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Virtual reality offers look at new schools Final designs for Clayton, Hay nearing completion

BY TOM MUNDS TMUNDS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The start of construction remains several weeks away, but those attending an April 20 town hall meeting got tours of the new Clayton Elementary School and the Charles Hay World School by means of virtual reality.

Michelle Albert of project management company CBRE, who is the school district’s liaison on the project, told the audience of about 20 people that the final designs for the two buildings are almost completed. When Albert completed her comments Bruce Larson of Larson Incitti Architects and Aimee Lalone of Wold Architects and Engineers used a computer and technology to conduct the virtual reality tour of the schools.

After the meeting John and Mary Mobley said they were impressed by what they heard at the meeting.

“We live across the street from Clayton Elementary School and we are real excited to see progress being done,” John Mobley said. “Our grandchildren go to Clayton, which is a plus, and Mary went to Clayton.

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BY TOM MUNDS TMUNDS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Bryce Borchardt, who will be a third-grader at Clayton Elementary School in the fall, uses goggles to take a virtual reality tour of the new Clayton building during an April 20 town hall meeting. The gathering was held to provide information about the construction of Clayton Elementary School and Charles Hay World School, which is scheduled to start in June.

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Earth Treks plans to build the largest indoor rock gym in the country in one of the former Sports Authority headquarters buildings in Englewood.

“We have leased 52,000 square feet of space and plans are to begin construction in August. Our goal is to open by about the middle of 2018,” said Chris Jenkins, Earth Trek chief operating officer, said.

“The ceilings are high enough to construct the boulder climbing wall but we plan to raise the roof to accommodate the rope climbing wall.”

He said the facility will be similar to the company’s facility in Golden, only larger.

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Western end of C-470 expansion to start soon

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My background I am originally from Atlanta. I own the Chick-fil-A location that is opening at Aspen Grove this month. I have already been a Chick-fil-A franchisee for eight years, owning the location near C-470 and Kipling Parkway. My husband, Brad, and I met while we were both attending the University of Georgia. After we graduated, we moved out to Colorado. Living here was a dream for us and we wanted to build a future here. We moved to Littleton 12 years ago and bought a home.

Why Chick-fil-A? I interned at the Chick-fil-A home office public relations and marketing department while I in college and I fell in love with the brand. I spent a lot of time that summer in restaurants and with Chick-filA founder Truett Cathy. I was selected for the first franschise, and I was excited to have the opportunity to own my own business as well as to create my own culture and vision while stewarding the brand.

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Lauren Plain and her husband Brad moved to Colorado after graduating from the University of Georgia. Lauren is the owner of the soonto-be-opened Chick-fil-A franchise at Aspen Grove mall, as well as a location at C-470 and Kipling Parkway.

COURTESY PHOTO expanding our influence in the local community. We feel incredibly blessed by this opportunity and we are truly enjoying this journey.

My hobbies I love spending time with my husband and our two daughters. We love being outdoors, biking, hiking, skiing and spending time in the mountains. We’re also involved in the community and in our schools and church.

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With the long-planned expansion of C-470 in full swing, conWork on the C-470 expansion project will struction on the segment between close the highway in both directions Wadsworth Boulevard and the between University Boulevard and QueSouth Platte River is set to begin bec Street due to bridge construction this month. at Big Dry Creek. The detour will follow On Colorado Department of County Line Road.

Transportation maps of the May 10-11, 10 p.m.-5 a.m. project, that stretch is listed as May 11-12, 10:30 p.m.-6 a.m.

“Segment 1,” although work of Quebec to I-25. on Segment 3, roughly between The biggest part of the exLucent Boulevard and Quebec pansion is the addition of toll Street, is already underway. lanes, with two of them running Work began on the project westbound from I-25 to Colorado late last year, and work on the Boulevard and one continuing to Broadway, University Boulevard Wadsworth, and one eastbound and Big Dry Creek bridges has ongoing, along with grading work from Wadsworth to I-25. Auxiliary for the lanes that will be added. lanes will also be added between Paving on the added lanes in several interchanges. In addition, that segment is set to begin this the bridges over the river will be month, with ramp construction replaced, and other bridges will next month. be widened.

Work on Segment 3, from The project is being paid for the South Platte to just east of mostly with loans financed by Lucent, is scheduled for later in future toll collections and is set the summer, along with work on to cost $276 million, not including Segments 4 and 5, from just west the debt service on the loans.

NEWS IN A HURRY RTD panel seeks applicants The Regional Transportation District is encouraging transit- and communityminded residents to apply for one of three vacancies on the RTD Citizens Advisory Committee. The 17-member committee advises RTD on FasTracks and other programs.

Committee members come from a variety of backgrounds, interests and professional experiences. The group’s public outreach meetings encourage citizen input and inform citizens of FasTracks progress and RTD programs.

Interested individuals should submit letters of interest to rsherman@crlassociates.com by the close of business on May 12. Letters should be no longer than two pages, and should address the following: • Why the applicant wants to serve and what unique experience and skillset they will bring.

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that will add value to the committee.

• A statement of personal objectives and goals if accepted for membership.

Resumes may be attached if desired.

Selection criteria includes residency within the RTD district, a demonstrated interest in public transit and FasTracks, previous community service and experience, and professional expertise.

For more information, contact Roger Sherman at 303-592-5465.

County recognizes volunteers Arapahoe County recognized volunteers and celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Volunteer Connections program on April 26 at the Sheriff ’s Office.

In 2016, more than 1,200 volunteers gave more than 37,000 hours. Arapahoe County Volunteer Connections offers a wide variety of volunteer opportunities to fit all skill levels interests and availability. Citizens can commit to a

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County takes grant applications Arapahoe County nonprofits can apply for the county’s 2018 Aid to Agencies grants from now until 4:30 p.m. on June 9.

The Board of County Commissioners is seeking grant applications from human services, health and wellness and crisis intervention agencies for $1.68 million in funding. Grants will be awarded to selected non-profit

501(c)(3) or 501(c) organizations serving Arapahoe County’s at-risk and underserved populations. Funds cannot be used for religious or political purposes.

Applications can be downloaded at http://bit.ly/aidtoagencies. Agencies also may call 303-734-5459 to request information and an application packet by email. The application consists of a standard form, program narrative and revenue and expense summary and documentation.

The commissioners will review all applications during the 2018 budget process. Funds that are awarded will be available in January 2018.

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Housing advocate honored for long service to agency Libby Bortz leaving board after 46 years with South Metro Housing Options

Libby Bortz celebrates her retirement from South Metro Housing Options on April 18 with former Littleton City Councilmember Carle Zimmerman.

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

“She was there when we needed a conscience,” said Dan Burnham, executive director of South Metro Housing Options, as he thanked retiring board member Libby Bortz for her 46 years of service to the organization — and to Littleton.

Despite controversy, she was always supportive, and showed integrity and passion as “a mentor to a lot of people,” he continued.

On April 18, a large number of local colleagues and friends gathered at the Inn at Hudson Gardens to celebrate Libby Bortz and her continued effort to make Littleton a better place to live — for everyone.

The agency now owns and manages about 600 units: apartments, an assisted living facility and single homes for low- and moderate-income residents. (The waiting list is very long.)

Andrew Hancock of First Bank, chair of the board, talked about 1971, when the housing organization started at Bortz’s urging and the average housing price was $20,500 in Littleton. In 2005, he said with a grin,

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the bank controlled Littleton Tax Credit on the Libby Bortz Assisted Living Center — “For a time, we actually owned Libby Bortz!” He also recalled a board discussion of a 200page document about federal regulations, which he doubted anyone had read in detail. Libby said, “Please turn to the bottom of page 96.” She did not think we should sign because of a phrase there. “Things need to be correct. Nothing is above question.”

Hancock also noted Bortz’s ongoing concern about women’s rights.

At this point, Bortz was presented with a silver engraved tray from the board and organization.

She then stepped to the lectern to recall her journey and look to the

future. She thanked her children for giving up time with her and said them their lives were actually threatened at one time, which she’d never told them. She recalled being at a Littleton church about a human rights issue and receiving a bomb threat. “You do what’s right,” she concluded.

In 1971, none of the Denver suburbs had a low-cost housing program. The Littleton Council for Human Relations had been formed to better inter-racial, inter-religious connections. The organization did a community survey and collaborated with the late Maida Navis, who started the InterFaith Task Force, to provide some low-cost housing.

“We got an OK from HUD for Littleton’s first senior housing — Bradley House (during the Nixon administration), and suddenly, there was a pull-back on funding. There was a senior protest demonstration at the HUD building in Denver …” She and others arranged for buses to get people downtown. “HUD locally had not been helpful … There was a demonstration on the Bradley House property … We did get our allocation back!”

She laughed as she recalled the angry HUD director’s comment: “You’ll never get into the men’s locker room at the YMCA.” Her reply: “That’s never been my goal!”

Five years of effort got an assisted living facility built, which was named for this advocate. She is still concerned about the future. “The assisted living center has people late in life who need a memory care facility — it’s more difficult to move into a different facility ... Ask your pastor, minister, rabbi to help ask for such a facility. It’s fairly expensive …”

Teary, she thanked her community “for the opportunity I was given.”

Speakers with upbeat memories also included Dawn Sheppard, former executive director, former city councilman Carle Zimmerman, who was there when the authority was started; and Charlie Blosten, retired longtime City of Littleton staff member.

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Construction defects compromise passes House Bill requires majority approval for HOA to sue, avoids arbitration requirement

BY KYLE HARDING KHARDING@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A construction defects bill introduced as a bipartisan compromise passed the Colorado House of Representatives unanimously on April 24 and was sent to the Senate Business,

Labor and Technology Committee.

House Bill 1279, introduced last month, would require the approval of a majority of members of a homeowners association to approve a lawsuit against a contractor. It would also require HOA boards to disclose projected costs of proposed litigation to members and call a meeting at which the executive board and the developer or builder would have an opportunity to present arguments.

“A lot of hard work went into making a bill that was truly bipartisan,” said Assistant Majority Leader Alec Garnett, D-Denver, a sponsor of the

legislation. “This bill will help us achieve a better balance in Colorado’s housing construction market.”

Supporters of construction defects reform say that lawsuits have prevented attainably-priced condominiums from being built in the state, pricing people out of homeownership and in turn driving up rental prices.

“It changes how lawsuits are initiated,” said Sen. Jack Tate, R-Centennial, who is sponsoring the bill in the Senate.

The bill is also sponsored by Assistant Minority Leader Cole Wist,

R-Centennial, House Speaker Crisanta Dura, D-Denver, and Rep. Lori Saine, R-Firestone. It was introduced shortly after another defects bill was killed in a House committee after being approved by the Senate. That bill, Senate Bill 156, was similar to HB 1279 but would have also required HOAs to enter into third-party arbitration with builders before filing suit.

In addition to Tate, the bill is sponsored in the Senate by Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, D-Denver.

“It most certainly will pass the Senate,” Tate said.

Property value notices mailed this week Appeals can be filed in several different ways STAFF REPORT

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The notice provides property owners with information on the actual value of their property as of June 30, 2016. Real property in Colorado is reappraised by every county assessor during odd-numbered years.

The Assessor’s Office offers property owners a variety of methods to appeal their valuations. Beginning May 1, appeals can be filed by mail, by fax or in person. Property owners can appeal their value at two Arapahoe

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completing the Residential Appeal Form found on the county’s website at www.arapahoegov.com/Departments/ as and clicking on Residential Appeal Form and Appointments. Instructions for filing online are included with the Notice of Valuation. The website may be used to obtain property information, office hours and locations.

For more information, please call the Arapahoe County Assessor’s Office at 303-795-4600.

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Interim Littleton city manager considered for permanent role

BY KYLE HARDING KHARDING@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

With Littleton going through its second round of recruiting city manager candidates, some members of city council want to offer the job to interim manager Mark Relph.

Relph, the city’s public works director, has been the interim city manager since last July, a role he stepped into after former city Relph manager Michael Penny was ousted by the council

ary after four candidates came to Littleton to interview and none were selected.

Though Waters & Company Executive Recruitment, a Texasbased firm contracted by the city in October to find candidates, has found a second batch of potential managers, Councilmember Doug Clark said at a study session on April 25 that he would like to forego the rest of the process and offer the job to Relph.

“I’ve seen him in action for 10 months,” Clark said. “I think he has integrity, I think he understands the role with the council.”

Clark is joined in wanting Relph for the position by Councilmember Peggy Cole, and Councilmember Jerry Valdes and Mayor Bruce Beckman also said they would support Relph.

Councilmembers Debbie Brinkman and Bill Hopping said that they want to go forward with selecting finalists from the candidates Waters & Company has recruited, with Hopping noting several candidates that he felt were highly qualified for the role. Councilmember Phil Cernanec was absent from the study session.

Relph joined the city as public works director in 2015. He previously worked in similar roles in Grand Junction and in Shoreline, Washington.

‘I’ve seen him in action for 10 months.

I think he has integrity, I think he understands the role with the council.’

Doug Clark, Littleton councilmember in June. However, he did not apply for the permanent city manager position at first due to a mistaken belief that the city charter required the manager to live within the city limits, having recently built a new house in Golden. And during this

second round, he recently withdrew an application that he had submitted for the post.

Relph said he is still interested in the role and only withdrew his application because of concerns about taking part in a competitive hiring process, and, if not chosen, having to form a working relationship with the person chosen instead of him.

“I definitely want to be the city manager,” he said. “I think I have a lot to bring to the city and the council.”

The city has run into problems along the way in finding a new permanent manager, including several top candidates dropping out of the process during the first search, which ended fruitlessly in Febru-

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Art comes alive at Clayton Elementary

BY TOM MUNDS TMUNDS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Classes continued while volunteers transformed walls and tables into a gallery for more than 3,000 works during the April 24-28 celebration of Arts Alive Week at Englewood’s Clayton Elementary School.

“We have been doing Arts Alive Week for more than 20 years,” said Mary Lynn Baird, Clayton art teacher and event organizer. “This year is our biggest effort. It took us almost two weeks to put the drawings, ceramics and multimedia works by kindergartners through sixth-graders on display.”

The school held an open house the evening of April 26 so students and their families could check out the displays. Artworks were hung on the walls of halls throughout the school and tables were set up for displays of student’s sculptures.

The open house also included a special live performance.

Families generally followed their student to the area of the building where his or her grade’s art was displayed.

Fifth-grader Sayla Champion showed her parents her artwork displayed on the wall of one of the halls.

“This is my drawing of a fox,” she said. “It was fun to do, but I like art so it is always fun. I like this drawing because it was a chance to be

Fifth-graders do their choreography moves as they sing “Jump in Line” during their April 26 performance that was part of the Clayton Elementary School Arts Alive Week celebration. The school held an open house on April 26 so students, friends and families could check out the displays of more than 3,000 artworks created by Clayton students.

TOM MUNDS expressive and use a lot of colors. I don’t think there is anything I would change.”

She said art is one of her favorite things to do. Champion said she likes to draw and her favorite thing to draw is portraits of friends and family.

About an hour into the open house the announcement was made that it was time for the fifth-graders’ performance

About 80 fifth-graders took part in the musical presentation. The stage was set up in the gymnasium where almost 200 friends and families gathered to watch the performance.

It was a musical performance and the stage was set up with a variety of instruments including three different types of drums, three different types of xylophonelike instruments and ukule-

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So it will be exciting to watch the new school go up. We are also excited to see all the progress in the district and the community.”

Jeni Borchardt is the mother of three children who will be Clayton students in the fall. Her son Chase will be a kindergartner, her son Bryce will be a first-grader and her daughter Cade will be a third-grader.

“I was already excited about this whole process, but attending the meeting tonight and seeing the virtual reality tour makes the project more real, so it is even more exciting now,” she said. “I liked everything I saw and I can’t think of anything I would change. It was a great presentation and I am even more excited about the construction of the new schools.”

Before the virtual reality tour, Albert talked about progress on the project

The virtual reality concept of what the outside of the new Charles Hay World School will look like. The virtual reality tour of Clayton Elementary School and Charles Hay World School was part of the April 20 town hall meeting to provide residents information about the construction of the two schools scheduled to start in June.

COURTESY IMAGE “We are preparing the plans that will be submitted to the state and the city for approval along with our requests for the permits to start construction. It is important to get the plans to the state quickly because there are 58 school construction projects planned in the state this year,” she said.

Because there is enough land available at the sites,

the new Clayton and Hay buildings will be constructed while students continue to attend class in the current buildings. Albert said the timelines for Clayton and Hay are to start construction in June so that both schools are completed by August 2018.

Although the final designs were not completed, the architects used technology to

les, and many of the students played recorders. In addition to the instrumental portion of the program, there were vocal presentations and even choreographed dance moves for at least one of the songs.

For each musical number, groups of students followed well-rehearsed moves to their assigned instrument.

At one point in the program the student were joined by a staff ukulele ensemble.

Fifth-grader Justice Martinez said she really liked being part of the musical performance.

“I love music because you can express your feelings through music,” she said. “I am taking piano lessons and was fun to play all these different instruments. I think I liked playing the ukulele best because it was a new experience. The fun was a 10 on a scale of one to 10.”

create a virtual reality tour of the two new schools.

Architecture firms Larson Incitti and Wold joined forces to conduct the virtual reality tour of Clayton. The presentation noted that the colors and furniture haven’t been chosen, and the items in the virtual reality tour are just representations of what will be there.

