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Counties’ COVID-19 restrictions loosened State moves Arapahoe, Douglas, Jefferson, Adams, others to level orange

BY LIAM ADAMS LADAMS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

all the metrics of level orange, which those in the metro area have not. The counties’ 14-day incidence rates need to move from red to orange first.

If the CDPHE allows that change to level orange, Five-Star certified businesses would then be able to open under even less restrictive level yellow conditions, which would allow restaurants to operate at 50% of indoor seating capacity, and would loosen restrictions on gyms and indoor venues.

To qualify for the Five-Star program, businesses must submit

Public health restrictions in Denver metro counties were loosened on Jan. 4, even though many didn’t qualify for a lower level of restrictions.

Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas and Jefferson counties, which were all in level red on the state’s COVID-19 dial, moved to level orange. County health departments finalized the decision on Dec. 31 after an unexpected announcement from Gov. Jared Polis late the night before.

“Throughout this pandemic, we have had to walk a difficult line between the public health crisis and the economic crisis,” Polis said in a tweet explaining the rationale for his decision. Citing a decline in statewide hospital ICU bed space, he said level red counties are ready to take it down a notch.

However, according to metrics established by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver metro counties didn’t qualify for level orange. The three metrics are 14-day test positivity rate, hospitalization rate and 14-day

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Whiskey Biscuit owner Aaron Hatle said he will apply for the Five-Star program, but he added that the program won’t solve all PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT the problems of a difficult year.

Englewood businesses eye Five-Star program Restaurants could see looser restrictions after certification

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Englewood businesses can begin applying for looser COVID-19 restrictions after Arapahoe County got state approval to participate in the Five-Star Recovery Program, officials said Dec. 30.

The Five-Star program allows qualifying businesses to operate

under restrictions one level less restrictive than the county’s current status on the state’s COVID-19 dial.

Just hours after Arapahoe County received approval, Gov. Jared Polis announced he would ask the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE) to roll back counties at level red — which allows no indoor dining — to level orange, which would allow indoor dining at 25% capacity.

Though county officials initially hoped the rollback meant that qualifying businesses could begin operate at level yellow, allowing restaurants to operate at 50% capacity, a county must first meet

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State shakes up plan for COVID vaccinations Seniors, essential workers move ahead in priority

BY JOHN INGOLD THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado again made significant changes to its coronavirus vaccination plan on Dec. 30, moving older Coloradans and essential workers, such as teachers, up in priority. But big questions about how it will all work remain unresolved.

Gov. Jared Polis said at a morning news conference that people 70 and older are now eligible for vaccination in counties that have completed inoculations of frontline health care workers. That means those older Coloradans are now placed alongside police, firefighters and paramedics in the state’s new Phase 1b of its vaccination priority scheme.

Also moved into Phase 1b: Teachers and others who work in education; food and agricultural workers; postal workers; people working in manufacturing; transportation workers; grocery workers; journalists reporting in the field; and people who provide services to those experiencing homelessness.

That is a significant expansion of the phase at a time when vaccine doses are still extremely limited and distribution remains a

WHO CAN GET THE VACCINE (AND WHEN) The following are updated priority guidelines for receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, released by the state Dec. 30: Phase One (winter)

1A: Highest-risk health-care workers and individuals — People who have direct contact with COVID-19 patients for 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period; long-term care facility staff and residents.

1B: People age 70 and older, moderate-risk health-care workers, first responders, frontline essential workers and continuity of state government — Health-care workers with less direct contact with COVID-19 patients, including workers in home health/ hospice and dental settings; emergency medical services personnel, firefighters, police, correctional workers, dispatchers, funeral services, other first responders and COVID-19 response personnel;

challenge. But Polis said the state decided to prioritize older Coloradans after learning from its data that those 70 and older account for 78% of the state’s coronavirus deaths. The changes also bring the state in line with new federal recommendations issued earlier this month.

“To end the acute phase of the crisis, the potential for overrunning our hospitals, bringing the death rate down, saving lives and ending the pandemic, we wanted

people 70 or older; frontline essential workers in education, food and agriculture, manufacturing, public transit, grocery, essential human services and direct care for those experiencing homelessness; frontline journalists; essential officials from executive, legislative and judicial branches of state government.

Phase Two (spring)

Higher-risk individuals and other essential workers: People age 60-69; people age 16-59 with obesity, diabetes, chronic lung disease, significant heart disease, chronic kidney disease, cancer or are immunocompromised; other essential workers and those involved in continuity of local government; adults who received a placebo during a COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial.

Phase Three (summer)

The general public: Anyone age 1659 without high-risk conditions. to use those initial doses on age 70 and up,” Polis said.

While Colorado officials have said they now have enough vaccine to inoculate all frontline health-care workers in the state’s Phase 1a, Polis said some counties are still working their way through that list. That means some parts of the state will be able to start vaccinating older Coloradans in the first week of January and some won’t — though Polis did not say which counties fall into which groups and the state Health Department did not provide an immediate answer, either.

The state is also far from completing vaccination of its other highest-priority group: staff and residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.

That campaign, which is being run by the pharmacy chains Walgreens and CVS, isn’t expected to finish administering initial doses until mid-January.

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It is also unclear exactly how Phase 1b will be rolled out, and there appeared to be confusion around the announcement of the changes.

On Dec. 29 and 30, officials in Eagle and Summit counties, for instance, announced that the counties would begin vaccinations for residents 75 and older.

Polis later said he expected counties would change their plans to reflect the new state plan.

And there was also confusion about a second priority group.

Polis said during his press briefing that Coloradans ages 60 to 69 will be given priority in the state’s Phase 2 of the vaccine rollout, which should begin in spring. A chart sent out by CDPHE, though, showed that age group as 65 to 69.

Polis said older Coloradans should call their local hospitals or community health clinics to check on vaccine availability and schedule appointments. In Summit County, officials said older

residents should schedule an appointment online, with vaccinations to be given in partnership with Safeway and City Market.

But it was unclear if the state had a comprehensive plan to ensure equal access to the vaccine and avoid the kind of chaos seen in Florida, where seniors have been camping out overnight in long lines outside vaccination centers.

The large health system HealthONE, which operates several hospitals in the Denver metro area, said it is still vaccinating all of its workers and doesn’t have vaccine doses available for the general public.

Polis said the state estimates it will take four to five weeks to give initial doses to all Coloradans 70 and older.

The state Demography Office estimates that there are more than 560,000 Coloradans who are 70 and older, nearly 10% of the state’s population. But some counties that a more rural and remote — such as Hinsdale and Mineral — have higher percentages of older residents.

Polis did not provide estimates for the sizes of other groups in Phase 1b.

It remains uncertain when those other groups in Phase 1b will become eligible for their shots. Polis said local health departments would work to identify eligible businesses within their counties and would then contact those businesses to set up vaccination times.

Flexibility needed

Dr. Anuj Mehta, a pulmonologist with Denver Health who helped draft the state’s initial vaccination plan, said guidance from the state will need to remain flexible, in order to allow local health officials and doctors to respond best to local conditions.

“I think that this is going to fall on providers and local public health authorities,” Mehta said Wednesday during a meeting of a medical advisory group connected to the Governor’s Expert Emergency Epidemic Response Committee, which offers Polis recommendations on how to respond to the pandemic.

The state expects that Phase 2, when younger people with highrisk health conditions and other essential workers become eligible for vaccination, won’t start until spring. Phase 3, the final phase when all healthy adults who have not already been vaccinated become eligible, won’t start until summer, Polis said.

Still, Polis said he is optimistic that the end is in sight.

