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VOLUME 37 | ISSUE 6

15,000th Arvada milk bank donor celebrated Wheat Ridge woman makes milestone donation to help other moms

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

After 36 years, the Mothers’ Milk Bank, an Arvada-based nonprofit program of the Rocky Mountain Children’s Health Foundation that provides breast milk to premature and sick babies, received support from its 15,000th donor this summer.

The donation came from Wheat Ridge mother Kylie Harrison, who had her third daughter, Kieran, on June 5.

A director of Jefferson County Women, Infants and Children (WIC), a registered dietitian and a certified lactation consultant, Harrison understands the importance of the help MMB provides and how meaningful it can be for families. She had already been planning to donate to the milk bank since several months before Kieran’s birth; however, devastating news about two of her children’s health — and an ongoing battle to save her children’s lives — has made her view her experience as a donor in a whole new light.

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Land at 1347 Lamar St. will become townhomes

BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Watching the “new normal” Rockies game with all of its changes and precautions to protect people from the virus drove home the fact that I was sick with a deadly virus that has been the cause of at least 167,000 deaths in America. It made it more real than my July 25 positive COVID-19 test, it made me fearful, and it made my anxiety about my illness worse.

Thirteen months after being passed by voters, Lakewood’s Strategic Growth Initiative, which limits new home construction to 1% of Lakewood’s current housing supply and requires Lakewood City Council to hold a public hearing and vote to approve residential projects with 40 units or more, received its first blighted property test.

Lakewood City Council voted 6-5 at a virtual Aug. 10 council meeting in favor of designating property at 1347 Lamar St. as being blighted — paving the way for the property’s owner, Lamar Street Associates, to build 20 to 25 townhomes at the property. Under the Lakewood Strategic Growth Initiative, also known as 200, properties that are deemed blighted don’t have to go through an allocation process.

The 200 rules require developers to receive allocations for a building permit.

Lakewood considers properties in urban renewal areas to be blighted.

Urban renewal laws give municipal governments the opportunity to create urban renewal projects as a way to improve specifically designated blighted areas. Blighted conditions under urban renewal laws include deteriorating structures and deteriorating site improvements, faulty streets or lot layouts, unsanitary or unsafe

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Wheat Ridge couple Kylie and Kyle Harrison pictured with daughters Kinley, Kennedy and Kieran. The couple aims to enter daughters Kinley and Kennedy into a clinical trial to hopefully treat an incurable disease both girls were diagnosed with this summer.

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I had COVID-19 and it was mentally challenging

BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

July 29 was the 10th day I had been feeling sick with COVID-19, and by that time, I had all the symptoms you’ve read or heard about.

I had a fever. I could feel myself losing my breath if I did something as simple as make my bed. I had a cough, and I could barely walk around my tiny apartment or walk outside to go throw out the trash.

Lakewood deems property blighted, and exempt from growth cap

But it wasn’t until July 29 that I really realized that I was sick with COVID-19.

I was watching the Colorado Rockies play against the Oakland Athletics, and I saw the cardboard cutout fans placed in the stands of the ballpark and the players and coaches in masks. I heard the artificial crowd noise at the game, and it may sound goofy, but watching the Rockies that day is when I started to mentally feel like I had the virus.

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August 20, 2020

Jeffco COVID-19 case numbers look better ahead of Labor Day Jeffco Public Health optimistic but warns of potential spikes

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Jefferson County’s new COVID-19 case numbers are again under the threshold for the county to keep its variance from the state’s safer-at-home order.

On Tuesday, Aug. 11, Jefferson County Public Health Executive Director Mark B. Johnson told the Jeffco commissioners that there had been 524 new COVID-19 cases in Jeffco over the preceding two weeks.

That marked the first time since July 24 that the county had measured less than 580 cases in a two-week period, the threshold for maintaining the variance that provides the county with greater leeway when it comes to the number of people that can be together inside certain businesses and public gatherings.

Johnson told the commissioners that the decrease in new cases comes at a time when Jeffco is seeing a decrease in its positive test result rate, as well as increased mask usage following the passage of state and county orders mandating face masks be worn in many

public situations in July.

He also told the commissioners that the county would still need to stay under 580 cases over the next two weeks to maintain current variances.

“I was feeling cautiously optimistic but I am becoming very optimistic that we will be able to maintain the variance over the next two weeks and keep those numbers down,” said Johnson.

But despite that optimism, Johnson did say he believes that cases will likely rise some from the 580 measured over the prior two weeks as cases had been unusually low over the preceding weekend. He also mentioned his concern that an upcoming event could result in a case spike.

“My fear right now is Labor Day,” he said. “When we saw this last spike it was right after July 4 and although we have had a real response from the residents of Jefferson County we can’t give it up again for another holiday and have everybody going back to crowding at beaches and crowding at venues and having travel that is not safe or we will see another spike.”

According to Johnson, a potential Labor Day spike would likely be more problematic than the July 4 one had been because it would be coming at a time when the county will also “probably going to begin to see flu and it’s going to be much more difficult to try to figure out what’s happening and control it.”

Because of that concern, Johnson said JCPH will putting out a new public awareness campaign that will aim to educate the community about the need to avoid risky behaviors like gatherings prior to the holiday. St. Anthony in Lakewood and Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge.

Deaths, meanwhile, have remained steady and the county has not seen five deaths in one week since the week of June 14. The county saw 27 deaths during the week of April 19, its worst week of the pandemic in terms of deaths.

The commissioners praised both JCPH and county residents for the recent progress.

“I think we are starting to figure out how to do the best practices as far as staying socially distant and wearing masks and washing our hands and I think the hospitals are figuring out how to treat this better,” said Commissioner Casey Tighe.

Commissioner Lesley Dahlkemper echoed both that praise and Johnson’s pleas for the county to stay the course with labor day approaching.

“Your point is well taken that we’ve got to continue to stay cautious, do what we need to do and come together to prevent the spread, especially as we look at Labor Day weekend on the horizon,” Dahlkemper said. “And of course we’ve got kids at least as of right now that return to school after Labor Day weekend.”

Jeffco COVID-19 cases

4,443 Total cases

235

Total deaths

30

Currently hospitalized

510

Ever hospitalized

3,918 Recovered cases

Numbers current as of Aug. 17

Jeffco school board appoints interim superintendent Kristopher Schuh to fill the role in the coming months

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Jeffco Public Schools Board of Education has appointed Kristopher Schuh as the district’s interim superintendent.

Current superintendent, Jason Glass, will leave his position Sept. 13 to take over as Commissioner of Education for the state of Kentucky.

Schuh was appointed the interim superintendent on Aug. 11.

Schuh has worked in Jeffco Public Schools for 20 years, most recently as the district’s deputy superintendent and chief of secondary schools, playing a major role in the drafting of

Jeffco’s restart plan. He has also been a Jeffco community superintendent, principal, assistant principal and coach, in addition to having held other educational positions inside and outside the district.

He has worked in the education field for 28 years, having previously earned degrees Schuh in U.S. history, Spanish, educational counseling and a license in educational administration. He is married to a Jeffco teacher and has two children in Jeffco schools.

Board president Susan Harmon said at the Aug. 11 Board of Education meeting that Schuh will serve as interim superintendent until a full-time superintendent is hired and can assume his or her new duties.

The national search for a full-time superintendent “begins somewhere around November (or) December,” she added.

Schuh was selected after board members met to discuss a process for selecting an interim superintendent on July 30, in executive session.

“We certainly did reach out and explore as many alternatives as we thought reasonable and invited people to express their levels of interest,” board member Brad Rupert said of the process.

Board member Ron Mitchell added that he brainstormed possible candidates, reaching out to two retired superintendents to gauge their levels of interest.

Harmon said there is no outlined process for selecting an interim superintendent in Jeffco. However, there are policies for selecting a full-

time superintendent, which will be followed when that process begins, she said.

But board member Susan Miller stated that she believed the process the board just completed, to select an interim superintendent, may have been negatively affected by the fact that the board is not in compliance with one of its policies, EL-09, “Emergency Superintendent Succession.”

The policy states that “in order to protect the Board in the event of sudden loss of superintendent services, the superintendent shall assure that no fewer than two other executive staff members are familiar with Board and superintendent issues and processes and each is capable of assuming superintendent responsibilities on an emergency basis.”

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Colorado’s mask rule extended into mid-September Polis says wearing masks ‘may have significant economic benefits’ THE COLORADO SUN

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Aug. 14 extended his statewide mask-wearing mandate, aimed at reducing spread of the coronavirus, into midSeptember.

The mandate, requiring Coloradans 11 years old and above to wear a mask when in indoor public spaces, was set to expire in mid-August. It will now be in effect until at least Sept. 13.

Violators may be “subject to civil or criminal penalties, including but not limited to prosecution for trespass,” the governor’s order says.

“We have learned that widespread mask use is a low cost and highly effective way to reduce the spread of COVID-19 infections by as much as 65%,” Polis said in his order extending the mandate. “Broad adoption of mask wearing in

Colorado may have significant economic benefits by allowing the State to prevent re-closures of businesses and schools and, ultimately, return to our normal lives more quickly.”

The extension, which lasts 30 days, was expected.

Polis was initially hesitant to enact a mask mandate, but after cases and hospitalizations began rising steadily in Colorado, and after a host of counties and cities enacted mask-wearing requirements, he embraced the idea.

Local public health departments in Colorado, which have been doing public mask-wearing surveillance, report they have seen 90% compliance in recent weeks, coinciding with Polis’ order.

That’s after those percentages were slipping in June.

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Gov. Jared Polis wears a Colorado-themed mask in this photo from his Twitter feed.

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Action Center carries on with school supply distribution Annual event serves thousands of Jeffco students

BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

At least 4,000 Jefferson County students won’t have to worry about how they are getting their school supplies this year, thanks to the Action Center.

From Aug. 10 to Aug. 15, the Action Center, a human-services nonprofit headquartered in Lakewood, provided school supplies to students of lowincome or those who are experiencing homelessness in Jefferson County.

According to a release from the Action Center, more than 3,100 students in Jeffco Public Schools are facing some sort of homelessness.

This year’s event enforced social distancing guidelines and limited one person per household into the distribution site to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Supplies were distributed at Stevens Elementary in Wheat Ridge.

Some of the backpacks the Action Center prepared to donate. The Action Center estimates that it served at least 4,000 Jefferson County students through its school supply distribution event this year.

Each backpack donated to families was filled with school supplies. There are at least 3,100 Jeffco Public Schools students facing some sort of housing instability.

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A parent of a Jeffco Public Schools student who declined to give her name for privacy reasons selects a binder. The Action Center hosted its annual school supply distribution event at Stevens Elementary in Wheat Ridge from Aug. 10 to Aug. 15.

Vanessa Diaz assists Greg Hoflin with selecting a backpack. Only one person per household was allowed into the school supply distribution site to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Jeffco school employees worry ‘loophole’ could lead to layoffs Negotiations between district and support professionals ongoing

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Just as students are preparing to return to in-person schooling in Jeffco this September, support professionals including the custodians, food service workers, paraprofessionals, bus drivers and others are also anxious to return to school buildings and see what their new reality looks like.

But over the past few weeks, some support professionals in union JESPA (Jeffco Education Support Professionals Association) have voiced concerns about the details of their return, particularly in terms of wages, safety and job security.

JESPA members held a Facebook town hall on Aug. 11 to call for pay increases, which could be funded by a 10% pay cut for central administrators, said JESPA president Lara Center at the conference.

“We have 4,000 ESPs in this district,

many struggling to survive. When we have fully employed citizens standing in line at the food bank, we know there is a problem,” she said. “We are also still severely short staffed, and the district should prioritize essential workers and staffing where our students need support most and cutting central administrators.”

The support professionals also have several other asks, including requesting hazard pay for certain employees — specifically, for custodians cleaning a building that has been shut down due to a COVID-19 case, or for aides supervising students who are quarantining on campus because they show COVID symptoms.

During an Aug. 13 bargaining session between JESPA and the district, Chief Human Resources Officer David Bell told the JESPA bargaining team that “we believe we’ve implemented appropriate safety measures and training protocols in schools and buildings and do not recognize the need for hazard pay.”

But JESPA came back with a proposal requesting time-and-a-half pay for employees put at risk by the aforementioned circumstances. As of Aug. 17 the two sides have yet to finalize a

deal addressing this issue.

Leading up to the Aug. 13 session, support professionals also had concerns around what bus driver Monte Hollander called “loopholes” in the district’s proposal.

The district previously proposed that it would not reduce its workforce or implement furlough days “for the 2020-21 school year as a mechanism to balance the annual budget,” its proposal said.

However, Bell clarified that a reduction in force or furlough days could still be possible for a different reason: If the district’s business needs changed.

JESPA members have perceived this as a loophole as well as a regressive proposal, Center said. In June, the district came to the table with a proposal from which members interpreted that “the district’s intentions were to institute no layoffs,” she said.

Hollander agreed, holding the proposal is not only regressive but could also be enough to drive some employees away.

“The dangerous impact it could have on Jeffco students and families when workers are threatened with backdoor layoffs and they’re constantly

underpaid, (is that) they can’t afford to stay with us,” he said.

But Bell said that he does not believe the proposal was regressive. Rather, it was a “clarification and response” to JESPA’s negotiations, he said.

“We do feel that we have been genuine and honest with our presentations and proposals,” Bell said.

On Aug. 13, JESPA again asked the district to vow not to layoff or furlough employees in 2020-2021.

Bell then proposed that the two groups discuss business-needs related layoffs and furloughs during a discussion around working conditions, as opposed to just compensation.

The groups will now negotiate about furlough and layoffs related to business needs when bargaining their Memorandum of Understanding at a later date.

“We believe that it is in the school district’s and our students’ interest to protect jobs during a pandemic, as we need a ready workforce that will be able to support students and our teachers when they return to school,” Center said. “We hope to have (bargaining) done ASAP. Every time we sit at the table with the district, we hope to get a deal that day.”

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COVID-19 FROM PAGE 1

There is a big difference between having COVID-19 and reading or hearing about it. I had spent every week since the pandemic started writing about the virus, and even interviewed people who were sick with it — but I still didn’t realize how mentally challenging it would be to have COVID-19.

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You start to wonder if your symptoms will ever go away. I worried most about all of the people I had come into contact with before I tested positive. I thought about my coworkers and tried to remember everything I could’ve touched in my office to warn them. I thought about my 65-year-old father who is high risk and whom I had seen only a few days before I had symptoms.

It’s hard having thoughts rush through your mind about the idea that you could have infected some-

one with a deadly virus that we don’t have a cure for. If I had gotten my father or any of my family or friends sick, and something bad happened to them, I don’t know how I could have lived with myself.

I don’t want you to have those thoughts. I don’t want you to have to worry about getting your friends or family sick.

Most importantly, I don’t want you to get COVID-19.

It is scary when you’re lying in bed with the virus, and you can feel yourself having trouble breathing. It’s scary when you can barely walk because you’re so sick, and it’s scary not knowing what kind of impact COVID-19 will have on your long-term health.

It took me 16 days to fully feel like I had recovered from the virus. I

can’t move around as fast I used to, and I feel out of shape after being sick for so long, but I’m thankful I can carry on with my life and that I didn’t get anybody sick that I know of.

I had thought I was doing everything right to prevent myself from getting sick. I religiously sanitized my hands whenever I had a chance.

I wore a mask everywhere I went, I stopped visiting and going out with friends —but I still got it.

I think that shows how easily anyone can get it and is why it’s important to take all the precautions you can, because even when you do take those precautions, you can still easily get the virus.

Joseph Rios is a reporter for Colorado Community Media, covering Jefferson County and Englewood.

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Trials resume with precautions and an unprecedented backlog DA: ‘We have a real crisis in the criminal justice system’

BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

On Aug. 3, prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges alike returned to the Jefferson County courthouse for the first jury trials in nearly five months to find a court system that, like the community it serves, has been completely changed by COVID-19.

Many of the most obvious changes were in the actual courtrooms where plexiglass now separated judges and witnesses while all jurors were now masked and seated six feet apart.

Then there is the daunting impact of all that didn’t happen during the last five months as the suspension of trials has created an unprecedented backlog of them in the First Judicial District (comprised of Jefferson and Gilpin counties).

According to a document outlining the process for how jury trials would be resumed in the judicial district, there are 840 Jeffco jury trials scheduled for the final five months of 2020.

While some of those trials will likely be pleaded out, it’s still stunning figuring consider that 374 Jeffco jury trials were held during the entirety of 2019.

It’s a situation that adds up to what First Judicial District Attorney Pete Weir called “a real crisis in the criminal justice system brought on

by COVID-19”—and its one that he says is exacerbated by the fact that

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Number of Jeffco courtrooms that have been outfitted with plexiglass in order to hold trials (three for county court and four for district court)

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Number of days the first judicial district went without holding trials

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The Jefferson County Correctional Facility. the situation creates different incentives for prosecutors and defense attorneys.

“The cascading effect of this is the defense bar and the public defenders have not been resolving cases,” Weir said. “They understand that this kind of backlog in the justice system works to the benefit of their client so they are exploiting the situation that we have with the courts.”

Amount of social distancing required to be maintained in the courthouse whenever possible PHOTO BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO

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COVID-19 testing: Important, say officials, but is it free?

Some health plans have refused to pay costs, lawmakers say

BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

More than half a year after COVID-19 emerged as a major threat to Coloradans, a big question remains surrounding a key element in the war against the disease: testing, and whether it should be free for everyone.

Widespread confusion over whether getting tested for the virus is free has continued months after Congress appeared to put the question to bed with two laws in March, and questions have still lingered this summer as to when the public may be hit with unexpected costs.

Some health insurance offered by Americans’ employers — known as self-funded or self-insured health plans — have refused to pay for COVID-19 tests at all or have required that consumers pay some costs, according to a letter from congressional Democrats to federal officials in July.

That’s despite the fact that federal guidance issued in late June appeared to affirm that insurers refusing to pay for tests for those with COVID-19 symptoms, or who had recent exposure to COVID-19, is unlawful. Self-insured plans must cover services related to testing, according to the June 23 guidance by the federal Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury.

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W Area residents receive COVID-19 tests at one of the state’s two new fast-track testing sites at Water World in Federal Heights on August 14. The tests, performed by Mako Medical for the state and for Adams County, are free of charge.

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the spread of COVID-19, and ensuring safety in the workplace is critical.”

As of Aug. 6, the Colorado Division of Insurance didn’t know if some private insurers stopped fully covering all consumer costs for testing required by a workplace or for public health surveillance purposes, Plymell said.

The rub over public health datagathering may be moot in Colorado, according to the state public-health department.

“We do several different types of surveillance testing to understand the burden of disease in Colorado — none of those samples are billed to private insurance,” the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said in a statement. “The costs of analysis are captured by public health funding for public health surveillance programs. For example, we take a systematic sample of specimens that test negative for influenza and test them for COVID at the state lab.”

When testing is covered The Colorado Division of Insurance estimates that one-third of Coloradans’ health insurance plans are ones the division regulates; one-third are self-funded plans that the division doesn’t regulate; and one-third are public plans, such as Medicaid, Medicare and those of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, according to Plymell.

People with any kind of private health insurance should have free access to the COVID-19 test — along with health care provider visits associated with getting the test — with no

A COVID-19 test is administered by a Thornton Fire Department paramedic behind the city’s infrastructure and maintenance center on July 17.

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co-pays, deductibles or co-insurance charged, according to the state insurance division.

Under the division’s emergency regulation, that’s true not only if a doctor recommends a test but also if a person feels they have symptoms and they need to get tested, Plymell said.

And if a person is asymptomatic but is told by their health care provider that it is medically appropriate to be tested anyway, the test and visit should be covered with no cost-sharing.

“Being exposed to COVID-19 or believing one had been exposed would be the likely scenario why a provider would deem a test medically appropriate if the person was asymptomatic,” Plymell said. Other reasons would likely be on a case-by-case basis.

But Coloradans likely wouldn’t be covered without cost-sharing “if someone is asymptomatic and they think it would just be a good idea to get a test,” Plymell said.

Coloradans should check with their

Medicare, Medicaid, VA For Coloradans with Medicare, all of the costs are covered if a doctor orders a COVID-19 test, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Under Colorado’s Medicaid program — Health First Colorado — and the Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+), all the costs of testing and the doctors’ visits associated with getting tested are covered, according to the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing.

Tests for Medicare and Medicaid members must be ordered by the member’s doctor or other health care provider, said Marc Williams, spokesman for the department.

“Medicaid will cover the test at 100% provided the patient is enrolled in Medicaid and the provider is also a Medicaid-enrolled provider,” Williams said.

Medicaid members can locate enrolled providers through the “find a provider” page at healthfirstcolorado. com/find-doctors, according to Williams.

The Veterans Affairs website says testing is based on many factors, including the severity of symptoms, other existing illnesses or conditions, possible exposure and other criteria.

VA health facilities have been testing veterans who meet the testing criteria provided by the federal Centers for Disease Control, the site says. There’s no charge for testing, according to the VA. For the uninsured A government program to reimburse health care providers and facilities for testing and treatment of COVID-19 for uninsured individuals

provides funds to eligible providers, said Scott Kodish, a spokesman for the federal Health Resources and Services Administration.

Health care providers can request reimbursement and will be reimbursed generally at Medicare rates, subject to available funding, Kodish has said.

For those served by those providers, there are no charges to uninsured patients.

An online CDC page lists health care providers who have agreed to the terms of the program and received reimbursement for COVID-19 testing of uninsured individuals: tinyurl.com/ LocationsForUninsured.

Uninsured Coloradans should contact the state Health Care Policy Department at 303-866-2993 to ask about options. To apply for Medicaid and Child Health Plan Plus, visit coloradopeak.secure.force.com.

Local testing sites Some of Colorado’s dozens of local testing sites did not list a recommendation for a doctor’s note for testing in May. Coloradans should contact the state public-health department or the sites themselves for questions about insurance and other requirements they may have for getting tested.

Find the list of locations and contact information at the bottom of the page at tinyurl.com/TestingLocationList at the “find a community testing site” link.

After months of limits on who has priority for testing, the state announced in May that test capacity had grown to include members of the general public with symptoms. Asymptomatic Coloradans could also be tested at some locations, according to testing sites’ information at the time.

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Before Kieran was born, Harrison and her husband, Kyle, began to seek answers regarding unusual symptoms that their two older daughters — Kinley, 7 and Kennedy, 4 — had both been experiencing.

Harrison said she and her husband had no concrete expectations for the explanation they might receive. But the day they brought Kieran home from the hospital, they received Kinley and Kennedy’s diagnosis — “and never did we think it was this,” she said.

Both daughters have GM1 Gangliosidosis, a rare inherited disorder that destroys cells in the brain and spinal cord. Because of the disease, both girls have already begun to experience some symptoms of developmental stunting or regression. The disease is expected to have a fatal outcome for both daughters in mid-childhood or early adulthood.

“We realized we absolutely had to do something to at least try to get them some sort of medical care,” Harrison said.

Though there is no known cure for GM1, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its partners are running clinical trials that could result in a successful outcome.

It’s been with the community’s support that the family has started their journey toward possible recovery through these trials. As of Aug. 12, through a GoFundMe page called Cure Kinley & Kennedy, the family had already raised more than $235,000 of its $2 million goal to fund research on GM1.

The $2 million is an estimate of what it would theoretically cost for both girls to go through the clinical

Samantha Botts donated about 2,000 ounces of milk to the milk bank during 2018. trial, Harrison said.

“The money would go to funding research for all of the GM1 kiddos out there. Every single day matters for these kids. We’ve been pushing for the research to be advanced,” she said.

“The donations have been unbelievable. We feel blessed.”

Because of limited space in the 2020 trial, only Kinley will be part of the trial this year, leaving for the NIH in September; Kennedy will hopefully begin receiving treatment September 2021, Kylie said.

That said, because of the nature of the treatment, nothing is certain. The

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treatment relies on candidates having never built up antibodies to a specific virus used in the trial, meaning the family must avoid exposure to this virus in any way it can — similarly to the way it has been avoiding exposure to COVID-19.

“That’s been hard. We were like a lot of the families that started to kind of loosen up a little bit” as guidelines related to the pandemic have changed, Harrison said. “We were doing things in the community that we thought were safe. Now, we don’t want anything to ruin her chances, so we’ve basically gone back into strict lockdown.”

Amid the turmoil of navigating these adjustments she’s made to protect her two older daughters, Harrison has remained committed — perhaps even more than before — to donating to the MMB. “I wholeheartedly know what it’s like now to have your babies not be OK,” Harrison said. “It’s scary and you just want to do anything you can do to help them. If for another family, that’s providing breast milk, then I can do that.”

Lenna Gregory, donor relations and outreach coordinator at MMB, said that because of their gratitude for Harrison’s support as their 15,000th donor, they are also sharing her family’s story to help support her.

“For a mom to spend the extra time and energy to donate and follow our guidelines is such a generous gift.

