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Blind woman sues city

ON THE RISE

Lupita Lewis was struck by a car in 2013

By Kyle Harding kharding@coloradocommunitymedia.com

Arapahoe’s Grace Sheldon clears the bar as she competes in girls pole vault at the April 1 Littleton City Track Meet. Sheldon finished fifth in the event. Arapahoe made a clean sweep as the boys and the girls squads both finished first in the six-school team standings. For more coverage, turn to Page 22. Photo by Tom Munds

Stroke survivor comes back strong National Stroke Association helps Littleton man recover; now he offers help to others

By Kyle Harding kharding@coloradocommunitymedia.com Karl Neerhof didn’t know he had suffered a stroke until his wife noticed a change in his speech pattern and reaction time.

The Littleton man had been called into work late at night, two days before Thanksgiving in 2014. Then a driver for tour company Gray Line, Neerhof’s task that night was to transport the luggage of the Chicago Bulls from Denver International Airport to a hotel downtown. First, he had to help load the bags into the truck from the plane.

“Somewhere around midnight, I experienced my stroke,” he said.

Stroke continues on Page 7

A blind woman who was struck by a car on Lowell Boulevard in 2013 is suing the City of Littleton, the Colorado Center for the Blind and Chubby’s Mexican restaurant, alleging negligence, deliberate indifference and discrimination.

Lupita Lewis, a former student at the Littleton-based center, also named the National Federation of the Blind and its Colorado subsidiary in the U.S. District Court lawsuit filed in December, as well as the driver who hit her.

According to her attorney, Joseph Cohen, Lewis was walking from a bus stop near the intersection of Lowell and Bowles Avenue to the McGeorge Mountain Terrace Apartments, a complex owned by the Center for Blind for the housing of sudents, on the night of Dec. 12, 2013. Lewis lost her way in front of the restaurant’s parking lot before wandering into the roadway, where she was hit by James Powers, of Denver, at approximately 35 mph. She says she suffered traumatic brain injury and several other injuries.

Lewis’ lawsuit says the frontage of the parking lot, which is across Lowell and slightly south of the apartments, was cracked and displaced and had no curb, making it difficult or impossible for a blind person using a cane to distinguish it from the roadway.

Lawsuit continues on Page 7

MEET THE ALL-STARS

Karl Neerhof of Littleton survived a stroke in 2014. He now volunteers with the National Stroke Association. Photo by Kyle Harding

Find out who made the All-South Metro girls and boys teams. PAGE 22

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‘Reality TV’ candidacy a hard lesson in reality

FACES AMONG US

Caroline Pedicino is a resident at RiverPointe Senior Community. She moved to Colorado in the 1940s to become a nurse and has lived here ever since. Photo by Kyle Harding

HELLO

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My Name Is

A glimpse of the people in our community

CAROLINE PEDICINO My background I was born in northwestern Nebraska and grew up there. I came to Denver for nursing school at Children’s Hospital. I met my husband, who was in the Navy during World War II. We moved to Jefferson County in 1949. I’ve been around the area quite a while. I moved to Riverpointe Senior Community in Littleton almost five years ago.

Being a nurse It’s kind of a way of life. I enjoyed it. I graduated nursing school in 1946. Then I went to CU for a couple years to get my bachelor’s degree, and that opened some more doors.

My family We raised two daughters. After the girls were through with high school, I went back to school and got my master’s degree, and then I worked in the Jefferson County schools, in preschool, working with children with handicaps and their parents. So that’s how I ended my career, in special education. I retired in about 1985.

Coming to Littleton When my husband died, I moved here. I don’t ever want to live anywhere else. The staff here is fabulous. The activities are wonderful.

Favorite activities We take trips to the philharmonic about every month during the season.

We always make trips in the fall to the mountains to see the leaves. We go to eat at new restaurants. They have something for everybody.

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Mark Kroll, 22, is alarmed.

Katie Pickrell, 17, is disappointed.

Sianna Elmanouzi, 22, is quite baffled.

The reason for their reactions? The 2016 Republican presidential camAnn Macari paign, defined by Healey uncultured, crass, hateful vocabulary and behavior typically more reflective of the worst in reality TV than a contest for the leader of our country.

Much of the blame, these young people say, rests with Donald Trump, the billionaire real-estate mogul who has used his trademark offensive — and bigoted — bluntness to somehow rally enough supporters to move him to the front of the Republican pack.

“I would like to think no one believes those things,” says Elmanouzi, a fiscal conservative and social justice liberal who registered as a Republican when she voted in her first presidential election four years ago. “But I’ve been overwhelmed by how much support he’s received. So it makes me second-guess what kind of society we live in.”

Me, too.

Regardless of where we fall on the political spectrum, Trump’s mean, simple-minded, often racist and sexist rhetoric shouldn’t be celebrated or replicated.

And yet it has been.

His campaign rallies draw overflow crowds. A recent NBC News/Survey Monkey weekly election tracking poll shows Trump has the support of 48 percent of registered Republicans and Republican-

leaners. His abrasive style has lowered the bar of what’s acceptable to debate among candidates — from penises to wives — and degenerated the conversation into playground-like name-calling and gloss-overs.

“Respect,” Pickrell says, “is missing ...”

Pickrell, who turns 18 in time to vote in November, has been canvassing for Democrat Bernie Sanders. She likes his focus on the environment and education, among other issues.

Although energized by contributing to the political process, she’s also been shocked by what Trump’s influence has uncovered.

“He’s kind of solidified (people) can be prejudiced or bigoted toward other people,” she says. “We’re taught you can’t say things based on skin color or where people come from, but he has done just that ... It’s almost like they were waiting for Donald Trump to come around and to say it’s OK to think things like that.”

Mark Kroll, who graduates in May with a sociology degree from Coe College in Iowa, echoes Pickrell’s belief.

People “have these views, have this rhetoric in their everyday vocabulary with their friends, family …” he says. “Now they have someone who’s talking like them — that’s kind of the scary thing about it.”

Kim Gorgens, a clinical associate professor of psychology at University of Denver, also concurs.

Research shows Trump “is a mouthpiece for a large percentage of the populace who hold these beliefs — much like pushing the Like button on a reply for Facebook or thumbs-up on Reddit for ugly sentiments,” Gorgens says.

The rise in bullying rhetoric — of the acceptance of “cruelty and exclusion” — to such national prominence doesn’t Healey continues on Page 8

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Natural scorer gets naturalized C

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Retired Colorado Avalanche star Milan Hejduk becomes U.S. citizen

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By Tom Skelley tskelley@coloradocommunitymedia.com Milan Hejduk sits in the ceremony room at the Department of Homeland Security at 12484 E. Weaver Place, Centennial, awaiting his turn to become a United States citizen. The former hockey right winger wears an expression of anxious anticipation, a look Colorado Avalanche fans remember from his playing days as he sat on the bench, awaiting his next shift on the ice.

Hejduk, 40, a native of the Czech Republic, has lived in the United States since he began playing for the Avalanche in 1998. He and his family live in Parker.

His wife, Zlata, 39, was naturalized three months ago and his twin 12-year-old sons, Marek and David, were born in the U.S. “I’m the last piece of the family to get it done,” he said.

Hejduk listens intently to a speech by senior immigration officer Tiffany Brown, who explains the new privileges and responsibilities Hejduk and his fellow initiates will share. He occasionally cracks a nervous smile as the man seated next to him, Ken MacArthur, a Canadian national who lives in Highlands Ranch, leans over to whisper a joke. MacArthur, 48, got to know Hejduk as the coach of his son’s hockey team. On March 28, by coincidence, they become citizens together.

Scoring always came easily for Hejduk, who totaled 375 career goals before retiring after the 2012-13 season. But his transition to living, and playing, in the U.S. was more difficult.

“I didn’t speak any English,” he said.

“The first few months were tough. Guys and coaches… give you some instructions, but what are you supposed to do? You have no idea what (they) are talking about.”

A tutor hired by the Avalanche helped

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Immigration Services Building in Centennial on March 28. Hejduk, a native of the Czech Republic, played right wing for the Colorado Avalanche. Photo by Tom Skelley Hejduk learn English after practices. Now he speaks clearly and with better grammar than many natural-born citizens, though MacArthur teases him about his accent.

“He’s a good guy,” MacArthur said. “If you can understand him.”

Hejduk didn’t need a tutor to pass the citizenship test. The most difficult part of the process may have been leaving a family vacation in Mexico before his wife and sons, who planned to return later in the week.

“The test was good,” Hejduk said. “I know quite a bit about American history …

I got only six questions. Six were right and

that was it. Good to go.”

Debbie Canon, public affairs officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, smiles as she checks in with Hejduk before the ceremony begins. Canon has watched many naturalization ceremonies from her office beside the ceremony room, but she says each one is special.

“Three times a week … people become new citizens,” Canon said. “I cry every time. It’s just great to see people’s dreams come true.”

Thirty-two new citizens close the March 28 ceremony by taking a loyalty oath, saying the Pledge of Allegiance and, finally,

receiving a certificate of citizenship.

Hejduk smiles as he did before the ceremony, but his face now belies more relief than anticipation.

He asks about getting a passport, poses for pictures and signs a few autographs.

He says he plans to stay in Colorado and continue coaching youth hockey to give back to the community. Though he and his family have long called Colorado home, Hejduk says a new part of his life is just beginning.

“It’s definitely closing one chapter,” he said. “Now it’s official and legal and I’m a United States citizen.”

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Candidate aims to bring new perspective Centennial Republican Williams relying on youth and nonpolitical experience in HD 38 race

By Kyle Harding kharding@coloradocommunitymedia.com Mike Williams is running for his first political office, but he hopes voters in state House District 38 are attracted to his other experiences.

“I’m definitely not a bureaucrat,” the 29-yearold Centennial Republican said, pointing to his private-sector job with Greenwood Village-based architecture, engineering and planning firm Galloway & Company, along Williams with his four years as an active duty naval officer.