“This is our final major hurdle toward ending the pandemic,” he said.

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. Used by permission. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com.

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With family missing in war, her ‘mind is the hardest place to be’ Refugee is consumed with worry about family caught in renewed civil war

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BY SUSAN GREENE COLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE

Millete Birhanemaskel, a refugee, longtime Denver resident and businesswoman, grappled with 2020 as many others have: She tried to protect her family, her employees, her tenants from COVID’s reach.

She worried about the presidential election. And she managed to keep her coffee shop, the Whittier Cafe, from going under.

She knew already what it was to be separated from the people you love, whether that separation comes by virus or by war. And she knew, too, what it was to live with uncertainty and powerlessness because each is a refugee’s emotional wallpaper.

But the anxieties of 2020 for her became magnitudes greater on Nov. 3.

On that day, as Americans and much of the world awaited election results, civil war flared again in her family’s home country of Ethiopia and her grandmother and two aunts went missing in the shelling. In the days since, the isolation that has marked this year for so many has taken on a new meaning for her: Much of her family is still unreachable and her grief is invisible to most Americans who know nothing of Ethiopia and the trauma of its wars.

Millete Birhanemaskel, 39, of Denver, moved to the United States from Ethiopia in 1982 and owns the Whittier Cafe, a business that she said is focused on social PHOTO BY MARC PISCOTTY justice.

“I swear to God I know I look like that crazy woman who is screaming about this terrible dream and everybody’s like `What is wrong with her?’ I feel like I’m in a psych ward yelling, but nobody can hear me.”

Birhanemaskel’s head is 8,000 miles away, at the refugee camp in Sudan where she was born after her parents fled bombing of their native Tigray in northern Ethiopia under a military dictatorship.

Her immediate family moved to Colorado in 1982, when she was an infant, but her grandmother and extended family have been living back in Tigray since the dictator was toppled in the early 1990s. That is, until November when a feud between Ethiopia’s federal government and local Tigrayan leaders prompted Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to bomb the region again,

This story is part of a statewide reporting project from the Colorado News Collaborative called On Edge. The intent is to foster conversation about mental health in a state where stigma runs high.

This project is supported in part by the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Reporting and a grant honoring the memory of the late Benjamin von Sternenfels Rosenthal. inciting a civil war that has killed civilians and forced more than 50,000 Tigrayans to flee.

Constantly trying to make contact

Since the disappearance of her grandmother and two aunts, Birhanemaskel, 39, has been calling the cell phones she bought them, which go straight to busy signals without even ringing. She has been checking her Twitter feed every few minutes.

She keeps seeing posts that refugees have little food or water as they walk west toward refugee camps in Sudan, some reportedly collapsing, even dying of exhaustion along the way. She keeps hearing that Ethiopian soldiers are raping Tigrayan women and shooting or beheading Tigrayan men, leaving their bodies in the road for fellow refugees to step over. She keeps imagining she is walking in their shoes.

“As long as they’re missing, I can’t sleep, can’t focus, can’t enjoy anything because I keep having the most awful thoughts about what’s

happening to them,” she says.

She is experiencing what clinicians call “vicarious trauma.”

But vicarious does not express how close it hits home, this civil war in a country where she has never officially lived, yet has defined so much of her life. It is the place, she says, that makes her “most full.” And yet the trauma her relatives are now enduring is a trauma they and her parents lived through four decades ago - and the third siege on the Tigrayan people in her grandmother’s lifetime.

That story explains why her grandma, whose home was bombed in the 1970s, hates loud noises. It explains why her parents met in a refugee camp and emigrated to the U.S. with a promise to themselves and their kids: “Never again.”

“This is literally my own story, the story of why I’m here. It’s just horrific how history repeats itself, how it comes full circle, how my people are continuing to be devastated,” she says.

Vicarious does not describe the experience of having to stop thinking of herself as an Ethiopian American, but rather as a Tigrayan American virtually overnight Nov. 3. “There’s no way that my country could bomb my family like this,” she says.

Vicarious does not account for how on edge she feels, how irritated she is by the post-U.S.-election chatter on the talk radio her husband SEE REFUGEE, P5

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New DA keeps Brauchler on STEM School shooting case

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney-elect John Kellner has asked outgoing District Attorney George Brauchler to stay on the STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting case and lead the prosecution team, according to a news release from the office.

Kellner will be Kellner sworn in as district attorney on Jan. 12, ahead of a February trial for the STEM shooting’s older suspect.

Brauchler, who is term-limited, will serve as a chief deputy district attorney throughout the trial’s duration, working with the district on a part-time basis. Kellner said Brauchler is invested in both the community and the case after working with victims for more than 18 months.

“I’m grateful to Mr. Brauchler for his commitment to the victims and families involved in the STEM shooting to see this trial through,” Kellner said in the release.

The May 7, 2019 shooting left eight students injured and 18-year-old Kendrick Castillo dead.

Defendant Devon Erickson pleaded not guilty nearly one year ago.

Charges include felony first-degree murder. His trial begins Feb. 1.

Erickson’s former codefendant, Alec McKinney, pleaded guilty to similar charges and was sentenced in July to life in prison plus 38 year, with the possibility of parole after 40 years.

Kellner also announced who he named to his leadership team in the sprawling judicial district representing more than a million people in Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties.

• He selected Tom Byrnes, a chief deputy district attorney in the district, as his assistant district attorney — the No. 2 position within the office.

• Vicki Klingensmith will serve as the senior chief deputy district attorney in the district’s Arapahoe County office. Klingensmith has been a prosecutor in the community for more than 16 years.

• Chief Deputy District Attorney Chris Wilcox will retain his role in the Douglas County office. Eva Wilson will lead the Elbert County office.

Wilson has worked in the 1st Judicial District for 16 years, and previously served as a prosecutor in the 18th Judicial District for two decades.

Kellner said he views the 18th Judicial District as one of the state’s best, but vowed do more to “support victims, tackle rising violent crimes in our communities, support rehabilitation for defendants, and improve transparency and accountability to create a more equitable criminal justice system.”

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listens to every morning, how short-tempered she has become with their two youngest kids, ages 4 and 3, whose care her mother helps with.

“Thank God for that because I can’t be present with them and just forget about it, so I just sit in my car and scroll my phone for news about Ethiopia. This has consumed my entire life. Every minute. And I don’t know how to stop that.”

Birhanemaskel, who gave up her Ethiopian passport to become a U.S. citizen, would not be allowed into the country at this point.

So she applied weeks ago for an emergency visa to tour the refugee camps in Sudan, partly so she can help tell Tigrayans’ stories on social media, but mainly to search for her grandma and aunties, or at least find out if they’re still alive.

She will fly east when her visa arrives, which could be any day now, and daydreams about spotting them immediately in the camp where she was born.

Mother urges daughter to stay home

Her mother — who lived in that camp for several years and knows what she’s heading into — has begged her to stay here with her kids.

Birhanemaskel knows she is risking COVID exposure and a lack of medical care in Sudan, and a long quarantine when she returns.

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Those possibilities, however unbearable, seem preferable to further neither-here-nor-thereness.

From the comfort of her home in Denver, she says, she cannot pretend she isn’t caught in this war.

“When I weigh just sitting here against what if that happens or what if I get COVID, it doesn’t even compare. I just can’t stay here doing nothing much more.”

Her decision to make the trip became easier last week when, after hundreds of attempts, her grandmother finally answered her cell phone.

“We talked for only a minute. She was terrified. The only thing she would say is `I’m in hiding, we’re rationing water, and where’s my daughter, you’ve got to find my daughter.’”