The tour took viewers through the south-facing front door of the two-story building. For building security, visitors will come through the outside door, then must go into the main office to check in and be allowed to go elsewhere in the building.

What designers call a spine hall will run between the two classroom wings. There are open steps leading to the classrooms on the second floor.

Because of the art focus at Clayton, the gym will be adjacent to and connected to the art room. There will be a slightly raised area on the wall next to the art room that will have curtains and can be

used as a stage.

Larson said the proposed layout of the school incorporates many of the elements suggested by the design groups, which are made up of school and community members.

Because of time constraints, the virtual reality tour of Hay was only of the outside of the planned twostory brick building.

Construction of Clayton and Hay are phase one of the school district project to replace the four aging elementary schools and early childhood center.

Phase two will include construction of new Bishop and Cherrelyn elementary schools and a new Englewood Early Childhood Education Center. That phase of the project is scheduled to begin in June 2018.

The new school construction is made possible because in November, voters approved the school district’s request to sell $97.5 million in bonds to fund construction of the five new buildings.

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Littleton Independent wins major award Newspaper claims five first-place honors at annual press convention STAFF REPORT

The Littleton Independent took home the Editorial Sweepstakes award at the recent Colorado Press Association convention. The award was given for posting the best performance in the editorial category among mid-size weekly newspapers in the association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest.

The Independent is one of 18 weekly papers in the Colorado Community Media family. Overall, CCM received 48 awards at the annual convention in Lakewood on April 22.

In Class 3, the Independent won a total of nine awards, including five first-place honors.

First place was awarded to: • Mike DiFerdinando: Best Environmental Story (“Coffee pods brew debate”) • Kyle Harding: Best News Story (“A swing county in a swing state”) • Harding and Clarke Reader: Best Business News/Feature Story (“Workforce development”) • Tina Meltzer: Best Automotive Ad (“The Garage”) • Chris Rotar: Best Online Break-

The Littleton Independent was presented the Editorial Sweepstakes award at the recent Colorado Press Association convention.

BEN WIEBESIEK ing News Story (“Seniors must find new homes”) Second place was awarded to:

• Jim Benton: Best Sports Story (“Official business”) • Alex DeWind: Best Business

News/Feature Story (“The rise of Sterling Ranch”) • DiFerdinando: Best Health Enterprise/Feature Story (“Care made convenient”) • Benton, Rotar, Josh Sumner and Ben Wiebesiek: Best Editorial Special Section (“Fall sports preview”) Several of the Independent’s award winners had other work entered for CCM in various classifications. The press association divides weekly papers into five classes, based on circulation, with Class 1 being the smallest and Class 5 being the largest.

DiFerdinando picked up four additional first-place honors, along with a second-place award, for stories written for papers in Classes 4 and 5. Reader’s writing netted three second-place awards, two in Class 5 and one in Class 2.

Wiebesiek won three page-design awards (two firsts and a second) in Class 4 and two in Class 2 (a first and a second). Sumner garnered first- and second-place page-design awards in Class 2 and had a secondplace showing in Class 4.

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Benton’s weekly sports column and Rotar’s headlines earned first place in Class 4.

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Knee Arthritis Pain: One HUGE Mistake And Two “Smart Moves”

Doctor’s Simple Advice Gets Rave Reviews By Patients Lucky Enough To Give It A Try

By Matt Edgar America’s Health Writer Denver - Have you been told that exercise will help your knee arthritis pain?

Well... has it helped? If it hasn’t, one local doctor has a very good reason why. Not only that - he says if you are trying to exercise with knee arthritis - you might be making a HUGE mistake.

Sounds crazy?

Yes it does. In fact, I thought it was a ridiculous thing to say. That is until I talked to some of his patients who gave him rave reviews. Many said he completely changed their life.

When they first came to the office, their knee arthritis pain was so bad they could barely walk and were scheduled for total knee replacement surgery. In a relatively short period of time, they cancelled surgery and are enjoying their lives again.

Why is exercising a HUGE mistake and what does this doctor recommend that is helping so many knee arthritis sufferers who come to see them from all over the state?

Double Edged Sword The doctor says that exercising with knee arthritis is a double edged sword. It is true, your knee joints need motion to be healthy. And lack of motion can be very detrimental. Without motion joints become “sick.” And in

theory exercising should help knee arthritis.

But here is the BIG problem: Knee arthritis is condition that dries up the lubricating fluids in your knee.

It also changes the joint surface and creates bone spurs.

Because of these changes - exercising on an arthritic knee can cause more swelling, more pain and more arthritic changes.

Imagine driving your car without any oil. What happens? The engine parts scrape together and wear out.

You can’t simply drive your car more and make it better. And in many cases - you simply can’t just exercise your knee and make it better, either.

What’s the answer?

In a car it’s simple - put in more oil. And then make sure the oil level is correct and it is changed when necessary.

With your knee joints - it is a little more complicated.

The major lubricating fluid in your knee joint is called synovial fluid.

Synovial fluid is the fluid that “dries up” when you suffer with arthritis.

But there is good news: Now doctors can inject one of the building blocks of synovial fluid directly into your knee joint.

This building block of synovial fluid is called hyaluronic acid. And when hyaluronic acid is injected directly into the knee joint, many ex-

help.

Making Knee Arthritis Pain Worse: Research has discovered that people are suffering with arthritis much younger than expected.

Making the right treatment choices now can possibly stop the progression and eliminate the pain.

perts believe it helps lubricate the joint.

Some say it is like squirting oil on a rusty door hinge. This allows the knee joint to glide more smoothly and often reduces or even eliminates pain.

And here is the most important part: Now that the joint is lubricated and can move with less or no pain specific exercises can be a tremendous

That’s why the doctors (when patients qualify) treat knee arthritis patients with hyaluronic acid injections FIRST and then prescribe a very specific rehabilitation and exercise program specially developed to help knee arthritis pain.

This comprehensive knee arthritis pain program is called, “P.A.C.E.” and has been getting wonderful results.

So what is the HUGE mistake?

If you suffer with knee arthritis and are exercising and the pain is either not getting better - or getting worse you may be making a mistake. You may actually be making things worse.

And that’s the last thing you want to do.

What are the two “smart moves?”

If you have knee arthritis pain, look into viscosupplementation with hyaluronic acid. In many cases treatment with hyaluronic acid followed by a specific rehabilitation or exercise program can get results when everything else has failed. In fact, it is not uncommon to get pain relief just from the hyaluronic acid treatments alone - without doing any rehabilitation or exercising at all. And the results can be dramatic.

If you are thinking about giving hyaluronic acid treatments a try - this is VERY IMPORTANT: In our opinion the doctor you choose should use advanced imaging technol-

ogy such as uoroscopy to guide the injections and make sure the hyaluronic acid goes where it is supposed to. Laser guided digital imaging is one of the best technologies to guide injections.

Research shows that without uoroscopy, doctors miss the joint space up to 30% of the time. Obviously, if the joint space is missed - the treatment cannot work.

If you have already had viscosupplementaion without this advanced imaging technology and it did not work - you may want to give it another try with a doctor who uses this cutting edge technique to get the best results possible.

So, if you suffer with knee arthritis pain, talk to a specialist about viscosupplementation with hyaluronic acid especially if exercise is not working or making things worse.

And make sure the doctor you choose works in a state-of-the-art medical facility and uses advanced uoroscopic imaging (Like laser guided digital imaging) to guide the injections to make sure the treatments have the best chance to work.

For more information on viscosupplementation for knee arthritis or to get a free screening to see if this treatment is right for you, one of the specialists at Osteo Relief Institute can be reached at 303-952-4469.

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Here is why: For the past several years, the experts at Osteo Relief Institute have been literally swarmed with knee arthritis sufferers looking for relief.

Nearly all these knee pain sufferers chose Osteo Relief for one reason - their top-notch knee pain relief program featuring viscosupplementation with hyaluronic acid and specially designed rehabilitation program.

The Secret To Success?

The experts at Osteo Relief Institute believe one of the biggest reasons for their success is the fact that they have some of the best technology money can buy.

Laser Guided Digital Imaging The clinic uses extremely advanced imaging equipment that allows them to see directly into the knee joint that they are treating.

This advanced imaging is called, “Laser Guided Digital Imaging” and many experts believe is the difference between success and failure with this knee pain treatment.

And probably the best thing about this technology is that it has allowed the experts at Osteo Relief Institute to get results with knee pain when so many others have failed.

What Is This Treatment?

This treatment is viscosupplementation with hyaluronic acid (HA).

Those are big medical terms that basically means this...

When you have knee arthritis the lubricating fluid (synovial fluid) in

your knee joint dries up.

This means instead of gliding smoothly - your bones start to rub and grind against each other.

This causes a little pain in the beginning - but over time the pain steadily gets worse until it is excruciating.

Hyaluronic acid works so well because it is like “joint oil.” It is a natural substance and is one of the natural building blocks of the synovial fluid that lubricates your knee.

Scientists and researchers discovered this natural building block to synovial fluid in the rooster’s comb that big red thing on top of the roosters head. It is extracted from the roosters comb, purified and concentrated.

When it is injected directly into your knee joint, it is like squirting oil on a rusty door hinge.

Hyaluronic acid allows your joints to glide more smoothly eliminating a lot of the rubbing, grinding and pain.

Why You Should Try This Even If You’ve Already Had Similar Treatments Without results...

“We have been able to help so many knee pain sufferers - even many who have already tried other injections like Synvisc, Supartz, Orthovisc and even Hyalgan. We use special and very advanced low-dose videofluoroscopy imaging called “Hologic Digital Imaging” so we can see right into the joint. This allows us to put the Hyalgan exactly where it needs to be. Studies show doctors doing joint injections without fluoroscopy miss the joint up to 30% of the time.” said the director of Arthritis Treatment at Osteo Relief Institute.

Osteo Relief Institute is a state of the art medical facility offering only the best technology.

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program called “P.A.C.E.” to make sure you get the most pain relief and the best possible results from treatment.

“Every case is individual. Some patients get quite a bit of relief right away - others take a little more time.

But most have been extremely happy and the results usually last for at least 6 months. Patients who were suffering for years with bad knee pain are getting their lives back... going for walks again and exercising. It’s amazing to see. They tell all their friends - that’s why we are swarmed. I can’t tell you how many patients have cancelled their total knee replacement surgeries.” added one of the doctors.

How To Get It If you have knee pain, the doctors and staff would like to invite you for a risk free screening to see if you are a candidate for Hyalgan treatments and

Research Shows Doctors Miss The Joint Space About 30% Of The Time Without Advance Imaging

Failed Treatment - the injection (and Hyalgan) misses the joint space. Research shows this occurs up to 30% of the time without the use of Hologic digital imaging to guide the injection.

This is why Hyalgan may not have worked for you.

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Campaign’s goal: Let’s talk about mental illness Tri-County Health spearheads metrowide campaign to battle stigma

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

It’s time to talk about mental health.

That’s according to Tri-County Health Department, which this month launched a campaign across the Denver metro area created by a coalition of public and private organizations designed to help people have open, honest discussions about mental health.

“Let’s Talk Colorado” will mostly operate through online, public health and workplace platforms, said Mon-

ica Younger, the behavioral health coordinator at Tri-County, which serves Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties.

“The idea started years ago. Community members identified mental health as being a very serious public health concern and they asked us as public health to work on the issues,” she said. “Anybody can be affected by mental health concerns.”

The campaign includes partners from throughout the Tri-County area but also beyond, including organizations in Jefferson County, Denver, Aurora and Boulder.

People can expect to see campaign materials in the waiting room at their health care provider, or perhaps through information provided by their place of work. There’s also a website, LetsTalkCO.org, with downloadable tools concerning mental

health discussions.

“The Let’s Talk key messages are, number one, acknowledging that starting the conversation is difficult,” Younger said. “It’s a difficult thing to talk about, but having that conversation can save someone’s life.”

They also hope the campaign will fight any stigma around mental health issues by providing statistics showing the commonality of mental health concerns.

“If you know that in a room of eight people, two of them are struggling with mental health issues, that helps defeat stigma,” she said.

Professional, personal connection For Keith Peterson, director of community benefits at University of Colorado Hospital, collaborating on the campaign wasn’t just professional.

Peterson, of Denver, has a son who struggles with bipolar disorder. Peterson and his wife, Michelle, identified their son’s condition when he was a young adult still living at home.

It all started with a messy room.

Their son, also named Keith, had always been a “difficult personality,” Peterson said, but for years the family didn’t realize a more serious problem was at hand.

If someone were to socialize with his son they would never know something was amiss, Peterson said, rattling off the traits that make his son wonderful. His son is brilliant, he said, passionate and with a strong sense of right and wrong.

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VOICES Days spent shopping around now move in small circles

et’s pile into the car and drive to the mall.

It used to be an event, and sometimes a road trip from Nowhere, Colorado, for a day of shopping at a big city’s retailers or mall.

Now? Stores we grew up with are dropping one after the other. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but we all know the reasons why.

Money reported, “It’s possible more than 8,600 brick-and-mortar stores will close their doors in 2017.”

I haven’t been to a mall store in over 10 years. I can’t remember when.

Grocery stores, box hardware stores, art

supply stores, and that’s about it.

I think if I could get my teeth cleaned on Amazon, I would.

Your correspondent used to work in a department store.

McAlpin’s. Middletown, Ohio.

I was a salesboy, age 18, and I worked in “notions.” It was a catch-all department that included sheets and pillow cases and greeting cards, and lots of women.

Women were the employees and women were the shoppers. I liked it, even though I was looked at skeptically at first.

However, I researched sheets: flat, fitted, and their thread counts. Blankets: wool, cotton, electric, fuzzy throws.

I really knew my blankets, and when the Cincinnati-based chain held a July blanket sale contest, I was ready.

I finished second.

That summer, I attended the Beatles’ concert at Crosley Field, which is long gone.

I paid $9 each for our tickets.

McAlpin’s opened its first store on Fourth Street in downtown Cincinnati in 1880.

If you are from that part of country, you might have heard of McAlpin’s and its competitors, Shillito’s and Pogue’s.

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ake news is a real thing … no matter who proclaims it.

When I was studying to become a journalist as an undergrad, there were only the Big Three network TV newscasts, AM radio news, and a proliferation of print newspapers and news magazines. In my coursework even then, we explored different media perspectives and I particularly devoured a book called “News: A Consumer’s Guide.”

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Often, real-time as-it-happens news is wrong primarily because it’s incomplete. But once the information is out there, it takes on a life of its own … retweets, viral videos, Instagram posts and Facebook Live shared over and over and over again, with streams of comments that continue to spawn wildfires long after the initial blaze is contained.

Most of us recognize this type of false news as the just-tooSEE DORAY P13

ith the springtime officially upon us and trees, shrubs, and flowers all taking root, it has inspired me to share with you some thoughts that run through my mind WINNING as I watch springtime WORDS come into full bloom.

And it’s not just watching the flowers and trees blossom and bloom, it’s also the Michael Norton smell of spring that gets to me too. Now for my fellow allergy sufferers, sometimes it can be a little problematic for us, but for me I still enjoy the scent of spring whether it is the sweet smell of rain or the beautiful air and landscape filled with flowers.

It is such a stark contrast to, and yet also a welcomed balance to, the increase in tensions driven by crime, the addiction epidemic, wars and politics. Passing by nurseries and homes

and communities already abundant with the signs of flowering life, I found myself thinking about a saying I had once read, “Bloom where you are planted.”

The successful growth all depends on the health of the roots, proper care like water and sunlight, and more than likely a green thumb. I settled in on thinking about the roots — I thought about the fact that we need to be rooted in love as individuals, families, and communities.

If you are a frequent reader of this column you F will catch on pretty quickly that you have read the following phrases in previous columns, but reinforcement of positive and affirming thoughts can never hurt.

So imagine if you will that there are four roots.

The first root is love and forgiveness. When we are firmly planted and rooted in love and forgiveness we can face most challenges and obstacles that get in our way personally, professionally, spiritually or emotionally.

The roots of love and

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forgiveness provide us with a freedom and strength that cannot be swayed or compromised by anger, grudges or negativity.

The second root is the root of love and kindness. We all know the saying, “What comes around goes around,” or “As you sow, so shall you reap.” Well, if we believe in this philosophy, we should be pouring out love and kindness on every single person we meet and in every single situation that we encounter. The root of love and kindness flourishes and multiplies faster than any of the other roots. You can easily test this theory yourself by committing to living a life filled with love and kindness for the next 30 days. Watch as the root responds with bringing even more love and kindness into your own world.

The third root is the root of love and happiness. It is so easy to find the bad things in life when we are looking for them. But it is just as easy to find the good if that is what we are looking for. And when we look for the good through the lens of love and happiness we will find the good people, the good things, the good places and the abundance of goodness that comes with a life filled with love and happiness, and we will find joy.

The fourth root is the root of love and gratitude. The root of love and gratitude cannot be choked or sup-

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soon news it actually is. What we as informed media consumers need to guard against is the genuine fake news, perpetuated with innuendo and unfounded theories, and often written and planted for publication with full knowledge that it’s simply not true (which you won’t find in reputable publications online or in print, such as in these pages).

But, I hear some of you ask, how do I know what is a reputable publication? One way is to acquire media and information literacy (MIL). Yes, this is a real thing too — “Media and Information Literacy: Reinforcing Human Rights, Countering Radicalization and Extremism,” as reported in a publication of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the UN Alliance for Civilizations, and the Global Alliance for Partnerships on Media and Information Literacy.