“Most people who live in our district are people who work in the private sector. So what better reflection of that than someone who worked in the private sector?”

Williams is on the ballot alongside former Arapahoe County Commissioner Susan Beckman, of Littleton, in the June

This is the first in a series of profiles on the three candidates for House District 38.

primary for state House District 38. The winner will face Democrat Robert Bowen, of Centennial, in the November general election.

Kathleen Conti, R-Littleton, is the current District 38 representative but is running instead for a different post, county commissioner. District 38 includes west Centennial and most of Littleton, as well as Bow Mar and Columbine Valley.

Williams doesn’t have the local name recognition that his opponent in the primary enjoys, which showed at the March 19 Arapahoe County Republican assembly, when Beckman got nearly 57 percent of the votes cast by the delegates.

Williams’ 43 percent was still well over the threshold of 30 percent to get his name on the primary ballot.

Williams wants to make economic issues the centerpiece of his campaign, and said the rest of the Republican Party should focus on that as well.

“I think we need to coalesce around our principles, which are local govern-

ment, small government, limited regulation, fiscal responsibility, and to send a message that I think really appeals to all generations,” he said.

Williams said that while Colorado’s economy is strong, a lack of affordable housing is hampering younger people’s abilities to live here.

To address that, he wants to change the state’s construction-defects statute, which he says has “significant ramifications” on the local housing stock.

“You’re not seeing a lot of new people moving into our district, starting families, and you’re seeing people of my parents’ generation staying in the homes that they raised their families in because there’s not condos and there’s not multifamily homes in the community,” Williams said.

“A lot of people my age can’t buy a home and start building equity, so instead they’re renting an apartment downtown.”

Williams is also concerned about regulations imposed on the energy sector and said he opposes subsidies for either renewable energy or fossil fuels. Another issue on his mind is education, specifically common-core standards, which he sees as federal overreach.

“I get very wary of any type of federal regulation imposed on the local level,” he said.

Beckman’s experience relative to Williams was touted at the assembly by her supporters, like former state Rep. Joe Stengel, who gave a nomination speech for Beckman, saying “the job of a state representative is not an on-the-job-training experience.”

But Williams believes he is ready to serve in the Legislature, and that voters are ready to see more young people in politics.

“I know the issues just as much as (Beckman) does; I know the community just as much, if not better, than she does,” he said, pointing out that he was born and raised in District 38, and, except for his time at Colorado State University and his four years in the Navy, has lived there his entire life.

“What I offer is a positive message, and being young, it’s kind of inspiring,” he said. “Everyone talks about how millennials need to get more involved — well, we are involved.

“I bring an energy to the campaign, a fresh positive alternative to what exists in District 38 with some of these career politicians, same faces, you see them run for this position, then once they hit their term limit they go for this position. I think people are ready for my generation to step up to the plate.”

Man arrested after two killed in Centennial crash Taden Jones faces charges of vehicular homicide, DUI Staff report A makeshift memorial of flowers and photos near a Centennial intersection paid tribute to two women killed in an automobile crash last week.

The victims have been identified as Audrey Carolyn Burton, 77, and Gayle Brown Buckwalter, 82. Both were Centennial residents.

The 18-year-old man suspected of driving under the influence and causing the April 1 crash was arrested and released on bond.

Taden Jones, of Centennial, was booked into the Arapahoe County jail on two counts of vehicular homicide, according to a news release

by the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. Jones, who was released from jail the day after the crash on $100,000 bond, faces additional charges, including DUI, reckless driving and possession of a forged instrument. Witnesses reported that Jones was driving aggressively, said sheriff’s office Bureau Chief Glenn Thompson.

Details regardJones ing the forged instrument were not released, but Thompson said any type of falsified document or item would be included under that charge.

Results of Jones’ blood-alcohol concentration test have not been released.

Jones is a 2015 graduate of Arapahoe High School, where he played football. As a junior, the defensive back earned honorable mention allleague honors.

Deputies responded to the twovehicle crash, which shut down the intersection of South Colorado Boulevard and East Peakview Circle for several hours, at about 3:40 p.m.

Burton was driving and Buckwalter was a passenger when they were struck by Jones’ vehicle, authorities said. Both women died of “multiple blunt force injuries,” according to the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office.

One of Jones’ two passengers was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

Jones was scheduled to appear in court April 7.

A makeshift memorial rests at the stop sign off Peakview Circle and South Colorado Boulevard in Centennial following a double-fatal car accident on April 1. Photo by Alex DeWind

NEWS IN A HURRY LPS Foundation holding fundraising dinner The Littleton Public School Foundation is holding its Spirit Celebration fundraiser on April 16 at the Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center.

The evening will include dinner, beer tasting from Breckenridge Brewery, music, an art walk featuring student artwork and a silent auction with mobile bidding.

Tickets start at $150 and tables at $1,500. For more information, visit www.spiritdinner.com.

Street repairs set for Trailmark neighborhood Road crews will repair asphalt cracks in the Trailmark

neighborhood throughout the remainder of the year.

Cracks of an inch or more in width, caused by temperature fluctuation and asphalt deficiencies, are present throughout the neighborhood, according to the city.

Drivers may notice bumps where the cracks were that will compact over time.

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Get close to nature with rangers’ help South Suburban experts lead programs for park visitors

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com With spring’s uneven arrival, we can expect to see the arrival of wild babies as well as migrating birds and new growth on flowers, trees and shrubs. South Platte Park in Littleton, with its Carson Nature Center, offers numerous Family Nature Walks with its experienced naturalists who will share the park’s bounty of wildlife.

Check into the catalog online (ssprd. org/nature) or pick one up at the Carson Nature Center and plan some memorable outings — with or without kids.

Also check out summer programs for kids of all ages, including Animal Detectives and Princess Adventures, when school is out. Register early — they fill up.

A few suggestions (fees and times in catalog listings; pre-registration advised; ages 6 and over): April 8 — (5:30-7:30 p.m.) Backcountry Turkeys in Highlands Ranch Backcountry. Hike to see gobbling turkeys during breeding displays, then enjoy a campfire.

April 16 — (10 a.m-noon or 1-3 p.m.)

Nesting Great Horned Owls. Start with a lesson about owls at the nature center, then hike with a naturalist to seek adults and their fluffy chicks, which watch from a tree and blink at you. Hike with a natu-

Families can go for a hike with a naturalist to look for adult and fuzzy baby nesting great horned owls in South Platte Park at 10 a.m. or 1 p.m. on April 16. (Pre-registration.) Courtesy photo ralist who will know where to find them.

Optional owl pellet dissection follows.

April 23 — (8-11:30 a.m.) Golden Eagles of Highlands Ranch. South Platte Park naturalists and Backcountry guides will lead hikers to a golden eagle nest and to see other wildlife: deer, elk, songbirds.

(Transportation from Nature Center.)

May 5 — (7-8:30 p.m.) Coyote Trails.

Seek coyote dens and pups with a naturalist and learn about their role in the en-

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Aug. 6 — (9-10:30 a.m.) Prairie Dog Town. Learn how they live and communicate with each other at their South Platte Park town.

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Lawsuit Continued from Page 1

The lawsuit says the city, Chubby’s and the Center for the Blind should have known the stretch of pavement presented a danger to blind pedestrians.

The city, in its answer to the complaint, said it was not negligent and that it had a duty to warn drivers of Center for the Blind students of any danger, and states Lewis’ injuries were at least in part due to her contributory negligence.

“Because there is pending litigation, the city cannot comment at this time,” Littleton spokeswoman Kelli Narde said last week.

The Center for the Blind and National Federation of the Blind have both filed motions to dismiss the suit.

In its motion, Center for the Blind says there is no factual basis for an allegation that it had a duty to protect Lewis from a dangerous condition on property that it does not own, and says the exclusive legal remedy for her claim is to sue Chubby’s under the Premises Liability Act. Paul Collins, an attorney with Treece Alfrey Musat P.C. who is representing the center, did not respond to a request for comment.

Chubby’s parent company, CZ Famco Holdings LLC, has been given until early this month by Magistrate Judge Michael Hegarty to respond to the suit after its insurance company appointed a new attorney to the case.

Stroke Continued from Page 1

Neerhof, now 65, drove the truck to the hotel and then returned it to the airport. Days later, his wife, Cherie, noticed his delayed reaction time and slowed speech.

“I had no idea that any of this was going on,” he said.

They went to the hospital and he got a CT scan and an MRI. That’s when he learned what had happened.

Neerhoff stayed home for the next six months under doctor’s order, which he says was the hardest part of his recovery.

A Christian school teacher and pastor for decades before his job with Gray Line, Neerhof was used to interacting with people in the community.

“And then, I received a phone call from the National Stroke Association,” he said.

The association paired Neerhof up with a counselor to guide him along the “comeback trail” — his return to normal-

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“She was fantastic,” he said of his counselor. “It was like you were out in the desert and someone was throwing you canteens of water.”

In weekly conversations, they discussed his physical and emotional progress.

“I just grabbed for those phone calls

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once a week,” Neerhof said.

His original counselor left the stroke association and he was matched with a new one named Dawn Lando.

Neerhof went to a driver’s recertification course at Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital in Aurora.

“That was very helpful in terms of ever coming back to a driving job,” he said.

Rather than attempt to go back to work full-time, Neerhof began looking for volunteer opportunities. He found one at the organization that had helped him, the National Stroke Association, working in a fulfillment center in Denver, distributing stroke awareness literature.

“Up until that time, I had always been trying to convince people that my abilities were not diminished, that I was still capable of a workload,” he said. “To work with the stroke association was very beneficial.”

It was from the stroke association that Neerhof learned the term “stroke survivor.”

“What do you mean?” he remembered thinking. “You mean, there was a possibility that I would not survive this?”

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Neerhof said that helped him view his recovery more positively, rather than being discouraged at not making progress quickly enough.

Over the summer, stroke association staff and volunteers along with stroke survivors walked a stretch of the Highline Canal Trail together, symbolizing the Comeback Trail.

