Englewood Herald March 20, 2025

Littleton welcomes family-owned grocery

Fresh Market & Community Kitchen provides ethnic, organic and traditional food items

BY ISABEL GUZMAN

Nestled in Littleton’s Woodlawn Shopping Center, the recently opened Fresh Market & Community Kitchen provides a new grocery option in the community. e grocery store o ers a diverse selection of products, ranging from organic and traditional produce to Asian spices and Middle Eastern delicacies, alongside a variety of other international items.

Fresh Market & Community Kitchen ofcially opened its doors about a month ago and has transformed the space once occupied by a Family Dollar store. e grocery business is owned and operated by Husain Abdulla, his family and other employees.

“Including part-time and full-time em-

ployees, we have 25 people who work here. Well, 27 if you count my two daughters, who are 5 and 4 years old,” Abdulla said. e idea for the store was born out of necessity. After attending an event in downtown Littleton, Abdulla’s wife wanted to pick up groceries on the way home. She wanted to nd a nearby halal market or a store that carries foods that cater to Islamic dietary values. Discovering that the closest halal market is in Denver, Abdulla saw an opportunity.

“I was already looking for a space to open a project,” he said. “So then it just hit me and I said hold on, why not here? I drove around (this area) and saw a good population here.”

During the King Soopers strikes in February, Abdulla said his store had a soft opening.

“People said they were glad we’re open,” Abdulla said.

Organic and traditional fruits and vegetables are housed at the front of the store near the registers. Walking down the aisles lled with Arabic teas, local honey jars and African treats, a shopper would nd the meat market at the back of the store, which o ers fresh beef, lamb, goat and chicken.

In addition to lling the gap for access to halal foods, Abdulla was motivated by the rising demand for a ordable organic produce. With the support of his family and nancial assistance from the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, Abdulla’s vision for selling healthy and various foods began taking shape.

Center for homeless set to open next month

BY ELISABETH SLAY ESLAY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

e Englewood facility that houses the Tri-Cities Homelessness Navigation Center and the Bridge House Ready-to-Work program will o cially open to the public in April, after being delayed last year.

Following a tour of the facility on March 7, Englewood City Manager Shawn Lewis said the city is looking forward to the opening of the facility.

“We’re just so excited about the opportunity that this is going to provide Englewood and the TriCities,” Lewis said. “To be able to take people out of homelessness and into a stable, living environment where they can receive job skills and navigation, caseworkers and those wraparound services will really help them get into permanent housing with successful lives ahead of them.”

On one side of the 13,150 square-foot facility, located at 4675 S. Windermere St., will be the Ready-to-Work program of Bridge House, a Boulder-based nonpro t that provides services for adults experiencing homelessness. at side of the building will contain 49 beds for unhoused individuals who are seeking housing placement and other services.

e Ready-to-Work (RTW) program is a year-long residential employment program designed to help people experiencing homelessness back into a full-time working

Fresh Market & Community Kitchen opened in February and is located in Woodlawn Shopping Center in Littleton.

PHOTO BY ISABEL GUZMAN

GraceFull Cafe says goodbye at open house

Guests reflected on favorite memories, formed lines to hug owners goodbye

BY ISABEL GUZMAN ISABEL@COTLN.ORG

Guests of Littleton’s GraceFull Community Cafe shared homemade cinnamon rolls, embraced each other tearfully and re ected on their favorite memories of the cafe during a farewell event for the cafe on March 8.

Attendees wrote on neon paper squares of all di erent colors messages like: “I will always remember GraceFull for…” e cafe, known for its pay-what-youcan model and mission to foster connection and combat food insecurity, permanently closed on Feb. 15 after serving the community for eight years. Owners Heather and Troy Greenwood announced the closure in a Facebook post, citing the increasing challenges of recent years and the overwhelming demands of their work.

Heather and Troy Greenwood spent the morning of March 8 greeting roughly 100 attendees. Eventually, the packed cafe formed lines to give farewell hugs.  Since opening in 2016, GraceFull Community Cafe has made a deep impact. Volunteers contributed 33,626 hours, enabling the cafe to provide 251,828 free meals. Guest donations totaled $513,458 over its lifetime — gures proudly displayed near the cash register as a testament to its community-driven mission. While the Greenwoods did not specify a reason for closing during the farewell

event, the Feb. 15 post acknowledged that sustaining the cafe had become too di cult for their family.

ey expressed gratitude to everyone who had been part of GraceFull’s jour-

ney: “GraceFull was created as a community that gathers together across the table. Each of you made this community what it was.”

Although the cafe has closed its doors,

Englewood car museum will close in July

Redevelopment plans will shutter Rodz & Bods Museum Movie Cars & More

BY ELISABETH SLAY ESLAY@COLORAOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

An Englewood-based museum that caters to car enthusiasts recently announced it plans to close in July, due to upcoming redevelopment plans for the property where it’s located.

Rodz & Bods Museum Movie Cars & More is located at 401 Englewood Plaza. e property is owned by Kimco Development.

“We’re either closing or severely downsizing,” said the museum’s owner Zack Lo ert. “Being on a 30-day lease at any time, we just can’t sit idle and wait to see what happens. We kinda have to be proactive.”

Kimco is undergoing a proposed hotel and apartment development that was approved by the Englewood City Council on Feb. 18 during a meeting.

Lo ert said that while the museum in Englewood will de nitely be closing, he hopes to reopen Rodz & Bodz in Colorado in some capacity — be it downgrading to a building with less square footage or building his own location.

“If a miracle building pops up or something happens where we downsize and

we reopen in a smaller location,” Lo ert said. “All that’s up for negotiation. We’re working on a few di erent options.”

Rodz and Bodz rst started in 2017.

“We started renting out cars for movies, weddings, commercials, anything you could think of to rent a cool car. at’s what we did,” Lo ert said.

He said he will go back to doing rentals full time after the museum closes.

ere are over 80 cars displayed on the oor at the museum, but Lo ert said the overall collection contains over 180 cars.

“I’ve bought vehicles from other collectors, other museums. I go out and source them and nd them every week,” Lo ert said. “I’m looking for vehicles, whether it’s cars, bikes, anything from movies, TV shows — and if we can’t nd it or buy it, we build it.”

Lo ert said out of the 180 vehicles, about 48 of them are cars that were actually used in movies or television shows, and the remaining are replicas he has built himself.

Lo ert will put the vehicles in his collection back in storage, and they won’t be on display for the public anymore.

Lo ert said people have loved visiting his museum, and many people have expressed disappointment since he announced its closure.

“Unfortunately it’s a sign of the times,” Lo ert said. “You look left or right and you see all these companies closing and all they’re doing is building more apartments or condos or townhomes or what

not, so we’re losing all the stu to do.”

Lo ert said he plans to host a farewell party of sorts in July.

“We’re gonna be doing a lot of giveaways and we’re gonna have a lot of cars

out,” Lo ert said. “We have di erent cars out every day…It’s going to be like a nice farewell party.”

For more information on the museum, visit https://rodzandbodzmuseum.com/.

the GraceFull Foundation is partnering with e Life Center to continue providing free meals Monday through Friday from noon to 1:30 p.m. at 5804 S. Datura St.

Guests visit GraceFull Cafe in Littleton for a goodbye open house on March 8, 2025. PHOTO BY ISABEL GUZMAN

Ecto-1 from the 1984 classic film “Ghostbusters” sits on the floor at the Rodz & Bodz Museum Movie Cars & More, owned by Zack Lo ert. The museum is located at 401 Englewood Parkway and will close its doors in July.

PHOTO BY ELISABETH SLAY

Homes Are Still Selling, Buyers Are Still Buying, But Market Is Slowed Down By Chaos in DC

It’s clear to real estate professionals that, although some buyers must buy and some sellers must sell, buyers and sellers who are not under pressure to do a deal are looking and listening before buying or selling a home. These are complicated times!

The statistics below reflect a slowing of the real estate market within 25 miles of downtown Denver — and likely nationwide. Due to space limitations, I’m only including statistics for the first two months of the last six years, but it’s instructive to see how these months compare year-over-year. At htttp://RealEstateToday.substack.com I have included all 12 months of each year. Although every other metric documents a slowing market, the median closed prices set a record for both January and February:

Meanwhile, look at how many listings expired without selling during the same months:

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The number of active listings is surging, but the number sold listings is dropping, as shown in these two charts:

That has resulted in the higher inventory of unsold listings in recent months:

Another important metric is the ratio of closed price to original listing price. During the pandemic, more than half the listings sold for as much as 4% above the listing price as a result of bidding wars, but look how that metric has changed:

With the “spring selling season” coming up, I find it hard to be optimistic about the real estate market, because it appears that the chaos we’re seeing in our national government is only going to get worse, and markets don’t like uncertainty.

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This week I learned why, thanks to an email from Alpine Building Performance. Here’s what they wrote:

“If the screws used to attach the window well touch the metal bars (rebar) inside the concrete, it creates rust. This happens because electricity flows between the metals, causing the window well to rust faster.

“This is why sometimes you will see one window well completely rusted through and the other window wells in the home showing no signs of rust. Many people think that rusty window wells can be sanded and painted with a rust inhibitor to keep it from rusting further. This is not true.

“The window well rusts from the dirt side in, so once you see rust inside the window well, it has already made it through the entire thickness of the metal. Unfortunately, the only remedy to the rust issue is a full window well replacement.

“When having your window well replaced, make sure that it is replaced in a manner that it will not rust prematurely again.”

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Unfortunately, that company is in Fort

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Coalition plans ‘right to know’ ballot initiative

Recent laws have restricted public view of lawmaker activity

BY ROBERT DAVIS COLORADO NEWSLINE

A broad coalition of transparency advocates plans to submit a ballot initiative in 2026 to amend Colorado’s constitution and strengthen public access to government records.

e initiative is led by Jon Caldara of the Denver-based Independence Institute, a Libertarian think tank. Fifty groups are part of the coalition, some of which have historically held little shared political ground. ey include as the Rocky Mountain Voice, League of Women Voters, the Colorado Press Association, the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, and several others.

e nal draft of the ballot measure is still being worked out. Even so, Je rey Roberts, executive director of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, told Newsline that it will address a range of issues, from the cost of public records to establishing a uniform right to access government records and addressing open meeting law requirements.

“Everybody needs to know what their government is doing,” Roberts said.

e group has been meeting monthly, both on Zoom and at the Independence Institute, to discuss how to address the transparency issues at the State Capitol. One law that has united the group is Senate Bill 24-157, which was passed by the Democrat-controlled Legislature in 2024. e bill created exemptions to the state open meetings law for written and electronic communications among lawmakers.

SB-157 was passed after a judge ordered Democrats to stop using a secret electronic voting system, also known as quadratic voting, to decide which bills to debate. e judge said the system appeared to be set up to abide by the open meetings law but violated its spirit.

Transparency advocates asked lawmakers to repeal the exemptions before the 2025 session convened, but nding the right coalition of lawmakers has been

di cult, because they are basically asking lawmakers to police themselves, Tim Regan-Porter, CEO of the Colorado Press Association, told Newsline.

Regan-Porter added that government transparency and the public’s ability to access government records has been steadily declining over the last several years. Part of the issue is that bad-faith actors have tried to ood public records o ces with requests, he said. e cost of public records — which currently sits at $41.37 per hour — has also become a concern for many media organizations, and has compounded the economic challenges media organizations in Colorado face, Regan-Porter added.

“Sometimes things go unreported because we don’t have access to the data, and we should be making it easier for reporters and the public to be able to know what’s going on,” Regan-Porter said.

Beth Hendrix, executive director of the League of Women Voters, told Newsline that the “right to know” initiative is about more than protecting journalists and the media. It’s also about ensuring voters remain informed about what their elected o cials are doing, and making sure the issues voters care about are being addressed.

“A democracy works best when everyone’s involved, when everyone is voting and discussing and debating,” Hendrix told Newsline.

Multiple bills introduced during the 2025 session would further limit government transparency. For instance, HB251041 sought to exempt student-athlete name, image and likeness agreements from the Colorado Open Records Act before it was amended to apply only to personally identi able information.

Lawmakers have also advanced Senate Bill 25-77, a bill to extend the timeline for responses to open records requests from three days to ve. e bill would also require agencies to accept electronic payments for CORA requests and a breakdown of all costs and fees levied as part of a response. It is sponsored by a bipartisan coalition including Democratic Sen. Cathy Kipp of Fort Collins and Republican Sen. Janice Rich of Grand Junction as well as Democratic Rep. Michael

Carter of Boulder and Republican Rep. Matt Soper of Delta.

Republican lawmakers Lori Garcia Sander of Eaton and Byron Pelton of Sterling introduced House Bill 25-1242, a bill that would undo the open meeting law exemptions that were passed in 2024. However, the bill had no Democratic cosponsors and was assigned to the House State, Civic, Military & Veterans A airs committee, otherwise known as the “kill committee.” e committee on Monday voted 8-3 against the bill, and it was postponed inde nitely.

Open records bill

e bills introduced by Kipp, Garcia Sander, and Pelton had their rst hearing Monday. During the hearing, Soper said SB-77 seeks to clean up a couple of provisions in CORA that are di cult for smaller public agencies to abide by. He said small organizations like the Delta County Memorial Hospital District — the board of which Soper sits on — often cannot respond to records requests within three days. Also, it also clari es the procedure for responding to requests when an agency records custodian is out of the o ce.

Carter said he does not intend for SB77 to be used to attack legitimate records requests from the news media and Colorado citizens. Soper added that the bill treats news media separate from requesters using the information for “pecuniary gain,” because records requests from news media tend to be limited in scope and easier to respond to.

People opposed to the bill pushed back against SB-77’s carve-out for news media organizations, arguing that it discourages citizen journalists from submitting records requests. Cory Gaines, who writes a Substack blog called the Colorado Accountability Project, added that it makes some bad assumptions about the responsiveness of records custodians.

“I shouldn’t be treated as a secondclass requester when my taxes pay the bills in this state,” Gaines said.

Heather Stau er, Colorado Municipal League legislative advocacy manager, argued that SB-77 should treat all requesting entities the same, meaning there

should be no carve-out for the news media. Stau er added that the bill would provide some “much needed exibility” to governments to respond to records requests.

SB-77 was amended to clarify when custodians can deny records requests, and it passed the committee by a vote of 8-3. It will be heard next by the full House.

Open meeting law changes

Garcia Sander said HB-1242 was needed because lawmakers adopted exemptions for themselves to the state’s open meeting law in 2024. She cited examples of how the law has been misused to shield lawmakers from scrutiny like when journalists with e Colorado Sun were not allowed to attend a virtual caucus meeting and debates over property taxes before last year’s special session.

“ is is our chance to restore public trust,” Garcia Sander said. “Transparency is not a Republican or Democrat issue.”

Lawmakers on the committee argued that the bill could make their jobs more di cult. Democratic Rep. Chad Cli ord argued that the 2024 open meeting law revisions allowed lawmakers to have private conversations that are similar to executive sessions that local governments can have. He added that he “has never seen something as open” as Colorado’s 120-day legislative session.

