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Ex-planning official blasts county leaders Former volunteer commission chairman responds to dismissal

By George Lurie

glurie@ourcoloradonews.com “I’ve been around the block many times,” said Paul Crisan in his first public comments following his recent dismissal from the Elbert County Planning Commission. “I’m pretty thick-skinned. This stuff doesn’t bother me.”

Without warning or advance notice, Crisan was kicked off the all-volunteer planning commission during a Nov. 13 meeting of the Elbert County commissioners.

Calling his recent actions “disruptive” and “counterproductive,” Commissioners

Robert Rowland and Kurt Schlegel voted to remove Crisan, the first time in county history a sitting commissioner has been booted from the planning commission.

Saying he had no “firsthand knowledge” of the events that prompted the Board of County Commissioners vote, Commissioner Larry Ross abstained from voting on Crisan’s ouster.

“Mr. Crisan has made a laughingstock of the county by the way he’s run recent meetings,” Schlegel said.

“Something had to be done,” said Rowland.

“This really isn’t about me,” Crisan said in an interview that took place a week after his firing. “This is about the dysfunctional government of Elbert County.”

Crisan, 63, an Elizabeth resident since 1977, had served on the planning commission for more than a decade.

A Detroit native, Crisan was a Realtor before retiring several years ago. He

has served as chairman of the planning commission since the resignation this past July of Grant Thayer.

Since his unceremonious dismissal, Crisan said he has heard from a number of residents around Crisan the county. “The question I keep being asked is, ‘What are you going to do about what they did to you?’ A lot of people say, ‘You should sue, you should sue.’ But frivolous lawsuits are a waste of money. I’m a take-the-high-road person.”

While refraining from firing back at individual commissioners or department heads, Crisan was critical of the way the BOCC has been operating recently, characterizing its leadership style as “government by bullying.”

“I think the trust factor between the public and the board has gone away,” he

said. “This past election showed that. The 51st state issue was a silly waste of time and taxpayer money.”

Telephone surprise

Crisan was out of town the day he was fired.

“I happened to call a friend Wednesday who had gone to the BOCC meeting, and he said, ‘Oh, by the way, you got fired today.’ That’s how I first heard,” said Crisan.

“Then the following Saturday morning in the mail, I got a certified letter from (BOCC chairman) Robert Rowland that basically said you’re gone. He cited Colorado revised statute, which says a planning commissioner can be dismissed for lack of attendance or misconduct. I assume it was the latter they were citing, since I’ve missed very few meetings over the years …”

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Local woman indicted in fraud ‘Foreclosure rescue’ scheme described in indictment

By George Lurie

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Shift Training Officer Adam Neisen maneuvers the Elizabeth Fire Department’s snowcat into place behind the station as firefighter trainee Sam Decraen directs from the rear.

Photos by George Lurie

Firefighters ready snowcat for duty Staff report Firefighters at the Elizabeth Fire Protection District spent some time last week tuning up the department’s recently acquired “tracked rescue vehicle.”

The department acquired the government-surplus snowcat at no cost through the Department of Defense 1033 Re-Utilization Program.

After it arrived at the station, the vehicle was painted, stocked with equipment and had emergency lighting installed — all for a total outlay of just $2,500.

Fire Chief T.J. Steck said the vehicle,

which is valued at $120,000, will do in excess of 40 mph and “runs very smoothly” over snow-covered surfaces. “It’s a bit of a rough ride over dry pavement,” the chief added.

A handful of firefighters at the station have been through extensive training to operate the snowcat, which is staffed and deployed during major snow events.

The fire department also acquired a surplus Humvee in 2011 at no cost through the same Department of Defense program.

Personnel painted and installed emergency lighting on that vehicle for about $800.

The Humvee, valued at approximately $30,000, is utilized in inclement weather and also on large brush fires, said Steck.

Decraen, left, and Neisen show off the Elizabeth Fire Department’s snowcat, which was being prepared last week for winter duty.

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Decraen, left, and Neisen inspect the rear compartment of the Elizabeth Fire Department’s snowcat.

An Elizabeth woman was among nine people indicted this month by a grand jury on multiple felony charges related to operating a fraudulent “foreclosure rescue” business.

The 67-count indictment, unsealed Nov. 17, accuses Elizabeth resident Sheila J. Gaston, 59, and eight other people, mostly from the Denver area, of violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act (COCCA) by intentionally defrauding distressed homeowners and more than a dozen financial institutions.

According to details in the indictment, the group’s alleged criminal activities took place between January 2008 and October 2013.

An arrest warrant was issued on Nov. 7 for Gaston and the eight other individuals.

A judge set Gaston’s bond at $50,000.

Attempts to contact Gaston by telephone at her Elizabeth residence were unsuccessful.

In addition to violating COCCA, Gaston and the others are charged with multiple counts of theft, forgery and money laundering.

The charges stem from an investigation by the state Attorney General’s Office and Colorado Division of Real Estate into what is described as “foreclosure rescue scheme targeting distressed homeowners.”

According to Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, the group targeted distressed Front Range homeowners in pre-foreclosure.

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An ambulance arrives on Nov. 11 at Denver Health’s emergency department, where the director says the unit is seeing an unprecedented number of people landing in the emergency room with underlying mental illnesses. Photo by Joe Mahoney/I-News at Rocky Mountain PBS portant first step to address the most pressing behavioral health needs of Coloradans,” Fox says.

But many of the doctors and professionals working on the front lines of the crisis say the money isn’t enough to fill a yawning gap in services to prevent and treat mental illness.

Per-capita funding declined

A look back across three decades shows that public-sector funding for mental health services in Colorado hasn’t kept up with demand.

Per-capita spending on mental health services in the state, when adjusted by the medical rate of inflation, dropped 28 percent from 1981 to 1990, according to data collected by the National State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute Inc., or NRI. Federal budget cuts and an economic crisis in Colorado during the 1980s conspired to suck funding from state psychiatric hospitals and community mental health centers. And cuts made in that decade were never recovered. In 2010, the state spent the equivalent of 20 percent less per person on mental health services than it did in 1981, according to NRI data.

The persistent funding shortfall long ago made jails and prisons the primary residential treatment centers for the mentally ill in Colorado, clogged emergency rooms, boosted medical expenses across the board, and expanded the ranks of the homeless on the streets of Denver and other cities.

Eric Brown, a spokesman for the governor’s office, said that the new plan will help keep people from falling through the cracks.

“There’s no way to make up all of the funding deficiencies and implement new programs in a short period,” Brown said, adding that it will take time and commitment.

Reagan played role

Two national policy shifts and an oil shale bust were behind the drop in funding in the 1980s.

President Ronald Reagan took of-

fice at the start of the decade on a pledge to limit government spending.

The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 ranked among his first triumphs, cutting costs in part by transforming funding for mental health services into block grants to the states.

In Colorado, those grants didn’t keep up with rising costs.

Less than a year after this national legislation was passed, on May 2, 1982, Exxon pulled out of its oil shale operations in the Western Slope.

Known as Black Sunday, the move foretold a massive bust in Colorado’s energy sector, triggering a recession and a decline in state tax revenue.

Mental health services weren’t alone in suffering cutbacks — but the effects were stark.

The state budget crisis took hold just as a broader philosophical shift was transforming the way mental health services were provided across the country.

Legislation signed by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 had called for the funding of community mental health centers, and initiated a broader discussion about the role of large institutions in the treatment of those with mental illness.

Youlon Savage led the movement toward deinstitutionalization in Colorado, and was executive director of the first community mental health center in the state to be funded under Kennedy’s initiative. He says the movement into community-based care was intended to help reduce stigma and promote integration.

“Mental illness was no longer manifested by sending people away from home into large institutions,” says Savage.

Even the Fort Logan mental health hospital in Denver was conceived as a community center when it opened in the 1960s. Staff didn’t wear uniforms, they worked closely in collaboration with patients who lived in a largely open and unlocked campus, and they made home visits to keep people out of the hospital.

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They’re victims of car accidents, they’ve been shot, or they threatened their parents. They have overdosed on cocaine, swallowed too many pills or passed out drunk. On an average Friday or Saturday night, they can make up about half of the sick, injured and wounded crowding the rooms and hallways of the emergency department at Denver Health.

And there’s one trait these patients have in common, says Dr. Chris Colwell, director of the department. Had they received needed prior treatment, they might not be there at all.

These ER visitors, for all their outward signs of trauma, suffer foremost from mental illness.

“The emergency room could have been avoided if they had gotten psychiatric care anywhere else,” he says.

Colwell believes uncontrolled behavioral health problems were also at the root of two events that he experienced up close: The mass murders at Columbine High School in 1999 and in Aurora in 2012. He was a physician on the scene at Columbine and also treated patients from the Aurora shooting.

“For every one of those that were a big high-profile event that everybody knows about,” says Colwell, “there’s a hundred that were either near misses … or resulted in violence, just not to the same extent.”

As inpatient psychiatric beds have disappeared across the state, he’s watched the problem get worse.

“I don’t think people understand the crisis that we’re in,” he says.

An initiative put forward by Gov. John Hickenlooper in December 2012 — five months after the Aurora theater shootings — and signed into law earlier this year is intended to improve mental health services in the state by putting nearly $20 million into walkin crisis centers and a statewide hotline. Additional state funding will also be put into modernizing treatment at the two public mental health institutes, Fort Logan in Denver and Pueblo, boosting inpatient capacity and other services, resulting in an overall 13.5 percent increase for behavioral health care in fiscal year 2013-2014.

The money is needed, say state officials, health-care providers and advocates for the mentally ill, to ease pressure on emergency rooms and jails.

Patrick Fox, an official for the Colorado Department of Human Services who oversees the two state institutes, says that a study of emergency room intakes has indicated that patients often stabilize within 48 hours, and that long-term mental health beds aren’t necessarily what’s needed most.

“We view the introduction of an expanded crisis stabilization service across the state as being a very im-

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Simply saying thanks for Thanksgiving A moment to say thanks in late November is always a welcome breather.

The last third of the year — beginning in September and transitioning into winter — is marked by as much or more activity as other segments of the year. While the preceding summer is often a lighter balance of work, school and vacation — the work and education worlds rev up to warp speed in September.

At the same time politics heats up for the annual November election, whether it is an odd or even year replete with varying mixes of local, state and federal issues.

Views are discussed. Ballot questions and candidates are sized up. Some people vote from the gut while others do many hours of

our view research beforehand. Some see the whole deal as a suspect shebang and don’t vote.

And while most remain civil and parse topics by issues, it does get personal and sometimes a light fog of animosity lingers after the votes are counted — which takes a little while to clear away.

Once the voting cycle is complete, the signs of the holiday season are in our publications and on our streets and screens,

everywhere. And whether a family gets caught up in the throes of consumerism overlapped with Christmas, the scene is set all around us. Shopping activity increases, and we revel in the gift of giving. Meaningful religious services and joyous celebrations take place, and then the year comes charging to a close. We say “happy New Year” and set forth with renewed purpose.

So next week Thanksgiving equates to a quasi seven-inning stretch. Through the years, some people in our circles have said it’s their favorite holiday.

And we can certainly see the virtues.

Thanksgiving centers on sitting down and enjoying a meal. We count our blessings and share what we are thankful for in

our lives. Of course, be advised to take a role pitching in to see that the kitchen crew has enough help and so forth — but other than that the day isn’t meant to have a lot of moving parts. The process and pressure of giving gifts — while joyful in most ways — is out of play. Sure Thanksgiving sometimes also serves as a time to huddle and plan for the December holidays, but the spirit of Thanksgiving is at its best when it remains simple.

Thanksgiving is simple, and beautifully so. Just get together and add a deck of cards and a few games to enhance the interaction. Thanksgiving is simply a time to give thanks, listen to each other, laugh and think a bit about how to help each other.

Filling the gratitude bucket all year long

I wrote a book … but I digress Dachshunds were bred to hunt badgers. Knowing dachshunds — I am on my third — this seems like a bad idea.

My current roommate would have a problem, as I wrote, trying to get into a box of Wheat Thins.

But so would I. I can’t open anything anymore, so I wrote a column about bad packaging. I have been writing Quiet Desperation since March 2012. We decided to compile some of the columns, I have written over 500, into a book. The title, “This is not a dachshund,” is an homage to Belgian artist René Magritte, and specifically to his painting “The Treachery of Images.” Beneath what is clearly a painting of a pipe are the words “This is not a pipe.”

“Magritte became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images that fall under the umbrella of surrealism.”

Magritte’s point was that while it is definitely a painting of a pipe, it is not in fact a pipe.