“Who could say no?” Birhanemaskel says. “I have to try because my mind is the hardest place to be.”

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Lone Tree In-N-Out to open early this year City prepares for opening day of burger joint

BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Lone Tree city and business officials hope In-N-Out Burger lives up to its name when it officially opens in early 2021. The recent grand openings of In-N-Out locations in Aurora and Colorado Springs suggest the Park Meadows location could have wait times reaching several hours.

“There is a general anxiousness about what the traffic will look like around the site,” said Justin Schmitz, City of Lone Tree public works director. “The opening day in Aurora — people did take notice.”

The Aurora In-N-Out Burger restaurant opened Nov. 19, and the next day, the Denver Post reported wait times reached 14 hours.

In-N-Out officials expect its Lone Tree location, at 9171 E. Westview Road, to have the franchise’s second-busiest drive-thru, capable of holding 26 cars at one time. Only the In-N-Out near Los Angeles International Airport will have a greater drive-thru capacity at 30 cars.

Lone Tree’s In-N-Out is in the final stages of construction, according to Carl Arena, an In-N-Out vice president, in a Dec. 14 email.

“While the nature of the new construction process makes it difficult to predict a precise opening date, we

The In-N-Out location in Lone Tree, at 9170 Westview Road, is expected to open early this year, officials say.

The Lone Tree In-N-Out location, expected to open early this year at 9170 Westview Road, will have the second-busiest drive-thru of any In-N-Out location. PHOTOS BY NICK PUCKETT

are targeting early 2021 to open in Lone Tree,” Arena said.

Schmitz does not believe the Park Meadows location is in for as bad of an experience as Aurora’s.

In-N-Out officials submitted plans for its Lone Tree location in August 2019 and city staff has been preparing for In-N-Out’s opening day for the past year, Schmitz said.

The city recently collected input from nearby property owners, Schmitz said, including the Park Meadows mall, and devised an

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The main goal, Schmitz said: “We wanted to keep all our public roads open to traffic.”

The city has required any staging area for cars waiting to get in line at In-N-Out be done at an offsite location or parking lot, Schmitz said, instead of clogging service streets. Traffic monitors will be onsite, just like they would be for any large event held in the city, making sure businesses and roads are not

obstructed. The city even restriped the Westview Road, adding an additional two-way turn lane out of the In-N-Out parking lot.

“I think there is a general ‘let’s wait and see what happens,’” Schmitz said. “I think we have a really strong plan and something that will mitigate any impacts to any of the adjacent businesses but also allow for the smooth and manageable flow of traffic—and those are the two things we’re trying to allow.”

City staff will be monitoring and making ongoing adjustments to optimize the restaurant’s traffic flow.

Being the second In-N-Out to open in the metro area, the Lone Tree InN-Out could see a milder crowd than Aurora did, Schmitz said.

“The City of Lone Tree is interested in how this would work out,” Schmitz said.

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VOICES

Sibling is almost like one of the family

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y sister and I are unalike.

My sister and I are so unalike I required a DNA sample before I agreed to include her in my will.

“Cindy” makes lists.

QUIET She makes lists DESPERATION of the lists she is going to make.

I make lists of the lists I am not going to make.

In a recent email, she wrote, “Yes, I do write out a grocery list.

Lately, I’ve been Craig Marshall going to the store Smith about every two weeks instead of every week. At home I keep a list of things that I might want from many different places. Then before I go to Kroger or Target or wherever, I make a new list for only that particular store.

“Today I had a lengthy list.

A few things weren’t available

because of the holiday season, but I was only getting those things to try a new recipe. I’ll put those things back on a list for the next time I go.”

I wrote back, “As soon as possible, read your last email out loud to your therapist. And send another DNA sample.”

Me? I go to the grocery store every other day, partly to shop and partly to remind myself why I live alone.

Something happens to people in grocery stores that doesn’t anywhere else.

Anne Teak, a Stanford University psychologist, commented, “Shoppers will stare at cans they’ve seen all their lives and wonder if, after a century, Campbell’s might have added sea bass or rum to its tomato soup. I can’t explain it.”

She can’t explain human behavior and she’s a psychologist.

How can a sister and a brother be so different?

I’m not convinced we’re related.

We look different. She was

homecoming queen and I have a face like a first baseman’s mitt, and right now it’s the bottom of the ninth.

Cindy does what she’s told. Her doctor insisted that she schedule appointments to have her ears cleaned with cotton swabs.

And she does.

“Don’t they sell Q-tips in Michigan?” I asked.

HBO has been showing “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” a documentary that focuses on brothers Barry, Robin, Maurice, and touches on Andy.

Barry is the only living Bee Gee. Their biggest success came during the era of Top Forty radio when they had four or five songs in constant rotation.

Good for them; hard on the disc jockeys, as one admits.

For a while their music was unavoidable on AM radio.

The brothers squabbled, particularly Barry and Robin, broke up, got back together and had hit records in the 1990s.

There is no doubt they were brothers.

Not a speck of contrary data.

Sure, my sister and I have the same last name. But that says little. “Smith” is the most common surname in the United States.

I want to make it clear that I am not ashamed of her. In fact, I am proud to be her brother, if, in fact, we are related.

But now and then something will come up, like her lists, that makes me question our relationship.

On separate occasions she has used the words “veggie” and “fridge.” Once in the same sentence.

I closed my eyes and let the moment pass.

P. S. Did you know that Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty are sister and brother?

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

2020 might have won, and 2021 has just begun

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friend of mine is an expert in emotional relevance.

His name is Alon Zaibert and he writes a terrific blog. In a blog that he wrote just before Christmas, Alon visits the WINNING topic of identifying and embracing WORDS the struggles we all face.

“It is clear we want to believe those who are sharing with us their personal story as in our core, we are good.

Michael Norton We root for the hero who struggled and came out victorious. We relate to them because we struggle as well. And when we see someone who has done it, like us, we relate to them. We cheer for their achievements as if they are our own. But it seems that most of us use others’ victories as another excuse to stay stagnant. To not go ahead with their own desires and wishes. It is the struggle ahead that scares most of us.” — Alon

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Zaibert As I read his blog, I thought about the year that has passed, and the lingering impact and effect that the year has left us with.

For many of us, it is that the year 2020 had won, as we lost people, jobs, businesses, and for some of us, we lost hope. Yet it is also true that 2021 has just begun. We are still facing overwhelming uncertainty, still grieving, worried, and wondering. The struggle is real, and I do not want to diminish the reality of that.

Each year we recognize the first day of January as the start of something new. New hopes and dreams, new goals and objectives, and a new and fresh start at life.

This year seems different as we have many of the same battles still ahead. My encouragement is that we do identify and embrace the struggles that we are facing. Let’s lean into them instead of trying to outrun them. When we try to run away from our struggles, sooner or later we will run out of energy, we will become exhausted, and now we will have to face our struggles from a disad-

vantage as we are wiped out from our attempt to avoid and evade them.

As Alon says, “It is the struggle ahead that scares most of us.”

Whatever struggle we are facing, if we allow it to, the grip of fear will control us. No matter the magnitude of what we face, we still get to decide what we will allow and what we will not allow when it comes down to how we will choose to respond.

Fear is real. We need to try and lean into that fear and find the first seed of courage, that when nurtured, will grow and give us the strength and courage we need to embrace our struggles and fears. Remembering what Mark Twain said, “Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear,” has always been a source of inspiration for many.

The last word is control. We need to focus on the controllable instead of becoming consumed with what is uncontrollable. The things that we can control as we embrace the struggle are our behaviors, attitudes, and actions. We

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The year 2021 has just begun, how will you embrace the struggles and the opportunities that may come your way?