Democratic Rep. Cecelia Espenoza of Denver said the private conversations can be used to compromise on issues.

Caldera said the objections raised were “non-issues.” He added that the bill is not designed to limit private conversations between lawmakers. It is intended to ensure that meetings between lawmakers that are subject to the open meeting law remain open to the public.

“ e public is begging for transparency and accountability,” Republican Rep. Brandi Bradley of Littleton said. “I don’t love getting CORA requests, but it holds me accountable. It keeps me on my toes.” is story is from Colorado Newsline. Used by permission. For more, and to support the news organization, visit coloradonewsline.com.

Bill in legislature seeks to refund child care waitlist fees

BY ANN SCHIMKE CHALKBEAT

Colorado parents may soon be able to recover some of the waitlist or application fees they’ve paid to child care programs if their children don’t land a spot within six months.

at’s one of the provisions of a bill that advanced out of the House Health and Human Services committee March 11, clearing its third legislative hurdle this winter. e original version of the bill would have capped waitlist fees at $25 and required child care programs to publicly post tuition and fees, but both components have been watered down since then.

Democratic sponsors of the bill said it will still provide some relief to families who pay hundreds of dollars in waitlist fees, sometimes to a dozen or more child care programs. In order to get the fees

back, parents would have to make a written request to the child care programs where their children didn’t get seats. In addition, the programs would be allowed to keep part of the fees families paid — an amount that eventually will be determined by the Colorado Department of Early Childhood. Families that are o ered a spot at a child care center but decline it, would not recoup any of the fees they paid.

If the bill becomes law, it will take e ect Jan. 1, 2026.

Rep. Jenny Willford, one of the bill sponsors, described during Tuesday’s hearing the toll that multiple waitlist fees take on families. She said a friend shared that in her search for child care she’d joined 16 waitlists, with most costing $100 to $200 each.

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Some solar sales include misleading info, critics say

Groups hope to see state law that protects consumers

BY SHARON SULLIVAN COLORADO NEWSLINE

A young and persuasive salesperson came to Grand Junction resident Brandon Keen’s home last summer selling residential rooftop solar systems. Keen was interested in solar, so he listened to the salesperson’s spiel.

Keen said the Go Brite Solar salesperson told him that a Colorado grant would pay for the solar panels and installation and that Our World Energy, a solar company headquartered in Arizona, with locations in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, was one of only a few companies approved to install the system. Keen signed up to lease the panels.

Go Brite Solar, with locations in multiple states, is a “sales only” company that solicits solar systems door-to-door then sells the contracts to a solar installation company like Our World Energy.

Go Brite Solar’s website states “Hint: We don’t work for solar companies, we work for you.”

After signing a contract, Keen learned from a neighbor who had his solar panels installed by a longtime local company that the solar incentives are not grants but, instead, a collection of state and federal tax credits for people who owe taxes. And that’s only with a purchase — not lease — of the solar. When a person leases the solar panels, the tax credit goes to the lending institution nancing the project. Some utility providers o er rebates for solar as well.

Keen also learned that any certi ed solar company could do the installation. He canceled his contract with Our World Energy.

“It was a brokerage group that came to our door,” Keen, 38, said. “We were tricked on how he presented it. I’m not sure if he understood the incentive program.”

Colorado Newsline attempted to reach Go Brite Solar for comment by calling both of the phone numbers listed on its website. One number reached an answering machine for Utah Online School, according to the greeting. Messages left by a reporter were not returned. A man answered a call to the second number, identifying as Cove Home Security, a company in Draper, Utah.

In recent years there’s been an uptick in Colorado, and across the nation, in

door-to-door solar “sales only” solicitors accused of predatory and misleading practices. ey’re solar brokers who then sell the contracts to solar installation companies — some of whom have gone out of business or moved, leaving customers stranded when a problem arises or with incomplete systems. e o ce of Attorney General Phil Weiser would not con rm or otherwise comment on any potential investigations into deceptive solar sales practices, said AG spokesperson Elliot Goldbaum.

Consumer protection legislation

e Colorado Solar and Storage Association expects to support consumer protection legislation at the Colorado Legislature in the coming weeks. e consumer protection bill, if it’s introduced, would provide guidelines not only for sales-only companies but also for solar installation businesses.

“We’re tired of seeing unethical people selling solar in Colorado,” said Mike Kruger, the COSSA CEO and president. “ e bill will put up guardrails, and spell out expectations for behavior of salespersons.”

Grand Junction resident Ted Juntilla,

68, is a disabled military veteran who had been considering solar when a person selling for Our World Energy came to his door in June 2024. Juntilla said the salesperson told him that the solar installation would be free and that his utility bills would remain the same for the next 25 years.

However, Juntilla’s solar system would not have been free — instead, it would have been nanced over a period of years with no upfront costs. Customers pay a monthly fee, basically trading a utility bill for a nance payment.

Juntilla said he felt pressured to decide quickly, because he was told that his utility provider Grand Valley Power would allow only a certain percentage of homes in his subdivision to install solar systems. However, when Juntilla contacted the electric cooperative he was told that was not the case.

Grand Valley Power is a member of Colorado Rural Electric Association, a nonpro t that represents and serves 21 Colorado electric co-ops. Grand Valley Power spokesperson Rita Sanders said Grand Valley Power does not currently restrict, or in the past restricted, anyone from installing solar due to system ca-

“Solar scams usually happen door-todoor, and ramp up when there are incentives like there are currently.”

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pacity. However, that could change in the future if local solar generation meets or exceeds demand in the same area, which poses challenges to maintaining a safe and reliable grid, Sanders said in an email to Newsline.

Juntilla also learned that Our World Energy had pulled a building permit for his property from the Mesa County Building Department, without his permission.

“ ere was no mention of doing that during the sales pitch,” Juntilla said. “I didn’t sign anything. It really irritated me. It seems unscrupulous not to notify me.”

Attempts to reach Our World Energy by phone and email were unsuccessful. A third-party agent answered the phone, and told a reporter that someone from the company would call back.

San Isabel Electric is a CREA member based in Pueblo West, serving customers in southern Colorado. San Isabel spokesperson Paris Daugherty said San Isabel receives a lot of calls from its members asking if the co-op is associated with a particular door-to-door salesperson.

“Sometimes (the sales associates) say they are San Isabel Electric and want to inspect the meter,” Daugherty said. “It’s frustrating to us. We do not do door-todoor meter inspections.”

San Isabel Electric told Ion Solar, headquartered in Provo, Utah, that it was misrepresenting itself by saying it was with the electric co-op, and that it was impersonating the co-op, which is a crime. She said that after San Isabel contacted local media Ion Solar stopped the practice.

Grand Junction resident Ted Juntilla said he felt pressured to buy a solar system for his home by a sales associate who provided incorrect information. PHOTO BY SHARON SULLIVAN FOR COLORADO NEWSLINE

SOLAR SALES

However, other companies in the San Isabel area continue to mislead residents, Daugherty said. She said it’s di cult to confront the sales associates, because they do not wear clothing identifying who they work for, they drive vehicles without a business logo, and they do not give out business cards.

“It’s di cult to gure out what company they’re working for,” she said.

It’s not just sales-only companies that are engaging in misleading sales practices. ere are also y-by-night installers who do not nish installations they were hired to do, Daugherty said.

“ ere is tremendous opportunity for solar in southern Colorado. In our area there are a wide range of installers and sales companies that do great work. ( e unethical companies) are ruining it for reputable businesses.”

Scams increasing

Both the declining cost of solar, and the availability of incentives o ered by the federal government — whose goal during the Biden administration was to transition to a 100% carbon-free electric grid by 2035 — has led to an increase in solar sales in recent years. Solar accounted for 40% of all new electric generating capacity in 2019 in the country.

“Solar scams usually happen door-todoor, and ramp up when there are incentives like there are currently,” said Mark Fetterho , program manager for AARP ElderWatch, a consumer watchdog group that has partnered with the Colorado attorney general’s o ce for 20 years. “It’s an opportunity for misinformation. People take advantage of it.”

Fetterho said both solar and home alarm companies are commonly tied to door-to-door sales scams occurring nationwide.

In November 2023, a Time magazine report described how door-to-door sales associates across the country often tell consumers they can get free panels from the government, which is not true. Consumers are told there are tax credits, though the credits are only for those who owe taxes. And they’re told they can eliminate their energy bill, which is not likely unless they invest in a battery — at a signi cant extra cost. In most cases people with solar will still have a small utility bill that allows their system to be hooked up to the grid.

AARP published an article in September on how to avoid solar scams, and lists a website — brokercheck. nra.org — where consumers can check to learn if a solar broker is licensed. Go Brite Solar is not listed as a licensed broker.

A ‘bro’ sales model

Atlasta Solar Center in Grand Junction, and Empowered Energy Systems in Hotchkiss, are employee-owned solar companies on the Western Slope. Representatives at both companies say they have noted a huge increase in door-to-door sales associates using aggressive and misleading practices. e associates are often young — 18 to early 30s — and friendly, clean-cut, religious and from Utah, said Lou Villaire, one of the owners of Atlasta Solar Center, a company in business for 45 years.

It’s a “bro model,” a get-rich-quick scheme that has taken hold throughout the United States, Villaire said. e associates have a “red line,” a minimum amount they must sell the job for and any money above that amount they get to pocket. us, they’re incentivized to sell the product for as high as they can, he said.

“Once they sell the contract, they’re done,”

Villaire said, adding that contracts are often sold to installers headquartered out-ofstate, some of which have gone bankrupt and later reemerge as a new solar business.

Atlasta receives calls every week from people seeking help with getting their solar installation completed, but they’re unable to reach the original installer because the company is no longer in business or has left town, Villaire said.

“I’ve been in the business 20 years and I’ve never seen anything like this year, these tactics,” Villaire said. “We’ve always seen plenty of companies come and go, but this level of deception I’ve never seen.”

Additionally, Villaire noted dozens of cases where consumers were sold solar installations for $5,000 to $10,000 more than what locally-owned solar companies would charge for the same system.

Crawford rancher and farmer Terry Baker said he canceled a deal he made last fall with an out-of-town door-to-door solar sales associate after he learned that he was being charged $10,000 more than what Empowered Energy Systems would have charged. Baker, 63, had signed up, in part, because he was told that without solar, his utility bills could triple in the next few years.

Baker was charged a $1,500 cancellation fee.

“We thought we had plenty of time to back out,” Baker said. “I paid it. I wanted out of the whole thing. I wanted away from it. I’m partly to blame. He was just a young guy, in his 20s. He raced over a lot.”

Danielle Carre, a co-owner at Empowered Energy, said homeowners have been lured into signing contracts only to learn later that they need an electrical upgrade to install the solar, and that the costs will be signi cantly higher. Empowered Energy has also heard from community members that they were told they’d receive tax credits for solar and for replacing their roof. However, federal tax credits only apply to the solar, not roof replacements.

“We’ve been approached by these sales companies but refuse to work with them,” Carre said. “ eir price is in ated. It saddens us that this is happening, because solar is a good thing and these practices give the industry a bad reputation.”

Teddy Aegerter, of Atlasta Solar, said homeowners are sometimes misled about what they are signing. Signatures are often collected on iPads, without any hard copies given to customers, he said.

e sales-only business model is not necessarily a problem itself, said Kruger, the Colorado Solar and Storage Association CEO. Not all business owners are comfortable selling, so they might want to hire someone to do it for them.

Villaire said he considered hiring an outside sales company to sell for Atlasta and was negotiating with someone until he learned what the sales associate would charge customers.

“What stopped me was one of the owners told me the only way they’d do it is if they could put one-third of the price in their pocket,” Villaire said. “For perspective, most sales types of jobs garner a commission of 3 to 6%, not 33%. ey are motivated to go above the red line for the highest price they can.”

Kruger said, “People get into trouble when sales companies make tons of promises, then sell the contract to an installer — promises like ‘you’ll never get a utility bill again,’ or, ‘It will pay for itself in two years.’ ey’re not being honest or truthful.

ey’ll say whatever it takes to get a customer’s money.

“One thing is uniform — it’s all designed for a quick sale, and a quick buck.”

is story is from Colorado Newsline.

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part of cuts

BY RACHEL COHEN KUNC

Black-footed ferrets, once feared extinct, were rediscovered in Wyoming in 1981 when a ranch dog caught one, revealing a small remaining population. Over the past four decades, scientists have been working to revive this prairie carnivore that’s part of the weasel family. However, last month, their e orts su ered a blow.

Tina Jackson, who led the species’ recovery across 12 states-including Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona-was red as part of the Trump Administration’s federal workforce cuts.

“It was an odd day,” said Jackson. “I’ve never been red from a role before.”

Jackson was a probationary employee because she took the job as the national recovery coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last year. But before that, she’d spent nearly 30 years as a wildlife biologist at Colorado Parks and Wildlife, with much of that time working on ferret conservation.

e federal government considers the black-footed ferret to be one of the most endangered mammals in North America. It was among the rst species listed under the Endangered Species Act and remains critically endangered. Jackson was deeply aware of her role in their recovery.

“You’re the one kind of in charge of this species that’s still, honestly, on the brink of extinction,” she said.

Jackson’s job involved coordinating re-

covery e orts, securing permits for conservation work and overseeing the reintroduction of captive ferrets to 15 wild sites in partnership with federal and state agencies, tribes and nonpro t organizations.

“We’re losing that nexus, that glue, that holds all of us together,” said Travis Livieri, executive director of Prairie Wildlife Research, a nonpro t that works on ferret conservation in South Dakota.

Additionally, two of Jackson’s colleagues at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center near Fort Collins, Colo. were also let go. e 11-member team suddenly shrunk to eight at a critical timejust as ferrets begin breeding season.

“Every time there’s a setback of some sort, whether it’s a biological setback, a disease outbreak, a budget cut or a sta ng cut, it’s something that sets back recovery,” Jackson said.

e U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said it does not comment on personnel matters.

“We are working closely with the O ce of Personnel Management to ensure we are prioritizing scal responsibility for the American people,” a spokesperson wrote in a statement.

ough slender, black-footed ferrets are feisty predators. is is particularly useful since they are about the same size as prairie dogs, which make up 90% of their diet.

e ferrets also take up residence in the burrows dug by prairie dogs, sharing the space with other creatures like foxes, turtles and rattlesnakes. Because of this, Jackson refers to them as an “umbrella species”; their conservation helps other animals in the prairie ecosystem.

“By protecting that prairie dog habitat for ferrets, we’re keeping a whole bunch of other species from needing state or federal

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listing,” Jackson said.

However, ferret conservation is handson and labor-intensive. At the Fort Collins center, which houses about two-thirds of the captive population, sta provides round-the-clock feeding, cleaning and veterinary care. During breeding season, they carefully monitor the pairs, as the territorial animals can sometimes kill one another. By late summer, the center may have up to 500 ferrets on its watch, as it prepares about 200 for reintroduction into the wild.

With fewer sta , Jackson noted, the team might need to limit their breeding capacity, which could undermine partner organizations’ e orts to establish reintroduction sites.