On May 1, the inaugural Comeback Trail 5K run and walk will be held at Hudson Gardens & Event Center in Littleton.

For more information or to register, go to www.comebackstrong.org/comebacktrail.

“Although I was a track coach, back in my younger days, I’m not going to be running the 5K,” Neerhof said. “But I will be helpful with set-up and takedown and registration.”

“The theme is ‘Come Back Strong,’ ” he said.

Neerhof is motivated to come back strong to be there for his wife, his three grown sons and his grandchildren.

“I am trying to take advantage of this opportunity God has given me through the National Stroke Association,” he said.

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necessarily surprise Gorgens.

Psychologists and sociologists have been sounding the alarm for at least a decade, she says: A society increasingly separated from one another by the use of technology that promotes virtual rather than personal relationships is leading to the mainstreaming of inappropriate online behaviors, such as cyberbullying and Internet trolling.

“As there’s been more and more access to, and exposure to, more opportunities to broadcast cruelty - cruelty has increased — and you’ve seen a gradual corrosion of social norms to include more pro-aggression, pro-violence sentiments,” Gorgens says.

In simpler terms: “As the space between us gets reduced, instead of more opportunities for building interpersonal networks, we’ve

April 7, 2016 used that space to broadcast really ugly sides of ourselves.”

But, Gorgens says, the good news is research also shows we are most influenced by the people who are closest to us — family, friends, mentors — who, hopefully, don’t espouse the kind of philosophy that tears us apart.

As it usually does in our country, it comes down to We the People.

And, so far, we have generally allowed this state of affairs to continue without forceful outcry.

We thought it wouldn’t get this far. We thought, initially, it was kind of funny. We thought Trump didn’t stand a chance. Even much of the media, I’m embarrassed to admit, has been swept away on the Trump hyperbole, bypassing legitimate coverage of other candidates and asking questions that perpetuate a conversation of little substance.

Instead, we got taught a lesson in the reality of what happens when you don’t stand up to the

bully from the very start.

So let’s listen to the young people coming behind us, even though we are supposed to be older and wiser.

This year’s excursion into the presidential campaign for Pickrell, a high school senior so passionate about politics she wants to be either a political journalist or a politician, has shown her not all is as it seems.

She’s discovered some longtime friends have layers she didn’t know: They talk about supporting Trump, then make jokes about African-Americans, Hispanics, Muslims, gays.

“It’s actually forced me to break down some of my relationships with people because they’re so hateful towards those who don’t support the kind of country Trump is after,” Pickrell says. “We should be looking for a leader who will bring the nation together and build people up, not tear people down and reverse the progress that we’ve been making.”

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The possibility of a Trump presidency disillusions Kroll, who believes much of his support comes from a populace previously uninterested in politics and uneducated about issues.

But, he wonders, how do you “try to teach your kid, `Don’t speak like this’ when it’s all over TV and (Trump) has a legitimate shot at becoming president? ...

Reality TV has so much influence on young people. It’s eye-opening that there’s somebody who belongs on reality TV and is now in a more serious context.”

They all agree, as Elmanouzi says, that young people don’t want an “aggressively demeaning” leader.

Or one who is hateful.

Or divisive.

Or intolerant.

They want a leader who respects others, who sees the broader good, who can work with all segments of society, who can meet in the middle.

“I think young people are more

willing to compromise, more willing to work together,” says Elmanouzi, who graduates from University of Colorado-Boulder in May with a degree in political science and business and a certificate in peace and conflict studies. “We’re kind of done with not being able to have conversations.”

The political rhetoric of this campaign year has all but obliterated any suggestion of dialogue, much less a respectful approach to leadership.

“It’s definitely a lesson learned,” Elmanouzi says. “The younger generation always looks to the mistakes of the generation before us.”

Make no mistake: There’s a lesson here for all of us to learn.

Ann Macari Healey’s awardwinning column about people, places and issues of everyday life appears every other week. She can be reached at ahealey@coloradocommunitymedia.com or 303566-4109.

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Joy more attractive than misery Maybe you have been part of a group discussion before where the initial conversation and topics seem benign and harmless enough. The tone and flow of the early discussion leads you to believe that you can probably enjoy spending time with the group, possibly offer some insights, and maybe even learn something along the way.

And then it happens, a light-hearted and seamlessly simple discussion turns sideways, and before you know it the differences of opinion stands out like a ketchup stain on a white glove. At the risk of not being liked or accepted, certain individuals will join the dark forces of discontent and misery, and either remain silent in their conforming to the negative but popular rhetoric, or will jump right on the bandwagon of gloom. Heck, this could even be a conversation between two people, never mind a group of people.

Has it ever happened to you, have you ever been the instigator of such a discussion? Or have you ever just decided it’s easier and less confrontational to quietly listen, even if the torrent of sadness is nothing you agree with?

Don’t worry if your answer is yes, you are actually among the majority, as most of us would rather not engage in a conflict or battle. But what happens is this, we think about it, we go home or go to work and we share or propagate the misery as we retell the story and event that we just heard. And now, we are part of the misery trail, whether we wanted to be or not. But sooner or later, friends, family and coworkers will begin to avoid us. The old saying “Misery loves company” may be true, but the truth is that it is a temporary kinship or friendship. Misery is not sustainable. If it becomes sustainable

it will contribute to stress and other health issues.

The opposite is joy. And joy attracts companions, strangers, neighbors, friends and family. Joy can even attract a crowd, or it can be enjoyed individually or amongst Michael Norton a close intimate group of people, maybe even WINNING just one or two people.

You see, misery can be WORDS viewed as infectious, kind of a negative connotation. Where joy is often associated with be contagious, like when someone you are with begins to laugh so hard and joyful, you can hardly contain yourself from laughing along with them. And usually we have no idea what they are laughing about, but we join in the fun because it seems and feels like the right thing to do.

Misery erodes relationships and contributes to the attrition of the people we had hoped to keep in our lives. And there is no doubt that joy attracts companions, companionship, love and trust, and fuels the positive energy of hope and encouragement that naturally draws others to us. And the best news of all is that we get to choose which path we want to pursue in our lives, the misery loves company path, or the joy that attracts companions path.

Too black and white for you? Maybe your personal style leads you to be more gray in this area, staying far enough away from the

negative conversations and misery so that you don’t get painted with that same brush, yet close enough to hear what they are wallowing in. And maybe even maintaining your safe distance from the jubilance and perhaps overly optimistic and joyful folks so that you don’t get caught up in the hype of happiness bubble. I mean it’s probably safer in the middle, right?

For me, I choose the benefits of joy attracting companions. The positive energy and conversations around possibilities and what can be achieved far outweighs the gloom and doom of the misery loves company group where limiting beliefs paralyze the potential for moving forward or ahead in life.

The next time you are out and about, meeting in a bar or restaurant, gathering at a dinner or party, try and pay attention to the conversations, tonality, and body language of those around you, whether in your group or not. I just bet you will be able to quickly pick up on the joyful groups or just as quickly identify the reasons you want to distance yourself from the misery-driven conversations.

How about you? Did you find this column to be a source of misery for you that will fuel a negative discussion, or did the column further strengthen your resolve as a joyful optimist? I would love to hear all about it at gotonorton@gmail.com, and when we can avoid the misery and attract the joy, it really will be a better than good week.

Michael Norton is a resident of Castle Rock, the former president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation, a strategic consultant and a business and personal coach.

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Let’s get serious about the business of joking Tell me if you have heard this one.

A snake goes into a bar.

The bartender says, “I can’t serve you.”

The snake says, “Why not?”

“Because you Craig Marshall Smith can’t hold your liquor.”

QUIET My father DESPERATION never told a single joke in my lifetime, at least not when I was around him.

Maybe he did when he was on one of his business trips, but I doubt it.

And he may have told a joke or two when he was growing up, or when he was stationed in Scotland during the war.

But again, I doubt it.

It also means that I never heard him tell a dirty joke.

I don’t tell dirty jokes, and I don’t listen to dirty jokes.

I am never going to a comedy club.

There aren’t many comedians I appreciate anymore.

It doesn’t mean that I am Mr. Rogers.

A skeleton goes into a bar.

The bartender says, “What can I get you?”

The skeleton says, “A beer and a mop.”

Looking back, and realizing that my father didn’t tell jokes, but that he was very witty, makes me think we had that in common too.

The truth is, I am witty.

And I give the credit to my father.

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The development of regenerative medical treatments is one of the most exciting aspects of modern medicine. In fact, a recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office states, “virtually any disease that results from malfunctioning, damaged or failing tissues may be potentially cured through regenerative medicine treatments.” These treatments, developed from adult stem cells, show potential to fully restore or establish normal function in damaged human cells, tissues, or organs.

Currently, the Food and Drug Administration oversees the

development of regenerative applications based on a patchwork of regulations. The FDA simply does not have an approval process in place to best consider these new, innovative therapies. As a result, other countries, particularly Japan and the United Kingdom, are quickly outpacing the United States in the development of regenerative treatments.

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Social Coffee and Conversation Group connects people in the community who like to discuss books, current events and any topic of interest. The group meets from 10-11 a.m. the second Monday of each month in Sophie’s Place at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. Free snacks and beverages are provided. Call 303-795-3961.

The Columbine Genealogical and Historical Society meets at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centennial. Program meetings are the second Tuesday of each month, except in June, July, August and December. Genealogy workshop programs and early-bird meetings are the third Tuesday of each month, except in June, July, August and December. Visit www.ColumbineGenealogy.com or contact Joyce B. Lohse, CGHS president, at Joyce4Books@gmail.com.

Columbine Ladies We welcome new members to our fun loving group. Join us for games (bridge, canasta, MahJongg and pinochle). Enjoy monthly luncheons at great restaurants and quarterly social events. Dues are $24 annually. Visitors are welcome. For more information or to make a reservation to attend our next luncheon, call Jackie Hirt at 303-972-3384.

