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Lawmakers churn out 10 COVID relief bills About $280 million dedicated to various assistance measures in special session

BY MICHAEL KARLIK THE DENVER GAZETTE

Kayla Waters kisses her son Christopher, 3. The family lost their apartment in October. Waters called the Holiday Motel “the PHOTOS BY DAVID GILBERT best hotel on earth.”

‘What will happen to these people?’

For those sheltering with motel vouchers amid pandemic, the future is murky

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

James and Desiree Jackson felt like they had life pretty well under control.

The couple, together for nearly a decade, lived in a comfortable home in Aurora. Desiree stayed home to care for their two young daughters while James worked at

his longtime job at King Soopers.

But late last year, when James came down with an autoimmune disorder that began consuming his internal organs, their situation degraded quickly.

Unable to work, they couldn’t pay rent and lost the house. Desiree’s family was mired in substance abuse issues and was no help. Now pregnant with a third daughter, the family moved in with James’ mom — who soon passed away.

The family struck out on the streets with little more than backpacks and a stroller, lugging a heavy weighted blanket to keep the girls warm at night. They slept SEE MOTEL, P4

Michael Curtis moved into the Holiday Motel after months living in his Jeep while nursing a broken shoulder.

The Colorado General Assembly approved a COVID-19 relief package of 10 bills on Dec. 2, ending a threeday special session that Gov. Jared Polis called to fill the gaps left by Congress’ inaction.

The assistance measures, which ranged from providing support to child care operators and food pantries to capping fees charged for food delivery, amounted to approximately $280 million in funding.

“Coronavirus is real. It is deadly,” said Rep. Leslie Herod, D-Denver, on the final day of debate. “We know that the state of Colorado can do better — can and must do better — to keep people alive. But we also have to do our part to support these small businesses and pull together money from various places to provide as much support as we can.”

Polis’ call for a special session outlined seven areas for the Legislature to take action: small business, child care, housing aid, broadband, food insecurity, utilities assistance and SEE COVID BILLS, P24

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Election creates opening on LPS board Warren-Gully to leave for county post; school board to pick replacement in March

BY DAVID GILBERT DGILBERT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Littleton Public Schools will soon be searching for a new school board member, as current board member Carrie Warren-Gully prepares to step down after winning a seat on the Arapahoe County Board of Commissioners.

Warren-Gully plans to resign her seat on the Littleton Public Schools Warren-Gully Board of Education, which she has held since 2013, at the Dec. 10 meeting, she told Colorado Community Media.

Warren-Gully, a Democrat, defeated incumbent Republican Kathleen Conti for the District 1 county commissioner seat, winning by a nearly 12-point margin.

District 1 is the county’s westernmost commissioner district, covering Englewood, Littleton and parts of Centennial.

She is scheduled to be sworn in as a county commissioner on Jan. 12.

Warren-Gully said she is not legally obligated to step down from the school board, but felt she wouldn’t be able to give her full attention to both boards.

“I wouldn’t be a very good school board member if I stayed on,” she said. “The beautiful thing about Littleton is we have so many smart, involved people who can take my place.”

A quirk in the board’s bylaws mean that while Warren-Gully plans to resign effective immediately at the Dec. 10 school board meeting, the board won’t formally accept her resignation until the next meeting on Jan. 14, said board chair Jack Reutzel. At that point, the board has 60 days to appoint someone to fill the vacancy.

Reutzel said the board plans to draft an application for interested community members, who must live within Littleton Public Schools’ boundaries and must be registered voters.

Then, he said, the board plans to invite all the applicants to speak at one of the two board meetings in February, before making a final decision at the March 11 meeting.

Whoever is selected to replace Warren-Gully won’t have long before they need to make another big decision: whether to run to keep the seat in the November 2021 election.

In fact, the school board is due for big changes next year: Reutzel

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is term-limited, as is board member Kelly Perez, meaning three of the boards five seats will be up for grabs.

Warren-Gully said she is proud of her time on the board, citing her work on pushing for expanded career and technical education programs, including ongoing work to revamp a former car dealership beside Littleton High School into a sprawling technical education campus.

Her tenure on the board has included many tough challenges, she said, including addressing ever-increasing student mental health needs.

“We need to keep working on how we communicate with our community, and how we make sure parents and students know what resources are even available,” she said. “We’re always trying to catch up with the changes brought about by technology ad social media. And we have to keep fighting for more of those mental health resources.”

Reutzel said he is grateful for Warren-Gully’s tenacity as a board member, including her lobbying at the state legislature for increased education funding.

“She’s been a tremendous asset, and I’m going to miss her terribly,” Reutzel said. “She keeps us focused and grounded on the health and safety of our students and staff. She’s a compassionate, smart, empathetic leader, and she’ll be a great commissioner.

I’m really happy for the residents in her district.”

Warren-Gully said there’s lots of work to be done at the county level.

“The first thing we’ll have to tackle is staying on top of the virus and trying to get it under control,” she said. “The next piece is economic recovery. A lot of people are hurting, and small businesses

1 dead, another in hospital after car accident Crash occurred on Broadway in Englewood south of Belleview Avenue

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Counties are responsible for handling a lot of federal funds, Warren-Gully said, including COVID-19 relief funds, but also longer-term programs like housing and food assistance.

She said she hopes to work closely with city councils and nonprofits to make sure federal and state funds are going where they can be best used.

“We need to be that conduit, that liaison between cities and the state and federal government,” she said, citing programs like mental health care funding and homeless outreach.

She said she is also ready to work with Tri-County Health Department, which implements and oversees restrictions and other measures meant to combat the spread of COVID-19. Most restrictions are handled at the county level.

“I think Tri-County Health is doing a great job considering the situation we’re in,” she said. “It’s a situation that changes every day, as does our knowledge of the virus. I’m not an epidemiologist or a scientist, so I want to defer to their expertise. I think the county commissioners can play important roles as we improve contact tracing, and as we move toward hopefully distributing the vaccines.”

Conti, whom Warren-Gully beat in the election, was tight-lipped about her next moves.

“What I do going forward will be done as a private citizen and has no basis in your story,” she wrote in an email.

Warren-Gully said she is hopeful the school board and county commissioners can work together.

“I’m sad about resigning the school board, but I have a feeling we can find ways to collaborate in the future.”

Two vehicles involved a crash the afternoon of Dec. 2 on South Broadway near Belleview Avenue left a 72-year-old man dead and another man injured, according to an Englewood police news release.

Both vehicles sustained significant damage in the accident, which police responded to at about 3 p.m., according to the release. It occurred in the 5200 block of South Broadway, a short walk south of Belleview Avenue near

Englewood’s south edge.

The 72-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the release. His identity was not immediately available from the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office.

The other man, 26, was transported to a local hospital with “unknown injuries,” the release said, and his condition was not immediately available.

Only the two drivers involved were in the vehicles at the time, with no passengers, said Sgt. Tracy Jones, spokesman for Englewood police.

Asked whether drunken or otherwise intoxicated driving was suspected as a cause of the accident, Jones said that aspect of the investigation was still pending as of 3:30 p.m. Dec. 3.

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State to consider giving businesses more capacity under ‘best practice’ program Colorado could take after Mesa County ‘5-star’ system, loosening COVID-19 restrictions

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The state public-health department is considering new rules that would allow businesses to operate at higher capacity than current coronavirusrelated restrictions normally permit — as long as the businesses stick to strict protocols designed to prevent the virus’ spread in their buildings.

Colorado is taking public input on what it calls the “business best practice certification” program, modeled after a system Mesa County has “pioneered and has successfully run since the summer,” the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment wrote in a Nov. 27 news release.

Members of the public can review the draft of the program at tinyurl. com/CDPHEdraftframework and were able to submit comments at tinyurl.com/CDPHEframeworkcomment until Dec. 4.

Mesa County’s “5-star rating program” was designed to allow Mesa’s economy to achieve a wider reopening. Businesses qualify for sthe program based on their mask use, social distancing marking, facility capacity, written schedule for cleaning and active monitoring of symptoms, according to a Mesa County Public Health fact sheet.

The county’s program website listed more than 200 businesses and entities as “current partners,” including roughly 100 restaurants, breweries and wineries.

If the state adopts a similar program, businesses that meet the requirements would generally be able to operate based on a level of the state’s COVID-19 dial that is one notch less severe than the current level the business would otherwise have to follow. For example, a business in a “level orange” county

could operate at “level yellow” capacity restrictions.

The state’s COVID-19 dial, which has been in effect since September, is the set of different levels of restrictions that counties must follow based on the severity of each county’s local virus spread. The dial grew out of the state’s safer-at-home order — the policy that came after the statewide stay-at-home order this spring and allowed numerous types of businesses to reopen.

The recently announced level red — one step below a stay-at-home order — prohibits indoor dining and personal gatherings, along with tightening capacity restrictions at some business. The new level took effect on Nov. 20 and now includes Denver metro counties and other regions of the state.

The biggest change that would come with the state adopting a program similar to Mesa County’s is that businesses in level red could be allowed to operate at level orange restrictions — a shift that, most notably, could allow restaurants to reopen indoor dining.

It’s unclear whether the state will allow businesses in level red counties to operate at level orange, though. That is still to be determined depending on the “results of Mesa pilot,” according to the state public-health department’s draft framework.

“Mesa County has a variance (an exemption) to operate its 5 Star program for 12 days while in red. This pilot will provide needed data on if a 5 Star program is compatible with suppression goals of the red level,” the draft framework says.

If a county crosses into level purple — the highest level on the dial, which would be a local stay-athome order similar to the statewide stay-at-home seen in the spring — its businesses would not be eligible to operate at a lower level of restrictions, according to the draft framework.

More details of the plan and whether it would apply in level red counties were not available by Dec. 4.

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where they could.

The situation grew far more dire as the COVID-19 pandemic swept over the land: Hoarders wiped out baby supplies at grocery stores, and libraries and rec centers where the family sought refuge closed their doors. James, his organs still being consumed, feared that contracting COVID-19 could kill him.

The couple had long dreaded confessing their situation to social workers, for fear of losing their children to foster care. Out of options, they presented themselves to Arapahoe County caseworkers.

Instead of taking the children, a caseworker connected them to Bonnie DeHart of HAAT Force, a nonprofit that provides motel vouchers to families and people with disabilities living on the streets.

DeHart booked the family a twoweek stay at Englewood’s Holiday Motel, and for the first time in months, the weary couple and their little girls had a bed and shower of their own.

As the two-week voucher ran out, Holiday Motel co-owner Dwight Kim offered James a job helping maintain the place. The couple’s third daughter was born in August, and today the family of five shares a room beside the motel office.

“You can think you have everything together,” Desiree said outside the room as her girls napped. “And you can get down so low you think there’s no coming up. But things

Mary McDonald, left, and Peter Shaw, holding his Chihuahua Slabbo, sit outside McDonald’s room at the Holiday Motel in Englewood. McDonald’s Christmas tree came from PHOTO BY DAVID GILBERT the home of a former caregiving client who died of cirrhosis.

happen for a reason. I have such gratitude. My eyes are open.”

Now, James and Kim help each other take care of the motel. Nearly three-quarters of the motel’s 32 rooms are occupied by people who are elderly, disabled, ill, or caring for young children, none with anywhere else but the streets to go, all depending on vouchers to ride out a pandemic raging like never before.

James has taken on a mentor role for some of the other voucher recipients, trying to steer them toward outreach agencies, and even helping convert a room of the motel to use for meetings and classes.

“Before my mom passed, she always told me I would find a way to help people,” he said. “I know she’s looking down and smiling.”

‘A bandage on the situation’ In the past, HAAT Force and sister organizations provided overnight shelter to people living on the streets on nights when temperatures plummeted or blizzards blew.

As the pandemic reshaped society last spring, the groups shifted their focus, seeking longer-term shelter for families and those whose age or health meant they were under serious threat from living without access to hygiene or the ability to get distance from others.