Maybe you have seen his painting of an apple that fills an entire room. My favorite Magritte is “Clairvoyance (A SelfPortrait).” Magritte is shown painting a bird while looking at an egg.

His paintings are like Steven Wright’s quotes. Deadpan punch lines that cleverly affect perceptions of reality. “I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done,” Wright said.

My editor gives me a very long leash.

I have written about “coffee babies,” my fear of bowling shirts, and hand talkers. I have also written about love, friendship, and aging.

Almost anything can trigger a column.

I rarely write about Douglas County. Ryan Boldrey does a great job of covering local issues. I am much better with artificial eyelashes, non-sequiturs, and haggis.

Most of the time there are obscure references, and some of the time I simply make things up.

Now and then I have been more contemplative. I wrote one column about Asperger syndrome, and another one about a famous southwest Ohio murder. I was the lone witness. The murder occurred in 1963, just weeks before my junior year in high school, and just months before JFK was assassinated.

The case went to trial in 2001. Learn

the outcome in the book. Now see? This is something they do on the 10 o’clock news, and I hate it. “Amelia Earhart found living in Scottsdale. Story after the break.”

I’ll tell you right now that the accused was found not guilty. The verdict was Ohio’s OJ. I believe in serial digressions. I think I get this from Groucho Marx and others, for whom wordplay is very important. I have “Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx” nearby whenever I write, along with Jon Winokur’s “The Portable Curmudgeon.” And, of course, Steve Martin’s “Pure Drivel.”

I planned to major in journalism at UCLA. It turned out that I hadn’t done my homework: UCLA didn’t have an undergraduate journalism program. So I became an art major and that turned out to be exactly where I belonged.

However, I have always had an affection for writing.

Therefore, this column is very fulfilling.

Right now, “This is not a dachshund” is available exclusively at and through the Tattered Cover bookstores. The process of taking something I have written under the influence of black (black!) coffee, through a proofreader, and into a file that was sent to the Espresso Book Machine at the Tattered Cover has been more fun than curmudgeons are allowed to have.

Don’t tell anyone.

Thanks for reading.

“If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.” — Fran Lebowitz Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@ comcast.net

Over the years I have shared Thanksgiving meals with family and friends, some in their homes and some in my own home. One of the traditions I enjoy the most is when everyone takes the time to go around the table and talk about what is that they are most thankful for.

Each year it is so much fun to watch people as we get closer to that time of the meal where they will be asked to share what they are most grateful for, and for some they squirm a little while others can’t wait to take center stage. And then there are others who either have the same list every year or stick with a very simple declaration of appreciation for friends and family.

Has the tradition lost its oomph? Do we do it out of ritualistic habit and just because mom or dad, grandma or grandpa have asked us to?

Or maybe, just maybe we have actually spent time realizing and recognizing all that we appreciate, or should be so very grateful for in our lives.

What if every day we were asked to share what it is that we are most grateful for?

Would we squirm and would our palms get sweaty as we fidgeted and searched for a quality response? Could we possibly find ourselves just repeating the same things each time we are asked? The answer would probably be yes unless we are filling our gratitude bucket all the time.

Instead of looking for all that is wrong today or has gone wrong in the past, we need to become acutely aware of the good things that surround us each and every day.

It’s been said that gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions and that the more we show gratitude and appreciation for, the more we will actually have to be grateful for.

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It’s kind of like the analogy of the glass being half full or half empty. The pessimist sees it as half empty, the optimist sees it as half full. The same holds true when we view our gratitude bucket, is yours half full or half empty?

Maybe you will read this column before Thanksgiving and will have time to prepare your response should you be asked for the list of things you are grateful for. Perhaps you didn’t even need this column, your gratitude bucket is already overflowing and you can’t wait to share your list with everyone.

And maybe you will not have had the opportunity to read this until after Thanksgiving, and that is OK too because now you can live each day in search of things you can appreciate and that will fill your gratitude bucket making every day of the year Thanksgiving Day. I really would love to hear about all that you are grateful for and what you truly appreciate at gotonorton@gmail.com and when we can recognize what we appreciate most, it will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Highlands Ranch, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation and the CEO/founder of www.candogo.com.

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Parker charter school gets national spotlight North Star Academy noted for character education

By Jane Reuter

jreuter@ourcoloradonews.com Parker’s North Star Academy gained national recognition for its character education program, which emphasizes personal development as well as community service.

The National School of Character Award is given by the Character Education Partnership, which strives to benefit society through academic, social, emotional and ethical changes. Schools selected for the national award have proven their program has a positive impact on academics, student behavior, and school climate, and are expected to serve as models for other schools.

North Star is the only charter school in the country to receive the 2013 award, and the only school in Colorado.

“It’s because our students are making good decisions; that’s why we got the award,” said assistant principal Kendra Hossfeld, who also is one of the school’s founders.

An emphasis on character development was paramount in the 8-year-old school’s

North Star Academy students celebrated both Veterans Day and the school’s National School of Character Award during a Nov. 11 presentation at the school. Courtesy photo founding members’ minds.

“North Star is unique in that it was founded by a group of parents with this common vision not only for academic excellence but character education,” Hossfeld said. “We wanted to start a character program that was more of a philosophy, something woven into the entire school.”

Students, parents and school staff all take a pledge upon starting school at North Star that emphasizes respect, responsibility, citizenship, integrity and excellence.

Students also participate in service learning projects both outside and inside the classroom, volunteering with the Ronald McDonald House, Irving Street

Women’s Residence and Project Angelheart among others.

Fourth grader Ava Eberly explains how the classes and projects impact her in a testimonial she wrote for the school.

The character education classes “give us examples of people (and pets) that have gone above and beyond what was expected of them. They have motivated and positively impacted lives of many in their time and even today. This also motivates the students when we take on community service projects. We know that we can make a positive impact in our community, even as kids.”

“It’s truly the service learning aspect that turns the instruction into the doing part,” Hossfeld said. “Our service learning projects help students understand and become more compassionate about our community and even outside of the community. “ Students also do projects within the school, with older students acting as role models and mentoring the younger ones.

Along the way, academics have grown as well. Since 2007, average state test scores steadily have increased.

“So I do believe that character education not only affects the child’s developmental growth or social/emotional growth, it helps with their academic growth as well,” Hossfeld said.

Homes proposed next to Clarke Farms Development would reduce number of previously approved units

By Chris Michlewicz

cmichlewicz@ourcoloradonews.com Following a series of development proposals that never got off the ground, a new plan to build homes next to Clarke Farms has surfaced.

The Parker Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of an application Nov. 14 to rezone 63 acres south of Mainstreet, just east of Clarke Farms and west of the Cherry Creek Regional Trail.

The request would change a plan approved in 2005 to develop The Overlook at Cherry Creek, an 844-unit age-restricted retirement village with an assisted-living facility and memory care.

Using the same name, the latest developers want to construct up to 223 singlefamily homes — at a gross density of 3.5 dwelling units per acre — and remove language that allows for apartments, said Stacey Nerger, associate planner for the Town of Parker. They also want to delete references to the previously approved senior living community.

The proposal was submitted in August

by United Development Companies LLC, a Denver-based real estate development

firm. It is scheduled to go in front of Parker Town Council at 7 p.m. Dec. 2 at town hall.

A sketch plan is now under review by Parker’s community development department.

While Nerger has not received an official comment from the Clarke Farms Homeowners Association, a handful of residents attended the Nov. 14 planning commission meeting to inquire about potential impacts to home values and traffic congestion on nearby roads. The neighborhood would have an access point off Motsenbocker Road, which has experienced an increase in vehicle traffic since the fall opening of American Academy’s Parker campus. A preliminary analysis showed that the level of service on surrounding streets would be “acceptable,” according to a planning document.

The homeowners also asked if a buffer in the previous plan to separate existing homes from new construction would be honored. Nerger said those details will be addressed in future phases of the development review process.

Significant grading will have to occur because of the undulating terrain, and United Development Companies LLC would likely be required to build a small section of the future East West Regional Trail that will lead to the Cherry Creek trail.

It would also be responsible for road improvements on Motsenbocker Road.

As part of its recommendation for approval, town staff said the 63-acre parcel is

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the “correct site” for the proposed development. The Overlook at Cherry Creek would create “minimal” environmental impacts, and the ones that exist can be mitigated, a staff report to the planning commission says.

“Aside from the Cherry Creek floodplain which has already been platted and dedicated to the town, there are no significant wildlife or open space resource areas identified for potential preservation,” it says.

The property is within the medium density residential character area in the town’s

master plan. It stretches from the IREA transmission station at the Motsenbocker Road curve near Todd Drive on the south to Mainstreet on the north. Bar CCC Park is to the east.

The land was once owned by the Parker Water and Sanitation District and, at one point in the mid-1990s, was going to be turned into a golf course.

Assuming the latest applications are approved, United Development Companies LLC is at least six to eight months from the start of construction, Nerger said.

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Go nuts for longer life, study says Study ties foodstuff to lower risk of cancer, heart death

By Marilynn Marchione Associated Press

Help yourself to some nuts this holiday season: Regular nut eaters were less likely to die of cancer or heart disease — in fact, were less likely to die of any cause — during a 30-year Harvard study.

Nuts have long been called hearthealthy, and the study is the largest ever done on whether eating them affects mortality.

Researchers tracked 119,000 men and women and found that those who ate nuts roughly every day were 20 percent less likely to die during the study period than those who never ate nuts. Eating nuts less often also appeared to lower the death risk, in direct proportion to consumption.

The risk of dying of heart disease dropped 29 percent and the risk of dying of cancer fell 11 percent among those who had nuts seven or more times a week compared with people who never ate them.

The benefits were seen from peanuts as well as from pistachios, almonds, walnuts and other tree nuts. The researchers did not look at how the nuts were prepared — oiled or salted, raw or roasted.

A bonus: Nut eaters stayed slimmer.

“There’s a general perception that if you eat more nuts you’re going to get fat. Our results show the opposite,” said Dr. Ying Bao of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

She led the study, published in the Nov. 21 New England Journal of Medicine. The National Institutes of Health and the International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research & Education Foundation sponsored the study, but the nut group had no role in designing it or reporting the results.

Nuts can be good for your health, apparently lowering death risk and helping with weight. Shutterstock image Researchers don’t know why nuts may boost health. It could be that their unsaturated fatty acids, minerals and other nutrients lower cholesterol and inflammation and reduce other problems, as earlier studies seemed to show.

Observational studies like this one can’t prove cause and effect, only suggest a connection.

Research on diets is especially tough, because it can be difficult to single out the effects of any one food.

People who eat more nuts may eat them on salads, for example, and some of the benefit may come from the leafy greens, said Dr. Robert Eckel, a University of Colorado cardiologist and former president of the American Heart Association.

Dr. Ralph Sacco, a University of Miami neurologist who also is a former heart as-

sociation president, agreed.

“Sometimes when you eat nuts you eat less of something else like potato chips,” so the benefit may come from avoiding an unhealthy food, Sacco said.

The Harvard group has long been known for solid science on diets. Its findings build on a major study earlier this year — a rigorous experiment that found a Mediterranean-style diet supplemented with nuts cuts the chance of heart-related problems, especially strokes, in older people at high risk of them.

Many previous studies tie nut consumption to lower risks of heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer and other maladies.

In 2003, the Food and Drug Administration said a fistful of nuts a day as part of a low-fat diet may reduce the risk of heart disease. The heart association recom-

mends four servings of unsalted, unoiled nuts a week and warns against eating too many, since they are dense in calories.

The new research combines two studies that started in the 1980s on 76,464 female nurses and 42,498 male health professionals. They filled out surveys on food and lifestyle habits every two to four years, including how often they ate a serving (one ounce) of nuts.

Study participants who often ate nuts were healthier — they weighed less, exercised more and were less likely to smoke, among other things. After taking these and other things into account, researchers still saw a strong benefit from nuts.

Compared with people who never ate nuts, those who had them less than once a week reduced their risk of death 7 percent; once a week, 11 percent; two to four times a week, 13 percent; and seven or more times a week, 20 percent.

“I’m very confident” the observations reflect a true benefit, Bao said. “We did so many analyses, very sophisticated ones,” to eliminate other possible explanations.

For example, they did separate analyses on smokers and non-smokers, heavy and light exercisers, and people with and without diabetes, and saw a consistent benefit from nuts.

At a heart association conference in Dallas this week, Penny Kris-Etherton, a Pennsylvania State University nutrition scientist, reviewed previous studies on this topic.

“We’re seeing benefits of nut consumption on cardiovascular disease as well as body weight and diabetes,” said Kris-Etherton, who has consulted for nut makers and also served on many scientific panels on dietary guidelines.