I know that embracing the struggle or leaning into the struggle might sound like a rahrah message, but I assure you it is not. It’s probably the best advice that had been passed along to me in my own struggles, and now I am sharing it with you. I really would love to hear how 2021 is beginning for you at mnorton@ tramazing.com. 2020 may have won, and 2021 has just begun, giving us time to do what we can to help make this a better than good year.

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Arapahoe County approved for Five-Star program Restaurants, gyms can apply for program that allows for increased capacity

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Arapahoe County received state approval to join the Five-Star Recovery Program on Dec. 30, allowing qualifying restaurants and other businesses to loosen their COVID-19 restrictions, just hours before a surprise announcement from Gov. Jared Polis ratcheting down restrictions.

The county became eligible to participate in the program after showing a prolonged decline in its COVID-19 infection and hospitalization numbers, according to a letter from the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment.

Approval means the county can now begin issuing waivers to qualifying businesses, allowing them to operate at a less-restrictive level than the county’s status on the state’s COVID-19 dial.

The county was at level red when word came in about the Five-Star program on Dec. 30, a level that meant all indoor dining was prohibited. Just hours later, however, Polis announced via a tweet that he was requesting CDPHE to move all counties at level red to level orange, which allows restaurants to operate at 25% indoor capacity and loosens restrictions on gyms, indoor events and other businesses.

In a followup news release, Arapahoe County officials clarified that the Five-Star Program certification remains valid after the rollback.

Though county officials initially hoped the rollback meant that qualifying businesses could begin operate at level yellow, allowing restaurants to operate at 50% capacity, a county must first meet all the metrics of level orange, which those in s the metro area have not. The counties’ 14-day incidence rates need to

move from red to orange first.

Arapahoe County was one of dozens of Colorado counties moved to level red in November and December amid a surge in COVID-19 cases.

To qualify, businesses must first submit an application to the county, detailing how they plan to adhere to a long list of COVID prevention protocols. Next, businesses must receive an on-site inspection by city or county inspectors to prove their plans are in place.

Enforcement will be on a complaint basis, according to county documents, relying on reports from staff or the public. Though the county’s application to CDPHE had requested a three-strikes policy before a business’s approval could be revoked, the state’s plan allows just two verified violations before revocation.

The Tri-County Health Department, which is responsible for mandating adherence to health code restrictions, will seek to work with businesses to come into compliance rather than lose their certification, said Adam Anderson, the department’s health data manager.

“There are a lot of rules, and everyone can’t be perfect, but we’re doing our best to keep everyone as safe as possible,” Anderson said. “I think this program provides good opportunities to help out and still take necessary precautions.”

Anderson said it’s unclear how much of the late-fall surge in cases was attributable to restaurants.

“That’s the million-dollar question,” he said. “We often can’t definitively say this case came from that restaurant. With all the resources in the world we’d do a case control study to parse out where that transmission occurred and begin to establish better statistics.”

Instead, Anderson said, public health experts have largely had to rely on guidance and studies from federal agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which have found a higher risk of virus exposure in restaurants and

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“Ultimately we’re trying to reduce the amount of exposure that people have with their masks off, and unfortunately it’s pretty difficult to eat with a mask on around other people.”

While data collected by the department shows that restaurants were the second-most commonly cited location visited by people infected with COVID-19 in the two weeks before testing positive, behind only small private gatherings, Anderson said that data remains very limited.

One problem is that many people refuse to work with contact tracers, Anderson said, and even those who do often can’t remember every place they’ve been for the past two weeks.

“So what we have is a small snapshot,” he said. “We combine that with research about indoor settings with masks off and studies coming from the state and federal level to try to get a sense of the big picture.”

Nancy Sharpe, the chair of the Arapahoe County Board of Commissioners, praised the program, calling it an important step in assisting struggling businesses.

“Our business is supporting our

businesses,” Sharpe said of the county commissioners. “We don’t want them to fail. It’s important to make sure people can stay employed. From a financial standpoint, it’s important to the county to help keep our business and office space full.”

Sharpe said the county has gone to great lengths to support businesses in 2020 through grants from the federal CARES Act, and added that county staff have not yet fully evaluated what further assistance will become available as part of a new federal relief package passed

by Congress in December.

Sharpe said she was optimistic about the Five-Star program because it maintains an emphasis on adhering to COVID prevention protocols.

“The most significant thing we can do is keep people healthy,” she said. “We must continue to wear masks, wash our hands, and be safe with who we’re around as the vaccines start to roll out. It will be months before most of us can get vaccinated. This is all part of the process of getting us back to a normal life.”

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Pandemic has taken a toll on mental health, but resolutions may be helpful

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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fter the most disruptive year in generations upended the social, financial and mental well-being of billions across the world, the question many face with the arrival of the new year is: What’s next?

For some, the tradition of new year’s resolutions may serve as a natural springboard for considering that question. It’s not easy, though, when “fatigue” has been the buzzword defining many people’s collective state of mind for months.

That includes “Zoom fatigue, pandemic fatigue, compassion fatigue,” said Cynthia Grant, the chief clinical officer for AllHealth Network, a nonprofit mental health organization in the south metro area.

“I think everyone is trying to stay safe and sane, but the prolonged nature of what we’re dealing with leaves many emotionally depleted, overwhelmed, feeling guilty, uncertain, helpless and exhausted by the choices we have to make every day to keep ourselves safe,” Grant said.

In some ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life similarly to how a natural disaster does, affecting people’s mental health on a wide scale.

“The toll that a natural disaster takes on individuals, families, and communities is well-known in the mental health field,” said Grant, who is also a licensed clinical social worker. “They disrupt our daily lives and remind us of our lack of control in the world. COVID forced us to change our routines and disconnected us from our social supports. The quarantine and saferat-home regulations stripped away many of our coping mechanisms that help tame mental illnesses. We couldn’t see or hug our friends, go to the movies or even work out at the gym.”

But the pandemic has reshaped life in unique ways, too, according to Shawn Worthy, a clinical psychologist and professor of human services at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Natural disasters “are events that are sudden — they have a big impact and then you can respond, so they’re very acute situations,” Worthy said.

On the other hand, the pandemic is “kind of the chronic situation.

This has been going on for almost a year now, about 10 months now. So the length of the difficulty, I think, impacts people differently.”

Short bursts of traumatic experiences can be harrowing, Worthy said, noting that comparing trauma can be problematic.

“But what I can say is that the long-term, chronic mental health drain that the pandemic is having

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LIFE The Daniels and Fisher clock tower, near Arapahoe Street on the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver, lit up the night of Dec. 30 for the holidays.

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on most people certainly is creating this kind of slow-rolling but intense trauma for most people,” Worthy said.

On top of that, the pandemic has affected some vastly more than others in a financial sense, Worthy noted.

“If you have a job you can do at home or is relatively safe, that’s one thing,” Worthy said. “But if you have a job in the entertainment industry, restaurant industry, travel industry, hospital industry, (the effect is great). A lot of them are thinking of how to pay the bills, how to have a holiday dinner — all those very basic-level things.”

The start of the pandemic was marked by a “great solidarity” in fight-

ing the coronavirus, but as the crisis continued to rage, “it hasn’t been the same boat for all of us,” Grant said.

“It’s been said that some of us are hanging on to a life raft while others are on a yacht,” Grant added.

For many, a natural disaster leads to post-traumatic growth with reflection and opportunities to make positive change, Grant said.