Columbine Communicators Toastmasters can help if speaking in public makes you anxious. We improve your communications and leadership skills in a thoughtful, supportive environment. Our club meets from 7-8:30 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of the month at the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Station, 11139 Bradford St., Littleton. Visitors are welcome. Contact Herb Dreo at herb@dreomc.com (303-763-7334) or Pam Toyen at ptoyen7@hotmail. com (303-570-8606). Visit http://columbine. toastmastersclubs.org/ Current Events Group meets the first Wednesdays of the month from 1-3 p.m. at the Buck Recreation Center, 2004 Powers Ave. in Littleton.

Call 303-730-4609.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Mount Rosa Chapter meets at 1 p.m. every first Monday of the month at locations in the Littleton, Centennial and Highlands Ranch area with a social hour following the meeting unless otherwise noted.

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He found sideways humor in things, in the moment.

Obviously nothing was scripted or prepared like a Carson monologue.

It was off-the-cuff.

At one time, men wore paper cuffs and notes might be written on them, to remember later.

Therefore “off-the cuff” — meaning unprepared — really means that something was prepared.

I think the best kind of humor is off-thecuff and in the moment.

Few do it well.

Robin Williams was phenomenal to the point that it might have been a burden sometimes to be funny.

I make stuff up all the time, and I don’t have an audience.

Have you ever seen a laughing dachshund? Holding his sides?

Me either. But it doesn’t keep me from saying things to him, in hopes that some day I might hear some laughter coming out of that russet muzzle.

One day I said, “Smitty, if you can tell me how many chickens I have in this gunny sack, I will give both of them to you.”

No response.

I told him that I bought a thermos be-

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to regulatory predictability regarding manufacturing processes and controls, and ensures the safety of these treatments.

The legislation also protects approval pathways under sections 351 and 361 of the Public Health Service Act, while creating a new category for regenerative treatment products.

I think every American has lost a loved one to cancer or other deadly diseases. It’s

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Daughters of the British Empire is a national organization with a philanthropic purpose. For almost a century, DBE has been a common bond for women of British heritage living in the United States. DBE is open to women who are citizens or residents of the United States who are of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry or who are married to men of British Commonwealth birth or ancestry. There are six chapters in Colorado, including chapters in Littleton, Englewood, Centennial, Evergreen and Boulder County. Call Chris at 303-683-6154 or Olive at 303-347-1311 or visit www.dbecolorado.org and use the contact form available.

Discovery Club is a fun and exciting way to meet new friends and enjoy recreational activities. Activities include sports, arts and crafts, drama, singing, dancing, board and computer games, group and individual activities. Volunteer opportunities exist for people older than 15. Student volunteers can earn community service hours. Club meets third Saturday each month at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 8817 South Broadway. Call Jenita Rhodes at 303-791-0659.

Dry Creek Sertoma is a women’s social and service organization that meets at 7:10 a.m. the first and third Wednesday of the month at Toast Restaurant in downtown Littleton. For information see our page on Facebook or email JEDougan@aol. com.

The Highlands Ranch/Littleton Chapter of Mothers and More meets the second Tuesday of each month. See www.mothersandmore.org/ chapters/highlandsranchlittletonCO/ or e-mail hrmothersandmore@hotmail.com for more information.

Job’s Daughters International, Bethel No. 33, of Littleton, is a youth organization for girls ages 11-20 who have a Masonic relationship with either Master Masons, Job’s Daughters, Eastern Star or other Masonic organizations. The girls meet first and third Mondays at 7:15 p.m. at the Masonic Hall across from the Melting Pot restaurant.

The League of Women Voters of Arapahoe County has two meetings per month. No unit meetings are in June through August, but the two unit meetings per month will begin again in September on second Monday evenings and second cause it keeps hot things hot and cold things cold.

I pretended that he said, “What do you have in it?”

“Soup and ice cream.”

Nothing.

A Methodist, a Lutheran and a Catholic go into a bar.

The bartender says, “What is this? Some kind of a joke?”

There are people who tell jokes, are funny, and are funny-looking too.

Number one on that list is Rodney Dangerfield.

Dangerfield began writing one-liners for comedians when he was 15.

Humor starts early, like everything else.

Its reward is laughter.

Once you get a little laughter, you want more.

I could sense that I was amusing my friends. Nothing has changed. I would rather amuse my readers than harumph on something.

But I am good at that too. True, I’m a curmudgeon.

But that does not mean that I am malevolent.

The best curmudgeons come with a side order of humor.

August Strindberg said, “I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t the guts to bite people themselves.”

Craig Marshall Smith is an artist, educator and Highlands Ranch resident. He can be reached at craigmarshallsmith@comcast.net devastating. That’s why I have introduced this bill and have made it one of my priorities in Congress to support the kind of medical research that seeks cures to prevent these heartbreaking losses.

I’m pleased to have the support of both Republicans and Democrats on this important legislation. Fighting and defeating diseases that devastate families is not a partisan issue, it’s an issue we can all support together.

U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, represents the 6th Congressional District, which includes Aurora, Centennial, Highlands Ranch and Littleton, among other areas.

Thursday mornings. Call 303-798-2939.

Littleton Garden Club meets at 6:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month, September through May. A speaker is featured at each meeting. Guests are welcome. Go to www.littletongardenclub.org.

Littleton Junior Chamber of Commerce, Jaycees, welcomes interested parties between the ages of 21-40 to become involved with this social and community service organization. Jaycees meet at 7 p.m. the first Tuesday each month at Burt Chevrolet, 5200 S. Broadway, and at 7 p.m. the third Tuesday each month at Breckenridge Grille, 2852 W. Bowles Ave. Call 303-914-0180 or visit littletonjaycees.org.

The Littleton Lions Club meets the first and third Thursdays each month at the Egg and I, 2630 W. Belleview Ave. No. 100, from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. We have been serving the Littleton Community since 1949. Sight and Sight Conservation. Interesting programs and speakers. For membership information call Jeff Bridges 303-730-7616 or Al Wieder 303-730-3085.

Littleton Newcomers Club is a social club for women in Littleton and the surrounding areas.

Come have fun and meet new friends. You don’t need to be new to the area to join. Interest groups include bridge and other card games, wine tasting, book clubs, party animals, luncheons, stitch and chat, and many other events. Our monthly general meetings and luncheons are the third Wednesday of each month. Call 303-430-4898 and leave your name and number or e-mail littletonnewcomersclub@yahoo.com. Visit www.littletonnewcomersclub.org or contact MaryLynn Rector (marylynnr66@gmail.com) to attend a get-acquainted coffee or for information.

Littleton Sertoma meets from 7-8 a.m. the first, third and fifth Friday each month for breakfast and a program at the Shack Sports Grill, Mineral and Broadway, Littleton. Doors open at 6:30 a.m. and they welcome ndividuals looking to serve the community and who wish to find a fun active service club. Contact Terry Boucher, 303-880-7559 or bouchertp@aol.com.

The Loving Hands crocheting and knitting group meets one Saturday a month from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Parish Hall at St. Frances Cabrini Parish, 6673 W. Chatfield Ave. (intersection of Pierce) in Littleton. For those who cannot attend but can work on projects at home, we are always in need

of newborn and infant hats and booties as well as bereavement gowns/fetal pouches. Check out our Loving Hands Ministry Web page at www.saintfrancescabrini.org or call Karen at 303-791-8385 for a schedule, patterns, list of needs, and other details.

MOMS Club, Moms Offering Moms Support, of Littleton is part of a national organization offering support for women and families during their childraising years. All interested stay-at-home moms can call Lurae Beck at 303-933-6749.

Moms In Touch International is an interdenominational Christian organization in which moms meet for one hour a week to pray for their children and schools. To find out where moms are meeting to pray, call Nancy Villarreal at 303-761-1967.

MOPS, Mothers of Preschoolers, meets at South Fellowship, 6560 S. Broadway, Littleton, three blocks north of Arapahoe Road. Join moms with kids ages newborn to kindergarten for a morning of speakers, crafts and discussion. The kids are in a nearby classroom with nurturing teachers.

Club meets the second and fourth Thursdays from 9-11:30 a.m. Call Andrea at 303-683-3593.

Mothers of Multiples (MOMS) Calling all mothers of twins, triplets, quadruplets. MOMS holds playgroups, Mom’s Night Out, twice-yearly kids’ consignment sales, and other social events for parents of multiples in and around Highlands Ranch.

For details, visit www.mothersofmultiples.com.

OPOCS Singles Club, ages 55-plus, meets all around the metro area. Meet new friends. Sign up and receive a monthly newsletter that lists all monthly activities. Contact JoAnn Cunningham, membership chair, 303-751-5195, or Mary Riney, president, 303-985-8937.

The Optimist motto is “Friend of Youth.” In keeping with this and our Optimist creed, the Breakfast Optimist Club of Littleton shares its time, energy, and love with the deserving children of our community.

Call John Hammer at 303-972-8065 for additional information. The club meets from 7-8 a.m. Fridays at The Bistro at Aspen Grove, 7301 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton.

Order of the Eastern Star, Manzanita Chapter meets at 7:30 p.m. the second and fourth Thursdays of the month at 5718 S. Rapp St., Littleton.

Members of Eastern Star are welcome. Call 303985-5864 or 303-759-5936.

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OBITUARIES FINLEY

Fern(Brewster) Finley

April 25, 1919 – March 19, 2016

Fern was born April 25th, 1919 in rural Sheridan County Kansas to Ona (Cressler) Brewster and Robert L Brewster. Fern attended Bow Creek Elementary School and graduated from Hoxie High School in 1935 at the age of 16. She then attended Fort Hays State College and later taught elementary school in Sheridan County.

While attending college, she met James M Finley and they were married upon his graduation in 1941. They spent the next 58 years loving each other

and their family. Jim and Fern loved to travel, exploring the United States and Europe. They enjoyed 42 years together in Littleton, Colorado.