“We don’t know exactly what it is” about nuts that boosts health or which ones are best, she said. “I tell people to eat mixed nuts.”

SALOME’S STARS FOR THE WEEK OF NOV 28, 2013

crossword • sudoku

GALLERY OF GAMES & weekly horoscope

ARIES (Mar 21 to Apr 19) A project benefits from your organizational skills that get it up and running.

Your success leaves a highly favorable impression.

Don’t be surprised if you get some positive feedback soon.

TAURUS (Apr 20 to May 20) Spend time on practical matters through the end of the week. Then begin shifting your focus to more-artistic pursuits. Resist being overly self-critical. Just allow yourself to feel free to create.

GEMINI (May 21 to Jun 20) Restarting those creative projects you had set aside for a while will help provide a much-needed soothing balance to your hectic life. Besides, it will be like meeting old friends again.

crossword • sudoku & weekly horoscope

GALLERY OF GAMES

CANCER (Jun 21 to Jul 22) A change in plans could make it tough to keep a commitment. But stay with it.

You’ll get an A-plus for making the effort to do what’s right and not taking the easy way out by running off.

LEO (Jul 23 to Aug 22) The Lion’s enthusiasm for a workplace policy review is admirable. But be sure you know who is really behind the resistance to change before pointing your finger at the wrong person.

VIRGO (Aug 23 to Sept 22) You can expect to have to do a lot of work through midweek. Devote the rest of the week to checking your holiday plans in case some need to be adjusted to accommodate changes.

LIBRA (Sept 23 to Oct 22) Try to avoid signing on the dotted line in the early part of the week. You need time to study issues that weren’t fully explored. Later in the week might be more favorable for decisionmaking.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 to Nov 21) A new development could snarl travel schedules or other holiday-linked projects. Some flexibility might be called for to deal with the problems before they get too far out of hand.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 to Dec 21) Relatives seek your advice on a matter you’d rather not be involved in. If so, use that sage Sagittarian tact to decline the “offer,” so that no one’s feelings are needlessly hurt.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 to Jan 19) A shift in planning direction might help you speed up your progress toward achieving that long-planned goal. Trusted colleagues are ready to offer some valuable support.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 to Feb 18) An unexpected demand for settlement of an old loan could create some pre-holiday anxiety. But you might not really owe it. Check your records thoroughly before remitting payment.

PISCES (Feb 19 to Mar 20) It’s a good time to get into the social swim and enjoy some well-earned fun and games with those closest to you before you have to resume more serious activities next week.

BORN THIS WEEK: Your ability to sense the needs of others makes you a wise counselor for those seeking help with their problems. © 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

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November 28, 2013

Mental issues often drive homelessness

By Kristin Jones

I-News at Rocky Mountain PBS Mark Maseros used to be a repeat customer at the ER — when he wasn’t in jail for drugs or theft.

Now 54, Maseros spent three decades living homeless in Denver. Hooked on heroin that he took to self-medicate what he now recognizes as an anxiety disorder, he was taken to the emergency room after overdosing. Or he walked in with panic attacks.

“It was always good to go to the emergency room, because you’d get things to deal with your uncomfortableness,” says Maseros. “If I said the magic words that I wanted to kill myself, they’d set me up in a

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but can’t get it. His organization stopped carrying a waiting list for mental health services when it reached 2,000 people.

Parvensky believes there is a straight line between the decrease in funding for mental health — and especially the decline in inpatient capacity — and the increase in homelessness in Colorado.

He estimates that around 40 percent of the adult homeless in the state suffer from serious mental illness — diagnoses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe depression that keep people from working and living in housing.

“We saw the biggest spike in homelessness in the 1980s,” says Parvensky, “and it really correlated to both the deinstitutionalization as the state closed down the mental health facilities, and the funding that

was promised to provide community-based services … never materialized.”

Patrick Fox, a state Department of Human Services official who oversees the mental institutes at Fort Logan and Pueblo, says that additional mental health funding pledged by the state will work to alleviate pressure on emergency rooms and jails — and care for the Colorado’s most vulnerable populations where they are.

But Parvensky, who has watched the state’s homeless population more than triple since he joined the nonprofit in 1985, believes the chronic underfunding will be tough to undo.

“It’s a down payment,” says Parvensky, “but unfortunately it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the need we’re seeing here in the metro Denver area and across the state.”

gan and Pueblo, according to the Department of Human Services. The average wait time varies between eight and 25 days.

“There’s still kind of a dearth of options for folks who have genuinely long-term needs, and (whose illnesses are) a bit more severe than nursing home placement or return to home allows,” says Liz Hickman, who heads the Centennial Mental Health Center, which serves rural communities in northeastern Colorado.

What’s more, nonprofit community mental health centers say state funding doesn’t provide for the treatment of those without some form of public or private insurance or other payment source. Randy Stith, who heads the Aurora Mental Health Center, says that leaves them with no choice but to tell indigent patients to go to the emergency room for care.

“We’re referring people to the emergency room off the streets pretty regularly,” says Stith. “It’s costly but that’s what you do.”

At Denver Health, Colwell describes having to board psychiatric patients in the emergency room. On a typical night, as many as 10 or 15 beds may be taken up by people who are waiting for psychiatric services, while the psychiatrists on staff at the hospital are overwhelmed with other cases.

Those who pose a risk to themselves or others may be admitted to the psychiatric emergency department.

Dr. Kimberly Nordstrom, the medical director of that department, says more and more of the patients she sees don’t have primary care providers. That often means that she can’t prescribe medications — with their uncertain side effects and tailored dosing needs — even to those who are very ill.

“I can’t start medicine with somebody who’s not going to be seen for six months,” Nordstrom explains.

Others, says Colwell, are at the brink of posing a risk to the community or themselves — but aren’t there yet.

“Once their physical problems are taken care of, we can’t keep them,” says Colwell.

But that doesn’t mean they won’t be coming back.

Local centers strapped

psychiatric hospitals in the 1970s deeply impacted both Fort Logan and Pueblo. By 1980, there were 1,103 public psychiatric beds in Colorado, down from 1,609 a decade earlier.

Over the next decades, public beds would continue to disappear, and by 2013, the two state hospitals had only 545 beds.

It wasn’t only the beds but the staffing and services that disappeared — services like home visits, community outreach and vocational training.

“Fort Logan used to do all the things that the community mental health centers are supposed to be doing,” says Rebecca Watt, a former nurse at the hospital who believes that budget cuts have damaged the facility’s ability to treat its patients.

The units for the elderly, children and teens at Fort Logan were among the most recent to close, in 2009. Recently, there were 38 people waiting for beds at Fort Lo-

As the money moved out of the state hospitals, community mental health centers say they never got the funding they needed to take up the slack.

Harriet Hall, the chief executive of Jefferson Mental Health Center, says facilities like hers sometimes got a boost from the state when the hospitals’ budgets were cut.

But often, they got nothing.

“It was never like, we’ll just transfer this money to the communities from the hospitals,” says Hall.

Hall and others who lead the state’s 17 nonprofit community mental health centers say that with adequate funding they can provide much better services than the large institutions ever did — by giving the routine care people need to stay integrated within the community and out of costly hospital stays.

But, they say, there are gaps in the services they can realistically provide, given their tight budgets.

I-News is the public service journalism arm of Rocky Mountain PBS and works in collaboration with news media throughout Colorado. To read more, please go to inewsnetwork.org. Contact health reporter Kristin Jones at kristinjones@rmpbs.org. *Source: American Booksellers Association Indie Impact Study Series survey of independent, locally-owned business owners, conducted by Civic Economics, July 2012–Sept. 2013 © 2013 American Express Company.

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Over the years, Maseros said he was diagnosed “bipolar, tripolar” and any number of other psychiatric disorders.

But he never got the sustained care he needed until four years ago, when the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless found housing for him, and he joined group therapy to help get the better of his anxiety.

“I’m happy now,” says Maseros, who does rounds through downtown Denver on his bike, looking for others who are suffering as he once did. Maseros tries to point people to the services that are available in the city. He knows that without help some of them will end up dead.

The president of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, John Parvensky, says there are many more like Maseros who want help

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The action appeared to send a message that federal authorities would be keeping a close watch on the industry as a state law legalizing pot is implemented.

The raids, conducted on a frigid, snowy morning, were the first in Colorado since the U.S. Department of Justice said in August that it wouldn’t interfere with state marijuana laws as long as the drug is kept away from children, the black market and other states, among other guidelines.

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were suspected of violating more than one of the eight guidelines issued by the Justice Department.

“Although we cannot at this time discuss the substance of this pending investigation, the operation under way today comports with the department’s recent guidance regarding marijuana enforcement matters,” spokesman Jeff Dorschner said in a statement.

Deirdre Stepter, an IRS spokeswoman, declined to elaborate.

Daria Serna, a spokeswoman for Colorado’s revenue department, which regulates the industry, said the agency was aware of the raids and would “continue to cooperate with the ongoing investigation.”

Retail marijuana sales are set to begin on Jan. 1 in Colorado, though not all municipalities will be ready to regulate sales by then. For now, dispensaries are supposed to sell only to people with medical permission to use the drug.

Many of the state’s 500 or so existing dispensaries are making plans to convert to recreational sales.

At one of the raided dispensaries, VIP Cannabis in Denver, agents loaded boxes into a rental truck.

One officer wore a surgical mask. Several operators, including some at VIP Cannabis, didn’t return calls seeking comment.

In Boulder, agents raided a number of marijuanagrowing warehouses, leaving a chest-high pile of pot plants on the side of a road before loading them into trucks, The Daily Camera reported.

People involved in Colorado’s marijuana industry were quick to point out that the raids did not necessarily mean the federal government was going back on its word or planning to interfere with Colorado’s recreational pot market.

Mike Elliott, a spokesman for the Medical Marijuana Industry Group, said the industry itself has pushed for robust regulations and expects compliance with lengthy state regulations on how the drug and be grown and sold.

“While everyone involved in these raids should be considered innocent until proven guilty, enforcement is a sign that this program is working and maturing,” he said in a statement.

Mason Tvert of the Marijuana Policy Project said it wasn’t clear how many businesses were raided.

Many dispensaries and growing warehouses were operating as usual on the day of the raids.

Tvert said in a statement that he hopes federal authorities were “sticking to their word and not interfering with any state-regulated, law-abiding businesses.”

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November 28, 2013

Theater shooting trial postponed Fraud Continued from Page 1

By Dan Elliot

Associated Press The judge in the Colorado theater shootings case on Nov. 21 indefinitely postponed the trial of James Holmes so attorneys can argue whether he should undergo further psychiatric evaluation.

Holmes’ trial had been scheduled to begin in February.

Holmes, 25, pleaded not guilty

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Crisan believes the accusations of “misconduct” referred to a planning commission meeting held in Simla earlier this month.

“At the Simla meeting, I spoke up about not getting certain materials related to the oil and gas regs until just a few hours before the meeting,” he said. “Normally we have some time to digest the materials we receive.”

“From what I’ve heard,” he continued, “after the Simla meeting, the commissioners supposedly received complaints about me from 12 citizens and two staff members.

And I know (Commissioner) Kurt Schlegel referred to the meeting using the term ‘goat rope.’ But, really, I have no idea what they were upset about.”

A registered independent, Crisan said he tried to be “apolitical” when he ran planning commission meetings. “My motto as planning commission chair was ‘check your politics at the door,’” he said.

Relations between the planning commission and BOCC have been frayed since a public meeting this summer when the BOCC rejected

by reason of insanity to charges of killing 12 people and injuring 70 during a midnight showing of a Batman film in Aurora in July 2012.

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

Holmes underwent a mandatory sanity evaluation at the state hospital last summer. The results haven’t been made public, but prosecutors said Nov. 21 they want a review of one of three conclu-

sions. They did not elaborate, and both sides are barred from speaking about the case outside court.

Karen Steinhauser, a former federal prosecutor now in private practice, said most court-ordered sanity evaluations look at whether the defendant is mentally competent to stand trial; has an impaired mental condition or mental illness; and was insane at the time of the crime.

a revised set of oil and gas regulations the planning commission had been working on for two and a half years.

ing the county,” Crisan added.

Now, relieved of his official planning commission duties, Crisan thinks the county may be better served by not adopting new oil and gas regulations.

“We might be better off with no new regs and having everything going through the state like it does now,” he said. “That will keep the process as transparent as possible because it entails bringing new oil and gas well applications through the public exposure process — the key words there being public scrutiny and exposure.”

