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She was fired up and determined to prove herself during the 2018 season and followed through.

“It all started for me with me losing the national championship the year before,” she said. “That kind of lit a fire in me. That kind of developed all the goals to be on all the USA teams and then to win nationals as well. It was just me coming out with the fire and really wanting to prove to myself and my teammates that I could do it and I wasn’t going to go away with just taking second like the year before.”

Kupcho, a three-time Colorado Women’s Golf Association stroke play champion, has a scoring average of 70.94 in 16 rounds so far this college season and recently tied for second in the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate on March 8-10 with a 54-hole total of 3-under par 210.

She won her eighth individual college title on March 15-16 at the Tar Heel Classic in Case de Campo, Dominican Republic with scores of 66, 69 and 67 for a threeround total of 14-under par 202.

“That has sort of been the pattern for me while I’ve been in college,” explained Kupcho. “I kind of start slow and then get better as the spring season goes on. After playing so much during the summer, I come back and just want a break. Once I get it that sort of lights a fire for me. It would be really cool to win it (NCAA) two years in a row. Just going professional is going to be a big thing too.”

Kupcho has earned a Ladies Professional Golf Association card and will be turning pro after the college season concludes.

She won’t be able to attend the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame banquet because she will be playing golf in the Augusta National Amateur.

Newsworthy briefs Some quick area updates about individuals and teams: Mountain Vista cross country and distance runner Caroline Eck has decided to continue running next season at Vanderbilt … Boys volleyball is in its second pilot season and it has proven to have been a success for at least a couple area players who will continue to play in college. Chaparral’s Ryan Smith will play at Campbellsville University in Kentucky and Rowdy Martin of Horizon will enroll at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee and play men’s volleyball … Mountain Vista’s Grant Magill went 5-for-5 with four runs batted in on March 18 in a 10-7 win over Arvada West. The senior catcher was hitting .778 in the first six games he played this season.

Jim Benton is a sports writer for Colorado Community Media. He has been covering sports in the Denver area since 1968. He can be reached at jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com or at 303-566-4083.

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Public notice is given on March 20, 2019, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Samantha Anne Britz be changed to Samuel Chance Britz Case No.: 19 C 100188

The petition requests that the name of Rieka Dina Cornelia Moorlach be changed to Rita Dina Cornelia Moorlach Case No.: 2019 C 100224

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The petition requests that the name of Samantha Anne Britz be changed to Samuel Chance Britz Case No.: 19 C 100188

The petition requests that the name of Rieka Dina Cornelia Moorlach be changed to Rita Dina Cornelia Moorlach Case No.: 2019 C 100224

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By: Brittany Sill Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

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combined trilling effect Gray describes).

It’s about a four-hour drive on U.S. 285 from the Denver area, past South Park, Fairplay and Buena Vista, catching your breath at the sight of Collegiate Range to the west.

Our group stretched it into a two-day drive, with a stop at Cottonwood Canyon Hot Springs for the night, a soak and a nice dinner in Buena Vista. And, since there was a birthday to celebrate, a next-day stop at Sunflour Bakery and Café, on the highway into Monte Vista — for lunch and “birthday pie.” (Hours are limited to breakfast and lunch, and that pie is really special!)

We checked in at a family favorite: the Movie Manor Inn, decorated throughout with scenes from memorable films and names of actors ... My offspring, now 60-ish, remember watching movies from our beds during summer trips, which are still in operation in warm weather, but not now.

Finally, it’s time to drive south on Highway 15 to the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge and adjacent fields, where birds fly in for a late afternoon meal. (Teatime?) From about 4 p.m. to 6 or 7 p.m., thousands of these birds fly in calling, land with feet forward and begin to munch, interspersed by some with those distinctive dance moves and more calls.

They feed for a couple of hours, then it’s time to go to a roosting spot for the night. By standing in water, they are less vulnerable to predators, such as coyotes.

With morning comes a repeat of routine — for cranes and birders ... In a month or so, cranes will fly north, but they can be observed again in mid-September — also an especially pleasant time for travel in Colorado.

Enjoy.

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The petition requests that the name of Ralph Anthony Romero-Rico be changed to Ralph Anthony Romero Case No.: 19C100175 By: Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk

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