But “others (face) job loss, the burden of remote work and remote school, grief over the loss of a loved one, or being isolated for so long it had bred loneliness, de-

pression, anxiety, sleepless nights and increased substance use,” Grant said. “These are normal reactions to an abnormal situation.”

‘The relational factor’

Those wondering how to navigate the hurdles may be reshuffling their priorities. Asked how the pandemic could tend to affect the goals people set, Worthy said there’s no specific

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FIVE-STAR

A few customers brave the cold outside Whiskey Biscuit in Englewood on New Year’s Eve.

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a plan to the county detailing how they will comply with a list of criteria, including keeping tables 10 feet apart, enforcing mask use and using high-quality air filtration.

Plans must then be verified by city inspectors.

Enforcement will be handled on a complaint basis, and will fall to TriCounty Health Department inspectors. Though the county initially requested a three-strikes policy before businesses see their Five-Star status revoked, the final plan by CDPHE allows only two verified complaints before a business loses certification.

Englewood officials anticipate strong demand for the program, said Darren Hollingsworth, the city’s economic development manager.

“We’re not sure exactly how many businesses are eligible, but it could be in the hundreds,” Hollingsworth said. “Luckily many of them have already been adhering to protocols close to the ones in the program.

We’re excited about this. The county has done an excellent job putting

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this together for us.”

Obtaining Five-Star certification could be a big help, said Aaron Hatle, co-owner of the Whiskey Biscuit restaurant on Broadway.

“We’ve been hit pretty hard,” he said. “We had just gotten past our third anniversary when the shutdowns hit in spring. For a restaurant, the third year is often the one where you actually start getting to keep some of the money you make.”

Sales are down 60% this year, Hatle said, and outdoor tents and fire pits only go so far in the winter.

“The city has been great helping with grants, but really we just need sales to pick up,” he said. “Some of the Five-Star restrictions are going to be difficult to meet, like the 10 feet between tables, but when push comes to shove we need to do what we can to keep our doors open and our staff employed.”

For other restaurants, the certification may not be worth the trouble.

“The restrictions would probably be too hard for us to maintain,” said Paul Losier, the manager of the Full House Bar & Grill on Broadway.

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“You really think I could get bar patrons to sit still and keep their masks on when they walk around?”

Losier said the Full House’s plan is to ride things out with patio dining until restrictions loosen up further.

“We’ve missed out on all the holidays this year, and those are our big nights,” he said. “We’re just trying to hold on until things get better.

We’ll get there, I’m sure.”

Some restaurants are making do with takeout.

At Frank the Pizza King, the early days of the pandemic actually weren’t so bad, said manager Matt Krascek.

“It was great — people were going crazy with takeout and delivery,” he said. “It’s slowed down a lot lately.

We’re getting by.”

Five-Star certification, however, would allow perhaps only one or two tables in the restaurant’s small dining room.

“Not to mention the expense of a new filtration system,” Krascek said. “No, we’ll just hold out for the vaccine to roll out. Hopefully before long we’ll be opened up again like normal. We want to see our regulars. We miss everyone.”

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RED AND ORANGE

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new case incidence rate. Denver metro counties were in the clear with the first two, but their 14-day incidence rates were still level red, according to CDPHE data.

“This drastic change to level orange, while it’s very helpful for businesses and very helpful for our economy, we’re hopeful that we’re not moving too quickly and that we don’t start to see another surge,” Jennifer Ludwig, deputy director of Tri-County Health Department, said in a Dec. 31 press conference.

At level orange, restaurants can serve guests indoors at 25% of capacity not to exceed 50 people and gyms can operate at 25% capacity, as can noncritical office-based businesses. Groups of 10 from no more than two households can gather indoors. Organized recreational youth or adult sporting leagues cannot hold indoor events.

State health officials recently approved Arapahoe and Douglas counties for the Five Star Recovery Partner Program, which loos-

ens restrictions for eligible businesses. It was originally believed that a Five-Star-certified business can operate a dial level lower — meaning less restrictive — than its county. If Douglas and Arapahoe had stayed at level red, Five-Starcertified businesses could have operated at level orange restrictions on Jan. 4.

However, the regionwide move to level orange doesn’t mean FiveStar-certified businesses can yet operate at level yellow restrictions, Ludwig explained. A county must meet all the metrics, which those in

the metro area have not. The counties’ 14-day incidence rates need to move from red to orange first.

Confusion around the Five-Star program was a major issue as of Dec. 31 for municipalities, which fielded calls all day, Ludwig said.

City representatives didn’t have answers, though, said Ludwig, adding that “we were not prepared for the announcement to be moving to level orange.”

The decision was “an absolute directive from the governor,” she added.

Meanwhile, a public health order

The following are some of the changes for metro area counties that have moved from level red to the less-restrictive level orange on the state’s COVID-19 dial, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. For a complete list, go to covid19.colorado. gov/data/covid-19-dial-dashboard.

• Personal gatherings: Changes from no gatherings to up to 10 people from no more than two households.

• Restaurants: Changes from no indoor dining allowed to a 25% capacity, or 50-person, limit.

• Offices: Changes from a 10% capacity limit to a 25% capacity limit. Remote work is “strongly encouraged” under both the orange and red levels.

• Gyms/fitness centers: Changes from a 10% capacity limit to a 25% capacity limit.

• Indoor events and entertainment: Changes from no events permitted to a 25% capacity, or 50-person, limit. for Adams County, which included a curfew, had been in place until Jan. 7. That was to expire early when the counties moved to level orange on Jan. 4.

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research to guide that answer.

But “what I’m guessing is that typically, when people have faced trauma, their response is one that is more focused on the more fundamental kind of issues,” Worthy said.

“So like, spending better quality time with family, not taking for granted your grandma and grandpa who you haven’t been able to see (consistently) in a long time.

“Hopefully for a fair number of people, it’ll be those kinds of fundamental things — the relational factor in our lives,” Worthy said.

Still others have been unable to go out and enjoy their passions — fitness and travel may be high priorities for people, Worthy said.

Even something as basic as saving money could be a popular goal so that people can prevent ending up in a compromising situation again, Worthy continued. Some behavior may harken back to those who went through the Great Depression and kept money in their shoeboxes and other obscure places to guard against financial hardship.

“You’d find money in their mattress, people from that era,” Worthy said. “It was fascinating.”

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Grant thinks that in the new year, many will set goals related to making physical and mental health a priority.

“We are also seeing people set priorities with a focus on making time to connect in our relationships with friends, family, neighbors, and even the server at our favorite restaurant or the person we used to see on at the gym,” Grant said. “I also recommend that people prioritize setting goals that are fun and bring joy — whether that is something small like dancing in the kitchen, taking a sunrise walk, an aspirational goal like reading 52 books in a year or taking a long-awaited trip with friends. Find the joy!”

Grant’s advice is to set goals that are “reasonable, do-able and something you can look back on and know you hit it and checked the box.”

“I encourage people to set small goals — what Arianna Huffington calls `microsteps,’ a big idea that’s too small to fail. For example, if your goal is to cut your social media use in half, start by not having your

Cynthia Grant, the chief clinical officer for AllHealth Network, a nonprofit mental health organization in the south metro area, offered advice to those feeling more depressed, anxious or stressed out than usual due to the pandemic.

“Learn to say no to things that are not a priority for you or that may add to your burden. Continue to speak up and ask for what you need. More people are asking for help, and more mental health resources are available than in the past: traditional therapies, apps (like CALM and Headspace) and group support,” Grant said. “Know that you are not alone and help is right here for you. The Colorado Spirit program at AllHealth Network is a free program open to anyone who needs psychological support due to the pandemic. Counselors are available by phone (or) Zoom, or you can review resources on our website.”