Since his firing, Crisan said he’s seen a tremendous show of support from the community. “People have reached out to me personally and said how much they appreciated my work on the planning commission and me being truthful and straight with everybody.”

When asked if he might be interested in running for county commissioner himself one day, Crisan said, “That’s not really on my radar at this time. One of the things I liked about being on the planning commission was that before we made our decisions, we listened to everybody, regardless of their position or political orientation. That’s something I’ll look back on with pride.”

Day of ‘infamy’

Crisan refers to the marathon public meeting held July 10 at the county fairgrounds as “the day that lives in infamy.”

“Grant Thayer resigned in protest after that meeting and I was moved from vice chairman to chairman after that,” he said.

Both Crisan and Thayer were original members of the editing committee, an ad hoc group that held weekly meetings for two and a half years in an effort to come up with revised regulations to guide future oil and gas exploration in the county.

Former planning director Richard Miller, who left the county earlier this year, had formed the editing committee.

“Miller was essentially run out and replaced with Kyle Fenner,” said Crisan. “Things went downhill pretty quickly after that happened.”

“It’s odd that our dysfunctional county government has spent so much time hiding behind these oil and gas regs when there are bigger, much more important issues fac-

“Once a property was zeroed in on by members of this scheme,” said Suthers, “the goal was to obtain control and ownership of the property through a series of deceptive tactics.”

These tactics, Suthers explained, included manipulating the homeowners into signing over ownership of their property.

“At the same time, the enterprise would file forged paperwork with the lenders misrepresenting that the original homeowners still owned the house,” said Suthers.

According to the 95-page indictment: “The Enterprise often used a related family member or business associate, with a different last name, as straw purchasers who were fraudulently represented to the lender as being pre-qualified to buy homes.”

Aurora Loan Services, Aurora Bank FSB, Lehman Brothers Holdings, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Freddie Mac were among the financial institutions allegedly defrauded by the group.

Another illegal tactic used by the group, according to the indictment, was “flopping” or reverse staging, which involves misrepresenting the condition of a property to lenders in order to get the lender to agree to a lower price on a short sale.

Flopping includes submission to the lender of a fraudulent “broker’s opinion” saying the property in question is in substandard condition and needs considerable repairs.

A short sale occurs when a lender on a property agrees to

sell the property for less than is owed by the borrower.

The indictment accuses the group of manipulating banks, through forged documents, into agreeing to lower-thanmarket condition short sales while, at the same time, misrepresenting the same properties to prospective buyers in order to receive the highest possible prices on subsequent sales.

“It is unconscionable that this group would target financially distressed and vulnerable homeowners by fraudulently taking control of and selling their properties, with the ultimate goal of defrauding the homeowner’s financial institution and then subsequent buyers,” said Suthers.

“This group took advantage of multiple homeowners, using deception and forged documents, to create illegal profits.”

Representatives from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Colorado Division of Real Estate participated in the investigation.

If convicted under the COCCA statutes, Gaston and the other defendants could be sentenced to up to 24 years in prison.

“As part of the Department of Regulatory Agencies, the Colorado Division of Real Estate is dedicated to preserving the integrity of the marketplace and is committed to promoting a fair and competitive business environment in Colorado,” said Colorado Division of Real Estate Director Marcia Waters.

The others indicted were from Thornton, Broomfield, Englewood, Brighton and Denver, plus a former Thornton resident living in Chicago.

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Shopping night offers deals amid festive lighting Thirty-two downtown Littleton merchants will host a Holiday Shopping Night from 5 to 9 p.m. on Dec. 7, with numerous special deals. Stroll, snack, shop and enjoy the lights and festive atmosphere.

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“Roof Tops, Cortona, Italy” is a photograph by Trish Sangelo, who will be teaching photography in the upcoming Art in Italy class. Courtesy photo

Dream trip takes artists to Italy Two-week course held at La Romita

By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com “Art in Italy,” a two-week course in photography or plein air painting, is offered by two members of Arapahoe Community College’s Art Department from May 17 to June 1.

The location is La Romita, a beautiful 500-year-old monastery repurposed into an art school, in Umbria, Italy. This sound like a dream trip for any artist.

Marsha Wooley, the plein air instructor, spent a fortnight at La Romita last year painting with another group and enjoyed it enough to recommend a return visit.

She will share her expertise as a nationally recognized landscape painter with students who join the trip. They will create both landscapes and cityscapes.

Photographer Trish Sangelo has participated in previous ACC study trips to Italy and will help her students document the Italian landscapes, cityscapes and people.

Students stay at La Romita and have meals there, but are transported to different surrounding locations, as well as having time to record the surrounding olive groves at the historic monastery.

The course can be taken for credit through the college or non-credit through the Community Education department.

Wooley and Sangelo have planned Art 276 102: Trip Preparation with a half-credit. It is required of those who will seek the three credits offered from the travel portion and highly recommended for non-

credit participants. It will meet from 9 to 11 a.m. on four Saturdays: Jan. 25, Feb. 22, March 29, April 19.

To register for the trip, go online for information about Art 276 101: Painting and Photography. There will be a final critique on July 12 from 9 to 11 a.m. and an exhibition of student artwork at ACC Colorado Gallery of the Arts from Sept. 2 to Oct. 10, 2014.

Details are available on the college website: Arapahoe.edu/artinitaly.

Estimated costs based on double rooms, including tuition, La Romita room and board, air fare and travel insurance, comes to $5,535.

For more information, contact the instructors: Sangelo, trish.sangelo@arapahoe.edu, or Wooley, marsha.wooley@ arapahoe.edu. Please call Wooley before enrolling at 720-851-1936.

‘Annie’ lights up stage in littleton

By Sonya Ellingboe

ACC sale slated

The annual holiday sale by students and instructors in Arapahoe Community College Clay and Jewelry Clubs offers a fine opportunity to find one-of-a-kind, handcrafted gifts at modest prices. It will be held Dec. 5 to 7 in the Colorado Gallery of the Arts, in the Annex Building, east side of the Littleton Campus, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Hours: opening reception Dec. 5, 4-8 p.m.; Dec. 6, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Dec. 7, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Holiday music

“Occupy Christmas,” the Skyline Chorus (Sweet Adelines) of Denver’s Sounds of the Season Holiday Show, will be at 7 p.m. on Dec. 3 at Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St. in Lone Tree. The Lone Tree Symphony Orchestra will perform there on Dec. 6 and 7, with the Castle Rock Chorale and the Smithtonian Handbell Ensemble.

Lonetreeartscenter.org. 720-509-1000.

Free concerts

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com Pretend it is December 1933 — and enjoy Town Hall Arts Center’s holiday treat for the community.

Harold Gray’s popular Depression-era comic strip about a spunky little orphan with red hair gained a new life in 1977 when Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin created a musical called “Annie.” It initially ran in New York for six years and has surfaced regularly ever since. It is Town Hall’s choice for the 2013 holiday season and tickets are flying out the door for the show, which opened Nov. 15.

Veteran director Bob Wells has again brought his special skills to producing “Annie” on Town Hall’s small stage. Working with those little girls has been a joy, he said backstage before the opening night performance.

With its well-crafted production, positive vibes, wacky characters, cute kids, music and dance — and even a Christmas party at the end — it’s an ideal show for family audiences.

Sidney Fairbairn, a sixth-grader at West Middle School, debuts at Town Hall in the Annie role and expert comic LuAnn Buckstein was born to play the tipsy Miss Hannigan. Annie’s young fellow orphans at the New York City Municipal Orphanage bring considerable stage presence, strong singing voices and experience to the story: Regan Fenske, Rebecca Hyde, Serena Kopf,

Reminder to photographers: Call for entries for a Downtown Littleton Photo Contest, sponsored by the Andy Marquez Gallery. Deadline: Dec. 1. Submit jpegs to andymarquezgallery@icloud.com. ($10 per entry-pay on website with PayPal or in person at the gallery, 2329 W. Main St. #206.) Best of Show, first and second places will be chosen in color and black and white, to be announced on Dec. 16. A reception for winners will be 5 to 8 p.m. Jan. 10 at Town Hall Arts Center, when prizes will be awarded. For information, call 303797-6040.

Upcoming free concerts at Arapahoe Community College, in the Waring Theatre, M2900: Dec. 2, 7 p.m. — The ACC String Orchestra directed by Rene Knetsch. Dec. 4, noon — Members of the Arapahoe Philharmonic will play a lunchtime concert.

Dec. 6, 7 p.m. — The ACC Jazz Ensemble, led by Cecil Lewis performs. Dec. 9, 7 p.m.

— The ACC Chorus, directed by Ron Keintz and the Women’s Vocal Ensemble, directed

by Mayumi Yotsumoto.

Lakewood celebration

Daddy Warbucks (Daniel Langhoff), Annie (Sydney Fairbairn) and Grace (Rebekah Ortiz) anticipate Christmas in “Annie” at Town Hall Arts Center. Courtesy photo Lexi Lubotsky and Jenna Paige Smith.

Daniel Langhoff shaved his head and brought his warm voice to Town Hall to play corporate magnate Daddy Warbucks. Cory Wendling and Taylor Nicole Young are appropriately sleazy as Hannigan’s brother Rooster and his lady friend Lily. Rebekah Ortiz is calm and lovely as Warbucks’ secretary, who comes to the orphanage to “check out” an orphan for Christmas.

One also meets FDR and his Cabinet, as well as Warbuck’s staff and miscellaneous

Hooverville inhabitants (i.e. homeless).

And of course, there’s furry star Sandy, performed with a bit of uncertainty on opening night by Turbo Adams, a sweetlooking golden retriever who was called in to substitute. We feel sure he will soon be more comfortable in his role, given the steady supply of treats Annie has in her pocket.

“Annie” plays through Dec. 29. Tickets: 303-794-2787, ext. 5; townhallartscenter. com; or at the box office, 2450 W. Main St., Littleton.

A Christmas Celebration will be presented by the Lakewood Symphony Orchestra, Rocky Mountain Ringers and the Lakewood Stake Choir at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6 and 7 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 6465 W. Jewell Ave., Lakewood. Admission is free, although donations to the Boys and Girls Club of Jefferson County are welcomed.

Granny dances

“Granny Dances to a Holiday Drum” is Cleo Parker Robinson Dance’s annual holiday program, featuring 50 dancers and musicians celebrating holidays around the world. Especially nice for children. Performances at the Newman Center, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21; 2 p.m. Dec. 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22. Tickets at Newman Center box office (10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday, noon to 4 p.m.

Saturday) 303-871-7720, newmantix.com.

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Truth hurts in ‘Rancho Mirage’ Glib chatter morphs into something else

Parker Neese (Karen Slack) and Charlie (Erik Sandvold) and Pam Caldwell (Emily Paton Davies).

Tension is apparent from the first conversation and it increases as the other

By Sonya Ellingboe players appear. Dietz, a Colorado-born sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com playwright who University of Texas and is one of America’s Time: now. Scene: a handIF YOU GO most produced theater writsome, expensive home in any ers, is known for his crisp, American suburb — here “Annie” plays through Dec. sharp dialogue and unexpectit’s called “Rancho Mirage,” 29 at Town Hall Arts Center, ed story twists. which is also the name of 2450 W. Main St., downtown He is quoted in a CuriSteven Dietz’s new play, now Littleton. Performances: 7:30 ous publication, when quesrunning at Curious Theatre p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Sattioned about his inspiration as part of a rolling world preurdays; 2 p.m. Sundays and for “Rancho Mirage”: “What miere. (Curious is part of the Saturdays Nov. 30, Dec. 7, 21; would happen when a group National New Play Network 6:30 p.m. Dec. 15. Tickets cost of friends — good friends — which promises at least three $22-$42 at the box office, ended up together and startproductions in a year for cho303-794-2787, ext. 5 or towned telling the whole truth to sen new plays. hallartscenter.com. each other?”

This process gives a new His picture of a group work exposure enough to of well-off American 30- to give it legs.)

As lights go up on the first scene, Diane 40-somethings seems spot-on as they talk (C. Kelly Leo) and Nick Dahner (Bill Hahn) about money problems, marital issues, miare fussing over dinner party prepara- nor envies, ambitions, children, inability to tions as they await the arrival of their good have children, travel, babysitters and more. friends Trevor (David Russell) and Louise They are competitive, sympathetic and or-

Holiday production

“Home for the Holidays” plays Dec. 12 to 22 at Lone Tree Arts Center, 10075 Commons St., Lone Tree.

This family-oriented production has a cast of about 50 colorfully costumed singers, dancers, musicians who perform traditional and new material.