One of the biggest threats to ferrets in the wild is the plague, which often requires annual disease mitigation. But federal funding uncertainty is complicating this part of the recovery process, too.

Livieri’s organization had planned to start spraying insecticide dust in April to eliminate the eas that carry the plague, but he’s not sure whether he’ll receive as-

surance by then that he can spend the federal money that usually funds that work. Last year, a plague outbreak caused a prairie dog die-o in the Badlands of South Dakota.

“If we aren’t vigilant, the largest blackfoot ferret population in the world is potentially at risk,” he said.

Chamois Andersen of Defenders of Wildlife said while nonpro ts are prioritizing resources to ensure the recovery progress continues, the federal government plays a crucial role.

“It’s going to be a real challenge for the NGOs to ll in those gaps,” she said. e black-footed ferret has made a big comeback since the 1980s when a handful from Wyoming were brought into captivity. Now, there are about 800 individuals.

“We’ve made amazing strides,” Jackson said. “But it’s still not the sort of number where we can say these guys will survive if we step away for a few years.”

is story was made available via the Colorado News Collaborative. Learn more at https://colabnews.co

“ e way that we are nickel and diming families to simply sit and wait and hope that they get a spot is not OK,” she said. “ is is going to save families money, and at a time when it is so expensive to raise kids, every dollar counts.”

Besides the refund provision, the current version of the bill requires child care programs to disclose their tuition and fees when a prospective family requests pricing information, joins the waitlist, enrolls in the program, or when the provider changes the fee schedule. It doesn’t require that tuition and fees be posted publicly.

Changes to the bill came earlier in the legislative process after a number of child care providers pushed back against the original provisions, particularly the $25 waitlist fee cap. Several said their waitlist fees cover a host of expenses, such as marketing costs, technology fees, and sta time used to give tours and call families. Some said they would lose money if the fees were capped.

But shifting from a fee cap to partial refunds for families didn’t satisfy everyone. Some providers said giving refunds still takes administrative time, especially for small child care businesses.

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A captive-bred black-footed ferret undergoes preconditioning at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation

PHOTO BY RYAN HAGERTY / USFWS

Abdulla said that although he’s focusing on the Littleton store, he hopes to eventually open more stores around the Denver metro area, particularly in the communi-

ties where he has noticed ethnic food deserts.  While the main oor of the Littleton store is stocked with an eclectic mix of items — everything from Boulder Canyon chips to gra ti eggplant to Lebanese cheese — Abdulla envisions that even more developments are on the horizon.  He hopes to utilize the store’s basement

as a community hub where English classes and resumé workshops can be held. It’s part of Abdulla’s mission to give back to the community. Fresh Market & Community Kitchen is also a participating business in Littleton’s Open Rewards Program where customers can earn rewards for shopping locally.

“I know there is no way I can compete

with the King Soopers or the Sprouts of the world — the huge companies,” Abdulla said. “But where I can exceed over (them) is personal customer service. I’m not a franchise, I’m a locally, familyowned business.”

e store will soon launch its bakery and deli that will serve Mediterranean, Indian, Pakistani and Asian food selections.

Medina said the navigation program is designed to navigate clients to housing outcomes in a short amount of time.

and housed lifestyle, said Scott Medina, director of community relations for Bridge House.

“ ese trainees will live in the RTW program for, on average, a year while they work for us and are paid an hourly wage,” Medina said. “ e goal is to graduate within a year’s time with a full-time job and housing, both of which we help them to get.”

On the other side of the building will be the Tri-Cities Homelessness Navigation Center, and it will contain 20 beds. TriCities Homeless Initiative is an organization started by Englewood, Littleton and Sheridan to address homelessness issues in those communities.

“Most clients will stay there one to four weeks as they work with case managers to meet speci c goals and housing,” Medina said. “ is is a completely separate program from RTW.”

Medina said the client selection process for RTW requires an application and initial internship to see if someone is a good t for the program.

“If they are an appropriate candidate for the program, they will be accepted,” Medina said. “If it’s not a good t, we will refer them to other resources that are better suited.”

Medina said the selection process for the navigation side of the faculty will be more open-ended, since it is shorter term with a higher rotation of clients.

e facility was redesigned in 2024 with

a completion goal aimed for the end of that year. e project was delayed due to a utility replacement and was originally supposed to open in fall of 2023.

Funding for the project comes from many places, including the federal government, the state of Colorado, Arapahoe County, and the cities of Englewood, Littleton and Sheridan, as well as philanthropic foundations.

“As a key component of the workforce development strategy in the Tri-Cities Homelessness Plan of Action, the Readyto-Work program aims to help approximately 34 people transition out of homelessness each year, based on the success of similar programs in Boulder and Aurora,” said Tim Dodd, Englewood’s deputy city manager.

e project began in 2020 after Englewood, Littleton and Sheridan worked to develop the Tri-Cities Homelessness Plan

of Action.

rough a survey of those experiencing homelessness and stakeholders, the cities were able to determine four themes that needed to be addressed. ey are: governance model, family system, chronic individual system and workforce development.

e cities then worked with Bridge House to conduct a study to determine if the organization’s Ready-to-Work program would be feasible in their communities.

e Tri-Cities Homelessness Action Plan was crafted to ease the burden of homelessness throughout the Tri-Cities community.

Clients can access the Ready-to-Work program through referrals, and the Navigation Center will provide walk-in services.

For more information on the plan and its projects, visit tricitieshomeless.com.

The new facility at 4675 S. Windermere St. in Englewood, which houses the Tri Cities Homelessness Navigation Center and Bridge House Ready-to-Work program, was open to visitors for a tour on March 7. The facility is expected to open sometime in April.

A look inside the new facility at 4675 S. Windermere St. that houses the Tri Cities Homelessness Navigation Center and Bridge House Ready-to-Work program. In total, the building will have 69 beds for homeless people.

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Today I want to share an insight for those who are seeking to provide encouragement rather than nd encouragement. I mention this idea because one of the most important things that we can do to help ourselves cope with our struggles is to help others. Truly, looking to grow as an encourager is important for everyone.

When I was about eight or nine years old, our family was driving somewhere early in the morning. My parents were in the front seat, and my sister Karen and I were in the back. While driving down a tree-lined street, suddenly, two squirrels leapt into the middle of the road, chasing each other, unaware of our car. eir sprint into the lane was so sudden that although Dad tried to slow down, there was no way for him to keep from hitting both squirrels. I remember both the sound of the animals hitting the car and the utterances of angst coming from my father.

I turned around to look out the back window at the squirrels we had just hit and noticed that one of them had got-

VOICES

Some words of encouragement about ... encouragement

WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT

Companies are often forced to move at breakneck speeds in today’s world of accelerated technological advancements and rapid market evolution. It’s no longer uncommon to see organizations launch products and services before they’re fully re ned, sometimes even before the infrastructure to support them is entirely in place. is has led to a popular business analogy: xing the plane while it’s already in the air.

ere are several companies that exempli ed this approach over the past two decades and still achieved overwhelming success. From their inception, they disrupted the industries they served, never really launching with a fully formed model. Regulatory challenges, operational inconsistencies, and technological re nements were all addressed in real-time. Yet, despite turbulence, these high- ying companies soared to global prominence. eir success was not just about speed but about having the right people on board, people who could handle the chaos, make critical decisions, and innovate in the face of uncertainty. When a company moves so quickly, the people in that proverbial plane fall into four categories.

ten up and was limping out of the street. I excitedly told Dad that one of the squirrels was OK and was moving. I knew he was still disturbed by having hit the animals so after a short time, maybe a quarter- to a half-mile of driving, I announced to the car, “look the other squirrel is getting up.” My 6-year-old sister understood there was no physical way I could have seen the squirrel and she said so loud enough for everyone to hear. inking I was both older and wiser, I quietly told her to hush, hoping my tale would help Dad.

My 8-year-old self was lying, trying to bring encouragement, creating a narrative that would make everything OK.

Fifty years later, when I re ect on both that day with my family and the lessons I learned supporting my friends Shane and Summer as they navigated his can-

cer diagnosis, I see things much di erently. I understand that being an encourager does not mean creating a false narrative for someone. I could not make things better by fabricating a story for Dad or spinning a tale for Shane that did not acknowledge their reality.

I also understand that being an encouragement means, rst and foremost, standing resolutely with the person who needs support. Sometimes, it means being a sounding board or a safe place to share deepest fears without concern that those will be articulated to others.

It can mean being a cheerleader, someone who can inspire one more step or can mean acknowledging a di cult reality without falling into a mire of despair. Most of the time, being an encourager is about being consistent, a xed point that a person tossed by life’s waves can count on. It always means being genuine and leaning into our personal strengths to bring support.

With age and experience, I now see that most of the time, we cannot make everything OK. But that does not mean we are

Navigating extreme growth in a rapidly advancing world

WINNING

armrests, hoping the storm will pass without requiring their direct involvement. ey may not leave but don’t contribute meaningfully to the solution. While these individuals might not cause immediate harm, their inaction can slow progress. If the plane does land safely, leaders must assess whether these employees can adapt to a culture that demands agility and resilience.

e Fixers: e fearless problemsolvers will tether themselves to the plane and climb onto the wing to x what’s broken. ese individuals thrive in chaos, nd solutions in the most uncertain situations, and are willing to take calculated risks to ensure success. ey are the innovators, the strategists, and the culture carriers who propel a company forward. Without them, highgrowth organizations would stall mid- ight.

meaning you’re either on board or left behind on the platform, waving goodbye. ere’s no time to secondguess or hesitate.

e horse is out of the barn, implying it’s too late to reverse course; now, the focus must be on nishing the race and nishing well.

e genie is out of the bottle, representing the unstoppable force of technological advancements, particularly AI, which will continue to shape our future whether we’re ready or not.

e fundamental question for leaders is: Do we have the right people on this plane, people willing to x and help y it to our goals? Equally important, are we, as individuals, committed to the mission? Do we have the passion, resilience, and willingness to be part of a team destined for greatness?

In an era where technology is evolving faster than we can predict, the key to success is not avoiding turbulence but embracing it with the right team. ose who can adapt, problem-solve, and remain agile will keep the plane in the air and take it to new heights.

e Parachuters: Some individuals don’t have the stomach for rapid change and uncertainty. As turbulence hits, they reach for the parachute, opting to leave rather than face the unknown. And that’s okay. Not everyone is cut out for highgrowth, high-pressure environments. Leaders should recognize this and let them go rather than trying to force a t.

e Frozen: Another group remains in their seats, gripping the

e Ground Crew: Lastly, leaders, advisors, and mentors may not be on the plane but play an equally crucial role in keeping it airborne. ese are the “go-to” people, trusted guides with experience navigating similar challenges. Too often, fast-growing organizations fail to lean on these external advisors, missing valuable insights that could make the journey smoother and more strategic.

Other metaphors illustrate the same reality of moving forward at full speed:

e train has left the station,

How about you? Are you or someone you know a part of a growth-oriented and results-focused organization that may not be fully baked? I would love to hear your story at gotonorton@gmail.com. And when we experience and embrace the thrill of such a ride, it really will be a better-than-good life.

Michael Norton is an author, a personal and professional coach, consultant, trainer, encourager and motivator of individuals and businesses, working with organizations and associations across multiple industries.

helpless. Someone providing from their heart, in the most di cult of times, is the encouragement we each need at some moment.

In your struggle do not forget to nd the opportunity to be the encourager. You’ve got this.

I hope my words encourage you, and that you will share them with those who need support. ank you to everyone who has shared their stories with me so far; I truly appreciate hearing about the valuable ideas you nd in these columns and how you use them to uplift those around you.

Jim Roome lives in Arvada with his wife Beth. He spent 34 years in public education. Lessons learned from the one two punch of being diagnosed with MS shortly before his best friend was diagnosed with terminal cancer led him into a new pursuit as a freelance writer and speaker. He uses his life experiences and love of stories to inspire, educate and encourage local, national and international audiences. Contact him at jim.roome@gmail.com.

Plan for needs, wants during uncertain time

RFINANCIAL STRATEGIES

ecent events may make you feel the future is very uncertain. Technically, of course, all futures are uncertain. You can look at history or make assumptions about tari s, layo s, budget cuts and taxes, but that still won’t give you a clear path. It’s time to look at what you do and don’t have control over and build on your needs and wants.

I always start with the inevitable and create my plan around the worst-case scenario. is considers aging, elder care, even death. It includes longevity, market volatility and in ation. Stack as many potential factors into your plan and see if it still holds up. Add rising taxes, a low-growth economy and uctuating interest rates. Now review what you need to live on and what you would like to see for your career, family and legacy. Yes, proper planning can be very involved, but this is the best way to protect yourself.

All these items need to be considered before you ever start to design a portfolio. Mapping out these situations and marking what is a necessity and what you can control are key to getting it right. is is quite di erent than looking to the government or the markets to x all your problems. Searching for the best performer and building your investments around it won’t deliver lasting results either. Once you have identi ed as many roadblocks as you can, drill down to a relatively simple subject such as retiree income. Identify your resources, such as Social Security, pension and investments. Determine your income needs for necessities such as housing, medical, food and insurance. Does your xed income cover your xed expenses? If so, then your investments could be geared towards some of your goals and wishes. Now add in your lifestyle with discretionary items such as travel, entertainment and home improvements. Next, layer your legacy wishes for what you would like to pass on to your heirs and the message you want to send.

Now you know what portion of your investments need to be designated for income or growth, and you can start to see what assets should be dedicated to which decade and how to plan for in ation. You can determine when you may need more income if you strip out any costof-living increases from Social Security or a pension,

Jim Roome

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‘The

Great Gatsby’: Déjà vu all over again

When writing “ e Gift for Hope” for “Food for ought: Essays on Mind and Spirit,” I approached “ e Great Gatsby” from the concept of hope. e reason was Jay Gatsby modeled unbounded, albeit irrational, hope.

Although his deep-seated hope is what Nick Carraway, the story’s narrator, chie y carries away when he thinks of Gatsby, he has another takeaway: Complete disgust with those that preyed upon him, even though Gatsby represents everything for which Nick has “an una ected scorn.”

“No,” he says, “Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it was what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust oated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.”

“ e Great Gatsby” was published in 1925, and its themes and poignant messages are as timely a century later as they were then. Arguably, more so because there has never been a time in American history when the wealth gap has been greater.

We often look at the 1920s—the Roaring Twenties—through the lens of orgiastic partying, bootlegging, and debauchery. In the popular mind, appers, speakeasies and Al Capone are the images of the decade. at hedonistic rendition, however, is incomplete. ey were the excesses of the period, but not the full story by any means.

By depicting that era as a time of hope, F. Scott Fitzgerald captured one aspect of its ethos. e worldwide u pandemic of 1918—their Covid—along with World War I had come to an end, and America turned inward. Narcissistic isolationism became the zeitgeist as the country retreated back behind her two-ocean moat. Industry boomed, and the so-called Captains of Industry grew even more fabulously wealthy. ey enjoyed nearly unlimited power. As their ideal president, Calvin—Silent Cal—Coolidge succinctly phrased it, “ e business of America is business.”

e New York Stock Exchange went on steroids, and get-rich mania spread across the land. It seemed anyone with a dream wanted part of the action, although everyday Americans were pretty much left behind. Cut out of the action is a better way of putting it.