After retiring from the Arapahoe County School District 6 in 1982, they divided their time between Sun Lakes, Arizona and Littleton, Co. Jim passed away in 1999.

In 2008, Fern moved to Mesa, AZ to be near her daughter Janet and family.

She was preceeded in death by her husband James, her sisters Janet Joann Brewster and

Phyllis (Brewster) Karnes, brother Gerald Brewster, and her grandson Burton James Little.

Survivors include daughter Janet Little (Ron) Gilbert, AZ, and son James R Finley (Paula) Bartlesville, OK, 8 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren.

Memorial and graveside services will be held April 9th, 10:00 AM at Olinger Chapel Hill Mortuary Cemetery, Littleton Centennial, Co.

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CULTURE FA I T H FA M I L Y FOOD HEALTH

SOME TIPS FOR WARMING UP, COOLING DOWN, STRETCHING Warm up: • Engage in five to 10 minutes of submaximal exercise, focusing on increasing intermuscular temperature and activating the cardiovascular system.

Choose dynamic movements that mimic exercises that will be completed during the workout or activity.

Cool down: A light, five- to 10-minute walk or jog will help gradually slow down heart rate and increase blood flow back to the heart.

Although the acute effects of stretching are debatable, a stretching routine should be included in your cool down as it can improve range of motion and physical function and help decrease blood pooling.

Grant Medina, exercise physiologist and health fitness specialist for MillerCoors’ Wellness Program, says stretching is just one part of a proper cool down following exercise. “A proper cool down is just as important as warming up,” he said. “Post exercise your heart is still beating faster than normal and your blood vessels are dilated, meaning a sudden stop in exercise will cause blood pooling in your extremities, and you can become dizzy or even faint. A light jog or walk for five to 10 minutes will aid in gradually slowing down your heart rate and increase the blood flow back to your heart.” Photo by Stefan Brodsky

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Earlier this month, U.S. News called Denver the best place to live in all of America. Colorado Springs came in fifth.

While myriad attributes factored into the rankings — including job market, cost of living, schools and transportation— quality of life carried the most weight, accounting for 30 percent of a city’s scoring.

And in Colorado, all along the Front Range, quality of life is code for vast recreational opportunities and ample natural resources. After all, where else can a person go skiing, snowboarding, ice skating, sledding, tobogganing, snow tubing or snowshoeing in the morning, only to travel back “down the hill” and find opportunity for hiking, biking, running, golfing, kayaking, a mountain of team sports and a host of other outdoor activities?

With so much to choose from and lots of sunny skies to be had, it’s easy to get carried away. Which is why it’s important not to let ambition turn into affliction.

Downhill danger Ask Dr. Mark Wisthoff about the most serious winter sports injury he’s ever seen and his warm smile frowns at the corners and his tenor takes a somber tone.

“This dad was skiing with his 9-yearold kid. They were from the east coast, and they were not wearing helmets,” said Wisthoff, who recently joined St. Anthony North Campus in Westminster, working in primary care and sports medicine. “Well, the kiddo lost control and hit a tree.”

The child was transported by helicopter to a nearby trauma center, but “ended up passing a few hours later,” Wisthoff said. “It was one of those horrific accidents you never forget. That’s why it’s so important, whatever you’re doing, to just wear your helmet. It only takes a few seconds.”

That advice is a no-brainer, said longtime ski enthusiast Mike Wodzianski, of Golden, who likes to “get after it.

“These days adrenaline is the only buzz for me, so I like to ski fast and take harder lines and kind of push myself,” said Wodzianski, who has skied injuryfree for four decades. “But when you push yourself you’re opening yourself up to the potential for more injuries … So, for me an ounce of prevention is definitely worth a pound of cure.”

Prevention means stretching, proper training and nutrition, and gearing up for whatever he might find, below or above the tree line.

“I’m wearing a helmet but also the

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right gear, the right clothes,” Wodzianski said. “It’s better to have it and not need it.”

Similarly, insufficient food and water can lead to dehydration and fatigue, he added.

Improper nutrition “can predispose you to injury because you’re dehydrated and tired and hungry — everything kind of adds up and you get injured from that,” he said.

Start at the bottom So before even looking to the top of the mountain, Wodzianski and Wisthoff

recommend first starting slowly at the bottom.

“A lot of people have to drive to get to the slopes and are just sitting in the car, and then when they get there they jump out and just go for it,” Wisthoff said. “I know you want to get on the slopes, but you really need to be careful.”

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ONE TOKE OVER THE LINE While doctors and outdoor enthusiasts alike agree there’s a certain advantage to “staying loose” in terms of avoiding injury, being too loose can be equally dangerous.

“I know this is going to sound crazy in Colorado, but drugs and alcohol when you’re skiing is not a good idea,” said outdoors enthusiast and longtime skier Mike Wodzianski, of Golden.

Dr. Mark Wisthoff, who recently joined St. Anthony North Campus in Westminster, working in primary care and sports medicine, has witnessed firsthand the negative impacts.

“With collision-type injuries, you’re involving someone else,” Wisthoff said. “The most no-

table (I saw) was this lady, she was 82, skied in Colorado since she was 16 and had never, ever been injured. And a snowboarder came plowing down, out of control, intoxicated, and slammed into her. She fractured her hip.”

The chance of a collision is compounded by crowded slopes, Wisthoff added.

“At that intensity, where you’re coming down a mountain at a pretty good clip, where you could injure somebody else, you really want your senses to be top-notch,” he said. “If you’re blunting your senses with alcohol or marijuana or any other substance, your risk of injury goes up exponentially, as well as the risk of injuring others.”

Stretching With stretching, stick with dynamic, static or proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (active and pasive) techniques. Avoid bouncing.

A routine of at least 10 minutes that focuses on major muscle/tendon groups is recommended post-exercise for most adults.

Only stretch to tension or mild discomfort. Stretching should not be painful.

Stretches could include: • Runners’ lunge with side stretch.

Begin in a low lunge position with your right (forward) knee bent above your right foot. Extend your left leg directly behind you. Extend your left arm directly above you and lean to your right side, and drop your left knee for deeper stretch. Repeat on the other side.

• Seated hamstring stretch. While seated, extend your legs straight.

Bend the unstretched leg in at the knee to protect your lower back. Then, lean forward, bending at the hips towards the foot of the straight leg until you feel tension. Repeat.

• Pigeon pose. Cross one leg in front of you with a bent knee while extending the other directly behind you. Place the outside edge of the forward leg on the floor, then lean forward, bending at your hips while keeping your hips squared forward. Repeat.

• Downward-facing dog. Begin on your hands and knees with your hands shoulder-width apart. Raise your buttocks into the air straightening your legs until you feel tension, then lower your head between your arms, straightening your spine. Push your heels into the ground until you feel tension.

• Twisted arm stretch. Bring your arms out in front of your body, bend your elbows to 90 degrees, and cross your arms one over the other. Twist your hands such that your palms are facing each other and try to touch your fingers together, then push your hands towards the ceiling to get a deeper stretch.

• Chest-opener stretch. In a standing or seated position, straighten your back and pull your shoulders down and back. Interlock your hands behind your back and, with straight arms, bring your hands towards your head until you feel tension.

Source: Grant Medina, a certified exercise physiologist and health fitness specialist for MillerCoors’ Wellness Program

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Schumann show set for Englewood stage Englewood Arts Presents, which now handles booking for Hampden Hall, will present one of its popular Saturday afternoon concerts at 2 p.m. April 16 in Hampden Hall in the Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway. It will feature Colorado Symphony’s principal cellist, Silver Ainomae, performing Schumann’s “Cello Concerto,” a work written late in the composer’s short life, but “enormous in scope,” according to Englewood Arts’ Eric Bertoluzzi. The program will also include Sibelius’s “Impromptu in B Minor” and Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence.” Featured musicians include Silver Ainomae, Yi Zhao, Ben Odhner, Anne Ainomae, Danielle Guideri and Brian McLean. Tickets: $20, adults; $15, seniors, Free under 18. Englewoodarts.org or at the door one hour prior to concert time.

Little Free Libraries The Rotary Club of Centennial will place — and maintain — two Little Free Libraries in pedestrian-heavy South Suburban parks: at deKoevend Park, near the tennis courts, and at Willow Creek Park, adjacent to the playground. An April 9 dedication, with entertainment, a special Dr. Seuss reading and refreshments, will be held at noon at Willow Creek Park and 2 p.m. at deKoevend Park. Children’s literacy is one of Rotary’s focuses in its volunteer work in the community and it will provide additional books and library maintenance as needed.

Camera club meets “World Travels With 1 Camera and 1 Lens” is photographer Don Mammoser’s topic for his April 12 talk to the Englewood Camera Club. He made a 21-month nonstop journey to 23 countries — a life-changing experience.

He visited Florence, the Pyramids and the Taj Mahal, but also tiny islands of Indonesia and remote Siberia. He is a nature, travel and wildlife photographer and nonfiction writer, who will share stories and images. The club meets at 7 p.m. at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University, Centennial. (Doors open at 6:15 p.m.) Guests are welcome.

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exercises — to fully prepare.

Yet, all the preparation in the world won’t do any good if technique is poor or training is insufficient. And when it comes to training, Wodzianski said it’s imperative to seek certified instructors, rather than a relative, spouse or partner.

“For instance, a husband teaching a wife, not only is that a good way to get into a really big argument, but they’re probably going to learn bad habits,” he said. “Professional instruction is huge, and they should be up to speed with their latest certifications, so you’re learning from somebody who has the latest and greatest training.”

Dr. Vance Schuring, who along with his wife co-owns Denver Sports Medicine in Lakewood, agrees.

“There’s huge importance in making sure athletes have the proper technique or foundation before they go out and exercise, so they don’t injure themselves,” he said.

One Book 4 Colorado Arapahoe Libraries is once again part of the One Book 4 Colorado promotion starting April 11 to 25.