Tickets: 720-509-1000, LoneTreeArtsCenter.org.

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1200 South Street Castle Rock, CO 80104 303.688.3047 www.fumccr.org

Services:

Saturday 5:30pm Sunday 8am, 9:30am, 11am Sunday School 9:15am Little Blessings Day Care www.littleblessingspdo.com

“A Christmas Carol: a Radio Play” will be presented by Parker-based Goodness Gracious Productions Dec. 13-22 at the Deep Space Events Center, 11020 S. Pikes Peak Drive #50, Parker. Performances: 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 13, Dec. 20, Dec. 21; 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, Dec. 22. Tickets: $15, goodnessgracious.org, 303-968-4157.

Highlands Ranch

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303-663-5751

 “Loving God - Making A Difference”

A place for you

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Franktown

Trinity Lutheran Church & School

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

Trinity Lutheran School & ELC (Ages 3-5, Grades K-8)

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nery in turn as the evening wears on. One thinks one has the tale figured out and then Dietz takes one in another direction.

The cast is filled with mature, extremely skilled actors, who develop each character in depth and make delivery of Dietz’s lines zing. Director Christopher Leo keeps the pace fast and steady, if a bit frantic, as ideas

Back in Arvada

“A Christmas Carol, the Musical” plays through Dec. 22 at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, in a return performance.

Directed by Gavin Meyer, it has elegant staging, beautiful costumes and a large cast.

Performances: 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays; 1 p.m.

Wednesdays; 2 p.m. Saturdays,

Highlands Ranch

and experiences are discussed one after the other by a group you almost like — most of the time.

“Rancho Mirage” invites the audience to listen in on an evening they may have experienced before in their own lives. This is well-crafted contemporary theater at its best.

Sundays.

Ticket prices start at $53, with 50 percent off for children, if purchased through the box office, 720-898-7200, arvadacenter. org.

In the afterlife

“The Christmas Spirit” by Frederick Stroppel plays through Dec. 21, presented by Firehouse Theater at the John Hand The-

Littleton

ater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver.

Directed by Clint Heyn, it’s about Julia Dowling’s unexpected visitor, who means to escort her to the afterlife, after he attends a Christmas party.

Performances: 7:30 Fridays, Saturdays; 6:30 p.m. Sundays Dec. 1 and 15.

Tickets: $20/$18. 303-5623232, firehousetheatercompany. com.

Parker

First Presbyterian Church of Littleton

Parker

Joy LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA

Open hearts. Open minds. Open doors.

Open and Welcoming

Sunday Worship

GRACE PRESBYTERIAN Alongside One Another On Life’s Journey

You are invited to worship with us:

8:00 am Chapel Service 9:00 & 10:30 am

www.st-andrew-umc.com

Grace is on the NE Corner of Santa Fe Dr. & Highlands Ranch Pkwy.

(Across from Murdochs)

Sunday School 9:00 & 10:30 am

303-798-8485

9203 S. University Blvd.

Highlands Ranch, 80126

Abiding Word Lutheran Church

Littleton

(Next to RTD lot @470 & University)

303-791-3315

pastor@awlc.org www.awlc.org

Sunday

8:30 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

1609 W. Littleton Blvd.

(303) 798-1389 • www.fpcl.org

Saturday 5:30pm

Sunday 8:00 & 10:30am

Education Hour: Sunday 9:15am Joyful Mission Preschool 303-841-3770 7051 East Parker Hills Ct. • Parker, CO 303-841-3739 www.joylutheran-parker.org

Lone Tree

Lone Tree

Church of Christ

Welcome Home!

Weaving Truth and Relevance into Relationships and Life

worship Time 10:30AM sundays

Currently meeting at: 9220 Kimmer Drive, Suite 200 Lone Tree 80124 303-688-9506 www.LoneTreeCoC.com

Community Church of Religious Science

...19650 E. Mainstreet, Parker 80138

303 798 6387

Parker, CO • 10am Worship www.uccparkerhilltop.org 303-841-2808

10926 E. Democrat Rd.

Sunday Worship

8:45 am & 10:30 am

Fellowship & Worship: 9:00 am Sunday School: 10:45 am 5755 Valley Hi Drive Parker, CO 303-941-0668

www.SpiritofHopeLCMC.org

New Thought...Ancient Wisdom Sunday Service

United Church Of Christ Parker Hilltop

www.gracepointcc.us

Parker

at the Parker Mainstreet Center

9:00am Spiritual Formation Classes for all Ages 90 east orchard road littleton, co

Connect – Grow – Serve

Pastor David Fisher

Sunday services held in the historic Ruth Memorial Chapel

Parker

Parker evangelical Presbyterian church

9030 Miller road Parker, Co 80138 303-841-2125 www.pepc.org

Sunday Worship - 10:00am Bible Study immediately following Wednesday Bible Study - 7:30pm

8391 S. Burnley Ct., Highlands Ranch

Worship Services Sundays at 9:00am

SErviCES:

www.gracecolorado.com

Sundays at 10:00 am

303-794-2683 Preschool: 303-794-0510

An Evangelical Presbyterian Church

“Rancho Mirage” by Steven Dietz plays through Dec. 7 at Curious Theatre. Left to right: Karen Slack (Louise Parker Neese); Erik Sandvold (Charlie Caldwell); C. Kelly Leo (Diane Dahner); Bill Hahn (Nick Dahner); Emily Paton Davies (Pam Caldwell). Courtesy photo

CURTAIN TIME

First United Methodist Church

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& Children’s Church 10:00 a.m.

Visit our website for details of classes & upcoming events.

303.805.9890

www.P a r k er C C R S.org P.O. Box 2945—Parker CO 80134-2945

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

Where people are excited about God’s Word.

Sunday Worship: 10:45AM & 6PM Bible Study: 9:30AM Children, Young People & Adults 4391 E Mainstreet, Parker, Colorado 80134 Church Office – (303) 841-3836

www.parkerbiblechurch.org

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November 28, 2013

Cookies are perfect holiday indulgence Metro Creative Connection

The holiday season is known for many things, not the least of which is all those special treats that find their way onto holiday tables each year. Though moderation should reign when indulging in delicious holiday treats, what would the season be without a few extra cookies and confections?

Baking is popular come the holiday season, and the following recipe for “Triple-Chocolate Cookies” from Michael Recchiuti and Fran Gage’s “Chocolate Obsession” (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) is sure to add some joy to an already festive time of year.

Triple-Chocolate Cookies Makes about 48 cookies 7 ounces unbleached all-purpose flour 1-1/2 ounces unsweetened natural cocoa powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 6 ounces unsalted butter with 82 percent butterfat, at room temperature 3-1/2 ounces granulated cane sugar 4-1/2 ounces dark brown cane sugar 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1/2 Tahitian vanilla bean, split horizontally 1/2 teaspoon fleur de sel in fine grains 3 ounces 41 percent milk chocolate, roughly chopped 3 ounces 65 percent chocolate, roughly chopped

To make the dough: Sift the flour, cocoa and baking soda together in a bowl. Set aside.

Put the butter in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on medium speed until creamy. Add both sugars and the vanilla extract. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean into the bowl. Sprinkle the salt over the top. Beat on medium speed just until combined.

Reduce the speed to low. Add the dry ingredients in three additions, pulsing the mixer to incorporate each addition before adding the next one. Pulse just until a crumbly dough forms.

Add both chopped chocolates and mix on low speed just until incorporated.

Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. Knead a few times to incorporate any crumbs.

Divide the dough in half. Roll each half into a log about 11/4 inches in diameter and 12 inches long. As you roll, gently push the ends toward the center occasionally to prevent air pockets from forming and to keep the logs at an even

thickness.

Wrap the logs in plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, at least three hours or up to three days.

To bake the cookies: Preheat the oven to 325 F. Line the bottoms of two 12-by-18 inch sheet pans with parchment paper.

Remove the logs from the refrigerator and unwrap them. Using a ruler to guide you and a sharp knife, cut each log into rounds 1/2-inch thick.

If the dough crumbles as you cut it, reshape each slice. Place the rounds on the prepared pans, spacing them 11/2 inches apart.

Bake on the middle shelves of the oven, rotating the pans 180 degrees halfway through the baking time, until set but soft enough to hold a slight indentation when pressed with a fingertip, about 14 minutes. Let cool completely on the pans on wire racks.

Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.

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November 28, 2013

Be thankful for sustenance of God It is necessary to be thankful. The Giver of all good things deserves our thanks and we need to be thankful for our own emotional health.

During this difficult season of my unemployment, thankfulness has lifted my emotions and perspective. It might seem that thankfulness is for those who have a lot so they can take a day to feast and count their blessings. But, the older I get the more I experience that it is thankfulness that gets me through the hard times and keeps my focus on my Source so I can see that God is working, even when circumstances are bad. Many years ago, thankfulness also worked for the Pilgrims.

The first Thanksgiving in New England is the most famous, but it is the second one that lets us know that thankfulness can take place even in the worst of circumstances.

The daily ration of food for the Pilgrims in the winter of 1622 was a mere five kernels of corn. It seems impossible to be able to sustain life on such a small amount of food. Perhaps a nutritionist could prove that it is “humanly” impossible to live through the cold winters of New

England on just five kernels of corn.

When the Pilgrims arrived in New England late in the fall of 1620 they had no idea of what they would face. The only thing they knew for sure was why they came and Who they trusted to get them through. That first winter was marked by sickness and death. They lost 47 of the first 102 that left England.

The second winter was marked by the challenge of unexpected and unwanted guests that ate many of their supplies, dramatic shortfalls in food, a drought and personal struggles with selfishness.

In all of their challenges they looked to God. They prayed for wisdom in their decisions, received correction where

needed in their attitudes and trusted for provisions for all their needs. God proved adequate and for the second time and each fall thereafter they set aside a time to celebrate His work by giving thanks.

Somehow God made five kernels of corn sustain the Pilgrims that bitter winter of 1621-1622. It seems that since He was going to supply their need that He could have made it easier — but then we wouldn’t be talking about it today and perhaps they would not have experienced the depths of need that resulted in a heart of thankfulness.

It is natural for me to slide into wanting a more immediate, dramatic and lucrative rescue from what ails me and for all the problems of our world. Maybe you can relate.

But when we become thankful, and express our thanks to God, even for our pitiful “Five Kernels of Corn,” the Source that sustained the Pilgrims sustains us.

He gives hope to the underdog, the abused and forgotten, strength to the tired, the frightened, the overwhelmed and the unemployed. We learn that a little can become much and those of us with

plenty are challenged to know that we are lavishly blessed at the hand of a gracious and generous God. Let’s not wait for our problems, personally or culturally, to “go away” in order to be thankful but in our seemingly insurmountable and painful circumstances let’s renew our commitment to live a life, thankful to God for what we do have.

Ann Voscamp inspires us to thanks in her bestselling book, “One Thousand Gifts.” “I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.” “... the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.”

“Eucharisteo — thanksgiving — always precedes the miracle.”

Thanksgiving may contain the solution we are looking for. It definitely helps us experience emotional health.

Dan Hettinger is author of “Welcome to the Big Leagues” and founder of the Jakin Group, a ministry of encouragement. You can email him at dan@welcometothebigleagues.org and follow him on Facebook and Twitter (@Welcome2theBigs).

Colorado outperforms nation in economic growth It has been a very long road to recovery and there is finally some good news. The Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank just announced the third quarter economic data for our region.

It appears the Colorado economy is improving at a greater rate than the national average. This comes five years after the end of the Great Recession. Here are the data points from the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank.

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP): The Feds are predicting GDP to be 2.6 percent for 2013; 3.5 percent for 2014 and 3.6 percent in 2015. The reason for the increase, which would be the highest in this business cycle, is due to higher taxes (no more payroll tax holiday) and rising income taxes.

• Employment: Nationally, the current unemployment rate is 7.3 percent. However Colorado is faring a bit better at seven percent. The private sector is picking up in 2013 and there is less government drag. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) expects unemployment to be down to 6.2 percent by 2015 and 5.9

percent in Colorado. Last year there was a 2.5 percent increase in Colorado employment and a 10.2 percent jobs growth in Colorado over the last 10 years compared to only 4.8 percent nationwide. The largest jump in our region has been in residential construction.

• Housing: Colorado home prices have surpassed previous levels as of Sept. 30.

Prices are up 9.3 percent for the year, which is 6 percent over the 2007 levels.

There is a 1.8 month supply of houses on the market in Denver.

• Inflation: The Headline inflation rate is hovering around 1.7 percent. The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate: To keep

price stability — defined by inflation at or lower than 2 percent — and keep employment steady at or below 6.5 percent.