America increasingly becoming urbanized because it was in the cities where jobs—and potential wealth—were along with the nightlife. With a stake having been driven into the heart of the repressive Victorian Age, Americans started to let go. ey began to show some skin. Advances in technology were already changing the mores of American culture. Rapid communication—albeit a snail’s pace compared to today—were connecting Americans from coast to coast and

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since you don’t ultimately have control over those. en your timeline will clearly indicate how your needs will be taken care of and how much will be available for your desires and for future generations. Now market volatility only a ects you in the near term on an investment you may not need for a decade. You know

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networking them into a monoculture. Hollywood was beginning to rewrite the script of American literary methodology and culture.

But there was also a dark side. Behind the Roaring Twenties veneer, anger seethed. Rabid anti-immigrant fever ran hot. Racial segregation and ethnic dehumanization ruled. e KKK became even more powerful with its tentacles reaching far from its birthplace. Factory workers’ plights grew increasingly deplorable. Resentment, frustration, and disillusionment were becoming more heightened. Something had to give, and it did in October 1929.

ere’s considerably more, but it can be plausibly posited the seeds of where we are and who we’ve become were sown in the 1920s.

It was in that context Fitzgerald wrote “ e Great Gatsby.” Although primarily a story of delusional love in a dystopian culture of extreme wealth oblivious to the plight of everyday folks, the story effectively captures the essence of the period through its secondary characters and dialogue. It’s a grim picture. e dark mood is portrayed by the Valley of Ashes, the wasteland that separates the ultrarich East Eggers from the rest of society. Fitzgerald describes it as a “fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat” and “men move dimly.” It symbolizes the culture’s moral depravity and ordinary peoples’ despair.

It’s a discom ting, stark, brutally honest portrayal of Jazz Age America.

We’ve come far in cleaning up the literal air we breathe, though in many places, like large cities and rural communities near fracking wells, our once pristine air remains a diabolical health threat. en there’s the social-political-cultural pollution and widespread disillusionment.

Near the end of the story, Nick, despite his e ort to avoid Tom Buchanan, is accosted by him as he walks down Fifth Avenue. After their terse exchange, Nick concludes he couldn’t forgive or like him because Tom felt entirely justi ed for the havoc he wreaked. It’s then that Nick drives home the ugly truth of those like Tom and Daisy Buchanan. ey smash things and creatures up, he says, retreat back into their money, vast carelessness, or whatever holds them together, and let others clean up the mess they made.

One hundred years later, I wonder what story Fitzgerald would write today, given that it seems eerily déjà vu all over again.

Jerry Fabyanic is the author of “Sisyphus Wins” and “Food for ought: Essays on Mind and Spirit.” He lives in Georgetown.

where your income and in ation hedges will come from, and you can sleep peacefully.

You will have much less stress if you work on your own plan — not the president’s, not the Federal Reserve’s, not the stock market’s. Use your plan as a guide in both good times and bad to help you focus on what matters most to you.

Joseph Simon Flierl July 28, 1929 - March 7, 2025

Joe, born in Parker, CO was the son of Simon H and Irene E. Coressel Flierl of Englewood, CO. He is survived by his wife Shirley Pauline (Polly) Flierl, his son Richard J. (Kay) Flierl, his daughter-in-law Kimberly Hardin Flierl, three grandchildren, Kalyn, Alexander, and Benjamin Flierl, his brother’s wife Beverly Flierl and his sister Ruth (Bill) Callahan, 33 nieces and nephews and 68 great and great-great nieces and nephews.

Joe graduated from Englewood H.S. in 1947 and and continued to receive a BA and life-time Teacher Certi cate in 1952 from Colorado State College of Education.

Joe began his teaching career at Englewood H.S. in 1952. He also earned a Type D Certi cate in School Administration in 1976. A draft notice sent him to Ft. Sill, OK in December 1952. He was discharged in 1954 and returned to Englewood H.S. to teach Social Studies. His career included counseling, Director of Student Activities, Assistant

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Principal and Principal of Flood J.H. in Englewood. Joe was appointed Principal of Englewood H. S. in 1969. is began a long tenure as Principal in Englewood, Gateway (Aurora), Aurora Central, Rangeview, Douglas County High School and Castle Rock Elementary School. Joe retired from public education in 1986. Being active in the North Central Accrediting Association for many years, he continued this activity into retirement as Chairman of 41 teams visiting schools throughout Colorado.

Services include a Rosary at Horan & McConaty Mortuary March 13, 6:00pm, Lakewood, and a Mass of Christian Burial, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Littleton at 10:30am, Friday, March 14. Reception to follow at the church. Entombment is at 2:00pm, St. Francis of Assisi Mausoleum, Mount Olivet Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, CO.

To honor Joe, memorials can be made to St. Mary Church music program, the Littleton Symphony or City of Littleton Pea Patch.

Ernest Laurelle “Larry” Fundingsland Jr. June 29, 1932 - February 21, 2025

Heaven welcomed Ernest Laurelle “Larry” Fundingsland Jr. on February 21, 2025, with his family by his side. He is now in the presence of our Lord, reunited with loved ones who have gone before him.

Born on June 29, 1932, to E.L. and Alice Fundingsland, Larry’s life was marked by faith, family, and generosity. While attending Denver East High School, he met Jody, the love of his life. ey eloped in 1951, beginning a 74-year journey - always by each other’s side, continually holding hands.

Larry earned a master’s in geology and built a career in petroleum. He sponsored pro golfer, Dale Douglas, and was a lifelong CU supporter, sponsoring football players through college. He was a lifetime Columbine Country Club member and a founder and President of Littleton Leopards

An artist, pianist, and traveler, he cherished trips to Germany, Norway, and Israel. His faith led him to Saint James Presbyterian Church, where he built lasting friendships. Larry was preceded in death by his parents, sister Joanne Rasmussen, and daughter, Kim Berryman. He is survived by his wife, Jody; children, Lori (Steve) LeBlanc, Ed (Mary) Fundingsland, and Steve Fundingsland; son-in-law, James Berryman; brother-in-law, Bud Rasmussen; eight grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren, and many dear friends.

As Larry would say, “Until we meet again, Pards”. Memorial gifts may be made in Larry’s name to: Gideon’s international Send eWord.org

Saint James Presbyterian Church www. sjpres.org

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Patricia Kummer is managing director for Mariner, an SEC Registered Investment Adviser.

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BY BEN DICKSON AND JACOB QUILL UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO NEWS CORPS

Like most of his coworkers, Chino Dean leaves his University of Colorado maintenance job at 3:30 p.m. After work, however, he puts on a di erent face to excel at what he does in his second life. Dean is the champion of the 122-pound Muay ai division in Sparta FC. He’s only been training in martial arts for the past eight years and has been an Easton Training Center athlete for the entire time.

While primarily based in Boulder — where he began training in 2016 and started coaching in 2019 — Dean now teaches three classes each week. is has enabled him to branch out to other Easton locations, now guest coaching in Longmont, and planning to do the same at the company’s other gyms in the metro area. In terms of his own training, Dean nds himself mostly in Boulder, but he makes time to train with Easton’s competition team in both the Arvada and Denver locations

once every other week.

“We have a massive amount of people here from all walks of life,” Dean said about the gym “I’ll never run out of things to learn about the world through these people at Easton.”

Starting in Denver in the 1990s as a barely controlled brawl, ultimate ghting and combat sports has grown into a huge business as a mainstream sports league. Training centers like Easton have helped build that next generation of star athletes.

A champion’s journey

Originally, Dean moved to Colorado in search of a change of pace from his life on the East Coast. He had some friends in the area, and was attracted to the idea of leading an active lifestyle. Boulder’s access to a wide range of outdoor activities, as well as the scenery, were the main factors that brought Dean to the area.

Dean grew up in Maryland, and when he arrived in Boulder in 2015, his level of experience in martial arts

consisted of exactly one free karate class.

“It was that little desire that every little boy has to want to be a ninja,” he said with a smile. “A long time ago, I got the chance to try out a karate class but never got the chance to follow through with it.”

Although he had little experience with martial arts training in general, the spark from that one class led him onto Easton’s mat after he noticed a UFC ghter trained there while watching an event on TV.

“Just the fact that I got my foot in the door to see what it was like really lit that spark, which stayed within me for several years,” Dean said.

Dean fell in love with Muay ai when he attended an Easton class for the rst time. Early in his training career, he bought a heavy bag to put in his basement when he couldn’t a ord the Easton membership. As soon as he could, he bought the membership and was in the gym six days a week.

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Dean grew into a champion Muay ai ghter for his weight class. Muay ai is a style of martial arts that revolves around striking with sts, feet, knees and elbows. However, Dean is interested in the sport’s more subtle aspects.

“Obviously, ghting is what this sport is. When you’re in the ring, it is a ght. But, there is an art aspect to it that the ais obviously created and gracefully shared with us,” Dean said. “It goes a lot into respect, it goes into trying to be calm and relating those things back into everyday life.”

Now 39, Dean’s Muay ai journey has helped to shift his mindset in his general life, even outside of the gym.

“I’ve become a lot more resilient,” Dean said. “It’s made me accept that I may not always get the things I want to in life, and that gives me a better approach.”

Dean treats his Muay ai training as a second job of sorts. Between training for his own ghts, actually competing, and providing coaching for other Easton members, Dean is a familiar face for people in the Easton community.

“Within even a year of me being here, they had already given me so much,” Dean said. “Not just in technique, but in the community. Just being able to give back to them in any way that I can, whether it be teaching them, showing them by example, or just being a good friend for them, that’s what drives me.”

Easton’s start

Dean’s experience at Easton is similar to many of the stories of people who have found a home there. Founded by Amal Easton in 1998, the chain has grown to nine locations around the state.  e community found in the gyms helps to explain how martial arts has seized large segments of the country’s imagination. But that story, once better understood, isn’t merely one of ghts and cage matches. Rather, it’s about respect and self-awareness and a way to think mindfully about life through the lens of those who wish to be enlightened warriors.

Easton trained under the legendary Gracie family in Brazil and started the gym to try and help bring jiu jitsu to the United States.

“ ere were very few jiu jitsu gyms at the time, and I rented out some space in a facility to teach three days a week,” Easton said.

Easton, who has a degree in traditional Chinese medicine, decided that he was more suited to help people as a jiu jitsu instructor as he fell in love with the sport. He grew up in a small New Mexico town and began training in martial arts when he was getting picked on at school.

Easton decided on Colorado as a starting point for his gym because of how many people are active in sports. He is active outside of the gym as well, an avid skier as well as having had a short stint as a surfer. Colorado is known for its culture of individual extreme sports, and Easton knew that it would be a good place for him and his gym to thrive. However, the Easton empire in Colorado today is nearly unrecognizable from its humble beginnings.

“How could you conceive that we would be where we are today?” Easton asked. “I was in King Soopers trying to convince the kid stocking the shelves that he should come and try jiu jitsu. It really was one brick at a time, one student at a time.”

Easton’s original location stands in Boulder. A 10,000-square-foot facility on 32nd Street, it is home to martial arts classes for every age and skill level. Easton believes that the format of martial arts training lends itself to bringing people together, and the story for his gym holds true for that.

“ e community is everything. When most people think about community activities they did, they’d have to go back to high school,” Easton said. “With jiu jitsu, it’s one of the most cohesive groups partly because we have every range of age, socioeconomic diversity, religion and body type.”

While the central location is in Boulder, being in the Denver area means you are never too far from an Easton mat. Satellite locations include facilities in Arvada, Centennial, Lowry, South Denver, the Littleton area, Longmont, Castle Rock and ornton.

Alec Schrum, another Easton ghter, competed in the B-class 142-pound division at the Colorado State Tournament

at the Douglas County Event Center in Castle Rock Feb. 28 to March 2. Early in his career, Schrum has showcased his skills in both jiu jitsu and Muay ai, with plans to transition into mixed martial arts competitions as he continues to grow as a ghter.

Schrum has only been training at Easton since he was a sophomore at CU Boulder. He graduated after the spring of 2024, and already has a few ghts on his record. He is just opening this chapter of his life, but he plans on leaving it open for the future.

“After I’m done competing, I’ll still train. Whether I’m coaching or if it’s just for fun, I’ll be in this for the rest of my life,” Schrum said.

Growing up as a wrestler in Pennsylvania, Schrum knew that he wanted to stay involved in martial arts. As soon as he moved to Colorado, he walked into Easton’s gym and hasn’t looked back.

Combat fighting’s popularity

While Easton’s resume of competition is what he is able to hang his hat on, his new passion stems from being an inspiration to the next generation of martial artists. He has noticed that the children he interacts with in the gym have di erent kinds of role models than those he was accustomed to seeing even just a few years ago.

“Some of those kids are going to get skills and chase that dream, because who they are looking up to now are ghters, not basketball players,” Easton said.

Easton’s Boulder location provides a mixture of the strong community that martial arts can provide and coaching that can compete with the best in the world.

Amid the growing popularity of Muay ai and other martial arts in Colorado, there’s also a rise in high-pro le, unconventional prize ghts on the national stage, such as the recent Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul boxing match streamed on Net ix.

e world of mixed martial arts would not be what it is today without the impact that the state of Colorado had on it.

e premier MMA organization, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, has its roots here in Denver. In 1993, it held its rst event, UFC 1: e Beginning. e event featured ghts with no judges, no weight classes, and no limits on how long ghts could last. When Easton was training in Rio, he remembers watching early MMA ghts at juice bars in the city.

“MMA was also something that had barely just started,” Easton said. “It was hard not to imagine that being a huge thing here someday.”

Easton’s prediction was likely more accurate than he knew at the time. Now, the UFC has become a mainstream sports league. With public eyes nally falling upon the world of combat sports, Colorado’s martial arts scene has begun to grow as well. At the UFC level, bigname athletes like Justin Gaethje and Rose Namajunas train for their ghts in Denver. ere are even UFC athletes who spend time at Easton locations, like Drew Dober and Curtis Blaydes.

“It’s a di erent era, kind of where a kid can grow up and say, like, I want to be Michael Jordan, or I want to be Jon Jones, they can say this is what I want to do, because they’re chasing a sports superstar that they want to be like. And, you know, a lot of that comes with growing the sport,” Easton said.

He pointed out that while some athletes may evolve into lifelong martial artists, others are driven by the pursuit of fame and fortune in a multi-billiondollar industry.

Easton takes pride in the way that he and the other coaches at his gym teach martial arts, providing focus on the lessons that are important outside of training. By emphasizing the skills and morals, Easton hopes to bring the next generation of ghters into the mainstream.

“We take the role of trying to teach values as a big part of our program, not just trying to raise champions,” Easton said. is story was created by students at the University of Colorado-Boulder’s News Corps, where Colorado Community Media is a media partner.