As unemployment surged and churches closed their doors, donations dried up, but were replaced with funding from the federal CARES Act. But federal funds came with a catch: they had to be spent by the

end of the year.

Now, as New Year’s approaches, local governments are scrambling to line up more funding to keep paying F for vouchers.

Meanwhile, shelter groups face a convergence of other factors: eviction and foreclosure moratoriums are due to expire just as a new round of public health restrictions is putting more people out of work, potentially pushing many more people in tenuous situations into life on the streets.

“My biggest worry is, what will happen to these people?” asked Betsy Keyack, a board member at HAAT Force, who is running much of the group’s operations as long‘ time board chair DeHart struggles to recover from a severe case of COVID-19.

HAAT Force is currently providing long-term shelter to 59 people in 25 groups, Keyack said, but the future is tenuous.

“They’re supposed to figure out what to do when they have to leave the hotels,” Keyack said. “But that’s really, really difficult.”

Many of the services they are instructed to work with require computer access, but many of those in the motels don’t have computers, or are elderly and struggle to use them.

Access to computers at libraries or places like Englewood’s Giving Heart outreach agency is limited or cut off.

Volunteers who would normally help people navigate complicated systems — many of them elderly themselves and therefore at greater risk from the virus — are unavailable.

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Meanwhile, affordable housing is extremely limited, and wait lists stretch years long.

“We’re putting a bandage on the situation,” Keyack said. “These are people who desperately need stability. Places where they can improve their situations, find steady employment, or for kids somewhere they can get a steady education. Right now, people are making it by the skin of their teeth.”

‘Value in human life’

Other shelter groups are facing similar challenges. The Severe Weather Shelter Network, a sprawling consortium of churches primarily in Arapahoe and Jefferson counties that open their basements to unhoused single adults on cold winter nights, is unable to operate as normal this year.

Many of its member churches remain closed to the public, said director Lynn Ann Huizingh, and public health guidelines disallow so many people in such tight quarters.

Many of the group’s volunteers are elderly, and are staying away from group gatherings anyway.

The group has shifted to a motel voucher system, lining up dozens of rooms at nine different motels.

The shift hasn’t come cheap. In a normal year, the group might register 500 people for shelter between October and April. This year, Huizingh said, they registered 500 people by early December, with more added

to the ranks every week.

“We’re seeing a huge increase in people living on the street,” she said.

“Maybe a fifth of our guests this year are new to the street, and most have lost their jobs and their housing since March.”

Providing motel accommodations is much more complex than providing cots in church basements, and the shift has not come cheap.

Faced with increasing duties and a lack of volunteers, the network has had to hire several employees to handle administrative tasks and check in on guests. Paying for motel rooms for a three-day stretch of bad weather can cost $20,000, Huizingh said.

A silver lining, she said, is that the group’s registry is exposing the true scope of homelessness in the suburbs.

“We’ve known for years the number of people on the streets is majorly undercounted,” she said.

“We’re starting to get a real count.

It could mean more funding from governments and foundations to help people.”

The work is difficult, but Huizingh called it a calling.

“For me personally, it’s an extension of my faith,” she said. “Jesus said, ‘What you have done for the least of my brothers and sisters, you have done for me.’ There’s value in human life. These are people who are marginalized, shunned, turned away. They’re isolated and invisible.

It’s a burden on our hearts, and we have to do something.”

‘We don’t want people freezing’

Local government officials say

they see the need and are doing everything they can to maintain the voucher programs after the federal money must be sent back to the national treasury.

Arapahoe County has already allocated nearly $900,000 of its CARES Act allotment toward emergency housing, said Nancy Sharpe, chair of the board of county commissioners.

After the first of the year, Sharpe said the plan is to use community development block grant funding, and there is even some hope that limited CARES funds can be held over.

“We don’t want to see these families back on the street,” Sharpe said. “We should be able to get them through at least until spring.”

Meanwhile, the county is beefing up its outreach programs, and working to provide “navigators” who can help walk people in need through the struggle of building personal stability.

In Jefferson County, officials have allotted $250,000 of CARES Act funds toward the Severe Weather Shelter Network’s efforts, said Kat Douglas, the county’s regional homelessness and housing development coordinator.

She said she feels confident the county will be able to provide additional funds, some drawn from grants from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, to cover the network’s need until spring.

The network is doing vital work, Douglas said.

“We don’t have a great shelter network in Jefferson County,”

Douglas said. “Motels have proven to be a critical resource. Having families, veterans and people with disabilities on the street isn’t good for anyone. With hospitals already taxed, it’s no good to have people in there being treated for frostbite.

We don’t want people freezing to death.”

‘A helping hand’

At the Holiday Motel, Dwight Kim, the co-owner, makes the rounds checking on guests riding out the pandemic.

There’s Mary McDonald, a 1980 graduate of Arapahoe High School, who lost all her cleaning service’s clients early in the pandemic. She salutes every fire truck, ambulance and police car that drives past.

There’s Peter Shaw, a once successful contractor who lost his home after he got too sick to work. Recovering from a brutal car crash, he is hoping to access the final $5,000 of his late wife’s life insurance to buy a van to live in.

There’s Michael Curtis, who found his way to the motel after months spent nursing a broken shoulder while living in his Jeep behind the convenience store where he worked until being forced out when he was fired.

There’s Kayla Waters, raising two sons, ages 8 and 3, whose ADHD gives them such severe fits of rage that she was not allowed to renew the lease on her last apartment.

“Even once this pandemic is over, homlessness is not going away,” Kim said. “It can happen to anyone. We live in a fragile world. All people need is a helping hand.”

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Heightened anxiety, depression test communities COVID-19 pandemic erodes mental health across state

CALL FOR HELP Whatever you are going through, crisis counselors and professionally trained peer specialists are available to help. Call the Colorado Crisis Service hotline at 1-844493-TALK (8255). There is no wrong reason to reach out.

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On Denver’s west side, an elderly man had been managing his solitude just fine until the COVID-19 pandemic hit, taking with it what social life he had and leaving in its place a loneliness he had not felt for years. Not far from his house, a young woman fights panic attacks after COVID-19 killed her grandfather and landed her in the hospital.

Now, she fears the virus will come for her again and this time she will die.

In Fort Collins, the school district announces an early return to online learning, and moments later, a struggling mother calls the local mental health center: “I can’t do this again.”

On the Eastern Plains is a thirdgeneration farmer, and if the pandemic does not weigh on him heavily, this year’s record drought and the crop failure it caused do.

It sets off an irritability and dread that words do not capture in the same way they cannot capture the layering of crises that marks this time: the body blows dealt by the pandemic, the shaky economy, climate-change driven fire and drought, civil rights reckoning and a polarizing election.

Coloradans are on edge. As individuals. As families. As communities. Colorado already had greater demand for behavioral health services than it could provide. And the safety net that even the state’s top mental health official says has “too many holes” might be further frayed by the tight state budget.

These crises have led to a welldocumented flood of calls to crisis and referral lines, and nearly half of Coloradans recently reported experiencing anxiety or depression.

“Everyone is really struggling with the same things,” says Kristen Cochran-Ward, director of Connections, a mental health and substance abuse program at the Health District of Northern Larimer County. “I have heard people saying that we are all in the same boat. We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm. And some people might be in a cruise ship and some might be on a tire raft.”

To capture the current psyche of our state, Colorado Community Media is partnering with nearly 100 others through the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab) to document how Coloradans are coping. Our hope is that in a state where stigma around mental health struggles runs high, this reporting and the conversations that follow will prompt better understanding of widely misunderstood and hidden experiences.

If there is a silver lining to this time — and we choose to believe there is — it is the realization that even if we find ourselves isolated, we are not alone.

“This has affected all of our well-being, all of us,” says Dr. Carl Clark, president and CEO of the Mental Health Center of Denver.

“So, I think it has kind of washed away that us-them thing around mental health. I think it is making people realize: ‘Hey, it’s not usthem. It’s us.’”

‘Too many holes in the net’

Colorado was in poor shape to handle 2020’s confluence of crises.

This year’s heightened mental health needs have run headlong into a complex, ever-shifting constellation of decades-old challenges: the state’s higher-than-average prevalence of high-risk mental health conditions; a backlog of demand caused by a thicket of red tape among state agencies and private insurers; a behavioral health workforce shortage compounded by low rates of psychiatrists and psychologists who accept public or private insurance; cultural stigma; and slow public and political recognition that mental health is as important as physical health.

For communities of color that have a history of trauma and lack of access to health care, the need has been especially acute.

The Colorado Health Institute has been surveying residents about behavioral health and access to care since 2009 and found the situation generally deteriorating ever since.

Based on its data, 870,000 Coloradans were in significant distress in 2019.

Nationally, Colorado has the third highest prevalence of mental illness among adults, according to the most recent annual report by Mental Health America. That report, based on data from 2017 and 2018, also finds Colorado has the nation’s

highest percentage of adults with substance abuse disorders and the third-highest percentage of adults considering suicide. Colorado’s suicide rate hit nearly 22 per 100,000 in 2018 compared to an average of 14 per 100,000 people nationally. Our national rankings for young people are not much better.

Theories about what explains Colorado’s grim statistics run the gamut from altitude to higher rates of gun ownership to a culture of Western self-reliance that downplays emotions. “‘Pull yourself up by your bootstraps’ is probably the most misleading statement ever,” says Colorado Department of Human Services Office of Behavioral Health chief Robert Werthwein, noting the credo wrongly assumes mental health hinges solely on individual will rather than on genetics, brain chemistry, trauma and other factors.

State government is partially responsible, Werthwein says bluntly.

A recent study by the Colorado Department of Human Services finds fault with a bureaucracy in which 10 different state agencies run 75 different behavioral health programs, with hundreds of funding streams, thousands of billing rules, and no shared vision for care.

Seventy-five programs “means there are 74 wrong doors,” Werthwein says.

“There are too many holes in the net.”

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COVID-19 survivor finds her footing amid fears Year riddled with losses leaves sadness that is difficult to fight

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Elizabeth Torres, 38, of Denver walks at Garfield Lake Park in Denver one afternoon.

Torres was diagnosed and hospitalized with COVID-19 back in March and has mostly recovered but lost her grandfather to the virus and had it work its way through her PHOTO BY MARC PISCOTTY entire family.

Until this year, Elizabeth Torres would not have called herself a particularly anxious person. Stressed, sure. Who wasn’t? Everyone has ups and downs.

Torres was working a couple parttime jobs, taking care of her elderly grandparents, raising three kids on her own. Her son, the middle child, has been diagnosed with autism and he likes to get right up into her face, something she really can’t deal with now. When he comes to her lately, “Mom,” on his lips, she can imagine a fine spray of coronavirus cells landing upon her cheeks, nose, eyes.

She and her three kids were living

in the basement of her grandparents’ place in southwest Denver when COVID-19 hit Colorado in early March. She made sure her grandma, who has dementia, and her grandpa, whose heart was failing, took their medications, and that her grandpa had his lunch when he headed to dialysis every other day.

Torres started feeling feverish toward the end of March. With frail grandparents, she decided to play it safe and move into a friend’s bedroom to quarantine.

And then it was like dominoes falling.

Her grandpa was hospitalized after a fall and then diagnosed with COVID-19. Torres’ fever spiked and she began laboring for breath. She went to the ER twice before being admitted with her own case of COVID, her grandpa in a room somewhere nearby. She is in her 30s, but overweight with high blood pressure and SEE SURVIVOR, P13

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COVID took his friends, then it took his health Pool table helped pass time in months before illness struck

BY TINA GRIEGO COLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE

Eddie Kemm found the pool table early in the pandemic. It was the second one he had scouted after the governor’s order shut down the bars — including Kemm’s favorite pool hall — in late March. When the halls went dark, so, too, did a significant part of the social life of an 81-yearold man who lives alone. It was like an amputation. He was, he says, miserable.