• The Consumer: Spending is up over 3 percent this year compared to 2012. This is partly due to the expanding labor market and homeowners seeing improvement in their equity. Rising equity is partly due to low interest rates, especially if they refinanced in the last five years, coupled with rising home values.

The economy continues to grow moderately according to Alison Felix, VP of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, Denver branch. The government shutdown may subtract up to one-half of a percent from prior GDP, however Colorado continues to outperform the national economy in construction and spending.

The new Federal Reserve Board Chairman Janet Yellen made her first announcement recently. She is being labeled as “dovish” and announced she would like to provide forward guidance of what would cause the Fed to taper their bond-buying program. This may be in an effort to reduce surprises and hence tame markets as

they anticipate these changes. This may be a difficult undertaking as we have already seen both equity and bond markets react to concerns over how sustainable economic growth will be without the additional money supply produced by the Fed. This could mean two important things for investors: First, those on a fixed income will not be enjoying decent bond or CD yields anytime soon. Second, the longer the Fed tapering gets pushed into the future, the better chance we will have of market volatility in anticipation of when that will actually occur. These are all good reasons to make certain your portfolio is well-positioned for these events.

Patricia Kummer has been an independent Certified Financial Planner for 27 years and is president of Kummer Financial Strategies Inc., a Registered Investment Advisor in Highlands Ranch. She welcomes your questions at www.kummerfinancial. com or call the economic hotline at 303683-5800.Any material discussed is meant for informational purposes only and not a substitute for individual advice.

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Silent auction The Kiowa Friends of the Library plans its silent auction.

Bidding opens Nov. 15 and continues through 2 p.m. Dec. 6. Stop by the library to bid; library hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday. Contact the Kiowa Library for information, 303-621-2111.

Dec. 12

Volunteer rounD-up. The National Western Stock Show and Rodeo needs 150-200 volunteers in guest relations, children’s programs, horse and livestock shows, and the trade show.

The 108th stock show is Jan. 11-26. To learn more about the volunteer opportunities and to set up an interview for a volunteer spot, attend the National Western volunteer round-up from 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, at the National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt St., Denver. For information and to fill out a volunteer application, go to http://

www.nationalwestern.com/volunteer/ or contact Kellie at 303-299-5562.

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the outBack Express is a public transit service provided through the East Central Council of Local Governments is open and available to all residents of Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson and Lincoln counties and provides an economical and efficient means of travel for the four-county region. Call Kay Campbell, Kiowa, at 719- 541-4275. You may also call the ECCOG office at 1-800-825-0208 to make reservations for any of the trips.

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14 Elbert County News Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO OCTOBER 2013 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of OCTOBER 2013 for each County affected.

decreed herein. Proposed Use: Domestic, including inhouse use, commercial, irrigation, livestock watering, fire protection, and augmentation purposes, including storage. Change of water rights: Decree information: Terms of augmentation plan decreed in Case No. 05CW261 decreed on July 28, 2006. The property which is the subject of the decree is the Subject Property. Applicant is the owner of the groundwater which is the Subject of the decree. Proposed change: In the original decree, an augmentation plan was approved for the withdrawal of 13.6 acre-feet per year for 300 years of not nontributary Upper Dawson aquifer groundwater to be withdrawn through 16 individual wells for domestic use. Applicant requests that this Upper Dawson aquifer groundwater be withdrawn in combination with the 14.9 acre-feet per year requested herein pursuant to the augmentation plan requested herein. Description of plan for augmentation: Groundwater to be augmented: 18.5 acre-feet per year for 300 years of Upper Dawson aquifer groundwater being 13.6 acre-feet per year for 300 years decreed in Case No. 05CW261 and 4.9 acre-feet per year for 300 years requested herein.

Water rights for augmentation: Return flows from the use of not nontributary Upper Dawson aquifer and return flows from or direct discharge of nontributary Arapahoe and Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer groundwater also decreed in Case No. 05CW261. Statement of plan for augmentation: 16.9 acre-feet per year for 300 years of the Upper Dawson aquifer groundwater will provide a water supply for up to 26 single family residences. Demand for each residence will be 0.65 acrefeet per year for in-house use (0.4 acrefeet), irrigation of 3500 square-feet of irrigated area (0.2 acre-feet), and use in a water feature (0.05 acre-feet). The remaining 1.6 acre-feet per year for 300 years will be used for stockwatering and use in barns and stables. The groundwater will be withdrawn through one or more large capacity wells which will operate at rates of flow over 15 gpm through a central water supply system, or through individual on lot wells which will withdraw the groundwater at rates of flow not to exceed 15 gpm. Sewage treatment for in-house use will be provided by non-evaporative septic systems. Return flows associated with in-house and irrigation use will be approximately 90% and 15% of the annual amount of water used for those purposes.

Stockwatering and use in water features is 100% consumed. During pumping Applicant will replace actual depletions to the affected stream system pursuant to Section 37-90-137(9)(c.5), C.R.S. Depletions occur to the Running Creek stream system and the actual depletion is 15.9% of the annual amount withdrawn at 300 years of pumping. Return flows from in-house and irrigation use accrue to the South Platte River stream systems, and return flows will be sufficient to replace actual depletions while the subject groundwater is being pumped. Applicant will reserve an equal amount of the nontributary Arapahoe and Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer g roundw ater dec r eed i n C as e N o.

05CW261 to meet post pumping augmentation requirements. Further, Applicant prays that this Court grant the application and for such other relief as seems proper in the premises. (5 pages).

lot wells which will withdraw the ground-

14water at rates of flow not to exceed 15

gpm. Sewage treatment for in-house use will be provided by non-evaporative septic systems. Return flows associated with in-house and irrigation use will be approximately 90% and 15% of the annual amount of water used for those purposes.

Stockwatering and use in water features is 100% consumed. During pumping Applicant will replace actual depletions to the affected stream system pursuant to Section 37-90-137(9)(c.5), C.R.S. Depletions occur to the Running Creek stream system and the actual depletion is 15.9% of the annual amount withdrawn at 300 years of pumping. Return flows from in-house and irrigation use accrue to the South Platte River stream systems, and return flows will be sufficient to replace actual depletions while the subject groundwater is being pumped. Applicant will reserve an equal amount of the nontributary Arapahoe and Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer gr oundw ater dec r eed i n C as e N o.

05CW261 to meet post pumping augmentation requirements. Further, Applicant prays that this Court grant the application and for such other relief as seems proper in the premises. (5 pages).

November 28, 2013

Public Notice

SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1-3 NOTICE CONCERNING 2013 BUDGET AMENDMENT AND PROPOSED 2014 BUDGET

Public Notice NOTICE OF BUDGET Pursuant to 29-1-106, C.R.S.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all interested parties that the necessity has arisen to amend the Spring Valley Metropolitan District Nos. 1-3 (“Districts”) 2013 Budgets and that proposed 2014 Budgets have been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Districts; and that copies of the proposed Amended 2013 Budgets and 2014 Budgets have been filed at the District's offices, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado, where the same is open for public inspection; and that adoption of Resolutions Amending the 2013 Budgets and Adopting the 2014 Budgets will be considered at a public meeting of the Board of Directors of the Districts to be held at Running Creek Investments, L.L.C., 7108 South Alton Way, Bldg. M, Englewood, Colorado, on Monday, December 2, 2013, at 9:00 A.M. Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the Resolutions to Amend the 2013 Budgets and Adopt the 2014 Budgets, inspect and file or register any objections thereto.

Notice is hereby given that a proposed 13CW3123, Prairie Ridge Development, budget has been submitted to the LLC, 2104 Jackson Street, Golden, CO ELIZABETH FIRE PROTECTION DIS80401 (James Petrock, Petrock & TRICT for the 2014 fiscal year.

Fendel, 700 17th Street, #1800, Denver, CO 80202), APPLICATION FOR UNDERA copy of the proposed budget has been GROUND WATER RIGHTS FROM NOT filed in the office of the ELIZABETH FIRE NONTRIBUTARY SOURCE, CHANGE PUBLIC NOTICE PROTECTION DISTRICT, where same is THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY OF WATER RIGHTS, AND FOR APopen for public inspection. The proTHESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT PROVAL OF PLAN FOR AUGMENTANOTICE TO CREDITORS posed budget will be considered at a IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS TION, IN THE NOT NONTRIBUTARY UPEstate of Warren Arthur Bostrom, regular meeting of the ELIZABETH CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICPER DAWSON AQUIFER, ELBERT Deceased FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT to be ATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND COUNTY. 160 located in the W1/2SW1/4, Case Number: 2013 PR 30018 held at Station #1, 155 W. Kiowa Ave., OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS NE1/4SW1/4, and the NW1/4SE1/4 of Elizabeth, Colorado at 7:00 P.M. on MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN Section 23, T7S, R65W of the 6th P.M., All persons having claims against the December 10, 2013. Any interested THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR Elbert County, as shown on Attachment A SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN above-named estate are required to elector of the ELIZABETH FIRE PROTECBE FOREVER BARRED. hereto ("Subject Property"). Applicant is DISTRICT NOS. 1-3 present them to the Personal RepresentTION DISTRICT may inspect the prothe owner of the Subject Property. Source By /s/ Lisa A. Johnson, Secretary ative or to the District Court of Elbert posed budget for 2014 and file or register YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any of Water Rights: The Upper Dawson County, Colorado on or before March 14, any objections thereto at any time prior to party who wishes to oppose an applica2014 or the claims may be forever barred. aquifer is not nontributary as described in Legal Notice No.: 927838 the final adoption of the budget. tion, or an amended application, may file Sections 37-90-103(10.7), C.R.S. EstimFirst Publication: November 28, 2013 with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Lynn M. Vanatta-Perry ated Amount: In Case No. 05CW261, the Last Publication: November 28, 2013 Dated this 19th day of November, 2013.

Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement Attorney at Law Upper Dawson aquifer groundwater unPublisher: The Elbert County News ELIZABETH FIRE PROTECTION of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why 315 East San Miguel derlying the Subject Property was deDISTRICT the application should not be granted, or Colorado Springs, Colorado 80903 creed, except for 14.9 acre-feet per year BY: /s/ Wayne Austgen, Secretary why it should be granted only in part or on which was reserved for use through excertain conditions. Such Statement of OpPublic Notice Legal Notice No: 927829 empt wells. This application requests that Legal Notice No.: 927836 position must be filed by the last day of First Publication: November 14, 2013 the 14.9 acre-feet previously reserved be First Publication: November 28, 2013 DECEMBER 2013 (forms available on SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN decreed herein. Proposed Use: Domestic, Last Publication: November 28, 2013 Last Publication: November 28, 2013 www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s DISTRICT NO. 1 including inhouse use, commercial, irrigaPublisher: Elbert County News Publisher: The Elbert County News office), and must be filed as an Original NOTICE CONCERNING PROPOSED tion, livestock watering, fire protection, and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of AMENDMENT TO RULES and augmentation purposes, including each Statement of Opposition must also AND REGULATIONS Public Notice storage. Change of water rights: Decree be served upon the Applicant or information: Terms of augmentation plan Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all parties SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN decreed in Case No. 05CW261 decreed certificate of such service of mailing shall within the Service Area of Spring Valley DISTRICT NOS. 1-3 on July 28, 2006. The property which is be filed with the Water Clerk.