That site is allhealthnetwork.org/ colorado-spirit.

AllHealth Network provides counseling, psychiatry, crisis services, substance use treatment and more services. It accepts Medicaid and commercial insurance plans.

Call 303-730-8858 or visit allhealthnetwork.org to access help. phone with you when you’re eating, then try not to have it in your bedroom,” Grant said. “There’s a little bit of pride in each step that gets accomplished that makes us feel good about achieving our goals.”

Worthy emphasized the dual benefits of focusing on helping others.

“If you can turn the focus away from yourself and onto potentially helping other people who are less fortunate, that is always a good thing, because it makes you feel good and it makes someone else feel good,” Worthy said, using the example of volunteering at a food bank or a similar establishment that helps others.

Sunlight can be another tool: Take advantage of the Denver area’s 50-degree winter days when they happen. Just getting out and walking around in the sun is good for the mood, Worthy said.

Asked about any new year’s resolutions of his own, Worthy laughed and replied that his goal is to live well every day.

“It’s really trying to strive for balance in my own life, and balance means between financial balance, physical-fitness balance, social balance — all of those things,” Worthy said, “to keep working on that and trying to find a positive center.”

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CORE New Art Space

A new CORE New Art Space gallery all-members show runs through Jan. 17 at CORE’s new address, 6851 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood. It will feature a variety of mediums, including mixed media assemblages, 3D abstract expressionism, surrealism and realism, portraits, landscapes, graphics, ceramics, fiber arts, photography, sculpture ... Large and small-scale works by members of this versatile, longtime coop group which has moved to Lakewood from its former Santa Fe Drive location.

Hours during COVID restrictions (check for updates before going): Friday 6 to 9 p.m.; Saturday/Sunday noon to 4 p.m.; coreartspace.com, 303297-8428. (Littleton’s Michelle Lamb, who painted the city’s light rail station mural, is an active member.)

Canal Collaborative

The new Canal Collaborative encompasses the former High Line Canal Working Group including all the regional partners: Denver Water, local governments, stormwater managers and the High Line Canal Conservancy — to hopefully do more as one group than any one entity can do alone. The new management structure will support a 71-mile-long linear park. Watch for more details about management structure. The concept is endorsed by all the governmental entities involved. Hooray!

Denver Art Museum

“Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism” continues to Jan. 24 at the Denver Art Museum.

Timed tickets must be reserved in advance at denverartmuseum. org or call 720-913-0130. The exhibit includes more than 20 artworks by Kahlo and was organized by the Vergel Foundation in collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) and curated locally by Rebecca Hart, who serves as the Vicki and Kent Logan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the DAM. It includes more than 150 artworks, focused on the post-Mexican Revolution works of internationally celebrated artists.

Just announced: “Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France” will be presented at DAM Nov. 14, 2021 to Feb. 13, 2022. More than 100 paintings made from 1855 to 1913 will show the French influence on American painting of the period.

Denver Lyric Opera Guild

Denver Lyric Opera Guild will hope to offer a virtual opera on Tuesdays soon. A first session featured young apprentices from Opera Colorado — virtually. See the DLOG website for membership information: denverlyricoperaguild.org. The annual competition for singers will be livestreamed without the usual in-person audience this year. More on this as we receive notice. Opera lovers look forward to this competition.

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omnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness” is an internationally touring exhibit that will be featured at the CVA (Center for Visual Art) from Jan. 8 to March 20. It is organized by Autograph, London, curated by Renee Mussai and features more than 80 SONYA’S self-portraits by vi- SAMPLER sual activist Zanele Muholi (born 1972 in South Africa).

Muholi uses the pronoun “they” and “uses their body as a canvas to confront the deeply personal politics of race and representation.” The Sonya Ellingboe title, from isiZulu, one of the official languages of South Africa, “playfully employs the conventions of classical painting, fashion photography and the familiar tropes of ethnographic imagery to rearticulate contemporary identity politics,” according to Metropolitan State University’s CVA, 965 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0201-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 23, 2020, 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) CHARLENE J. HADYNSKI Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC., ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt ABS Loan Trust VI Date of Deed of Trust May 21, 2007 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 11, 2007 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B7073821 Original Principal Amount $28,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $23,477.16 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 40, BLOCK 3, ROUNDTREE PHASE I DENVER TECHNICAL CENTER (AMENDED), ACCORDING TO THE MAP THEREOF FILED MAY 23, 1972 IN PLAT BOOK 22 AT PAGE 41 AND THE FIRST AMENDED DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS, AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED FEBRUARY 26, 1973 IN BOOK 2103 AT PAGE 599. COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

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. 0201-2020 First Publication: 12/31/2020 Last Publication: 1/28/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - RESTART - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-109(2)(b)(II) FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0455-2019 Republished to restart foreclosure stayed by bankruptcy and reset sale date.

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On October 27, 2020, 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) CENTENNIAL HOTEL,LLC, A COLORADO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Original Beneficiary(ies) WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust April 30, 2013 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust May 02, 2013 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D3054750 Original Principal Amount $1,806,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $1,444,664.36 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 LEGAL DESCRIPTION ATTACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT "A"

Also known by street and number as: 5977 S WILLOW WAY, GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO 80111-5120.

Also known by street and number as: 7770 S. PEORIA ST., ENGLEWOOD, CO 80112.

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

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

If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: C.R.S.§ 38-35-109(5)

NOTICE OF SALE

LEGAL DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN CORRECTED BY SCRIVENER'S AFFIDAVIT RECORDED 9/13/2017 AT RECEPTION NO. D7104308 IN THE RECORDS OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY. 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, 02/24/2021, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

The 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, 02/24/2021, 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: 12/31/2020 Last Publication: 1/28/2021 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;

First Publication: 12/31/2020 Last Publication: 1/28/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

DATE: 10/27/2020 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee

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

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

DATE: 10/23/2020 Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Susan Sandstrom, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Anna Johnston #51978 Randall Chin #31149 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000008662926 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector

Drew P. Fein #48950 Rachel H Connor #50831 Neal K. Dunning #10181 Douglas W Brown #10429 Brown Dunning Walker Fein PC 2000 S. Colorado Blvd., Tower Two, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80222 (303) 329-3363 Attorney File # 3942-028 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 0455-2019 EXHIBIT A LEGAL DESCRIPTION The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado, and is described as follows:

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A leasehold as created by that certain Second Amended and Restated Ground Lease and Agreement dated January 25, 2010, as amended by First Amendment to the Second Amended and Restated Ground Lease and Agreement dated May 13, 2010, executed by Arapahoe County Public Airport Authority, “Authority”, and Centennial Hotel, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company, "Lessee", as referenced in document entitled ‘Memorandum and Notice of Second Amended and Restated Hotel Ground Lease and Agreement’ which was recorded January 27, 2010 under D0008428, for the term and upon and subject to all the provisions contained in said document and in said lease.