Alec Schrum, who trains at Easton, has competed in both jiu jitsu and Muay Thai since he graduated from the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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Chino Dean teaches classes at Easton Training Center in Boulder in November 2024. He also teaches as Easton facilities in Arvada and Denver.

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Virtual reality game at Children’s Hospital Colorado helps distract young patients from pain, discomfort

BY HALEY LENA HLENA@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

What happens when physical therapists, patients and the gaming and technology department at Children’s Hospital Colorado come together?

A virtual reality game called “Booger Blaster” is created.

When Marian Brewer, a primary oncology physical therapist assistant at Children’s Hospital Colorado, transitioned from outpatient therapy to inpatient ve years ago, she began to learn how virtual reality can be a stepping stone in improving a patient’s willingness to participate in physical therapy.

“When you’re inpatient, it isn’t always easy,” said Brewer. “Sometimes just getting out of bed and sitting at the edge of the bed can be climbing a huge mountain and can be very exhausting.”

One of the main objectives when battling cancer, said Brewer, is preserving strength, exibility and mobility to help a person stay engaged with what brings them joy.

“With these types of surgeries, patients typically don’t want to move, and when you don’t move, it can get harder to move each time,” Brewer said.

McPherson would have physical therapy rst thing in the morning.

“I’d be like ‘no, I don’t want to do this,’” said McPherson.

Motivated to nd ways that would help patients eventually get out of bed, Brewer started working with Abe Homer, the gaming technology supervisor at Children’s Hospital Colorado, on a game that would make physical therapy more fun and engaging, while including important movements.

Brewer and Homer introduced McPherson to a virtual reality game called “Booger Blaster” and she was eager to try it.

“Alyson took o with it,” said Brewer. “She absolutely loved it.”

Inside the game of ‘Booger Blaster’

With some of the design elements thought up by the patients themselves, “Booger Blaster” involves a giant block of noses oating in the sky — and from a nose comes a booger ying at you.

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Brewer began working with Alyson McPherson after she was diagnosed with a rare ovarian cancer at the age of 10.

In July of 2023, McPherson, an active youth from Centennial, was diagnosed with germ cell tumor cancer, which accounts for less than 2% of ovarian cancers, according to the American Cancer Society.

Several tumors were found in McPherson’s abdomen, and within two weeks, she underwent an extensive abdominal surgery to remove the tumors. Chemotherapy treatments followed, and McPherson started physical therapy to help build stamina and regain her strength.

e player has virtual access to a table with di erent items on it, designed to meet different physical therapy goals but disguised as silly items. For example, patients can use a ninja star in the shape of a pizza, a bow and arrow that shoots out french fries and hot dogs, and boxing gloves to ght o the boogers.

“ e punching, kicking and that just kind of took my mind o from doing all the exercises,” McPherson said.

Another part of the game that McPherson likes is the cat blaster. Accompanied with fun sound e ects, the patients can use the cat blaster to shoot hamburgers at a target to gain more points.

the speed and cadence of the boogers, depending on what part of the body the therapist wants the patient to work on.

Additionally, virtual reality can be used as a technique that helps distract the patient’s brain from the pain that can be experienced when trying to reach their physical therapy goals.

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Depending on the goals of their treatment, each game makes the players do certain exercises. e physical therapist

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Alyson McPherson, an 11-year-old cancer survivor from Centennial, used a virtual reality game at Children’s Hospital Colorado to help her through her physical therapy sessions with Marian Brewer. PHOTOS COURTESY OF

A screenshot of “Booger Blaster,” a virtual reality game created by Children’s Hospital Colorado’s physical therapy and gaming and technology departments to help make physical therapy more enjoyable for patients. In the game, a pink cat can spit hamburgers at a target to get more points.

Spring-break travelers urged to get measles vaccine

BY BEAU BAKER, ALEX MURPHY KUNC

Colorado health o cials are closely watching the ongoing measles outbreak in the U.S., and recommended that residents get vaccinated against the virus ahead of spring break travel.

Over 100 cases were reported in West Texas last month and the virus has now shown up in 11 other states, including Colorado’s neighbor New Mexico.

Colorado’s state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy does not take the prospect of a measles outbreak lightly.

“It’s actually the most contagious virus that we know of,” Herlihy said. “In a group of people that is not immune to the virus, 9 out of 10 people who come in contact with someone with measles will go on to develop a measles infection.”

e Centers for Disease and Control documented 222 cases as of March 6. Herlihy says that when measles outbreaks reach this size they can take several months before they resolve.

Measles is more than just a rash. It’s a serious respiratory disease that can have lasting e ects. About 20% of people infected will need hospital care, and it can be fatal.

What Herlihy is most concerned about

BOOGER BLASTER

Although virtual and extended reality, which is the blend of the physical and digital world, is not new to the healthcare eld, Brewer said professionals are looking into research projects on how to expand this form of care throughout Children’s Hospital and to outpatient locations.

“It was a really fun, inventive way to just incorporate physical therapy in a nontraditional way,” said McPherson’s mom, Laura. “Especially for kids who aren’t allowed to leave their rooms because of immunity, or (when) they’re in the middle of infusions, they can’t leave. It makes it a lot easier for them to be able

are the pockets of under-vaccination that exist throughout the state.

“Individual schools or childcare facilities, playgroups, church groups or community organizations where vaccination rates in those much smaller groups are well below the threshold of protection,” she said.

Colorado’s health department keeps data on vaccination rates across the state.

Front Range school districts are all above 90%, but some districts -- including Lake County and several in and around Colorado Springs -- fall in the low- to mid80% range.

Some residents may be wondering if they or their children have been vaccinated. You can request a copy of vaccine records through the Colorado Public Health and Environment website. Ocials also recommend talking with your primary health provider.

Herlihy can’t say for sure if Colorado will see measles cases in the future but is using the current moment as a reminder of the risk.

“We’re really seeing these outbreaks occurring elsewhere as a call to action for all of us in Colorado to make sure that we are protected,” she said. is story was made available via the Colorado News Collaborative. Learn more at https://colabnews.co

to accomplish what they need to do for physical therapy, to keep up their stamina and strength.”

After four rounds of chemotherapy, McPherson had a second abdominal surgery later that year to remove a few of the remaining tumors.

McPherson has been cancer free since February 2024 and has gone back to her normal activities — including attending the Colorado Ballet Academy.

Wishing she could have played the game every day, McPherson said she believes this game will be able to help other patients.

“I’d say some kids don’t like it (physical therapy) that much, but when they have their mind o of something — but they’re still doing physical therapy — that can help them, but also do something that’s happy and silly,” McPherson said.

Cirque Italia Water Circus to dazzle crowds at the Douglas County Fairgrounds

BY MARC SHULGOLD SPECIAL TO COLORADO COMMUNITY MEDIA

Let’s return to yesteryear, to the good old days. Ah yes, when the arrival of the circus was cause for celebration. e long, brightly painted train would pull into the station, the unloading would begin and soon there would be a parade down Main Street, led by the circus marching band. e kids would line the sidewalks to ooh and aah at the elephants, the camels, the caged lions and tigers. ey’d wave at the trapeze artists and laugh at the clowns. But those days are gone. Well, not entirely. Here comes Cirque Italia Water Circus to Castle Rock — and three other Colorado stops.

When the 20-member troupe comes to the Douglas County Fairgrounds this month, there will be no animal acts — circuses just don’t do that anymore. But there will be thrills and laughs aplenty, promises company spokesperson Felicia Rosenthal.

“We’re a water circus,” she said, conrming the billing of the show that will take place inside the troupe’s massive blue-and-white tent. “ ere will be fountains, a curtain of water and a water stage,

but no one will actually be swimming.” e acts — including jugglers, trapeze swingers, high-wire daredevils, trampoline leapers and such — will perform around occasional bursts of Vegas-style fountains, enhanced by lighting e ects including laser ashes. Oh yes, and pirates, too! is is their rst visit since 2019, she added. ere are two touring Water Circuses traveling under the Cirque Italia banner. e other troupe performs with a 35,000-gallon water tank. e Colorado version, which will also visit Pueblo, Colorado Springs and ornton this month, will utilize local water that is recycled during performances.

Cirque Italia was created in 2012 by an Italian immigrant named Manuel Rebecchi, a descendant of a multi-generation circus family. His approach echoes the European style of circuses, combining a modest storyline with a continuing ow of dazzling virtuoso acts on and above the stage. In this case, the plot — which unfolds without narration — concerns a country boy, portrayed by the show’s lead clown Rafael, who ventures into the big city and encounters a series of adventures. All this, naturally, provides the

backdrop for a cast of athletic performers. international.

lombia, Peru, Brazil and Romania,” she said. “ ere are jugglers, aerial acts and gymnasts. ey put on quite a show. Most of them come from circus families or emerge from circus schools.”

Many of the performers, who range in age from 19 to 50, travel with husbands, wives and children, she added.

A life in the circus may sound romantic, but it’s hard work and, these days, it’s become a competitive business. Besides the omnipresent Cirque du Soleil, the Canadian organization that has dominated the circus world since its founding in 1984, Cirque Italia’s Rebecchi nds himself in competition once again with the legendary Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which reformed in 2023 after a six-year hiatus. at company also performs without animals.

Cirque Italia is on the road for 44 weeks — 11 months a year, kicking o each January, loading and unloading a series of 18-wheelers for a lengthy series of crosscountry stops. Setting up takes two days,

Rosenthal said, while breaking down the Each season nds a new theme for touring shows. at means new ideas must come from the imagination of Re-

“We love nding new themes and then creating a whole new show around them,” Rosenthal said, adding that the performers are part of the process, adapting their skills to the new concept.

Times have changed. No more roaring lions. No more dancing elephants. But families have ocked to this company’s shows for years. And let’s face it: What kid doesn’t love the circus? is coverage comes courtesy of a grant from the Littleton Arts and Culture Program. As a matter of policy, funders exercise no control over editorial decisions.

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Cirque Italia Water Circus will perform at the Douglas County Fairgrounds March 21-24.

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Cirque Italia Water Circus will perform at the Douglas County Fairgrounds March 21-24.

PHOTO BY MARK OLIVER

Senators want answers about money for meals at Fort Carson

BY HAYLEE MAY CPR NEWS

Colorado senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper joined more than 20 other U.S. senators in penning a letter to the Secretary of Defense this month demanding answers about apparent underinvestment in food options for members of the military.

e letter followed an investigation by Military.com that revealed millions of dollars taken from soldiers’ wages for food allowance was spent elsewhere.

“Our national security depends on a strong military. e Department of Defense needs to address the troubling reports of food access issues on military bases and support base leadership to resolve them,” said Hickenlooper in a statement to CPR News. “Our service members, like those stationed at Fort Carson, deserve consistent and highquality meals.”

e military news organization began its investigation following reports of a lack of food and low food quality at several Army posts across the nation – including at Fort Carson, where soldiers reported receiving meals lacking in nutritional value in 2024. Photos of meals obtained by CPR News showed a soldier being served a meal of lima beans and toast, far below the nutritional value standards set for Army troops.

Each enlisted service member living in the barracks at Fort Carson has a “Basic Allowance for Subsistence” deduction of $460.25 per month, which is meant to pay for their breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Many troops make less than $30,000 a year as junior enlisted soldiers

and do not have access to kitchen equipment in their shared living quarters.

“Senator Bennet believes that service members who dedicate their lives to protecting our country deserve access to high-quality and nutritious meals every day,” Bennet’s o ce said in a statement. “It is inexcusable for our service members to pay hundreds of dollars a month for their meals and then experience food shortages or be served poor-quality food with no alternatives. Our military readiness is jeopardized if they cannot access the basic nutrition they need.”

According to the Military.com investigation, of the $22 million collected in BAS deductions from troops at the post south of Colorado Springs last year, only $5 million dollars actually went toward food they could access at dining facilities. It is unclear where the unused money was spent.

“ e ndings, which include 2024nancial records from eleven of the largest Army installations, show that more than $151 million of the $225 million in [subsistence funds] collected from servicemembers on these installations was not spent on food costs,” the letter from senators reads. “ at gure does not include the additional garrisons under the Army’s control, nor does it include spending at installations managed by the other military services suggesting the issue may be much more widespread.”

e group of senators want Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to detail how the DOD is making decisions about on-post food service operations, what barriers the military is facing to provide healthy meals to troops, and what his plan is to improve food quality on military bases.

“If a servicemember is losing money from their paycheck because they are being given a meal, it is reasonable for them to expect that funding will be used only to cover the costs of providing it and to ensure it is of the highest possible quality,” the letter reads. “We trust you will move expeditiously to answer our inquiries.”

Most new recruits stationed at Fort Carson are required to spend their rst

two to three years in service living in the barracks with up to 8,000 troops housed there at any given time.

A Fort Carson o cial said in December that 4,633 of those recruits are meal card holders who rely on dining facilities. is story is from CPR News, a nonpro t public broadcaster serving Colorado. Used by permission. For more, and to support Colorado Public Radio, visit cpr.org.

The Army’s Fort Carson is located in Colorado Springs.

PHOTO BY HART VAN DENBURG/CPR NEWS

Speed cameras coming to Federal and Alameda

Denver had only put devices in mobile vans

BY NATHANIEL MINOR DENVERITE

Denver will post automated speed cameras along two of its deadliest corridors — Federal Boulevard and Alameda Avenue — as soon as the second half of the year.

e cameras will be part of Mayor Mike Johnston’s push to “double down” on Vision Zero, the city’s ongoing e ort to eliminate tra c deaths, city leaders said at a press brie ng March 10.

“Anything that we can do to reduce speed in the city and county of Denver is going to be a great option. It’s going to reduce our tra c fatalities,” Kurt Barnes, a tra c enforcement o cer in the Denver Police Department, said of speed cameras.

City o cials have already completed a slate of safety projects for parts of Federal and Alameda that was announced last summer, said Amy Ford, executive director of the Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure.

ose include the installation of more speed limit signs, real-time speed feedback signs, and the retiming of tra c signals to slow tra c and give pedestrians more time to cross the road.

A new marketing campaign this spring, which includes seven billboards on Federal and Alameda, will encourage drivers to ease o the accelerator too.

“Please, for the love of safety, slow down,” said City Council President Amanda Sandoval, quoting the campaign’s main theme.

Denver has used speed cameras that operate out of vans for years, but only in limited areas like residential streets, near schools and in work zones. Now, under a new state law, automated enforcement systems are allowed to be permanently placed on busier streets.

Federal and Alameda are two of Denver’s busiest, and most deadly, streets. Seven people died and nearly 40 were seriously injured on them in 2024, Ford said. Drivers often exceed posted

speed limits, Barnes said, adding that he clocked someone doing 60 mph in a 35 mph zone on Federal near Colfax on Monday morning.

In the long-term, potential redesigns of Federal and Alameda could narrow them in certain places and passively encourage slower speeds. e Denver Police Department is also planning to step up in-person speed enforcement, Barnes said, which had dropped by nearly twothirds between 2014 and 2022.

A hope to slow drivers

“Anything that we can do to get the message out for people to slow down, I think, is great,” Barnes said.