For Kylie to be doing this when she is under additional stress, that is just amazing,” Gregory said. “This gives us

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To donate or learn more about the Mothers’ Milk Bank, visit rmchildren.org/ mothers-milk-bank. an opportunity to show our support to her.”

The bank is happy to report it is growing, having approved more than 1,000 donors during last year alone. It also dispensed over 750,000 ounces of milk in 2019; though the amount a baby may need to eat varies for each family, just one ounce of milk can sometimes be enough to feed a premature baby for an entire day.

“For the original women who started the Mothers’ Milk Bank, it was really the vision to have donor milk available for every family and baby who wanted it,” Gregory said. “So we really like to celebrate these milestones. It gives us an opportunity to honor all of the women who have donated to us.”

As for Harrison, she said that through the family’s mix of emotions, some of those that have risen to the surface have been hope and gratitude — including gratitude for the mutual support between her and the community.

“It’s special that I can be that milestone for the milk bank,” she said.

“15,000 donors is a lot. It just goes to show how many people are willing to help support each other.”

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conditions, inadequate public facilities, code violations and other factors.

Property owners outside of urban renewal areas are allowed to conduct an independent study to determine if their property is blighted.

Following a study, property owners can ask Lakewood City Council for a blight designation under 200 provisions.

The property at 1347 Lamar St. is 500 feet away from the existing West Colfax Avenue Corridor Reinvestment Area, or urban renewal area, which runs from Sheridan Boulevard to Simms Street.

City documents describe the property at 1347 Lamar St. as a vacant lot with unsightly vegetation, unkempt trees, weeds and an unvegetated packed-earth area used for overflow parking and vehicle turnaround. The property is near the Lamar Station stop along the W Line light rail and the 40 West ArtLine, a four-mile walking and biking cultural asset.

According to a study of the property conducted by Matrix Design Group, an engineering consultant, the property at 1347 Lamar St. has six conditions that designate it to be blighted. The study found that the property has a faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility or

A map showing the property at 1347 Lamar St. Lakewood City Council voted to deem the property as blighted, paving the way for it to be the home to at least 20 townhomes.

COURTESY OF CITY OF LAKEWOOD usefulness, has unsanitary or unsafe conditions, a defective or inadequate street layout and other blight conditions.

“It’s a challenging area as far as crime and graffiti.

And while it’s sitting empty, that doesn’t mean it’s not a blighted piece of land,” said Lakewood Mayor Adam Paul, who voted in favor of deeming the property blighted.

“It’s bringing new investment and creating new sidewalks that will help the light rail. (The townhomes) will activate an area that could use some activity, investment and activation,” Paul said.

Other members of Lakewood City Council like Councilmember Mike Bieda expressed concerns about the blight designation. He said

typically, blighted properties are areas where something has already been developed rather than the vacant land.

Bieda said he felt like Lamar Street Associates’ blight designation was a blatant attempt to avoid the requirements of 200.

“There are two requirements under the strategic growth initiative. One is if

you’re going to develop this property, you have to get an allocation for the number of units you’re going to build, and number two is if you’re going to build something over 40 units, you have to get the approval of council,” said Bieda.

“I am disappointed (Lakewood City Council’s Aug. 10 vote) turned out the way it did. We’re going to get more of these, and I think council needs to be alert to others trying to take advantage of the blight exception,” Bieda added. He said he hopes the project turns out nice and that the neighborhood needs it.

Paul and Councilmembers Dana Gutwein, Jacob LaBure, Sharon Vincent, David Skilling and Karen Harrison voted in favor of the blight designation. Councilmembers Bieda, Charley Able, Ramey Johnson, Anita Springsteen and Barb Franks voted against it.

“One of the main goals in 200 is to redevelop blighted areas. In talking to voters, I heard some voters say time and time again that they want to see Colfax redeveloped,” said Gutwein.

“We’re going to be looking at properties on a case by case basis. This one met all the criteria and is in a clearly blighted area. It meets 200, it’s a very positive investment for that area and finally, investment is even more important for our businesses but also our future homebuyers.”

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Driving should be a slam dunk, not just a slam QUIET DESPERATION

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ach and every day in Colorado, there are more than 2 million rear-end collisions caused by motorists following too closely, resulting in numerous injuries and deaths and millions of dollars in auto repairs and medical care.

It is a known fact that there are no tailgaters in heaven. They all go south.

Nevertheless, the problem persists.

Or: Is it a problem? If it’s routine, then maybe it’s not a problem.

Maybe I’m the problem. Maybe it’s unAmerican to be a good driver.

That must be it.

There is a three-way stop near me. If ever three cars arrive at the same time, the odds

are 50-50 that someone won’t stop or someone will enter the intersection when it’s not their turn.

If someone can’t figure out a three-way stop, maybe they shouldn’t be allowed to wed. Have children. Vote.

Then again, it could just be that I’m the one who is out of step.

If everyone is doing it, it can’t be wrong, right?

It does make me wonder how half the people on the road passed their driver’s test. (I guess we can all behave for 10 or 15 minutes.)

Come ride with me: If we can get from here to Home Depot without witnessing 10 moving violations I’ll buy you a velocipede.

Did you know it’s against the law to park on the wrong side of the street in a residential neighborhood?

Some of my neighbors haven’t heard the news.

If someone doesn’t know which side of the street to park on, maybe they shouldn’t be allowed to order Chinese. Or own a dish washer.

I probably expect too much of people.

You’re lucky I’m not governor.

I’d make it illegal for anyone wearing perfume to get on an elevator.

I’d make it illegal for anyone who wasn’t a SEE SMITH, P13

How sweet it sounds to use some grace nowadays

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Winner of My Discontent Our world desperately needs a makeover despite her natural beauty. Pocked with immorality, injustice, unfettered greed, poverty, famine, and hatred, it is hard to pick the biggest scab. The top trouble on my list is lawlessness. From monument molesters to mask militia (self-appointed enforcers of mask mandates), today’s common law is for everyone to do what is right in his or her own eyes. Thus, lawlessness that began as a small offshore swell is hitting the beach with tsunamic rage.

This surge in lawlessness is not surprising to Bible readers. Rather, it is the fulfillment of prophecy concerning our time. “Lawlessness will abound,” said Jesus concerning the end of this age. It caps my concerns because, according to prophecy, lawlessness is a harbinger of worse days to come – at least for those that reject Jesus, the Prince of Peace, in deference to any and every alternative cure.

Foolishness? Before dismissing the Bible’s predictions for the future, consider its track record. Centuries before Jesus made his first appearance, Bible prophecies identified

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God’s champion with such precision that, by comparison, DNA identification is paltry guesswork. Such prophetic perfection stands unrivaled in human history so it certainly warrants our attention to its prognosis.

Some will deny the presence of storm clouds lurking over the horizon by dismissing the biblical forecast as archaic nonsense at best. The best we can hope for is that many will heed the warning knowing that those who do not learn prophecy are destined to regret it.

Dwight George, Arvada Fighting feds on fair housing Many changes have come to the suburbs since my grandmother grew up in the Highlands of Denver and even since my kids grew up in Jeffco.

I would like to let your readers know about negative changes that may be coming, depending on who is elected president in November.

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ometimes, as a parent, you realize that you should have waited a few years to name your children. Like, in our case, we named our oldest Elizabeth; but, what became clear a few years later was that, given a second chance at namHITTING ing her, we could have HOME easily chosen “Grace.”

Why Grace? Because from almost the moment she could walk, she could dance. We put her in Michael Alcorn youth soccer for a season, but that wasn’t her cup of tea — every time she would start running towards the ball, it was with a ‘releve’ (a move up onto the balls of her feet) followed by a little hop-skip. She wasn’t very fast, but it always looked great.

Grace is defined as “simple elegance or refinement;” I think of grace as the ability to handle difficult and make it look easy. We say that of graceful athletes — they make very difficult movements look effortless. We also say that of people, those who deal with difficult other people or situations without losing their cool are said to have “grace.” When I think of grace, I think of the late Princess

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Dianna, and now Princess Kate seems to following very much in her mold.

I also, happily, have lately been able to consider my employers at Jefferson County Schools as people handling this fall with “Grace.” In particular was one email sent to all employees describing the various processes through which we would be delivering instruction the year, and acknowledging that many families will be making decisions that effect both our communities and our bottom line. But the district’s advice was this: no matter which decision a parent tells us they’re making, we should answer “I know that is a difficult decision to come to, and I know you’re trying to do the best thing you can for your family, and we will do whatever we can to support your decision.”

In how many walks of life over the last six months have you seen organizations, governing bodies, or even individuals respond to the situation we’re all in with that sort of grace? I haven’t seen it much. Mostly what I’ve seen is self-righteous moral certitude disguised as compassion or logic.

Maybe Grace should be the template for how we all start to deal with each other.

There’s a crazy thought.

These are, have been, and continue to be, unprecedented times we’re living SEE ALCORN, P13

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My coronavirus name change

uring the great shakeup of COVID-19, as I was deep cleaning my house, it occurred to me, why am I still calling myself Mary Stobie? Yes, I married Mr. M. Stobie, my first husband in 1979. But when we divorced 24 years later in 2004, I could have changed my name back to Mary McFerren.

What made things complicated, I had been writing newspaper columns for 20 years as Mary Stobie. During this period of spilling my guts in 750 words or less, I was syndicated by the Chicago Tribune. I wrote about becoming a soccer mom, my dad who survived prison camp, and my concerns about the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

Because the Chicago Tribune syndicated my columns, I felt like I had hit the big time. I did cartwheels on my front lawn. My neighbors gossiped about my having no gymnastic talent and why was I trying cartwheels at my age on my front lawn?

Meanwhile before I hiked in Three Sisters Open Space every day, I wrote columns for the

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baseball player to wear a baseball cap backwards.

I’d make it illegal for anyone to say, “Me and her.”

Each and every day in Colorado, there are over 3 million rear-end collisions caused by motorists following too closely, resulting in numerous injuries and deaths and millions of dollars in auto repairs and medical care.

What difference does it make if I am exaggerating? No one will drive any differently because of something I say.

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through (boy, I can’t tell you how sick I am of *that* word). Nobody knows exactly what the right thing to do is.

I mean, we’re starting to get some clarity, based on six months of fumbling about, but there’s still a lot of uncertainty. Imagine if our answer to those around us was, “I believe you’re trying to do the best thing you can for your family,” instead of what seems to be the default reaction, “You’re an idiot.”

I will acknowledge that that answer does nothing to preserve us from economic ruin; that answer will do nothing to put out the 100,000+ acres of forest burning in Colorado right now, or clear the skies of the constant

Canyon Courier, the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. My writing generated letters galore, some positive and some hostile. I even got a nasty phone call in the night where a man swore at me and hung up. Because my columns were published in the newspapers and I received responses, I sensed my connection with a world beyond my kitchen.

Mary Stobie became known as a newspaper columnist, and then the author of the memoir You Fall Off, You Get Back On. But who was Mary McFerren the daughter of Bill and Betty McFerren from Golden? Who was the woman who as a Bard College student hitchhiked alone in Europe?

Who was the teenager who ran the barrels in rodeos, rode bucking steers, and tied a goat’s legs together with a piggin string? Who was selected as a “Screenwriting Fellow” by the American Film Institute in Beverly Hills?

Who was the actress in close-up saying her lines in a scene with George C. Scott in the movie Hardcore? She was Mary McFerren and the film credits say so. In the movie Bou-

And another thing. We all want to hear your music just as much as you do; so be sure to turn it up, and increase the bass.

An automobile allows each and every one of us the freedom to move about this great country of ours as fast and inconsiderately and obnoxiously as possible.

Those were Henry Ford’s sentiments to a “T.” Has this ever happened? You’re in the far right lane on the freeway. A car is entering from a ramp on the right of you. Driver doesn’t signal. Just comes on in.

Harry and I see all of these expensive-looking vehicles and can’t believe that turn signals didn’t come standard.

cloud of smoke and ash; that answer will do nothing to save us from whatever fresh Hell is going to be visited upon us in September.

But, maybe, that answer will help us begin to stitch small pieces of our community back together, so that when all those other calamities effect one of us personally, there will be enough grace in the room to put together a scaffold of support to pull us through.

This is all difficult. Let’s work harder to make it look easier.

Michael Alcorn is a teacher and writer who lives in Arvada with his wife and three children. His new novel, “Charon’s Blade,” is available at Amazon.com, on Kindle, or through MichaelJAlcorn.com.” His opinions are not necessarily those of Colorado Community Media.

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levard Nights, I have a credit for acting, but my bigger role in the movie was introducing the writer Desmond Nakano to producers Bill Benenson and Tony Bill.

Then decades later, like a rockslide on Berthoud Pass, a worldwide pandemic crashed into me. It was during the ensuing quarantine, the name Mary Stobie started to grate on me.

I got in touch with my real self. I took up oil painting. I made new friends. I felt overwhelming gratitude for my husband Dick Lechman who married me, a woman who carried the name of her former husband. During 10 years of marriage, he helped me bury my mother and brother, both of whom carried the last name McFerren.

Dick said to me, “You are Mary McFerren.”

“You are so right,” I said. “I’m Mary McFerren.”

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She is currently reading The Art of Memoir by Mary Carr and Laugh Lines by Alan Zweibel.

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Of course, how can you signal if you’re on the phone? Or rearranging your eyelashes? Smacking your coffee? Cranking the stereo? Petting the dog? Reaching in your purse?

Checking out the Global Positioning System?

It’s a lost cause. I know that. I’m

talking to myself. Common sense? She left town a long time ago — going 80 in a 55.

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August 20, 2020

Squirrel in the Box

ovid 19 has educators facing a serious risk to the health and safety of their students and themselves. As a retired teacher after 46 years in the classroom, I now GUEST have the privilege of COLUMN being a supervisor Catherine Kopp for student teachers as they ready themselves for their entry into the field of education. I am often asked if I have ever experienced anything like the corona virus in my career. I reply that I have not, but there were other challenges long before this.

It was my first year teaching in a small New England town in 1973. During recess, a shy, soft-spoken girl came to me and asked if she could bring her pet squirrel for Show and Tell. She told me Mr. Squirrel lived in the trees behind her house. Being naïve and never imaging that she would catch the darn thing, I told her she could.

Several weeks later, she showed up to the classroom looking somewhat bedraggled with a huge smile on her face and holding a box. Having forgotten our earlier conversation, I asked her what was in the box. It immediately became obvious when the squirrel poked his head out of the hole he had been furiously chewing during his journey to school. Before I could respond, Mr. Squirrel squeezed the rest of his body out of the opening and jumped onto the nearest object, one of my sixth grade boys who had been standing nearby. The fearful beast clung to the boy’s shoulder and bit him on the neck.

This resulted in screaming and panic from all as the unwelcome visitor jumped from desk to desk.

Alerted by the chaos, my teammate,

a former Marine, charged into the room and ordered everyone to get into the hall and shut the door. We did as we were told. I sent the ‘bitten child’ to the nurse and within minutes, the door opened and we were instructed to return. We noticed that all the windows in our third floor classroom were now wide open. The young girl asked where her squirrel was. She was told by my teammate that Mr. Squirrel was most likely ‘on his way home’.

The boy returned to the classroom with a bandage on his neck and a limp to his step. It was the early 70’s. Back then the school nurse just told him to wash the bite with soap and water. She then put a Band-Aid on his wound and sent him back to class. He flaunted the bandage like one would a Purple Heart for he had been wounded in the action.

I still do not know how the limp came about. I think it was just to add to the drama.

COVID-19 is a Squirrel in the Box. There is no band-aid that can be applied. One person carrying the virus into a room can endanger the health and safety of all. Right now there is no window to remove the threat. It will require a strong partnership with the staff of each school and the community they serve to control this hidden danger. I respect and admire the dedicated educators as they return to meet the diverse needs of their students both remotely and in the classroom while being wary of any holes in the box.

Catherine Kopp is a former teacher with 46 years of classroom experience and is presently a supervisor of elementary student teachers in Wheat Ridge and Arvada for the University of Northern Colorado.

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Democrats want to bring federalized, centralized control to the suburbs, something they started to do under the Obama-Biden Administration. Piggybacking off the Fair Housing Act of 1968, that administration created a rule to impose massive controls on the suburbs. It was called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH).

Bureaucrats in Washington would control zoning laws, transportation placement, business districts, the design of school districts, and more in the suburbs and push suburbs under another layer of government control.

Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and author of Spreading the Wealth, joined Mark Levin on Life, Liberty & Levin on July 22 to discuss this issue. He said, “The bottom line is that AFFH ... would radically undercut the political and economic independence of America’s suburbs.”

Kurtz said that the Trump Administration just suspended the rule at first but have since put an end to AFFH. What will happen If Joe Biden is elected president in November? It is likely, according to Kurtz, that Biden will impose “AFFH turbo charged” on suburbs.

President Trump will not harm the freedoms of suburbanites in this way.

C.S. Boddie, South Jeffco Durkin to defend us Most of us who receive this newspaper live in relatively quiet communities. Does releasing more felons into the community seem like a way to preserve this status. As we read the papers and look around the country we see many felons being released without bail. Often due to the Covid situation. Does continuing this method seem like a good idea to you? The news is reporting that some of these folks are returning to criminal activities. When folks, who’s method of earning a living

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Lakewood Police make arrests in connection to shooting of dog Sean Andrews and Desiree Andrews are accused of shooting and killing a dog

BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

12 days after Lakewood Police found an adult female pit bull mix dog who had died of apparent gunshot wounds, police have made

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order of their importance.

A judge will then hold a conference at which both prosecutors and defense attorneys are present and the defense has a chance to tell the judge whether they want to take a plea, continue the case continued or proceed to trial. From there, the judge will then set the final list of trials to be tried on each particular day.

That process is necessary, Weir said, to ensure that the court is only bringing in jurors for cases that it has confirmed are ready to go to trial as the court has now greatly reduced the number of potential jurors it is summonsing each day.

According to Pilkington’s order, the district would routinely assemble 300

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In an interview, Miller said the board has no such list of individuals who are ready to take over in case of an emergency.

While she said the event at hand does not constitute an emergency, she feels that based on the language of the policy, the succession list is necessary at all times, not just after an emergency arises. The lack of such a list left the board with few options to consider for the role, she said, leading to a situation where board members were left trying to brainstorm possible candidates.

“This has nothing to do with Mr. Schuh at all. But we did not have at least a consideration for alterna-

arrests in connection to the dog’s death.

The department announced in a release that on Aug. 13 just before 7 p.m., officers and the Special Enforcement Team with Lakewood S. Andrews Police arrested 42-yearold Sean Andrews and 40-year-old Desiree Andrews for the shooting of the dog. The two suspects are both from Arvada and were arrested at a residence in the 2800

block of South Ivan Way in Denver.

Both suspects were jailed at the Jefferson County Jail on charges of aggravated cruelty to animals and possession of a weapon by a previD. Andrews ous offender. Desiree Andrews was also charged for violation of bond conditions.

The dog was found dead on Aug. 1 after Lakewood Police responded to calls of shots fired near the intersec-

tion of 12th and Teller. Police say witnesses saw a woman and a man pull up and park near the intersection in a silver Chrysler 300. The woman shot the dog while the man struggled with it and held it down, the release says. The suspects immediately fled the scene, and police are still searching for the silver Chrysler 300.

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jurors at the same time in the court’s jury room (which has a capacity of 398) prior to COVID-19.

However, the district is now bringing in few jurors at once and calling only 18-40 potential jurors depending on the type of case with jurors now being assembled in four large rooms upon arrival to allow for social distancing.

“That prioritization is really an attempt to say we can’t by a longshot try every case that needs to be tried so we are trying to identify the most critical, the most important cases and then the rest of the cases frankly just get kicked down the road and they get continued,” said Weir.

Once a trial finally begins, social distancing requirements in the court room also create new challenges that simply didn’t exist in the past. For one thing, communication is often hindered when, for example, an at-

torney must be seated at least six feet away from their client.

There are also challenges outside the court room as Weir said he has instructed his staff to continue working remotely, which Weir said “is not an efficient way to conduct our business given the nature of it.”

But while the situation is an unprecedented challenge for the courts and DA’s office, the changes have not had a major impact on the Jeffco Sheriff ’s office according to its spokesman.

“We were previously only doing in-person trials, so to transition back to that is more the norm for us than what we’ve been doing the past few month,” said Michael Taplin, the public information officer for the Sherriff ’s Office.” But no more personnel are needed or anything like that.”

While Weir said that he agrees with steps taken by both the courts to

respond to COVID-19 by suspending trials, however he has deep concerns about where the situation has left the community. At the start of the crisis, Weir and his team dropped charges in more than 2,000 low level misdemeanor cases in an attempt to reduce some of the burdens on a court system forced to reduce operations.

Weir said he worries those actions, combined with the current backlog in the courts and steps taken to reduce the population of the jail, have added up to a nearly impossible situation, putting people who have engaged in criminal activity back out on the street.

“We have been concerned about overwhelming the healthcare system but we have absolutely overwhelmed our criminal justice system and as a result I am concerned about public safety and risks to the community from a crime perspective,” he said.

tives,” Miller said. “If we had been in compliance, then we would have at least had something in place to help frame the conversation (about selecting an interim superintendent) and help with the decision-making process.”

During the meeting, Harmon responded to Miller’s concerns, saying she did not feel the policy in question was applicable to the situation, given the lack of emergency.

In the vote to approve Schuh’s appointment, Miller voted no and all other board members voted yes.

“I hope, frankly, that we will transition authority to our new interim superintendent as soon as possible and maybe that’s a conversation the board needs to have,” Mitchell said.

“I believe that we’re making the right move for Jeffco Public Schools at the right time.”

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LOCAL

LIFE Some area venues bringing back

live music

They’re all good puppers at Museum of Nature and Science

Musicians reflect on challenges of COVID-19

BY CASEY VAN DIVIER CVANDIVIER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

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t was Feb. 24 when Jason Justice and his four bandmates in Gumbo le Funque, a New Orleans-style funk group, believed they were each coming down with the flu. Their symptoms came on right during Mardi Gras season, the band’s busiest time of year, and for days, the group played long strings of gigs as their symptoms grew worse.

Looking back on the events, Justice isn’t surprised that he and his bandmates soon learned they had COVID-19. But at the time, the news was unexpected — and the band had no way of knowing that the illness they were facing was just the beginning of a long struggle that Justice says is far from over.

“The whole bottom fell out of the industry,” said Justice, the band’s lead singer and saxophone player.

He listed the major hurdles the band has faced: The two-and-a-half-months shutdown in which local musicians weren’t playing at all; the many venues that have stayed closed throughout the summer; and an ongoing Denver County order requiring performers to wear SEE MUSIC, P17

WHERE TO FIND LIVE MUSIC The following is a list of some venues in and around Denver that currently offer live music on a regular basis: JAKE’S ROADHOUSE, 5980 Lamar St., Arvada

THE BUFFALO ROSE, 1119 Washington Ave., Golden

ROCKABILLIES BAR AND GRILL, 12363 W. 64th Ave., Arvada

THE RUSTY BUCKET BAR AND GRILL, 3355 S. Wadsworth Blvd., Lakewood

COLORADO CORK & KEG, 971 Park St., Castle Rock

FRACO’S BAR, 5302 South Federal Circle, Littleton

BLUE SPRUCE BREWING COMPANY, 4151 E County Line Road, Centennial

LINCOLN STATION COFFEE/PIZZA/ MUSIC, 9360 Station St., Lone Tree

GLOBE HALL, 4483 Logan St., Denver HERMAN’S HIDEAWAY, 1578 South Broadway, Denver

@ CHEERS, 11964 Washington St., Northglenn TAILGATE TAVERN & GRILL, 19552 E. Main St., Parker

LARIMER LOUNGE, 2721 Larimer St., Denver

TAKODA TAVERN, 12365 Pine Bluffs Way, Parker

IN THE ZONE, 15600 W. 44th Ave., Golden

HOFFBRAU COLORADO, 9110 Wadsworth Pkwy, Westminster

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n r eople love dogs. A lot. c Take a walk down any street in the metro area, pop a squat at almost any patio or take any trail, and you’re bound to meet a pooch or two.

Which makes “Dogs! A Science Tail” — the newest exhibit the Denver Museum of Nature & F Science — a perfect fit for a town like Denver. m COMING “This exhibit b ATTRACTIONS is all about the f special bond between humans t and canines,” h a said Jennifer Moss-Logan, t content special- o ist and educator d with the museum. “So many a people took the i Clarke Reader opportunity to n rescue dogs during this quarantine… so, this is a c great time for people to learn more D i about their pets.”

The exhibit runs at the museum, b 2001 Colorado Blvd., through the end of the year. Entry requires a w timed ticket and museum admis- o i sion.

R “Dogs! A Science Tail” offers visitors a bevy of ways to get into o d the mind, body and history of man’s best friend. In the Incredibleb Dog portion, guests can learn how m their running speed compares to v the speeds of various dogs, from a pug (which runs about 5 miles o per hour) to a greyhound (which h clocks in at about 44). Guest can t r also watch dual screens, which compare how the world appears to c s people and dogs.