In ordinary circumstances, Kemm would not have committed himself to a purchase impractical for a man living on $1,200 a month in Social Security. But then the stimulus check arrived and, even if it hadn’t, the difference between luxury and necessity lies in the eye of the beholder during the long, isolated days of the pandemic.

What he knew after just a couple weeks away from his social circle, unable to play the game he practiced in his mind while lying in bed, was that he was “going crazy.”

Kemm had been living alone in the same house in Denver’s Westwood neighborhood for almost 40 years.

Overall, he’s never minded it. He and his ex-wife had two sons and both died — one years ago and one not so long ago. When loneliness strikes it comes in the shape of their absence, a knee-buckling aloneness.

“It comes and goes and it will until I die,” he says.

He keeps himself busy because the skills of a former maintenance man and groundskeeper are never out of demand and Kemm is generous with his time and his tools.

When he’s not busy, well, that’s why God invented popcorn, TV trays and Westerns.

So, when the pandemic hit in

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many of which have disproportionately high overdose and suicide cases and high rates of stigma around mental health challenges.

The need for counseling or treatment doubled or tripled in many rural counties over the past six years.

In the state study of Colorado’s behavioral health system, lack of access to care was repeatedly cited as the greatest problem. Even as COVID began its spread, the state legislature cut hoped-for expansions of pilot programs and new money for mental health and substance abuse programs targeting people living in underserved communities and youth and adults in the criminal justice system.

The roar

Colorado’s first recorded COVID death — an elderly woman in El Paso County — came on March 13.

Eddie Kemm has lived in the Westwood neighborhood of Denver for more than 40 years after leaving New Mexico to study to be an auto mechanic here in Denver. COVID has derailed his hobby of shooting pool with buddies as bars were forced to close for some time. He purchased a used pool table and set it up in his backyard to continue to play.

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March, it wasn’t the “being alone” part that got to him. It was the denial of the choice to be alone. It was the disruption to his routine, the inability to head into BC’s bar in Lakewood for Monday night tournaments. It was missing that first swallow of an O’Doul’s and Clamato, listening to the banter and the bull while observing his opponents work their angles.

“What makes me special is my ability to study people and see how they shoot,” he says. “That’s a gift that God gave me.”

Kemm is not a man to consider mental health counseling, having been raised firmly in the “you have a problem, you figure it out,” tradition. When isolation descended, his

solution was getting a pool table of his own. It was never going to fit in his 876-square-foot house. “It would have looked stupid,” he says. So, in preparation, he added more pavers to his backyard patio, making sure everything was level, and added some crossbeams to an existing frame so it would support a roof of plywood.

The table he bought from a pool hall and has a couple of beer stains, but he plans to replace the gold felt with the best he can afford. The quarter slot is still attached. It was $400, plus the $40 each he paid the guys who drove to Montbello to load and then unload it again at his place.

When the bars were still closed in

The state went under lockdown 12 days later.

People who could work from home did. Behavioral health care providers pivoted to telephone or video sessions. The number of people seeking help dipped across the state’s 17 regional behavioral health centers in what care providers describe as a calm before the storm.

By mid-April, unemployment claims had skyrocketed — a red flag among mental health experts who know job loss can lead to suicide, so-called “deaths of despair.” While the caseloads at some behavioral health centers remain below last year’s levels, the urgency of the need has deepened, providers say.

Under the weight of uncertainty and isolation, “what was once acute has become very acute, and what was very acute has become a crisis,” says Carl Nassar, founder of Heart-Centered Counseling, the largest private outpatient behavioral health group in the state. Our cups were already full, he says, and now they are spilling over.

The smell of burning forests triggers an anxiety attack. A marital spat about the presidential election blows up into thoughts about divorce. A high school student descends into depression because he can’t hang out with friends. A young mom, cooped up with three little kids, crumbles.

At the pandemic’s beginning, families worried what might happen, what they might lose, says Janis Pottorff, the director of Weld County’s North Range Behavioral Health’s Family Connects program.

“Now we have families who have lost things, lost livelihoods, lost relationships, maybe some have lost family — actual physical death — lost confidence that they can manage the day, they can manage the week.”

Pottorff notes that stress has spiked since the late-fall announcements of an early return to remote learning in some school districts.

“We are hearing that roar in families’ emotions.”

Among those for whom the roar of mental illness predated this

the spring, about four or five guys from BC’s would come over and practice and that was a tiny beachhead of normalcy. When the bars at least partially reopened, Kemm returned to his Monday night games, but a couple guys still come over from time to time.

His world is small by design. He knows himself. He knows that when he finds himself eating while standing that he is nervous. He knows that if he allows too much of the bigger world through the front door right now, it will swamp him. He does not worry about the pandemic.

He knows that he needs to prioritize his concerns to what is right in front of him, like whether the Department of Human Services will mess around with his food stamps again.

The world is a cacophony. The game is governed by rules. The world throws curve balls. The game is geometry. Clean, precise, predictable if you know what you’re doing.

The world narrows to his backyard, to the surface of the table, the clack of ball striking ball, and the drop, solid, satisfying, into the pocket.

In early November, Kemm contracted the virus and ended up at St. Anthony Hospital. Even from his bed, talking on the phone, he insisted that he was not going to worry, that he has had a good life and “this is part of my life now.”

He just wanted to know where his breakfast was.

But he took a turn for the worse and had to be placed on a ventilator for more than a week. As of early December, he had been transferred to the VA hospital, teetering between stable and critical condition.

His granddaughter has had to step into the role of decision-maker. His longtime neighbor collects his mail and gets updates through Kemm’s sister in New Mexico — all of them forced to work angles even he never saw coming.

The pool table remains covered.

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year’s crises, increased isolation and the sudden inability to see their trusted providers in person have made things even harder.

An August poll by the Colorado Health Foundation found one in two Coloradans reported increased psychological strain — “anxiety, loneliness, stress” — as a result of the pandemic. A more recent U.S. Census Bureau snapshot survey found that from Oct. 28 to Nov. 9, about 43% of Coloradans reported symptoms of anxiety or depression over the previous seven days. Meanwhile, the number of monthly calls and texts to Colorado’s crisis line has climbed from nearly 16,000 in January to nearly 25,000 in October, a more than 50% increase. Most people are calling about anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts, some seeking immediate help, and others wanting information on providers or coping strategies.

“It’s called the Colorado Crisis hotline, but you define the crisis for yourself,” Werthwein says.

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Mental health experts urge vigilance during holidays Pandemic collides with season to create ‘stressor on top of a stressor’

BY JESSICA GIBBS JGIBBS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The holidays are usually a time filled with large celebrations, being near loved ones and focusing on what there is to be thankful for.

This year, mental health experts are urging the community to be extra vigilant in keeping up their mental health as the holiday season collides with the COVID-19 pandemic and creates a “stressor on top of a stressor.”

Di Thompson, the medical director for physician wellness at Centura Health, said 2020 holidays will be difficult for some community members as they steer far from tradition.

“Perhaps one of the ways that we can better cope with that is to acknowledge that,” she said. “This is not going to be the Hallmark Christmas that we plan for.”

Altering expectations can help, she said. Most important is finding connection “while we can’t physically always be with people.”

Zoom, call, text and stay in touch with loved ones however possible.

She also suggests people stick to healthy coping strategies — exercise, listening to music — and check in with themselves each

day to gauge how they are doing.

Never be afraid to seek additional support like counseling or therapy, she said.

Glenn Most is executive director of West Pines Behavioral Health and spokesman for the Let’s Talk Colorado campaign, which encourages people to start conversations about mental health.

A year fraught with a public health crisis, a tense political environment, and locally a devastating wildfire season is testing the community’s ability to adapt, Most said.

“In my memory, I’ve never experienced a year like the year we’ve been having,” he said. “It’s something that none of us, most of us, have never experienced.”

Those working in the field are seeing increased rates of depression and anxiety, Thompson and Most said. Most attributed much of that to the “deep, deep isolation” created by the pandemic.

“I think people saw the holiday season as a relief, as a break from what they were seeing as really marking the end of 2020,” Most said. “And what it has turned into is not necessarily the relief that people were expecting.”

During the holidays, Most suggested strategies like planning early and clearly communicating holiday plans to family. He also stressed avoiding blaming holiday plans or their disruption on family.

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spend the holidays can be difficult, and there has been “increased judgment” toward one another during the pandemic, Most said.

“This isn’t the time to try to convince people about certain practices that they might be doing, that are right or wrong,” he said.

“This is not the time to argue about COVID.” He and his family chose not to gather with relatives outside their immediate family for Thanksgiving. Instead they opted for Zoom calls, and will likely do the same for Christmas, when they typically travel to California.

Just like he’s advised others to do, Most said, his family made a plan for Christmas early and communicated that to their loved ones.

Amber Berenz is program manager for Colorado Spirit Program — AllHealth Network’s initiative to provide free psychological support to people of all ages during the pandemic.

The program is grant funded through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and under the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s oversight. The grant is often used following natural disasters and has been deployed in Colorado after wildfires, Berenz said.

This time it’s in use to address a public health disaster, which calls for many of the same response

strategies, she said. Usually the grant would enable crisis response teams to go door-to-door to connect people with resources.

During the pandemic, the program is doing that virtually, Berenz said.

The holidays are typically a happy time for many, Berenz said, but they can also inflame trauma from loss or feelings of grief. For some community members, “the holidays are a difficult time any time of year.”

“For a lot of us, helping other people, supporting other people is a way we can manager our own stress,” she said.

In addition to strategies to help yourself cope — meditation, exercise, eating well, getting sleep — people can also care for the ones around them by checking in on them and asking how they are doing.

Thompson said starting those conversations can be uncomfortable but it’s one of the simplest and most effective ways to let someone know they are supported.

Most urged people to keep their guard up as they weather COVID fatigue amid promising news of vaccines becoming available. The community must continue working together “to get through this.”

“I’m very optimistic that this time next year,” he said, “we will be celebrating the holidays together.”

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“... I don’t want people not to call and say, ‘Well this doesn’t feel like a crisis,’ or ‘Other people are going through harder things ...’ No, call.

It helps all of us the sooner that you call.”

But getting longer-term help can be tricky. It generally requires reams of paperwork and long waits for public providers or a string of calls to private providers who often don’t take insurance, are prohibitively expensive or not accepting new patients.

Pat Turner, a contractor in Meeker, sat on his porch twisting wires in his hands and drinking most of June and July as he sank into severe depression. He began disassociating from reality. His search for help drew him into a labyrinth of hold times, packed waiting rooms, 200-mile round trips to the regional behavioral health center in Grand Junction, and a doctor failing to follow up after writing an antipsychotic prescription. His family found a private psychiatrist 90 miles away in Steamboat Springs who is helping treat Turner’s newly diagnosed bipolar disorder.

“We have a real problem if the system doesn’t treat a cry for help as an emergency,” Turner says.

“My mania got so intense that if my family hadn’t been there to help, I’d probably still be out there in the abyss, potentially committing suicide or homicide or something.”

December 10, 2020D For every person known to be in crisis, experts say there are more who are not known: Coloradans without a support system, people experiencing cognitive or traumatic impacts from COVID, students in remote learning whose suffering is unnoticed by teachers and school counselors. Care providers are especially worried about people who have hunkered down, convinced they can just muscle through in silence.

Time to talk

A few months into the pandemic, the Mental Health Center of Denver began using the video game Minecraft to help some of the young people it serves. Two clinicians each lead eight children as they mine materials and build worlds.

The game feeds their need to connect to other kids, to play and to create environments over which they have some power.

MHCD also expanded its telehealth appointments from about five a week to 4,000 a week, a remarkable pandemic-spurred shift among all behavioral health providers in the state. Lawmakers allocated about $13 million in federal CARES Act funding for COVIDrelated behavioral health needs for smart devices, telehealth needs and other resources, such as PPE for therapists to meet high-need clients in person safely. Another $2 million federal grant has been helping Coloradans who have tested positive for COVID receive behavioral health care.