Of the five MIL laws, I particularly gravitate to Laws 1, 3 and 5. Law 1 states that information, communication, libraries, media, technology, the internet and other forms of information providers are for use in critical civic engagement, and that they are equal in stature. None is more relevant that the other. So, basically, 140 characters shot off in

pressed by envy, jealousy, hatred, spite or just plain meanness. The root of love and gratitude draws its strength from the attitude of appreciation and thanksgiving. We don’t love or want what others have; the root of love and gratitude is based on what we already have and have received. And just as the root of love and kindness grows faster than any of the other roots, the root of love and gratitude is the strongest of all the roots.

Some of you may recall the other sayings where they say something is the root of all evil, such as money is the root of all evil or greed is the root of all evil. And if we are not careful and if we don’t tend to the care of the roots of love and forgiveness, love and kindness, love and happiness, and love and gratitude, something evil could creep in and compromise our growth and weaken that place where we hope to be so firmly rooted, love.

How about you? Are you enjoying the springtime and all that comes with it?

Are your roots firmly planted in love, forgiveness, kindness, happiness and gratitude?

I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we are taking care of our roots, this really will grow into a better than good week.

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

the wee hours of the morning don’t carry any more weight, than, say, the New York Times editorial page. (One year ago, I would have phrased that sentence in the reverse.)

We all know — or should know — Law 3, which reminds us that information, knowledge, and messages are not always value neutral, or always independent of biases. We do naturally gravitate to news outlets that support our own cognitive biases, and thus tend to believe even the most outlandish statements from the side with which we agree. So for true media and information literacy, I recommend checking out a section in the New York Times that presents reporting and opinion from both ends of the political spectrum.

It never hurts to be informed, which leads me to Law 5: Media and information literacy is not acquired all at once. It is a lived and dynamic experience, a process that serves us well as we wend our ways tvhrough the glut of too-soon, too-raw and toowrong information that bombards us daily.

We can swallow what we are fed, or we can use our intellect, our intuition and our informed decisionmaking to select a credible, authentic and reputable diet of news.

Andrea Doray is a writer who reminds us that although both are journalism, there is a difference between news reporting and opinion. This column is opinion journalism. Contact her at a.doray@andreadoray.com.

OBITUARIES HARALDSEN

Kenneth Julius Haraldsen 12/4/22 – 4/21/17

Kenneth Julius Haraldsen, the son of Norwegian immigrants, died on April 21, 2017 in Centennial, CO. He was born on December 4, 1922 in a sod house near Buffalo, SD to Knut Haraldsen and Jennie Alette Olstad Amundsen Haraldsen.

Ken was the middle of nine children.

Ken graduated from Harding County High School in Buffalo, SD in 1941.

In November 1942, Ken enlisted in the Army Air Corp. He served with the 8th Army Air Corp in England until being transferred to the 106th Infantry to fight in the Battle of the Bulge at the Battle of the Ardennes Forrest in Belgium. He was also a warden for a German POW camp on the Rhine River in Germany.

After the war, Ken joined the Air Force Reserves, retiring after 42 years in the service. He married Opal Gertrude Warner on February 24, 1946 in Buffalo, SD and had four daughters.

Ken studied at the Central Bible Institute in Springfield, MO, obtaining two bachelor degrees in the Bible and Theology in 1954 through the G.I. Bill.

He worked for the U.S. Post Office for 27 RATAJCZYK

years, was a Reserve Police Officer and a Chaplain in the Civil Air Patrol. Ken enjoyed writing Cowboy Poetry and playing the harmonica. He served as the Sunday School Superintendent at Amazing Grace Church, was a member of the Englewood Lions Club, American Legion 8th Air Force Association, Police Volunteers and the Election Commission with the City of Englewood, CO. In 2007 he received the 9 Who Care Award from 9News. In 2013 Ken was the Grand Marshall of the Sheridan Parade. Ken and Opal have resided in Englewood since 1955.

Ken was preceded in death by his wife, Opal, who passed in 2011. Survivors include his children, Elva R. Sitler of Englewood, CO, Joy M. Schoor of garden City, KS, Marlita S. Haraldsen of Englewood, CO and Nancy G . Wentz of Denver, CO; 6 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren; one brother, Erling Haraldsen of Salem, OR; three sisters, Ruth Bachman of Cavaliar, ND, Sophie Loftsgard of Hoople, ND and Alice Schaler of Tualatin, OR and many nieces and nephews.

Ann Willson Ratajczyk Oct. 12, 1962 - April 24, 2017

Ann Willson Ratajczyk went to be with God and her mother on April 24, 2017. Ann is survived by her beloved daughter Tori (Victoria Ratajczyk, a sophomore student at the University of Northern Colorado), her father Richard Coale Willson Jr., her brother Richard Coale Willson III and his children James, Max and Anna Willson, as well as her partner David Sluiter.

Ann was born October 12, 1962 in Chestnut Hill Hospital, Philadelphia, and moved in 1964 to Bow Mar, Littleton, CO where she attended Centennial Elementary School, Goddard Middle School and Littleton High School. She graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in Psychology in 1985. She was then a manager of Limited stores, winning several national awards. One issue of the company newsletter said: “It just wouldn’t be a competition without Ann”. Ann received certification from Denver Paralegal, and served as bailiff in the Denver courts. She joined Ireland, Stapleton, Pryor and Pascoe

and worked there for over 20 years until her death, specializing in trademark, bankruptcy and cannabis law. She also served on the Boards of the Summit Ridge HOA and the Foothills Parks and Recreation District, on a mission trip to build houses in Mexico, and in fundraising for a Servants Tour mission.

Raised in St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Littleton, Ann joined Abiding Hope Church in Littleton which will host her memorial service at noon on May 6, and also attended First United Methodist of Church of Lafayette, where she and Dave sang in the choir. Ann’s wit, intelligence and good humor will be sadly missed by her many friends and professional colleagues. Always kind and considerate, she never wanted to be a burden to anyone.

Memorial contributions may be directed to suicide prevention via Abiding Hope, or to the Gofundme. com campaign for Tori’s educational expenses.

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Transportation funding proposal veers into ditch

Senate Republicans reject idea of letting voters decide on sales tax STAFF REPORT

A bill that would have asked Colorado voters to approve a sales tax increase to help fund billions of dollars in transportation projects has been rejected by Republicans in the state Senate.

But the Democratic speaker of the House is optimistic the nearly twomonth discussion surrounding House Bill 1242 will be good for the state in

the long run. The state transportation system faces a $1 billion per year funding shortfall, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.

“While I am disappointed by today’s outcome,” said Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, “I am hopeful that House Bill 1242 has started a conversation Duran that must continue if we are going to have a transportation system that keeps us out of traffic jams and helps Colorado businesses generate jobs for our people.”

The bill was defeated by a 3-2 vote in a Senate committee on April 25. If it had been approved at the Capitol and

then passed by voters in November, it would have raised the state sales tax from 2.9 percent to 3.4 percent from 2018 through 2037.

State Sen. Jack Tate, RCentennial, is one of the three Republicans who voted down the measure in the Senate Finance Smallwood Committee.

He said the state should exhaust other options before raising taxes and called HB 1242 “kind of a bait-andswitch,” saying very little of the money would have gone to the I-25 corridor.

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Kombucha taps the Colorado market The fermented tea is becoming a healthy drink alternative

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fter brewing kombucha in his kitchen for several years, Castle Rock resident Marc Gaudreault decided to turn his product into a commercial business.

One year ago, he founded TruBucha, a kombrewery operating out of a commercial kitchen in Denver. He peddled his product at local farmers markets and his customer base grew each week.

“Most people either love it or hate it,” Gaudreault said of kombucha, a lightly fermented tea full of probiotics. “I always liked the taste of it — the zingyness.”

Gaudreault originally started drinking kombucha as an alternative to soda and said he feels healthier doing so.

Kombucha is packed with B-vitamins, antioxidants, active enzymes, glucaronic acids and amino acids according to Gaudreault, which he says helps the body feel more balanced.

“Our view is that if your body is more balanced, then you will naturally fight off diseases,” Gaudreault said.

The healthy properties of kombucha is what drew Marnie Quinn, owner of Ceremony Center for Healing in Westminster to the drink.

Her center, which opened nine months ago, offers yoga, tai chi and meditation classes along with workshops centered around health, empowerment and spirituality. The center also offers kombucha from Happy Leaf in Edgewater on tap.

“I love that it’s a probiotic and supports gut health,” Quinn said, adding that the gut is the center of health.

Having kombucha available after class also serves the purpose of creating community.

“One thing we’ve done since humans have been around is sharing a drink together and it’s nice to have the option of sharing a drink that also supports your health,” Quinn said.

The taproom Sharing in community is one of the ideas behind the kombucha taproom.

TruBucha plans to open a taproom in Lone Tree this summer.

“Kombucha is a big business and it’s going to be getting bigger,” Gaudreault said. “We just want a place where people can sit down and talk.”

The Lone Tree location is central to where the TruBucha farmer’s market

Marc Gaudreault started TruBucha in his Castle Rock home. The local brew is now on tap in almost 30 coffee shops and breweries throughout Colorado.

TruBucha brews base flavors such as mango, raspberry, ginger, lavender, mint and citra hops available at various farmer’s markets.

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COLORADO KOMBUCHA BREWERS Rowdy Mermaid Kombucha Boulder — The Rowdy Mermaid tasting room is currently closed and awaiting reopening at a new location. Rowdy Mermaid Kombucha is sold at Whole Foods, Natural Grocers and on tap at various breweries and restaurants.

Trubucha Castle Rock — Trubucha is a Castle Rockbased business. TruBucha is currently on tap in 35 breweries, coffee shops and yoga studios around Colorado. They are in the works of opening a taproom at 10047 Park Meadows Drive in Lone Tree.

Happy Leaf Kombucha Edgewater — Happy Leaf has a taproom and kitchen at 5700 W. 25th Ave. in Edgewater near Sloan’s Lake. Happy Leaf Kombucha is available in 12 ounce cans, 5.16 gallon kegs, and 15.5 gallon kegs. They currently distribute throughout Colorado with LoCo Foods and Crooked Stave Artisans. It can also be found on tap at more than 100 Denverarea craft breweries, coffee shops and restaurants.

Upstart Kombucha Boulder — Upstart Kombucha is available in bottles and kegs and at retail locations, coffee shops and restaurants throughout the Rocky Mountain Region.

clientele is located.

According to the Kombucha Brewers Association, in 2014 there was $500 million of business in kombucha and it’s estimated that by 2020, that number will grow to $2 billion a year.

“I think there’s another four years of real growth before it levels out,”

Gaudreault said of the kombucha business. “For us, I think it’s a great opportunity and there’s a chance to grow a lot in those four years.”

TruBucha is currently on tap in 35 breweries, coffee shops and yoga studios around Colorado and Gaudreault said they’re adding three to

Cliffhouse Kombucha Jamestown — Cliffhouse Kombucha is available at natural food stores and restaurants in the Boulder, Denver and Ft. Collins area.

five new locations a week.

Until its own taproom opens in June, one place TruBucha can be found is at American Cultures in the Denver Highlands.

American Cultures is a kombucha taproom serving a rotation of Colorado-brewed kombucha. What makes American Cultures different is they only serve kombucha, they don’t make their own.

The taproom, which was founded in 2015, gives people the opportunity to taste all of the local kombucha that Colorado has to offer, and take it home in reusable growlers instead of buying it in stores by the single serving.

For a sweet twist, they also serve kombucha floats made with local Sweet Action and Scrumptious ice cream.

But first to get in the kombucha game in the Denver area was Happy Leaf Kombucha, which opened the first Denver kombucha taproom in RiNo in 2013. In 2016, the taproom moved to Edgewater near Sloan’s Lake. Like TruBucha, Happy Leaf ’s humble beginnings started with selling their kombucha at farmer’s markets.

Now, the Happy Leaf brand can be found on tap at more than 100 Denverarea craft breweries, coffee shops and restaurants.

Kombucha and beer One of those breweries is Mountain Toad Brewing in Golden.

Jack Stewart, brewer and server at Mountain Toad, said having kombucha on tap gives customers the option of a fresh effervescent non-alcoholic drink option.

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hyllis Vandehaar, longtime Arapahoe High School art teacher and popular local instructor, is the juror for the Littleton Fine Arts Guild’s 2017 Anniversary Show, SONYA’S which runs through May 21 at the Depot SAMPLER Art Gallery, 2069 W. Powers Ave., Littleton. She will announce award winners at a reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 5 — which is also the date for the First Friday Arts Walks to begin Sonya Ellingboe in downtown Littleton. Free admission, hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. 303-795-0781, depotartgallery.org. `Ode to Joy” travels south The Boulder Chamber Orchestra will offer three concerts featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, “Ode to Joy,” with the Boulder Chorale: May 5, 7:30 p.m. at Macky Auditorium, Boulder (tickets, 303-492-8423); May 6, 7:30 p.m. at Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood (tickets: 303-987-7845); May 7, 2 p.m., Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree (tickets: 720-509-1000).

Roxborough: gifts for moms The Roxborough Arts Council will host a Mother’s Day Make and Take event from noon to 3 p.m. on May 7 at the Rox Arts Gallery in the Roxborough Market Place, 8361 Rampart Range Suite 208 B (second floor).

Council artists will have tables set up where children can make jewelry and painted cards. Refreshments will be available and dads can peruse the art in the gallery for a one-of-a-kind gift.

New artwork is displayed by Kathy Ham, Marylou Steenrod, Wendy See-

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allows the option to make what Stewart calls a kombucha cocktail — which is half beer and half kombucha — and good for someone looking for a lighter beer.

Kombucha cocktails are usually mixed with Mountain Toad’s White Ranch Whit beer.

One brewery in Arvada took the concept of kombucha and beer together a bit further.

New Image Brewing is one of the first breweries in the world making a beer that is brewed with kombucha, said Brandon Capps, co-owner and brewer at New Image.

Dyad is New Image’s Kombucha blended brand, and a ongoing collaboration with Rowdy Mermaid Kombucha brewery in Boulder. The kombu-

bohar, Patricia Jenkins, Linda Hiatt, Erica Hollander, Tom Cooper, David Parks, Jim Bennett, Jennifer White and Paul Brown. Gallery hours: noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. 303-904-9774.

Denver Concert Band “Sunday in the Park,” the May 14 Denver Concert Band program at Lone Tree Arts Center (2:30 p.m.), will feature Young Artist of the Year John Sevy, a Berthoud High School student. The program will include Robert Sheldon’s “Art in the Park” and Aaron Copland’s “Outdoor Overture.”

LTAC is at 10025 Commons St., Lone Tree. Tickets: 720-509-1000 or lonetreeartscenter.org.

Heirloom plants Special tomatoes and more! Mark the calendar for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 20 for the Heirloom Plant Sale at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton. Arrive early — they run out! Cash or check only. 303-795-3950.

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Birds, reptiles and more that have been characters in Pokemon games and movies will visit Bemis Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton, at 1 p.m. on May 6, shared by Nature’s Educators. The program will explain how they protect themselves, find food and shelter. Froakie is a frog and Pidgey is a pigeon, for example. 303-795-3961.

‘Mixed Taste’ Tag Team Lectures on Unrelated Topics, such as “Wild West Mail Delivery and Post-Conceptual Art,” which originated at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, will be presented at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Complex Off Center this summer: July 5 through Aug. 23.

Individual tickets cost $15 and tickets for all eight events receive 50 percent off for a limited time. 303-893-4100, dcpa.org.

cha brett saison combines the funky, sour and refreshing flavors found in kombucha with their counterpoints in farmhouse style ales.

The brew came up when Capps was looking for a unique way to make a sour beer.

The brewing process, Capps said, is complex. The entire beer is unpasteurized and the kombucha is unpasteurized.

“It’s fully live cultures and it can age with time and become super complex,” Capps said.

Right now, Dyad is one of the most popular beers at New Image, selling out on a regular basis. It was also one of the first beers the micro-brewery decided to can, when they started canning their beers eight months ago.

Moving forward, New Image will be releasing new flavors of the Dyad brew including passion fruit orange guava and rum barrel coconut, which should be available in the next couple of months.

Pottery event The Denver Potters Association, including Anita Garfein of Littleton, will hold a Spring Show and Sale from May 11 to 14 at Sixth Avenue United Church, 3250 E. Sixth Avenue, Denver. May 11: 3 to 7 p.m.; May 12: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; May 13: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; May 14: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Genealogy group Columbine Genealogical and Historical Society announces its May program, to be followed by a summer break: May 9, 1 to 3 p.m. — “Finding Hidden Treasures in Family Search,” presented by member Barbara Elliott, who has worked at Family History Centers for more than 30 years. The group meets at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centennial. Visitors are welcome.

No charge.

Art at rec centers in May Sheryl Detert’s paintings, “Botanical Celebration,” are at Buck Recreation Center in Littleton; Sheldon Spiegelman’s photographs are at Lone Tree Recreation Center; Matthew Hamer’s clay hangings are at Goodson Recreation Center in Centennial; and Lenna Kay’s Metal Arts are at the Lone Tree Golf Club and Hotel (through June). For locations, go to ssprd.org.