Speed cameras tend to be unpopular with drivers and are often criticized for being a money maker for states and cit-

ies. But the federal government says they are an e ective way to slow speeds, and state lawmakers took steps to keep their use focused on safety and not revenue generation.

Citations, for example, are limited to $40, though that can double for violations near schools. e city must also prominently place signs near cameras alerting drivers to their presence.

e city also wants to avoid a situation where the cameras disproportionately impact certain communities, Ford said, as has happened elsewhere. Black and Hispanic drivers have seen the brunt of enforcement in cities including Washington, D.C., and Chicago in the past, for example.

So, Denver is considering placing cameras in neighborhoods that are some of

the city’s wealthiest and poorest, most white and most diverse. Ford named Federal near Colfax, and Alameda near Washington Park and Lowry as being potential locations.

“We’ve been actually studying and looking at where people are, where they’re driving, what that impact is to them, and then ensuring that we can sort of share that across the city,” Ford said. City o cials will soon begin community outreach on the cameras that could shape how the cameras roll out, she said. e City Council could act as soon as this summer to designate speed camera corridors, as is required by state law. is story is from Denverite, a Denver news site. Used by permission. For more, and to support Denverite, visit denverite. com.

City Council President Amanda Sandoval, Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Executive Director Amy Ford and Denver Police Department tra c enforcement o cer Kurt Barnes address the media in front of a new billboard encouraging motorists on South Federal Boulevard to slow down on March 10, 2025.

PHOTO BY NATHANIEL MINOR / DENVERITE

Boebert invites SBA to relocate state o ces to Douglas County

BY MCKENNA HARFORD

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and Douglas County o cials have proposed moving the Small Business Administration’s Colorado District O ce from Denver to Douglas County, citing alignment with President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

Earlier this month, the Small Business Administration announced it would move its o ces out of Denver, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York City and Seattle to “less costly, more accessible locations that better serve the small business community and comply with federal immigration law.”

On March 10, Boebert sent a letter to Kelly Loe er, the lead administrator for the Small Business Administration, thanking her for her commitment to move the administration’s o ces out of sanctuary cities and encouraged her to relocate the o ces to Douglas County. e letter includes examples of Douglas County’s support for Trump’s immigration policies, such as the county’s lawsuit against the state over laws that limit how police can work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the county’s 2023 resolution a rming its anti-sanctuary status.

“In contrast to sanctuary cities, Douglas County has worked tirelessly to safeguard its residents and collaborate with federal agencies, such as ICE, to ensure

the safety and wellbeing of its citizens,” Boebert said in the letter.

Boebert touted the county as a “hub for pro-business policies” located along major highway corridors.

“Douglas County’s pro-business environment, focus on public safety, and dedication to upholding the rule of law make it an excellent choice for relocating SBA’s Colorado District O ce,” Boebert said in the letter. “I am con dent that this move would not only streamline SBA operations, but also strengthen support for small businesses across Colorado and beyond.”

Douglas County Commissioner Abe Laydon agreed that the county would be a natural t for the SBA o ces.

“As the healthiest, safest and most prosperous county in Colorado with the No. 1 school district, we are seeing significant interest from all sectors in relocating here, so the SBA would be a welcome addition and a perfect t as Dougco creates new generational wealth for Coloradans,” Laydon said.

e Colorado District O ce is located in the U.S. Customs House at 721 19th St. in Denver.

According to the Denver Post, Rep. Je Crank, a Republican representing southern Colorado in Congress, requested that the SBA regional headquarters be moved to Colorado Springs.

As of March 12, no decision about where the o ces would be relocated had been made.

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WOMAN IN THE WORLD.” - JUDD APATOW

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, pictured speaking at an event in 2024, and Douglas County o cials are proposing to move the Small Business Administration’s Colorado District O ce from Denver to Douglas County.

PHOTO BY HALEY LENA

BY JENNIFER BROWN THE COLORADO SUN

Roughly 67,000 kids miss out on summer meals

A new federal program that provides grocery money in the summer for kids who qualify for free lunch at school could feed an estimated additional 67,000 kids.

Yet here’s how many applications for the summer food assistance program Colorado received last summer — 25.

It’s not as bad as it sounds, as more than 550,000 students in Colorado were automatically enrolled in the summer food program, which meant their families received a grocery card loaded with $120 per child, or $40 per month.

ose who automatically quali ed for the program, called Summer EBT, included families who had submitted paperwork to receive free or reduced-price school lunch or applied for monthly food assistance bene ts. Children in foster care are automatically eligible, as are kids who are homeless or migrants — if their families already quali ed for free school lunch or monthly food assistance.

Still, an estimated 67,000 children across the state missed out on the program because their families would have had to apply and did not know that, according to an analysis by an independent consultant. at adds up to about $8 million in federal funds that Colorado didn’t tap into last summer.

“For the students who were enrolled last year and remain eligible this year, CDHS will simply refill their cards.”

AnneMarie Harper, communications director for the Colorado Department of Human Services

State o cials are hoping to reach more kids this summer, the second year of the federal program.

e summer food assistance program grew out of a COVID-era plan, called the Pandemic Electronic Bene t Transfer, approved by Congress to provide grocery money to families while their children were not attending in-person school. Students whose families need to apply for the summer bene t include those who do not have up-to-date household income data on le with their school. is is particularly an issue for families who qualify for free and reduced-price lunch but don’t ll out the paperwork because their children attend a school where everyone gets free lunch.

At schools where a majority of the students qualify for free lunch, a measure of poverty, every student can receive free lunch under what the federal government calls “community eligibility.”

New residents of Colorado, or those who enrolled in the free-lunch program after their school submitted its yearly eligibil-

ity paperwork, also were not automatically enrolled in the summer food program.

“Only a small number of students need to apply in order to get bene ts,” AnneMarie Harper, communications director for the Colorado Department of Human Services said via email. e department declined to give an interview in response to e Sun’s questions about why the state didn’t reach more children last year. e state would not estimate how many eligible children need to apply for the program, saying it was too new for state ocials to have a “comprehensive estimate.”

But a public policy expert who has studied the issue nationally found that among the dozen states he queried, Colorado had the lowest percentage of applications from eligible families.

“Millions of dollars never made it to the group of eligible families that are required to submit an online application,” said David Rubel, a New York public policy consultant. “Very few families in Colorado submitted the application.”

He’s concerned that $500 million nationwide — including an estimated $8 million in Colorado — will go unused by

states and returned to the federal government, which is similar to what happened last year.

According to his research, just 0.003% of the 67,400 Colorado children whose families would have been eligible had they submitted the application actually did so.

e average of the 12 states Rubel researched was 6.4%, meaning 4 million eligible families did not submit applications. He deduced the number of eligible children in each state by using U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates stating that about 20% of eligible children would have to apply for the program, while 80% would have already enrolled in some other program that made them automatically eligible.

e Department of Agriculture also had estimated that Colorado would have 337,000 eligible children in all — but the state instead found 550,000.

A major issue last summer was timing.

Following federal approval, states had just two months in which to accept applications, which meant little time to advertise. is year, though, states have several months to let people know about the pro-

gram. e application “will be live on the website in the coming weeks,” Harper said. Before the state mailed bene ts cards last summer, state o cials had to identify the 550,000 children who automatically qualied for the program and had to coordinate with schools to get mailing addresses for those families. Cards were mailed out across the country last summer, though some did not arrive until August. Colorado last year advertised the program with a website and posters, iers and social media posts in English and Spanish. Harper said the state “continues to focus our e orts on building awareness of the program,” including by hosting town hall and “road show” presentations and partnering with the Family Resource Center Association, which has 32 locations in Colorado.

“For the students who were enrolled last year and remain eligible this year, CDHS will simply re ll their cards,” she said. “At the end of last year’s program, we asked students and families to hold on to their bene t cards so we could do just that.” is summer’s program is already authorized in the federal budget and has not been targeted in the Trump administration’s spending cutbacks. is story was printed through a news sharing agreement with e Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned nonpro t based in Denver that covers the state.

Centennial Elementary School second grader Ajiah picks out her hot lunch in the school cafeteria Feb. 10, 2021, at the Harrison School District 2 school in Colorado Springs.

PHOTO BY MARK REIS / SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 04/16/2025, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said

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

First Publication: 2/20/2025

Last Publication: 3/20/2025

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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

DATE: 12/13/2024

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado

By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Anna Johnston #51978

Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557

Carly Imbrogno #59533

Randall M. Chin #31149

David W. Drake #43315

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000010257038

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

0559-2024 LEGAL DESCRIPTION CONDOMINIUM UNIT F, THE STEEPLECHASE III CONDOMINIUMS, TOGETHER WITH GARAGE NO. F, ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM MAP THEREOF, RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 10, 1998 AT RECEPTION NO. A8187114 IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR THE STEEPLECHASE III CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED ON MAY 28, 1997 AT RECEPTION NO. A7062094, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Public Notice NO. 0559-2024

First Publication: 2/20/2025

Last Publication:3/20/2025

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103

FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0006-2025

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

On January 7, 2025, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

March 25, 2025, at 9:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as the calendar of the Board of County Commissioners permits, in the East Hearing Room of the County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, the Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe County will meet to consider the following proposed budget resolutions:

RESOLUTION A: REAPPROPRIATION OF 2025 FUNDS

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners adopted the 2025 Annual Budget pursuant to State Statute; and

WHEREAS,theBoardmayauthorizeadepartmentorelectedofficetousean unspent portion of the prior year’s appropriation during the subsequent year for the originally intended purpose, and the most common circumstances include funds that were encumbered but not yet spent, the remaining funds for ongoing projects, and the year-end fund balances of certain funds; and

WHEREAS,therequeststouseunspentfundsfromthepriorfiscalyearduring thecurrentfiscalyearhavebeenreviewedbytheFinanceDepartment;and

WHEREAS,sinceappropriationauthorityexpiresattheendofeachfiscalyear, theBoard-approvedfundsmustbeappropriatedagainforthesubsequentfiscal year so they may be expended; and

WHEREAS,itistherequestoftheFinanceDepartment,inconjunctionwith theindividualoperatingdepartmentsandelectedoffices,toreappropriatethe fundsinaccordancewiththeArapahoeCountyFinancialPolicy3.4,whichalso specifiesthatthisreappropriationprocessbecompletedeachyear;and

WHEREAS, this matter has been published pursuant to Section 29-1-106, C.R.S., as required by law.

NOW,THEREFORE,BEITRESOLVEDbytheBoardofCountyCommission

Original Grantor(s)

REGINA BALAGUL

Original Beneficiary(ies)

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION

SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR NORTHPOINTE BANK

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC

Date of Deed of Trust

December 11, 2020

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust

December 11, 2020

Recording Information

(Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.)

E0174447

Original Principal Amount

$240,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$220,420.30

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

LOT 5, BLOCK 5, SOUTHWIND SUBDIVI-

SION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Purported common address: 7232 S SHERMAN ST, CENTENNIAL, CO 80122-1158.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/07/2025, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 3/13/2025

Last Publication: 4/10/2025

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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

DATE: 01/07/2025

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe,

State of Colorado By: Michael

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

Anna Johnston #51978

Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557

Carly Imbrogno #59533

Randall M. Chin #31149

David W. Drake #43315

Ryan Bourgeois #51088

Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP

1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711

Attorney File # 00000010325991

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. 0006-2025

First Publication: 3/13/2025

Last Publication: 4/10/2025

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0567-2024

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

On December 27, 2024, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s)

Keith B. Reaves

Original Beneficiary(ies)

Washington Mutual Bank, FA

Current Holder of Evidence of Debt

JPMorgan Chase Bank,

National Association Date of Deed of Trust

May 31, 2005

County of Recording Arapahoe

Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 13, 2005

Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B5086115

Original Principal Amount

$68,000.00

Outstanding Principal Balance

$64,588.05

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

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:

Arapahoe County Budget

WEST 50 FEET OF LOTS 44 THROUGH 48, BLOCK 40, SOUTH BROADWAY HEIGHTS, COUNTY OF ARAPHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Purported common address: 12 E Quincy Ave, Englewood, CO 80113-4644.

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

NOTICE OF SALE

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 04/30/2025, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 3/6/2025

Last Publication: 4/3/2025

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

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

DATE: 12/27/2024

Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee

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

Erin Croke #46557

Steven Bellanti #48306

Holly Shilliday #24423

Ilene Dell'Acqua #31755

McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122

Attorney File # CO-24-1002843-LL

The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose.

©Public Trustees' Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

Legal Notice NO. 0567-2024

First Publication: 3/6/2025

Last Publication: 4/3/2025

Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0572-2024

RESOLUTION B: POLICY RESERVES

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners adopted the 2025 Annual Budget pursuant to Statute; and WHEREAS,ArapahoeCountyFinancialPolicy2.1,approvedonOctober25, 2016,specifiesthattheBoardofCountyCommissionerswillannuallydesignatefromthespecificfund’sunappropriatedfundbalanceaworkingcapital reserveequaltoone-sixthofthecurrentyear’sinitialadoptedoperatingbudget fortheRoadandBridgeFundandtheArapahoeLawEnforcementAuthority Fund,andanamountequaltoone-sixthoftheCounty’scontributiontothe SocialServicesFund;and

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners has determined that the GeneralFundworkingcapitalreserveshallbeelevenpercent(11.0percent)ofthe operating expenses within the current year’s initial adopted budget; and WHEREAS,thesefundbalancereserveswillbeadequatetofundnecessary expenditures,includingaccruedvacationandsickleave;and WHEREAS,thesereserveswillbeadequatetocomplywith,andshallinclude, thefundbalancereserveamountsrequiredbyArticleX,Section20,ofthe State Constitution.

NOW,THEREFORE,BEITRESOLVEDbytheBoardofCountyCommissionersofArapahoeCountytodesignatethefollowingfundbalancereserve amounts for 2025:

1.GeneralFund WorkingCapitalReserve

2.RoadandBridgeFund WorkingCapitalReserve

3.SocialServicesFund WorkingCapitalReserve

4.ArapahoeLawEnforcementAuthorityFund WorkingCapitalReserve

$27,859,494

$3,235,863

$3,058,401

$2,164,990

RESOLUTION C: SUPPLEMENTALS

WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners adopted the 2024 and 2025 Annual Budgets pursuant to Statute; and WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners will consider the following budget amendments to the 2024 and 2025 Annual Budgets; and WHEREAS, this matter has been published pursuant to Section 29-1-109, C.R.S., as required by law.

NOW,THEREFORE,BEITRESOLVEDbytheBoardofCountyCommissioners of Arapahoe County to amend the adopted 2024 Annual Budget as follows:

a.Appropriate$50,000fromtheunappropriatedbalanceoftheSelfInsurance LiabilityFund,CountyAttorney, tocoveradditionalclaimsthatwerepaidout.