J “We wanted to offer activities that people can do in small groups o while social distancing from other m visitors,” said Neha Sandvig, pro- F gram specialist and educator with the museum. “We also have activities that provide training experiences, to show how dogs learn.”

A particularly fascinating portion of the exhibit is a Tail as Old as Time, which explores the origins of dogs and how they were domesticated by ancient people.

While the most moving parts of the exhibit are found in the Dogs and Humans, Together Forever, which examines how dogs and humans live and work together.

Guests can play with a virtual dog, test their dog knowledge in “Jeopawdy!” and much more.

“When these kinds of national exhibits come here, guests are getting the very best experience of it anywhere,” said Moss-Logan.

“During these times, we’re using a lot of virtual experiences to connect with visitors, and we hope these options offer new insights.”

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Band members of Riverside Drive, drummer Sean Hartel, bassist Amy Brophy and guitar player Daniel Brophy, at a gig at Morrison Holiday Bar at the end of June 2020.

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As the summer winds down, “Dogs!

A Science Tail” is a great way for dog lovers and science fans to do some playful learning while out and about.

“We know people are looking for ways to interact with family and friends outside of the home,” Sandvig said. “This exhibit is for them.”

Visit www.dmns.org/dogstail for information and tickets.

Live musical theater numbers from the Arvada Center As part of the Arvada Center’s Reignite the Arts campaign, which aims to raise $1 million to offset the loss from canceled performances, keep the arts

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masks, preventing those who play brass or wind instruments from performing in Denver.

Now, there are only two places Justice has been performing in the area, he said. In August, he’ll play two gigs and in September, three — less than a third of the number of gigs he played over the same two months in 2019.

Across the board, bands are facing a different extent of what Justice calls a disaster, based on the band’s following, whether it’s a local, regional or national act and other factors.

But regardless of how deeply musicians have been affected by COVID-19, Denver artists agree: No one’s made it unscathed, making every show a blessing.

“By the time March rolled around, we had to cancel three months’ worth of shows,” said Amy Brophy, bassist in rock, blues and alternative band Riverside Drive. “Even now, 90% of our venues are able to pay what they did last summer. It’s been a big step back for a band trying to gain momentum, but we’re so grateful these venues are having live music at all.”

Despite the discouraging nature of the challenges local musicians have faced over the past five months, those challenges made it all the more rewarding this summer, when musicians have been able to return to the stage. As he considers the hurdles, Justice remembers a night a couple of months ago, when he and a fellow musician played their first gig since Feb. 29.

“For the two of us to be able to play

alive and people employed at this vital cultural resource, the Center is hosting a virtual auction and kickoff concert.

The show will be at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at 7 p.m. and will feature Trent Hines, Jake Mendes and Emily Van Fleet — all stellar performers that viewers may well recognize from their time not only at the Arvada Center, but at stages all over the metro area. The performance will feature musical numbers from past and future Arvada Center performances and the Pierce Murphy Trio will be performing a song voted on online.

Community partners and staff will be providing packages for the virtual auction. Tickets are $10, $15 or $20 per household for access to the performance from the Main Stage Theatre.

Visit www.arvadacenter.org/home/

virtual-auction for information and tickets.

Visit www.nocapshows.com to get a spot.

Clarke’s Concert of the Week - The Allman Betts Band at the Red Room Sound Studio There are some things that just seem like destiny. That’s the case with The Allman Betts Band, which sees the joining of Devon Allman (Gregg Allman’s son) and Duane Betts (Dickey Betts’ son) together with Berry Oakley Jr. (son of original Allman Brothers Band bassist Berry Oakley), and other brilliant musicians for a new take on classic sounds.

The group is gearing up to release their sophomore album, “Bless Your Heart,” and will be livestreaming a performance at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 23 from Red Room Sound Studio in Torrington, Conn.

Streaming style - ‘Banana Split’ Those missing summertime adventures with friends won’t want to miss the buddy comedy “Banana Split,” winner of the best narrative feature award at the 2019 Vail Film Festival.

The film focuses on the importance of female friendship rather than romance during the formative high school years and allows for hilarious and sharply-written characters to come to the fore. The movie has traces of films like “Booksmart” and “Superbad,” and is all kinds of fun.

Stream the film on Netflix.

music together, it was really incredible. Music is the reason I get up in the morning and put my horn together and keep practicing, keep writing,” he said. “There are gigs coming back, but it’s been a wild ride.”

some bring lawn chairs and listen to musicians while staying six feet apart in the parking lot, Kane said.

“They’re excited to get out of the house and be able to do something different that’s not in their house or just eating at a restaurant,” she said.

“We’ve been known for our music and since we could bring it back, we did.”

As they navigate the new normal for live music, venues have tried a variety of new tactics. For instance, Herman’s Hideaway at 1578 S. Broadway in Denver has taken a slow approach to reintroducing shows, has asked musicians to bring their own microphones and even had one singer stand behind a Plexiglas barrier during a performance, said talent buyer Chris Thomas.

“We’re a little bit more on the cautious side,” he said. “It’s not business as usual. But the community in general has had a desire to make it work, and I’m optimistic.”

Just as much as the teams at Herman’s Hideaway and Blue Spruce Brewing wanted to restore a part of normal life for guests, they also reinstated the music for the benefit of local musicians.

“The musicians I have brought back are so excited to be able to play and they’re very grateful,” Kane said.

Local restaurants’ and bars’ commitment to hiring musicians when they can has made all the difference for many of the acts in the area, including Twenty Hands High, a country and southern rock band that plays in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and other regional states.

The two-and-a-half months that CW Wooten, guitar player and singer in the band, couldn’t play any gigs, “it was like sliding into a complete halt,”

he said. “It was awful to be cut off from your fans and even your bandmates.”

About $25,000 worth of gigs were canceled for Wooten, including shows as far in advance as September.

That said, since the summer began, things have been looking up for the musician and his fairly well-known band, which has tens of thousands of followers on Facebook. In July and August 2019, Wooten played 32 gigs; in July and August 2020, he’ll play 29.

Not all venues can pay their typical rates, he added, but many are trying their best to do so.

“We did 150 shows last year, and we’re on track do more than 100 shows this year,” Wooten said. “Outdoor venues are probably the biggest thing keeping live music going right now because you have a little more leeway with the restrictions.”

Considering that, Wooten said it’s important for musicians that the rate of COVID’s spread declines before the winter months, when outdoor venues will no longer be an option.

He remains optimistic, adding how grateful he’s been for venues’ support and his fans’ support — even some higher-risk fans have found ways to listen to outdoor shows by setting up in nearby parks, away from crowds, he said.

Similarly to Wooten, Brophy said she hopes the industry could rebound — she just doesn’t know when.

“I think a lot of people will retain that fear, but my hope is that we will return to normal because we have to move forward,” she said. “That our fans are going to get out there and weather the storm, that’s the hope and the dream that most musicians are holding onto.”

The state of live music now Not all venues in the Denver area that previously had live music have brought that element back, or even reopened at all. Justice said several of his regular venues have told him that, due to the cost of opening at limited capacity, they plan to keep their doors shut until March or April of 2021.

However, the state of Colorado does have guidelines, last updated in June, for those who choose to reinstate live music. The guidelines require that patrons are seated 25 feet or further from performers.

Working within these guidelines hasn’t been possible for every area venue. But for some, like Blue Spruce Brewing Company, bringing back live music has been both possible and a priority in recent months.

The brewery, which has locations at 4151 E. County Line Road in Centennial and 10577 W. Centennial Road in Littleton, held its first show since the pandemic on July 4 and has been inviting more musicians to play since then.

“Even from last year, we doubled our sales (made during live shows) just because people are dying to experience live music,” said co-owner Theresa Kane.

In the Littleton location specifically, the brewery holds weekly shows on Thursday nights on its patio, which it expanded to accommodate social distancing through a county variance.

During shows, guests fill the patio and

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Jeffco coaches and athletes adjust to a pandemic season Football and volleyball won’t happen this fall

BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The Golden Demons High School football team members had just showed up to their first week of training camp on Aug. 3 when coaches, led by Head Coach Jared Yannacito, huddled their players up.

Yannacito had just received word that high school football in Colorado will kickoff in the spring rather than in the fall because of the pandemic.

Some players cried because they were devastated that they wouldn’t get to play in the coming weeks while others saw the season being pushed back as an opportunity to get stronger and better before the spring.

“It was mixed emotions across the board. That’s for my players and coaches,” said Yannacito. “Personally, I was grateful that we have a season.

I’m just really glad that the (Colorado High School Activities Association, or CHSAA) didn’t cancel the season and not find a way for us to play.”

Like Golden High School’s football team, other Jeffco Public Schools athletes and coaches are coming to terms with the fact that most high school fall sports won’t happen this year. CHSAA announced on Aug. 4 that high school football, girls’ volleyball, boys’ soccer, field hockey, gymnastics and unified bowling will be played in the spring rather than in the fall. Other sports like cross country, boys’ tennis, boys’

Golden High School quarterback Joey Mancuso throws a pass against Grand Junction High School last fall. High school football has been pushed back to the spring because of the coronavirus pandemic.

COURTESY OF JOEY MANCUSO golf and softball will compete in a modified fall schedule.

Joey Mancuso, a senior quarterback for Golden High School, echoed Yannacito saying he’s grateful CHSAA is planning for a spring football season, but admitted being disappointed football won’t happen in 2020. He said

he believes the extended offseason will help him better master the team’s playbook and prepare for games.

“The biggest thing is we were disappointed. We were excited to get back, but we realized there are a lot of positives (for having a spring season),” said Mancuso.

“Everything is getting more serious, and the fact that we have (multiple) guys on the field, and we’re playing against different schools — it’s a good thing we’re playing in the spring because of the risk COVID holds during SEE ATHLETICS, P31

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Lakewood senior Ryan C R O S S W O R D P U Z Z L E Liao tames Raccoon Creek with round of 66

Lakewood senior Ryan Liao shot an impressive 6-under-par, 66 during the second Jeffco League boys golf tournament Aug. 17, at Raccoon Creek Golf Course in Lakewood.

PHOTO BY DENNIS PLEUSS/JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

LITTLETON — Nothing like a short putt for eagle to really spark an impressive round on the golf course.

Lakewood senior Ryan Liao — threetime Class 5A boys golf state qualifier — drained an eagle putt to finish his front-nine on the 517-yard, par 5 to really get his round going. The eagle on No. 9 was followed up with backto-back birdies on No. 10 and 11 to get Liao to 5-under-par through his first 11 holes.

Liao eventually finished with a 6-under-par, 66 to win individual medalist title in the second Class 5A Jeffco League tournament of the Fall season at Raccoon Creek Golf Course. He was the lone golfer to shoot under-par.

The Tigers finished eight strokes ahead of league-leading Ralston Valley in the second of six league tournaments. Ralston Valley’s Jordan McCaslin, Gage Messingham, Trey Kirschner, Jack Larson and Logan Forister all fired rounds in the 70s to keep the Mustangs atop the overall

team standings in 5A. Liao did overtake Arvada West senior Tyler Tyson for the overall individual lead in 5A Jeffco. Tyson followed up his impressive 63 last week at Applewood Golf Course with a round of 2-over-par, 74 on Monday.

On the 4A Jeffco side, Green Mountain seniors Oliver Gibbons (74) and Jack Policaro (76) finished 1-2 at Raccoon Creek. Gibbons and Policaro are also 1-2 in the overall individual 4A Jeffco standings. Conifer senior Dakota Dolph slipped into third place after an 81 on Monday.

Green Mountain holds a 16-stroke advantage over Evergreen in the race for the 4A Jeffco team title. Evergreen seniors Jake Dekoker (78) and Jack Mitchell (79) led the way for the Cougars.

The third Jeffco League tournament is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 25, at Broken Tee Golf Course in Littleton.

Dennis Pleuss is the Sports Information Director for Jeffco Public Schools.

For more coverage go to CHSAANow. com/Jeffco.

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Public Notices call Sheree 303.566.4088 Legals Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2000136 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On June 3, 2020, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s) Arthur Vasquez Original Beneficiary(ies) SBMP Ventures, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt SBMP Ventures, LLC Date of Deed of Trust May 31, 2018 County of Recording Jefferson Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 05, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2018050641 Original Principal Amount $300,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $300,000.00 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

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THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 10/01/2020, at the Jury Assembly Room court side in the Jefferson County Administration and Courts Facility, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80419, 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: 8/13/2020 Last Publication: 9/10/2020 Name of Publication: Golden Transcript 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;

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Original Grantor(s) Covalt & Company MS I LLC Original Beneficiary(ies) INDICATE CAPITAL FUND 1, LLC Current Holder of Evidence of Debt INDICATE CAPITAL FUND 1, LLC Date of Deed of Trust February 08, 2019 County of Recording Jefferson Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 15, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2019011947 Original Principal Amount $2,700,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $2,700,000.00 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. EXHIBIT A LEGAL DESCRIPTION Units 100, 110, 120, 150, 160, 170, 180, 200, 210, 220, 230, 240, 250, 260, 270, 280 AND 290, 300, 310, 320, 330, 340 AND 350 7500 W Mississippi Avenue, according to the Declaration thereof recorded on February 7, 2017, at Reception No. 2017014937, and amended June 28, 2018 at Reception No. 2018058760, and the Map thereof recorded on February 7, 2017, at Reception No. 2017014936 and amendment recorded June 28, 2018 at Reception No. 2018058761 in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado, as amended from time to time, County of Jefferson, State of Colorado Also Known As: 7500 W Mississippi Ave # 100, 110, 120, 150, 160, 170, 180, 200, 210, 220, 230, 240, 250, 260, 270, 280, 290, 300, 310, 320, 330, 340, 350 Lakewood, CO 80226 Also known by street and number as: 7500 W Mississippi Ave # 100, 110, 120, 150, 160, 170, 180, 200, 210, 220, 230, 240, 250, 260, 270, 280, 290, 300, 310, 320, 330, 340, 350, Lakewood, CO 80226 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 2 p.m. on Thursday, 10/01/2020, at the Jury Assembly Room court side in the Jefferson County Administration and Courts Facility, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80419, 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: 8/13/2020 Last Publication: 9/10/2020 Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

DATE: 06/03/2020 Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado By: Barbara Lyons, Deputy, for Public Trustee

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

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

DATE: 06/10/2020 Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado By: Jenniffer L Johnson, Deputy, for Public Trustee

K. Jamie Buechler #30906 Buechler Law Office, L.L.C. 999 18th Street, Suite 1230-S, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 381-0045 Attorney File # Arthur Vasquez 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. J2000136 First Publication: 8/13/2020 Last Publication: 9/10/2020 Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2000137 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On June 10, 2020, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be

The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Donald D. Farlow #19754 Burns, Wall and Mueller, P.C. 303 E. 17th Avenue, #920, Denver, CO 80203 (303) 830-7000 Attorney File # CST5159-12 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. J2000137 First Publication: 8/13/2020 Last Publication: 9/10/2020 Name of Publication: Golden Transcript COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. J2000133

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To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On May 27, 2020, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Jefferson records.

Original Grantor(s) Anthony O. Rodriguez AND Jo Anne Rodriguez Original Beneficiary(ies) GREAT WESTERN MORTGAGE CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR OPTION ONE MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-HL1, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2007-HL1 Date of Deed of Trust June 27, 2006 County of Recording Jefferson Recording Date of Deed of Trust July 05, 2006 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) 2006081122 Original Principal Amount $489,250.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $533,968.82 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. THAT PART OF THE WEST 1/2 OF THE WEST 1/2 OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF THE NORTHWEST 1/4 OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 71 WEST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE WEST LINE OF SAID NORTHWEST 1/4 208 FEET NORTH OF THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID NORTHWEST 1/4 THENCE NORTH ALONG THE WEST LINE 416 FEET; THENCE EAST 200 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 416 FEET; THENCE WEST 200 FEET TO A POINT OF BEGINNING, COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 6967 Highway 73, Evergreen, CO 80439-6543.

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 2 p.m. on Thursday, 09/17/2020, at the Jury Assembly Room court side in the Jefferson County Administration and Courts Facility, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80419, 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: 7/30/2020 Last Publication: 8/27/2020 Name of Publication: Golden Transcript 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: 05/27/2020 Holly Ryan, Public Trustee in and for the County of Jefferson, State of Colorado By: Jenniffer L Johnson, Deputy, for Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L. Berry #34531 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 20-024666 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.: J2000133 First Publication: 7/30/2020 Last Publication: 8/27/2020 Name of Publication: Golden Transcript

City and County

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THAT THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF COLORADO, shall be considering the adoption of Resolution No. CC20-219 regarding amending the 2020 Adopted Budget as approved and appropriated, and shall take action on said Resolution at a public hearing to be held on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at the hour of 8:00 a.m. through a WebEx virtual meeting platform, the Event Address for Attendees: https://jeffco.webex.com/jeffco/onstage/g.php?

MTID=ea08693d4c97854711068c955b3626778 Citizens may receive a call back by providing a phone number when joining the event online; or calling into the public hearing by dialing 1-408418-9388 and entering meeting/access code number 146 356 7723. Additional details for accessing the public hearing will be posted at the following website, https://www.jeffco.us/2079/Meetings-Agendas, no later than the close of business on Friday, August 21, 2020. Please note that citizens who would like to comment during the public hearing must access the public hearing through the WebEx computer platform and use the chat feature to let the host know you would like to make a public comment. Instructions for accessing the meeting and using the chat feature will be posted at the above website.

The proposed Resolution is available for inspection on the County’s Website at h t t p s : / / w w w. j e f f c o . u s / D o c u m e n t C e n t e r / View/23006/Resolution-No-CC20-219-AugustSupplementary-Budget-and-Appropriation Legal Notice No. 408074 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT at the meeting of the Arvada City Council to be held on MONDAY, September 14, 2020, at 6:15 p.m. at the Municipal Building, 8101 Ralston Road, Arvada CO, City Council will hold a public hearing on the following proposed ordinances and thereafter will consider them for final passage and adoption. Members of the public may join virtually by emailing broome@ arvada.org. The email must mention this meeting date. For the full text version in electronic form go to www.arvada.org/legalnotices, click on Current Legal Notices, then click on the title of the ordinance you wish to view. The full text version is also available in printed form in the City Clerk’s office.

Contact 720.898.7550 if you have questions.

CB20-021 An Ordinance Repealing and Reenacting Chapter 18, Buildings and Building Regulations, of the Arvada City Code Through the Adoption of General and Administrative Provisions and the Adoption, By Reference, of the 2018 International Building Code, the 2018 International Residential Code, the 2018 International Energy Conservation Code, the 2018 International Existing Building Code, the 2018 International Fuel Gas Code, the 2018 International Mechanical Code, the 2018 International Plumbing Code, the 2009 International Property Maintenance Code, the 2018 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, the State Adopted National Electrical Code, and the Adoption of Penalties For Violations Thereof.

CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN, COLORADO: Section 1. Section 3.03.010(f) is hereby repealed and reenacted as follows:

3.03.010(f) Community marketing fund.

The City of Golden “Community Marketing Fund” is hereby created. Such fund shall not be available to be pledged or expended for any purpose except as provided herein. For the period beginning January 1, 2001 (for sales tax remittances due to the City in February 2001) and extending until December 31, 2025 (for sales tax remittances due to the City in January, 2026) the two and one-half percent vendors fee credit suspended by Ordinance 1510, as extended by Ordinances 1749, 1875, 2013, and 2144 shall immediately upon collection by the City be distributed to and deposited in the “Community Marketing Fund”. Funds deposited in the “Community Marketing Fund” shall be used solely to market the community utilizing the following activities, as described in, and limited by the management requirements contained in Section 18.62.040.

(1) Development and updating a Community Marketing Plan.

(2) Development and updating of an implementation strategy for promotion activities.

(3) Public relations activities, promotional activities, direct advertising, and limited financial support for certain events and activities recommended by the plan.

Section 2. Section 3.04.050(b) of the Golden Municipal Code is hereby repealed and reenacted as follows:

3.04.050 (b) Vendors fee. Effective January 1, 2026, two and one half percent (2.5%) of the sum of the sales tax remitted may be taken as a credit against the sales tax liability of the retailer to cover expenses in collecting and remitting said taxes; but if the retailer is delinquent in remitting the sales tax, the retailer shall not be allowed a credit for any amount.

Section 3. If any article, section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is held to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this ordinance.

The city council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each part or parts hereof irrespective of the fact that any one part or parts be declared unconstitutional or invalid.

Section 4. All other ordinances or portions thereof inconsistent or conflicting with this ordinance or any portion hereof are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency or conflict.

Section 5. The repeal or modification of any provision of the Municipal Code of the City of Golden by this ordinance shall not release, extinguish, alter, modify or change in whole or in part any penalty, forfeiture or liability, either civil or criminal, which shall have been incurred under such provision.

Each provision shall be treated and held as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any and all proper actions, suits, proceedings and prosecutions for enforcement of the penalty, forfeiture or liability, as well as for the purpose of sustaining any judgment, decree or order which can or may be rendered, entered or made in such actions, suits, proceedings or prosecutions.

CB20-22 An Ordinance Repealing and Reenacting Chapter 42, Fire Prevention and Protection of the Arvada City Code, Through Adoption By Reference of the 2018 International Fire Code Published By the International Code Council, and Establishing Penalties For Violation Thereof.

Section 6. This ordinance is deemed necessary for the protection of the health, welfare and safety of the community.

CB20-023 An Ordinance Authorizing an Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) Between the City of Arvada and the Regional Transportation District (RTD) for the Management and Operation of the Olde Town Transit Hub Via Shared Parking and Revenue Service.

Passed and adopted upon second reading and ordered published this ___day of ________, 2015.

CB20-024 An Ordinance Amending Article III, Sales and Use Tax, and Article V, Lodging Tax, of Chapter 98, Taxation, of the Arvada City Code.

Legal Notice No. 408062 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice ORDINANCE NO. 2144

Introduced, read, passed and ordered published the 13th day of August, 2020.

Laura M. Weinberg, Mayor ATTEST: Monica Mendoza, City Clerk, CMC APPROVED AS TO FORM: David S. Williamson, City Attorney

I, Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a certain proposed ordinance introduced and read before the City Council of the City of Golden at a regular meeting thereof held on the 13th day of August, 2020, and ordered by said City Council to be published as the law provides, and that a public hearing is declared for the 27th day of August, 2020, at 6:30 p.m. virtually.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN EXTENDING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF ORDINANCES 1510, 1749, 1875, AND 2013 PERTAINING TO THE COMMUNITY MARKETING FUND

(SEAL) ATTEST: MONICA S. MENDOZA Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado

WHEREAS, City Council passed Ordinance 1510 on August 24, 2000 establishing the Community Marketing Fund; and

Legal Notice No. 408070 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript

WHEREAS, City Council passed Ordinance 1749 on October 12, 2006, Ordinance 1875 on July 22, 2010, and Ordinance 2013 on June 25, 2015, extending the effective period of the Community Marketing Fund until December 31, 2020, unless extended by City Council; and

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WHEREAS, the Visit Golden Community Marketing Stakeholder Committee has requested that City Council continue the Community Marketing Fund and Program.

RESOLUTION CC20-219

THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE

Public Notice TITLE AND SUMMARY OF SAID ORDINANCE NO. 2142 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLDEN DESIGNATING THE ASTOR HOUSE LOCATED AT 822 12th STREET AS A LOCAL HISTORIC LANDMARK PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF GOLDEN PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 18.58 OF THE GOLDEN MUNICIPAL CODE

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Public Notices COPIES OF THIS ORDINANCE ARE AVAILABLE AT THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK, 911 TENTH STREET, GOLDEN, COLORADO Introduced, read, passed and ordered published the 23rd day of July, 2020.

Passed and adopted upon second reading and ordered published the 13th day of August, 2020.

Laura M. Weinberg, Mayor ATTEST: Monica Mendoza, CMC, City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: David S. Williamson, City Attorney I, Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on first reading and read at a regular business meeting of the City Council of said city, held on the 23rd day of July, 2020 and was published as a proposed ordinance in the Golden Transcript, legal newspaper, as the law directs seven days or more prior to its passage. A public hearing was held on the 13th day of August, 2020, and the said proposed ordinance was read on second reading. The ordinance was passed by the City Council and ordered published in the aforesaid newspaper, as the law directs on the 13th day of August, 2020.

Witness my hand and official seal of the City of Golden, Colorado, on the 13th day of August, 2020.

(SEAL) ATTEST: MONICA S. MENDOZA Monica S. Mendoza, City Clerk of the City of Golden, Colorado Legal Notice No. 408069 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE NOTICE OF CORRECTION Correction: Ordinance 1695 and Ordinance 1696 effective days were given as August 25, 2020. The actual effective dates are August 28, 2020 for both new ordinances.