This jaunty rooster, rendered in bright watercolors by Phyllis Vandehaar, will be exhibited in the Depot Art Gallery’s Anniversary Show, which invites the public to a reception on May 5, as part of the First Friday Art Walk. Vandehaar is juror for the exhibit and will announce winners at the reception. PHOTO BY PEGGY DIETZ

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‘Eye of the Camera’ winners show their works at Littleton Museum

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

More than 50 years ago, the Littleton Fine Art Board invited Colorado photographers to exhibit their work in a juried show called “Through the Eye of the Camera,” which drew a collection of black-and-white and color images shot on film and, in many cases, developed in home darkrooms. The popular show draws many more entries today, largely by owners of digital cameras, and awards are given for Best of Show in black-and-white, color and through

IF YOU GO “Best of Show Eye of the Camera” runs through May 28 at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton. Admission is free and the museum hours are: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays; 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays.

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In addition to a cash award, Best of Show winners are invited to mount a joint exhibit the following year at the Littleton Museum.

The 2016 winners — Chuck Rasco, Jim Sidinger and Steve Hirsch — opened their exhibit on April 21 at the Littleton Museum and it will run through May 28 during museum hours.

Exhibit curator Kevin Oehler arranged each artist’s works separately in the gallery, which gives a visitor a better picture of how each artist views his world than if they were mixed. All three share thoughtful, clear images, while reflecting different personalities.

Chuck Rasco won Best of Show for Color and his images, many exuber-

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Jim Sidinger’s silver gelatin blackand-white images are precise and spare, deleting “incidental clutter” which he finds distracting.

Steve Hirsch, Black-and-White winner, comes from an advertising background and is especially drawn to images of abandoned places and the landscapes around them, across the country.

Camera buffs will enjoy contemplating how these images were created and other visitors will just have fun with the variety of images included by three talented artists.

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Artist will make regular visits to work in Englewood museum

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The project began with letters to friends and former students, inviting collaboration between painter Craig Marshall Smith and friends and former students — to be followed by an exhibit at the Museum Outdoor Arts (known as the MOA) in Englewood from January to April 2018.

Smith suggested diptychs on canvas or panels, with overlapping work. …Variations are to be expected, one would imagine, given the diverse skills of the artists involved.

(Each is also invited to include a small self-portrait, to be shown with the artwork.)

Smith, who lives in Highlands Ranch (and writes a weekly column for Colorado Community Media) is a retired Metro State University art professor. He has been periodically involved with the MOA since a residency in 2003 and his larger-than-life painting of a horse, “Rodger,” greets visitors at the top of the stairway from the first floor to the secondfloor level of the MOA in the Englewood Civic Center.

On April 15, metro-area crew members met for lunch and conversation at the MOA, toured the facility and talked informally about future plans.

Smith will be Artist in Residence from mid-August through December at the Museum Outdoor Arts, where a spacious studio invites creative interactions and a supportive museum staff is available.

During this period, he will meet individually with the Denver-area artists and probably ship works back and forth with three out-oftown colleagues. “Bring music to play,” he said.

An intern, to be named, will join the project and one person from the original list has withdrawn, with a replacement to be announced. Smith expects to be at the studio every Tuesday and some Wednesdays and Thursdays, where he will paint, interact with group members and talk with visitors.

Metro-area artists include: former Metro State University Denver students Heidi Jung and Daniel House Kelly and friends John McEnroe, Sharon Feder, Mark Friday, Deborah Jang and Jennifer Meyerose. In Los Angeles, graphic artists James Robie and Gretchen Goetz will participate and Greg Watts, former MSUD art chair, now Dean of the College of Visual Arts and Design at University of North Texas, will be involved. (Smith also lists the late artist Richard Diebenkorn, his professor for his MFA work at UCLA.)

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MILESTONES degree from the University of Wyoming.

Dylan Robb, of Englewood, earned honor roll distinction for the fall 2016 semester at the University of Kansas.

Quentin Robinson, of Englewood, recently graduated from Grantham University with an online bachelor’s degree in computer science.

Pauline Roumier, of Englewood, earned honor roll distinction for the fall 2016 semester at the University of Kansas.

Madison Sundahl, of Englewood, earned honor roll distinction for the fall 2016 semester at the University of Kansas.

Maryssa Ashton, of Littleton, graduated with bachelor’s degree in sociology/criminology and sociology/social welfare from Adams State University.

Amy Bohn, of Littleton, earned honor roll distinction for the fall 2016 semester at the University of Kansas.

Mark Burger, of Littleton, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in media, culture and the arts from The King’s College. Burger founded the Arts & Aesthetics Society, led the LGBTQ+ Discussion Group for two

Ian Bowers, of Englewood, was recognized with the Saville-Heflebower Teacher Education Award from Hastings College’s day-long Celebration of Excellence.

Madeline Cohen, of Englewood, was named to the fall 2016 dean’s list at Drake University.

Emily Fish, of Englewood, earned honor roll distinction for the fall 2016 semester at the University of Kansas.

Marlena Geller, of Englewood, earned honor roll distinction for the fall 2016 semester at the University of Kansas.

Nathan Goldstein, of Englewood, earned honor roll distinction for the fall 2016 semester at the University of Kansas.

Krista Hoban, of Englewood, recently graduated from Grantham University with an online associate’s degree in criminal justice.

Brian Larsen, of Englewood, recently graduated from Grantham University with an online associate’s degree in electronic engineering and a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering tech.

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  CHURCH OF THE  HOLY FAMILY AN ECUMENICAL    CATHOLIC

    CATHOLIC FAITH COMMUNITY Invites you to worship with us Sunday. Mass at 10am with fellowship following Celtic     Mass, First Saturday of the month, 5pm. 

All are welcome to the Lord’s table

Lutheran Church & School

Sunday Worship 8:00 & 10:45 a.m.

Sunday School Bible Study 9:30am Trinity Lutheran School & ELC (Ages 3-5, Grades K-8)

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Centennial

Parker

Seven Sunday Masses Two Daily Masses Confessions Six Days a Week STM Catholic School Preschool – Grade 8

8035 South Quebec Street Centennial, ServingCO the80112 southeast 303.770.1150

area

Denver

www.stthomasmore.org

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Sunday 8:30am - Traditional 10:00am - Non-traditional 10:00am - Children’s Sunday School

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8:45 am & 10:30 am 9030 MILLER ROAD PARKER, CO 80138 3038412125 www.pepc.org

10035 Peoria Street Meeting every Sunday at 9:30 Tapestry United Methodist Church on Facebook

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

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Methodist Church

1200 South Street  Castle Rock, CO 80104   303.688.3047

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All are welcome!

LIVING WATER CHRISTIAN CHURCH

 Castle Rock/Franktown  First United 

Parker evangelical Presbyterian church

Sunday Worship

Catholic Parish & School

DUE TO THE FIRE, MEETING TO BE HELD AT

Services:

Parker

Connect – Grow – Serve

St. Thomas More

7049 E PARK DR., FRANKTOWN, CO 80016 TIME: 12:30 PM PHONE: 303-688-1004

www.fumccr.org

SEE MILESTONES, P30

Chabad Jewish Center South Metro Denver Synagogue, Preschool, Hebrew School & Much More! www.DenverJewishCenter.com

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FAITH COMMUNITY

and a bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary studies.

Grace Hoffman, of Littleton, earned honor roll distinction for the fall 2016 semester at the University of Kansas.

Reese Leiker, of Littleton, will serve as a VIP Student Ambassador for the 2017-2018 academic school year at Fort Hays State University. Ambassadors serve as official representatives at a variety of special events, including homecoming, athletic activities, presidential dinners and other gatherings. Leiker is a freshman majoring in history and a graduate of Heritage High School.

Connor Stewart McKim, of Littleton, was named to the fall 2016 provost’s honor roll at the University of Wyoming.

Susan Mohrbacher, of Littleton, earned honor roll distinction for the fall 2016 semester at the University of Kansas.

Jordan Obrien, of Littleton, earned honor roll distinction for the fall 2016 semester at the University of Kansas.

Congregation Beth Shalom Serving the Southeast Denver area

Call or check our website for information on services and social events! www.cbsdenver.org

303-794-6643

Little Blessings Day Care www.littleblessingspdo.com

Sunday Services - 10 a.m.

Cimarron Middle School 12130 Canterberry Parkway Parker, CO 80138 www.CSLParker.org

Joy Lutheran Church Sharing God’s Love

To advertise your place of worship in this section, call Karen at 303-566-4091 or email kearhart@ColoradoCommunityMedia.com

SAturdAy 5:30pm

SundAy 8am & 10:30am

9:15am Education hour

Pastor Rod Hank

Joyful Mission Preschool 303-841-3770 7051 East Parker Hills Ct. • Parker, CO 303-841-3739 • ELCA • www.joylc.org

Pine Lane Elementary South 6475 E Ponderosa Dr. Parker, CO 80138 303-941-0668

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THINGS to DO

THEATER

Banachek, ‘The Alpha Project’: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 5-6, and 3 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at Theatre of Dreams, 735 Park St., Castle Rock.

Banachek is the only mentalist ever to fool scientists into believing he possessed psychic powers then later reveal he was fooling them. Tickets available at http:// Tickets.AmazingShows.com or call 303-6606799.

Pump and Dump Show: 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 13 at the Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver. Shayna Ferm and Tracey Tee perform a special Mother’s Day version of their comedy show. Call 303-893TIXS or go to http://www. altitudetickets.com/event/thepump-and-dump-7182/.

ARTS

Studio Art Sale and Workshops: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 6 at 6628 S. Marion St., Centennial. Presented by the artists of the SoSu Artists Collective. Workshops include: Boho necklace workshop, 10 a.m. to noon (contact hoodartworks@yahoo.com); mixed media collage workshop using spring themes, noon to 2 p.m. (contact janetm52@comcast. net); paint a spring birdhouse, 2-4 p.m. (contact pandjvincelette@msn.com); bag o’ tricks workshop: recycle, paint and fuse plastic shopping bags into original pieces of art (contact ml3baird@gmail.com). Workshops are limited to 8 students each. Email each workshop’s contact for cost and other information. For information, call 303-246-3987.

Pies And Tarts Culinary Class: 6-9 p.m.

Monday, May 8 at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. Learn to make pie crusts with simple ingredients and turn them into pies and tarts.

For ages 16 and older. Call 303805-6800 or go to www.parkerartscenter.com.

Coffee and Coloring: 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 11 at the Parker Library, 20105 E. Mainstreet, Parker. Get creative at an evening of adult coloring, conversation and coffee. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

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this week’s TOP FIVE Victoria’s Tea Fundraiser: 2-4 p.m. Saturday, May 6, at The Gathering Place at Christ’s Episcopal Church, 615 4th St., Castle Rock. Enjoy tea, scones, music and stories.

Proceeds benefit the Castle Rock Historical Society and Museum. Purchase tickets at the museum or online at www.castlerockmuseum.org under the Event Tickets tab. Contact 303-814-3164 or museum@ castlerockhistoricalsociety.org.

Bone Builders and Bone Breakers: 10-11:30 a.m.

Saturday, May 6 at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. Support lifelong bone health by knowing how to get all the nutrients your bones need. Call 303-805-6800 or go to www.parkerartscenter.com.

Animals of Pokemon: 1 p.m. Saturday, May 6 at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton.

Many of the characters from the popular Pokemon games were inspired by real animals. Learn about the real defense strategies animals use to protect themselves, find shelter, and find food. For example, Froakie is based off of a frog and uses water as a defense. Pidgey is based off of a pigeon and uses wing attacks just like in real life. Staff from Nature’s Educators will present the program

Lessons and Lemonade: 9:30-11 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. select Saturdays at Hobby Lobby, Colorado 83 and Mainstreet, Parker. Presented by the Parker Artists Guild. For children in grades 4-8. Class schedule: Saturday, May 13, Polymer Clay; Saturday, June 24, Intuitive Painting with Acrylics. Registration required; call 720-542-8187.

MUSIC

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Ode to Joy: 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 5, at the Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder; 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 6, at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood; and 2 p.m. Sunday, May 7, at the Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree. Presented by the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. Tickets for all shows available at http:// www.boulderchamberorchestra. com/ode-to-joy.

Concert Organist: 2 p.m. Sunday, May 7 at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch.

Performed by Tom Trenney.

Contact: Mark Zwilling at 303 794-2683 or mzwilling@gostan-

and bring birds, reptiles and more. Call 303-7953961.

Finding Hidden Treasures in Family Search: 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, May 9 at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centennial. Program of the Columbine Genealogical & Historical Society is presented by Barbara Elliott, society member, and features the FamilySearch.org website. Contact ColumbineGenealogy@gmail.com. Go to www. facebook.com/ColumbineGenealogy ‘Toy Story, the Children’s Muical’ Auditions: 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, May 9 at Spotlight Performing Arts Center, 6328 E. County Line Road, Highlands Ranch. Class lasts 8 weeks; students learn acting, dancing and vocal techniques while preparing for musical. For ages 3-10 years. Classes run from 3:45-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Performance in late June. Go to www.spotlightperformers.com or call 720-44-DANCE for information and tuition rates.

drew.com.

Littleton Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert: 7:30 p.m.

Friday, May 12 at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. Colossal Classics and Surprising Concertos: King of Instruments is the final concert of the season. Information and tickets available at www.littletonsymphony.org or by calling 303-933-6824.

Mother’s Day Concert: 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 14 at the Lone Tree Arts Center. Denver Concert Band presents “Sunday in the Park,” a spring repertoire that includes Robert Sheldon’s “Art in the Park” and Aaron Copland’s “Outdoor Overture.”

Young Artist winner John Sevy, from Berthoud High School, will perform. Call 720-509-1000 or go to lonetreeartscenter.org for tickets and information.

Voices West Presents `Requiem’: 3 p.m. Sunday, May 14, at Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton. Concert features Voices West and the Colorado Chamber Orchestra. Go to VoicesWest.org.

FILM Star Trek Wars: 3 p.m. Saturday, May 6 at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Show off your knowledge of “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” in this sci-fi trivia contest. Registration is required; call 303-7917323 or go to DCL.org.

‘Star Trek’ Past and Present: 5 p.m. Friday, May 12 at the Roxborough Library, 8357 N. Rampart Range Road, Ste. 200.

View a double feature of “Star Trek” films, one from the old generation and one from the new, and enjoy bits of trivia.

Registration is required at 303791-7323 or DCL.org.

EVENTS

Colonizing Titan vs. Mars: 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 6 at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Join writer and planetary scientist Dr. Amanda Hendrix to learn about the viability of colonizing Saturn’s moon, Titan, versus Mars. Great for all ages.

Registration is required; call 303-791-7323 or go to DCL. org.

Business Resources: Meet Your Information Match: 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 9 at the Parker Library, 20105 E. Mainstreet. An interactive session for business owners to explore online resources available in the library and community. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Book Lovers: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 10 at the Philip S.

Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Add some great reads to your list and enjoy an evening of book talks with library staff and a rep from Hachette Publishing. Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Book Discussion: 7 p.m.

Thursday, May 11, at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Dr. Max Frazier leads the discussion of “One of Ours,” by Willa Cather. Frazier specializes in autobiography and women writing from the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. Refreshments served at 6:45 p.m. Contact the Castle Rock Museum at 303-814-3164, museum@castlerockhistoricalsociety.org, or www.castlerockhistoricalsociety.org. Admission is free.

Parker Library Tour, AAUW Meeting: 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 17 at the Parker Library, 20104 Mainstreet, Parker.

AAUW promotes equity for women and girls through advocacy, education and research.

Go to douglascounty-co.aauw. net. Contact Beryl Jacobson at 303-688-8088 or berylmjacobson@gmail.com ROAD CarFit for Seniors: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month through September, at Dahlia Campus for Health and Wellbeing, 3401 Eudora St., Denver.

10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the second Wednesday of each month through September, at AAA-Colorado Southglenn, 700 S. University Blvd., Centennial. Presented by the Reaching Older Adults Program, the 20-minute checkup is free but registration is requested. Call 303-991-5740 for an appointment.

NATURE/OUTDOORS

Learn to Fly Fish: 9-11 a.m.

Saturday, May 6, at Orvis Park Meadows, 8433 Park Meadows Center Drive, Unit 149, Lone Tree.

Free Fly Fishing 101 course is offered nearly every Saturday and teaches the basics including fly casting, outfit rigging, and knot tying.

After completing FF101, sign up for the free FF201 class at a local stocked pond and practice hooking, playing and landing fish. For information or to sign SEE CALENDAR, P23

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11280 S. Waterton Road, Littleton. Register at http://www.denveraudubon.org/ event/. Workshops give adults and teens birding knowledge and tips, including techniques for identification, food preferences, life cycle and more.

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up, call 303-768-9600 or go to www. orvis.com/s/park-meadows-coloradoorvis-retail-store/620.

Backyard Birding Blitz: Lifelong Learning Fridays: 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 12 at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Join the Audubon Society for tips on backyard birding.

Registration is required at 303-791-7323 or DCL.org.

Birding Insights Workshops: 1-4 p.m.

Saturday, May 13, time TBD (Spring Migration), at Audubon Nature Center,

Broken Tee Women’s 18-Hole Saturday Golf Club: play on Saturday mornings; season starts in April. Broken Tee Golf Course is at 2101 W. Oxford Ave., Englewood. Good for working women and mothers. Contact BTWSGC@aol.com

EDUCATION

Douglas County School District: The Next Four Years: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 11 at the Parker Library, 20105 E. Mainstreet, Parker; and 6:30 p.m. Tues-

Marketplace ANNOUNCEMENTS

GARAGE & ESTATE SALES

day, May 23 at the Philip S. Miller Library, Caste Rock. Join Douglas County Parents in a conversation about the state of our school district and why the 2017 Board of Education election is important to the future of the district and community. Go to www.douglascountyparents.com. Contact jason@douglascountyparents.com or amy@douglascountyparents.com.