Parcel One: Lease Parcel 34A, B, C, D, E, Z and Y described as follows: A tract of land in Section 36, Township 5 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the NE corner of said Section 36;Thence North 89 Degrees 50 Minutes 13 Seconds West, 2640.92 feet to the NW corner of the NE ¼ of Section 36; Thence North 89 Degrees 51 Minutes 31 Seconds West, 1320.09 feet to the NW corner of the E ½ of the NW ¼ of said Section 36; Thence South 00 Degrees 18 Minutes 09 Seconds West, 1452.33 feet to a point on the Westerly line of the E ½ of the NW ¼ of said Section 36, said point being the Point of Beginning; Thence South 00 Degrees 18 Minutes 09 Seconds West, 200.01 feet along said Westerly line to a point on the Southerly line of the N ½ of the N ½ of the SE ¼ of the NW ¼ of said Section 36, said point being 3051.13 feet South and 2133.79 feet left of Runway 16L centerline;Thence South 02 Degrees 02 Minutes 00 Seconds East, 356.12 feet to a point on the Northerly right-of-way line of East Control Tower Road, being 3407.25 feet South and 2133.79 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L; Thence South 87 Degrees 58 Minutes 00 Seconds West, 252.29 feet to a point on the Northerly right-of-way line of East Control Tower Road, and the Easterly right-of-way line of South Peoria Street being 3407.25 feet South and 1881.50 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L;Thence along a curve to the right having a central angle of 90 Degrees 00 Minutes 00 Seconds, a radius of 78.00 feet and an arc length of 122.52 feet, being 3329.25 feet South and 1803.50 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L along the Easterly right-of-way of South Peoria Street; Thence along a reverse curve to the left having a central angle of 55 Degrees 43 Minutes 29 Seconds, a radius of 158.50 feet and an arc length of 154.15 feet being 3198.28 feet South and 1734.26 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L along the Easterly right-of-way of South Peoria Street; Thence along a reverse curve to the right having a central angle of 55 Degrees 43 Minutes 29 Seconds, a radius of 75 feet and an arc length of 72.94 feet being 3136.30 feet South and 1701.50 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L along the Easterly rightof-way of South Peoria Street; Thence North 02 Degrees 02 Minutes 00 Seconds West, 285.01 feet to a point being 2851.29 feet South and 1701.5 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L along the Easterly right-of-way line of South Peoria Street; Thence North 87 Degrees 58 Minutes 00 Seconds East, 440.44 feet to the Point of Beginning, being 2851.29 feet South and 2141.94 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Parcel Two: A part of lease Parcel 34X described as follows A tract of land in Section 36, Township 5 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the NE corner of said section 36; Thence North 89 Degrees 50 Minutes 13 Seconds West, 2640.92 feet to the NW corner of the NE ¼ of said Section 36; Thence North 89 Degrees 51 Minutes 31 Seconds West 1320.09 feet to the NW ¼ of the E ½ of the NW ¼ of said Section 36; Thence South 00 Degrees 18 Minutes 09 Seconds West 1452.33 feet to a point on the Westerly line of the E ½ of the NW ¼ of said Section 36, said point being the point of beginning of Parcel 34B, and the True Point of Beginning of the within described parcel; Thence South 87 Degrees 58 Minutes 00 Seconds West 440.44 feet to a point being 2851.29 feet South and 1701.50 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L and the Easterly right-of-way of Peoria Street; Thence North 02 Degrees 02 Minutes 00 Seconds West, 110.00 feet to a point being 2741.29 feet South and 1701.50 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L and the Easterly right-of-way line of Peoria Street; Thence North 87 Degrees 58 Minutes 00 Seconds East, 135.00 feet to a point being 2741.29 feet South and 1836.50 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L; Thence South 46 Degrees 59 Minutes 13 Seconds East, 70.65 feet to a point being 2791.29 feet South and 1886.42 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L; Thence North 87 Degrees 58 Minutes 00 Seconds East 257.97 feet to a point being 2791.29 feet South and 2144.39 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L and on the Westerly line of the E ½ of the NW ¼ of said Section 36; Thence South 00 Degrees 18 Minutes 09 Seconds West, 60.05 feet to the Point of Beginning, being 2851.29 feet South and 2141.94 feet left of the centerline of Runway 16L, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Legal Notice NO. 0455-2019 First Publication: 12/31/2020 Last Publication: 1/28/2021 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD AND ARAPAHOE COUNTY FOR THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICES TO THE CITY. (Council Bill No. 58)

City and County Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE On the 4th day of January 2021, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 01 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ANDERSON A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 7, CHAPTER 7, SECTIONS 1-9 REGARDING PUBLIC AID, MUTUAL AID AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE, ALL WITHIN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO.

Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 300875 First Publication: January 7, 2021 Last Publication: January 7, 2021 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

Copies of the aforesaid council bill are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 or it can be found a t http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

On the 4th day of January 2021, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, adopted on final reading the following Ordinance:

Legal Notice No. 300873 First Publication: January 7, 2021 Last Publication: January 7, 2021 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE VACATION OF APPROXIMATELY 4,000 SQUARE FEET OF EAST JEFFERSON DRIVE RIGHT-OF-WAY IN THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 68 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, TO KEVIN FASING AND CALEY DOW. (Council Bill No. 61)

Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE On the 4th day of January 2021, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 02 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER OLSON A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 1 BY ADOPTING CHAPTER 11, SECTIONS 1-9 REGARDING ESTABLISHMENT OF A CODE OF ETHICS, ALL WITHIN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO. Copies of the aforesaid council bill are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110 or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 300874 First Publication: January 7, 2021 Last Publication: January 7, 2021 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 4th day of January 2021 the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, adopted on final reading the following Ordinance:

BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 1 SERIES OF 2020 AN ORDINANCE ACCEPTING A GRANT OF A TWENTY-FIVE YEAR NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FROM THE STATE OF COLORADO, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE BIG DRY CREEK DIVERSION STRUCTURE, PIPELINE, AND OUTFALL FACILITY INCLUDING HYDROPOWER TO THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO (Council Bill No. 59) Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 300876 First Publication: January 7, 2021 Last Publication: January 7, 2021 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 2 SERIES OF 2020

Copies of aforesaid Ordinance are available for public inspection in the office of the City Clerk, City of Englewood, Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado or it can be found at http://www.englewoodco.gov, Government, Legal/Public Notices.

Legal Notice No. 300877 First Publication: January 7, 2021 Last Publication: January 7, 2021 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

Bids and Settlements Public Notice VALLEY SANITATION DISTRICT INTERCEPTOR RELOCATION PROJECT NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

NOTICE is hereby given that the VALLEY SANITATION DISTRICT (District) of Jefferson County, Colorado, will make final settlement at 8739 W. Coal Mine Ave., Littleton, Colorado 80123, on or after January 18, 2021, at the hour of 12:00 p.m. to Iron Woman Construction and Environmental Services, LLC (Contractor) for and on account of all work completed by the Contractor on the Valley Sanitation District Interceptor Relocation Project.

Any person, as defined in section 2-4-401 (8), C.R.S., that has furnished labor, materials, sustenance, or other supplies used or consumed by Contractor or his or her subcontractor in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done or that supplies laborers, rental machinery, tools, or equipment to the extent used in the prosecution of the work whose claim therefor has not been paid by the Contractor or the subcontractor, at any time up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, is required to file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid, and an account of such claim, to the District, whose address is 8739 W. Coal Mine Ave., Littleton, CO 80123, on or before the date and time of final settlement shown above.

Failure on the part of any claimant to file such verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release the District, its Board of Directors, officers, agents, and employees, of and from any and all liability for such claim.

All of the above is pursuant to §38-26-107, C.R.S. VALLEY SANITATION DISTRICT: Legal Notice No. 300866 First Publication: December 31, 2020 Last Publication: January 7, 2021 Publisher: Englewood Herald ________________________________ Public Notice

Public Notice

NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

On or about January 28th, 2021 the City of Englewood will make final payment to:

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 4th day of January 2021, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, adopted on final reading the following Ordinance:

BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 3 SERIES OF 2020 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING A FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE

Chavez Construction, Inc. 3911 Norwood Drive, Unit C Littleton, CO 80125 For construction of: 2020 Mill and Overlay Project

Any claims relating to this contract must be filed with Maria Sobota, Deputy Director of Finance & Administrative Services, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, Colorado 80110-2373,

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Icing on the lake Veterans, novices take to Evergreen Lake for winter fishing

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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t’s 12 degrees as the sun rises on Dec. 14, as about a dozen ice-fishers make their way onto Evergreen Lake.