(We assume libraries in Douglas County, Littleton and Englewood will also participate.) Families with young children are Sonya Ellingboe invited to stop at their SONYA’S local library to receive a free new book, while SAMPLER they last. One Book 4 Colorado is a statewide initiative aimed at promoting family reading at home, which helps ensure school readiness. (The title will be announced on April 11.) Visit arapahoelibraries.org/one-book-4-colorado.

Art show The Paint Box Guild opened an exhibit April 2 at Solid Grounds Coffee House, 6504 S. Broadway, Littleton, which will be on display through open hours until May 1. Media included are watercolor, oil, pastel and mixed media and all artwork is for sale.

Renoir film scheduled “Renoir: Revered and Reviled” is a film distributed in select theaters by Fathom’s “Art and Architecture in Cinema” series at 7 p.m.

April 21. Local theaters include Greenwood Plaza, Regal River Pointe, Bel Mar 16 and Highlands Ranch AMC 24.

Molly Brown House Tea “Scandal on the Titanic” is the theme for the April 23 tea at the Molly Brown House Museum, 1340 Pennsylvania St., Denver.

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“Generally (injuries are caused by) either faulty training, shoes or musculoskeletal imbalances, not training before they go out and do sports specific activities, as well as not being properly evaluated by a training professional.

Schuring also recommends an evaluation in addition to proper training.

“We put people through functional movement screens, as well as proper movement analysis, to look for these weaknesses and prescribe a unique treatment plan for these individuals to get them better,” Schuring said.

Fine line between cavalier, confident After that, it’s a matter of knowing when to be confident rather than cautious, Wisthoff said.

“I definitely think there’s got to be a balance because I have a lot of people who get injured and then they’re too timid and wind up injuring themselves more,” he said. “But I see a lot, especially younger athletes … they just go for it and aren’t calculating. It’s best to start with something lower first and make sure you can do it

Silver Ainomae, principal cellist in the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, will perform Schumann’s “Cello Concerto” in a sextet, a chamber music performance at Englewood’s Hampden Hall, in the Englewood Civic Center on April 16. Courtesy photo

before you just start going.”

Trail runner Ellen Lambert Bagnato, of Broomfield, said it was that cavalier approach that contributed to her broken ankle a year ago.

“I think that taking things for granted, your ability to avoid injury, to avoid hazards, is easy for some of us to do, but can ultimately lead to injury,” Bagnato said.

Once the commitment is made, however, Wodzianski said an athlete has to trust his or her abilities.

“You never know what you’re going to see when skiing, and so you have to be comfortable, relaxed with a lot of different conditions,” he said. “I think that keeps the body at ease and you’re a little looser.”

Spring forward Down the hill in Denver and along the Front Range, spring sports present their own pitfalls and potential for injury.

One of the most common roots of injury, according to Wisthoff, is essentially eagerness and foolish pride. In other words, spring fever causes many outdoor enthusiasts to forget how they spent the

previous three to five months.

“For instance, we see (a lot of injuries) when people start running programs,” he said. “They go out and jog six or seven miles and when they come back they have all these injuries because they didn’t start slowly enough.”

Trail runner Greg Wobbema, of Lakewood, sees it happen all too often.

“I have already (heard) three stories about friends who upped their weekly routines too heavily and ended up with injuries,” he said. “The best advice I ever got was to start small. You make a mistake and hurt something this early in the season, it could have a drastic effect on your entire season.”

For some, the key to staying injury free is to simply keep moving. And that’s where the year-long activities afforded to Colorado residents comes into play.

“The best way to not get injured in spring is to keep active in winter, whether that is running, hiking, snowshoeing, skiing or the gym,” said Denver all-around athlete, Amy Lease. “To avoid injury, stay active and think about the terrain that exists for your activity.”

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Play evokes King on last night of life ‘The Mountaintop’ is rich offering on Arvada stage

IF YOU GO “The Mountaintop” by Katori Hall plays through April 17 at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd, Arvada. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays; 1 p.m. Wednesdays; 2 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets: 720898-7200, ArvadaCenter.org. Prologues will be offered 45 minutes prior to each performance, designed to explore the historical context and the world of the play.

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com As lights go up on the stage, a portion of Martin Luther King’s last speech, “I Have Been to the Mountaintop” plays in the background. The 39-year-old King comes rushing into the dreary motel room — with unmade beds and newspapers strewn about.

It’s April 3, 1968, and there’s a thunderstorm roaring outside room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, in this production of “The Mountaintop” at the Arvada Center.

King (Cedric Mays) has just completed his Mountaintop speech at a nearby church and is edgy — and in need of a cigarette and coffee. He calls for room service, which is closed for the night — but this somewhat arrogant man is accustomed to getting what he wants so he insists …

Soon, there’s a knock at the door and a maid, Camae (Betty Hart), appears with coffee and a newspaper — and it turns out, she smokes King’s favorite Pall Mall brand. He asks for one and she joins him in a smoke — somewhat awestruck by his agitated presence, but also foul-mouthed and flirtatious. “If I was a man, I’d be lookin’ at me too,” she kids him.

They continue to joust through the night, with her alternately soothing and goading him as she insists God is a woman — and a close friend.

He is exhausted, agitated and full of future plans. He talks with his wife and daughter on the phone and responds to Camae’s sassy kidding A hint of who she really is comes when she blows on a cigarette to light it — “angel breath,” King observes. Fascinating character the playwright has created.

Actor Cedric May plays Martin Luther King in Katori Hall’s play, “The Mountaintop” which presents her ideas about MLK’s final day on earth. Courtesy photo

Katori Hall has created an impressive and unique theatrical work, which carries the audience on an unexpected journey, aided by Arvada Center’s always fine production values: sound, staging, projection and more.

Katori’ Hall’s script is powerful — she is quoted in an article from the Julliard Journal (she studied there and finished this play there — she had started earlier because there weren’t enough good roles for young black women). She has won many awards for her work, including Britain’s prestigious Olivier for this powerful play.

She had heard stories of King many times, including one from her mother, who related that her mother had cautioned her not to attend King’s last speech on April 3, 1968, because she feared violence.

“Early 2007 was when I decided I was going to put this story on paper. I wrote eight pages then and didn’t touch it ‘til fall.”

She has been accused of blasphemy, because she pulls King from a pedestal,

she said, but she hoped that by showing him “grounded in a very human existence,” she might inspire the audience to think, “I can be a King too. We can all be Kings.”

“I’ve come to take you home, “Camae tells King of his future. She even calls God on the motel room phone to be sure her instructions are right … despite protestations that King has so much more to accomplish …

He pleads, he speaks against the Vietnam War and of plans for a gigantic march on Washington … “How can we put a man on the moon and not feed the children in the streets?”

His faithful followers will continue his work, she assures him.

Katori Hall has created an impressive and unique theatrical work, which carries the audience on an unexpected journey, aided by Arvada Center’s always fine production values: sound, staging, projection and more. Gavin Mayer’s direction moves the actors through time and space, despite confinement to this one room And the pair of actors, Cedric Mays and Betty Hart, are sensitive professionals who have a story to tell. Mays, who had played this part before in Virginia, came on late when the original actor had to withdraw due to health issues.

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CURTAIN TIME Music all the time “Smokey Joe’s Café” by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller plays through May 1 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., Downtown Littleton. Directed and choreographed by Matthew D. Peters. Performances: 7:30 p.m.

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Wonderbound’s ‘Dust’ is anything but dry Dance, theater, music join forces for new production

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com “Integrating our artistic companies and redefining the limits of our collective art forms is an essential part of what makes the `Dust’ collaboration so exciting,” said Dee Covington of Curious Theatre Company, who has writ-

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“Dancers will act, actors will dance,” said Covington.

She continued: “Dawn (Fay, Ammons’ wife/partner), Garrett, Chip (Walton, Curious director) and I sat down together well over a year ago to discuss the possibilities of a collaboration.” Curious had called on Ammons several years ago to help with the staging of “Eurydice,” a poetic retelling of Greek mythology ... “… We landed on taking a deeper look at Colorado’s history with the land during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Naturally, Garrett chose Jesse (Manley) to complement our work because Jesse’s creative voice and sound as an artist is so well attuned to this era: both hauntingly reminiscent of this era and also incredibly progressive — the perfect collaborator and a true complement to the project.

“In this very early conversation, I wrote the phrase `snake oil salesman’ in the margin of my notes … the phrase stuck with me as I began to dig into the possibilities of a Dust Bowl narrative,” Covington continued.

“As I learned more about the people living through this apocalyptic time, I was struck by their vulnerability, their loss and their need to keep some kind of faith alive in order to continue to survive.”

Two points of view surfaced: one Biblical and the other leaning toward a “rainmaker” to bring salvation and rain.

Each character has to define “What will I do?”

Covington and Garrett are co-directing and he is choreographing the work.

Manley, in his fourth collaboration with Ammons, said he grew up in Oklahoma, “exploring the experiences of those who lived through the Dust Bowl and intrigued by the music that is native to that country.” In recent years he has

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“enjoyed learning more about traditional blues and folk music and I will be drawing on the rich cultural heritage of these musical styles to create a musical soundscape which transports our audiences back in time.”

Covington wanted to write a play that would stand on its own “without the addition of dance so that we had a strong story from which to work, from which to understand character and circumstance.

From there, we would add dance, eliminate text or combine the elements any way we saw fit to best serve the story …”

Area dance and theater lovers will look forward to experiencing another original, rewarding production created by these leaders in our local arts community.

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Little Dry Creek runs behind Englewood’s distinctive “Flying Saucer Bank” and will soon enjoy added foot traffic.

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‘Flying Saucer Bank’ eyed in history talk Historic designation sought for iconic Englewood building

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@colorado communitymedia.com Historic preservation specialist and Englewood resident and activist Diane Wray Tomasso presented a program called “The Communist in the Post Office and the Flying Saucer Bank” twice on March 28, for interested attendees. The Anderson Room at Englewood Library was filled with history buffs in the afternoon and she repeated at The Brew on Broadway in the evening for the growing Englewood Historic Preservation Society.