Afghanistan: 3-4 p.m. Wednesday, May 10 at RiverPointe, 5225 S. Prince St., Littleton. In October of 2001, the U.S. led a coalition invasion of Afghanistan seeking to oust the ruling Taliban and find Al Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

Join Active Minds for a look at the story of Afghanistan, both before and since 9/11.

We will also take a look forward at what

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the future holds for this war-torn country.

Call 303-797-0600 to RSVP. Douglas County AAUW Scholarship: application, transcripts and letters of recommendation due July 15. Scholarship is open to Douglas County residents only.

Money may be used for tuition, books or child care while attending school.

Scholarship application and instructions available online at douglascounty-co. aauw.net.

Editor’s note: Calendar submissions must be received by noon Wednesday for publication the following week.

Send listings to calendar@coloradocommunitymedia.com. No attachments, please. Listings are free and run on a space-available basis.

Bicycles

303-566-4091

Office Equipment FREE Six used metal filing cabinets, five drawers each. Must take all or none.

Basement location. You move them.

Call 303-551-4930

Garage Sales

Sporting goods Instruction

Affordable Tutoring Pre-K to Adult All Subjects - Proven Results Also, learning disabilities Partner with Developmental Pathways

Garage Sales Wildcat Ridge COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE Friday & Saturday May 5 & 6 7am to 2pm South of Lincoln off of Quebec 10511 Serengeti Drive, 80124 *Follow the signs* HUGE SALE - OVER 40 FAMILIES

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or Call (720)-495-4870 Discover the Difference We Can Make for You

Misc. Notices Lincoln High School Reunion for Class of 1967 50th Reunion June 3rd from 6-10pm Highlands Ranch Golf Club R.S.V.P.at lincolnreunion1967@gmail.com

SHRED IT SECURELY Saturday, May 13th, Annual Shredding Fundraiser with Pro Shred St. Michael & All Angels’ Church, 1400 S. University Blvd.

In the parking lot at the rear of the building ?

Cross street is Arkansas No Limit $6/Banker size box $25/car trunk 10am to 1pm Questions? Call 303-906-5446 Want To Purchase minerals and other oil/gas interests. Send details to: P.O. Box 13557 Denver, CO 80201

FARM & AGRICULTURE

Farm Products & Produce Grain Finished Buffalo

quartered, halves and whole

719-775-8742

ARVADA Handcrafted Mothers Day and Birthday Gifts/Cards Beads/Findings, Dishes, Kitchen Items, Telescope, HP Plotter/Paper, Lawn Mower, Weed Wacker, Rock Tumblers, Christmas Decorations and more.

Saturday May 6th 8am-3pm 7417 Garland St.

Aurora

Community Garage Sale

Heritage Eagle Bend Clubhouse Saturday May 6th 8am-2pm E470 & Gartrell Home Decor, Housewares, Furniture, Tools, Lawn Equipment, Electronics, Holiday and Craft Items Rain or Shine

Gigantic Garage Sale in the Pradera Golf

Community Subdivision Fri & Sat, May 12th & 13th 8am-4pm Numerous homeowners in the Pradera community will be participating in this event Major cross streets into Pradera are Bayou Gulch and Parker Road., Parker 80134 Call Dotson Skaggs, Kentwood Company, 303-909-9350 for more information.

80+ HOME GARAGE SALE THIS WEEKEND! CHERRY KNOLLS NEIGHBORHOOD

Southglenn/Centennial Arapahoe Rd. & E. Nobles Rd. Maps Available Fri & Sat, May 5 & 6

Multi family yard sale.

May 5 & 6 9am - 2pm.

363 W 114th Way, Northglenn, CO Furniture, housewares, toys, clothing, lots of goodies.

NORTHGLENN UNITED CHURCH Annual Church, Garage & Bake Sale.

Lunch served Friday May 5th 8am-4pm and Saturday May 6th 8am-3pm 10500 Grant Dr. Northglenn 80233

Estate Sales ARVADA 6013 Newcombe Street Saturday May 6th only 8:30am-4:30pm Various Items such as Furniture, clothes, nick nacks Lots of Vintage & Collectible Items

Wheat Ridge 3370 Depew Street Opens 7am Friday & Saturday May 5th & 6th Furniture, Antiques/Collectibles Books, Linens and Household Items

MERCHANDISE

Arts & Crafts KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS RUMMAGE SALE is back for the 15th year. Deliveries accepted May 15th, 16th & 17th 7am-6pm. Sale on Thursday May 18th & Friday May 19th 7am-6pm on Saturday May 20th 7am-noon. Come see what we have. Location of sale St. Mark's Parish Center. 3141 W. 96th Ave. Westminster. just off Federal Blvd. Parish center behind church on the north side. All profits are donated to charity.

20th Annual Winter Park Craft Fair

Friday 8-11 - Saturday 8-12 Sunday 8-13 Lions Pancake Breakfast Come and enjoy!!

Vendor space available 970-531-3170 - jjbeam@hotmail.com

Air hockey table available. Free. Must be able to pick up. Commercial-grade air hockey table in good condition. Please call 303-88-1609 Electric Bicycle Sale Buy 1 ebike & get 1 ebike FREE All 2016 New & Used electric Bikes on sale LIMETED SUPPLY HURRY FAST – BRAND NEW 2016 ELECTRIC BIKES 303-257-0164

Firewood

Ping-Pong Table

for sale,good quality,$100 720-272-8686

PETS Horse & Tack 2 beautiful 1/2 Arabian Reining Horses 1 buck skin gelding 1 Palomino mare (champion at Denver Show) Do you like to win?

303-261-9303

TRANSPORTATION Split & Delivered $275 a cord Stacking available extra $25 Call 303-647-2475 or 720-323-2173

Lawn and Garden

Happy Transplants Garden Club 18th Annual Plant Sale

Saturday, May 13th PERENNIALS, ANNUALS, VEGETABLES, HERBS Vectra Bank Parking Lot (SW corner of 72nd Ave. & Irving in Westminster) 9 am – 3 pm or until sold out Rain date: Sunday, May 14th

Hot Tubs & Spas Spa/Hot Tub by Caldera/Kauai model Like new, size 5'5"x7' 29" high with lounge seating for adults retail at IHT $9600 Asking $1700 303-886-5411

Miscellaneous Cemetery Lots Companion interment sites 30% off of Horan and McConaty price at County Line Rd. Call 303-551-4930.

Autos for Sale Place an ad to sell your car on this page $25 for 2 weeks in 16 papers and online 303-566-4091 Boats and Water Sports 1990 Pro Star Mastercraft Ski boat & trailer Gray and Red 351 Ford Engine 600 hours, exc. cond.

Cover and Canvas portable top $7,500 (303)421-9367 Arvada

Wanted

Cash for all Vehicles!

Cars, Trucks, Vans, SUV’s

Any condition • Running or not Under $700

(303)741-0762

Cell: (303)918-2185 for texting

Bestcashforcars.com

DONATE YOUR CAR, TRUCK, BOAT, RV; Running or not, to www.developmentaldisabled.org Tax deductible! 303-659-1744.

19 years of service (go onto website to see 57 Chevy)

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Quick rise to prowess puts her in rare club

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Heritage catcher Casey Opitz is ready to be greeted at home plate after hitting a two-run homer in the fifth inning of the April 26 Continental League game against ThunderRidge at the Eagles’ Randy Campbell Memorial Field. The homer cut ThunderRidge’s lead to 6-4 but the Grizzlies held on to get the two-run victory.

JIM BENTON

Grizzlies use big inning to down Eagles Baseball teams scramble in unpredictable Continental League

BY JIM BENTON JBENTON@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

This season’s Continental League baseball race could be described as topsy-turvy and unpredictable.

After games on April 26, there were three teams tied for first place, one team a half game off the pace and three other teams a game off the lead. That’s eight of the league’s 11 teams still contending for the title or first division

finishes.

ThunderRidge temporarily moved into a first-place tie with a 6-4 victory over Heritage on April 26 at the Eagles’ Randy Campbell Memorial Field.

“It’s a crazy league,” said ThunderRidge coach Joe White. “We played the last year’s state champions from Nevada in our first game of the year down in Phoenix, we played some Phoenix teams and played Broomfield. There is nothing like this league. Every game you have to come play or you will get beat. It’s great baseball.”

Heritage coach Scott Hormann agreed.

“It’s ridiculous,” he said. “Every single team in this league is good.

Castle View is a really, really good

baseball team and they’ve lost six in row. I truly believe our league is the best league in the state. When you don’t make plays, you are going to get beat. The goal has to be to win two out of three games every week.”

All league teams except Mountain Vista and Heritage moved April 28 games up to April 27 to avoid a pending storm.

And Castle View beat ThunderRidge 3-2 as the league standings continued to scramble.

Jake Haze, baseball, junior, ThunderRidge: He threw eight pitches to retire three batters with a runner on first in the bottom of the seventh inning to earn the save in the Grizzlies’ 6-4 win over Heritage in an April 27 Continental League game. Haze also hit a solo homer in the game.

during the Huskies’ 15-5 win over Highlands Ranch on April 27. Gienger also pitched two scoreless innings.

Key moments ThunderRidge, sparked by a long home run by Jake Haze and a tworun triple by Will Smith, scored SEE BASEBALL, P25

STANDOUT PERFORMERS Tabitha Diehl, golf, senior, Mountain Vista: She birdied six of the final seven holes to offset a double bogey and took medalist honors at the Plum Creek Golf Club with a 3-under-par 69 in the April 24 Continental League meet.

Isabel Anema, lacrosse, junior, Cherry Creek: She scored three goals on three shots on goal in the Bruins’ 8-0 victory over Smoky Hill on April 28.

Murphy Gienger, baseball, sophomore, Douglas County: He went 4-for-5, scored three runs and had four runs batted in

Joshua Thompson, baseball, junior, Highlands Ranch: Thompson pitched a onehit, seven-inning shutout in the Falcons’ 2-0 victory over Ponderosa on April 26.

He had four strikeouts and induced 15 groundball outs, and the only ball that left the infield was a ground ball double to left field in the second inning.

STANDOUT PERFORMERS are five athletes named from south metro area high schools. Preference is given to those making their debut on the list. To nominate an athlete, contact Jim Benton at jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com

fter watching Jordan Remley hit a precise approach shot toward the 18th green at Broken Tee Englewood to finish a 3-under-par round of 69, I assumed I was observing a young lady OVERTIME who had been swinging a golf club since shortly after the day she learned to walk.

However, I discovered that Remley is not one of those athletes who specialized in one sport while growing up.

“I’ve been playing sports Jim Benton since I was 4 years old, and one day I was coming out with my dad and I ask, `Can I hit your driver?’ ” the Ralston Valley senior said. “It was a real calm day with no wind and I just piped it down the middle.”

Remley, who has signed a letter of intent to play at the University of Wyoming, has developed into one of the state’s best golfers heading into the May 8 state-qualifying regional tournament.

“I only started playing golf my freshman year, so this is my fourth year of golf,” she said. “I’ve never shot over a 100. I’d say golf came pretty natural.”

Remley has taken a few lessons, including a week of instruction from renowned golf teacher Hank Haney.

Remley has won or tied for medalist honors in every Jefferson County League tournament this spring.

“Considering that she had six months of golf before starting her freshman year at Ralston Valley and now she is leading the state with consistent under-par rounds, I would consider that amazing,” Mustangs coach Wendy Davies said. “She is a great all-around young lady and athlete, she will continue to grow as she goes on to play at Wyoming, and I also hope to see her achieve her dream to be on the LPGA someday.”

Home-field advantage Highlands Ranch soccer coach Spencer Ward is catching flak for scheduling Falcons’ home games on the grass field at Highlands Ranch instead of the turf at Shea Stadium.

“I get a lot of coaches calling me up and saying, `Why can’t we go to Shea?’ ” he said. “They say, ‘Your field is bad.’ But if it was unplayable, my school would not let us play on it.”

Ward argues that it is hard to get students to drive to Shea to watch games and more do attend games played at the school.

He also said students and spectators get a closer view of the action on the field at Highlands Ranch than at Shea, Echo Park Automotive Stadium or Douglas County Stadium, where most Continental League games are held.

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five runs in the third inning to take a 6-2 lead and held on for the win.

“Jake Haze started the inning off with a leadoff home run,” said Smith.

“He hit the house across the street. It went pretty far, 60 feet in the air for 300 feet.

“Then we got a couple guys on base after that and I got a 3-1 curve ball and I hit it to right center and scored two on that one. Then Tyson Cruickshank got a nice RBI to score me on the next at-bat. It was really important for us and ended up getting us a big inning.”

Key players/statistics ThunderRidge’s Bailey Seeger went 3-for-3 with a run batted it, Smith went 2-for-3 with his two RBIs, and Haze was 3-for-4 with his towering homer.

Starting pitcher Tim McIntyre pitched six innings for the Grizzlies and earned the win. He scattered nine hits and got a clutch relief performance by Haze.

Haze came in with nobody out and a runner on first in the bottom of the seventh but only needed eight pitches to get the next three outs to earn the save.

Heritage senior catcher Casey Opitz went 2-for-4 and hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning, which trimmed the ThunderRidge lead to 6-4. Mason Mitchell also had two hits for the Eagles.

They said it “We needed that,” said White of the ThunderRidge five-run third inning.

“To be able to break out in a game like that was pretty nice. We have been

BENTON FROM PAGE 24

He is raising funds to improve the field at Highlands Ranch and hopes the district might construct a fence around the pitch.

“We’re striving to make it a decent field so these kids can be like, ‘You know what, we have a decent place to play,’ ” Ward said. “Girls can get injuries just as much on

ThunderRidge starting pitcher Tim McIntyre delivers a pitch during the April 26 Continental League game against Heritage at the Eagles’ field. McIntyre pitched six innings, allowed nine hits but benefitted from a five-run ThunderRidge third inning outburst as he picked up the victory in the 6-4 Grizzly victory. J IM BENTON struggling at the plate all year and to have an inning like that was pretty nice.”

Heritage starter Jacob Hilton, the league’s strikeout leader, gave up eight hits and four earned runs but three Eagles errors didn’t help. Hilton had five strikeouts to raise his total to 59 in 42 innings pitched.

“I feel bad for our pitcher,” said Hormann. “He goes out, pounds the zone, throws strikes and we didn’t

make plays for him. The same thing happened at Douglas County (6-5 loss).

They put up a five-spot in sixth inning.

Our league is too good. We cannot do that. We played a good ball game other than one inning.”

turf fields as grass fields.”

pounder who played college football at Duke and also was a standout at Valor, was signed as an undrafted free agent last May by Oakland but was released on Aug. 29. The wide receiver signed with Green Bay on Dec. 20, 2016 and was added to the practice squad.

Christian McCaffrey has two younger brothers. Dylan is a senior at Valor. He was the Colorado Community Media South Metro Football Player of the Year and will be a quarterback at the University of

McCaffrey joins brother By now, everyone is aware that former Valor Christian and Stanford University standout Christian McCaffrey was selected eighth overall by the Carolina Panthers in the National Football League draft on April 27.

But did you know that he will be joining his older brother Max in the NFL? Max McCaffrey, the 6-foot-2, 200

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Going forward Depending on the weather, the regular season was scheduled to end May 3 with eight, four-team regional playoff tournaments set for May 13.

League champions automatically advance to the regionals with the remaining 24 teams qualifying by RPI (Ratings Percentage Index) points.

The RPI standings change after each game, so following the April 27 action, Mountain Vista was third, Rock Canyon fourth, Legend seventh, league-leading Douglas County 10th, Heritage 12th, ThunderRidge 16th, Highlands Ranch 18th and Castle View 32nd.

Michigan in the fall. Luke McCaffrey, a safety, receiver and quarterback, will be a junior at Valor next season. Michigan has apparently offered Luke a scholarship, but he has not made a college commitment.

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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His brilliance could backfire on him as a high school student. If a teacher taught something contrary to what his son had already researched, that meant a challenge his son couldn’t back down from.

And man, could his room get messy, Peterson said.

His son, then in his early 20s, was living back at home after leaving school and losing his job. They don’t know why

he lost his job, Peterson said, but he and his wife offered support and sometimes, the tough love they thought appropriate.

However, Peterson drew the line at his son’s messy room.

He was a dad first, Peterson said, and that room had to be cleaned. He confronted his son, only to hear something that both shocked and confused him.

“It’s not that bad,” Peterson recalled his son saying.

Peterson didn’t understand how he couldn’t see the mess.

At that point, Michelle suggested the issues ran deeper than just the typical problems faced by people in their 20s. At her encouragement, their son

was evaluated.

At nearly 24 years old, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

From then on, Peterson’s perspective on parenting his “difficult” son changed.

The impact of talking Peterson says the stigma surrounding mental health is very real, but not everyone with mental health conditions will handle it the same way.

Besides offering specific tips for having conversations about mental health, the Let’s Talk Colorado website includes a quiz for people to test whether they can spot mental health stigma.

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It’s their problem.

But through his experiences, Peterson is now talking about mental health, and having continued conversations with his son about how he’s doing.

Having someone to listen to is key for those struggling with mental health issue, Peterson said.