BEITFURTHERRESOLVEDbytheBoardofCountyCommissionersofArapahoe County to amend the adopted 2025 Annual Budget as follows:

a.Transfer$140,000fromtheGeneralFund,PublicWorks&Development,to recognizeandappropriateintheCapitalExpenditureFund,FacilitiesandFleet ManagementfortheLimaPlazaOfficeLobbySecuritycapitalimprovement project.

b.Recognize$8,669,298andappropriate$7,220,531intheInfrastructure Fund,PublicWorks&Development,forfundsexpectedtobereceivedasreimbursement for project expenses.

BEITFURTHERRESOLVEDthattheBudgetOfficershallfileacertifiedcopy ofthisResolutionwiththeDivisionofLocalGovernmentandwiththeaffected spending agencies.

LegalNoticeNo.Arap2338

FirstPublication:March20,2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025 Publisher: Englewood Herald, Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Westerberg, Public Trustee

PUBLIC NOTICES

or

By Order of the City Board of Adjustment and Appeals

Shelly Worek Recording Secretary

Legal Notice No. Arap 2324

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

CITY OF SHERIDAN NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On the 10th day of March, 2025, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. 3 SERIES OF 2025

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO AMENDING THE DEFINITION OF HOUSEHOLD SET FORTH IN SECTION 56-3 OF THE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE

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

Legal Notice No. Arap 2333

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL FOR THE SOUTHERN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Southern Metropolitan District, Arapahoe County, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third (63rd) day before the election or thereafter there were not more candidates for Director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be writein candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 6, 2025, is hereby cancelled.

The following candidates are declared elected:

Edward E. Quinn: Four year term to 2029

Michelle Holbrook: Four year term to 2029

SOUTHERN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT

By: /s/ Micki L. Mills

esi a ed le i fi ial

Legal Notice No. Arap 2320

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

CITY OF SHERIDAN NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On the 10th day of March, 2025 the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on first reading the following Ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. 7 SERIES OF 2025

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO, REZONING THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 3050 W. HAMILTON PLACE FROM THE COMMERCIAL (COM-C) ZONE DISTRICT TO THE BUSINESS LIGHT-INDUSTRIAL (BUS-LI) ZONE DISTRICT, WITH CONDITIONS, AS AMENDED

AMENDED: THIRD RECITAL TO CHANGE PUBLIC HEARING DATE TO MARCH 24, 2025.

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

Legal Notice No. Arap 2337

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

CITY OF ENGLEWOOD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that a Public Hearing before the Englewood City Council will be held on April 7, 2025 at the hour of 7:00 p.m. in the Englewood City Council Chambers, 1000 Englewood Parkway, Englewood, CO 80110.

Case ZON2024-001 Planned Unit Development (PUD): The issue to be heard before the city council is a proposed Planned Unit Development (PUD). The proposed PUD is to allow for outdoor storage and equipment sales while retaining existing single-family residential uses.

Address: 2800 West Chenango Avenue

A copy of the proposed documents may be reviewed in the Community Development Department. Anyone interested in this matter may be heard at the Public Hearing by calling 303.762.2430 or by emailing CityClerk@ englewoodco.gov 24 hours prior to the public hearing for directions on providing public comment virtually or in person.

By Order of the Englewood City Council

Stephanie Carlile, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. Arap 2340

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

CITY OF SHERIDAN

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On the 10th day of March, 2025, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance: ORDINANCE NO. 6 SERIES OF 2025

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO

AMENDING SECTION 46-32, SPECIFIC NUISANCES, OF THE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE, AS AMENDED ON FIRST READING

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

Legal Notice No. Arap 2336

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

CITY OF CENTENNIAL

NOTICE OF LEGAL PUBLICATION MIGRATION TO CITY’S WEBSITE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that legal notices for Centennial public hearings, proposed legislative actions, and final approvals are now available online. Visit centennialco.gov/ legalnotices to see when City Council or the Planning and Zoning Commission will review proposed legislation and determine next steps. Public hearings provide an opportunity for community members to share comments on proposed actions.

The Planning and Zoning Commission holds public hearings for land use cases on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month, with City Council making the final decision at a future meeting. Regular Council meetings, including public hearings, take place on the first and third Tuesday of each month. View meeting agendas at centennialco.gov/agendas.

/s/ Christina Lovelace, CMC

City Clerk

Legal Notice NO. Arap 2238

First Publication: February 27, 2025

Second:March 6, 2025

Third: March 13, 2025

Fourth:March 20, 2025

Fifth: March 27, 2025

Sixth: April 3, 2025

Seventh:April 10, 2025

Eighth:April 17, 2025

Ninth: April 24, 2025

Tenth: May 1, 2025

Eleventh:May 8, 2025

Twelth: Last Publication: May 15, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent and the Centennial Citizen

Public Notice

CITY OF SHERIDAN

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE

On the 10th day of March, 2025, the City Council of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, approved on final reading the following Ordinance:

ORDINANCE NO. 2

SERIES OF 2025

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SHERIDAN, COLORADO

AMENDING SEC. 10-55 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE TASTINGS OF THE SHERIDAN MUNICIPAL CODE

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

Legal Notice No. Arap 2332

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Englewood Herald

Metropolitan Districts

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL FOR THE PLATTE CANYON WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Platte Canyon Water and Sanitation District, Jefferson and Arapahoe Counties, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third (63rd) day before the election there were not more candidates for Director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 6, 2025, is hereby cancelled.

The following candidates are declared elected:

Anthony M. Dursey: Four Year Term

Louis J. Fohn: Four Year Term

Damien Mulvany: Four Year Term

PLATTE CANYON WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

By: s Bridget Butterfield

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. Arap 2314

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELATION OF ELECTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Leawood Metropolitan Recreation and Park District, Jefferson County, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third day before the election, there were not more candidates for director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates. Therefore, the election to be held on May 6, 2025, is hereby canceled pursuant to section 1-13.5-513 (6), C.R.S.

The following candidates are hereby declared elected to the Board of Directors of Leawood Metropolitan Recreation and Park District:

Carole Gottlieb: 4-year term, May 2029

Margaret Turaga: 4-year term, May 2029

Logan McMillan: 2-year term, May 2027

Michael Shaw: 2-year term , May 2027

Vacancy: 4-year term, May 2029

/s/ Michele M. Barrasso

Michele M. Barrasso, esi a ed le i fi ial

Contact Person for the District:

Colin B. Mielke, Esq. 7400 East Orchard Rd., Suite 3300 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (303) 770-2700

Email of the District Contact: cmielke@svwpc.com

Legal Notice No. Arap 2339

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL FOR THE BOW MAR WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Bow

Mar and Sanitation District, Arapahoe and Jefferson Counties, Colorado, that at the close of business on March 4, 2025 there were not more candidates for Director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 6, 2025, is hereby cancelled.

The following candidates are declared elected:

Scott Wagner Four Year Term

Hugh E. Harvey, Jr. Four Year Term

Bow Mar Water and Sanitation District

By: /s/ Bow Mar Water and Sanitation,

Designated Election Official

Legal Notice No. Arap 2311

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL FOR THE SOUTHWEST METROPOLITAN WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Southwest Metropolitan Water and Sanitation District, Jefferson, Douglas, and Arapahoe Counties, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third (63rd) day before the election there were not more candidates for Director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 6, 2025, is hereby cancelled.

The following candidates are declared elected:

Anthony M. Dursey: Four Year Term

Bernard J. Sebastian, Jr.: Four Year Term

Ismael Gomez: Four Year Term

SOUTHWEST METROPOLITAN WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT

s id e e field

esi a ed le i fi ial

Legal Notice No. Arap 2315

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL

§§ 1-11-103(3), 1-13.5-513, C.R.S.

LITTLETON VILLAGE

METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Littleton Village Metropolitan District No. 3, County of Arapahoe, Colorado, that at or after the close of business on the sixty-third day before the election to be conducted on May 6, 2025, there were not more candidates for director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election was canceled pursuant to Section 1-13.5-513, C.R.S.

The following candidates were declared elected by acclamation:

Sherry Buchanan: May 2029 (4) Year Term

Vacant: May 2029 (4) Year Term

Vacant: May 2029 (4) Year Term

Vacant: May 2027 (2) Year Term

LITTLETON VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3

/s/ Stacie L. Pacheco

Stacie L. Pacheco, esi a ed le i fi ial

Contact Person for the District:

Alan D. Pogue, Esq. ICENOGLE SEAVER POGUE, P.C. 4725 South Monaco Street, Suite 360 Denver, Colorado 80237

Telephone: 303-292-9100

Email: APogue@ISP-Law.com

Legal Notice No. Arap 2342

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL FOR THE VALLEY SANITATION DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Valley Sanitation District, Arapahoe and Denver Counties, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third (63rd) day before the election there were not more candidates for Director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be writein candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 6, 2025, is hereby cancelled.

The following candidates are declared elected:

Phyllis R. Gooden: Four Year Term

Vacancy: Four Year Term

AVISO DE CANCELACIÓN DE LA ELECCIÓN REGULAR POR PARTE DEL FUNCIONARIO

ELECTORAL DESIGNADO PARA VALLEY SANITATION DISTRICT

POR LA PRESENTE SE NOTIFICA por el Distrito de Saneamiento del Valle, los condados de Arapahoe y Denver, Colorado, que al cierre de operaciones el sexagésimo tercer (63º) día antes de la elección no había más candidatos para Director que cargos por llenar, incluidos los candidatos que presentaron declaraciones juradas de intención de ser candidatos por escrito; por lo tanto, se cancela la elección que se celebrará el 6 de mayo de 2025.

Se declaran electos los siguientes candidatos:

Phyllis R. Gooden: Mandato de cuatro años

Vacante: Mandato de cuatro años

VALLEY SANITATION DISTRICT

By: s Bridget Butterfield

Designated Election Official Oficial electoral designado

Legal Notice No. Arap 2316

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Englewood Herald Littleton Independent

Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION

OFFICIAL

§§ 1-11-103(3), 1-13.5-513, C.R.S.

LITTLETON VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Littleton Village Metropolitan District No. 1, County of Arapahoe, Colorado, that at or after the close of business on the sixty-third day before the election to be conducted on May 6, 2025, there were not more candidates for director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election was canceled pursuant to Section 1-13.5-513, C.R.S.

The following candidates were declared elected by acclamation:

Vacant: May 2029 (4) Year Term

Vacant: May 2029 (4) Year Term

Vacant: May 2029 (4) Year Term

LITTLETON VILLAGE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 1

/s/ Stacie L. Pacheco

Stacie L. Pacheco, esi a ed le i fi ial

Contact Person for the District: Alan D. Pogue, Esq.

ICENOGLE SEAVER POGUE, P.C. 4725 South Monaco Street, Suite 360 Denver, Colorado 80237

Telephone: 303-292-9100

Email: APogue@ISP-Law.com

Legal Notice No. Arap 2341

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF REGULAR ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL FOR THE NORMANDY ESTATES METROPOLITAN RECREATION DISTRICT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the Normandy Estates Metropolitan Recreation District, Jefferson and Arapahoe Counties, Colorado, that at the close of business on the sixty-third (63rd) day before the election or thereafter there were not more candidates for Director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates; therefore, the election to be held on May 6, 2025, is hereby cancelled. The following candidates are declared elected: Donna M. Wirkus: Four year term to 2029 Vacancy: Four year term to 2029 Vacancy: Two

PUBLIC NOTICES

Dated: February 14, 2025. ORTEN CAVANAGH HOLMES & HUNT, LLC

By:/s/Hal R. Kyles

Hal R. Kyles, #23891

This Summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4(g), Colorado Rules of Civil Procedure.

Legal Notice No. Arap 2224

First Publication: February 27, 2025

Last Publication: March 27, 2025 Publisher: Littleton Independent Misc. Private Legals

Public Notice

NOTICE OF DEMAND FOR DUPLICATE STOCK CERTIFICATES (Pursuant to C.R.S. § 7-42-113 et seq.)

LAST CHANCE DITCH COMPANY No. 2

A duly signed and notarized notice has been filed with The Last Chance Ditch Company No. 2 in accordance with sections 7 42-114 to 7-42-117 of the C.R.S, stating: “Statement that Stock Certificate has been Lost, State of Colorado, County of Denver. I, Kenneth A. Breitenbach, being first duly sworn, state as follows: 1. I am the Owner of the Last Chance Ditch Company No. 2 Stock Certificate for 0.1 (1/2”) shares; 2. The Last Chance Ditch Company No. 2 Stock Certificate for 0.1 (1 2 ) shares has been lost, mislaid or destroyed; 3. The Last Chance Ditch Company No. 2 Stock Certificate for 0.1 (1 2 ) shares has not been transferred or hypothecated by Kenneth A. Breitenbach. Therefore, Kenneth A. Breitenbach hereby requests that The Last Chance Ditch Company No. 2 issue a duplicate stock certificate in accordance with Sections 7-42114 through 7-42-117, C.R.S. I hereby certify that the foregoing statements are true and correct to be the best of my knowledge and belief.” Original was acknowledged before MariBeth Naughton, Notary Public, on March 5, 2025. The Last Chance Ditch Company No. 2 will issue on or after 04/10/2025, a duplicate certificate to enneth A. Breitenbach unless a contrary claim is filed with The Last Chance Ditch Company No. 2 prior to the date stated in this notice. The Last Chance Ditch Company No. 2, 1600 West 12th Avenue, Denver, CO 80204.

Legal Notice No. Arap 2317

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: April 17, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

Holly Dental Associates, 8010 S Holly St #100, Centennial CO 80122 will be destroying inactive records/charts for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017. Records will be available for pick up until April 21st 2025.

Legal Notice No. Arap 2240

First Publication: February 27, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

C i ed C field C l ad Seventeenth Judicial District, State of Colorado 17 DesCombes Drive field C

In re: Allocation of Parental Responsibilities

Petitioner: Haylee Nicole Phifer Respondent: Romelio Jesus Orozco Case No. 25DR11

PUBLICATION NOTICE TO THE RESPONDENT

you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 21 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

If you were served outside of the State of Colorado or you were served by publication, you must file your Response with the clerk of this Court within 35 days after this Summons is served on you to participate in this action.

ou may be required to pay a filing fee with your Response. The Response form (JDF 1103) can be found at www.courts.state.co.us by clicking on the “Self Help/Forms” tab.

After 91 days from the date of service or publication, the Court may enter a Decree affecting your marital status, distribution of property and debts, issues involving children such as child support, allocation of parental responsibilities (decision-making and parenting time), maintenance (spousal support), attorney fees, and costs to the extent the Court has jurisdiction. ail file a es se i is ase any or all of the matters above, or any related matters which come before this Court, may be decided without further notice to you.

This is an action to obtain a Decree of: Dissolution of Marriage or Legal Separation as more fully described in the attached Petition, and if you have children, for orders regarding the children of the marriage.

Notice: §14-10-107, C.R.S. provides that upon the filing of a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage or Legal Separation by the Petitioner and Co-Petitioner, or upon personal service of the Petition and Summons on the Respondent, or upon waiver and acceptance of service by the Respondent, an automatic temporary injunction shall be in effect against both parties until the Final Decree is entered, or the Petition is dismissed, or until further Order of the Court. Either party may apply to the Court for further temporary orders, an expanded temporary injunction, or modification or revocation under §14-10-108, C.R.S.