Meanwhile, apps are allowing lonely singles to meet for coffee

or cocktails online and for virtual meditation groups among strangers. Social media, often divisive, also has become a place for callouts to check on one another and for admissions that things aren’t going well. “I need something to look forward to,” a man in Broomfield wrote on a recent Facebook post that elicited dozens of emoji faces hugging hearts.

Yet despite innovative ways to connect, we are still hurting. As COVID tightens its grip, infecting record numbers of Coloradans, many of us have again retreated to our homes beset by compassion fatigue and Zoom fatigue and plain old fatigue fatigue. The divisive presidential election has given way to a divisive aftermath. We are girding for a holiday season defined by remaining apart rather than coming together. And, as increased joblessness and evictions loom, a long winter awaits.

On the horizon are two glimmers of light: The promises of widely distributed COVID vaccines next year and of behavioral health reform in Colorado.

To tackle fragmentation, the state has been developing an online behavioral health registry — the first phase of which is expected to go live this April — with daily updates on available mental health and substance abuse disorder treatment. The administration of Gov. Jared Polis also has created a blueprint for ensuring people who need help are treated like people and not boxes checked for reimbursement.

But at a time when state revenues

are stretched, how much can be done and how quickly are open questions. The fractures in Colorado’s behavioral health systems have been decades in the making and will not be mended overnight.

“None of us know when we’re going to experience a mental health crisis, and when we do, many of us don’t know how few and poor the resources are to weather it, even in the best of times,” says Vincent Atchity, president and CEO of Mental Health Colorado, the leading nonprofit pushing for state policy reform. “You can’t feel good about a community that fails to provide life sustaining support for people with serious mental health needs.”

This moment, he and other advocates say, presents not a hypothetical test of Colorado’s mental health policies, but an active emergency.

Now, they say, is the time to get comfortable with uncomfortable conversations — lots of them. Now is the time to speak more deeply with each other without shame and to listen without judgement, to ask for and offer help: Are you eating?

Are you sleeping? What do you need? What can I do?

“Do we show who we are by finding each other’s humanity and finding solidarity or do we tear each other apart?” Atchity asks. Support networks are critical, he says. “Be sort of gardener-like about maintaining those relationships. Best to keep calling so-and-so when you’re not in crisis, so when you are, they’ll be there.”

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VOICES From one’s perspective, two’s a crowd

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ew remember Love, a 1960s Los Angeles rock band. They had a number of minor hits, including “My Little Red Book,” “7 and 7 Is,” QUIET and “Alone Again Or.” DESPERATION “Alone Again Or” was released in January 1968.

It initially peaked nationally at 123, but went as high as No. 7 where I was: in Los Angeles.

It’s worth a listen as a background to Craig Marshall this column.

Smith Hearing it now, I’m back in college — and, as now, living alone.

According to data collected by the U. S. Census Bureau in 2018, “There are an estimated 35.7 million singleperson households in the United States.”

That’s one-third of us.

Growing up in suburban neighborhoods, I don’t recall many singleperson households.

It’s likely the majority in my area now live in townhomes and condominiums.

I’m a single-person home owner and I live right next to one, but I don’t think there’s another on the block.

Why do so many of us live alone?

Lots of reasons.

I prefer it. There are no compromises or conflicts. None.

There were conflicts in our home when I was a teenager. Plenty.

The atmosphere was invariably tense.

Why did my mother and father remain together? That’s what couples did back then. They stayed together through thick and thin and more thin.

I had a front row seat to “All in the Acrimony.”

While I prefer to live alone, many don’t, but do because of the loss of a loved one, or because their children have grown up and departed.

For those and others for whom the holidays might be particularly difficult to face alone this year, a recent article in The New York Times had a

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Most families are already coping with more “together time” than ever. The result is periodic frayed nerves, even before the added strain from changing how we celebrate the holidays. And others are struggling with painful isolation and loneliness.

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few suggestions.

Ivy Kwong said, “Plan ahead.

Don’t wait until the holiday is upon you to make a plan. Come up with something you’ll do on the day of the holiday: bake cookies, order take-out, work on a jigsaw puzzle, binge a podcast, watch your favorite movie.”

Kwong is a Seattle-based marriage and family therapist who specializes in healing codependency and intergenerational trauma.

I think doing any of those things as a plan would accentuate a perception of isolation. I might be wrong.

In the same article, Ayanna Abrams, a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in creating healthy relationships, encourages singles to “Accept whatever feelings bubble up.”

I guess that means you should stay off the roof and go easy on the Smirnoff.

Living alone means I do everything around here. The laundry, yardwork, all the shopping, vacuuming. I reset the pins and thaw the goose.

And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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

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ere we are, four weeks out from ringing in another New Year. Many of us can’t wait to put 2020 in the rearview mirror. These last 11 WINNING months are difficult WORDS to describe in one word, it’s even hard to describe them in just a few words without finding something negative, sad, or troubling to say, so yes, the rearview mirror analogy could be an excellent way to try Michael Norton and put it all behind us. However, it’s only a good strategy if we make sure that we can shift our focus on what is in front of us, not only on what’s behind us.

“See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.” - Joel Osteen

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Guess who said the following?

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

As it is now, I have the mobility and the health to live alone. The day may come when I have neither. Then what?

Kwong, I’m planning ahead.

There’s one more level to living alone and that’s living alone without love. That’s something I won’t kid about.

In my case, I have a sufficient number of friends who care about me.

And I have Harry. To paraphrase Friedrich Nietzsche, life without Harry would be a mistake. I’d get me one if I were you.

My mailbox is always open, if someone could use a holiday pen pal.

The “delicious solitude” quote is Albert Einstein’s.

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Success is a funny thing as we can see others succeeding where we feel like we have not. Whatever they touch turns to gold. They simply have a knack for being successful at whatever they endeavor to do. Even in a difficult COVID year, they were still able to meet with success. What’s the difference? The difference is in the way we see ourselves.

It can become very easy to only see or recognize the mistakes we have made or the unfortunate events that have happened around us. And the weight of carrying those makes it impossible to see ourselves succeeding at anything. The rearview mirror becomes our lens of failure even though that big windshield of opportunity is right there in front of us. And as Zig Ziglar said, “Failure is an event and not a person. Yesterday really did end last night.” Here’s the thing, I do not know you, but I do know that you are amazing and not a failure. I know this because someone who only sees themselves as failing would have already given up and stopped reading this column two paragraphs ago.

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NORTON FROM PAGE 12

The biggest life-changing lesson for me happened when someone encouraged me to see myself differently. I had a mentor who taught me to take an inventory of my talents and skills, which was helpful. But the better exercise was to make an honest assessment of the gaps in my talents and skills so that I could take the time and make the effort to improve my situation.

It’s fair to say that it was humbling to admit my shortcomings, but it was also freeing and inspiring.

Recognizing that the only difference in looking in the rearview mirror instead of the massive windshield in front of me, was the belief in myself.

The way we see ourselves is the way we will see our future. If the past feels like a boat anchor, we need to cut the chain. Because the way we see our past is not nearly as important as the way we see our future. And our future begins with the way we see and believe in ourselves. And we are amazing.

SURVIVOR FROM PAGE 6

asthma, and the virus hit her hard.

Her lungs felt like they were burning.

“I felt like, ‘I’m dying and I am going to die by myself,’” she says.

When her fever finally did break and she was able to breathe on her own a week later, Torres was discharged, oxygen tank in tow.

Her 85-year-old grandfather wasn’t so lucky. He died at Denver Health on April 1, a few days after she left the hospital. Torres uses the word “passed,” a word like “died” that fails to convey the surrealness of his last days. She mourns not being able to say goodbye to the man who raised her as a father would.

It has taken months for Torres to begin to feel herself again and she says she does feel better, mentally and physically, though she would not call it back to normal. Fear accompanies her now. She says her kids think she is paranoid. She has “panic attacks from hell.”

“I don’t want to go out anymore,” she says. “I don’t want to have it again. I think if I get it again, I might die.”

Uncertainties and unknowns

Torres wore a heart monitor for a while after she left the hospital because she was experiencing pounding palpitations, which may be an after-effect of COVID, but also could be stress. That she doesn’t know for sure frustrates her. Too much is uncertain now. Too much unknown.

There are times when she does not recognize herself. Who is this cautious woman whose heart hammers when she hears her kids cough or when the latest national political outrage pops up in her social feeds despite her best efforts to avoid the news. The late summer fires, the smell of burning forests when she opened her front door, filled her with dismay. Who is this woman

With just a few weeks to go in the year, this is an excellent time to take an inventory of who we are and our capacity for accomplishment. It’s a fantastic time to look through the windshield, understanding that it is more about what happens next than what has happened in the past. As a matter of fact, Clemson University football coach Dabo Swinney, says it this way, “No matter what’s behind us in the rearview mirror, it’s always about what’s next.”

How about you? What’s your role in what happens next? Are you looking at what has happened, or are you focused on what can happen? And I may not know you personally, but I do know that you are amazing and I would love to hear your story at mnorton@ tramazing.com. Just remember that when we can believe in ourselves and our role in what happens next, it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is the grateful CEO of Tramazing.com, a personal and professional coach, and a consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator to businesses of all sizes.

who dreads going out?

“I just feel mostly sad,” she says. “I am not like this. I am a person who loves to be out and about. I am very social. And there is just all of this. I can’t go outside. I can’t be with my friends. Coping with that has been very hard.”

Until recently, she was not one to speak so candidly about her feelings.

She might have confided in a few friends. But in the calamity that is 2020, she became so sick she thought she was going to die. Her grandfather did die. And what she knows is that she needs to talk because the words lift weight off her. She is certain that others are struggling and wants to reassure them that they are not alone. Be hopeful, she wants to say. “It is what we need. Hope.”

So, Torres wakes in the morning now and says to herself, to the universe; Thank you.

“I say, ‘Thank you for my health.

Thank you for my strong heart.

Thank you for my strong lungs.’

I say, ‘Thank you for my pillow.’

Simple things. ‘Thank you for my comfortable bed. Thank you I am awake and alive and breathing.’ I say, ‘I have food. I have a job. My kids are healthy.’”

She has taken to meditating frequently and has changed her diet, drinking juices, taking vitamins, eating healthier, trying to walk in nearby Garfield Park. When she feels really bad, a friend will take her for a car ride; she will tell her kids that she just needs to chill for a while.

Torres knows there will still be ups and downs, good days and bad, and that there remain big question marks on the horizon. But sometimes, the way forward does not require motion. It does not require answers or even thought. Sometimes, she has found, the path forward means sitting in her backyard, planting her feet on the ground, face turned toward the sun, heat bathing her until the anxiety passes and, once again, she feels rooted and whole.

WINTER FROM PAGE 12

Here are some tips on taking care of yourself during the 2020 holiday season: Be realistic. Keep your expectations in line with reality. Accept that this holiday season will be different than years past.

Set reasonable goals that fit your schedule and budget. Make healthy spending decisions and prioritize financially reasonable ways to celebrate.

Put your health first. Avoid overindulging in food and alcohol. Maintain your regular healthy eating, exercising, and sleep habits. Make time for yourself to rest and recharge. Enjoy a hot bath with candles and lavender. Take a walk in nature, rain or shine. Stretch, take an online yoga class, or go for a run. Listen to beautiful music.

Connect. Reach out to friends and family, organize a family Zoom gathering, have a virtual holiday meal, include friends in your virtual get-together that you know may be alone, especially older adults who may be isolated.

Be festive and creative. Decorate your home — inside and out. Pull out that old recipe you have been wanting to make but never got around to!

Cultivate gratitude and generosity. Contact your favorite charity or local place of worship to see how you can become involved at a distance.

Giving of your time and talents is always appreciated by nonprofits and religious groups. Now, the need is greater than ever.

Reach out if you need help. If you are struggling with feeling sad, depressed, or anxious during this holiday season, you may need more help. Call Colorado Crisis Services at 844-493-8255.