Legal Notice No.: 408056 First Published: Jeffco Transcript, August 20, 2020 Final Publication: Jeffco Transcript August 20, 2020

Metropolitan Districts Public Notice WESTOWN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE CONCERNING 2019 BUDGET AMENDMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the necessity has arisen to amend the 2019 Budget of the Westown Metropolitan District (“District”) A copy of the proposed 2019 amended budget is on file in the District’s Office, Special District Management Services, Inc., 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado 80228, where same is available for public inspection; and that adoption of a Resolution Amending the 2019 Budget will be considered at a special meeting to be held on August 26, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. Any interested elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2019 amended budget, inspect the 2019 amended budget and file or register any objections thereto.

DUE TO CONCERNS REGARDING THE SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) AND THE BENEFITS TO THE CONTROL OF THE SPREAD OF THE VIRUS BY LIMITING INPERSON CONTACT, THIS DISTRICT’S BOARD MEETING WILL BE HELD BY ZOOM CONFERENCE CALL. You can attend the meeting in any of the following ways: 1. To attend via Zoom Videoconference, e-mail pripko@sdmsi.com to obtain a link to the videoconference.

2. To attend via telephone, dial 1-346-248-7799 and enter the following additional information: a. Meeting ID: 836 3457 8318 b. Passcode: 589720 WESTOWN METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By /s/ Peggy Ripko Legal Notice No. 408060 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Bids and Settlements Public Notice NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that disbursements in final settlement will be issued by the Finance Director at 10:00 a.m., September 1, 2020 to Diamond Contracting Corp for work related to Project No. 18-WA-22 Ralston Reaction Tank Bypass and performed under that contract dated February 4, 2019 for the City of Arvada.

Any person, co-partnership, association of persons, company or corporation that furnished labor, material, drayage, sustenance, provisions or other supplies used or consumed by said contractor or his sub-contractors in or about the performance of the work contracted to be done by said Diamond Contracting Corp and its claim has not been paid, may at any time on or prior to the hour of the date above stated, file with the Finance Director of the City of Arvada at City Hall, a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim.

Dated this August 11, 2020 CITY OF ARVADA /s/ Kristen Rush, City Clerk

Legal Notice No. 408063 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice Notice of Final Settlement Notice is hereby given pursuant to C.R.S. 38-26107, as amended, that on August 21, 2020, at 4:00 P.M. final settlement and payment will be made to Diamond Contracting, Corp., by the WHEAT RIDGE WATER DISTRICT for a Project for water line installation on West 48th Avenue and Harlan Street, and associated locations, all within a portion of the district, Jefferson County, Colorado, subject to prior satisfactory final inspection and acceptance of said completed project by the WHEAT RIDGE WATER DISTRICT. Any person, co-partnership, association or person, company, or corporation that has furnished labor, materials, team hire, sustenance, provender, or other supplies used or consumed by such contractor or his subcontractor in or about the performance of the work, contracted to be done, or that supplies rental machinery tools, or equipment used in the prosecution of the work, whose claim therefor has not been paid by the contractor of the subcontractor, at any time, up to and including the time of final settlement for the work contracted to be done, which final settlement shall be duly advertised at least ten days prior thereto by publication of notice thereof, at least twice in a public newspaper of general circulation published in the counties wherein the work was contracted for and wherein such work was performed, may file with the board, officer , person or other contracting body by whom the contract was awarded, a verified statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim. Said verified statement shall be filed with the WHEAT RIDGE WATER DISTRICT, 6827 W. 38th Avenue, Wheat Ridge, Colorado. 80033, on or prior to August 21, 2020 at 4:00 P.M. or by mail to arrive prior to such date and time, by mailing to WHEAT RIDGE WATER DISTRICT, P.O Box 637, Wheat Ridge, CO 80034. Failure on the part of any claimant to file such a verified statement prior to the stated final settlement will release the WHEAT RIDGE WATER DISTRICT, its officers, agents and employees from any claim or liability for making the final payment on the above designated contract, Dated this 31th day of July 2020 Barry Hudson, District Manager Wheat Ridge Water District Legal Notice No: 408010 First Published: August 13,2020 2nd Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript Public Notice INVITATION TO BID Jefferson Center Metropolitan District No. 1 (hereinafter called the “Owner”) will receive sealed Bids for the Candelas Community Commercial Parcels, Candelas Medical Retaining Wall Fence (the “Project”) via electronic submission to Independent District Engineering Services (IDES); 355 Union Boulevard, Suite 302, Lakewood CO 80228 from 11:00am until 1:00pm., September 4, 2020. Electronic copies of the bid documents are to be sent to brandoncollins@idesllc.com and wesback@idesllc.com.

A description of the Work to be performed includes but is not limited to: mobilization, bonds, survey, fence post installation, fence installation and any and all other work necessary to complete the work in accordance with Contract Documents including the plans and specifications.

Complete digital project bidding documents will be available for download online after 9:00 am. on August 7th, 2020 at www.questcdn.com. You may download the digital documents for $15.00 by inputting Quest project number 7253283 on the website’s projects search page.

Bids shall be made on the forms furnished by the Owner and endorsed with the name of the Bidder.

Also, Bidders shall submit the Bid Documents in electronic form, including a working file of the Bid Schedule (Excel format). A Bid Bond in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total Bid amount will be required. The Bid Bond will be retained by Owner as liquidated damages should the Successful Bidder fail to enter into a Contract with the Owner in accordance with the Bid. Bidders must supply a list of Subcontractors and Suppliers providing $10,000 or more in labor and/ or materials to the Project. If not provided earlier, Bidders shall be required to submit a completed AIA A305 Qualifications Contractor Statement, or equal, including all attachments. The Owner will not provide the form.

Attention is called to the fact that Bidders offer to assume the obligations and liabilities imposed by the Contract Documents. The Successful Bidder for the Project will be required to furnish a Performance Bond, a Labor and Materials Payment Bond and Warranty Bond in the full amount of the Contract Price, in conformity with the requirements of the Contract Documents. These are not due with the Bid, but will be required by the Successful Bidder with the signed Agreement.

All Documents and Addenda that were provided with the above said Bid Package shall apply to this bid and will be provided with the above mentioned Contract Documents when applicable.

Bidders are hereby advised that the Owner reserves the right to not award a Contract until ninety (90) days from the date of the opening of Bids, and Bidders expressly agree to keep their Bids open for the ninety (90) day time period.

Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive any informality, technicality or irregularity in any Bid, to disregard all non-conforming, non-responsive, conditional or alternate Bids, to clarify contract terms with the Successful Bidder, to require statements or evidence of Bidders’ qualifications, including financial statements, and to accept the proposal that is in the opinion of the Owner in its best interest. Owner reserves the right to accept any combination of Bids which in Owner’s sole, and absolute judgment will, under all circumstances, best serve the Owner’s interests.

Owner also reserves the right to extend the Bidding period by Addendum if it appears in its interest

to do so. The Owner reserves the right to award multiple contracts to multiple Bidders.

Additional Bidder requirements are included in the Contract Documents.

Any and all questions concerning this bid shall be directed in writing to: Brandon Collins, PE Independent District Engineering Services, LLC Jefferson Center Metropolitan District No. 1 Engineer 355 Union Boulevard, Suite 302 Lakewood, CO 80228 E-mail: BrandonCollins@idesllc.com Contacting the Design Engineer, District Representatives, Local Jurisdictions or others involved in the development of the Project shall be reason for the Bidders Bid to be rejected. Responses to questions and clarifications shall be by written Addendum only, verbal responses are non-binding.

Legal Notice No. 408050 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Jeffco Transcript

Summons and Sheriff Sale Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, CO 80401 Plaintiff: ACADEMY POINTE CONDOMINIUMS ASSOCIATION, Inc., a Colorado nonprofit corporation v.

Defendant(s): KARLA VERONICA FLORES; WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.; HOLLY RYAN AS JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC TRUSTEE and OCCUPANT(S) Attorney for Plaintiff(s): Richard W. Johnston, Esq. Tobey & Johnston, P.C. 6855 South Havana Street, Suite 275 Centennial, CO 80112-3813 Phone Number: (303) 799-8600 Fax Number: (303) 799-6977 E-mail: rjohnston@tobeyjohnston.com Atty. Reg. #: 19823 Case Number: 20CV30756 SUMMONS THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF COLORADO TO DEFENDANT(S) NAMED ABOVE: You are summoned and required to file with the Clerk of this Court an answer or other response to the attached Complaint within twenty-one (21) days after this summons is served on you in the State of Colorado, or within thirty-five (35) days after this summons is served on you outside the State of Colorado, or within sixty-three (63) days after this summons is served upon the United States or one of its agencies.

If you fail to file your answer or other response to the Complaint in writing within the applicable time period, judgment by default may be entered against you by the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, without any further notice to you.

The following documents are also served with this Summons: Complaint in Foreclosure, and District Civil Case Cover Sheet.

DATE: June 29, 2020 TOBEY & JOHNSTON, P.C. By: /s/* Richard W. Johnston *Original signature on file at the office of Tobey & Johnston, P.C. This summons is issued pursuant to Rule 4, C.R.C.P., as amended. A copy of the Complaint must be served with this Summons. This form should not be used where service by publication is desired.

WARNING: A VALID SUMMONS MAY BE ISSUED BY A LAWYER AND IT NEED NOT CONTAIN A COURT CASE NUMBER, THE SIGNATURE OF A COURT OFFICER, OR A COURT SEAL. THE PLAINTIFF HAS 14 DAYS FROM THE DATE THIS SUMMONS WAS SERVED ON YOU TO FILE THE CASE WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTACTING THE COURT TO FIND OUT WHETHER THE CASE HAS BEEN FILED AND OBTAIN THE CASE NUMBER. IF THE PLAINTIFF FILES THE CASE WITHIN THIS TIME, THEN YOU MUST RESPOND AS EXPLAINED IN THIS SUMMONS. IF THE PLAINTIFF FILES MORE THAN 14 DAYS AFTER THE DATE THE SUMMONS WAS SERVED ON YOU, THE CASE MAY BE DISMISSED UPON MOTION AND YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO SEEK ATTORNEY’S FEES FROM THE PLAINITFF. Amended and Adopted by the Court, En Banc, October 10, 2013, effective immediately Legal Notice No.: 408015 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: September 10, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, CO 80401 IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: KYLE BURNAM FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CHILD Attorney for Petitioner: Meegan A. Miloud Miloud Law Firm LLC

98 Wadsworth Blvd. Ste. 127 PMB#212 Lakewood, CO 80226 303.910.6129 (Tel) miloudlawfirm@gmail.com Attny. Reg.: 42903 Case Number: 20JA29 Division: U Courtroom:2E NOTICE CONCERNING PETITION TO TERMINATE PARENT-CHILD LEGAL RELATIONSHIP AND PETITION FOR STEPPARENT ADOPTION TO: BRYAN ANDREW MARTIN You are hereby notified that the District Court in this county will hold a hearing on the Petition for Stepparent Adoption and Petition to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship filed by the Petitioner involving the child, Jonah Leech, born on November 5, 2006, in Fulton County, Florida.

The Court will hold the hearing on the 8th day of October 2020, at 9:00 AM in Division U in courtroom 2E of the Jefferson County District Court, State of Colorado.

Unless within thirty-five (35) days after the publication of this Notice you file an answer with the Court, or appear before the Court, your parental rights to the Child may likely be terminated. You have the right to waive your right to appear and contest, and your failure to appear and contest, either in person or by a representative, will result in the Court forever terminating your parent-child legal relationship and granting the requested adoption.

Meegan A. Miloud : Attorney for Petitioner Legal Notice No. 408052 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice Case # 2020-022 Cert # 2013-00117 NOTICE OF PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE AT TAX SALE AND OF APPLICATION FOR ISSUANCE OF TREASURER’S DEED To Every Person in Actual Possession of Occupancy of the hereinafter Described land, Lot or Premises and to the Person in whose name the same was Taxed or Specially Assessed and to all Person having an Interest or Title of Record in or to the said Premises and, To Whom it May Concern, and more especially SYLVIA VON TUNGELN, KENNETH E. CARROLL, NORMAN F. CARROLL, EILEEN CARROLL CORTES, C/O ADA KARI 311 E. WALNUT ST RAWLINGS, WY 82301 You and each of you are hereby notified that on the 22ND day of OCTOBER, A.D. 2014, the then county Treasurer of the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado sold at public sale to, TLC CLUB, Assignor of, JERRY L. BALLARD, Applicant, who has made demand for a Treasurer’s Deed for the following described real estate situated in the County of Jefferson and State of Colorado to wit; EAST ½ OF LOT 8, BLOCK 112, MOUNTAIN PARK HOME, AKA: VACANT LAND That said tax sale was made to satisfy the delinquent 2013 taxes assessed against said real estate for the year 2013 that said real estate was taxed in the name of SYLVIA VON TUNGELN, KENNETH E. CARROLL, NORMAN F. CARROLL, EILEEN CARROLL CORTES that the statutory period of redemption expired OCTOBER 22, A.D. 2017; that the same has not been redeemed; that said property may be redeemed at any time before the Tax Deed is issued; that a Tax Deed will be issued to the said, JERRY L. BALLARD, lawful holder of said certificate, on the 23RD day of NOVEMBER at 5:00 P.M., A.D.2020, unless the same has been redeemed on or before 5:00 P.M. of said date.

WITNESS my hand and seal this 29TH Day of JULY, A.D. 2020 Jerry DiTullio Jefferson County Treasurer Legal Notice No. 407993 First Publication AUGUST 6, 2020 Final Publication AUGUST 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice District Court, Jefferson County, Colorado 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80401 In re the Marriage of: Amie Sotelo Petitioner: and Jorge Sotelo, Respondent: Case Number: 19 DR 1698 ALIAS 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, 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.

You 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 (decisionmaking and parenting time), maintenance (spousal support), attorney fees, and costs to the extent the Court has jurisdiction.

If you fail to file a Response in this case, 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 CoPetitioner, 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 §14-10124(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: February 26, 2020 Signature of the Clerk of Court/Deputy Signature of the Attorney for the Petitioner (if any) Legal Notice No.: 407903 First Publication: July 23, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript

Water Court Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO JULY 2020 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1

Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of JULY 2020 for each County affected.

20CW3100 (Former Case Nos. 13CW3058, 05CW55, 97CW240, 87CW335) City of Westminster, 4800 West 92nd Avenue, Westminster, Colorado 80031, (303) 658-2400. APPLICATION FOR FINDING OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY. Please send all correspondence and pleadings to: Lee H. Johnson, Mason H. Brown, and Katrina B. Fiscella, Carlson, Hammond & Paddock, LLC, 1900 Grant Street, Suite 1200, Denver, CO 80203. 2. Names of Structures: Farmers’ High Line Canal and Standley Lake. In accordance with the decree issued in Case No. 13CW3058, Signal Reservoir Nos. 1 and 2 are no longer a decreed place of storage for the remaining conditional portion of the Westminster Water Works Storage Water Right. A general map of Westminster’s Water Supply system, including the approximate locations of the relevant structures, is attached as Exhibit A. 3. Description of conditional water rights: A. Westminster Water Works Direct Flow Water Right. i. Date of Original Decree: August 26, 1991, Case No. 87CW335, Water Court, Division No. 1, State of Colorado.

Subsequent findings of diligence and making portions of the conditional rights absolute entered on March 23, 1999, in Case No. 97CW240; on June 12, 2007 in Case No. 05CW55; and, on July 3, 2014, in Case No. 13CW3058. ii. Location: The Westminster Water Works Direct Flow Water Right diverts from the following locations as set forth in the decree in Case No. 87CW335: a. On the north bank of Clear Creek in the SW1/4 of Section 27, Township 3 South, Range 70 West a short distance below the Fort Street Bridge across Clear Creek in the City of Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado (decreed as in the Clear Creek point of diversion for the Farmers’ High Line Canal in Case No. 60052, District Court for the City and County of Denver, Division II, May 13, 1936). In addition, Westminster provides the following coordinates to further identify the relevant location utilizing the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system projection based on the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), Zone 13 North: (481286 E, 4400999 N). b. At a point where the Farmers’ High Line Canal crosses Van Bibber Creek in the SW1/4 of Section 12, Township 3 South, Range 70 West, Jefferson County, Colorado, which point is approximately 800 feet north of the south line and 400 feet west of the east line of said SW1/4. In addition, Westminster provides the following coordinates to further identify the relevant approximate location utilizing the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system projection based on the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), Zone 13 North: (484922 E, 4405598 N). c. On the north bank of Ralston Creek at a point approximately 175 feet west of the point where the Farmers’ High Line Canal crosses Ralston Creek and near the center of the NW1/4 of Section 1, Township 3 South, Range 70 West, Jefferson County, Colo-

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Public Notices rado (decreed as the Ralston Creek point of diversion for the Farmers’ High Line Canal in Case No. 60052, District Court for the City and County of Denver, Division II, May 13, 1936). In addition, Westminster provides the following coordinates to further identify the relevant approximate location utilizing the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system projection based on the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), Zone 13 North: (484651 E, 4407857 N). iii. Source: Clear Creek, Ralston Creek, and Van Bibber Creek, all tributary to the South Platte River. iv. Appropriation Date: June 16, 1987. v. Amount: 139.5 c.f.s. In Case No. 97CW240, the court ruled that 46.0 c.f.s. of the original 139.5 c.f.s. conditional appropriation had been diverted, applied to beneficial use, and was therefore absolute. In Case No. 13CW3058, the court ruled that an additional 12.25 c.f.s. of the original conditional appropriation had been diverted, applied to beneficial use and was therefore absolute. The conditional decree for the remaining 81.25 c.f.s. of the original appropriation was maintained in full force and effect. vi. Use: Pursuant to the decree in Case No. 87CW335, water will be used for all beneficial uses of the municipal water system of Westminster, including, but not limited to, domestic, irrigation, commercial, industrial, recreation, fish and wildlife, augmentation, replacement and exchange purposes. B. Westminster Water Works Storage Water Right. i. Date of Original Decree: August 26, 1991, Case No. 87CW335, Water Court, Division No.1, State of Colorado. Subsequent diligence and absolute decrees are listed in paragraph 3.A.i., above. ii.

Location: The Westminster Water Works Storage Water Right diverts from the locations identified above in paragraphs 3.A.ii.a, 3.A.ii.b., and 3.A.ii.c.

Water is stored at the following locations. a.

Standley Lake, located in Sections 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 28, and 29, Township 2 South, Range 69 West. b. Signal Reservoir Nos. 1 and 2, located in Section 4, Township 1 South, Range 67 West. iii.

Source: Clear Creek, Ralston Creek, and Van Bibber Creek, all tributary to the South Platte River. iv. Appropriation Date: June 16, 1987. v.

Amount: 10,000 acre feet, with maximum cumulative rate of flow to storage is 350 c.f.s. In Case No. 97CW240, the court ruled that 527 acre-feet of the original 10,000 acre-foot conditional appropriation had been diverted, applied to beneficial use, and was therefore absolute. The conditional decree for the remaining 9,473 acre-feet of the original appropriation was maintained in full force and effect.

In Case No. 05CW55, the court ruled that an additional 3,110 acre feet of the remaining 9,473 acre-feet conditional appropriation had been diverted, applied to beneficial use, and was therefore absolute. In Case No. 13CW3058, the court ruled that the conditional decree for the remaining 6,363 acre-feet was maintained in full force and effect. vi. Use: Pursuant to the decree in Case No. 87CW335, water will be used for all beneficial uses of the municipal water system of Westminster, including, but not limited to, domestic, irrigation, commercial, industrial, recreation, fish and wildlife, augmentation, replacement and exchange purposes. 4. Detailed outline of what has been done toward completion of the appropriation and application to a beneficial use: A. The water rights decreed in Case No. 87CW335 are part of Westminster’s Clear Creek Water Supply System, an integrated system under § 37-92-301(4)(b), C.R.S. During the diligence period, Westminster has continued the development of its Clear Creek Water Supply System. Activities have included, among other things: acquisition of additional interests in water on Clear Creek and its tributaries and the South Platte River; prosecuting Water Court applications to incorporate said interests into the City’s Water Supply System; exercising conditional water rights and making portions absolute or obtaining diligence decrees on the remaining conditional portions; completing negotiations on an amended contract for the construction of an additional storage vessel; participating in project to rehabilitate the Farmers’ High Line Canal headgate on Clear Creek; participating in Lower Clear Creek/Colorado Agricultural Ditch bifurcation structure project; and, participating in numerous Water Court cases for purposes of protecting, maintaining and developing Westminster’s Water Supply System. Expenses associated with these activities have been incurred during the diligence period. In addition, in connection with the operation of the Clear Creek Water Supply System and during the diligence period, Westminster has diverted portions of the water rights originally decreed in Case No. 87CW335, and maintained in Case No. 97CW240, Case No. 05CW55 and Case No. 13CW3058, for use in Westminster’s Clear Creek Water Supply System. B. During the diligence period, Westminster continued to operate under the carriage agreement with the Farmers’ High Line Canal and Reservoir Company for the use of excess capacity in the Farmers’ High Line Canal. This agreement allows Westminster to carry additional water through the Farmers’ High Line Canal, including water carried in the Farmers’ High Line Canal in accordance with the decree entered in Case No. 87CW335. Westminster is contractually obligated to pay an annual fee for use of the Farmers’ High Line Canal. Westminster has continually made these payments during the diligence period. C. During the diligence period, Westminster has paid substantial amounts in annual assessments to the Farmers’ High Line Canal.

Said assessments have been used in part to fund annual operations and maintenance activities associated with the Farmers’ High Line Canal. The conditional water rights that are the subject of this Application directly involve the Farmers’ High Line Canal. D. During the prior diligence period, the Farmers’ High Line Canal and Reservoir Company designed and constructed improvements to the Clear Creek headgate. This project was completed in 2013 and significant costs, (including Westminster’s pro-rata share of the same), were incurred during the diligence period. The conditional water rights that are the subject of this Application directly involve the Farmers’ High Line Canal. E. During the diligence period, Westminster has participated in various Division No. 1 Water Court cases in an effort, in part, to protect and maintain the historical use patterns on Clear Creek. Said expenses have been incurred during the diligence period. F. During the diligence period, in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019, Westminster diverted water through the Farmers’ High Line Canal in accordance with the water rights decreed in Case No. 87CW335. This water was put to beneficial use consistent with C.R.S. § 37-92103(4) during the diligence period. G. During the diligence period, Westminster diverted water in the Farmers’ High Line Canal under Westminster Water Works Direct Flow Water Right and diverted and stored water in Standley Lake under the Westminster Water Works Storage Water Right

decreed in Case No. 87CW335. This water was subsequently put to beneficial use consistent with C.R.S. § 37-92-103(4) during the diligence period.

The amounts diverted and stored during the current diligence period, however, did not exceed the amounts previously adjudicated as absolute. As such, Westminster seeks a finding of reasonable diligence in this matter. 5. Claim to make additional water absolute: N/A. 6. Name(s) and address(es) of owner(s) or reputed owners of the land upon which any new diversion or storage structure, or modification to any existing diversion or storage structure is or will be constructed or upon which water is or will be stored, including any modification to the existing storage pool: Standley Lake and the Farmers’ High Line Canal are existing structures. On information and belief, new or modified diversion structures from Van Bibber and Ralston Creek may be located on lands owned by: Farmers’ High Line Canal and Reservoir Company, 725 Malley Drive, Northglenn, Colorado 80233; Jefferson County, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80419; City of Arvada, 8101 Ralston Road, Arvada, Colorado 80002.

Additional notice by certified or register mail, as set forth in § 37-92-302(2)(b), C.R.S., will be provided to these entities. The remaining structures involved with the conditional water right are all existing, not new, diversion or storage structures. There was, and is, no need to modify said structures in order to accomplish diversion and beneficial use of the remaining conditional water right. WHEREFORE, Westminster requests the Court to enter its decree and ruling as follows: A. To make a finding of reasonable diligence with respect to the remaining conditional amount decreed in Case No. 87CW335 to the Westminster Water Works Direct Flow Water Right, and providing that a subsequent showing of diligence be made six years from the date of entry of a decree of diligence in this matter. B. To make a finding of reasonable diligence with respect to the remaining conditional amount decreed in Case No. 87CW335 to the Westminster Water Works Storage Water Right, and providing that a subsequent showing of diligence be made six years from the date of entry of a decree of diligence in this matter.

WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED

BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions.

Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of SEPTEMBER 2020 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

Legal Notice No. 408040 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO JULY 2020 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of JULY 2020 for each County affected.