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Emily Price, of Littleton, will serve as a VIP Student Ambassador for the 2017-2018 academic school year at Fort Hays State University. Ambassadors serve as official representatives at a variety of special events, including homecoming, athletic activities, presidential dinners and other gatherings. Price is a senior majoring in tourism and hospitality management and a graduate of Heritage High School.

Natalie Robertson, of Littleton, earned honor roll distinction for the

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PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS.

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Public Notices Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov

Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0099-2017

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 28, 2017, 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) PAULA S COX AND TERRY L COX Original Beneficiary(ies) ARGENT MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE POOLING AND SERVICING AGREEMENT DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 1, 2004 PARK PLACE SECURITIES, INC. ASSETBACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2004-WHQ2 Date of Deed of Trust September 27, 2004 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 23, 2004 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B4203654 Original Principal Amount $207,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $198,423.46

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 7, BLOCK 3, BERRY KNOLLS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 5486 S Lakeview St, Littleton, CO 80120.

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, 06/21/2017, 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: 4/27/2017 Last Publication: 5/25/2017 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;

IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 02/28/2017 Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Diana Springfield, Chief Deputy, for Public

Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov

Public Trustees

DATE: 02/28/2017 Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Diana Springfield, Chief Deputy, for Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Monica Kadrmas #34904 Randall Chin #31149 Weldon Phillips #31827 Lauren Tew #45041 Nichole Williams #49611 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1199 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000006489728 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.: 0099-2017 First Publication: 4/27/2017 Last Publication: 5/25/2017 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0100-2017 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 1, 2017, 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) Nicholas A Romano Original Beneficiary(ies) JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust May 29, 2009 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust July 07, 2009 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B9072911 Original Principal Amount $225,223.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $198,614.72 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 12, BLOCK 25, BROADMOOR - FIFTH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 6056 S Valleyview St, Littleton, CO 80120.

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, 06/21/2017, 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: 4/27/2017 Last Publication: 5/25/2017 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; IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SEC-

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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: 4/27/2017 Last Publication: 5/25/2017 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 Trustees

IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 03/01/2017 Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Diana Springfield, Chief Deputy, for Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Susan Hendrick #33196 Marcello G. Rojas #46396 THE SAYER LAW GROUP, P.C. 9745 E. Hampden Ave., Suite 400, Denver, CO 80231 (303) 353-2965 Attorney File # CO170034 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.: 0100-2017 First Publication: 4/27/2017 Last Publication: 5/25/2017 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0115-2017 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 7, 2017, 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) Rick L Thomas and Jennifer R Thomas Original Beneficiary(ies) Bank One, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust October 22, 2002 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 13, 2002 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B2216256 Original Principal Amount $124,300.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $103,749.63 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.

Wendy Susan Ratkin Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Plaza Home Mortgage Inc. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt PLAZA HOME MORTGAGE, INC. Also known by street and number as: Date of Deed of Trust 7211 S Pontiac Way, Centennial, CO 80112.

June 24, 2015 County of Recording THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL Arapahoe OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENRecording Date of Deed of Trust CUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF June 24, 2015 TRUST. Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) NOTICE OF SALE D5067473 To advertise yourOriginal publicPrincipal notices call 303-566-4100 Amount The current holder of the Evidence of Debt se$166,920.00 cured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, Outstanding Principal Balance has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale $163,890.34 as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

LOT 76, HOMESTEAD IN THE WILLOWS, FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Public Trustees

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/28/2017, 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: 5/4/2017 Last Publication: 6/1/2017 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; IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 03/07/2017 Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Diana Springfield, Chief Deputy, for Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Eve Grina #43658 Jennifer Cruseturner #44452 Holly Shilliday #24423 Courtney Wright #45482 Erin Robson #46557 Jennifer Rogers #34682 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-17-763152-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.: 0115-2017 First Publication: 5/4/2017 Last Publication: 6/1/2017 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0104-2017 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On March 3, 2017, 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.

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.

Original Grantor(s) Wendy Susan Ratkin Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Plaza Home Mortgage Inc. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt PLAZA HOME MORTGAGE, INC. Date of Deed of Trust June 24, 2015 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 24, 2015 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D5067473 Original Principal Amount $166,920.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $163,890.34

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/28/2017, 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

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

LOT 76, HOMESTEAD IN THE WILLOWS, FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7211 S Pontiac 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

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Public Trustees

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. SEE ATTACHED EXHIBIT A Also known by street and number as: 1651 W Canal Cir 633, Littleton, CO 80120.

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, 06/21/2017, 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: 4/27/2017 Last Publication: 5/25/2017 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;

IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov

DATE: 03/03/2017 Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Diana Springfield, Chief Deputy, for 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, P.C. 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710 Attorney File # 17CO00020-1

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

0104-2017 Exhibit A BUILDING 6, UNIT 633, PINNACLE AT HIGHLINE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO THE DECLARATION FOR PINNACLE AT HIGHLINE RECORDED JULY 17, 2001 AT RECEPTION NO. B1115281 AND AS AMENDED IN INSTRUMENT RECORDED AUGUST 30, 2001 AT RECEPTION NO.B1147057 AND THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED AUGUST 30, 2001 UNDER RECEPTION NO. B1147056 IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, AND GARAGE UNIT G-105, AS SHOWN ON THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED AUGUST 30, 2001 AT RECEPTION NO. B1147056 IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. AND SURFACE PARKING UNIT P-54 AS SHOWN

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30, 2001 UNDER RECEPTION NO. B1147056 IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, AND GARAGE UNIT G-105, AS SHOWN ON THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED AUGUST 30, 2001 AT RECEPTION NO. B1147056 IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. AND SURFACE PARKING UNIT P-54 AS SHOWN ON THE CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED JUNE 14, 2002 AT RECEPTION NO. B2109902, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Public Trustees

Legal Notice NO.: 0104-2017 First Publication: 4/27/2017 Last Publication: 5/25/2017 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 7, 2017 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 Erin Melissa Swyers be changed to Erin Melissa Poole Case No.: 2017C100288 J. Kaufmann By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 58800 First Publication: April 20, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 7, 2017 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 Jeffery Anthony Rodriguez be changed to Jordn Anthony Rodriguez Case No.: 2017 C 100Z89 Shana Kloek Clerk of Court Legal Notice No: 58801 First Publication: April 20, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice County Court Arapahoe County, Colorado 1790 W. Littleton Blvd.

Littleton, Colorado 80120 In the Matter of the Petition of: Parent/ Petitioner: Erickah Hall For Minor Child: Jozlynn Whitmill To Change the Child’s Name to: Jozlynn Michelle Hall Case Number: 2017 C 100273 NOTICE TO NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT

BY PUBLICATION Notice to: Danny Deshunn Whitmill, non custodial parent.

Notice is given that a hearing is scheduled as follows: Date: May 24, 2017 Time: 8:30 a.m.

Location: 1790 W. Littleton Blvd.

Littleton, Colorado 80120 For the purpose of requesting a change of name for Jozlynn Michelle Whitmill

PUBLIC NOTICE

Name Changes Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on April 3, 2017 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 Maliya Alistar Fast Wolf be changed to Maliya Alistar Minard Case No.: 17 C 100280 Shana Kloek By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 58796 First Publication: April 13, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 3, 2017 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 Marius Amadeus Fast Wolf be changed to Marius Amadeus Minard Case No.: 17 C 100282 Shana Kloek By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 58797 First Publication: April 13, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 11, 2017 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 Marvin Lee Hicks be changed to M. Lee Hicks Case No.: 2017 C 100294 By: Kelly Ann LaFave County Court Judge Legal Notice No: 58805 First Publication: April 20, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on February 3, 2017 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 Robin Clare Lumley be changed to Mathlan James Lumley.

Case No.: 2017 C 100101 Shana Kloek By: Kim Boswell, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 58807 First Publication: April 20, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 17, 2017 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

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

The petition requests that the name of Desalegn Abebe Yazew be changed to Mathios Gerehlasie Ghile Case No.: 17 C 100317

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

Shana Kloeh By: Kim Boswell, Deputy Clerk

Date: May 31, 2017

Legal Notice No: 58850 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Legal Notice No.: 58816 First Publication: April 20, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 3, 2017 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 Kashora Jasmyn Fast Wolf be changed to Kashora Jasmyn Minard Case No.: 17 C 100278 Shana Kloek By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 58795 First Publication: April 13, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 3, 2017 that a Petition for a Change of Name of a minor child has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 10, 2017 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 Jonathan Ernesto Reyes be changed to Dennia Svetlana Reyes Case No.: 2017 C 100292 Shana Kloek By: J. Kaufmann, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 58851 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 18, 2017 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 Mirna Ana Zgombic be changed to

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Name Changes

Public notice is given on April 18, 2017 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 Mirna Ana Zgombic be changed to Mirna Zgombic Case No.: 2017 C 100320 Shana Kloek By: J. Kaufmann, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 58863 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 18, 2017 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 Khanh Ho be changed to Denny K Ho Case No.: 2017 C 100321 Shana Kloek By: Kim Boswell, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 58864 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 22, 2017 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 Tyler James Simants be changed to Dostoevsky Allen Simants Case No.: 17 C 100336 Shana Kloak By: Kim Boswell, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 58898 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 26, 2017 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 Maureen Michele Pacheco be changed to Maureen Michele Maycheco Case No.: 17 C 100345 Shana Kloak By: Kim Boswell, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 58899 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of BILLIE FRANCES FREELAND, Deceased Case Number: 2017PR30334

Notice To Creditors

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 21, 2017, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lois Renee McQuinn Personal Representative 16119 E. Prentice Lane Centennial, CO 80026 Legal Notice No.: 58848 First Publication: April 20, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Derrick Keith Brown, aka Derrick K. Brown, aka Derrick Brown, and Keith Brown, Deceased Case Number: 17 PR 30368 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 21, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Emily Hayduk Personal Representative 2840 Ames Street Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80214 Legal Notice No: 58845 First Publication: April 20, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John F. Wilson, a/k/a John Foster Wilson, Deceased Case Number: 2017PR30224 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 28, 2017, or the claims may be forever barred.

Carol T. Wilson Personal Representative c/o Law Office of Byron K. Hammond, LLC 3900 E. Mexico Ave., Ste. 300 Address Denver, CO 80210 Legal Notice No: 58868 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Clifford Martin Sampier, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 030356 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 27, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Public notice is given on April 25, 2017 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

Gregory Sampier Personal Representative c/o Jackson Kelly PLLC 1099 18th Street, Suite 2150 Denver, Colorado 80202

The petition requests that the name of Rita Feseha Wold be changed to Rita Feseha Bahlibi Case No.: 17 C 100346

Legal Notice No: 58873 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Shana Kloek By: Deputy Clerk

PUBLIC NOTICE

Legal Notice No: 58900 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on April 26, 2017 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 Nathan Mitchell Mayback be changed to Nathan Mitchell Maycheco Case No.: 17 C 100347 Shana Kloak By: Kim Boswell, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 58907 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Notice To Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of BILLIE FRANCES FREELAND, Deceased Case Number: 2017PR30334 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 21, 2017, or the claims may be forever barred.

May 4, 2017M

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Angie Lee Henderson, Deceased Case Number: 2017PR120 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 28, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Stacey L. Pollard Personal Representative 16 Ridge Lane Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Legal Notice No: 58870 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Larry Jon Mugge, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30300 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 21, 2017, or the claims may be forever barred.

Carolyn Schrank Mugge Personal Representative 4781 S. Gibraltar Lane Centennial, CO 80015 Legal Notice No.: 58814 First Publication: April 20, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017

Carolyn Schrank Mugge Personal Representative 4781 S. Gibraltar Lane Centennial, CO 80015

Notice To Creditors

Legal Notice No.: 58814 First Publication: April 20, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of VIRGINIA F. DICKERSON, a/k/a VIRGINIA DICKERSON, and VIRGINIA FRANCES DICKERSON, Deceased Case Number: 2017PR30332

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 21, 2017, or the claims may be forever barred.

DIANNE M. STAKE Personal Representative 17698 E. Loyola Dr. #B Aurora, CO 80013 Legal Notice No.: 58846 First Publication: April 20, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of COLLINS, CATHERINE E., Deceased Case Number: 2017PR30325

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 – Probate Division on or before September 5, 2017, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kathleen C. McMahan, Personal Representative c/o Nick S. Tootalian Smith & Cook, LLC 8441 W. Bowles Ave., Ste. 210 Littleton, Colorado 80123 Legal Notice No.: 58881 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Theresa L. Napier a/k/a Theresa Napier, Deceased Case Number: 2017PR30382

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 September 5, 2017, or the claims may be forever barred.

Debra M. Bell, Personal Representative c/o Richard W. Kautt, JD Davis Schilken, PC 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO 80111 Legal Notice No.: 58895 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of James Michael Jennison, also known as James M. Jennison, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30383

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 September 5, 2017, or the claims may be forever barred.

Glenda Kay Jennison Personal Representative 12121 Knox Street Overland Park, KS 66213 Legal Notice No.: 58896 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Dorothy A. Creager, a/k/a Dorothy Arden Creager, a/k/a Dorothy Creager, Deceased Case Number: 2017PR30326

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 21 2017, or the claims may be forever barred.

Clara Jean Meeks Personal Representative 7286 S. Elm Court Centennial, CO 80122 Legal Notice No.: 58806 First Publication: April 20, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and The Littleton Independent

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Estate of Gary Lee Wolseth, aka Gary L. Wolseth, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 030299

7May 4, 2017 Notice To Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mark Francis Kemble, aka Mark F. Kemble, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30312

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 September 21, 2017, or the claims may be forever barred.

Joelle Buchanan Personal Representative 2212 Vermont Drive, Unit J307 Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 Legal Notice No: 58812 First Publication: April 20, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of William C. Cox, aka William Charles Cox aka William Cox, aka Bill Cox, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30316

PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice To Creditors

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jeri Lynn Oakland, Deceased Case Number: 17 PR 154 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 30, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Ashlee Montgomery Personal Representative 702 Highland 105 No. 10 Palmer Lake, Colorado 80133 Legal Notice No: 58874 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Catherine Theresa McAdams, aka Catherine T. McAdams, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30287 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 September 5, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 28, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Patricia Nagel Personal Representative for the Estate of Catherine Theresa McAdams, Deceased c/o Moye/White, LLP 1400 16th Street, 6th Floor Denver, Colorado 80202

Jenny Ubel Personal Representative 5275 S. Yampa Street Centennial, Colorado 80015

Legal Notice No: 58880 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Legal Notice No: 58860 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Cynthia Gayle Roznovsky, aka Cynthia G. Roznovsky, aka Cynthia Roznovsky, aka Cindy G. Roznovsky, aka Cindy Roznovsky, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 97

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 28, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Karen Mistrot Personal Representative 16487 Stonefeld Place Parker, Colorado 80134 Legal Notice No: 58862 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Englewood Herald PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Michael A. Pucciarelli, aka Michael Anthony Pucciarelli, aka Michael Pucciarelli, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30372

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 28, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Pucciarelli Personal Representative 17697 E. Prentice Circle Centennial, Colorado 80015 Legal Notice No: 58869 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of James L. Orr, aka James Orr, and James Lloyd Orr, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 030308 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 27, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Barbara A. Orr Personal Representative 5403 S. Cottonwood Court Greenwood Village, Colorado 80121 Legal Notice No: 58872 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jeri Lynn Oakland, Deceased Case Number: 17 PR 154 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to

Public Notice

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 September 5, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

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Kari L. Hamilton Personal Representative 6051 S. Biscay Court Aurora, Colorado 80016 Legal Notice No: 58911 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL ACTION NO. 2016CV030686, Division/Courtroom 202 COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE PLAINTIFF: STANFORD HILLS MASTER HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC. v.

DEFENDANTS: RICK SCHWIEM; MIDFIRST BANK; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; WAKEFIELD & ASSOCIATES; STATE OF COLORADO, DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; METRO COLLECTION SERVICE, INC.; and CYNTHIA MARES, AS PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY. Regarding: LOT 42, BLOCK 3, TRAIL RIDGE SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.; Also known as: 22042 E. Prentice Pl., Aurora, CO 80015.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, Please take notice:

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 September 4, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

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 22nd day of June, 2017, at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, phone number 720-874-3935. 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.

DAVID M. WEISS Personal Representative 16770 Trail View Place Parker, CO 80134

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

Legal Notice No: 58890 First Publication : May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Englewood Herald

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY. Judgment is in the amount of $5,721.29.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of MALCOLM MICKEY WEISS a/k/a MALCOLM M. WEISS and MALCOLM WEISS, Deceased Case Numbe:r 17PR30390

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jeanne Marie Harper, aka Jeanne M. Harper, aka Jeanne Harper, Deceased Case Number: 17 PR 197 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 September 15, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Janis Pixler-Lindsey Personal Representative 5476 County Road 72 Bailey, Colorado 80421 Legal Notice No: 58897 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Margrett C. Willard, Aka Margrett Catherline Willard, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 30389 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 September 5, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Katherine J. Miller Personal Representative 3015 N. Michigan Avenue Davenport, IA 52804 Legal Notice No: 58908 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Gary Lee Wolseth, aka Gary L. Wolseth, Deceased Case Number: 2017 PR 030299 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 September 5, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Kari L. Hamilton Personal Representative

All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at 720-874-3935. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is Boyd A. Rolfson, Esq., HindmanSanchez P.C., 555 Zang Street, Suite 100, Lakewood, Colorado 80228-1011, 303.432.8999.

DATED: March 7, 2017.