Dr. Kimberly Winter is a family practice physician with New West Physicians in Highlands Ranch.

OBITUARIES PANKEY

Phil Pankey 1929-2020

Long time Colorado resident and State Representative Phillip Lowden Pankey passed away peacefully in his home in Manzanillo, MX on Sept.

14 at the age of 91. He was born in Harrisburg, IL near Pankeyville; after 3 years at Southern Illinois University, he moved to Colorado in 1950 to complete his education at the University of Colorado. He met Ginny Verploeg at CU and they married in 1953. Ginny preceded him in death in 1994.

He served in the Navy from 1953-1958 and as Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve until 1977.

In 1956 Phil founded Medical Administration Co. and served as president until 1984.

Phil was devoted to his Colorado community and served as Littleton State Representative from 1982 to 1998. He held numerous leadership roles in the state Republican Party and twice served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. He was a key founder of the influential High-Country Conservatives in Grand County, CO and was well known as a true Patriot. As a Legislator, he was instrumental in bringing the Adventist Hospital campus to Littleton.

He was an active member in Rotary for over 60 years, attending Denver, Grand Lake and clubs around the world. He was also a member of

Central Presbyterian Church and the Denver Athletic Club.

Phil’s love for Colorado was demonstrated in his pursuit of many activities including snow skiing, water skiing, boating, river rafting, tennis, volleyball, and running. He completed 5 marathons and 16 Bolder Boulders. He had the great honor of carrying the Olympic Torch in June 1984.

In 2001 he married Sharon Hull, and together they built a home in Grand Lake, CO and enjoyed their beach home in Manzanillo. They continued their love for adventure; Phil visited all 50 states and 54 countries.

Phil was a wonderful husband, father, grandfather with a vibrant love for life, family, friends and country. He will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him.

He is survived by his wife Sharon and her family; his daughter Jill (husband Scott Scheer), his son Ralph (wife Susan) and granddaughter Victoria (Tori) Ginny. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please consider the following memorial contribution in PHIL’s NAME to: GRAND LAKE ROTARY FOUNDATION, PO BOX 723, Grand Lake, CO 80447 or organization of choice

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LIFE

Here is a list of outdoor skate rinks that are open — and two that are closed.

Rink at the Rock, Castle Rock ABOUT: The covered ice rink in downtown Castle Rock is open through Feb. 15. The rink is reserved for private sessions MondayWednesday.

WHERE: 414 Perry St., Castle Rock OPEN SKATE HOURS: Thursday 4-8 p.m.; Friday 4-8 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-

5 p.m.

COST: Adult (12 and up), $10; child (11 and under) $8; skate rental, $4 MASKS: Required to be worn while skating.

Highly encouraged in waiting areas.

RESERVATION: Not required.

WEBSITE: www. downtowncastlerock. com/rink-at-the-rock-1

Discovery Park Ice Trail, Parker

Outdoor skating a holiday refuge amid pandemic

Alora Rankin smiles skating with her father, Bryan, at the Discovery Park Ice Trail in downtown Parker Dec. 3.

The skating loop is available by reservation only, and is one of a few outdoor ice rinks still open following level red public health orders.

PHOTOS BY NICK PUCKETT

up), $8; child (10 and under), $6; skate rental, $4 MASKS: Not required to be worn while skating.

RESERVATION: Required two days in advance online.

WEBSITE: www. parkerrec.com/1954/ Parker-Ice-Trail

Olde Town Arvada Ice Skating Rink, Arvada

BY NICK PUCKETT NPUCKETT@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

ABOUT: The new, synthetic ice rink opened in Olde Town Arvada this fall to bring a little joy to people’s holiday season amid the pandemic.

WHERE: 13150 W 72nd Ave., Arvada OPEN SKATE HOURS: Sunday-Saturday noon-8 p.m. (Hours

B

ryan Rankin did his best to keep up with his daughter on the ice.

Alora, the Ponderosa High School sophomore, darted around the Parker Ice Trail Dec. 3, at times lapping her father.

Alora egged on her father, urging him to try synchronized spins as they glided around the short loop at Discovery Park.

Bryan relished the daddydaughter time.

“I feel extremely blessed we even have a place like this to go to because I know a lot of cities don’t have an ice-skating rink, especially outdoors and as nice as this one,” Alora said. “Also, amid COVID, it’s nice that we’re still able to come have an outlet.”

The ice trail at Discover Park is one of only a handful of outdoor ice rinks still open following the level red public health orders. Masks are not required to skate, but capacity is limited.

In order to skate, visitors must fill out a registration form online and schedule a reservation two days in advance.

Visitors can request a spot in a two-hour time slot. The trail is open through the winter. For more information, visit ParkerRec.com.

Mary Colton, Parker’s parks and recreation director, said in a Dec. 4 email that the ice loop is a winter activity that lends itself to being a safe, family atmosphere.

“With such limited recreational options available due to COVID-19, Discovery Park offers a unique opportunity to recreate outdoors for improved physical and mental health, which are so important to all of us right now,” Colton said.

But many communities aren’t

ABOUT: An outdoor, loop ice trail in downtown Parker, open through the winter.

WHERE: 20115 Mainstreet, Parker OPEN SKATE HOURS: Monday-Friday 5-9 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

COST: Adult (11 and

subject to reservations).

COST: Adult (11 and up) $8; child (10 and under) $5. Ticket includes skate rental.

MASKS: Required at all times.

RESERVATIONS: Required for one-hour time slots. Online only.

Website: oldetownarvada.org/skating-rink/

Longmont Ice Pavilion, Longmont

Dozens of skaters occupy the Parker Ice Trail during time blocks reserved two days in advance. The Ice Trail is open Monday through Friday, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., 11 a.m.-9 p.m. on Saturdays and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Sundays, with special times for holidays. For more information, visit ParkerOnline.org.

so lucky.

The Rink at Belmar in Lakewood was forced to close after the state moved to level red orders Nov. 20. The 7,000-squarefoot rink at the Belmar Shopping Center is a popular spot for outdoor skating in any other year.

Tom Quinn, executive director of Alameda Connects, a business association for the Alameda corridor, said the organization is searching for new ways to give people a holiday feel despite closures and indoor shopping limitations.

“What we really focused on is: ‘What can we do, with the restrictions, to keep the holiday spirit alive?’” Quinn said.

The shopping district will be decked out with holiday lights. The City of Lakewood is holding its yearly lamp post decorating contest at Belmar Park Dec. 18. Santa is making appearances at Belmar through Dec. 24 as well. For details, visit BelmarColorado.com.

Arvada unveiled its synthetic ice rink this fall in Olde Town Square, thanks to the Arvada Business Improvement District.

Executive Director Joe Hengstler told Colorado Community Community Media it was the perfect time to open a rink following the strife caused by the pandemic.

The Streets at SouthGlenn decided against putting up its annual ice-skating rink this year due to COVID-19 concerns and looks forward to bringing it back in 2021, according to a spokesperson for the shopping district.

Evergreen could open skating at Evergreen Lake Dec. 18, weather permitting, according to the city’s recreation department’s website.

Bryan Rankin, able to catch his breath at the Parker Ice Trail Dec. 3, is thankful just to spend time with his daughter on the ice.

“Hopefully, normalcy kicks in soon,” he said.

ABOUT: A seasonal, full-service ice facility offering public skating as well as private rentals throughout the winter.

WHERE: 725 Eighth Ave., Longmont OPEN SKATE HOURS: Monday 11:15 a.m.-1:30 p.m., 3-5 p.m.; Tuesday 3-4:45 p.m.; Wednesday 11:15 a.m.-1:30 p.m., 3-5:15 p.m.; Thursday 3-5:15

p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.6:15 p.m.; Saturday 12:15-6:15 p.m.; Sunday 1:15-6 p.m.

COST: Adult resident/nonresident (1854) $5.75/$7.25; youth resident/nonresident (11-17) $5/$5.75; child resident/nonresident (2-10) $4.50/$5.50; senior resident/nonresident (55 and up) $5/$5.75; tot (under 2) free.

Coming soon: Evergreen Lake, Evergreen ABOUT: The 55acre lake in the Rocky Mountain foothills is nationally renowned for its ice skating, and it is scheduled to return just before Christmas.

The tentative open date is Dec. 18, pending bad weather.

WHERE: 29612 Upper Bear Creed Road, Evergreen OPEN SKATE HOURS: Monday-Friday 3-7 p.m.; Saturday

8 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

COST: Adult (19-59), $8; youth (4-18), $7; seniors (60 and up), $6; military, $6; tot (3 and under), free.

MASKS: Not required.

Reservations: Required by time slots.

Online only.

WEBSITE: www. evergreenrecreation. com/224/Ice-Skatingand-Hockey

Closed

The Rink at Belmar, Lakewood Streets of Southglenn Skating at the Cube, Centennial

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Holiday series will take place on virtual stage

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how their family tradihy are we surtions are changing ... Cast prised that the includes Jessica Austgen, always creative Sean Michael Cummings, Arvada Center Jada Susan Dixon, Tresha has come up with a new Farris, Kate Gleason, Geofholiday entertainment? frey Kent, Leslie O’Carroll, “The Family Tree: A VirtuSteve Wilson, Olivia al Holiday Comedy” Wilson and Titus deals with the situSONYA’S the dog. Visit “The ation may of us are SAMPLER Family Tree’s” dealing with right webpage at arvadanow: How can a center.org/events/ family gather in this the-family-tree. difficult holiday season??? Each performance will feature a Littleton Museum live cast — which at Littleton’s annual times will make mis“Own an Original” takes — per director show is in place and Lynne Collins. Plays ready for visitors if began Dec. 2 and Sonya Ellingboe and when the Littlewill run at 7 p.m. ton Museum is open through Dec. 20 on Zoom. to visitors. (Website says the The cast includes the farms are open Tuesday to Arvada Center’s regular Saturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. by Black Box Theatre’s cast reservation.) No information members and the script on awards yet from the Littlewas written by actor/playton Fine Art Board ... The wright Jessica Austgen, theme chosen by the board who will also perform. is “Liberating Humor” — a Ticket prices are based on commodity we can all look a pay-what-you-can model, forward to — if and when ranging from $20 to $50. the building can open. The One Arvada family has farm, however, is open durfamily meetings to discuss ing museum hours for family

Leslie O’Carroll, a well-known local actor, is included in the cast of Arvada Center’s virtual play “Family Tree.”

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groups to walk among the animals and farm buildings — but advance reservations are required. 303-795-3950, during museum hours.

and tune in right at 1:30 p.m.

The performance will not be available later. Online or box office — lonetreeartscenter. org or 303-805-6800.

Virtual Arts in the Afternoon

‘Nutcracker’ reminder

Lone Tree Arts Center will celebrate “Happy Birthday, Beethoven” with the Ivy Street Ensemble and host Betsy Schwarm at 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 16, the actual anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in 1770. The ensemble — flutist Cathy Peterson, violinist Erik Peterson and violist Philip Stevens — will present Beethoven’s Serenade, op. 25, plus music by current American composer Kenji Bunch, who was inspired by Beethoven. Tickets: choose what you pay

Colorado Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” has remaining free PBS shows — Dec. 18 at 9 p.m.; Dec. 19 at 1 a.m.; Dec. 24 at 7 p.m.; Dec. 25 at 12 a.m. (the wee hours of Christmas morning). May also be streamed during the holidays at the Rocky Mountain PBS app, downloadable at rmpbs.org/pbs-video-app.

Another reminder

Submissions to the Colorado Book Awards will be accepted through Jan. 8. Any book published in

2020 by Colorado authors, editors, illustrators, photographers. Categories include anthology/collection, biography, children’s literature, creative nonfiction, fiction, history, nonfiction, pictorial, poetry, young adult literature. Entry forms available at coloradohumanities.org.

Also, volunteers are needed to be a selector or judge. Application form at coloradohumanities.org, 303-894-7951.