20CW3099 (Former Case Nos. 88CW269, 96CW172, 03CW342, 13CW3044) City of Westminster, 4800 West 92nd Avenue, Westminster, Colorado 80031, (303) 658-2400. APPLICATION FOR FINDING OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE IN ADAMS AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. Please send all correspondence and pleadings to: Lee H. Johnson, Mason H. Brown, and Katrina B. Fiscella, Carlson, Hammond & Paddock, LLC, 1900 Grant Street, Suite 1200, Denver, CO 80203. 2. Name of Structures: (1) Ralston Creek Exchange; and (2) West Gravel Lakes to Manhart Ditch Exchange. 3. Description of conditional water rights: The conditional water rights at issue here are two conditional appropriative rights of exchange confirmed and adjudicated in Case No. 88CW269, Water Division No. 1. A finding of reasonable diligence was entered by the Water Court, Water Division No. 1, on August 25, 1997 in Case No. 96CW172, on May 25, 2007 in Case No. 03CW342 and on July 30, 2014 in Case No. 13CW3044. The subject exchanges are closely related to certain change of use and exchanges decreed in Case No. 88CW268, Water Division No. 1, (the “Cosmic Decree”), and together make up a component of the City of Westminster’s (“Westminster”) integrated water system on Clear Creek. I. Ralston Creek Exchange. A. Date of Original Decree: Case No. 88CW269, Water Court, Division 1, State of Colorado, decreed on July 20, 1990. B. Legal Description: The location of the exchange structures, as set forth in the decree in Case No. 88CW269, are as follows: (1) Jim Baker Reservoir (formerly known as the Happe Ponds): Located in the S1/2 of the NW1/4 of Section 7 and the N1/2 of the SE1/4 of Section 7, Township 3 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. In addition, Westminster provides the following coordinates to further identify the approximate location of the Jim Baker Reservoir outlet works utilizing the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system projection based on the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), Zone 13 North: (496995 E, 4406098 N). (2) The Kershaw Ditch: A point of diversion located on the North bank of Clear Creek in the NE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 18, Township 3 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. In addition, Westminster provides the following coordinates to further identify the relevant location utilizing the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system projection based on the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), Zone 13 North: (496254 E, 4405228 N).

(3) The Manhart Ditch: A point of diversion located on the North bank of Ralston Creek in the SW1/4 of Section 12, Township 3 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M., Jefferson County, Colorado. In addition, Westminster provides the following coordinates to further identify the relevant location utilizing the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system projection based on the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), Zone 13 North: (494178 E, 4405876 N). C. Source: Clear Creek and Ralston Creek. Pursuant to the Decree in Case No. 88CW269, and subsequent findings of reasonable diligence in Case No. 96CW172 and Case No. 03CW342, Clear Creek water available for storage in Jim Baker Reservoir (f.k.a. the Happe Ponds) pursuant to the Decree in Case No. 88CW268 that ordinarily would be diverted at the Kershaw Ditch headgate on Clear Creek, will be left in Clear Creek and an equal amount of water will be diverted by exchange at the headgate of the Manhart Ditch on Ralston Creek for storage in Jim Baker Reservoir. This exchange allows the use of gravity to fill Jim Baker Reservoir via the Manhart Ditch, rather than pumping to fill Jim Baker Reservoir via the Kershaw Ditch. D. Appropriation Date: June 10, 1988. E. Amount: 768 acre-feet maximum per year (less transit loss), at a daily average rate of flow of 25 c.f.s., subject to the maximum rate of flow for all alternate points of storage in paragraph 12.5 of the decree in Case No. 88CW268. II. West Gravel Lakes to Manhart Ditch Exchange. A. Date of Original Decree: Case No. 88CW269, Water Division No. 1, decreed on July 20, 1990. B. Legal Description: The location of the exchange structures, as set forth in the decree in Case No. 88CW269, are as follows: (1) The West Gravel Lakes: Located just West of the South Platte River approximately 1/2 mile East of the intersection of East 80th Avenue and North York Street in Sections 25 and 36, Township 2 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. In addition, Westminster provides the following coordinates to further identify the approximate location of the West Gravel Lakes outlet works utilizing the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system projection based on the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), Zone 13 North: (505031 E, 4411328 N). (2) The Manhart Ditch: A point of diversion located on the North bank of Ralston Creek in the SW1/4 of Section 12, Township 3 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M., Jefferson County, Colorado. (3) Jim Baker Reservoir (formerly known as the Happe Ponds): Located in the S1/2 of the NW1/4 of Section 7 and the N1/2 of the SE1/4 of Section 7, Township 3 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. (4) The Lower Clear Creek Ditch: A point of diversion located on the North bank of Clear Creek at a point 1400 feet West and 1200 feet North of the Southeast corner of Section 4, Township 3 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. In addition, Westminster provides the following coordinates to further identify the relevant location utilizing the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid system projection based on the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), Zone 13 North: (499883 E, 4407356 N). C. Source: Water stored for Westminster in the West Gravel Lakes under the exercise of the Standley Lake alternate place of storage right, pursuant to the decree in Case No. 88CW268, will be released to the South Platte River or the Lower Clear Creek Ditch and an equivalent amount of water will be diverted at the Manhart Ditch point of diversion on Ralston Creek for storage in Jim Baker Reservoir (formerly known as the Happe Ponds), said storage and subsequent use to be pursuant to the terms of the decree in Case No. 88CW268. The points of substitution or exchange will be as follows: (1) The South Platte River at the point of discharge from West Gravel Lakes located in the W1/2 of the NW1/4 of Section 30, Township 2 South, Range 67 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado; (2) The Lower Clear Creek Ditch, the point of diversion of which is on the North bank of Clear Creek at a point 1400 feet West and 1200 feet North of the Southeast corner of Section 4, Township 3 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado, through either of two methods: (a) Subject to the provisions of the decree of this Court in 81CW448, water in the West Gravel Lakes owned by Westminster may be removed from Westminster’s account and placed in Thornton’s account in place of Clear Creek water which would otherwise be diverted for Thornton’s shares in the Lower Clear Creek Ditch; or (b) Water from West Gravel Lakes may be pumped into the Lower Clear Creek Ditch, at a point located in the N1/2 of Section 25, Township 2 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado, in place of Clear Creek water which would otherwise be diverted for Lower Clear Creek Ditch Company shareholders other than Thornton. D. Appropriation Date: June 10, 1988. E. Amount: 945 acre-feet maximum per year (less transit loss), at a maximum rate of flow of 99.5 c.f.s. (50 c.f.s. to the South Platte River and 49.5 c.f.s. to Lower Clear Creek Ditch). 4.

Detailed outline of what has been done toward completion of the appropriation and application to a beneficial use. A. By decree entered in Case No. 13CW3044 on July 30, 2014, 293.63 acre feet of the Ralston Creek Exchange conditionally decreed in Case No. 88CW269 was deemed absolute. The Court entered findings of reasonable diligence as to the remaining 474.37 acre feet of the Ralston Creek Exchange and 945 acre feet of the West Gravel Lakes Exchange. During the current diligence period Westminster operated the Ralston Creek Exchange and diverted water by exchange at the Manhart Ditch headgate. This diverted water constituted “Cosmic” water under the decree in Case No. 88CW268 (“Cosmic Water”) and was delivered into storage in Jim Baker Reservoir (f.k.a. Happe Ponds) via the Manhart Ditch pursuant to the Ralston Creek Exchange. Although Westminster operated the exchange and diverted and applied water to beneficial use, the volume of water diverted in any one season during the current diligence period did not exceed the amount previously made absolute in Case No. 13CW3044.

As a result, Westminster only seeks findings of diligence in this application. B. During prior diligence periods, Westminster constructed Jim Baker Reservoir (f.k.a. Happe Ponds). Construction included completion of dredging of the lake, lining of the reservoir, and construction of appurtenant facilities, including inlet and outlet works, spillway and wetlands. The Reservoir was completed and dedicated in the spring of 1996. The total construction cost during the prior diligence period was approximately $3,500,000. During the current diligence period, Westminster has operated and maintained the Reservoir. Activities include, but are not limited to, monitoring lake levels, operating, maintaining and repairing inlet and outlet works, accounting and record keeping ac-

tivities, wetlands monitoring and general reservoir maintenance activities. Operation and maintenance of the reservoir is an integral component of both conditional exchanges. Operation and maintenance expenses have been incurred during the diligence period, including, but not limited to City staff time, expenses and outside consultant expenses. During the diligence period, Westminster has also paid funds in the form of ditch assessments to both the Manhart Ditch Company and the Kershaw Ditch Company. Said funds have been used, in part, to maintain the ditches necessary for operation of the conditional exchanges.

During the diligence period Westminster has also made repairs and improvements to the Manhart Ditch flume and measurement devices. Costs were incurred during the diligence period. C. During prior diligence periods, the City of Thornton completed the construction of the West Gravel Lakes.

Westminster is the owner of a storage account at the West Gravel Lakes, that is used, in part, for storage of water pursuant to the decree in Case No. 88CW268. Although during the current diligence period no Cosmic Water stored in the West Gravel Lakes pursuant to the decree in Case No. 88CW268 was exchanged to Jim Baker Reservoir pursuant to the conditional West Gravel Lakes to Manhart Ditch Exchange decreed in Case No. 88CW269, Cosmic Water was stored in Westminster’s West Gravel Lakes storage account and exchanged further up Clear Creek for storage in Standley Lake pursuant to other decreed exchanges or otherwise beneficially used. Westminster has incurred expenses during the diligence period associated with its storage account at the West Gravel Lakes, including but not limited to expenses associated with the operation and maintenance of its storage account and the Lower Clear Creek/Colorado Agricultural ditches as well as pumping costs associated with the operation of the storage account. D. During the diligence period, Westminster has participated in various Division No. 1 Water Court cases in an effort, in part, to protect and maintain exchange potential on Clear Creek and Ralston Creek.

Related expenses were incurred during the diligence period. E. During the diligence period, Westminster has continued the development of its Clear Creek Water Supply System. Activities have included, among other things: acquisition of additional interests in water on Clear Creek and its tributaries and the South Platte River; prosecuting Water Court applications to incorporate said interests into the City’s Water Supply System; exercising conditional exchanges and making portions absolute or obtaining diligence decrees on the remaining conditional portions; completing the first phase of delivery of an additional storage vessel; ongoing operation of an aeration system related to Jim Baker Reservoir; and, participation in numerous Water Court cases for purposes of protecting, maintaining and developing Westminster’s Water Supply System. Expenses associated with these activities were incurred during the diligence period. 5. Water applied to beneficial use: N.A. Although Westminster operated the Ralston Creek Exchange during the diligence period, it was not operated in amounts greater than the absolute portions of said exchange. 6. Name(s) and address(es) of owner(s) or reputed owners of the land upon which any new diversion or storage structure, or modification to any existing diversion or storage structure is or will be constructed or upon which water is or will be stored, including any modification to the existing storage pool: N.A. The structures involved in the conditional exchange are all existing, not new, diversion structures. There was, and is, no need to modify said diversion structures in order to accomplish the conditional exchanges. On information and belief, there are no current plans to modify the existing diversion structures at this time. As a result, additional notice requirements by certified or register mail, as set forth in § 37-92-302(2)(b), C.R.S., do not apply in this instance. WHEREFORE, Westminster requests the Court to enter its decree and ruling as follows: A. To enter a finding of reasonable diligence with respect to the entirety of the remaining conditional portion of the Ralston Creek Exchange and providing that a subsequent showing of diligence for the remaining conditional water right be made six years from the date of entry of a decree of diligence. B. To enter a finding of reasonable diligence with respect to the entire 945 acre feet of the West Gravel Lakes to Manhart Ditch Exchange originally decreed conditional in Case No. 88CW269 and providing that a subsequent showing of diligence for the remaining conditional water right be made six years from the date of entry of a decree of diligence. C. To enter a finding confirming that the retained jurisdiction period set forth in Case No. 88CW269 has expired by its own terms.

WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions.

Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of SEPTEMBER 2020 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

Legal Notice No. 408039 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO JULY 2020 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of JULY

2020 for each County affected.

20CW3103 The City and County of Denver, acting by and through its Board of Water Commissioners (“Denver Water”), Address: 1600 West 12th Avenue, Denver, Colorado 802043412, Phone Number: 303-628-6460, Fax Number: 303-628-6478. Attorneys for Applicant Jessica R. Brody, General Counsel, Daniel J. Arnold, No. 35458, James M. Wittler, No. 44050, Andrew J. Hill, No. 47896. APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF WATER RIGHT, ALTERNATE POINTS OF DIVERSION, AND CONDITIONAL APPROPRIATION OF RETURN FLOWS, CONCERNING THE APPLICATION FOR WATERS RIGHTS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER ACTING BY AND THROUGH ITS BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS; IN THE SOUTH PLATTER RIVER OR ITS TRIBUTARIES; IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, JEFFERSON, DOUGLAS, ARAPAHOE, ADAMS, AND WELD COUNTY. Application eighteen (18) pages. 2.

Decreed Water Right that is the Subject of the Application: a. Name of Structure: Nevada Ditch. b. Original Decree: In the Matter of the Priority of Water Rights in District No. 8 of Colorado, Case No. December 10, 1883 (Douglas County Dist.

Ct., December 10, 1883) (“December 10, 1883 Adjudication Decree”). i. Priority 4: August 30, 1861 appropriation date, 28.0 cfs. ii. Priority 19: December 30, 1865 appropriation date, 34.3 cfs. c. Points of Diversion: i. December 10, 1883 Adjudication Decree: “…from the South Platte River with a headgate thereof on Section 1, Township 6 South, Range 69 West…” ii. Chatfield Reservoir Outlet Manifold: The existing point of diversion is now the Chatfield Reservoir Outlet Manifold. The center line of the outlet manifold intersects the center line of the dam at a point whence the SW Corner of Section 1, Township 6 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M., Jefferson County, bears North 49 decrees a distance of 4,070 feet. d. Source of Water: South Platte River. e. Decreed Uses: Irrigation. f. Amount of Water Rights to be changed: 5 of the 260 outstanding Nevada Ditch shares (“Subject Water Rights”). i. Priority 4. Denver Water’s pro-rata share is 0.538 cfs. ii. Priority 19.

Denver Water’s pro-rata share is 0.660 cfs. g.

Historical Use: The Subject Water Rights were historically used to irrigate crops on the Wild Plum Farm, which consisted of approximately 105 acres located in Sections 29 and 30 of Township 5 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M. in Arapahoe County, depicted on the attached map as Exhibit A. The Subject Water Rights were used to irrigate a mix of alfalfa, pasture grass, and oats. Denver Water only seeks to change the water used to irrigate this farm. 3. Detailed Description of Proposed Change: a. Statement of Change: Denver Water seeks to quantify the historical consumptive use and return flows, add alternate points of diversion and places of storage for the Subject Water Rights, and change the place and type of use of the Subject Water Rights so that the fully consumable portion of the Subject Water Rights can be used by Denver Water, and its customers, for all uses decreed herein. The alternate points of diversion and places of storage Denver Water seeks to add are described in paragraphs 3.0. and 3.0. below. The changed portion of the Subject Water Rights will be diverted, stored, treated, and used in Denver Water’s municipal system for delivery within Denver Water’s service area shown in Exhibit B, areas served by contract, and for lands, replacement of depletions, delivery, and contractual obligations within Denver, Arapahoe, Douglas, Jefferson, Adams, Broomfield, and Weld Counties as described in paragraphs 3.d.-f. below. A summary of diversion records for the Nevada Ditch water right is attached as Exhibit C. b. Description of Decreed Location and Alternate Points of Diversion: i. Decreed Point of Diversion: See Paragraph 2.c., above. ii. Alternate Points of Diversion: (1) Strontia Springs Diversion Dam and Reservoir. A dam constructed across the channel of the South Platte River in the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter (NW1/4 NW1/4) of Section 21, Township 7 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M., in Douglas and Jefferson Counties, State of Colorado. (2) Foothills Tunnel and Conduit No. 26. The Foothills Tunnel and Conduit No. 26 diverts water from the South Platte River by means of a dam across the channel of the South Platte River known as the Strontia Springs Diversion Dam in the northwest quarter or the northwest quarter of Section 21, Township 7 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M. in Jefferson and Douglas Counties, State of Colorado. The Foothills Tunnel consists of a 10-foot, 6-inch finished inside diameter concrete lined tunnel connecting an intake structure located within the Strontia Springs Reservoir to a cement-mortar lined steel pipeline (Conduit No. 26), which in turn connects to the headwork structure of the Foothills Water Treatment Plant.

(3) Conduit 20 Intake. The Conduit 20 Intake diverts water from the South Platte River at a point on the southwest bank of the South Platte River in Jefferson County, from which the north quarter corner of Section 5, Township 7 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M., bears north 17 degrees, 20 minutes, 21 seconds west, a distance of 3,056.9 feet. (4) Platte Canyon – Last Chance Ditch. The headgate of the Platte Canyon – Last Chance Ditch is located on the north bank of said South Platte River in Jefferson County, whence the east quarter corner of Section 34, Township 6 South, Range 69 West of the Sixth P.M., according to the United States Government Survey, bears south 86 degrees 30 minutes east at a distance of approximately 2,140 feet. (5) Chatfield Reservoir.

The Reservoir formed by the Chatfield Dam, an existing structure located approximately 8 miles southwest of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on the main stem of the South Platte River; the right abutment of which is located in Douglas County, Colorado in Sections 6 and 7, Township 6 South, Range 68 West, of the 6th Principal Meridian; and the left abutment of which is located in Jefferson County, Colorado in Section 1, Township 6 South, Range 69 West of the 6th Principal Meridian. (6) Burlington Ditch Headgate.

The Burlington Ditch headgate is located on the east bank of the South Platte River, in the NE1/4 of the SW1/4, Section 14, T3S, R68W, 6th P.M., in City and County of Denver, Colorado, 2456.2 feet east of the west line of the southwest quarter and 2347.7 feet north of the south line of said southwest quarter of Section 14. The Burlington Headgate is located at approximately latitude 039° 47’ 24.69” N, longitude 104° 58’ 9.97” W. The UTM coordinates are approximately NAD 1983 UTM Zone 13S 502616.89 mE 4404471.42 mN. (7) Fulton Ditch Headgate. The Fulton Ditch headgate is located on the east bank of the South Platte River in the NE1/4 of the SE1/4, in Section 17, T2S, R67W, 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado, at a point approximately 2,815 feet south and 145

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Public Notices feet west of the NE corner of said Section 17. (8) Lupton Lakes Complex. The Lupton Lakes Complex point of diversion, as decreed in Case No. 2007CW322 and the subsequent diligence decree fixing the point of diversion. Case No 2007CW322 decreed that the Proposed Point of Diversion shall be located in the Northwest 1/4 of Section 19, Township 1 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., County of Weld, State of Colorado. The final design and location of the proposed diversion facility has not been finalized to provide distance from section lines and may change to Section 18.

Denver Water may, without amending the 2007CW322 Decree, supplement the correct section (18 or 19), and distance and section lines in a decree to be entered during the earliest diligence proceeding when this information becomes available as provided in paragraph 38.D of the 2007CW322 Decree. c. Places of Storage. Denver Water seeks to store the Subject Water Rights in the following facilities. The Subject Water Rights will be delivered to storage by use of any authorized diversion points for these facilities; stream channels; diversion, conveyance structures, component parts, and facilities of the Denver Water system; and other diversion, conveyance structures, component parts, and facilities in which Denver Water has a contractual right or property interest. i. Chatfield Reservoir: The Reservoir formed by the Chatfield Dam, an existing structure located approximately 8 miles southwest of the City and County of Denver, Colorado on the main stem of the South Platte River; the right abutment of which is located in Douglas County, Colorado in Sections 6 and 7, Township 6 South, Range 68 West, of the 6th Principal Meridian; and the left abutment of which is located in Jefferson County, Colorado in Section 1, Township 6 South, Range 69 West of the 6th Principal Meridian. ii. Marston Reservoir: Located in Sections 11, 12, 13 and 14, Township 5 South, Range 69 West, 6th P.M., Jefferson County, Colorado. iii. Platte Canyon Reservoir: Located in the NW1/4 of Section 35, Township 6 South, Range 69 West, 6th P.M., Douglas County, Colorado. iv. Strontia Springs Diversion Dam and Reservoir. A dam constructed across the channel of the South Platte River in the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter (NW1/4 NW1/4) of Section 21, Township 7 South, Range 69 West of the 6th P.M., in Douglas and Jefferson Counties, State of Colorado. v. Reuter-Hess Reservoir (aka Newlin Gulch Reservoir): The axis of the dam intersects the thread of Newlin Gulch at a point on the South line of Section 30, Township 6 South, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M. in Douglas County, Colorado, which point is approximately 2,400 feet east of the southwest corner of said Section 30. The northwest abutment of the dam is in the SW1/4 SW1/4 of said Section 30, approximately 1,300 feet east of the west section line, and approximately 550 feet north of the south section line, of said Section 30. The southeast abutment of the dam is in the NW1/4 NE1/4 Section 31, same range and township, approximately 1,900 feet west of the east section line and 250 feet south of the north section line, of said Section 31. vi. The South Reservoir Complex: (1) Welby Reservoir: Welby Reservoir is an off-channel reservoir located adjacent to the South Platte River in the E1/2 of the NW1/4, SW1/4 of the NW1/4, and the N1/2 of the SW1/4 of Section 1, T3S, R68W of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. (2) Bambei-Walker Reservoir: BambeiWalker Reservoir is an off-channel reservoir located between the Burlington ditch and the South Platte River in the S1/2 of the NE1/4, NE1/4 of the SE1/4, NW1/4 of the SE1/4, SW1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section 1, T3S, R68W, 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. vii. The North Reservoir Complex: (1) Howe-Haller A Reservoir: Howe-Haller A Reservoir is located in the E1/2 of the NW1/4 and W1/2 of the NE1/4 of Section 9, T2S, R67W, 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. (2) Howe-Haller B Reservoir: Howe-Haller B Reservoir is located in the SW1/4 of the SW1/4 in Section 3; the SE1/4 of the SW1/4 and S1/2 of the SE1/4, in Section 4; and the NE1/4 of the NW1/4 and the NE1/4 in Section 9 of T2S, R67W, 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. (3) Hazeltine Reservoir: Hazeltine Reservoir is located in the NW1/4, N1/2 of the SW1/4 and W1/2 of the NE1/4 of Section 3; and in the NE1/4 and N1/2 of the SE1/4 of Section 4, T2S, R67W of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. (4) Dunes Dam and Reservoir: Dunes Dam and Reservoir is located in the SW1/4 of the NW1/4, and NW1/4 of the SW1/4 of Section 2 and in the E1/2 of the SW1/4, SE1/4, and S1/2 of the NE1/4 of Section 3, T2S, R67W of the 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. (5) Tanabe Reservoir: Tanabe Reservoir is located in the NW1/4 of Section 10, T2S, R67W, 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado. viii. Lupton Lakes Complex: (1) North Cell: The North Cell is located in the East Half of Section 18, Township 1 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., County of Weld, State of Colorado.

(2) South Cell: The South Cell is located in the East Half of Section 19, Township 1 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., County of Weld, State of Colorado. ix. Other Places of Storage: Denver Water may also store the Subject Water Rights by exchange in Cheesman, Eleven Mile, Antero Reservoirs, and Two Forks Reservoir. Denver Water is not claiming an appropriative right of exchange in this Application. d. Change in Type of Use: In addition to agricultural irrigation, Denver Water seeks to use the Subject Water Rights directly and for storage and subsequent release for commercial, industrial and all municipal uses, including, but not limited to, domestic, mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, power generation, fire protection, sewage treatment, street sprinkling, irrigation of parks, lawns, ground, and open spaces, flatwater recreation, replacement of lake and reservoir evaporation, recharge, adjustment and regulation of Denver Water’s water supply system, including maintenance of adequate storage reserves, and as a source of substitute supply or replacement for exchange, augmentation, substitution, and/or replacement. Denver Water may fully use and reuse to extinction the fully consumable portion of waters diverted and/or stored under a decree entered in this case by direct use, storage and subsequent release, reuse, successive use, and further exchange and disposition for the uses described herein. Return flows from the changed consumptive use portion of the Subject Water Rights will be fully consumed by direct use, storage and subsequent release, and by reuse, successive use, and further exchange and disposition. e. Use in Augmentation Plans. The Subject Water Rights will be used as a replacement source in augmentation plans, including but not limited to the following: i. Glendale Augmentation Plan, Case No. 1988CW149, Water Division 1, February 28, 1990. ii. Overland Golf Course Augmentation Plan, Case No. 1991CW028, Water Division 1, May 24, 1993.

iii. Lehow Lake and Kassler Refugia Pond Augmentation Plan, Case No. 2002CW060, Water Division 1, September 29, 2003. iv. Barr Lake We t l a n d A u g m e n t a t i o n P l a n , C a s e N o .