A request for genetic tests shall not prejudice the requesting party in matters concerning allocation of parental responsibilities pursuant to §14-10-124(1.5), C.R.S. If genetic tests are not obtained prior to a legal establishment of paternity and submitted into evidence prior to the entry of the final decree of dissolution or legal separation, the genetic tests may not be allowed into evidence at a later date.

Automatic Temporary Injunction By Order of Colorado Law, You and Your Spouse are:

1. Restrained from transferring, encumbering, concealing or in any way disposing of, without the consent of the other party or an Order of the Court, any marital property, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life. Each party is required to notify the other party of any proposed extraordinary expenditures and to account to the Court for all extraordinary expenditures made after the injunction is in effect;

2. Enjoined from molesting or disturbing the peace of the other party;

3. Restrained from removing the minor children of the parties, if any, from the State without the consent of the other party or an Order of the Court; and 4. Restrained without at least 14 days advance notification and the written consent of the other party or an Order of the Court, from canceling, modifying, terminating, or allowing to lapse for nonpayment of premiums, any policy of health insurance, homeowner’s or renter’s insurance, or automobile insurance that provides coverage to either of the parties or the minor children or any policy of life insurance that names either of the parties or the minor children as a beneficiary.

Date: July 23, 2024 5280

FAMILY LAW

/s/ Bernadette Gonzales

Bernadette Gonzales, #31676

28 days of the last publication of this Order.

3. Failure to comply with this Order may result in a Judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.

4. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order be published once each week for three (3) consecutive weeks in the Montmorency County Tribune and the Littleton Independent. IT IS SO ORDERED:

Date: 2/6/25

s/s Honorable K. Edward Black Circuit Court Judge Hon Lora E. Greene for K. Edward Black

Legal Notice No. Arap 2285

First Publication: March 13, 2025 Last Publication: March 27, 2025 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice COUNTY COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 1790 West Littleton Blvd. Littleton, CO 80120 303/645-6600

Case No.:2019C037874; Div.:A2 Autovest, L.L.C., Plaintiff vs. CEDRIC RAMONE BUTCHER, Defendant REVIVER BY PUBLICATION NOTICE TO DEFENDANT/JUDGMENT DEBTOR

THIS MATTER coming on before the Court upon the motion of the Plaintiff styled “Motion for Revivor of Judgment,” and the Court having read said motion and now being duly apprised in the premises, NOW THEREFORE IT IS HEREBY ORDERED the Clerk of this Court shall, and is ordered and directed to, issue to Defendant, CEDRIC RAMONE BUTCHER, the “Notice to Show Cause Pursuant to CRCP 354(h)” requiring said Defendant to show cause within 14 (fourteen) days from the service of such Notice, pursuant to CRCP 354(h), if any he/she has, why the Judgment heretofore entered in this matter on June 3, 2019 shall not be revived with like force and effect.

WHEREAS, Plaintiff has moved this Court pursuant to CRCP 354(h) to revive the Judgment entered in the instant matter on, June 3, 2019 NOW THEREFORE IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED, that Plaintiff, Autovest, L.L.C., shall have and take of defendant, CEDRIC RAMONE BUTCHER Judgment in the instant matter on this date with like force and effect as on the date the Judgment was entered heretofore on June 3, 2019.

Defendant shall show cause within fourteen (14) days from the service of this “Notice to Show Cause Pursuant to CRCP 354(h)”, if any the Defendant has, why the Judgment heretofore entered should not be revived with like force and effect.

Attorney for Plaintiff

Legal Notice No. Arap 2234

First Publication: February 27, 2025

Last Publication: March 27, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent Notice to Creditors

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Andrew Scott Gillespie, aka Andrew S. Gillespie, aka Andrew Gillespie, Deceased Case Number: 2024PR624

2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Amy M Over, Personal Representative 16652 Hitching Post Circle Parker, CO 80134

Legal Notice No. Arap 2286

First Publication: March 13, 2025

Last Publication: March 27, 2025 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

HOLMES & HUNT, LLC

Hal R. Kyles, #23891 1445 Market St., Suite 350 Denver, Colorado 80202

Phone Number: (720) 221-9780

Matter ID #1200.0091 SUMMONS [BY PUBLICATION] THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF

TO: Romelio lesus Orozco ou are notified, pursuant to C.R.S. 14-10-107(4) and 1413-106(1) (d), that an action has been filed Re: Allocation of Parental Responsibilities, Petitioner, Haylee Nicole Phifer, Respondent, Romelio esus Orozco. ou are further notified that a copy of the Petition and Summons may be obtained from the Clerk of the Court during regular business hours and that a Default Judgement may be entered against you if you fail to appear or file a response within 35 days after the date of publication.

DATE: February 21, 2025

/s/ Kirbee Anderson Family Court Facilitator

Legal Notice No. Arap 2298 First Publication: March 13, 2025 Last Publication: April 10, 2025 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, CO 80112

In re the Marriage of: Petitioner: DESTINI A. HERNANDEZ-TORRES and Respondent: HUMBERTO HERNANDEZ-TORRES

ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER

5280 FAMILY LAW Bernadette Gonzales, #31676 PO Box 27681 Denver, CO 80227-9998 Phone: (720) 998-4400 E-mail: Bernadette@5280famlaw.com CASE NUMBER: 2024DR31250

SUMMONS FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE

To the Respondent named above, this Summons serves as a notice to appear in this case.

If you were served in the State of Colorado,

Attorney for the Petitioner

Legal Notice No. Arap 2204

First Publication: February 20, 2025

Last Publication: March 6, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

STATE OF MICHIGAN IN THE 26TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF MONTMORENCY

File No. 2024 - 5571 - CH

ADWOA OBOSU-BAXTER and KERN C. BAXTER, Plaintiffs, V KRISTINA R. RICHARD, and/or UNKNOWN HEIRS, ASSIGNS, AND DEVISEES, Defendant.

Harris Law, P.C.

By: Brooke Robinson (P78144)

Attorney for Plaintiff

101 W. Main St Gaylord, MI 49735 (989) 731-4444 brooke@nmilawvers.com

AMENDED ORDER TO ANSWER

At a session of said court held in the Township of Montmorency, County of Montmorerny, State of Michigan, on this 6th day of February 2025.

PRESENT: Honorable K. Edward Black Circuit Court Judge TO KRISTINA RAE RICHARD, and/or UNKNOWN HEIRS, ASSIGNS, AND DEVISEES:

1. An action has been filed against you regarding certain real estate in Montmorency County, Michigan.

2. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that you shall file your answer with this Court and serve it upon the attorney for the Plaintiff, or take such other action as may be permitted by law, within

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 14, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Baysore Christian Fiduciary Services.

LLC Personal Representative 7000 E Belleview Ave., Suite 150 Greenwood Village. CO 80111

Legal Notice No. Arap 2289

First Publication: March 13, 2025

Last Publication: March 27, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Grace Dorothy Grutza, aka Grace D. Grutza, aka Grace Grutza, Deceased Case Number: 2025PR30131

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 18, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Baysore Christian Fiduciary Services, LLC, Personal Representative Patrick R. Thiessen (40185) Frie, Arndt, Danborn Thiessen P.C. 7400 Wadsworth Blvd., #201 Arvada, Colorado 80003 303/420-1234

Attorney for Personal Representative

Legal Notice No. Arap 2283

First Publication: March 13, 2025

Last Publication: March 27, 2025 Publisher:

Number: 2025PR30140

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday, July 14, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kirstin Rifkin, Personal Representative 4331 E. Perry Parkway Greenwood Village, CO 80121

Legal Notice No. Arap 2287 First Publication: March 13, 2025 Last Publication: March 27, 2025 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Heinz Paul Buetner, aka Paul Heinz Buetner, Deceased Case Number: 25 PR 30101

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before: July 6, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Joeseph Whitcomb on behalf of Sabina Kier, Personal Representative C/O Whitcomb Selinsky 300 Union Blvd., Suite 200 Lakewood, CO 80228

Legal Notice No. Arap 2246 First Publication: March 6, 2025 Last Publication: March 20, 2025 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Margaret Ann Helm Shutts, a.k.a.: Margaret Ann Shutts, a.k.a.: Margaret A. Shutts, a.k.a.: Margaret A. Helm Shutts, a.k.a.: Margaret A. H. Shutts,

es C 8700 Ralston Road Arvada, CO 80002

Legal Notice No. Arap 2257 First Publication: March 6, 2025 Last Publication: March 20, 2025 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Leon Edward Mardesen, a/k/a Leon E. Mardesen, Deceased Case Number: 2009PR807

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday, July 14, 2025 or the claims may be forever barred.

Lee Mardesen

Personal Representative

8020 S. Williams Way Centennial, CO 80122

Legal Notice No. Arap 2249 First Publication: March 13, 2025

Last Publication: March 27, 2025 Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Theodore E. McChesney, a/k/a Theodore McChesney, a/k/a Theodore Edgar McChesney, a/k/a Ted E. McChesney, a/k/a Ted McChesney, a/k/a Theodore E. Daugherty-McChesney, a/k/a Theodore E. Daugherty McChesney, a/k/a Theodore E. Daugherty, Deceased. Case Number: 2025 PR 30167

All people who have claims against the abovenamed Estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Combined Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday July 14, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Beckie S. Korthuis, Personal Representative

c/o Burke, Holguin, Smith, P.C. 2779 Crossroads Blvd. Grand Junction, CO 81506 (970) 241-2969

Legal Notice No. Arap 2291

First Publication: March 13, 2025

Last Publication: March 27, 2025

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of CHARLES A. ATLER, a/k/a Charles Anthoney Atler, and Chuck Atler, Deceased Case Number 2025PR030198

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 20, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kathleen Abdelbaki Daniel Atler

Co-Personal Representatives

c/o Charles Miller Miller Urtz, LLC

4500 E. Cherry Creek South Dr. Suite 1080 Denver, CO 80246

Legal Notice No. Arap 2312

First Publication: March 20, 2025

Last Publication: April 3, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Beverly L. Cummins,

Deceased Case Number: 2025PR30111

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday, July 7, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Andrew H. Goertzel

Attorney to the Personal Representative

c/o 6060 Greenwood Plaza Blvd #200 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. Arap 2247

First Publication: March 6, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Stanislav Borisovich Lyubashin, aka Stanislav B. Lyubashin, aka Stanislav Lyubashin, Deceased

Case Number: 2024PR601

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Arapahoe, County, Colorado on or before July 21, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

/s/ Maria Zalessky

Maria Zalessky, #52405

Zalessky Law Group, LLC

Attorneys for PR, Ruslana Lyubashina 9725 E. Hampden Ave. #103 Denver, CO 80231

Legal Notice No. Arap 2313

First Publication: March 20, 2025 Last Publication: April 3, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of MARY GRACE MURPHY, a/k/a MARY ELIZABETH GRACE, Deceased Case Number: 2025PR30053

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before Monday, July 7, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael F. Grace, Personal Representative 1271 NE Hwy 99W, Unit 450 McMinnville, Oregon 97128

Legal Notice No. Arap 2273

First Publication: March 6, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025 Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of CHARLOTTE ANN BROWN, aka CHARLOTTE A. BROWN, aka CHARLOTTE BROWN, aka CHARLOTTE ANN BURKE, aka CHARLOTTE A. BURKE, aka CHARLOTTE BURKE, Deceased Case Number: 25PR30166

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 13, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Alexander J. Burke, Personal Representative c/o Nicole Andrzejewski 5347 S. Valentia Way, Ste. 335 Greenwood Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. Arap 2296

First Publication: March 13, 2025

Last Publication: March 27, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of GLADYS MAE WITT, a/ka GLADYS M. WITT, Deceased Case Number: 24PR31300

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 7, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Barbara Ann Witt, Personal Representative

Patrick A. Schilken, P.C. 534 S. Valentia Way, Suite No. 335 Green Village, CO 80111

Legal Notice No. Arap 2251 First Publication: March 6, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Douglas Glenn Smith, a/k/a Douglas G. Smith, a/k/a Douglas Smith, and Doug Smith, Deceased Case Number: 2025PR30172

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to: The District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, Arapahoe County Justice Center, 7325 S. Potomac Street, #100 Centennial, CO 80112 on or before July 6, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kayla Hume, Personal Representative c/o Law Office of Byron K. Hammond, LLC 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 960Denver, CO 80246

Legal Notice No. Arap 2259

First Publication: March 6, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Englewood Herald Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of John F. Roberts, also known as John Franklin Roberts, Deceased Case Number 2025PR30037

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 6, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mark Roberts, Personal Representative 7108 E. Costilla Drive Centennial, CO 80112

Legal Notice No. Arap 2279

First Publication: March 6, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of KIMBERLY DAMON STANFIELD, aka, KIMBERLY D. STANFIELD, aka, KIMBERLY STANFIELD, aka, KIM STANFIELD, Deceased Case Number 25PR30151

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of ARAPAHOE County, Colorado on or before July 18, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

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Personal Representative 3192 South Norfolk Street Aurora, Colorado 80013

Legal Notice No. Arap 2248

First Publication: March 6, 2025 Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Carol Jean Niehoff, aka Carol J. Niehoff, Carol Niehoff, fka Carol Jean Brodzinski, fka Carol J. Brodzinski, and Carol Brodzinski, Deceased Case Number: 2025PR30219

All persons having claims against the abovenamed Estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 14, 2025, or the claims may be forever barred.

Debra E. Johnson

Personal Representative 772 Lyonwood Ave. Diamond Bar, CA 91789

Legal Notice No. Arap 2306

First Publication: March 13, 2025

Last Publication: March 27, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Name Changes

NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice given on February 6, 2025,, that a Petition for

The petition requests that the name of Sergio Alonso Pereyra Faudoa be changed to Sergio Alonso Faudoa Case No.: 2025C100113

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. Arap 2276

First Publication: March 6, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on February 21, 2025,, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Autumn Jade Hood be changed to Bryclyn Camilla Pagano Case No.: 2025C100149

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. Arap 2292 First Publication: March 13, 2025 Last Publication: March 27, 2025 Publisher: Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on February 24, 2025,, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Blake Montgomery Williams be changed to Blake William Montgomery Case No.: 25C100153

By: Kim Boswell

Clerk of Court Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. Arap 2309

First Publication: March 13, 2025 Last Publication: March 27, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice given on February 13, 2025, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Katherine Davidson Rasmussen be changed to Kate Lily Davidson Waziri Case No.: 25C100122

By: Sarah Ingemansen Clerk of Court Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. Arap 2245

First Publication: March 6, 2025

Last Publication: March 20, 2025

Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on February 19, 2025, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Alex Fefer be changed to Aleksandr Melnichuk Case No.: 25C100137

By: Kim Boswell Clerk of Court Deputy Clerk

Legal Notice No. Arap 2293

First Publication: March 13, 2025

Publication: March 27, 2025 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice given on February 25, 2025, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Shawna Michelle Boor be changed to Shawna Skye St.Claire Case No.: 2025C100150