Depot Gallery news notes

Longtime Littleton Fine Arts Guild member Pat Dall is “Spotlight Artist of the Month” for the Guild, and if it were a usual month, she would have a wall in the back room at Littleton’s Depot Art Gallery for her art to be displayed. She has served in many capacities, including president as well as creating her own artwork for display.

“It’s a Small World” is a display of miniature works of art displayed at Town Hall Arts Center’s Stanton Gallery.

The exhibit can be viewed online: www.depotartgallery. org/its-a-small-world.

Denver native’s art grabs attention

BY SONYA ELLINGBOE SELLINGBOE@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Denver native and skilled painter Jeff Velarde’s images tend to stand out in a gallery — and they tell stories about cities and the people who live in them, with precise lines and angles, dense colors ...

Appealing beings inhabit many, though not all, of his scenarios. I especially enjoy “Dumb O’ Brooklyn,” a look at Manhattan Bridge from a street in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood below — the bridge, sandwiched between ordinary-looking city buildings, along a pedestrian street.

Velarde grew up in Denver’s Westside, graduated from Denver West High School and attended Colorado Institute of Arts. He currently works in parallel careers. He is art director for Z-Axis Corporation, a litigation

“Jackson Square” is a painting by local artist Jeff Velarde, who grew up on the west side of Denver and often exhibits in COURTESY PHOTO Littleton.

graphics company, and pursues a fine arts profession as well.

His “Jackson Square” reflects the joy musicians feel when performing

those outdoor summer concerts we love. Sunshine, blue skies, colorful clothing, happy chatter, polished instruments. Each musician an individual and a shiny tuba front and center.

His website is also filled with assorted Anime types — some called “Creepypasta” characters.

He is an active member of the Littleton Fine Arts Guild and one can usually see a Velarde painting in the Depot Art Gallery in downtown Littleton — now closed along with half the immediate world. He has also exhibited at Curtis Center for the Arts, in Littleton’s annual “Own an Original” show, at CORE New Art Space and in a solo show at Town Hall Arts Center’s Stanton Art Gallery in 1995.

He describes his work as “telling the story of everyday life in urban

settings,” taking the viewer into that environment. “When I am painting figures in these settings I try to imagine what these characters are and what their story is. I try to come to my own conclusions about these people and try to convey what I think they are feeling. The end result that I shoot for is pleasing to the eye for its use of color, composition and subject matter, but also something that transports the viewer into another environment and an interesting view into the human condition.”

Velarde credits his wife and kids with providing inspiration and his work somehow seems like that of a happy, energetic artist. We will look forward to a reopened Depot Art Gallery in the New Year and new paintings by Velarde, as well as other talented Littleton Fine Arts Guild members. If only ...

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MY NAME IS

GARY POOLE

Retiree remembers a smaller, slower-paced Colorado Selling history

I’m a third-generation Coloradan.

My grandfather died when my dad was 8, and my grandma was raising five kids. She worked at Swedish Hospital in Englewood, doing laundry back when it was still a tuberculosis sanitorium.

My dad, Jack Poole, was on Englewood’s parks and recreation commission in the 1960s. At that time, Englewood just had one big city park. A developer wanted to buy it to build Cinderella City mall.

My dad and mom would go around and around about whether the city should take the deal. My mom said he was selling the town’s history, but he would say we would get a bunch of parks around the city in exchange, and that’s what ended up happening.

My dad stayed involved with parks and athletics for most of his life.

The softball field at Belleview Park is named in his honor.

Asphalt on the ballfield

Part of where Belleview Park is now was once a landfill — where the city dumped asphalt. I worked for the parks for many years as a young man, and every once in a while some of the asphalt would come

up through the dirt in the baseball diamond.. We had to keep a close eye on it — softball players didn’t want to slide into a chunk of asphalt.

I remember 1965, the year of the big flood on the South Platte River. I remember the sound more than anything. Upriver, people had those big propane tanks to heat their homes, and they all came loose and floated down. I remember them hitting the bridges. You could hear these big bangs.

Not all bad

This was just a different place then. I remember cows grazing near Belleview and Broadway. I remember my mom sending me down to Broadway to get bread from the bakery. Nobody questioned whether that was appropriate. Back then it wasn’t a big deal to cross Hampden on my bike. Today I don’t even like crossing it in my car.

The change isn’t all bad. When I was a kid, Frank the Pizza King was fine dining. Don’t get me wrong, I still love Frank’s! But it’s exciting to see such nice places around here nowadays.

A lot of things have improved for the better. They say it’s gentrification, that folks are forced out who can’t afford it. I’m amazed at what houses go for now, but my parents were able to sell their home to a young family who put their kids in the local schools. I’m grateful for that.

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December 10, 2020D

Denver Christkindl Market is rare holiday holdout Fixture of season returns downtown as pandemic has limited number of celebrations

BY HANNAH METZGER THE DENVER GAZETTE

As one of the city’s last remaining holiday celebrations, the Denver Christkindl Market is trying to keep the magic alive for the community while supporting small businesses.

The annual event has brought German and European holiday traditions to Denver for 20 years with local and international small business vendors. And it’s one of the city’s only celebrations not canceled

by COVID-19.

“People are out here to support the market. They want to make sure we can come back next year,” said William Reed with the GermanAmerican Chamber of Commerce, which runs the market.

This year, the market was moved from Skyline Park to a 60,000-square-foot section of Civic Center Park to allow for social distancing and a one-way directional flow. The market is also imposing 75-guest maximum capacity in each of its two zones.

Reed said the market is now almost always at capacity with people regularly waiting up to an hour and

Astrid Hausdoerfer organizes ornaments at the Old German Christmas booth at the Denver Christkindl Market at Civic Center Park in Denver on Nov. 24. The annual authentic German and European holiday traditional market is hosted by the German American PHOTO BY CHANCEY BUSH/THE GAZETTE Chamber of Commerce and features local and international vendors.

a half on the weekends just to enter.

With other iconic celebrations, such as Colorado Ballet’s “The Nutcracker” and the Parade of Lights, being modified or canceled, Reed said the market is more important to the holiday season than ever.

“There’s nothing to do and this is an opportunity for them to go outside,” Reed said. “It’s a really magical experience in a way that

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Besides just holiday fun, this year the market is also providing essential funds for numerous small businesses.

The market hosts dozens of small businesses including Björn’s Honey, Unique Glass Ornaments, Chocoidea, Corey’s Chocolate, Winterborn Alpaca, Burton’s Maplewood Farms, Travel Posters, Wise Elk and Bob’s Roasted Nuts.

Bob Stephens with Bob’s Roasted Nuts said the Christkindl Market is his business’s only event this year that hasn’t been cancelled.

“We are very thankful to have the opportunity to make a living and have some sense of normalcy throughout the holiday season,” said Stephens, who has participated in the market since 2011.

This is the first year that Corey’s Chocolate has been a part of the market. Corey Crespi said his 3-year-old business relies on in-person events like farmers markets and festivals to get by.

“This market is very important to us,” Crespi said. “We have invested significantly in this market and we believe it will be a huge success …

We are excited to be vendors in such a well-established and successful Christmas market.”

However, the market is still facing challenges.

Luca Modolo from Chocoidea said his sales are down 50% compared to last year. He said Chocoidea’s sales during the market are of “vital importance” to the business’s success.

The Germany-based chocolate store has been traveling to Denver since 2017 to participate in the market.

“I had extreme difficulties and risked a lot … to be able to be present in Denver,” Modolo said. “It took considerable efforts, not only economic.”

Bob’s Roasted Nuts also expressed trouble with not being allowed to pass out samples due to COVID-19.

And Wise Elk said it was very difficult for them to find staff this year because of fear of contact.

Reed said though all of the mar-

ket’s huts are being utilized this year, most with returning vendors, the market lost some of its regulars over COVID-19 economic impacts.

Reed said a Danish pastry vendor that usually has a triple booth at the market had to drop out entirely.

“This is the only chance to make the money this year and they’re really reliant on it,” Reed said.

In addition to helping fund the vendors’ businesses, the annual market is also essential to the German American Chamber of Commerce.

Reed said the market is one of the only fundraising events for the chamber and its main source of revenue. And while sales are being made, they’re noticeably lower than previous years.

The success of this year’s market could make or break the market’s ability to return in future years.

And for some, that would mean devastating the culture of Denver.

Astrid and Mario Hausdoerfer from Unique Glass Ornaments said to them, the market is about preserving tradition.

The Hausdoerfers have sold their handmade German glass ornaments at the market since 2009. They have watched the market grow year by year and are always enamored by watching people experience their culture.

“Our markets are more than a place to have an income,” the Hausdoerfers said. “The main thing is we can keep our five-generation tradition of glassblowing. We can keep a very old profession.”

“We can have a flourishing city only if we use it. So come out to the Christkindl Market to keep traditions.”

The Christkindl Market market will be open until Dec. 23. Admission is free.

The market is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Beginning Dec. 17, it will close at 9 p.m. every day.

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December 10, 2020D

Cherry Creek will stay online-only to end of semester District temporarily halts posting of daily ‘tracker’ rating of virus spread

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Citing “minimal reporting” of student COVID-19 cases and a continued high rate of new cases in Arapahoe County and across Colorado, Cherry Creek School District announced that online, or remote, classes will continue for the rest of the fall semester.

“My hope is that by communicating this plan today, teachers can focus on consistent routines and students can have uninterrupted learning for the next three weeks,” Superintendent Scott Siegfried wrote in a message to the community. It was posted to the district’s website as of Dec. 2.

The district leader’s message appeared to say Cherry Creek is not receiving adequate information about students’ COVID-19 cases.

“We are unable to operate schools” partly for that reason and partly due to high rates of new cases in the county and the state, Siegfried wrote.

Arapahoe County’s rate of new cases in the past two weeks is 957 per 100,000 people — far beyond the threshold that qualifies a county for “level red” on the state’s COVID-19 dial of restrictions on businesses

and citizens. The line to cross into that level is 350 new cases per 100,000 people over two weeks, a measure known as a county’s “incidence rate.”

The rate of recorded COVID-19 deaths began to increase in Arapahoe, Adams and Douglas counties in late October, according to data from Tri-County Health Department, which serves the three counties.

Deaths over the course of November outpaced the numbers the counties typically saw from the start of summer to late October.

Level red took effect in counties with severe enough virus spread — including Denver metro counties and other regions of the state — on Nov. 20. It prohibits indoor dining and personal gatherings and tightened capacity limits on some types of businesses.

Cherry Creek district is working with the district’s teachers’ union “and other groups to develop a plan for returning to in-person learning in January,” Siegfried’s message said. “I will continue to send you updates as I have new information.”

District’s virus tracker paused

The district has temporarily stopped posting daily ratings on its “COVID Tracker,” which records the severity of the coronavirus’s spread in the school district and throughout the county using a point system. The pause comes because the district will continue remote classes through December, Siegfried wrote.

The district uses the four-part system of tracking local virus data to determine whether it will hold classes in-person or entirely online.

It includes Arapahoe County’s rate of COVID-19 tests that come back positive; the county’s hospitalizations; its daily case count; its “incidence rate,” which is another way to measure new cases; and the number of active cases among staff and among students in the school district.

Each of the six data pieces entails a score of up to 2 points, so each day’s total score can be up to 12 points.

If the points are 7 or greater, it means the district deems it safe to continue in-person class. If it’s 5 or fewer, the metric suggests moving to entirely online class. Only a “sustained seven- to 14-day change” can cause the district to move into or out of in-person classes, according to the district. One or a few days in a row of any score doesn’t cause a change.

On Nov. 5, the district scored a 3 amid a downward trend in the score that began in late October. That’s the day the district announced that all students who attend inperson classes would move to online classes.

With students out of school, the tracker began to inch back up, recording a 7 on Nov. 27, for example.

The public can still view data on the virus’s spread in general throughout Arapahoe, Adams and Douglas counties on Tri-County Health Department’s website at

data.tchd.org/covid19.