2003CW129, Water Division 1, December 27, 2006. v. Western Metals Augmentation Plan, Case No. 2004CW062, Water Division 1, December 8, 2004. vi. Fairmount Cemetery Augmentation Plan, Case No. W-8698-77, as amended by the decrees in Case Nos. 90CW212, Water Division 1, and 94CW068, Water Division 1. vii. Cherry Creek Park Well Augmentation Plan, Case No. 1989CW198, Water Division 1, October 24, 2006. viii. Martin Marietta Augmentation Plan, Case No. 1991CW097, Water Division 1, January 12, 1995. ix. JFK Golf Course Augmentation Plan, Case No. 1993CW033, Water Division 1, December 4, 2006. x. Garland Park Well Augmentation Plan, Case No. 1993CW110, Water Division 1, March 7, 2007. xi. Glenmoor Country Club Augmentation Plan, Case No. 1995CW198(A), Water Division 1, July 28, 1997. xii. Lakewood Country Club Augmentation Plan, Case No. 1997CW381, Water Division 1, September 13, 2004. xiii. Polo Club Augmentation Plan: Case No. 2002CW279, Water Division 1, January 29, 2009. xiv. University of Denver College of Law Foundation Well, Case No. 2002CW376, Water Division 1, October 26, 2004. xv. Auraria Higher Education Center Flour Mill Well, Case No. 2003CW083, Water Division 1, August 31, 2005. xvi. Well O of the Cherry Creek Galleries and Conduit No. 5, Augmentation Plan, Case No. 2003CW234, Water Division 1, October 5, 2007. xvii. Inverness Water and Sanitation District Augmentation Plan, Case No. 2008CW226, Water Division 1, May 15, 2017. xviii. BambeiWalker Reservoir Ground Water Mounding Drain System, Case No. 2013CW3041, Water Division 1, May 13, 2016. xix. Operations Complex Redevelopment (“OCR”) Cistern Augmentation Plan, Case No. 2016CW3176, Water Division 1, August 30, 2019. xx. Foothills Pumpback System Augmentation Plan, Case No. 2018CW3192, Water Division 1, pending. f. Change in Place of Use: Denver Water seeks to change the place of use for the Subject Water Rights from lands under the ditch to any location where Denver Water may, now or in the future, legally provide water. The place of use includes Denver Water’s service area as it exists now as shown in Exhibit B or may exist in the future within Denver, Arapahoe, Douglas, Jefferson, Adams, and Broomfield Counties, Colorado, and for lands, replacement of depletions, delivery, and contractual obligations within the foregoing counties and Weld County, Colorado pursuant to existing and future water contracts and other related agreements. g. Amount of Water that Applicant Intends to Divert at Alternate Points of Diversion: Denver Water intends to change its pro-rata interest in the Subject Water Rights of 0.538 cfs of Priority 4 and 0.660 cfs of Priority 19 currently decreed to Nevada Ditch under the December 10, 1883 Adjudication Decree. 4. Return Flow Replacement through Substitution: Denver Water will have return flow replacement obligations resulting from the historical use of the Subject Water Rights that are the subject of this Application. Denver Water will use the sources listed in paragraph 5 below to meet its return flow replacement obligations (“Replacement Sources”). Denver Water may also use water derived from water rights in addition to those set forth in paragraph 5 below pursuant to statutory procedures or that is otherwise legally available provided the water so released is fully consumable. 5. Replacement Water: Denver Water owns water rights originally decreed in the South Platte River basin for direct flow irrigation uses and has changed the consumptive use portions of these rights, by decree, to all municipal uses.

Denver Water also owns water rights in tributaries to the Colorado River, which Denver imports to the South Platte River basin for beneficial use. In addition, Denver Water owns water rights in notnontributary Arapahoe and Upper Arapahoe Aquifer formations and water rights in the nontributary Arapahoe and Upper Arapahoe, LaramieFox Hills, and the Lower Arapahoe Aquifer formations. Water from these sources will be made available in the amounts and at locations necessary to replace return flows from diversions under the changed Subject Water Rights. Water from these sources that is also once or successively used through Denver Water’s potable water system and returned to the South Platte River and its tributaries will be made available in the amount and at locations, including, but not limited to, outfalls of the various wastewater treatment plants that discharge effluent attributable to Denver Water’s service area, necessary to replace return flows from the changed portion of the Subject Water Rights decreed under the December 10, 1883 Adjudication Decree. The water rights that comprise the Replacement Sources include, but are not limited to: a. Beery Ditch, Case No. W-7739-74 WD1, appropriation date of June 15, 1861. b. Four Mile Ditch, Case No. 80CW313 WD1, appropriation date of June 1, 1868. c. Brown Ditch, Case No. 86CW014 WD1, appropriation date of November 30, 1862. d. Nevada Ditch, Case No. 90CW172 WD1 and the Subject Water Rights, appropriation dates of August 30, 1861- Priority No. 4; December 30, 1865 - Priority No. 19. e. Last Chance Ditch, Case No. 92CW014 WD1, appropriation dates of December 30, 1863 - Priority No. 14; - March 3, 1868 - Priority No. 39. f. Pioneer Union Ditch, Case No. 91CW100 WD1, appropriation dates of December 10, 1861 - Priority No. 5; September 1, 1862 - Priority No. 11. g. Hodgson Ditch, Case No. 91CW102, appropriation date of June 1, 1861 – Priority No. 3. h. Harriman Ditch, Case No. 91CW103, appropriation dates of March 16, 1869 - Priority No. 23; May 1, 1871 - Priority No. 25; March 1, 1882 - Priority No. 30. i. Robert Lewis Ditch, Case No. 91CW105, appropriation date of October 1, 1865 - Priority No. 19. j. Simonton Ditch, Case No. 91CW106, appropriation date of December 25, 1860 - Priority No. 2. k. Warrior Ditch, Case No. 91CW109 WD1, appropriation dates of December 1, 1861 - Priority No. 4; April 16, 1862 - Priority No. 8; October 31, 1864 - Priority No. 14. l. Blue River Diversion Project, Water District No. 36, Summit County Case Nos. 1805 and 1806 and Consolidated Case Nos. 2782, 5016, and 5017, U.S. District Court, appropriation date of June 24, 1946. m. Straight Creek Conduit of the Roberts Tunnel Collection System, Water District No. 36, C.A. No. 2371, appropriation date of January 21, 1957. n. Fraser River and Williams Fork Diversion Projects, Water District No. 51, Grand County, C.A. No. 657, appropriation date of July 4, 1921. This source may be used as a replacement supply under this plan to the extent allowed by the 1940 Agreement as interpreted by Court decisions or except as otherwise modified. o. Darling Creek Extension of the Williams Fork Diversion Project, Water District 51, Grand

County, C.A. No. 1430, appropriation date of August 26, 1953. p. Moffat Tunnel Collection System, Water District No. 51, Grand County, C.A. No. 1430, appropriation date of August 30, 1963. q.

Hamilton-Cabin Creek Ditch, Extension and Enlargement of Hamilton-Cabin Creek Ditch, Meadow Creek Reservoir, Water District No. 51, Grand County, C.A. No. 657, appropriation Date of July 2, 1932. r. LFH-1 Well (Permit Nos. 32363F and 35393-F), withdrawing nontributary water from the Laramie-Fox Hills Aquifer, decreed in Case No. 88CW149, WD1 for an average annual amount of 141 acre-feet. LFH-1 well is located at the SW/4 of the NW/4 of S18, T4S, R67W, 6th P.M., Denver Colorado at a point approximately 1,850 feet from the north section line and 1,100 feet from the west section line, also described by street and number as 43600 East Virginia Avenue, Glendale, Colorado. s. South Reservoir Complex and North Reservoir Complex South Platte Storage Rights, Case No. 2001CW286 WD1 as amended in Case No. 2013CW3056 WD1, appropriation date of December 28, 2001. t. Denver Metro Wells, Case No. 2003CW186 WD1, for right to withdraw nontributary and not-nontributary water from the Arapahoe, Upper Arapahoe, and Laramie-Fox Hills Aquifers. u. Farmers and Gardeners Ditch Water Right, Case No. 2009CW084 WD1, appropriation date of March 15, 1863. v.

Lupton Lakes Storage Complex Water Right, Case No. 2007CW322 WD1, appropriation date of December 28, 2007. w. South Reservoir Complex Enlargement Water Right, Case No. 2009CW264 WD1, appropriation date of December 29, 2009. x. Lawn Irrigation Return Flows, Case No. 2004CW121 WD1, decree date of May 15, 2012. y. Foothills Pumpback System Storage Right, Case No. 2018CW3192, final decree pending, including return flows resulting from use of this right. z. Denver Water can also release water from the above-referenced sources stored in Antero Reservoir, Eleven Mile Reservoir, Cheesman Reservoir, Strontia Springs Reservoir, Platte Canyon Reservoir, Chatfield Reservoir, Soda Lakes Reservoirs, Harriman Reservoir, Ralston Reservoir, Gross Reservoir, South Reservoir Complex, North Reservoir Complex, Lupton Lakes Complex, Two Forks Reservoir or discharged from wastewater treatment plants, including the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District Treatment Plants (Hite Treatment Plant and Northern Treatment Plant) or Littleton/Englewood (“Bi-City”) Wastewater Treatment Plant. 6. Location of Replacement Supplies: Denver Water will meet its return flow replacement obligations by providing or releasing its Replacement Supplies from one or more of the following locations. In addition, Denver Water will account for and identify water once used, reused or successively used through its municipal system that is returning to the South Platte River, and deliver such water from one or more of the following sources to replace return flows from the changed portion of the Subject Water Rights: a. from the point of release to the South Platte River at the Littleton/Englewood Bi-City Wastewater Treatment Plant; b. by deliveries from storage facilities identified in Paragraphs 3.c. and 5.z.; c. from the relocated point of diversion of the Farmers and Gardeners Ditch Water Right decreed in 2009CW084 WD1. The relocated point of diversion of the Farmers and Gardeners Ditch Water Right is located on the north and west bank of the South Platte River, in the NE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 33, Township 3 South, Range 68 West of the 6th P.M., in the City and County of Denver, Colorado, approximately 87 feet from the north section line and 1,884 feet from the west section line; d. LIRFs quantified under the decree entered in Case No. 2004CW121 WD1; e. from the point of release into the South Platte River at the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District Hite Plant Outfall; and/or f. from the point of release into the South Platte River at the Metro Wastewater Reclamation District Northern Treatment Plant Outfall. 7. Diversion Records, Map of Historically Irrigated Lands, Methods of Analysis: Denver Water may rely on the summaries of records of actual diversions of the Nevada Ditch water right attached as Exhibit C to this Application. Denver Water will use a parcel by parcel analysis for the subject parcel shown in Exhibit A to determine the historical consumptive use of the portion of the Subject Water Rights to be changed. 8. Denver Water’s Claim to Appropriate Return Flows of Denver Water’s Subject Water Rights. a. Name of Water Right: Nevada Ditch Return Flows. b. Name of Structure: Nevada Ditch. c. Denver Water’s Nevada Ditch Shares: Denver Water owns 5 of the 260 outstanding shares of the Nevada Ditch as described in paragraph 2. d. Claim to Appropriate Return Flows: Denver Water seeks to appropriate all return flows from the Subject Water Rights for direct use by Denver Water, and its customers, for the uses decreed herein including as an augmentation replacement supply, exchange source, or stored and subsequently used, reused, and successively used for all uses decreed herein when the calling water right being administered downstream of the Subject Water Rights’ historical return flow location on the South Platte River is junior to July 28, 2020. e. Date of Appropriation: July 28, 2020. f. Source: South Platte River. g. Amount Claimed: Any and all amounts of return flows determined to be attributable to Denver Water’s Nevada Ditch Return Flows. h. Points of Diversion: i. Burlington Ditch Headgate. The Burlington Headgate is located on the east bank of the South Platte River, in the NE1/4 of the SW1/4, Section 14, T3S, R68W, 6th P.M., in City and County of Denver, Colorado, 2456.2 feet east of the west line of the southwest quarter and 2347.7 feet north of the south line of said southwest quarter of Section 14. The Burlington Headgate is located at approximately latitude 039° 47’ 24.69” N, longitude 104° 58’ 9.97” W. The UTM coordinates are approximately NAD 1983 UTM Zone 13S 502616.89 mE 4404471.42 mN. ii. Fulton Ditch Headgate.

The Fulton Ditch headgate is located on the east bank of the South Platte River in the NE1/4 of the SE1/4, in Section 17, T2S, R67W, 6th P.M., Adams County, Colorado, at a point approximately 2,815 feet south and 145 feet west of the NE corner of said Section 17. iii. Lupton Lakes Complex. The Lupton Lakes Complex point of diversion, as decreed in Case No. 2007CW322 and the subsequent diligence decree fixing the point of diversion.

Case No 2007CW322 decreed that the Proposed Point of Diversion shall be located in the Northwest 1/4 of Section 19, Township 1 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P.M., County of Weld, State of Colorado. The final design and location of the proposed diversion facility has not been finalized to provide distance from section lines and may change to Section 18. Denver Water may, without amending the 2007CW322 Decree, supplement the correct section (18 or 19), and distance and section lines in a decree to be entered during the

earliest diligence proceeding when this information becomes available as provided in paragraph 38.D of the 2007CW322 Decree. i. Alternate Points of Diversion: i. The points of diversion identified in Paragraphs 2.c.i. and ii. ii. The points of diversion identified in Paragraphs 3.b.ii.1-5. j. Places of Storage: The Nevada Ditch Return Flows may be stored in those places of storage identified in paragraphs 3.c.i.-ix. k. Type of Use: Denver Water will use the appropriated return flows for all the same claimed uses listed in paragraphs 3.d. and 3.e. l. Place of Use: Denver Water will use the appropriated return flows within the area described in paragraph 3.f. 9. Name and Address of Owner of the Land Upon Which Any Existing Diversion Structures are or Will be Constructed: The following list includes the names and addresses of owners of the land upon which any new diversion or storage structure or modification to any existing diversion or storage structure or existing storage pool is or will be constructed or upon which water is or will be stored. Denver Water is providing notice to the following entities because this application relates to certain structures and property in which the following entities may have a property interest. a. Chatfield Reservoir i. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 9307 South Wadsworth Boulevard, Littleton, CO 80128. ii. United States of America, 6014 USPO Courthouse, Omaha, NE 68102. iii. United States of America, State of Colorado Parks Dept, 1313 Sherman Street, Suite 618, Denver, CO 80203. b. South Reservoir Complex i. Burlington Ditch, Reservoir and Land Company, 80 South 27th Avenue, Brighton, CO 80601. ii. Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation Company, 80 South 27th Avenue, Brighton, CO 80601. iii. Wellington Reservoir Company, 80 South 27th Avenue, Brighton, CO 80601. iv. Henrylyn Irrigation District, 29490 County Road 14, Keenesburg, CO 80643. c. North Reservoir Complex i. Fulton Irrigating Ditch Company, 25 South 4th Avenue, Brighton, CO 80601. d. Lupton Lakes Complex i.

Hunt Brothers Properties Inc., c/o Asphalt Specialties Company Inc., 10100 Dallas Street, Henderson, CO 80640-8491. ii. City of Aurora, 15151 East Alameda Parkway, Aurora, CO 80012. iii. Colorado Department of Transportation, 2829 West Howard Place, Denver, CO 80204. iv. Colorado Department of Highways, 4201 E Arkansas Avenue, Denver, CO 80223. e. Reuter-Hess Reservoir i. Parker Water and Sanitation District, 18100 East Woodman Avenue, Parker, CO 80134. 10. Remarks: The use of water diverted or stored under this water right will be in accordance with the terms of the Colorado River Cooperative Agreement effective September 26, 2013, or as amended.

WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions.

Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of SEPTEMBER 2020 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

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2) 2005 Ford F250 VIN # C75286, Mechanically Unknown.

Please submit bid by August 28, 2020 @ 5:00 pm to Denver West Towing, 16035 W. 4th Ave., Golden, CO. 80401.

Legal Notice No. 408066 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript

Notice to Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Gary Reiter, aka Gary M. Reiter, aka Gary Michael Reiter, aka Gary Katz, aka Gary M. Katz, aka Gary Michael Katz, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 287 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 31, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Laurie Franklin Personal Representative 2899 W. 119th Avenue, No. 103 Westminster, Colorado 80021

Legal Notice No. 408068 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of CHERYLYN JAE VOORHEES a/k/a CHERYLYN J. VOORHEES, a/k/a CHERYLYN VOORHEES, a/k/a CHERI VOORHEES, a/k/a CHERYLYN W. VOORHEES, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30832

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of JEFFERSON County, Colorado or on or before January 5, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Charles E. Longtine Charles E. Longtine, P.C. 9035 Wadsworth Parkway, Suite 2500 Westminster, CO 80021 Legal Notice No. 408073 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JEAN MARIE WHITE, a/k/a JEAN M. WHITE, and JEAN WHITE, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30779 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Co-Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020 or the claims may be forever barred.

JoAnna Marie Keehn Co-Personal Representative c/o Pippenger Hedberg Law 6950 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 202 Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111 Legal Notice No: 408019 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Karen Lisa Greene a/k/a Karen L. Greene, a/k/a Karen Greene, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30756

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Special Administrators or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Carl Burg and Amelle Burg Special Administrators 7094 Owens Street Arvada, CO 80004 Legal Notice No: 408012 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of John L. Fastenow a/k/a John Leslie Fastenow a/k/a John Fastenow, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30740

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Bonnie Lynn Mangum Personal Representative 6301 Barela Drive Las Cruces, NM 88007 Legal Notice No: 408022 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Dolores Helen Lessing, a/k/a Dolores H. Lessing, a/k/a Dolores Lessing, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30754

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 7, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Suzanne Marie Gryglewicz Personal Representative 6498 S. Race Ct. Centennial, CO 80121 Legal Notice No. 407981 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Ronald Roy Strop, also known as Ronald R. Strop, also known as Ronald Strop, and Ron Strop, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30817

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson, County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

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Public Notices Cynthia L. Witt Co-Personal Representative 17082 E. Louisiana Drive Aurora, Colorado 80017 Michele M. Lewis Co-Personal Representative 12660 W. 66th Place Arvada, Colorado 80004 Legal Notice No. 408033 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of ANGELINA FICCO, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30814 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Anthony M. Ficco Co-Personal Representative 3650 Vance St., Suite #1 Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Louis J. Ficco Co-Personal Representative 3650 Vance St., Suite #1 Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Legal Notice No: 408014 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Janie S. Wattenburger, also known as Janie Sharon Wattenburger, formerly known as Janie Esparza, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30783 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 27, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Don Wattenburger, Personal Representative c/o Stewart B. Grant, Attorney at Law, LLC 12265 W. Bayaud Avenue, Suite 210 Lakewood, CO 80228 Legal Notice No. 408065 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Madeline Carol Fountain, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 260 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Melissa Maris Fountain Jennings Personal Representative 41 Meadowlark Circle Lochbuie, Colorado 80603 Legal Notice No. 408036 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bernice O. Crews, aka Bernice Olive Crews, aka Bernice Crews, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30773 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 7, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Conni George Personal Representative 5263 Union Court No. 6 Arvada, Colorado 80002 Legal Notice No. 407992 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Justin Ainsley, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030516 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before August 6, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lonnie A Ainsley, Personal Representative c/o Gendelman Klimas, Ltd 1888 N. Sherman St # 200 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No. 407979 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of William Warren Ussery, Jr, AKA William Warren Ussery Jr, AKA William Ussery, Jr, AKA William Ussery, AKA William W. Ussery Jr,

AKA William Warren Ussery, Deceased Case Number: 20PR269 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Elizabeth Ussery Personal Representative 6937 Chatfield Place Littleton, CO 80128 Legal Notice No: 408020 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Pauline Ross-Brungardt, a/k/a Pauline Ross, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30812 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 28, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Earl P. Ross, Personal Representative 401 Burton St. Bailey, CO 80421 Legal Notice No. 408032 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of SHARON G. STURM, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30658 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 11, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sherril A. Sturm, Personal Representative c/o Wade Ash Woods Hill & Farley, P.C. 4500 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 600 Denver, CO 80246-1500 Legal Notice No. 407976 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Benjamin Eugene Newell, also known as Benjamin E. Newell, and Benjamin Newell, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30802 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 7, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

The original of this document is on file at the law office of Donald Glenn Peterson. /s/. Donald Glenn Peterson

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bartley J. Hurley, also known as Bartley Jay Hurley, also known as Bartley Hurley, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30761 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 7, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Brett K. Hurley Personal Representative 7991 Jared Way Littleton, CO 80125 Legal Notice No. 407975 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Judith Bradshaw Shelton, aka Judith B. Shelton, aka Judith Bradshaw-Shelton, aka J. B. Shelton , fka Judith Monica Kemp, aka Judith M. Kemp, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 030810 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 21, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gary Allan Kemp II Personal Representative C/o Walter M. Kelly II, Miller & Steiert, P.C. 1901 W. Littleton Blvd.

Littleton, Colorado 80120 Legal Notice No. 408071 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Rudy Robert Mestaz, aka Rudy R. Mestaz, aka Rudy Mestaz, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 30725 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 21, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Marina R. Sarmiento Personal Representative c/o Jeffrey R. Kelley, No. 16540 730 17th Street, Suite 340 Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No. 408058 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of FRANCES HOLLI SGARLATTI, aka FRANCES H. SGARLATTI, aka FRANCES SGARLATTI, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30746

Donald Glenn Peterson – Attorney for the Personal Representative 4100 E. Mississippi Avenue, Suite 410 Denver, CO 80246 Telephone: (303) 758-0999

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 11, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Legal Notice No. 408001 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript

Tammy Wilkerson Hill-Fisher Personal Representative 1101 Daskalos Drive NE Albuquerque, NM 87123

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Dorothy M. Burnham, a/k/a Dorothy Mae Burnham , Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30792 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 28, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Arlie E. Burnham, Jr. Co-Personal Representative P.O. Box 3125 Monument, CO 80132 L. Daniel Burnham Co-Personal Representative 7865 S. Vance Ct. Littleton, CO, 80128 Legal Notice No. 408030 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of GERALD RANDOLPH DODD, (a.k.a. GERALD R. DODD), Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30721 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Jefferson Combined Court, Colorado, on or before December 6, 2020 or the claims may be forever barred.

GEORGE VANDIVER LAMAR, Personal Representative 3635 Butterfly Drive, Conway, AR 72034 Legal Notice No. 407988 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice

Legal Notice No. 407977 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Dymitr Kolotyol, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 259 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before August 20, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Kolotylo Personal Representative 7968 S. Cedar Circle Littleton, Colorado 80120 Legal Notice No. 407969 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Vincenza B. Garr a/k/a Vincenza Garr, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30816 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 20, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Anthony Garr Personal Representative 15842 W. 70th Drive Arvada, CO 80007 Legal Notice No: 408016 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Edward Lawrence Hock, Sr., aka Edward Lawrence Hock, and Edward L. Hock, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30809 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Wendy Susan Hudgens Personal Representative 1601 Strait Lane Flower Mound, Texas 75028 Legal Notice No. 408025 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Albert Bellio, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 277 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 21, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Mary Sileo, Personal Representative 5474 S. Hoyt Street Littleton, Colorado 80123 Legal Notice No. 408055 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of CLARENCE W. LOVELESS, a/k/a CLARENCE WILLIAM LOVELESS, a/k/a CLARENCE LOVELESS, Deceased Case No.: 2020 PR 30758 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or tothe District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado, on or before December 21, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sandra Kay Loveless Jandrt Personal Representative 6 Cedar Court Lane South Bend, WA 98586 Legal Notice No. 408078 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of George Sacco, aka George T. Sacco, aka George Tony Sacco, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 230 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 21, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Laura Kathleen Collison Personal Representative 6832 Marshall Street Arvada, Colorado 80003 Legal Notice No. 408072 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Robert Dell Adamson, aka Robert D. Adamson, aka Robert Adamson, aka Bobby Dell Adamson, Deceased Case Number 2020PR30760 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 7, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kent Adamson, Personal Representative 2250 Nottinghamshire Road Furlong, Pennsylvania 18925 Legal Notice No. 407978 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Robert D. Poduska, aka Robert Delbert Poduska, aka Robert Dilbert Poduska, aka Robert Poduska, and Bob Poduska, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30803 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 7, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ann P. McCue Personal Representative 4383 Tennyson Street, Unit 3-A Denver, Colorado 80212 Legal Notice No. 408007 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of ELIZABETH ANN FARNHAM MIDDLETON, a/k/a ELIZABETH ANN MIDDLETON, a/k/a ELIZABETH A. MIDDELTON, and ELIZABETH MIDDLETON, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030794

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Elizabeth A. Bryant, Esq. Attorney for David Leslie Phillip Middleton Personal Representative Bryant Ritsick Symons & Ratner LLC 3773 Cherry Creek N. Dr., Ste. 600, Denver, CO 80209 720-845-1690 Legal Notice No. 408027 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of BARBARA JOYCE WOODWARD, AKA BARBARA J. WOODWARD, AKA BARBARA WOODWARD, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030691

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of JEFFERSON County, Colorado on or before December 7, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

DATED: JULY 30, 2020 CHRIS GORDON, 42569 STEWART AND GORDON 3650 S YOSEMITE STREET 214 DENVER CO 80237 PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE: Michael J. Woodward Legal Notice No. 407998 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of MINA IBISEVIC, Deceased Case Number 2020PR30765

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 6, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Minela Selimovic, Personal Representative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Legal Notice No. 408003 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Betty I. Carmichael, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 235

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 21, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Randy A. Davis Personal Representative 7591 S. Reed Court Littleton, Colorado 80128 Legal Notice No. 408059 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of LYNN LOUISE MEYER, a/k/a LYNN L. MEYER, a/k/a LYNN MEYER, Deceased Case No.: 2020PR30790

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Jefferson County District Court on or before December 7, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sandra Hathaway, Personal Representative c/o CHAYET & DANZO, LLC 650 S. Cherry St., #710, Denver, CO 80246 (303) 355-8500 Legal Notice No. 407990 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Kenneth R. Dinkel, a/k/a Kenneth Richard Dinkel, a/k/a Kenneth Dinkel, a/k/a Ken Dinkel , Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30733

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 21, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kent D. Dinkel, Personal Representative 3550 16th Street Boulder, CO 80304 Legal Notice No. 407982 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020

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Public Notices Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Kathryn Ann Bruscino, aka Kathryn A. Bruscino, aka Kathryn Bruscino, aka Katy Bruscino, Deceased.