Several years ago, she was able to place Englewood’s 1937 post office at 3332 S. Broadway on the National Register of Historic Places and she has started that process for the distinctive bank at 3501 S. Broadway, now occupied by Community Bank of Colorado.

A state hearing is scheduled in May and then it can be submitted for national designation. Since Englewood does not have a local ordinance for historic designation, that level of protection is not presently available. National designation brings some tax credit and grant eligibility, but no shield from demolition, which happens at the

local level.

The post office on Broadway, while very well constructed, is a generic design used across the country, she said. What makes it special is the Boardman Robinson mural, “Colorado Stock Sale,” which is still in place. Robinson was nationally known as a muralist, political cartoonist and painter, with far left leanings. He also started and ran the Colorado Springs Fine Arts School, which was nationally recognized.

His large mural, “Commerce,” is displayed at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

The mural (a 14-foot square costing $880) shows a number of cattlemen on a stairway and others lined up at floor level — “comedic characters,” Tomasso calls them.

The mural is one of only 16 installed in Colorado, commissioned by the WPA across the nation. By 1991, only 10 remained she said. They were painted on canvas and removed in many cases. (Littleton’s mural is displayed in its City Center, but many are lost.)

Wray presented post office construction photos from national archives and spoke of how it was designed to attract business to downtown Englewood. She feels it will eventually be sold by the U.S. Postal Service.

Wray started her story of the “Flying Saucer Bank” with a photo of the 1917 Little Dry Creek flood, which flowed across Broadway, and a photo of First National Bank of

Englewood, which had the same address, 3501 S. Broadway, as the modern “Flying Saucer Bank” designed by Charles Deaton. By the 1960s, Englewood Savings and Loan bought Key Savings, tore down the south half of the older building, and stayed in business during construction of the “Flying Saucer Bank.”

The new bank, “a work of art in itself, one of three examples of `sculptural expressionism’” by Deaton, remains today, with its rear facing the Little Dry Creek Greenway, where people enjoy a different exposure than that seen from Broadway.

Deaton’s best-known design is the Sculpture House, visible from Interstate 70 at Genesee. It is known as the “Sleeper House,” due to its appearance in the Woody Allen movie. Built by Deaton for his family, ownership has passed to a series of millionaires.

Deaton lost much of his money in the process of designing a sports complex in Kansas City, although he was a mathematical genius who designed without the computer-aided tools of today’s “starchitects.”

Wray expressed concern that the well-designed Little Dry Creek Greenway will need future preservation and protection as Englewood’s population of walkers/dog walkers increases greatly with the addition of the apartment buildings under construction. She has sent an email to the city’s Park and Recreation Department and it will perhaps be her next lecture project, she said.

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Gateway Battered Women’s Shelter Serves victims of family violence in Aurora and Arapahoe County Need: Volunteers help with crisis-line management, children’s services, legal advocacy, community education and other shelter services.

Donations: Also accepts used cell phones (younger than 4 years) to give to victims. Mail to Gateway at P.O. Box 914, Aurora, CO 80040, or drop them off at Neighborly Thrift Store, 3360 S. Broadway, Englewood Requirements: Must attend a 26-hour training session; bilingual skills welcome Contact: Jeneen Klippel-Worden, 303-343-1856 or jkworden@gatewayshelter.com Girl Scouts of Colorado Youth organization for girls Need: Troop leaders, office support, administrative help and more Age requirement: Men and women, 18 and older Contact: www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org, inquiry@gscolorado. org or 1-877-404-5708 Habitat ReStore Nonprofit home improvement stores and donation centers Need: Volunteers for Wheat Ridge, Denver or Littleton Habitat ReStores, helping with the cash register, dock and warehouse floor Contact: 303-996-5468, email Alice Goble at Alice@habitatmetrodenver.org Health Passport Centura Health program that provides health and wellness services Need: Volunteers to support patients and families in the hospital and upon discharge with outreach, marketing and social networking; connecting patients, families and volunteers to services and programs; hosting classes at various Health Passport locations; contributing to the health and wellness of those in the community; counseling clients who need prescription drug assistance; and helping with day-to-day living expenses, Medicare and Medicaid issues.

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Members of the Littleton Youth Ballet rehearse for a production of “Cinderella,” presented at Lone Tree Arts Center in early April. The dancers are enjoying the spacious new studios at Littleton Ballet Academy, which will hold an open house on April 9 at 1169 W. Littleton Blvd. Courtesy photo

School steps up focus on ballet Littleton is longtime home of classical dance academy

By Sonya Ellingboe sellingboe@coloradocommunitymedia.com An early April production of “Cinderella” at Lone Tree Arts Center was symbolic for the transformed Littleton Ballet Academy, which moved into new quarters last September and changed its name from the former Littleton Dance Academy.

The school has been operated in Littleton (now on Littleton Boulevard and formerly on Rio Grande Street) for 12 years by mother/daughter partners Bobbie and Alison Jaramillo.

(Alison will be familiar to longtime Littleton dance fans for her roles with David Taylor Dance Company, when it was on Main Street.)

Co-owner Alison Jaramillo said

the new name should identify it as a school that specializes in classical ballet, as distinguished from a dance school that focuses on competitions.

The school will be able to offer more class times and levels — and the dancers have more room to dance.

An open house on April 9 from 3 to 6 p.m. will introduce local families to the 12,000-square-foot building, bought with the help of some investors. It will offer 7,000 square feet of dance space plus five music studios, as well as storage for costumes and sets. The largest studio will be available to host small performances.

In summer 2016, Littleton Music Academy will open, offering private music lessons.

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It includes pre-professional dancers ranging in age from 8 to 17. There are five different levels within the company and members audition in August for a spot. The company gives four performances a year, including “The Nutcracker.”

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Performing Arts Series: Ballet Children ages 6-10 can learn basic ballet techniques from members of the Colorado Ballet at the next Performing Arts Series program. Participants also can learn how ballet can help strengthen their bodies and brains. Program is at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 9, at the Parker Library, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive. Registration is required; call 303-791-7323 or www.DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Women in the Civil War Women played a significant role in the Civil War in many capacities. Learn more at “Women in the Civil War: Soldiers, Spies, Saints and Sinners” with Sandy Ronayne of the Colorado Genealogical Society. More than 400 women enlisted and fought in the Union and Confederate armies disguised as men with some later receiving pensions.

They also operated as spies. On the home fronts, women helped to organize and run volunteer aid societies and hospitals, and worked as nurses. Ronayne will tell the stories of some of these women and their accomplishments at the Columbine Genealogical & Historical Society program at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centennial. Contact Joyce B. Lohse, Joyce4Books@gmail.com.

Colorado’s Yampa River with John Fielder Join popular photographer John Fielder for an evening of stories and images from his journey down the Yampa River. Program is at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton.

The Yampa River of northwest Colorado is considered the last major free-flowing river in the seven-state Colorado River Basin.

Fielder photographed his way down the entire length of the river from the Yampa’s headwaters in the Flat Tops Wilderness at 11,500 feet to its confluence with the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument. See stunning images of tundra wildflowers, eagles and elk, and the tributaries and canyons of the Yampa. Copies of Fielder’s latest book, “Colorado’s Yampa River: Free Flowing and Wild from the Flat Tops to the Green,” will be available for purchase and signing as well as other books by Fielder. Call 303-795-3961.

Retirement Planning Workshops Seniors outliving their savings or pension or social security is a hot topic in Colorado, which has one of the fastest growing populations of people aged 65 or older.

These issues and more are addressed at free Lunch and Learn seminars, “Aging and Long Term Care: How Am I Going to Pay For It?” at Koelbel Library, 5955 Holly St., Centennial. Lunch is catered by Panera Bread. Seminars are from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, April 12, and from 10:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, and Tuesday, April 26. Reservations can be made by calling 303-468-2820.

Ed Sardella to Speak The Castle Rock Historical Society and Museum welcomes renowned broadcaster and former Channel 9 News anchor Ed Sardella at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 14, at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Sardella will discuss interesting news stories he has covered in his career and how news has evolved over the decades.

Refreshments will be served at 6:45 p.m.

Contact the Castle Rock Museum at 303814-3164, museum@castlerockhistoricalsociety.org, www.castlerockhistoricalsociety.org. Admission is free.

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Art Stop on the Go Budding artists ages Stuart Little 6-12 will enjoy Art This endearing play about a mouse named Stuart Little who is born into an Stop on the Go, during ordinary New York family, has all the charm, wisdom, and joy of the E.B. White which an artist from original classic. Shows run through Saturday, April 9 at the PACE Center, the Boulder Museum 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker. For times, tickets and information, go to www. of Contemporary Art ParkerArt.org or call 303-805-6800. will present a book and ‘The Princess Bride’ lead participants in a The Reader’s Theater at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church will present a staged literature-based art reading of “The Princess Bride” movie script at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at 8817 project. Sessions S. Broadway, Highlands Ranch. Based on William Goldman’s novel of the same offered at 4:30 p.m. name, “The Princess Bride” is staged as a book read by a grandfather to his ill Monday, April 11, at grandson. The grandfather promises a romance-weary grandchild that the book the Parker Library, has much more to deliver than a simpering love story, including fencing, fighting, 10851 S. Crossroads torture, death, true love, giants, and pirates. Suggested donation is $5. Call 303- Drive; and at 4:30 p.m.

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Thursday, April 14, at the Roxborough Library, Page to Stage: Red Riding Hood 8357 N. Rampart Douglas County Libraries brings children’s theater to life with its Page to Stage program. Coming up for Page to Stage is “Red Riding Hood” at 6:30 p.m. Thurs- Range Road, Unit 200. day, April 14, at the Parker Library, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive. Program intended Registration required; call 303-791-7323 or for ages 5 and older. Registration is required; call 303-791-7323 or go to www. www.DouglasCountyLiDouglasCountyLibraries.org. braries.org.