“Based on our first-semester experience, we have a greater chance of operating successfully the closer the incident rate (rate of new cases) is to 500 cases per 100,000 people” per two weeks, Siegfried wrote.

Spread in schools unclear

Siegfried’s message said the district’s data has “consistently shown that transmission of the virus does not happen in schools in any meaningful way.”

John Douglas, head of Tri-County Health Department, said in October that it’s “quite striking” how few recorded cases there have been in schools.

“What we can say is the following: We look pretty carefully at cases of new infection by age group,” Douglas told Colorado Community Media at the time, as Arapahoe County’s rate of cases grew more concerning. “New infections are going up in school-age kids but not as high as in older populations. It’s really people between 20 and late 40s where the increase is.”

That tells him the problem is the spread of the virus in the broader community, not in schools, he added.

Douglas noted the district’s low percentage of cases at the time. But he acknowledged that asymptomatic transmission of the virus is a possibility.

“At least based on the best ability we have to quantify it,” in-person class doesn’t appear to be increasing community transmission, Douglas said at the time.

‘The prettiest city in the West’ ‘Discovering Denver’s Parks’ serves as a guide to the city’s great parks

BY CHRISTY STEADMAN CSTEADMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

According to Denver-based author Chris Englert, one of the greatest things about Denver’s park system is that it all started with a vision to make Denver the “prettiest city in the West.”

Before Denver had such great parks, Englert said, most of the townsfolks’ socializing took place in bars or saloons. Even children were permitted at such gatherings, she added.

But Robert Walter Speer, who served as Denver’s mayor from 19041912, through his travels to Europe and U.S. cities such as Chicago, saw how beautiful cities could be when they had parks. He started to ask people to donate land, and eventually, Denver’s parks system was developed, Englert said.

“Most people know of their neighborhood park,” the destination parks such as Washington Park and Cheesman Park and the mountain parks like Red Rocks, Englert said.

But her hope is that through her latest book, “Discovering Denver Parks: A Local’s Guide,” which

Book cover for “Discovering Denver COURTESY PHOTO Park” by Chris Englert.

came out in April, people will “branch out and discover other nearby parks,” Englert said.

Englert moved to Denver in 2013 and wanted to learn more about the city by walking all of Denver’s 78 neighborhoods. She put a post on a meet-up website and nine women decided to join her on the venture.

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December 10, 2020D

Some skiers plan season away from resorts Colorado survey finds fear of COVID, more inclination to use backcountry

BY JASON BLEVINS THE COLORADO SUN

Since 2006, Magellan Strategies has polled voters, helping to measure Colorado’s political winds. Last month they turned their analysis to skiers, asking a mountain of questions about the pandemic-muddled season.

The political strategy firm’s survey of 788 Colorado skiers — about 480 of them living near ski areas and the rest hailing from the Front Range — showed a surprisingly large number pondering a season on the sidelines. About 31% of the respondents said they were not planning to ski this season because of the pandemic. And 39% said they had not purchased a pass this season, which means they likely will not be riding chairlifts since most resorts are using dayticket supplies to control crowds.

The poll, conducted between Nov. 10 and Nov. 16, had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.

The skiers who said they were ready to sit out the season cited fears that others might not follow safety guidelines outlined by resorts — like social distancing and mandatory masks — as well as a frustration over reservation systems and concerns over costs in a declining economy.

Crowds at the base of Arapahoe Basin ski area on Nov. 25.

A very large number of skiers thought that skiing would be shut down due to the pandemic at some point this season, with 36% of respondents giving a shutdown a 50-50 chance; 29% guessing there was a 75% chance resorts would close; and 18% saying resorts would most certainly close.

“That really does show you there are not a lot of optimistic people out there, with a majority of the community looking ready or assuming it will be shut down at some point,” said David Flaherty, the co-founder and chief executive of Magellan Strategies.

But a majority of respondents — particularly skiers under 25 — expressed trust that resorts would provide quality turns even with new

PHOTO BY JESSE PAUL/THE COLORADO SUN

rules to limit the spread of COVID-19. And 69% said they were confident the rules installed to limit COVID-19 would protect visitors and employees.

When asked what kind of rules would help them feel most protected from COVID-19, most skiers suggested protocols that resorts already have planned for the season: limiting capacities, requiring masks, distancing skiers in lines, cleaning and restricting indoor activities and access.

Magellan’s study — which included questions suggested by The Colorado Sun — detailed hundreds of verbatim responses that explored beyond statistics.

Those comments about why skiers might avoid riding lifts this season are telling,

with both ski-town locals and Front Rangers worrying about a flood of travelers from afar and the spread of the virus in resort shuttles, restaurants and lodges.

“I can go a year without skiing downhill,” said a Park County woman who is “strongly” considering not skiing this season.

“Because travel now is stupid and frivolous,” said a Pitkin County man.

“I will ski no matter what, but it may just be alpine touring in the backcountry,” said a Routt County woman.

Flaherty’s survey also explored if and how skiers planned to explore the snowy backcountry. About 62% said they had skied in the backcountry before. And 81% of the roughly 300 skiers who said they had never

ventured into ski terrain beyond a resort boundary said they did plan to do it this season. That mirrors a growing recognition that backcountry use will spike this season as resorts work to control crowds and access during the pandemic.

When skiers who intended to explore the backcountry were asked about their plans, 42% said they intended to buy avalanche safety equipment and take an avalanche awareness course. About 26% said they planned to take a course, where, by the way, the need for safety equipment like a beacon, shovel and probe pole will be emphasized loudly and frequently.

Of the nearly 500 skiers who had experience in the backcountry, 37% had both safety gear and education; 20% had equipment but no formal avalanche education; and 29% said they had neither gear nor education.

That last number — more than 140 people — saying they had ventured into the backcountry, but had no avalanche education or safety equipment, has Colorado’s search-and-rescue teams on edge. Volunteer rescuers and avalanche educators are worried that an influx of new backcountry travelers in Colorado’s notoriously dangerous avalanche terrain could lead to more incidents and calls for help.

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COVID BILLS FROM PAGE 1

public health response.

Among other items, the governor specifically asked lawmakers to appropriate money for the disaster emergency fund, allow restaurants and bars to retain up to $2,000 per month in sales tax revenue, and enhance internet access for educators and schoolchildren — all of which the General Assembly did.

The measures headed to the governor’s desk are:  House Bill 1001 will provide $20 million to create a broadband grant program for school districts to expand internet access. Money must be distributed by Feb. 1.  House Bill 1002 authorizes $45 million in grants to operators of child care centers through two separate programs. The first covers expenses for existing operators and the second will assist businesses that are expanding or just starting up. The state must award grants by Feb. 28.  House Bill 1003 provides $5 million to food pantries, with the state needing to send out the money by March 31.  House Bill 1004 allows restaurants, bars and vintners to deduct $70,000 of net sales from their taxes, resulting in a retention of approximately $2,000 per month in sales tax revenue for each retailer, up to a limit of five sites.

The bill allows retention for November through February.  House Bill 1005 gives authority to counties and municipalities to cap fees that third-party food delivery

companies charge to restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic. The legislation also prevents those companies from cutting the compensation or tips of employees to make up for lost revenue and requires them to disclose to customers any fees or commissions imposed on the restaurants.  House Bill 1006 adjusts several requirements of insurance premium tax payments, intended to make estimates of taxes owed more accurate.  Senate Bill 1 provides $37 million in relief to small businesses with revenue of less than $2.5 million; $7.5 million to arts and cultural organizations; and $4 million to minorityowned businesses. Grants for small businesses are capped at $7,000, and counties must disburse payments by Feb. 12.  Senate Bill 2 grants $54 million in emergency housing assistance, $1 million in legal eviction aid and $5 million to individuals who are ineligible for other forms of relief, such as unemployment insurance, food assistance or the one-time $1,200 payment from the federal government.  Senate Bill 3 gives $5 million to Energy Outreach Colorado, a nonprofit that provides assistance to low-income households in paying energy bills. It must spend the money by June 30.  Senate Bill 4 transfers $100 million to the Controlled Maintenance Trust Fund for the governor to use for the Disaster Emergency Fund. The bill is intended to fill the gap left by the slow reimbursement of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for costs the state has incurred.

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Counties push back on level red

The announcement from the state came amid pushback from some counties and businesses against the new level red restrictions.

In a letter to Gov. Jared Polis sent Nov. 25, Douglas County’s elected leaders requested that the county be allowed to start a program that would keep qualifying restaurants open for indoor dining.

The commissioners referred to Mesa County’s program, which allows qualifying restaurants to be open with limited capacity, according to The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction.

“It is not fair that a restaurant in Mesa County … is allowed to operate while businesses here can’t,” Douglas County Commissioner Lora Thomas said in a Nov. 24 work-session meeting.

“That is not right.”

Weld County officials have said they won’t enforce the state’s level red restrictions, multiple Colorado news outlets have reported.

How a business would qualify

According to the draft framework, businesses would qualify if they meet the following criteria: • The business has a written plan about how it is implementing or exceeding state preven-

tion guidelines, implementing or exceeding local prevention, and has a clear compliance and enforcement plan.

• 100% mask-wearing among staff and customers with “strong compliance and enforcement protocols.”

• All employees do daily symptom checks or screening either with CDPHE symptom tracker tool or other approved protocol.

• Perform regular outreach to employees and customers to activate the state’s exposure notifications smartphone application that shares anonymous information with other users to alert them if they’ve been potentially exposed to someone who tests positive for COVID-19 and uploads their result to the system.

• Businesses must record the name and contact number of customers to be used for contacttracing should a COVID-19 case be connected to that business.

• Business must comply with industry-specific requirements including that restaurants have table spacing of at least 10 feet and require reservations, gyms require reservations, and personal services require reservations. Further industry specific requirements will continue to be developed.

• Any business that has been cited for noncompliance with a public health order is ineligible to be certified.

Reporter Elliott Wenzler contributed to this story.

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of Denver’s neighborhoods have a beloved neighborhood park. So, going alphabetically, from Athmar Park to Windsor, Englert eventually made her way around the entire city.

“Discovering Denver Parks” consists of detailed descriptions of 165 of Denver’s urban-and-mountain parks, organized regionally. Some of the history of each park is included in the descriptions, as well as information on which parks are dog-friendly, what amenities each park has, how to get there by public

SKIERS FROM PAGE 22

Finally, the survey asked for general thoughts about the upcoming season, and that’s where the long-held animosity between locals and visitors became most apparent.

And beyond worries about the virus, locals are concerned the reservation system at some resorts might limit their access.

“Locals lay the framework yearround. Keep their voice heard in decision-making meetings,” said a Boulder County man.

transportation or driving, where to park and much more.

Denver has more than 300 parks in its system, Englert said. She narrowed the selection down to 165 by focusing on regional parks, parks that are connected by trails and the parks that have particularly interesting stories, Englert said.

Englert still visits Denver’s parks on a daily basis, she said. A person can learn so much about Denver and its history by visiting the parks, Englert added.

“You get an experiential perspective that you can only get by visiting a park,” Englert said. “Parks let you discover Denver in an organic way that you can only do by getting out of your car and into a park.”

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“I think we should be encouraging less tourists if anything — they’re the ones that are bringing the pandemic here and don’t follow our guidelines,” said a Pitkin County woman.

Flaherty said it was interesting to see the varying viewpoints between skiers near resorts and those who travel to ski.

“Locals really wanted their voice heard,” Flaherty said.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0192-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 18, 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) Alberta 8081 East Orchard, LLC Original Beneficiary(ies) The PrivateBank and Trust Company Current Holder of Evidence of Debt CIBC Bank USA, an Illinois state chartered bank, formerly known as The PrivateBank and Trust Company Date of Deed of Trust February 17, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 17, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) D7019916 Original Principal Amount $7,910,700.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $7,910,700.00 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 Exhibit A Also known by street and number as: 8081 E Orchard Rd, Greenwood Village, CO 80111.