Case Number: 2020PR030831 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

David A. Bruscino, Personal Representative c/o Georgine M. Kryda, Ph.D., Esq., LLC 2801 Youngfield Street, Suite 300 Golden, CO 80401 Legal Notice No. 408035 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE

a/k/a Bari L. Sanger, a/k/a Bari Sanger, a/k/a B. L. Sanger, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30610 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 11, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jerry J. Sanger, Co-Personal Representative 1901 Clear Creek Drive, D301 Georgetown, CO 80444 Jordon Sanger, Co-Personal Representative 9967 East Ida Avenue Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Legal Notice No. 407994 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Roger Gerard Schmidt, aka Roger Schmidt, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 273

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bertram Edward Buller, aka Bertram E. Buller, aka Bertram Buller, aka Bert Buller, aka Bert E. Buller, aka B.E. Buller, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 278

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jackson Schmidt Personal Representative P.O. Box 401 Indian Hills, Colorado 80454

David B. Buller Personal Representative 500 Peery Parkway Golden, Colorado 80403

Legal Notice No. 408008 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

Legal Notice No. 408034 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

Public Notice

PUBLIC NOTICE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Margaret Harrison, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30857

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Vera L. Heine, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 252

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson, County, Colorado or on or before December 20, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before January 1, 2021, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeanette Harrison-Sullivan, Personal Representative c/o Chayet & Danzo, LLC 650 S. Cherry St., # 710 Denver, CO 80246 Legal Notice No. 408075 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: jeffco Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of DOROTHY L. WOESSNER, A/K/A DOROTHY WOESSNER, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30714 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the DISTRICT COURT OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO, on or before December 15, 2020 or the claims may be forever barred.

James R. Pringle, Jr. Personal Representative 2291 El Monte Court Grand Junction, Colorado 81507 Legal Notice No. 408061 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Monte Allen Lane, a/k/a Monte A. Lane, a/k/a Monte Lane, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30764 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 7, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Annette Hugh, Personal Representative 13918 Roxton Drive Houston, TX 77077

Jeffrie F. Lane, Personal Representative c/o KATZ, LOOK & ONORATO, P.C. 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203

Legal Notice No. 408004 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript

Legal Notice No. 407983 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript

Public Notice

Public Notice

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Irene J. Makowski, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30819

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of EDWARD D. SALINO, aka Edward David Salino, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR30704

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson, County, Colorado on or before December 27, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lynette Makowski, Personal Representative c/o Stewart B. Grant, Attorney at Law, LLC 12265 W. Bayaud Avenue, Suite 210 Lakewood, CO 80228 Legal Notice No. 408056 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 6, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Deanna Bonifate, Personal Representative c/o Pearman Law Firm 4195 Wadsworth Blvd Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 Legal Notice No. 408002 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Phyllis J. Cotten, Deceased Case Number: 20PR276

Estate of Linda Sue Burke, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR225

All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Ronda Rae Fritzler Personal Representative 4871 West 89th Way Westminster, CO 80031

Jonathon Burke and Jennifer Burke

Legal Notice No: 408018 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bari Lee Sanger,

Co-Personal Representatives 13532 W. Alaska Place Lakewood, CO 80228 Legal Notice No. 408023 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of MARGARET JEAN AUSENBAUGH, aka MARGARET J. AUSENBAUGH aka MARGARET AUSENBAUGH, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR254 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

David Ausenbaugh Personal Representative 2975 Huron Street, Apt. 541 Denver, CO 80202 Legal Notice No: 408013 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Richard F. Sparlin, aka Richard Frank Sparlin, Deceased Case Number: 2020 PR 30800 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 31, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Evelyn F. Sparlin Personal Representative 11810 W. 39th Place Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80033 Legal Notice No. 408057 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Alfred Theodore Holm, Jr., aka Alfred T. Holm, Jr., aka Alfred T. Holm, aka Alfred Holm, Jr., aka Alfred Holm, aka Ted Holm, Deceased.

Case Number: 2020PR030737 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson , County, Colorado on or before December 14, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gary L. Erickson, Personal Representative 9930 City View Drive Morrison, CO 80465 Legal Notice No. 408029 First Publication: August 13, 2020 Last Publication: August 27, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of STEVEN RAY WHISSEN, a/k/a Steven R. Whissen, a/k/a Steven Whissen, a/k/a Steve Ray Whissen, a/k/a Steve R. Whissen, and Steve Whissen, Deceased Case Number: 20PR30730 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 11, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Debra A. Conroy, Esq. KELLER LAW, LLC Attorneys for Personal Representative P.O. Box 771222 Steamboat Springs, CO 80477 Legal Notice No. 407970 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Bob Jenk , Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 232 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before 12/07/2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Molly Port, Personal Representative 3785 Chiricahua Drive Lake Havasu City, AZ 86406 Legal Notice No. 407980 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice District Court: Jefferson County, Colorado 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, Colorado 80401 In the Matter of the Estate of: Kathleen Mae St Croix Party: Kesheya Keller, 5704 Simms Street, No. 202 Arvada, Colorado 80002 Phone Number: 720-490-9103 E-mail: Kesheya.Keller@gmail.com Case Number: 20 PR 268 NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO § 15-10-401, C.R.S. To: Bryan St Croix Last Known Address, if any: Unknown A hearing on Petition for Adjudication of Intestacy and Formal appointment of personal representative will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued: Date: September 4, 2020

Time: 8:00 a.m.

Courtroom or Division: 11 Address:100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, Colorado 80401 The hearing will take approximately N/A (days, hours, minutes) Legal Notice No. 407987 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Joseph Aloysius Burke, a/k/a Joseph A. Burke, a/k/a Joseph Burke and Joe Burke, Deceased Case Number: 2020PR030590 All persons having claims against the above named estate are required to present them to the personal representative or to District Court of Jefferson, County, Colorado on or before December 21, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Tammy J. Johnson, Personal Representative C/O Gubbels Law Office, P.C. 402 N. Wilcox St., Ste. 100 Castle Rock, CO 80104 Legal Notice No. 408067 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Agatha J. Slogar, aka Agatha Slogar, aka Jean Slogar, Deceased Case Number: 20 PR 293 All persons having claims against the abovenamed estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado on or before December 26, 2020, or the claims may be forever barred.

Anthony Malinowski Personal Representative for Agatha J. Slogar 6447 Quail Street Arvada, Colorado 80004 Legal Notice No. 408076 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on August 6, 2020, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Jefferson County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Stacy Wallace Flaquer be changed to Stacy Lea Wallace Case No.: 20 C 1020 By: Karla Beston, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 408054 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on August 7, 2020, that a Petition for a Change of Name of an Adult has been filed with the Jefferson County Court.

The Petition requests that the name of Cosima Muija Smillie be changed to Cosima Muija Fernweh Case No.: 20 C 1009 By: J. Harlan Clerk of Court / Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No. 408048 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: The Golden Transcript

Adoption / Guardianship PUBLIC NOTICE District Court Jefferson County, Colorado 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80401 In re the Parental Responsibilities concerning: Aries Brunker Petitioner: Tad Brunker and Respondent: Shannon York Case Number: 20 DR 322 ALIAS SUMMONS FOR ALLOCATION OF PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES 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, 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.

You may be required to pay a filing fee with your Response. The Response form (JDF 1420) can be found at www.courts.state.co.us by clicking on the “Self Help/Forms” tab.

The Petition requests that the Court enter a Order addressing issues involving the children such as, child support, allocation of parental responsibilities, (decision-making and parenting time), attorney fees, and costs to the extent the Court

has jurisdiction.

Notice: Colorado Revised Statutes §14-10-123, provides that upon the filing of a Petition for Allocation of Parental Responsibilities 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 Order 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 automatic temporary injunction, or modification or revocation under §14-10-125, C.R.S. A request for genetic tests shall not prejudice the requesting party in matters concerning allocation of parental responsibilities pursuant to §14-10124(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 order, the genetic tests may not be allowed into evidence at a later date.

Automatic Temporary Injunction – By Order of Colorado law, you and the other parties: 1. Are enjoined from molesting or disturbing the peace of the other party; and 2. Are restrained from removing the minor child(ren) from the state without the consent of all parties or an Order of the Court modifying the injunction; and 3. Are restrained, without at least 14 days advance notification and the written consent of all other parties or an Order of the Court, from cancelling, modifying, terminating, or allowing to lapse for nonpayment of premiums, any policy of health insurance or life insurance that provides coverage to the minor child(ren) as a beneficiary of a policy.

If you fail to file a Response in this case, any or all of the matters above, or any related matters which come before this Court, may be decided without further notice to you.

Date: June 10, 2020 /s/ Gloria Montoya, Clerk of Court/Deputy Legal Notice No. 407984 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: September 3, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice District Court, Jefferson County, Colorado 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, Colorado In the Interests of: Nevaeh Mae Simms Party: Michael A. Vigil Geraldine D. Vigil Phone Number: 303-430-8336 E-mail: mikegeri3@gmail.com Case Number: 20 PR 272 NOTICE OF HEARING BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO § 15-10-401, C.R.S.

To: Michael A. Simms Last Known Address, if any: A hearing on Guardianship of granddaughter will be held at the following time and location or at a later date to which the hearing may be continued: Date: September 9, 2020 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Courtroom or Division: 1C Address: 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, Colorado 80401 The hearing will take approximately 60 minutes.

Legal Notice No. 408000 First Publication: August 6, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice District Court, Jefferson County, Colorado Address: 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, CO 80401 Phone: (720) 772-2500 IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: KAREN LEE DUNNING FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CHILD, AND CONCERNING, WHITNEY DIANE HOWELL, ANTHONY JACKSON, AND ANY AND ALL UNKNOWN FATHERS, RESPONDENTS. Attorney: Seth A. Grob, Esq. Grob & Eirich, LLC 12596 W. Bayaud Ave., Suite 390 Lakewood, CO 80228 Phone Number: 303-679-8266 E-mail: Seth@GrobEirich.com FAX Number: 303-679-8960 Atty. Reg.#: 20828 Case Number: 20JA77 Division: U

NOTICE OF HEARING AND SUMMONS CONCERNING PETITION TO TERMINATE THE PARENT-CHILD LEGAL RELATIONSHIP AND PETITION FOR CUSTODIAL ADOPTION TO: RESPONDENTS: WHITNEY DIANE HOWELL, ANTHONY JACKSON, AND ANY AND ALL UNKNOWN FATHERS

You are hereby notified that the Jefferson County District Court will hold a hearing on the Petition for Custodial Adoption and Petition to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship filed by the Petitioner, Karen Lee Dunning, and involving the child, Exodus Xaviar, born on May 15, 2015 in Hawaii.

The Court will hold the hearing on October 2, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. in the Jefferson County District Court, State of Colorado, Division U.

Your failure to file a Response, or to appear, within 35 days after service by publication, and, in the case of an alleged father, your failure to file a claim of paternity under Article 4 of Title 19, C.R.S., within 35 days after service, if a claim has not previously been filed, may likely result in termination of your parental or your alleged parental rights to the minor child.

You have the right to waive your right to appear and contest, and your failure to appear and contest, either in person or by a representative, will result in the Court forever terminating your parent-child legal relationship and granting the requested adoption.

Seth A. Grob, Attorney for Petitioner Legal Notice No. 408064 First Publication: August 20, 2020

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Public Notices Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO 100 Jefferson County Parkway Golden, CO 80401 IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF: KYLE BURNAM FOR THE ADOPTION OF A CHILD Attorney for Petitioner: Meegan A. Miloud Miloud Law Firm LLC 98 Wadsworth Blvd. Ste. 127 PMB#212 Lakewood, CO 80226 303.910.6129 (Tel) miloudlawfirm@gmail.com Attny. Reg.: 42903 Case Number: 20JA28 Division: U Courtroom:2E

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

NOTICE CONCERNING PETITION TO TERMINATE PARENT-CHILD LEGAL RELATIONSHIP AND PETITION FOR STEPPARENT ADOPTION

- Aldous Huxley

TO: BRYAN ANDREW MARTIN You are hereby notified that the District Court in this county will hold a hearing on the Petition for Stepparent Adoption and Petition to Terminate the Parent-Child Legal Relationship filed by the Petitioner involving the child, Baila Leech, born on October 7, 2003, in Escambia County, Florida.

Every day, the government makes decisions that can affect your life. Whether they are decisions on zoning, taxes, new businesses or myriad other issues, governments play a big role in your life.

The Court will hold the hearing on the 8th day of October 2020, at 9:00 AM in Division U in courtroom 2E of the Jefferson County District Court, State of Colorado.

Governments have relied on newspapers like this one to publish public notices since the birth of the nation. Local newspapers remain the most trusted source of public notice information. This newspaper publishes the information you need to stay involved in your community.

Unless within thirty-five (35) days after the publication of this Notice you file an answer with the Court, or appear before the Court, your parental rights to the Child may likely be terminated. You have the right to waive your right to appear and contest, and your failure to appear and contest, either in person or by a representative, will result in the Court forever terminating your parent-child legal relationship and granting the requested adoption.

Meegan A. Miloud , Attorney for Petitioner Legal Notice No. 408051 First Publication: August 20, 2020 Last Publication: August 20, 2020 Publisher: Golden Transcript

NE1/4 of Section 2, Township 9 South, Range 78 West of the 6th P.M. iii. Alma Town Pond 1 at a point described in paragraph 4 above. b. Downstream Termini: i. Guiraud 3T Ditch, located on the South bank of the Middle Fork of the South Platte River in the NE1/4, Section 8, Township 11 South, Range 76 West, 6th PM, Park County, Colorado, at a point whence the Northeast Corner of said Section 8 bears North 63º35’ East, 1,305 feet. ii. Cottage Grove Reservoir, located in the W1/2 NW1/4, Section 19, Township 9 South, Range 77 West of the 6th P.M., at a point whence the NW corner of said Section 19 bears N.38º54’15”W a distance of 1471.405 feet. iii. Mountain Mutual Company: Any of the following locations: (1) fully consumable water attributable to the Nickerson No. 2 Ditch, Parmalee No. 1 Ditch and Carruthers No. 2 Ditch water rights as quantified and decreed in Case No. 00CW174. The Parmalee/Carruthers water rights have a priority date of May 1, 1867 and were decreed in the original adjudication for former Water District No. 23 by the Park County District Court on May 22, 1913 in Civil Action No. 1678. Historically, the Parmalee/Carruthers water rights were diverted from Deer Creek at the headgate of the Nickerson Ditch No. 2 in the NW1/4 SE1/4 of Section 9, Township 7 South, Range 72 West, 6th P.M., Park County, Colorado; (2) fully consumable water attributable to the Slaght Ditch and Mack Nitch No. 2 water rights as quantified and decreed in Case No. 03CW238; (3) fully consumable water stored in Lower Sacramento Creek Reservoir pursuant to the decrees in Case Nos. 00CW74 and 03CW238. The Lower Sacramento Creek Reservoir No. 1 is located in the NE1/4NW1/4 of Section 32 and the SE1/4 SW 1/4 of Section 29, Township 9 South, Range 77 West, 6th P.M., Park County; (4) fully consumable water stored in Maddox Reservoir pursuant to the decrees in Case Nos. 00CW74 and 03CW238; (5) water attributable to Guiraud 3T Ditch water right; and (6) fully consumable water attributable to Soda Lakes Reservoirs 1&2, the Harriman Ditch and Warrior Ditch as quantified in Case No. 01CW293. The following table depicts the exchange from points, exchange to points and the Public Notice associated exchange rate for each reach.

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Water Court DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO | JULY 2020 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of JULY 2020 for each County affected.

20CW3108 Town of Alma, Colorado, c/o Nancy Comer, Town Administrator, 59 E. Buckskin, P.O. Box 1050, Alma, CO 80420-1050, (719) 836-2712. APPLICATION FOR FINDING OF REASONABLE DILIGENCE AND TO MAKE PORTION OF WATER RIGHT ABSOLUTE IN PARK COUNTY AND JEFFERSON COUNTY. 1. Name, address and telephone number of Applicant: Town of Alma, Colorado, c/o Nancy Comer, Town Administrator, 59 E. Buckskin, P.O. Box 1050, Alma, CO 80420-1050, (719) 836-2712. Attorneys for Applicant: Andrea L. Benson, #33176, Cynthia F. Covell, #10169, Gilbert Y. Marchand, Jr., #19870, Alperstein & Covell, P.C., 1600 Broadway, Suite 1070, Denver, CO 80202, phone: (303) 894-8191; fax: (303) 861-0420, alb@alpersteincovell.com; cfc@alpersteincovell.com; gym@alpersteincovell.com. Application for Finding of Reasonable Diligence. 2. Name of Structure: Alma Town Pond 1. 3. Describe conditional water right (as to each structure) including the following information from previous decree: a. Date of Original Decree: July 14, 2014; Case No. 2012CW195; Court: District Court, Water Division 1. b. List all subsequent decrees awarding findings of diligence: N/A. 4. Legal description of structure is as follows: SW1/4 SW1/4 of Section 2, Township 9 South, Range 78 West, of the 6th P.M. at a point 125 feet from the South Section line and 970 feet from the West Section line. The Alma Town Pond 1 is shown on Figure 1. 5. Source: Boston Placer Ditch, located on the South bank of Buckskin Creek at a point in the SE1/4 SW1/4 of Section 3, Township 9 South, Range 78 West of the 6th P.M., 1,080 feet from the South Section line and 2,380 feet from the West Section line. Buckskin Creek is tributary to the Middle Fork of the South Platte River, which is tributary to the South Platte River. The Alma Town Pond 1 will be filled at a rate not to exceed 1 c.f.s. Diversions to the Alma Town Pond 1 will be curtailed if the CWCB’s instream flow water rights decreed in Case Nos. 80CW64, 80CW67, and W-8220-76 are calling. 6. Information regarding appropriation: a. Date of Appropriation: August 7, 2012. b. How appropriation was initiated: Town Board of Trustees approval of resolution authorizing Town staff to proceed with investigation of purchase of pond site and filing of water court application seeking approval of an associated storage right. c. Date water applied to beneficial use: N/A. d. Amount claimed and uses: 5.0 acre-feet, CONDITIONAL, for all municipal uses, including but not limited to recreational, piscatorial, and augmentation, with right to fill and refill when in priority but subject to a volumetric limit of 10.0 acre-feet annually. The Alma Town Pond 1 has not yet been constructed. When constructed, the pond will be lined and will not intercept groundwater. 7. Names(s) and address(es) of owner(s) or reputed owners of the land upon which any new diversion or storage structure, or modification to any existing diversion or storage structure is or will be constructed or upon which water is or will be stored, including any modification to the existing storage pool. The applicant must notify these persons that the applicant is applying for this water right and certify to the Court that the applicant has done so by no later than 14 days after filing this Application. The Alma Town Pond 1 is located on property owned by Richard Poyner, 1232 Grand Ave, Canon City, 81212. Applicant is not seeking to construct any new diversion structure, or to modify an existing diversion or storage structure upon which water will be stored, or modify any existing storage pool. Therefore, no other landowners need be notified of this filing. Application for Finding of Reasonable Diligence and to Make Portion of Water Right Absolute for Exchange. 8. Name of exchange: Alma Exchange. 9. Describe conditional water right (as to each structure) including the following information from previous decree: a. Date of Original Decree: July 14, 2014; Case No. 2012CW195; Court: District Court, Water Division 1. b. List all subsequent decrees awarding findings of diligence: N/A. 10. Exchange Reach: a. Upstream Termini: i. Alma Ditch and Reservoir, located on the North bank of Buckskin Creek at a point whence the south quarter corner of Section 2, Township 9 South, Range 78 West, bears South 62 degrees East 1580 feet. ii. Alma Water Works Reservoir, located in the SW1/4 NE1/4 of Section 2, Township 9 South, Range 78 West of the 6th P.M. iii. Alma Town Pond 1 at a point described in paragraph 4 above. b. Downstream Termini: i. Guiraud 3T Ditch, located on the South bank of the Middle Fork of the South Platte River in the NE1/4, Section 8, Township 11 South, Range 76 West, 6th PM, Park County, Colorado, at a point whence the Northeast Corner of said Section 8 bears North 63º35’ East, 1,305 feet. ii. Cottage Grove Reservoir, located in the W1/2 NW1/4, Section 19, Township 9 South, Range 77 West of the 6th P.M., at a point whence the NW corner of said Section 19 bears N.38º54’15”W a distance of 1471.405 feet. iii. Mountain Mutual Company: Any of the following locations: (1) fully consumable water attributable to the Nickerson No. 2 Ditch, Parmalee No. 1 Ditch and Carruthers No. 2 Ditch water rights as quantified and decreed in Case No. 00CW174. The Parmalee/Carruthers water rights have a priority date of May 1, 1867 and were decreed in the original adjudication for former Water District No. 23 by the Park County District Court on May 22, 1913 in Civil Action No. 1678. Historically, the Parmalee/Carruthers water rights were diverted from Deer Creek at the headgate of the Nickerson Ditch No. 2 in the NW1/4 SE1/4 of Section 9, Township 7 South, Range 72 West, 6th P.M., Park County, Colorado; (2) fully consumable water attributable to the Slaght Ditch and Mack Nitch No. 2 water rights as quantified and decreed in Case No. 03CW238; (3) fully consumable water stored in Lower Sacramento Creek Reservoir pursuant to the decrees in Case Nos. 00CW74 and 03CW238.

The Lower Sacramento Creek Reservoir No. 1 is located in the NE1/4NW1/4 of Section 32 and the SE1/4 SW 1/4 of Section 29, Township 9 South, Range 77 West, 6th P.M., Park County; (4) fully consumable water stored in Maddox Reservoir pursuant to the decrees in Case Nos. 00CW74 and 03CW238; (5) water attributable to Guiraud 3T Ditch water right; and (6) fully consumable water attributable to Soda Lakes Reservoirs 1&2, the Harriman Ditch and Warrior Ditch as quantified in Case No. 01CW293.

The following table depicts the exchange from points, exchange to points and the associated exchange rate for each reach.

Exchange to:

Alma Ditch & Reservoir and Alma Town Ditch

Alma Water Works Reservoir Alma Water Works Alma Town Pond 1 Supplemental Ditch Alma Pipeline Boston Placer Ditch (Dolly Varden Cr) (Sawmill Cr)

Exchange from: 0.09 cfs 0.09 cfs 0.09 cfs 0.09 cfs Guiraud 3T Ditch Cottage Grove Reservoir 0.5 cfs 0.5 cfs 0.5 cfs 0.5 cfs Mountain Mutual Reservoir Co. 0.5 cfs 0.5 cfs 0.5 cfs 0.5 cfs 11. Source of Water to be Exchanged: Water described in Paragraph 10(b) above. 12. Date of initiation of 11. Source of Water to be Exchanged: Water described in Paragraph 10(b) above. 12. Date of initiation of appropriation: August appropriation: August 7, 2012.

13. Rate of exchange: 0.5 All c.f.s., conditional.

14. Uses:but Allnotmunicipal 7, 2012.

13. Rate of exchange: 0.5 c.f.s., conditional.

14. Uses: municipal uses, including limited to uses, augmentation, replacement, and not exchange, direct augmentation and and storage for later including beneficial use.

15.augmentation Terms and Conditions.

The including but limitedincluding to augmentation, replacement, exchange, direct and exchange only be operateduse. pursuant to the and terms and conditions the 12CW195 Decree. pursuant 16. Names(s) and storageshall for later beneficial 15. Terms Conditions.

The described exchangeinshall only be operated address(es) of owner(s) or reputed owners of the land upon which any new diversion or storage structure, or modification to any to thediversion terms and conditions described in the 12CW195 Decree.

16. Names(s) of owner(s) existing or storage structure is or will be constructed or upon which water is orand willaddress(es) be stored, including any modificaowners of the land upon whichmust anynotify new these diversion or storage orapplying modification any right and tionortoreputed the existing storage pool.

The applicant persons that thestructure, applicant is for thistowater certify to thediversion Court that or thestorage applicant has doneisso no later than 14 days filing this Application. is operated existing structure orby will be constructed orafter upon which water is orThe willexchange be stored, in-stream and therefore no landowners need be notified of the filing of the claim for diligence on this exchange. 17. Provide a including any the existing storage pool. applicant must notify theseand persons that the detailed outline of modification what has beentodone toward completion or forThe completion of the appropriation application of water to a applicant for this waterincluding right and certify to the Court the applicant done soAlma by no later beneficial useisasapplying conditionally decreed, expenditures, during thethat previous diligence has period: The town Pond 1 and Alma Exchange water rights are anthis integral part of Alma’s municipal water supply system, which provides no water within than 14 days after filing Application.