Armed with gear, provisions and equipment, the men and women are ready to brave the cold, hoping to catch a few trout. For some, ice-fishing is a new experience, while others are veterans of the winter activity.

Some bring popup tents to keep out the winter weather, and on weekends, Evergreen Lake looks like a tent city thanks to all of the ice-fishers.

Friends Ray Trujillo and Michael Romero set up their ice-fishing spot, choosing not to bring too much gear.

Romero calls himself a fishing addict, though he’s new to ice-fishing.

“I’m not going to let the ice stop me,” he said.

Trujillo and Romero like coming to Evergreen to icefish because it’s a beautiful spot and the ice freezes sooner here than down the hill.

Nearby, Dennis Jones of Westminster and his family set up their spot. Dennis was

practically born ice-fishing.

A native of Madison, Wisconsin, he joined family members in the sport often in his youth.

While he’s lived in Colorado 40 years, Dec. 14 was only his second time on Evergreen Lake, bringing his wife Carol and son and daughter-in-law Corey and Vanessa along, and all were part of the action.

Carol Jones said the secret to weathering the cold was dressing in layers, and masks helped a lot to keep out the cold. She explained that her husband was a great fishing guide and patient as he taught his family about the sport.

The Joneses had a popup tent with a small space heater, and the women settled in there with their poles.

Vanessa Napier Jones added: “He is very prepared.

We brought a lot of stuff with us,” including plenty of hot coffee, soup and sandwiches to get them through the morning. Dennis planned to stay in one spot for about 30 minutes, and if they weren’t having much luck, they would move on to another spot.

Jones barked orders, getting everyone and everything situated, teaching along the way. It wasn’t long before they saw the fruits of their labors: a 12-inch rainbow trout.

“This guy knows his stuff,” Corey Jones said of his dad, while Dennis noted, “It’s a great way to start the day.”

Dennis Jones of Westminster baits a hook while his son Corey Jones holds the rod as they were ice PHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST fishing on Evergreen Lake on Dec. 14.

Public Notices (303) 762-2416, prior to January 28th, 2021.

Maria Sobota Director of Finance & Administrative Services City of Englewood, Colorado Legal Notice No. 300869 First Publication: December 31, 2020 Last Publication: January 7, 2021 Publisher: Douglas County News-Press

Notice to Creditors Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Allen Tate Goss, aka Allen T. Goss, aka Allen Goss, aka Tate Goss, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 31347 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado or on or before May 7, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Consuelo Renteria Goss,

Personal Representative c/o Katz, Look & Onorato, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 300871 First Publication: January 7, 2021 Last Publication: January 21, 2021 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Georgia Lois Burnett, also known as Georgia L. Burnett, aka Georgia Burnett, aka G. Lois Burnett, aka G. Burnett, aka G. L. Burnett, aka Lois Burnett, and as Nee Pierson, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31229 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 May 7, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Laura Carol Burnett Co-Personal Representative 1545 Kettner Blvd.

San Diego, CA 92101

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of DIANNA KAY MOURNING, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR31266 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of ARAPAHOE County, Colorado on or before May 3, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

RANDOLPH E. MOURNING, Personal Representative 2055 W. Hamilton Place Sheridan, CO, 80301

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jane Leslie Gallagher, a/k/a Jane L. Gallagher, a/k/a Jane Gallagher, Deceased Case Number: 20PR31231

Public Notice

Legal Notice No. 300872 First Publication: January 7, 2021 Last Publication: January 21, 2021 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

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Legal Notice No. 300867 First Publication: December 31, 2020 Last Publication: January 14, 2021 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

Daniel Arthur Burnett Co-Personal Representative 47 Legend Circle Dillon, CO 80443

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of G. HAL DUFFORD, A/K/A GEORGE HALBERT HUFFORD, GEORGE HUFFORD, AND G. HALBERT HUFFORD, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30249 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the DISTRICT COURT OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO, on or before April 28, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sharon D. Hufford, Personal Representative 8746 E. Iliff Drive Denver, Co 80231

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before April 24, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Anne Gallagher, c/o Groves Law, LLC 281 S. Pearl St. Denver, CO 80209 Legal Notice No. 300861 First Publication: December 24, 2020 Last Publication: January 7, 2021 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

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Legal Notice No. 300860 First Publication: December 24, 2020 Last Publication: January 7, 2021 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Public Notice

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MY NAME IS

RUBY STAR

An Arapahoe Community College student who goes

by Ruby Star was featured in a documentary about experiencing homelessness, produced by local nonprofit EEqual.

Local student experiencing homelessness shares story in documentary This source wished to use the alias Ruby Star to openly share details of her experience with homelessness.

Homeless in metro Denver

I arrived in the states from Romania at the age of 5. My father raised me. We lived in Buffalo, New York, until I was 13 years old. I am 45 now.

My mother gave me up and wanted my father to raise me instead. I shared something with him that he was not happy with, and he threw me out. It was over a boy ... my father was very religious as a Catholic.

(That’s when I started to experience homelessness for the first time.) I was not thinking of it being labeled as “homeless” since I was living with my best friend during the rest of my senior year in high school. I (had) always managed to have a place to stay, at a friend’s home or a boyfriend.

My first time to truly experience homelessness was in 2009 — that was when I arrived in Denver. I resided in Arvada, primarily. However, I would move around my sleeping areas based on where my employment was located. Homelessness is a dangerous situation. That feeling of

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security is no longer there — fighting to find a place to sleep, worrying where the next meal will be and feeling safe.

I am currently working at Centura Health as a health screener.

Seizing a future

I learned about Arapahoe Community College of Littleton when I was a student back in 2011, to obtain my state certification in phlebotomy.

2011 was my first time being a student.

I (became acquainted with) the nonprofit EEqual through Arapahoe

Community College, which I applied to for scholarships. (EEqual works to provide greater educational access through scholarship to students experiencing poverty or homelessness.) EEqual loved my story, and they asked if I’d agree to doing a documentary regarding my current situation.

Coming to a calling

I have always wanted to get into the medical field. I had a dream few years back about myself walking down a long white hallway. I looked older. I remember wearing a lab

coat and asking someone to pass the file to me. I arrived at a door and opened it, and there was a patient there. I sat on her bed and told her I will help her get through this. When I woke up, I thought about being a doctor. After doing research, I realized I prefer physician assistant — did not want to be in college longer than I had to based on my age.

I believe it was God’s way of telling me what my future holds for me.

He told me that is my calling.

Conscious of interconnectedness

We all have a story to tell. We all struggle; be it small or large, it is still a struggle. How you treat someone will have an impact on their lives. You think we do not affect one another, but we do. It’s time to get out of the glass house of yours, take off the worldly glasses so that you can see what is truly happening around you. You believe your life is your own, but it is not. We are all living in everyone’s world, trying to live independently from one another. But it is not so.

Learn to be kind, be compassionate and not judgmental. Everything you do now, every thought (or) action you do now, does have a ripple effect to influence and affect someone else’s life. Remember why you are here ... do not allow the world to make you forget why you are here.

If you would like to suggest someone for My Name Is ..., or if you would like to be interviewed for the segment, contact Ellis Arnold at earnold@coloradocommunitymedia. com or 303-566-4109.

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