David C. Walcher Arapahoe County Sheriff By: Sgt. James Osborn Deputy Sheriff Legal Notice No.: 58686 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 25, 2017 Published In: Littleton Independent 2550 W. Main St., Littleton, CO 80120 Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO CASE NO: 2015CV032927 DIV./CTRM.: 204 Plaintiff(s): FIRST VILLAGE EAST APARTMENT HOMES ASSOCIATION, a Colorado nonprofit corporation v.

Defendant(s): CALVIN REEVES, JR.; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.; THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF THE CWABS INC., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-19; LVNV FUNDING LLC; PORTFOLIO ACQUISITIONS; and CYNTHIA D. MARES as the ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to an Order for Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure dated June 23, 2016, and C.R.S. §§ 38-38-101 to 401, by the First Village East Apartment Homes Association, the current holder of a lien recorded with the County of Arapahoe Clerk and Recorder on August 21, 2012. at Reception No. D2092783. The judicial foreclosure is based on a default under the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions of Hallcraft’s Village East Apartment Homes Filing No. 1 recorded with the Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder on January 17, 1973, in Reception No. 1335471 (“Declaration”). The Declaration and notices as recorded, establish a lien for the benefit of the First Village East Apartment Homes Association - THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS – against the property legally described as follows:

Conditions, and Restrictions of Hallcraft’s Village East Apartment Homes Filing No. 1 recorded with the Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder on January 17, 1973, in Reception No. 1335471 (“Declaration”). The Declaration and notices as recorded, establish a lien for the benefit of the First Village East Apartment Homes Association - THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS – against the property legally described as follows:

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Lot 87, Block 1, HALLCRAFT’S VILLAGE EAST APARTMENT HOMES FILING NO. 1, according to the Official Plat thereof filed for record with the Clerk and Recorder of Arapahoe County, Colorado on June 26, 1972, in Plat Book 22 at Page 56 of the records of said Clerk and Recorder, together with appurtenant easements designated as Easement Nos. 2 and 5 on Hallcraft’s Village East Apartment Homes Filing No. 1 Easement Location Map filed for record with the Clerk and Recorder of Arapahoe County, Colorado on April 6, 1973, in Book 24 at Page 22 of the records of the Clerk and Recorder. County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado Also known by street and number as 1263 South Wheeling Way, Aurora, Colorado 80012.

The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10:00 a.m. on June 8, 2017, at the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, 13101 E. Broncos Parkway, Centennial, Colorado 80112, telephone (720)874-3935. At the sale, the Sheriff will sell the real property described above, and the improvements thereon, 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. All telephone inquiries for information should be directed to the office of the undersigned Sheriff at (720) 874 -3935. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above described lien is: Daniel J. Zolnikov, #47026, Moeller Graf, P.C., 385 Inverness Parkway, Englewood, CO 80112, telephone (720) 279-2568.

Date: March 7, 2017 David C. Walcher Sheriff, Arapahoe County, Colorado By: Sgt. James Osborn, Deputy Sheriff Legal Notice No.: 58688 First Publication: April 13, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Published in: Littleton Independent 2550 W. Main St., Littleton, CO 80120 Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112 Telephone: (303) 649-6355 Civil Action Case No. 2016CV32728 Plaintiff: YOSEMITE VILLAGE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, a Colorado non-profit corporation Defendants: L. SUZANNE LIVELY; CHASE BANK USA, N.A.; ASSET ACCEPTANCE, LLC; WAKEFIELD AND ASSOCIATES, INC.; CYNTHIA D. MARES AS PUBLIC TRUSTEE FOR ARAPAHOE COUNTY; SUE SANDSTROM AS TREASURER FOR ARAPAHOE COUNTY; UNKNOWN TENANT(S) IN POSSESSION Plaintiff’s Attorney: Stephane R. Dupont, #39425 Gina C. Botti #42005 WINZENBURG, LEFF, PURVIS & PAYNE, LLP 8020 Shaffer Parkway, Suite 300 Littleton, CO 80127 Telephone: (303) 863-1870 Facsimile: (303) 863-1872 SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE Under an Order and Decree for Judicial Foreclosure entered on February 3, 2017 in the above titled action, I am ordered to sell certain real property as follows: Original Lienee: L. Suzanne Lively Original Lienor: C.D.S. Homeowners Association, Inc., d/b/a Yosemite Village Homeowners Association Current Holder of the evidence of debt: C.D.S. Homeowners Association, Inc., d/b/a Yosemite Village Homeowners Association Date of Lien being foreclosed: May 10, 2016 Date of Recording of Lien being foreclosed: June 9, 2016 County of Recording: Arapahoe Recording Information: D6060722 Original Principal Balance of the secured indebtedness: $7,573.46 Outstanding Principal Balance of the secured indebtedness as of the date hereof: $15,541.31 Amount of Judgment entered February 3, 2017: $13,996.31 Description of property to be foreclosed: LOT 6, TRACT A, BLOCK 1, AMENDMENT TO CINNIMON DOWN THE STREET, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known as: 1102 S. Yosemite Way, #6, Denver, CO 80247.

THE PROPERTY TO BE FORECLOSED AS DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN. THE LIEN BEING CLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. The covenants of Plaintiff have been violated as follows: failure to make payments on said indebtedness when the same were due and owing.

THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I will, at 10 o’clock A.M., on June 22, 2017, in front of the flagpole of the Arapahoe County

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THE LIEN BEING CLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The covenants of Plaintiff have been violated as follows: failure to make payments on said indebtedness when the same were due and owing.

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THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I will, at 10 o’clock A.M., on June 22, 2017, in front of the flagpole of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, Civil Unit, located at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, CO 80112, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property described above, and all interest of said Grantor and the heirs and assigns of said Grantor, for the purpose of paying the judgment amount entered herein, and will deliver to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

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

Inquiries regarding this Sheriff’s Sale must be directed to the Civil Unit of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, telephone 720-874-3850.

DATED at Centennial, Colorado this 21st day of March, 2017.

David C. Walcher, Sheriff Arapahoe County, Colorado By: Sgt. James Osborn Deputy Sheriff Legal Notice No.: 58723 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 25, 2017 Published in: Littleton Independent, 2550 W. Main St., Littleton, CO 80120 Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, STATE OF COLORADO CIVIL CASE NO. 2015CV030773, Division 14 COMBINED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE

Plaintiff: WILLOWRIDGE DUPLEX CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC a Colorado non-profit corporation v.

Defendants: NAPOLEONETTE CLARK a/k/a NAPOLEONETTE INGRATERRA CLARK a/k/a NAPOENET CLARK a/k/a NETTE CLARK, an individual; THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION fka THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, N.A. AS SUCCESSOR TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR RAMP 2005-RS5; CYNTHIA D. MARES, in her official capacity as the Arapahoe County Public Trustee

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: Please take notice:

This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to an Order re: Order for Default Judgment and Entry of Decree of Foreclosure against Defendant Napoleonette Clark dated January 12, 2016 and C.R.S. § 38-38-101, et seq., by Willowridge Duplex Condominium Association, Inc., the current holder and owner of a statutory lien, evidence of which was recorded August 31, 2015 at Reception No. D5098587 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado. The foreclosure was initiated due to Napoleonette Clark a/k/a Napoleonette Ingraterra Clark a/k/a Napoenet Clark a/k/a Nette Clark’s default under the covenants contained in the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions of Willowridge Duplex Condominiums recorded February 26, 1993 in Book 6820 at Page 766, in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, including failure to pay common expense assessments. The Declaration establishes a lien for the benefit of Willowridge Duplex Condominium Association, Inc. on all of the subject property and improvements legally described as follows:

Condominium Unit No. 5, Willowridge Duplex Condominiums, in accordance with the Declaration recorded on February 26, 1993, in Book 6820 at Page 766, and Condominium Map recorded on February 26, 1993 in Book 107 at Page 35, of the Records of the Office of the Clerk and Recorder of Arapahoe County, Colorado, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

also known by street and number as 2137 South Troy Way, Aurora, Colorado 80014.

THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10:00 a.m. on June 29, 2017, at 13101 East Broncos Parkway, Centennial, Colorado 80112.

**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) 874-3935. The name, address and telephone number of the attorney representing the legal owner of the above-described lien is: Reagan Larkin, Esq. Sweetbaum Sands Anderson PC 1125 17th Street, Suite 2100 Denver, CO 80202 (303) 296-3377 Dated: March 21, 2017.

David C. Walcher, Sheriff Arapahoe County, Colorado By: Sgt. James Osborn, Deputy Sheriff Legal Notice No.: 58724 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: June 1, 2017 Published In: Littleton Independent

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Dated: March 21, 2017.

David C. Walcher, Sheriff Arapahoe County, Colorado By: Sgt. James Osborn, Deputy Sheriff

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Legal Notice No.: 58724 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: June 1, 2017 Published In: Littleton Independent 2550 W. Main St., Littleton, CO 80120 Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO CASE NO. 2016CV30850 DIV. 202

Plaintiff: VICTORIA CROSSING 1 CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION v.

Defendant: LUIS F. HERNANDEZ; WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, FA; SOUTHSTAR FUNDING, LLC; DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; JOHN E. CARPENTER; THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE

This is to advise you that a Sheriff sale proceeding has been commenced through the office of the undersigned Sheriff pursuant to the Arapahoe County District Court’s Order for Entry of Default Judgment and Decree of Foreclosure dated October 25, 2016, and C.R.S. §38-38-101 et seq., by Victoria Crossing 1 Condominium Association (“Association”), the current holder of a statutory lien. The judicial foreclosure is based on a default under the Amendment in its Entirety of Condominium Declaration for Victoria Crossing, recorded with the Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder on September 13, 1979, at Reception No. 1890717, book 3074, and page 696, as amended (“Declaration”). The Declaration, as recorded, establishes a lien for the benefit of Victoria Crossing 1 Condominium Association, WHICH LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND IMPROVEMENTS legally described as follows:

Condominium Unit 112EL, in Condominium Building 11, Victoria Crossing, according to the Condominium Map for Victoria Crossing Subdivision Filing No. 1, recorded October 22, 1979 in book 42 at page 10 in the Records of the Office of the Clerk and Recorder of Arapahoe County, Colorado, and as defined and described in the Condominium Declaration for Victoria Crossing recorded March 26, 1979 in Book 2958 at page 629 in said Records, in the Amendment in its Entirety of Condominium Declaration for Victoria Crossing recorded September 13, 1979 in Book 3074 at Page 696 in said Records, in the Annexation of Additional Land to Victoria Crossing Homeowners Association, Inc., recorded July 2, 1979 in book 3024 at page 246 in said Records, in the Corrective and Restated Legal description of Annexation of Additional Land to Victoria Crossing Condominium Association recorded September 13, 1979, in Book 3074 at Page 692 in said Records, and in the Corrective and Restated Annexation of Additional Land to Victoria Crossing Condominium Association recorded October 30, 1979 in Book 3108 at Page 95 in said Records, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Commonly known as 17473 E. Mansfield Avenue, Unit 112EL, Aurora, CO 80013.

The Sheriff’s sale has been scheduled to occur at 10:00 A.M., on the 29th day of June, 2017, at the Sheriff's Office Administration Building, located at 13101 East Broncos Parkway in Centennial; telephone number 303-874-3850. At the sale, the Sheriff will sell the above described real property and improvements thereon to the highest bidder. Plaintiff makes no warranty relating to title, possession, or quiet enjoyment in or 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 THE TIME OF SALE.

The name, address, and telephone number of the attorney representing the Plaintiff is: Sean M. Wells, #40870, Vial Fotheringham, LLP, 12600 W. Colfax Ave. Ste. C200, Lakewood, CO 80215; telephone: 720-943-8811.

DATED at Arapahoe County, Colorado, this 28th day of March, 2017.

David C. Walcher Sheriff of Arapahoe County, Colorado By: Sgt. James Osborn, Deputy Sheriff Legal Notice No.: 58782 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: June 1, 2017 Published in: Littleton Independent 2550 W. Main St., Littleton, CO 80120 Public Notice Tom & Marion Braum Foundation

The tax return of the Tom & Marion Braum Foundation is available for inspection.

Requests to inspect may be made by any citizen within 180 days of this notice in writing to the foundation at: 3916 N. Potsdam Ave., PMB 1550, Sioux Falls SD 57104; or by phone to foundation manager, Tom Braum, 303-9030314.

Legal Notice No.: 58803 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112 In the Interests of:

May 4, 2017M

E-21 TONYA M. GRANDERSON: 1709 Fulton St. Aurora, CO 80010 Electronics, Furniture, Boxes, Misc. Bags Public Notice Misc. Private Legals

District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112 In the Interests of: Julian Michael Dixon, minor Party Without Attorney: Regina and Kent Diekmeier 3825 S. Clarkson Street Englewood, CO 303-761-5251 Case Number: 17 PR 145 NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO 15-10-401. C.R.S To: Patrick A. Dixon and Dana M. Dixon (Dana M. Dixon: 4751 Broadway, Denver Colorado 8021) Last Known Address: Unknown For Patrick Dixon A hearing appointing Guardianship of a Minor will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued.

Misc. Private Legals

City and County

City and County

Purchases must be made with cash and paid for at the time of purchase. No one under the age of 18 is allowed to attend the sale. The landlord reserves the right to bid at the sale. All purchased goods are sold “as is” and must be removed by 6:00 PM on the day of the sale. Buyers must provide a current original or a photocopy of their original resale permit at time of sale in lieu of sales tax. This sale is subject to prior cancellation in the event of settlement between landlord and obligated party.

Public Notice

Public Notice

F-5 BRIGETTE G. DOLPH: 65 S. Washington St. #101 Denver, CO 80209 Bicycle, Boxes, Bags, Tubs, Toys, Misc.

Legal Notice No: 58810 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent

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Date: June 12, 2017: Time: 9:00 a.m.

Division 12: 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112 Legal Notice No.: 58852 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent Public Notice

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS:

Legal Notice No.: 58903 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

Be advised that OCCOLV, LLC a Colorado limited liability company f/k/a OCCMED COLORADO, LLC by and among its members, Gary Zuehlsdorff and Greg Smith, having done business at (i) 3449 Chambers Road, Suite B, Aurora, Colorado 80011 and (ii) 550 E. Thornton Parkway, Suite 110, Thornton, Colorado 80029, will be dissolved by mutual consent of the members, pursuant to the terms of the limited liability company agreement on or after April 17, 2017.

All claims against the assets of the limited liability company must be made in writing and include the claim amount, basis and origination date and must be sent to PO Box 31129, Aurora, CO 80041 by May 15, 2017.

Legal Notice No.: 58861 First Publication: April 27, 2017 Last Publication: May 11, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado 7235 South Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112 In the Matter of the Petition of: Daniel and Patricia Lombardi (name of person seeking to adopt)

On the 24th day of April, 2017, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Ordinance:

Public Notice

ORDINANCE NO. 3-2017 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO, REPEALING AND REENACTING IN ITS ENTIRETY ARTICLE X OF CHAPTER 22 OF THE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING MEDICAL MARIJUANA

Legal Notice No.: 58901 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

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Public Notice CITY OF SHERIDAN NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

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

On the 24th day of April, 2017, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. 4-2017

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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO, REPEALING IN THEIR ENTIRETY ARTICLE XI AND ARTICLE XII OF CHAPTER 22 OF THE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE AND REENACTING ARTICLE XI OF CHAPTER 22 OF THE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING RETAIL MARIJUANA ESTABLISHMENTS

You are further notified that an Adoption hearing is set on June 8, 2017, at 1:30 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.

Legal Notice No.: 58904 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

Legal Notice No.: 58909 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: June 1, 2017 Publisher: The Littleton Independent Public Notice

Notice is hereby given that a public sale will be held on or after MAY 17, 2017 at 10:00 A.M. at 101 E. Centennial Avenue, City of Englewood, County of Arapahoe, Colorado. BROOKRIDGE SELF-STORAGE will sell to satisfy the lien on the property stored at 101 E. Centennial Avenue, Englewood, CO 80113 by the following persons. The inventories listed below were notated by the tenants at the time of rental .

BROOKRIDGE SELF-STORAGE makes no representation or warranty that the units contain said inventories.

C-24 PATSY ANN WALDROP: 5777 S. Bannock #101 Littleton, CO 80120 Furniture E-21 TONYA M. GRANDERSON: 1709 Fulton St. Aurora, CO 80010 Electronics, Furniture, Boxes, Misc. Bags F-5 BRIGETTE G. DOLPH: 65 S. Washington St. #101 Denver, CO 80209 Bicycle, Boxes, Bags, Tubs, Toys, Misc.

Purchases must be made with cash and paid for at the time of purchase. No one under the age of 18 is allowed to attend the sale. The landlord re-

Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.

Legal Notice No.: 58892 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

Public Notice

NOTICE OF HEARING To: Catherine Garmann

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF LIENED PROPERTY

Public Notice CITY OF SHERIDAN NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

For the Adoption of a Child Case Number: 17JA40 Division: 14

If applicable, 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.

Legal Notice No.: 58905 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

Legal Notice No.: 58902 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

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Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.

Legal Notice No.: 58893 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

Public Notice

Public Notice

CITY OF SHERIDAN NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

NOTICE OF BUDGET AMENDMENT HEARING CHERRY HILLS HEIGHTS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO

On the 24th day of April, 2017, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. 2-2017 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO, AMENDING SECTION 2-58 OF THE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING COMPENSATION AND FRINGE BENEFITS FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS. Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Sheridan, 4101 South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, Colorado.