Theintegrated exchange is operated in-stream and therefore the Town. Pursuant to C.R.S. §37-92-301(4)(b), when an integrated system is composed of several features, as is the case landowners need be notified of the filing of the claimthat for reasonable diligence diligence on this exchange.

17. Provide a here, work on one feature of the system is considered in finding has been shown in the development detailed outline what of has toward completion or in forparagraph completion of thethe appropriation of water rights for all of features thebeen entiredone system.

As described below 18, during last diligenceand period, Alma operated the Alma the Plan the 12CW195 Decree in order to augment application of Exchange water to pursuant a beneficial usefor asAugmentation conditionallydescribed decreed,in including expenditures, during the out of priority depletions withinperiod: the Alma reach.

During diligence period,water Alma’s staff are spent significant previous diligence Theexchange Alma town Pond 1 andthis Alma Exchange rights an also integral part oftime maintaining, repairing and operating Alma’s water infrastructure, including but not limited to: operation and maintenance of diversion Alma’s daily integrated municipal water of supply system, provides Inwater within theexpended Town. legal Pursuant to its water structures, and monthly accounting diversions and which meter readings. addition, Alma fees for

rights counsel in the amount of approximately $3,000.00 during this diligence period to defend Alma’s water rights, in cases filed by others when Alma determined that injury to its water rights could occur in the absence of appropriate terms and conditions.

Alma also expended approximately $5,750.00 on engineering services provided by its water resource consulting engineers.

During the diligence period, Alma entered into the Intergovernmental Agreement for Sawmill Collection System Property Access and Water Right Structure Inventory Analysis, dated March 28, 2019, and in connection therewith completed the Town of Alma Sawmill Collection System Property Access and Water Right Structure Inventory Analysis, in support of its Park County Land and Water Trust Fund 2019 Application. Alma seeks to improve the water infrastructure at the Sawmill Collection System in order to improve it overall integrated water service system. Alma expended approximately $1,200 in engineering fees to complete the study. 18. If claim to make absolute in whole or in part: a. Date water applied to beneficial use: July 31, 2018. b. Amount: 0.09 c.f.s. c. Use: All municipal uses, including but not limited to augmentation, replacement, and exchange, including direct augmentation and storage for later beneficial use. d. Attached hereto as Exhibits A and B are diversion records and call records in support of this claim to make the Alma Exchange absolute, in part. e. Description of place of use where water is applied to beneficial use. With the approval and authorization of the water commissioner, Applicant’s interest in the Guiraud 3T Ditch water right was exchanged to the Alma depletion reach (ID No. 2058) to augment out of priority depletions pursuant to the decreed Plan for Augmentation. (7 Pages plus Exhibits) WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of SEPTEMBER 2020 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

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football. My teammates and me were nervous about playing during this outbreak,” he said.

Other Jeffco Public Schools seniors like Stella Bianco, a volleyball player for Arvada West High School, are also adjusting to having some fall sports canceled. Bianco was attending open gym practices twice a week in July at Arvada West and said her and her teammates wore masks when attending practice.

She said she’ll miss the atmosphere of high school volleyball this fall and seeing her classmates in the stands cheering her and her team on.

“With coronavirus, it’s hard to do team bonding and get into that team mindset, because it’s harder to be around people,” said Bianco. “I’ll

miss the girls the most. It’s a missed opportunity to bond with those girls and play with the team.”

At Wheat Ridge High School, Scott Chamberlin is preparing for his 25th year as head coach for the school’s cross-country team.

Regular season meets have been cutdown from 11 to seven, and teams are allowed to bring as many runners to a meet as long as they remain in compliance with the maximum of 50 athletes per gender. Neither junior varsity or open races are permitted to be run at varsity meets, but schools are allowed to host a junior varsity meet or an open race separate from varsity meets, CHSAA says.

Chamberlin plans to enforce mask rules among his athletes and will hold practices in “cohort” groups to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Athletes will also have their temperatures taken during each practice.

Jeffco Public Schools cross-country coaches are planning to run meets with each other in order to give athletes additional opportunities to compete, Chamberlin said. Under Jefferson County’s variance to the statewide Safer-at-Home and in the Vast, Great Outdoors public health order, outdoor gatherings are limited to 125 people. Because of that, Chamberlin said meets may have to be restricted to coaches and athletes.

“Parents may have to drop off their kids and leave, but kids get an opportunity to run and have a season.

It just keeps going and going, but it’s going to be challenging,” said Chamberlin. “What I can tell you is that all of the Jeffco coaches want to provide the best experience and opportunity for the kids that we can.”

Chamberlin said in his decades of coaching high school cross-country, he’s never experienced the challenges the pandemic has brought to high

school athletics. He said the only time there has been a district wide event that caused confusion for athletics was the Columbine High School shooting. The shooting occurred during track season and forced track meets to be rescheduled, according to Chamberlin.

“That’s the only time we’ve had an entire district wide, and now in this case, statewide event that caused so much confusion. There are plenty of people who do not want to have a season at all,” said Chamberlin.

“Society in general says let’s do it, take the risk. Others say why? People are dying.”

“I’m in the high-risk range. I certainly don’t want to get sick, but I love coaching, I love kids, and I love to give them an opportunity,” Chamberlin added. “It’s challenging and I can see every side, all sides, all the time. Nothing has ever been like this in my 25 years.”

Public Notices Water Court Public Notice DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION 1, COLORADO | JULY 2020 WATER RESUME PUBLICATION TO: ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN WATER APPLICATIONS IN WATER DIV. 1 Pursuant to C.R.S. 37-92-302, you are notified that the following is a resume of all water right applications and certain amendments filed in the Office of the Water Clerk during the month of JULY 2020 for each County affected.

20CW3107 JOHN F. MEDVED AND DEBRA K. MEDVED, MOUNTAIN MUTUAL RESERVOIR COMPANY, AND NORTH FORK ASSOCIATES, LLC; John F. Medved and Debra K. Medved, c/o Eric E. Torgersen, Esq., Holley, Albertson & Polk, P.C., 1667 Cole Boulevard, Suite 100, Lakewood, Colorado 80401; E-Mail: eet@haplaw.net; Telephone: (303) 233-7838; Mountain Mutual Reservoir Company, 6949 Highway 73, Suite 15, Evergreen, CO 80439; E-Mail: 613blatch@gmail.com; Telephone: (303) 989-6932; and North Fork Associates, LLC, 2686 S. Yukon Ct., Denver, CO 80227; E-Mail: 613blatch@ gmail.com; Telephone: (303) 988-7111. Please direct all correspondence concerning this Application to: Aaron Ladd, Esq., Vranesh and Raisch, LLP, 5303 Spine Road, Suite 202, Boulder, CO 80301; E-Mail: asl@vrlaw.com; Telephone: (303) 443-6151.

APPLICATION FOR UNDERGROUND WATER RIGHTS, AND PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION INCLUDING EXCHANGE IN JEFFERSON COUNTY CLAIM NO. 1: APPLICATION FOR UNDERGROUND WATER RIGHT 2. Name of Structures: JMDM Well No. 2. a. Well Permit No.: Well Permit No. 231939. b. Legal Description of Wells: JMDM Well No. 2 is located on Lot 2 of the proposed JMDM 1 Subdivision, in the NE1/4 NW1/4, Section 20, Township 4 South, Range 70 West of the 6th P.M., at a point 1,200 feet from the North Section Line and 2,705 feet from the East Section Line (UTM Easting 478689.5, Northing 4393726.1). c. Source: Groundwater tributary to an unnamed tributary, tributary to Mount Vernon Creek, tributary to Bear Creek, tributary to the South Platte River. d. Dates of Appropriation: June 11, 2001. e. How Appropriation was Initiated: By drilling and permitting the well and applying it to beneficial use on Lot 2, described above. f. Dates Water Applied to Beneficial Use: June 11, 2001. g.

Amounts Claimed: 7 gpm, absolute. h. Uses: Ordinary household use inside one single family residence, irrigation, and fire protection. i. Names and Addresses of Owners of Land on which the Wells are Located: Co-Applicants, John F. Medved and Debra K. Medved. CLAIM NO. 2: APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF A PLAN FOR AUGMENTATION AND EXCHANGE RIGHT 3.

General Statement of Plan for Augmentation: Co-Applicants John F. Medved and Debra K. Medved (the “Medveds”) own Lot 1 and Lot 2 of the proposed JMDM 1 Subdivision, located on approximately 36 acres lying in NW1/4, Section 20, Township 4 South,being Rangeremoved, 70 West ofpursuant the 6th P.M., JeffersonCase County, (“JMDM 1from Subdivision”) as shown on Exhibit A. The proto pending No.Colorado, 2020CW3072, an augmentation plan originally posed JMDM 1 Subdivision encompasses three subdrainages: (i) unnamed drainage, tributary to Mount Vernon Creek, tributary in unnamed Case No.drainage 96CW103 for the Red Rocks Estates subdivision.

Medved’s to unnamed use the 2.45 to Beardecreed Creek; (ii) tributary to Shingle Gulch, tributary to Mount Vernon Creek;right and (iii) drainage, shares is contingent on thetosuccessful removal of the shares from Red augmentation plan will tributary to Sawmill Gulch, tributary Bear Creek.

The water supply for Lot 1 and LotRocks 2 of theEstates’ proposed JMDM 1 Subdivision be provided using two wells, one located on each lot (collectively, the “Subject Wells”).

The augmentation plan set forth pursuant to pending Case No. 2020CW3072. The 2.45 MMRC shares described in this paragraph areherein will replace out of priority depletions associated with Subject Wells in the manner described herein. 4. Names of Structures to referred hereafter as theaugmented “Primary pursuant Shares.”to b. addition to plan the 2.45 of stock described inwell is be Augmented: to The Subject Wells thisInaugmentation are: (i)shares the JMDM Well No. 1, which 5.aand above, thelocated Medveds and1North Associates are 1inSubdivision. negotiationsThe to purchse shares not yetparagraph constructed, will be on Lot of the Fork proposed the JMDM building up sitetofor6 the house on Lot 1 has not-yet been selection will determine the sub-drainage locationpurchased of the well.by(ii)AKS, the JMDM of MMRC stockselected, from thewhich successor-owners of 12 MMRC shares originally LLC, Well as No. 2, which is permitted and constructed, and is located on Lot 2 of the proposed JMDM 1 Subdivision, as more fully described in reflected bottom of to the of MMRC shares attached Exhibitare B. under Said contract 12 shares are not 2.45 Section 2, above.at5.the Water Rights betabulation used for Augmentation Purposes: a. Theas Medveds to purchase in a Mutual decreedReservoir augmentation plan, and thus the 6 shares nottoneed to be removed from sharespresently of stock inincluded the Mountain Company (“MMRC”) representing thedo right receive 0.077 acre-feet firm yield annually the followingplan watertorights.

These 2.45 are a portion of the 7.45 shares that are being removed, pursuant an from augmentation be included as ashares replacement supply pursuant to this Application.

If this to pending Case and No. sale 2020CW3072, from an closed augmentation plan originally decreedinin this Casecase: No. 96CW103 for the Red purchase is finalized and prior to entry of a decree (i) the Medveds willRocks Estates subdivision. Medved’s right to use the 2.45 shares is contingent on the successful removal of the shares from Red Rocks include the additional 6 purchased (“Purchased Shares”) its augmentation Estates’ augmentation plan pursuant to pending MMRC Case No.shares 2020CW3072.

The 2.45 MMRC in shares described in thisplan, paragraph are referred to hereafter as the “Primary addition to thewater 2.45 shares of stockbelow, described paragraph representing an additional 0.188Shares.” acre-feetb.ofInaugmentation as described and inwill increase5.a theabove, the Medveds and North Associates are in negotiations to purchse up to 6 shares ofplan, MMRC frombelow; the successor-owners allowable usageFork from the Subject Wells pursuant to this augmentation as stock set forth and (ii) of 12 MMRC shares originally purchased by AKS, LLC, as reflected at the bottom of the tabulation of MMRC shares attached MMRC will12update ofincluded shares attached as Exhibit B to plan, reflect AKS, LLC’s allocation as Exhibit B. Said sharesits aretabulations not presently in a decreed augmentation and thus the 6 shares do not of need to MMRC shares from 12 shares (0.376 acre-feet) 6 shares (0.188 acre-feet).

If Application. the MedvedsIf this do not be removed from an augmentation plan to be included as a to replacement supply pursuant to this purchase and sale is finalized and closed prior to entry of a decree in this case: (i) the Medveds will include the additional 6 purchased acquire the Purchased Shares in advance of entry of a decree in this matter, the Medveds intend to include MMRC shares (“Purchased Shares”) in its augmentation plan, representing an additional 0.188 acre-feet of augmentation water a procedure to 6 additional shares offrom MMRC to thisWells augmentation in the future,plan, if shares as described below, to andadd willup increase the allowable usage the Subject pursuant toplan this augmentation as set forth available and are acquired by the Medveds, in Exhibit order B totoincrease usage of allocation the Subject Wellsshares below;become and (ii) MMRC will update its tabulations of shares attached as reflect AKS, LLC’s of MMRC from 12 shares (0.376 acre-feet) to 6 shares (0.188 acre-feet).

If the Medveds do not acquire the Purchased Shares in advance pursuant to this augmentation plan. c. The water rights associated with the MMRC shares described in of entry of a decree in this matter, the Medveds intend to include a procedure to add up to 6 additional shares of MMRC to this paragraphs 5.a. and 5.b. are described as follows: i.

Harriman Ditch: 7.71 shares of the 400 shares of augmentation plan in the future, if shares become available and are acquired by the Medveds, in order to increase usage of the capital stock (1.93%), issued and plan. outstanding in the Harriman Ditch Company.

The described HarrimaninDitch Subject Wells pursuant to this augmentation c. The water rights associated with the MMRC shares paragraphs 5.a. and 5.b. are described follows: direct i. Harriman 7.71 shares of the 400 shares of No. capital stockon(1.93%), issued Company owns the as following flow Ditch: water rights decreed in Civil Action 6832, February 4, and outstanding in the Harriman Ditch Company.

The Harriman Ditch Company owns the following direct flow water rights decreed 1884. in Civil Action No. 6832, on February 4, 1884.

Appropriation Date April 15, 1868 March 16, 1869 May 1, 1871 March 1, 1882

Priority Number

Source

Amount

21 23 25 30

Turkey Creek Bear Creek Bear Creek Bear Creek

10.75 cfs 7.94 cfs 25.54 cfs 12.87 cfs

MMRC Entitlement 0.2072 cfs 0.1530 cfs 0.4923 cfs 0.2481 cfs

The Bear Creek headgate of the Harriman Ditch is located on the South bank of Bear Creek in the NE1/4 NE1/4, Section 2, Township 5 South, Range 70 West of the 6th P.M., Jefferson County, Colorado. The Turkey Creek headgate of the Harriman Ditch is located on the South bank of Turkey Creek near the southwest corner of Section 6, Township 5 South, Range 69 West, 6th P.M., Jefferson County. The Harriman Ditch was originally decreed for irrigation, domestic and municipal purposes. ii. Warrior Ditch: 2.0 shares of the 160 shares of capital stock (1.25%), issued and outstanding in the Warrior Ditch Company. The Warrior Ditch Company owns the following direct flow water rights decreed in Civil Action No. 6832 on February 4, 1884: Appropriation Date Dec. 1, 1861 April 16, 1862 Oct. 31, 1864 April 1, 1865

Priority Number

Source

Amount

4 8 14 16

Bear Creek Turkey Creek Bear Creek Bear Creek

12.33 cfs 2.86 cfs 25.47 cfs 11.49 cfs

MMRC Entitlement 0.1541 cfs 0.0358 cfs 0.3184 cfs 0.1436 cfs

The headgates of the Warrior Ditch are the same as those of the Harriman Ditch. The Warrior Ditch was originally decreed for irrigation purposes. iii. Soda Lakes Reservoir Nos. 1 and 2: 8.71 shares of the 400

The headgates of the Warrior Ditch are the same as those of the Harriman Ditch. The Warrior Ditch was originally decreed for irrigation purposes. iii. Soda Lakes Reservoir Nos. 1 and 2: 8.71 shares of the 400 shares of capital stock (2.18%), issued and outstanding in the Soda Lakes Reservoir and Mineral Water Company. The Soda Lakes Reservoir and Mineral Water Company owns the following storage water rights decreed in Civil Action No. 91471 on September 24, 1935, to the Soda Lake Reservoir Nos. 1 and 2: 1,794 acre-feet for irrigation purposes, and 598 acre-feet for storage for supplying the City of Denver with water for municipal purposes, including the watering of lawns and gardens. Date of appropriation: February 11, 1893, and a refill right decreed in Case No. 00CW228, District Court, Water Division 1. The Soda Lakes Reservoirs are located in Section 1, Township 5 South, Range 70 West, 6th P.M., Jefferson County. The reservoirs are filled through the Harriman Ditch. iv. Meadowview Reservoir: The structure is located in the NE1/4 SW1/4 and the NW1/4 SE1/4 of Section 26, Township 5 South, Range 71 West of the 6th P.M., Jefferson County, Colorado. Meadowview Reservoir was awarded absolute water rights in Case No. 09CW92 (01CW294), in the amount of 20 acre-feet, and in Case No. 16CW3022 (94CW290), in an amount of 30 acre-feet, for augmentation, replacement, exchange and substitution purposes. The source is North Turkey Creek and water tributary to North Turkey Creek. Harriman Ditch and Warrior Ditch direct flow water and water available to MMRC in the Soda Lakes Reservoirs are also stored in Meadowview Reservoir by exchange pursuant to the appropriative rights of substitution and exchange decreed in Case Nos. 94CW290, 00CW060, and 01CW293. v. Firm Yield of Consumptive Use Water: The firm yield of the portfolio of water rights and storage facilities owned by MMRC has been decreed by the water court in Case Nos. 94CW290 and 01CW293 to be 62.8 acre-feet per year. Of this amount, 23.8 acre-feet of consumptive use water is available for augmentation plans in the Turkey Creek drainage basin and 39 acre-feet of consumptive use water is available for augmentation plans in the Bear Creek drainage basin. The total firm yield is represented by 2,000 shares of stock in MMRC. See Exhibit B. The terms and conditions under which the Bear Creek/Turkey Creek water rights are used for augmentation and replacement purposes are set forth in Case Nos. 94CW290 and 01CW293, and are deemed to be res judicata in future proceedings involving such rights, pursuant to Williams v.

Midway Ranches, 938 P.2d 515 (Colo. 1997). Additionally, the consumptive use cannot be reconsidered or requantified pursuant to C.R.S. § 37-92-305(3)(e). 6. Statement of Plan for Augmentation: Each of the Subject Wells is intended to serve in-house domestic uses for one single family residence (two total). In addition, the Subject Wells may be used for various outdoor uses, including irrigation of lawn, irrigation of garden, watering of horses or large animals, and/or filling and maintenance of a swimming pool, hot tub, or water features (collectively the “Outdoor Uses”). The consumption rates for each use is described below; the total consumption of the in-house uses and Outdoor Uses will not exceed the total amount of replacement water available using the Primary Shares and, if included, the Purchased Shares, or any shares added to the augmentation plan at a later date. a. The water requirements for in-house domestic use will have 10% consumption based on subsurface discharge from individual septic tank-soil absorption systems. Each septic system will be located in the same sub-drainage as the well that supplies it. Total replacement requirement for in-house domestic shall be .0314 acre-feet per house per year. Turf irrigation assumes 80% efficient application resulting in 1.0 acre-foot per acre depletion annually. Garden irrigation assumes consumption of 0.4 acre-feet per acre annually. Watering of large animals assumes consumption of 10 gallons per animal per day. Swimming pool consumption assumes 0.0383 acre-feet per 1,000 sq. feet annually. Hot tub consumption assumes 4.46 gal.day (0.005 acre-feet annually). Water feature consumption assumes 0.101 acre-feet per year. b. The combined replacement requirements for the inhouse and Outdoor Uses by the two wells pursuant to this augmentation plan will not exceed 0.077 acre-feet annually from the Primary Shares plus 0.188 acre-feet annually from the Purchased Shares, if included in the final decree, for a total combined replacement not to exceed 0.265 acre-feet per year. This equates to a maximum stream depletion of 0.28 of a gallon per minute. c. Due to the small volume of annual stream depletions projected to occur under this plan, instantaneous stream depletions may be aggregated and replaced by one or more releases of short duration. 7. Substitution and Exchange Reach: Since the points of depletion associated with the Subject Wells are upstream of the augmentation supplies, Applicants assert a water exchange plan including a right of substitution and exchange pursuant to C.R.S. Sections 37-80-120 and 37-92-302(1)(a). The reach of the substitution and exchange shall extend from the confluence of Bear Creek and Turkey Creek in the NE1/4 NW1/4, Section 5, Township 5 South, Range 69 West up Bear Creek to the confluence of Mount Vernon Creek in SW1/4 SE1/4, Section 35, Township 4 South, Range 70 West, thence up Mount Vernon Creek to the confluence of an unnamed creek in the SE1/4 SE1/4, Section 17, Township 4 South, Range 70 West, thence up the unnamed stream to the point of depletion in the NW1/4, Section 20, Township 4 South, Range 70 West, all in the 6th P.M. If the JMDM Well No. 1 is constructed in sub-basin (ii) described in paragraph 3, above, the substitution and exchange reach for that well shall extend from the confluence of Bear Creek and Turkey Creek in the NE1/4 NW1/4, Section 5, Township 5 South, Range 69 West up Bear Creek to the confluence of Mount Vernon Creek in SW1/4 SE1/4, Section 35, Township 4 South, Range 70 West, thence up Mount Vernon Creek to the confluence with Shingle Creek in the NW1/4 SE1/4, Section 17, Township 4 South, Range 70 West, thence up Shingle Creek to the confluence with an unnamed creek in the NW1/4 NE1/4, Section 20, Township 4 South Range 70 West, thence up the unnamed creek to the point of depletion in the NW1/4, Section 20, Township 4 South, Range 70 West of the 6th P.M. If the JMDM Well No. 1 is constructed in sub-basin (iii) described in paragraph 3, above, the substitution and exchange reach for that well shall extend from the confluence of Bear Creek and Turkey Creek in the NE1/4 NW1/4, Section 5, Township 5 South, Range 69 West up Bear Creek to the confluence with Sawmill Gulch in the NE1/4 NE1/4 Section 32, Township 4 South Range 70 West of the 6th P.M, thence up Sawmill Gulch to the point of depletion in the SE1/4, Section 20, Township 4 South, Range 70 West of the 6th P.M. In the event that there is an intervening senior water right that precludes operation of the substitution and exchange, the Medveds can either have replacement water delivered by truck to the point of depletions or have an on-site container or containers from which replacement water may be released. The water exchange plan will operate to replace depletions to the flow of water in the stream system as the depletions occur. The water exchange plan will be operated and administered with a priority date of July 31, 2020, at a maximum flow rate of 0.001 of a cubic foot per second. 8. Names and Addresses of Owners of Land on which New Structure will be Located: Co-Applicants, John F. Medved and Debra K. Medved. WHEREFORE, the Applicants request the entry of a decree approving this Application, specifically (1) granting the appropriations sought in this Application, (2) authorizing use of the augmentation supplies described in this Application, (3) determining that the source and location of delivery of augmentation water are sufficient to prevent material injury to vested water rights. The Applicants also request a determination that the Subject Wells described herein can be operated for the requested uses without curtailment so long as out-of-priority stream depletions are replaced as proposed herein. The Applicants further request the entry of an Order directing the State Engineer to issue well permits, or replacement well permits as may be required, for the Subject Wells for the uses described in this Application and pursuant to the augmentation plan decreed pursuant to this Application. (11 pgs., 2 Exhibits).

WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED OR HERETOFORE ADJUDICATED THE WATER RIGHTS CLAIMED BY THESE APPLICATIONS MAY AFFECT IN PRIORITY ANY WITHIN THIS DIVISION AND OWNERS OF AFFECTED RIGHTS MUST APPEAR TO OBJECT WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY STATUTE OR BE FOREVER BARRED. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any party who wishes to oppose an application, or an amended application, may file with the Water Clerk, P. O. Box 2038, Greeley, CO 80632, a verified Statement of Opposition, setting forth facts as to why the application should not be granted, or why it should be granted only in part or on certain conditions. Such Statement of Opposition must be filed by the last day of SEPTEMBER 2020 (forms available on www.courts.state.co.us or in the Clerk’s office) and must be filed as an Original and include $192.00 filing fee. A copy of each Statement of Opposition must also be served upon the Applicant or Applicant’s Attorney and an affidavit or certificate of such service of mailing shall be filed with the Water Clerk.

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