Metropolitan District No. 1 (the “DisPublic Notice NOTICE CONCERNING 2013 the subject of the decree is the Subject trict”), and any other interested parties, BUDGET AMENDMENT Property. Applicant is the owner of the Legal Notice No.: 927835 that the District will hold a public hearDISTRICT COURT, AND PROPOSED 2014 BUDGET groundwater which is the Subject of the First Publication: November 28, 2013 ing on Monday, December 2, 2013, at WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO decree. Proposed change: In the original Last Publication: November 28, 2013 9:00 a.m. at Running Creek InvestOCTOBER 2013 WATER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all interdecree, an augmentation plan was apPublisher: The Elbert County News ments, L.L.C., 7108 South Alton Way, RESUME PUBLICATION ested parties that the necessity has arisproved for the withdrawal of 13.6 acre-feet Bldg. M, Centennial, Colorado, to conTO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED en to amend the Spring Valley Metropolper year for 300 years of not nontributary sider adoption of a resolution authorizing IN WATER APPLICATIONS itan District Nos. 1-3 (“Districts”) 2013 Upper Dawson aquifer groundwater to be an amendment to the District’s Rules and Budgets and that proposed 2014 IN WATER DIV. 1 withdrawn through 16 individual wells for Regulations. A copy of the proposed Budgets have been submitted to the domestic use. Applicant requests that this amendment is on file at the District's ofBoard of Directors of the Districts; and Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are noUpper Dawson aquifer groundwater be fices, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, that copies of the proposed Amended tified that the following is a resume of all withdrawn in combination with the 14.9 Public Notice Lakewood, Colorado, where the same is 2013 Budgets and 2014 Budgets have water right applications and certain acre-feet per year requested herein pursuopen for public inspection. been filed at the District's offices, 141 Uniamendments filed in the Office of the Waant to the augmentation plan requested NOTICE OF BUDGET on Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colter Clerk during the month of OCTOBER herein. Description of plan for augmentaPursuant to 29-1-106, C.R.S. SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN orado, where the same is open for public 2013 for each County affected. tion: Groundwater to be augmented: 18.5 DISTRICT NO. 1 inspection; and that adoption of Resoluacre-feet per year for 300 years of Upper Notice is hereby given that a proposed By /s/ Lisa A. Johnson, Secretary tions Amending the 2013 Budgets and Ad13CW3123, Prairie Ridge Development, Dawson aquifer groundwater being 13.6 budget has been submitted to the opting the 2014 Budgets will be conLLC, 2104 Jackson Street, Golden, CO acre-feet per year for 300 years decreed ELIZABETH FIRE PROTECTION DISLegal Notice No.: 927839 sidered at a public meeting of the Board 80401 (James Petrock, Petrock & in Case No. 05CW261 and 4.9 acre-feet TRICT for the 2014 fiscal year.

First Publication: November 28, 2013 of Directors of the Districts to be held Fendel, 700 17th Street, #1800, Denver, per year for 300 years requested herein.

Last Publication: November 28, 2013 at Running Creek Investments, L.L.C., CO 80202), APPLICATION FOR UNDERWater rights for augmentation: Return A copy of the proposed budget has been Publisher: The Elbert County News GROUND WATER RIGHTS FROM NOT 7108 South Alton Way, Bldg. M, Engleflows from the use of not nontributary Upfiled in the office of the ELIZABETH FIRE NONTRIBUTARY SOURCE, CHANGE wood, Colorado, on Monday, Decemper Dawson aquifer and return flows from PROTECTION DISTRICT, where same is THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY OF WATER RIGHTS, AND FOR APber 2, 2013, at 9:00 A.M. Any elector or direct discharge of nontributary Aropen for public inspection. The proTHESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT PROVAL OF PLAN FOR AUGMENTAwithin the District may, at any time prior to apahoe and Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer posed budget will be considered at a IN PRIORITY ANY WATER RIGHTS TION, IN THE NOT NONTRIBUTARY UPthe final adoption of the Resolutions to groundwater also decreed in Case No. regular meeting of the ELIZABETH CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICPER DAWSON AQUIFER, ELBERT Amend the 2013 Budgets and Adopt the 05CW261. Statement of plan for augmentFIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT to be ATED WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND COUNTY. 160 located in the W1/2SW1/4, 2014 Budgets, inspect and file or register ation: 16.9 acre-feet per year for 300 held at Station #1, 155 W. Kiowa Ave., OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS NE1/4SW1/4, and the NW1/4SE1/4 of any objections thereto. years of the Upper Dawson aquifer Elizabeth, Colorado at 7:00 P.M. on MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN Section 23, T7S, R65W of the 6th P.M., groundwater will provide a water supply December 10, 2013. Any interested THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR Elbert County, as shown on Attachment A SPRING VALLEY METROPOLITAN for up to 26 single family residences. Deelector of the ELIZABETH FIRE PROTECBE FOREVER BARRED. hereto ("Subject Property"). Applicant is DISTRICT NOS. 1-3 mand for each residence will be 0.65 acreTION DISTRICT may inspect the prothe owner of the Subject Property. Source By /s/ Lisa A. Johnson, Secretary feet per year for in-house use (0.4 acreposed budget for 2014 and file or register YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that Public any Notice of Water Rights: The Upper Dawson feet), irrigation of 3500 square-feet of irrigany objections thereto at any time prior to party who wishes to oppose an applicaELBERTapplication, COUNTYmay VENDOR PMT OCTOBER 2013 aquifer is not nontributary as described in Legal Notice No.: 927838 ated area (0.2 acre-feet), and use in a wathe finalLIST adoption of the budget. tion, or an amended file Sections C.R.S. Estimter feature (0.05 acre-feet).

The Svcs remainClerk, P. O. Box 2038, ELBERT37-90-103(10.7), COUNTY VENDOR PMT LIST OCT. 2013 Co Social Dir. Assnwith the DuesWater And Registrations 1,250.00 J&A Traffic Products Operating Expense First Publication: 3,786.50 November Ri Tec 28, 2013 Operating Expense 330.00 ated Amount: In Case No. 05CW261, the 2013 ing 1.6 acre-feet per year 300 years Dated this 19thSupply day of November, Greeley, a verified Statement Csu for Extension DuesCO And80632, Registrations 3,482.04 J&S Contractors Operating2013.

Expense Last Publication: 51.60 November Richard28, Brown Reimbursement 59.80 Upper Dawson aquifer groundwater unPublisher: The Elbert CountyPorto News will be used for stockwatering and use in ELIZABETH FIRE PROTECTION of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why GENERaL FUND $261,908.42 Comcast Monthly Circuit Charges 598.70 James Robert Ware Reimbursement 78.00 Parker Potty Monthly Service 195.00 derlying Subject Property was debarns and stables. TheCommunity groundwater willOf Cothe application DISTRICT should not be granted, or HEaLTHthe FUND $5,849.71 Media Payment For Publication 92.50 Jerri Spear Reimbursement 116.50 Robert Rowland Reimbusrement 27.54 creed, except for 14.9 acre-feet per year be withdrawn through one or more large BY: Deere /s/ Wayne why itOperating should be granted only in part627.79 or on ROaD & BRIDGE FUND $390,059.05 Corporate Billing Llc Expense John CreditAustgen, Secretary Operating Expense 14,363.17 Rock Parts Company Vehicle Maintenance 3,634.79 which was reserved for use through excapacity wells which willCorrectional operate atHealthcare rates certain conditions.

Such Statement of OpSaLES & USE Tax FUND $707,599.47 Operating Expense 22,292.32 John Deere Financial Operating Expense 88,799.26 Rky Mtn Spring & Suspension Vehicle Maintenance 1,810.20 empt wells.

This application requests of flow over 15 gpm through central Legal Notice No.: 927836 Operating Expense must be filed by the last7,356.22 day of LEaF FUND $7,093.08that CreditaUnion Of waColoradoposition Operating Expense Kansas State Bank 4,608.99 Ron Turner Reimbursement 93.00 theHUMaN 14.9 acre-feet previously ter supply system, or through individual on First Publication: NovemberReimbursement 28, 2013 DECEMBER 2013 (forms available on SERVICES FUND reserved $54,321.13be D-J Petroleum Inc. Fuel 57,658.80 Kathrine Kruse Sylvester 44.31 Rt Services Corp Llc Monthly Service 266.43 decreed herein. FUND Proposed Use: Domestic, lot wells which will withdraw groundRETIREMENT $17,816.69 Debbiethe Jones Reimbursement 26.00 Kimball Midwest NovemberOperating 63.62 Running Creek Quick Lube Vehicle Maintenance 382.87 Last Publication: 28, 2013 Expense www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s IMPaCTinhouse FUND use, commercial, $19,919.95 DeeptoRock Monthly Service 8.45 Kimley-Horn & Associates Operating 1,000.00 Safe Guard Operating Expense 23.00 including irrigawater at rates of flow not exceed 15 Publisher: The Elbert County News Expense office), and must be filed as an Original CONSERVaTION TRUST fire $1,113.46 Industrial Operating Expense 636.16 Kiowa Creek Comm. Church Tanf Contract 3,289.00 Safety-Kleen Corp.

Operating Expense 243.00 tion, livestock watering, protection, gpm. Sewage treatmentDenver for in-house use and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of Drive Line Service Expense 1,379.56 L.G. Printing Co Operating Expense 67.75 Schmidt Construction Operating Expense 5,377.86 andTOTaLS augmentation purposes,$1,465,680.96 including will be provided by non-evaporative sepeach Operating Statement of Opposition must also Drive Train Industries Larry Ross Reimbursement 121.80 Seibert Equity Coop Operating Expense 1,360.00 storage. Change of water rights: Decree tic systems. Return flows associated with Incb e sOperating e r v e d uExpense p o n t h e A p p l i c1,924.56 ant or Vendor Name Description amt use Dvmwill Insurance Agency Applicant’s Operating Expenseand an affidavit 1,068.32 Lisa Mazzola Operating Expense 2,985.00 Sprint Monthly Service 710.16 information: Terms of augmentation plan in-house and irrigation be approxAttorney or 21st Century Equipment Maintenance E470 Hwy Authority Toll Chareges Lyle Sign Inc Nm 7165 Operating Expense 1,506.84 State Of Colorado Operating Expense 323.00 decreed in Case No. 05CW261 decreed imately 90%456.73 and 15% of Public the annual certificate of such service of mailing32.10 shall Abila Maint And Support 3,629.00 Eccog Dues And Registrations 5,802.25 Macmotors Vehicle Maintenance 53.64 State Wire Operating Expense 564.41 on July 28, 2006. The property which is amount of water used for those purposes. be filed with the Water Clerk.

Locksmith Operating Expense 3,110.00 & Service Training 379.30 Mcafee Inc Operating Expense 363.78 Stericycle Operating Expense 175.47 theAcoma subject of the Svc decree is the Subject Stockwatering and use inEaton waterSales features is Inc Advanced Quality Auto Vehicle Maintenance 30.60 Ec Coalition For Outreach Charity Event 1,850.58 Mcclain Cattle And Colts Operating Expense 200.00 Stone Oil Co Inc Fuel 38,778.67 Property. Applicant is the owner of the 100% consumed. During pumping ApplicLegal Notice No.: 927835 Afd Pavement Marking Operating Expense 52,684.52 Eide Baillyto the afProfessional November Services 28, 2013 26,340.00 Medved Ford Parts Operating Expense 73.35 Sue Link Reimbursement 48.00 groundwater which is the Subject of the ant will replace actual depletions First Publication: Agate Mutual Telephone Service fected stream system 23.05 pursuant Elbert County Dhhs Operating Expense Mhc Kenworth Operating Expense 3,809.23 Supercircuits Inc Operating Expense 213.34 decree.

Proposed change: In Monthly the original to Section Last Publication: November 28, 201360.57 Airgas Intermountain Operating Expense 758.07C.R.S. Ecca Operating 5,040.00 Mikes Backhoe Service Operating Expense 200.00 Susan Ludwig Operating Expense 148.75 decree, an augmentation plan was ap37-90-137(9)(c.5), Depletions ocPublisher: The Expense Elbert County News All Access Incwithdrawal of 13.6 Operating Expense 11,452.97 Creek Elbert County R&B Operating Expense 1,786.30 Mikes Garage Doors Operating Expense 687.90 Sweep Stakes Ulmtd Operating Expense 30.00 proved for the acre-feet cur to the Running stream system Services Operating Expense 225.00 Elbert CountyofTrsr Payroll Vendors 128,181.67 Mountain View Electric Monthly Services 319.04 Sylvia Goff Reimbursement 26.84 perAspen year Treatment for 300 years of not nontributary and the actual depletion is 15.9% the Asphalt Specialties Company Operating Expense 691,384.47 Elizabeth Cemetery Asscn.

Operating Expense 375.00 Neve’s Uniforms Inc Operating Expense 121.88 Sysco Food Svcs Operating Expense 6,269.14 Upper Dawson aquifer groundwater to be annual amount withdrawn at 300 years of Atco International Operating Expense 340.00 Elizabeth Chainand Saw Llc Operating Expense 59.00 Nextel Communications Monthly Service 2,183.21 The Lighthouse Operating Expense 129.36 withdrawn throughMfg 16 individual wells for pumping. Return flows from in-house Auto-Cholor Operating Expense FirePlatte Dept.