Legal Notice No.: 58891 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, to all interested parties that the necessity has arisen to amend the Cherry Hills Heights Water and Sanitation District 2016 Budget; that a copy of the proposed Amended 2016 Budget is on file at the home of the District’s Treasurer at 3420 S. Clayton Boulevard, Englewood, Colorado 80113, where the same is available for inspection by the public Monday through Friday during normal hours (i.e., 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.); and that adoption of a Resolution to Amend the 2016 Budget will be considered at a public meeting of the Board of Directors of the Cherry Hills Heights Water and Sanitation District to be held on Monday, May 22, 2017, at Englewood Civic Center Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 in the Altenbach Room, at 6:30 p.m.

Any interested elector of the Cherry Hills Heights Water and Sanitation District may inspect the proposed Amended 2016 Budget and file or register any objections thereto at any time prior to the final adoption of the Budget.

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that adoption of a Resolution to Amend the 2016

7Budget May 4, will 2017be considered at a public meeting of the Board of Directors of the Cherry Hills

Heights Water and Sanitation District to be held on Monday, May 22, 2017, at Englewood Civic Center Library, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 in the Altenbach Room, at 6:30 p.m.

City and County

Any interested elector of the Cherry Hills Heights Water and Sanitation District may inspect the proposed Amended 2016 Budget and file or register any objections thereto at any time prior to the final adoption of the Budget.

Dated this 25th day of April, 2017.

CHERRY HILLS HEIGHTS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT By: /s/ Craig “Toby” Ralston, Jr., Treasurer Legal Notice No.: 58894 First Publication: May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 4, 2017 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

Public Notice

Notice To Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Lucile J. Rabe, aka Lucille J. Rabe, aka Lucile Rabe, aka Lucile Jeanine Rabe, aka Lucile Jeanine Nagle, aka Lucille J. Nagle, Deceased Case Number: 2017PR30247 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative, Nicholas J. Nagle aka Nick Nagle c/o Maggiore Law Firm, P.L.L.C., 2442 S. Downing Street, Suite 100, Denver, Colorado 80210 or to the District Court of Arapahoe, Colorado 7325 Potomac Street, Centennial, CO 80112 on or before September 5, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Nicholas J. Nagle aka Nick Nagle Personal Representative C/O Maggiore Law Firm, P.L.L.C. 2442 S. Downing Street, Suite 100 Denver, Colorado 80210

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Lucile J. Rabe, aka Lucille J. Rabe, aka Lucile Rabe, aka Lucile Jeanine Rabe, aka Lucile Jeanine Nagle, aka Lucille J. Nagle, Deceased Case Number: 2017PR30247

Notice To Creditors

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative, Nicholas J. Nagle aka Nick Nagle c/o Maggiore Law Firm, P.L.L.C., 2442 S. Downing Street, Suite 100, Denver, Colorado 80210 or to the District Court of Arapahoe, Colorado 7325 Potomac Street, Centennial, CO 80112 on or before September 5, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Nicholas J. Nagle aka Nick Nagle Personal Representative C/O Maggiore Law Firm, P.L.L.C. 2442 S. Downing Street, Suite 100 Denver, Colorado 80210

Denver, Colorado 80210 or to the District Court of Arapahoe, Colorado 7325 Potomac Street, Centennial, CO 80112 on or before September 5, 2017 or the claims may be forever barred.

Nicholas J. Nagle aka Nick Nagle Personal Representative C/O Maggiore Law Firm, P.L.L.C. 2442 S. Downing Street, Suite 100 Denver, Colorado 80210

Notice To Creditors

Legal Notice No: 58921 First Publication : May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent

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“Trust Us!” Without public notices, the government wouldn’t have to say anything else.

Public notices are a community’s window into the government. From zoning regulations to local budgets, governments have used local newspapers to inform citizens of its actions as an essential part of your right to know. You know where to look, when to look and what to look for to be involved as a citizen. Local newspapers provide you with the information you need to get involved.

Notices are meant to be noticed.

Read your public notices and get involved!

Legal Notice No: 58921 First Publication : May 4, 2017 Last Publication: May 18, 2017 Publisher: Littleton Independent

City and County Public Notice

Legal Notice No: 58921 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY OF LITTLETON CHARTER, SECTION 83 (J), THE FOLLOWING IS A LISTING OF DISBURSEMENTS OVER $500.00 FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY 2017 First Publication : May 4, 2017 ORKIN LLC 703.78 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES EON OFFICE PRODUCTS 1,128.61 OFFICE SUPPLIES VENDOR NAME AMOUNT Last DESCRIPTION Publication: May 18, 2017 OVERDRIVE, INC. 5,000.00 LIBRARY COLLECTION MATERIALS EVERFI, INC 783.83 LEARNING & EDUCATION Publisher: Littleton Independent PARTY TIME RENTAL IN 2,268.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FACILITIES CONTRACTING INC 1,757.75 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES A AND E TIRE HARVEYS 995.92 TIRES PERSONNEL EVALUATION 1,620.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FBI LEEDA INC 1,950.00 LEARNING & EDUCATION A.J. ELECTRIC SYSTEMS 1,645.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PHYSIO CONTROL INC 1,279.40 SUPPLIES FELDMAN, ETHAN D 6,480.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AATRIX SOFTWARE 990.20 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE PLYMOUTH ROCKET 950.00 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE 846.37 RECRUITMENT ACRES PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC 8,000.00 MAIN ST HISTORIC DISTRICT GRANT FETHERSTON, PAUL PORTABLE COMPUTER SYSTEMS 9,750.00 EQUIPMENT RENTAL FINE LINE TECHNOLOGY INC 668.75 HARDWARE MAINTENANCE ADPI 14,061.55 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 14,627.19 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES POWER MOTIVE CORPORATION FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY EDUCATORS OF CO 900.00 DUES & MEMBERSHIPS AFL MAINTENANCE GROUP, INC. 833.30 JANITORIAL SERVICES PREFERRED PUMP & EQUIPMENT 2,444.73 PARTS & SUPPLIES FIRE AXE INC 2,324.90 TOOLS AGGREGATE INDUSTRIES WCR INC 1,368.69 PARTS & SUPPLIES PRE-PAID LEGAL SERVICES INC 639.36 EMPLOYEE BENEFITS FIRE PROTECTION PUB 4,094.80 LEARNING & EDUCATION AIRVAC SERVICES INC 1,195.40 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PROFORMANCE APPAREL 1,025.00 UNIFORMS FIRE SERVICE BOOKSTO 747.77 LEARNING & EDUCATION ALLDATA CORP 1,500.00 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE PROQUEST 2,560.00 LIBRARY COLLECTION MATERIALS FIRSTWATCH SOLUTIONS, INC. 5,710.34 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE ALLIANCE SAFETY INC 1,833.78 SUPPLIES PS INSTALLATIONS, INC. 10,970.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FLEX TECHNOLOGIES IN 631.04 PARTS AND SUPPLIES ALSCO 1,248.13 UNIFORMS PUEBLO DEPOT ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT FORCE SCIENCE INSTITUTE 3,000.00 LEARNING & EDUCATION AM SIGNAL, INC 1,046.52 SUPPLIES AUTHORITY 1,010.00 MUSEUM COLLECTIONS FRONT RANGE FIRE APPARATUS 1,284.15 PARTS AND SUPPLIES AMAZON.COM 6,508.76 SUPPLIES REIS ENVIRONMENT INC 2,480.74 EQUPMENT FURNITURE ROW 1,398.00 FIRE STATION FURNITURE AMERICAN PLANNING AS 555.00 DUES & MEMBERSHIPS RETIREMENT PLANNING SERVICES, INC. 875.65 EMPLOYEE BENEFITS G4S SECURE SOLUTIONS (USA) INC 5,205.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AMERICAN SAFETY ASSOCIATES 616.00 UNIFORMS REVENUE RECOVERY GROUP, INC 5,937.50 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GALLS 526.00 UNIFORMS AMICH AND JENKS 2,875.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES RG AND ASSOCIATES, LLC. 15,381.25 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GENERAL AIR SERVICE & SUPPLY 611.05 SMALL TOOLS AMS OF COLORADO 660.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ROADSAFE TRAFFIC SYSEMS 3,728.00 SUPPLIES GEORGE T SANDERS 511.50 PARTS AND SUPPLIES APCO INTERNATIONAL INC 625.00 LEARNING & EDUCATION ROBERT HALF MANAGEMENT RESOURCES, GETTY IMAGES 5,300.00 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE APPLE 926.97 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE RHI EXCUTIVE SEARCH 1,549.60 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 3,973.71 TIRES ARAPAHOE COUNTY FINANCE DEPARTMENT 3,118.03 OPEN SPACE USE TAX COLLECTION GOODYEAR COMMERCIAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN ASPHALT CONFERENCE 3,000.00 LEARNING & EDUCATION GOURMET TO GO 757.75 CATERING ARROW INTERNATIONAL 3,605.24 SUPPLIES ROCKY MOUNTAIN BOTTLED WATER 683.50 SUPPLIES GOVERNMENT FINANCE 845.00 LEARNING & EDUCATION ARTHUR J GALLAGHER RISK MANAGEMENT 15,000.00 INSURANCE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SUPPLY 1,664.27 SUPPLIES GOVT SOCIAL MEDIA 745.00 LEARNING & EDUCATION AUSMUS LAW FIRM P.C. 4,320.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ROYAL SUPPLY 908.95 PARTS BATTERIES SUPPLIES GRANICUS, INC. 700.00 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AUSTIN HARDWOODS OF 1,396.40 SUPPLIES RYDERS PUBLIC SAFETY 1,995.90 UNIFORMS GREENLEY ENTERPRISES CORP. 2,817.92 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BAKER & TAYLOR -BOOKS 4,469.82 LIBRARY COLLECTION MATERIALS SAGE SOFTWARE INC 704.50 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS INC. 850.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BIOMEDIC LABS 1,538.55 MEDICAL SUPPLIES SAMS CLUB 2,616.88 STATION SUPPLIES GVP VENTURES, INC 2,665.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BISTRO BOYS CATERING 1,405.28 CATERING SCHNELZER, JOSEPH R 750.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES HARD ROCK ROOM RESV 1,724.56 LEARNING & EDUCATION BIZCHAIR.COM 1,019.41 OFFICE FURNITURE SCL HEALTH MEDICAL GROUP-DENVER, LLC 3,879.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES HARRIS SYSTEMS USA INC 4,240.00 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE BLACK ROOFING INC. 1,337.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES SECURE SITE SSL 2,398.00 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE HARRIS, BETTY 1,000.00 SMALL COMMUNITY GRANT BOUND TREE MEDICAL LLC 24,053.92 SUPPLIES SEECLICKFIX INC 1,500.00 LEARNING & EDUCATION HENSLEY BATTERY & ELECTRIC 594.96 PARTS AND SUPPLIES BRAATA, INC 555.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES SEMSWA 750.00 DUES & MEMBERSHIPS HILL BROS BOOTS 544.00 UNIFORMS BRIGHT INTERACTIVE LIMITED 2,249.00 SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE SEWER SCOPE, LLC 775.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES HILL ENTERPRISES INC 26,977.89 UNLEADED GAS BROADWAY TOTAL POWER 1,192.13 TOOLS SHUNNESON, ARNOLD 2,700.00 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES HILTON HOTELS SALT L 1,006.68 LEARNING & EDUCATION BROWN AND CALDWELL INC. 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Three arrested after report of home invasion One suspect allegedly knew victim, who was recovering from heart surgery, police say STAFF REPORT

Three people are accused in a home invasion and burglary that left a 71-year-old Englewood man injured, according to an arrest affidavit.

The suspects — Eva Ruybal, 51, Jared Tafoya, 29, and Jose Madrid, 36 on the day of the incident — allegedly robbed and menaced the victim, who had recently undergone triple-bypass

Madrid

Tafoya

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heart surgery and reportedly had hired the services of Ruybal to help him with cleaning and cooking as he recovered.

According to the affidavit, shortly before 6 p.m. April 24, the victim answered a knock on his apartment door in the 4600 block of South Decatur

Street and opened it to see Ruybal, whom he already suspected of stealing from him in previous weeks. He quickly shut the door, which was then kicked in, the affidavit says.

At that point Madrid, with a cast on one arm and holding a folding knife, entered the apartment, according to the affidavit. The victim said he was pushed to the floor as Madrid made stabbing motions with the knife and ordered him to stay down, police allege.

The victim said Ruybal stole leather jackets and food from his apartment as Madrid held him to the ground, and said Tafoya took his wallet, credit card and checks before heading into his

bedroom, according to the affidavit.

The victim suffered a head laceration and cuts to his nose and left knee, police say.

After the assailants left and the victim called police, an officer contacted Ruybal and Tafoya about four blocks away on Federal Boulevard, and Madrid was located by police at the 7-Eleven store at Federal and Oxford Avenue, the affidavit says.

The victim identified Ruybal, Madrid and Tafoya as the three people who entered his home, and they were arrested and taken to the Arapahoe County jail, the affidavit says. All three could face charges of first-degree burglary and felony menacing.

Bill on teen sexting clears House in unanimous vote

BY KRISTEN WYATT ASSOCIATED PRESS

A teen-sexting law that has befuddled Colorado lawmakers for years appears to be moving closer to reality after lawmakers in the Legislature’s lower house passed it unanimously, sending it to the Senate.

The measure to create several new crimes for juvenile sexting passed 65-0 in the House on April 26 and represents a compromise after years of debate over whether it should be illegal for minors to share explicit photos consensually.

Under current state law, anyone who has an image on their phone of a nude person under age 18 can be charged with felony child exploitation.

But teen sexting is common, and some say prosecutors need a less-severe penalty option for teens who do it because the felony charge means that a sexting teen can end up required to register as a sex-offender.

“Everyone agreed that that was inappropriate, so we set up a measured response with a series of other offenses,” said Democratic Rep. Pete Lee. The negotiations were tricky because there could be a variety of explicit sexts. Both sides agreed that minors exchanging nude photos consensually should face a misdemeanor charges or even just mandatory education to be determined later.

But prosecutors wanted to keep the option of more serious charges in cases where nude image are shared with others against the consent of the depicted juvenile in cases of harassment or bullying “It really can cause harm to numerous people in numerous ways,” said Republican Rep. Yeulin Willett, who sponsored the bill along with Lee. The compromise bill makes it a crime to distribute sexually explicit images without the depicted juvenile’s consent. The crime would be a misdemeanor if the person sharing the image is also under 18.

The maximum penalty for the misdemeanor would be two years in jail under Colorado’s “unlawful sexual contact” criminal code. Felony child exploitation is punishable by a maximum penalty of 12 years in prison, plus lifetime sexoffender registration requirements.

A photo of one of the Earth Treks Climbing and Fitness facilities shows the height of the rope walls.

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Englewood facility will have the climbing walls, locker rooms and a fitness center. There will also be a yoga center. We plan to offer a new service at Englewood by offering child care for customers.”

Brad Power, Englewood community development director, said the announcement is good news for the community.

“We knew the new property owners were looking at the climbing facility and we are glad to see that worked out for them,” he said. “This will be a great business for that location. We expect it will bring a lot of people to the climbing facility and that will be a plus for the business as well as the other businesses in the area.”

He said the announcement will hopefully spur more interest in the remainder of the former Sports Authority headquarters site. He said the it is unlikely that the owner will attract tenants providing the same number of jobs as Sports Authority once had.

But the proposed climbing gym is expected to generate a lot of activity, as the Earth Treks facility in Golden is slightly more than half the size of the new site and about 1,000 people a day visit the Golden facility.

Power said the new climbing facility is expected to draw people from around the metro area, and he expects it will put the site on the map.

Jenkins explained the climbing walls called “bouldering” are about 15 feet high with hand holds on the routes. Climbers don’t need to be attached to safety ropes. He stressed that the climbing walls will be designed specifically for the new facility.

The Golden facility offers 300 rope routes and about

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100 boulder challenges. There will be more routes and challenges on the Englewood walls.

The taller climbing challenges are called “rope walls.” In Englewood the rope wall will be about 45 feet high, so climbers must be attached to a safety rope to prevent injury in case of a fall.

The Earth Treks facility will occupy 52,000 square feet of the 92,000-square-foot building at the south end of the location, at the corner of Kenyon Avenue and Jason Street. No information is available yet on possible tenants for the remainder of the building.

A second building, covering 118,000 square feet on the north end of the lot and facing Hampden Avenue, is also being leased, with an indoor storage facility shaping up as a tenant for part of the building and no information available for the rest of the space.

Earth Treks was founded in 1998 by famous climber Chris Warner, who currently is in Nepal.

The first Earth Treks indoor facility was opened in Columbia, Maryland, in 1997. There are now three facilities in Maryland and Virginia, and the Golden facility opened in 2013.

West Hampden Investors owns the two buildings on the Englewood site and the large adjacent parking lot.

The property was developed to its current configuration in 1994 and the site was leased to Gart Brothers Sports in 2001. Sports Authority bought out Gart Brothers in 2003 and made the Jason Street site corporate headquarters.

In March 2016, Sports Authority cited debts of $1.1 billion as the reason it declared bankruptcy.

The bankruptcy court ordered liquidation of all stock and fixtures at the more than 100 stores around country.

In June the company began closing its headquarters and eliminated 461 jobs. Portions of the headquarters were used longer and were finally closed down in December.