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, 01/13/2021, 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: 11/19/2020 Last Publication: 12/17/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 09/18/2020 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: J. Thomas Macdonald #11394 David A. Brewster #52481 Catherine M. Clendinning #40471 Otten, Johnson, Robinson, Neff, and Ragonetti PC 950 17th Street, Suite 1600, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 825-8400 Attorney File # 160395.0049 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 0192-2020 EXHIBIT A LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PREMISES A PARCEL OF LAND BEING ALL OF LOT 9 AND A PART OF LOTS 10 AND 11, ALL IN BLOCK 7 OF A SUBDIVISION OF SECTION 16 (AS RECORDED IN BOOK 2, PAGE 10), TOGETHER WITH A PART OF TRACT 5 OF A SUBDIVISION OF SECTION 21 (AS RECORDED IN BOOK1, PAGE 12), TOGETHER WITH THOSE PORTIONS OF EAST ORCHARD ROAD AND SOUTH ULSTER STREET, AS DEDICATED BY SAID SUBDIVISION, ALL BEING IN TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 67 WEST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL

MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 9, BLOCK 7; THENCE NORTH 00 DEGREES 03 MINUTES 01 SECONDS EAST AND ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT 9, A DISTANCE OF 20.00 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG SAID WEST LINE, A DISTANCE OF 305.32 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 9; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 31 MINUTES 38 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID LOT 9, A DISTANCE OF 200.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 13 DEGREES 45 MINUTES 33 SECONDS WEST AND RADIALLY TO A CURVE ON THE SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF THE SUBDIVISION OF GREENWOOD PLAZA SECOND FILING AMENDED PLAT (AS RECORDED IN BOOK 25, PAGES 70 AND 71), A DISTANCE OF 276.00 FEET TO A POINT ON SAID CURVE; THENCE NORTHEASTERLY ALONG SAID SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY ON A CURVE TO THE LEFT, HAVING A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 100 DEGREES 41 MINUTES 25 SECONDS AND A RADIUS OF 50.00 FEET, AN ARC DISTANCE OF 87.87 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 65 DEGREES 33 MINUTES 02 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY ON A LINE RADIAL FROM THE PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED CURVE, A DISTANCE OF 365.60 FEET TO THE POINT OF INTERSECTION WITH THE SOUTHWESTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF COLORADO STATE HIGHWAY 1-25; THENCE SOUTH 24 DEGREES 26 MINUTES 58 SECONDS EAST ALONG SAID RIGHT- OF-WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 306.79 FEET TO THE INTERSECTION WITH THE WESTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF SOUTH ULSTER STREET, AS PLATTED BY SAID A SUBDIVISION OF SECTION 16; THENCE SOUTH 16 DEGREES 08 MINUTES 50 SECONDS EAST, A DISTANCE OF 214.42 FEET TO THE POINT OF INTERSECTION WITH THE EASTERLY RIGHT-OF- WAY LINE OF SAID SOUTH ULSTER STREET, SAID POINT ALSO BEING 60.00 FEET EAST OF AND OPPOSITE THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID LOT 9; THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 06 MINUTES 10 SECONDS WEST ALONG SAID EASTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 324.77 FEET TO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 8, BLOCK 6 OF SAID A SUBDIVISION OF SECTION 16; THENCE SOUTH 22 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 23 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 99.54 FEET TO A POINT ON THE CENTERLINE OF SOUTH ULSTER STREET, AS PLATTED BY SAID A SUBDIVISION OF SECTION 21, SAID POINT LAYING 62.00 FEET SOUTH OF THE NORTH QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 21; THENCE NORTH 80 DEGREES 40 MINUTES 40 SECONDS WEST, A DISTANCE OF 658.48 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING. EXCEPT THAT PORTION CONVEYED TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS IN DEED RECORDED OCTOBER 17, 1985 IN BOOK 4574 AT PAGE 269.

ALSO EXCEPTING THAT PORTION TAKEN BY RULE AND ORDER RECORDED SEPTEMBER 2, 2004 UNDER RECEPTTION NO. B4157204.

Legal Notice No. NO. 0192-2020 First Publication: 11/19/2020 Last Publication: 12/17/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0193-2020 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On September 18, 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) ARTHUR C WEBER III AND EVONA S BOWEN Original Beneficiary(ies) U.S BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ND Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Citizens Bank, N.A., formerly known as RBS Citizens, N.A. successor by merger to Charter One Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust February 23, 2005 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 08, 2005 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B5033051 Original Principal Amount $38,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $24,680.32 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. THE EASTERLY 48.50 FEET OF THE WESTERLY 156.00 FEET OF LOTS 1 & 2, BLOCK 15, BOULEVARD GARDENS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 2676 W DARTMOUTH AVE, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80110.

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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, 01/20/2021, 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: 11/26/2020 Last Publication: 12/24/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 09/18/2020 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 # 00000008964934 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. 0193-2020 First Publication: 11/26/2020 Last Publication: 12/24/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0190-2020

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, 01/06/2021, 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: 11/12/2020 Last Publication: 12/10/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 09/08/2020 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: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Alison L Berry #34531 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Elizabeth S. Marcus #16092 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 19-022822

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A.P.N.: 2077-32-1-05-130 Also known by street and number as: 7703 CURTICE WAY #F, 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

AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE VACATION OF A PORTION OF SOUTH PENNSYLVANIA STREET RIGHT-OF-WAY AND A PORTION OF THE ASSOCIATED ALLEY, ALL LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 34, TOWNSHIP 4 SOUTH, RANGE 68 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, COUNTY OF ARAPHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. (Council Bill No. 55) 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.

NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE

On the 7th day of December 2020, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE ACCEPTING A GRANT OF A TWENTY-FIVE YEAR NONEXCLUSIVE 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

City and County Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING FOUR (4) FARM LEASE RENEWAL AGREEMENTS FOR THE FARMS IN THE LITTLETON/ ENGLEWOOD WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT (A.K.A. SOUTH PLATTE RENEW) BIOSOLIDS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. (Council Bill No. 52) 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.

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. 300846 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE

On the 7th day of December 2020, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 61 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ANDERSON

Legal Notice No. 300847 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE On the 7th day of December 2020, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 58 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER RUSSELL A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING A FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD AND ARAPAHOE COUNTY FOR THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SERVICES TO THE CITY. 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. 300845 First Publication: December 10, 2020

BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 53 SERIES OF 2020

BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 59 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER SIERRA

Legal Notice NO.: 0190-2020 First Publication: 11/12/2020 Last Publication: 12/10/2020 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 54 SERIES OF 2020

LOT 7, BLOCK 1, SOUTHPARK SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 3, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO

On the 7th day of December 2020, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, adopted on final reading the following Ordinance:

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

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.

On September 8, 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.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

Public Notice

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

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.

Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD

Legal Notice No. 300848 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

On the 7th day of December 2020, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, adopted on final reading the following Ordinance:

Original Grantor(s) Stephen A Flynn Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR IMPERIAL LENDING, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee for the C-BASS Mortgage Loan AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2007-CB6 Date of Deed of Trust March 26, 2007 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 03, 2007 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B7041402 Original Principal Amount $152,750.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $122,891.47

Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

A BILL FOR 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.

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. 300844 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF APPROVAL OF A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE

On the 7th day of December 2020, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Council Bill:

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BY AUTHORITY COUNCIL BILL NO. 60 INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER SIERRA A BILL FOR AN ORDINANCE ADDING TITLE 5, CHAPTER 31, SECTIONS 1-6 TO THE ENGLEWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE, REGARDING REGULATIONS FOR THIRD PARTY FOOD DELIVERY SERVICES, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISONS OF ENGLEWOOD HOME RULE CHARTER, SECTION 41, 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. 300843 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 7th day of December 2020, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, adopted on final reading the following Ordinance:

BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 56 SERIES OF 2020 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AN AMENDMENT TO AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (CDOT) AND THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO REGARDING REHABILITATION AND WIDENING OF THE DARTMOUTH AVENUE BRIDGE OVER THE SOUTH PLATTE RIVER. (Council Bill No. 56) 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. 300849 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: The Englewood Herald Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL PAYMENT On or about December 23, 2020 the City of Englewood will make final payment to: Garland/DBS, INC. 3800 E 91st Street Cleveland, OH 44105 For construction of: ENGLEWOOD CIVIC CENTER ROOFING 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, (303) 762-2416, prior to December 23, 2020.

Maria Sobota Director of Finance & Administrative Services City of Englewood, Colorado Legal Notice No. 300841 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Englewood Herald _____________________________________ Public Notice CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE On the 7th day of December 2020, the City Council of the City of Englewood, Colorado, adopted on final reading the following Ordinance:

BY AUTHORITY ORDINANCE NO. 55 SERIES OF 2020 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT ENTITLED "U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY JOINT FUNDING AGREEMENT FOR WATER RESOURCES INVESTIGATIONS." (Council Bill No. 57)

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. 300850 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

Bids and Settlements Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 38-26-107, Colorado Revised Statutes, that on August 21, 2019 a final settlement will be made by the Arapahoe County School District No. 1 (Englewood Schools) on account of a contract between the Contractor and the District for the following project: School: Englewood High School (TEC) Item Description: Contractor Construction: Taylor Kohrs Any person, co-partnership, entity, association, or corporation who has an unpaid claim against the Contractor for or on account of the furnishing of labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provisions, provender or other supplies used or consumed by such Contractor or any of his subcontractors in or about the performance of such work, may, at any time up to and including the time of such final settlement on said date, file a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with Englewood Schools (Attention: Mary Cooper) at 4101 S Bannock St, Englewood, CO 80110. Failure on the part of the claimant to file such statement prior to such final settlement will relieve the District from any and all liability for such claimant’s claim.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 1 By: Mary Cooper Legal Notice No. 300842 First Publication: December 10, 2020 Second Publication: December 17, 2020 Third Publication: December 24, 2020

Fourth Publication: December 31, 2020 Publisher: Englewood Herald

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Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Billy L. Britton, aka Billy Lee Britton, aka Billy Britton, Deceased Case Number: 20PR31179

Public Notice DISTRICT COURT ARAPAHOE COUTY, COLORADO 7325 South Potomac Street Centennial, Colorado 80112

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 March 26, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

In the Interest of: JOYCE EILEEN SWANDER, a/k/a JOYCE SWANDER, a/k/a JOYCE E. SWANDER Jennifer S. Gormley, # 26808 Steven L. Hill, # 35625 Carol Retseck Leirer, # 31401 Attorneys for Conservator, Nancy Harvey-Pratt Law Office of Jennifer S. Gormley, P.C. 6060 Greenwood Plaza Boulevard, Suite 300 Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111 Phone Number: 303-783-9600 Email: Jennifer@elderlawsource.com Email: Steven@elderlawsource.com Email: Carol @elderlawsource.com Case Number: 2019PR30907 Division 12 NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO § 15-10-401, C.R.S. To: Frank Atkin Last Known Address, if any: 11031 Dorland Drive, Whittier, California 90606 A hearing without appearance on Petition for Termination of Conservatorship of Adult requesting that the Conservatorship Estate of Protected Person Joyce Eileen Swander be terminated will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued: Date: January 18, 2021 Time: 8:00 a.m.

Courtroom or Division: 12 Address: 7325 South Potomac Street, Centennial, Colorado 80112 Legal Notice No. 300840 First Publication: December 3, 2020 Last Publication: December 17, 2020 Publisher: The Englewood Herald

Sandra L. Britton, Personal Representative 6104 S. Macon Way Englewood, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 300831 First Publication: November 26, 2020 Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: The Englewood Herald PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of James Warren Ditzenberger Jr., aka James Warren Ditzenberger, aka James W. Ditzenberger, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 31136

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 March 26, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Hanna M. Warren Attorney to the Personal Representative 3755 S. Broadway Englewood, Colorado 80113 Legal Notice No. 300838 First Publication: November 26, 2020 Last Publication: December 10, 2020 Publisher: Englewood Herald

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