Operating Expense 300.00 Nilex Environmental Inc Operating Expense 474.00 Timotheos Inc Professional Services 5,000.00 domestic use.System Applicant requests that this irrigation use163.00 accrue toElizabeth the South Baby Bear Hugs Contract Expense 832.00 Elizabeth Storage October Storage 110.00 Parker Port-A-Potty Inc. Monthly Service 227.00 Tlc Auto Glass Vehicle Maintenance 205.00 Upper River stream122.96 systems, Enertia and return flowsGr Llc Barry Dawson Mitchell aquifer groundwater Operating be Expense Consulting Operating Expense 8,020.00 Parker Signs Operating Expense 160.00 Tlo Llc Operating Expense 112.00 withdrawn in combination with the 14.9 will be sufficient to replace actual depleBart Chambers Reimbursement 13.13 Fair Point Communications Monthly Service 248.72 Parker Trailer Service Inc Vehicle Maintenance 438.68 Tom Beshore Reimbursement 92.00 acre-feet perI.year requested herein pursutions while the395.50 subject groundwater is beBass Viva Reimbursement/Contract Wages Fastenal Company Operating Expense 39.32 Partmaster Operating Expense 167.97 Town Of Kiowa Monthly Utilities 8,503.65 antDhhs to the augmentation planPiano requested ApplicantFlatirons will reserve an Client Lessons ing pumped.204.00 Inc Operating Expense 300.00 Arnold And Associates Atty Fees 6,850.00 Town Of Simla Monthly Utilities 117.07 herein. augmentaequal amount of the Foothills nontributary Berg Description Hill Greenleafof plan forMissile Silo Dispute 4,080.00 Paving Ar& Main.

Operating Expense 22,330.00 Paul Crisan Reimbursement 76.00 Transwest Trucks Operating Expense 1,332.69 tion: to be augmented: 18.5 apahoe and 440.72 Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer BigGroundwater O Tires Operating Expense Frontier Business Product Monthly Service 2,892.02 Phoenix Technology Operating Expense 8,250.00 Truckhugger Operating Expense 149.40 acre-feet perEnergy year for 300 years of Upper gr oundwater decr eed in Case No. Black Hills Monthly Utility Charges 827.20 Frontier Communications Montly Service 995.96 Pioneer Plumbing & Heating Operating Expense 1,287.50 True Value Hardware Operating Expense 452.90 Dawson aquifer groundwater Operating being 13.6 05CW261 to8,747.45 meet post pumping augmentBoral Aggregates Expense G&K Services Operating Expense 317.68 Pioneer Sand Company Operating Expense 381.43 Tyler Technologies Operating Expense 8,081.00 acre-feet per year for 300 years decreed ation requirements.

Applicant Brown Farms And Ranches Operating Expense 3,025.00 Further, Glaser Gas Company Propane 129.50 Pitney Bowes Inc Postage 1,221.00 Ups Sept Shipments 15.21 in Bulk CaseOffice No. Supply 05CW261 and 4.9 acre-feet prays that this157.22 Court grant theA.application Operating Expense Glenn Ohrns Contract Wages 1,200.00 Ponderosa Valley Funeral Operating Expense 830.00 Usa Mobility Monthly Service 66.79 perCarolyn year for 300 years requested herein. as seems proper Burgener Contract Wages and for such other 200.00reliefGmco Corporation Operating Expense 30,342.50 Postmaster General Postage 800.00 Verizon Wireless Monthly Service 773.24 Water rightsFinancial for augmentation: Return in the premises.

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Caterpillar Services Operating Expense 6,300.64 Grainger Operating Expense 844.79 Potestio Brothers Operating Expense 2,330.41 Wagner Equipment Hose,Couplings 1,169.78 flows the use of not nontributary Cdwfrom Government OperatingUpExpense 1,088.44 Great West Life & Annuity County Retirement 39,208.60 Power Motive Corp Operating Expense 251.60 Waste Management Monthly Utilities 714.31 perCentennial Dawson Mental aquiferHealth and returnOperating flows from THE WATER60.00 RIGHTS CLAIMED BY Expense Ground Engineering Operating Expense 8,405.00 Precinct Police Products Operating Expense 645.86 Witt Boys-Napa Vehicle Maintenance 2,028.12 or Central direct States discharge THESE APPLICATIONS MAY Kennel AFFECT Hose of nontributary OperatingArExpense 18.85 Hallcrest Operating Expense 1,440.00 Pronghorn Country Ace Vehicle Maintenance 94.81 Wrigley Enterprises Office Supplies 98.00 apahoe and Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer IN PRIORITY ANY WATER Centurylink Monthly Phone Charges 2,062.83 Heads UpRIGHTS Colorado Youth Tanf Contract 3,562.50 Psychological Dimensions Operating Expense 875.00 Xerox Corporation Monthly Service 1,017.41 groundwater also decreed inOperating Case No. Certified Laboratories Expense Hewlett ADJUDICPackard Operating Expense 6,529.86 Purewater Dynamics Inc Monthly Utilities 50.00 Y Time Monthly Service 63.84 CLAIMED OR243.90 HERETOFORE Chemtox Statement of plan for Operating Expense 20.00 Depot Credit 113.06 Quill Corporation Office Supplies 980.18 05CW261. augmentATED WITHIN THIS Home DIVISION AND Service Operating Expense City Of16.9 Golden K9 Vehicle HoneybeeRIGHTS Pumping Service Operating Expense 305.00 Qwest Monthly Service 2,728.60 Legal Notice No.: 927837 ation: acre-feet per year for 300 OWNERS 7,500.00 OF AFFECTED Cmi Inc Operating Expense 25.00 Honnen Equipment 1,739.44 Ranchland News Operating Expense 25.00 First Publication: November 28, 2013 years of the Upper Dawson aquifer MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN Company Operating Expense Colorado Community Ordinance 13-01 Publication 242.25 IleneSTATUTE Allison Operating Expense 1,672.20 Dhhs Client Operating Expense 600.00 Last Publication: November 28, 2013 groundwater will provide a water supply THE TIME PROVIDED BY OR Healthfamily & Evrmt OperatingDeExpense 1,823.00 Irea Monthly Service Charges 8,940.10 Recall Secure Destruction Operating Expense 156.67 Publisher: The Elbert County News forCo upDept to 26Ofsingle residences.

BE FOREVER BARRED. Colorado Ninjutsu Centerwill bePssf Program 390.00 Interstate Battery Of Co Operating Expense 183.90 Reliable Sanitation Operating Expense 1,650.00 mand for each residence 0.65 acreCoper Secretary Of in-house State Expense 60.00 NOTIFIED Inventory Trading Co Operating Expense 606.00 Revize Llc Operating Expense 1,800.00 feet year for useOperating (0.4 acreYOU ARE HEREBY that any feet), irrigation of 3500 square-feet of irrigparty who wishes to oppose an applicaated area (0.2 acre-feet), and use in a wation, or an amended application, may file ter feature (0.05 acre-feet). The remainwith the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, ing 1.6 acre-feet per year for 300 years Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement will be used for stockwatering and use in of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why barns and stables. The groundwater will the application should not be granted, or be withdrawn through one or more large why it should be granted only in part or on capacity wells which will operate at rates certain conditions. Such Statement of Opof flow over 15 gpm through a central waposition must be filed by the last day of ter supply system, or through individual on DECEMBER 2013 (forms available on lot wells which will withdraw the groundwww.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s water at rates of flow not to exceed 15 office), and must be filed as an Original gpm. Sewage treatment for in-house use and include $158.00 filing fee. A copy of will be provided by non-evaporative sepeach Statement of Opposition must also tic systems. Return flows associated with be served upon the Applicant or in-house and irrigation use will be approxApplicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or imately 90% and 15% of the annual certificate of such service of mailing shall amount of water used for those purposes. be filed with the Water Clerk.

Stockwatering and use in water features is 100% consumed. During pumping ApplicLegal Notice No.: 927835 ant will replace actual depletions to the afFirst Publication: November 28, 2013 fected stream system pursuant to Section Last Publication: November 28, 2013 37-90-137(9)(c.5), C.R.S. Depletions ocPublisher: The Elbert County News cur to the Running Creek stream system and the actual depletion is 15.9% of the annual amount withdrawn at 300 years of pumping. Return flows from in-house and irrigation use accrue to the South Platte River stream systems, and return flows will be sufficient to replace actual depletions while the subject groundwater is being pumped. Applicant will reserve an equal amount of the nontributary Arapahoe and Laramie-Fox Hills aquifer g ro u n d wa te r de cr eed i n C ase N o.

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“Roxborough Shadows” by Sina March, oil 20” x 30,” won an honorable mention in the 12th Annual Lone Tree Art Exhibition and Sale. Courtesy of Dustin Ellingboe

Art event is class act at Lone Tree center 100 works are on display in center

By Sonya Ellingboe

sellingboe@ourcoloradonews.com While it will be easier to get a good look at the art at a later date, it was genuinely rewarding to see the large crowd of art lovers who turned out for the Nov. 16 opening reception of the 12th Annual Lone Tree Art Exhibition and Sale, displayed at the Lone Tree Arts Center through Jan. 5. Soft classical music by the Mountain Air String Quartet drifted through the spacious lobby of the center.

Fine Arts Commission Chair Lucius Brooker announced that there had been 330 entries from across Colorado as well as Wyoming and South Carolina for juror Katharine Smith-Warren to judge. She selected a total of 100 art works by 68 artists for the show and they fill the lobby, a central hall and sitting room to the rear.

Smith-Warren, a Denver artist, teacher and curator, has extensive experience in the metro area, where she presently oversees the Visiting Artist program at Art Students League of Denver and teaches a class on “The Denver Art Scene” for the Enrichment Program at the University of Denver’s University College.

She spoke briefly at the opening,

saying she was impressed and hoped everything sold. In her statement, she complimented the range of work.

“There was work that was intellectually challenging, images that evoked memories and work that displayed curiosity and new ideas.”

The art is skillfully arranged in Lone Tree curator Sally Perisho’s installation.

Smith-Warren awarded the “Best in Show” ribbon to accomplished artist Linda Lowry’s oil painting, “Water Nymphs,” a horizontal (12”x55”) picture of a row of happy splashing children in the water. Lowry, who lives in Boulder, is a former Arapahoe Community College instructor. Her skilled painting technique invites a close look. This is one from a delightful 2012 Denver gallery one-woman exhibit on the water nymph theme. She will win the opportunity to mount a solo show at the center in 2014.

Awards for oils: First, “Don Quixote’s Ghost” by Rosa Knoblock, an imaginative bit of storytelling. Second was “Last Light” by Tracy Haines, which depicts a snowy road heading into the woods. Third in oils is Jane Smith’s “On the Edge,” an abstracted visit to the water’s edge. Honorable mentions: Sina March, Charlene Goldman and Heather Arenas.

Watercolorist Sandra Daney took first place in Water Media with “Umbrella Day,” a city street scene and Alice Riley’s nicely composed “Gloam-

IF YOU GO Lone Tree Arts Center is at 10075 Commons Street, near the Lincoln and Ridgegate intersection. The exhibit will be open for viewers from 10 am. to 4 p.m.

Mondays through Fridays and prior to performances. Admission is free. Art can be purchased through the box office. 720-509-1101. ing” won second. Jurgen Sander’s strongly colored abstract “Untitled II” has a Third Place ribbon and Honorable Mention went to Martha Heppard’s charming “American Avocets, Batik.”

Mixed Media ribbons were awarded to: Jennifer Davey, First for her large yellow abstract “Uncovering;” Second to Cherri LaMarr’s sober portrait, “The Girl in the Green Chair” and Third to Ron Gebhardt’s humorous “Portrait of Adam With Tattoo,” an overweight male nude in repose. Mixed Media Honorable Mentions were awarded to Judith Bennett’s warmly colored abstract, “Subtle Interplay” and Valerie Savage’s unique “Reflecting on the First Flight” — carved from an old book, with painting added.

Pastel awards included Laurie Sorkin’s soft father and son portrait, “Kite Flying”; Tracy Haines’ deeply colored “Rox Park Down” and Loretta Foyle’s horizontal landscape “In the Shadows.

Fred Lunger’s “Mountain Bluebird” and Tania Rustage’s “Imbalance” won in Sculpture.

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MEDICINE. University of Colorado Hospital is excited to bring you a helpful and informative seminar series at the Lone Tree Health Center. Get your questions answered and learn more about your health from the University of Colorado School of Medicine physicians, right here in your neighborhood.

UPCOMING SEMINAR: CHRONIC SINUSITIS: Breathe a little easier.

Presented by: Cristina Cabrera–Muffly, MD Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology Wednesday, November 20, 2013 6:00 – 7:00pm Is it a cold or chronic sinusitis? Join us for a discussion on the symptoms and treatments.

Cost: Free

CLASSES OFFERED AT: Lone Tree Health Center 9548 Park Meadows Drive Lone Tree, CO 80124 TO REGISTER GO TO: WWW.UCH.EDU/LONETREE Or call Amy Hurley at 720-553-1127 or 720-848-2200