Denver Ballet Theatre to Present ‘Paquita’ Spring Pottery Show, Sale Denver Ballet Theatre presents “Paquita” at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday, The Cook Park Potters plans its spring pottery show and sale from 9 a.m. to 3 April 14, and Friday, April 15 at the PACE Center in Parker. With original p.m. Saturday, April 16, at the Cook Park Recreation Center, 7100 Cherry Creek choreography by Joseph Mazilier and a score composed by Edouard Deldevez Drive South, Denver. Pottery, glass, jewelry and sculpture items will be on display. and Ludwig Minkus, Paquita tells a romantic Gypsy tale in which young love is Admission is free, and refreshments will be served. Call 720-865-0610. tested, yet conquers all. For tickets, contact the PACE box office at parkerarts. ticketforce.com or at 303-805-6800.

Hands-On Painting Workshops The Heritage Fine Arts Guild of Arapahoe County presents three painting Oklahoma! Auditions workshops conducted by local professional artists. All three events are open to Parker Theatre Academy, in association members and nonmembers. The workshops and instructors are Saturday, April with Parker United Methodist Church, plans 16, “Abstract Painting Made Easy” with artist and musician Jennifer Bobola; auditions for “Oklahoma!” from 6-9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday, May 20-21, “Abstracted Reality” with artist Victoria Tuesday, April 19, and 2-5 p.m. April 20, at Kwasinski. All workshops run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., 1609 W. Littleton Blvd., Littleton. Workshops are for ages 18 and older. Sign-up Parker. A portion of the ticket sales benefits forms available at http://www.heritage-guild.com/membership.html. Payment the Parker Task Force. Performers of all is required to reserve a space at any workshop(s) and the number of participants ages and talents are needed and families is limited. For details, supply lists, and registration forms for all workshops, see are encouraged to audition. Call 303-805http://www.heritage-guild.com/current-workshops.html or contact Beatrice 6800 to schedule an audition appointment.

Drury, workshop director, at btdrury@q.com or call 303-796-8110.

Callbacks are by invitation only from 2-5 p.m. April 21. A participation fee is charged if selected. Scholarships are available.

Those auditioning must prepare a 30-second song, preferably from Oklahoma!

Be prepared to learn a simple dance and read from the script. Rehearsals start in June and take place Monday through Thursday from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Specific days and times for individual performers and ensembles will be created after auditions. Oklahoma! performances are on the weekends from July 26 to Aug. 4 at the PACE Center. Show tickets are available at PACEcenteronline.org, 303805-6800 or at the PACE Center box office.

‘Smokey Joe’s Café’ Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., Littleton, presents “Smokey Joe’s Café” through Sunday, May 1. The longest running musical revue in Broadway history, Smokey Joe’s Cafe is a song and dance revue showcasing 39 pop standards, including Love Potion #9, On Broadway, I’m a Woman, Yakety Yak, and more rock and roll, rhythm and blues songs written by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Tickets available at the box office, 303-794-2787, ext. 5, or online at www.

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MUSIC/CONCERTS

Music Students to Perform Students of the Douglas Elbert Music Teachers Association will perform from 10:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 9, at Victorian House, 1960 Victorian Drive, Parker. Call 303-594-4882.

Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra From hard swinging blues and beautiful ballads, to driving Latin tunes and the soulful vocals of Heidi Schmidt, this swingin’ jazz orchestra will dazzle the audience with the best of big band jazz. Savor the music of greats like Count Basie, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich, and more. The big band classic performance is at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 16 at the PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker.

For tickets and information, go to www.ParkerArt.org or call 303-805-6800.

Organist Performs Dr. Cindy Lindeen-Martin, concert organist, performs Sunday, April 17, at St. Andrew United Methodist Church, 9203 S. University Blvd. in Highlands Ranch.

The concert is free and open to the public. Cindy Lindeen-Martin is Minister of Music and Organist at Augustana Lutheran Church. In demand as a performer, lecturer, and adjudicator, Cindy has concertized in Germany, France, Mexico, and the United States. Cindy earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music and received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Colorado State University with concentrations in organ, harpsichord, and piano.

Studies also took her to France for two years working with the renowned organist and musicologist Marie-Claire Alain, earning the prestigious Prix d’Excellence.

Highlands Ranch Encore Chorale The winter/spring session of the Highlands Ranch Encore Chorale is under way.

Rehearsals are offered from 10:30 a.m. to noon Fridays through May 13 at the Recreation Center at Southridge, 4800 McArthur Ranch Road, Highlands Ranch.

The chorale is a non-auditioned community chorus that is open to anyone ages 55 and older, with or without choral experience. Email Brian@5280plus-encore. org or Cindy@5280plus-encore.org. To register call 303-471-8818 and reference Activity Number 157806.

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Art for the Nations Project Join families from New Hope Presbyterian Church of Castle Rock for a morning painting and filling bags of art supplies for impoverished children around the world. Project will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at Art for the Nations, 324 Clayton St., Denver. Art for the Nations is a nonprofit, Christian organization that provides bags of art supplies to mission teams working with children all over the world. Each bag contains enough art supplies for 50 children to complete four art projects. All materials will be provided. Suitable for ages 3 and older. Register at families4hope.com.

Heritage Fine Arts Guild Show The Heritage Fine Arts Guild of Arapahoe County will have its member spring art show from May 2-31 at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton.

The painting exhibit is free and open to the public. Meet the artists at a reception from 2-3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 8, in the library’s lower-level gallery. Light refreshments will be served. All works are originals and available for sale directly from the participating artists. Artists should call show co-chairs Linda Millarke, 303-973-0867, or Orrel Schooler, 303-798-6481, for details regarding entry and hanging requirements. Registration deadline is April 22 and each member artist may submit up to three entries. Go to www.heritage-guild.com.

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An Evening with Fantasy Author New York Times bestselling fantasy author Richelle Mead will talk about her new series “The Glittering Court” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 8, at the Philip S. Miller Library, 100 S. Wilcox St., Castle Rock. Event is recommended for adults and teens.

Mead is the author of the international bestselling series “Vampire Academy,” in addition to the “Bloodlines” series and “Soundless.” A book signing will follow the presentation. Book will be sold at this event courtesy of the Tattered Cover Book Store. Visit douglascountylibraries.org to register online, or call 303-791-7323.

Astronomy Star Parties Explore the night sky with Arapahoe Community College faculty member Jennifer Jones from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Friday, April 8, at the Littleton campus, and Thursday, April 14 at the Parker campus. Star parties are free and open to the public. Complimentary hot cocoa served. Contact jennifer.jones@arapahoe.edu or 303-797-5839.

AniMap Presentation The Parker Genealogical Society will give a presentation on AniMap at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 9, at the Stroh Road Fire Station in Parker at 19310 Stroh Road.

AniMap displays more than 2,000 maps showing all the changing county boundaries in the 48 adjacent states for every year from colonial times to the present.

It includes databases with more than 40,000 cities, towns and other populated places including more than 30,000 historical sites and a database of more than 100,000 cemeteries. Locations are easily plotted on the maps. All are welcome and presentation is free to the public. Contact us at ParkerGenealogical@yahoo. com.

Reading Buddies Reading Buddies pairs trained teen mentors with struggling readers ages 5-9 to help kids maintain or improve their literacy and reading skills in an eight-week program. First meeting is at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, at the Parker Library, 10851 S. Crossroads Drive. Applications for acceptance in the program are available in the children’s area of Douglas County Libraries. Contact 303-791-7323 or www.DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Books Coming this Spring Book lovers and book clubs can join blogger Dedra Anderson to learn about new books available this spring. Program is at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, at the Douglas County Libraries branch in Roxborough, 8357 N. Rampart Range Road, Suite 200. Giveaways and refreshments are provided at this event. Registration is required; call 303-791-7323 or go to www.DouglasCountyLibraries.org.

Support for LGBT, Parents, Friends Witness parents’ reactions to their children coming out while viewing a documentary titled “Anyone and Everyone” following the support portion of the monthly meeting of PFLAG Highlands Ranch South Suburban Chapter. Meeting lasts from 7-8:45 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, at the James H. LaRue Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., Highlands Ranch. Families from different walks of life and cultural backgrounds with different religious choices will share their journeys. Everything is confidential and all are welcome. If you have questions contact info@ pflaghighlandsranch.org.

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DNA for Genealogy: Part III Columbine Genealogical & Historical Society presents the final in a three-part session on DNA and genealogy from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Tuesday, April 19, at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centennial. Professional genealogist Deena Coutant will discuss how to use DNA testing for genealogy. Time will be scheduled for a Q&A. All welcome; no registration needed. Contact Joyce B. Lohse, Joyce4Books@gmail.com.

Japanese Internment in Colorado, Camp Amache Hank Tobo will present his insights on the story of America’s concentration camps at the Columbine Genealogical & Historical Society program, “Japanese Internment in Colorado and Camp Amache,” at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 19 at Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit, 6400 S. University Blvd., Centennial.

President Roosevelt’s issuance of Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 set into motion a controversial chapter of American history - the relocation and internment of more than 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry in 10 camps or “relocation centers” located in seven Western states. Camp Amache in Prowers County, Colorado, was one such center. In operation from August 1942 until October 1945, it housed more than 10,000 internees. Contact Joyce B. Lohse, Joyce4Books@ gmail.com.

to 3:30 p.m., PACE Center, 20000 Pikes Peak Ave., Parker; Sunday, April 17, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Faith Lutheran Church, 303 N. Ridge Road, Castle Rock (Karen Johnson, 720-272-1464); Tuesday, April 19, 1:30-6 p.m. Littleton United Methodist Church, 5894 S. Datura St., Littleton (Christine Trickey, 303730-3835); Wednesday, April 20, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Walmart, 2100 Legacy Circle, Elizabeth; Thursday, April 21, 8-9:40 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Arapahoe County Administration, 5334 S. Prince St., Littleton; Thursday, April 21, 8-9:40 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Western Union, 12500 E. Belford Ave., Englewood; Thursday, April 21, 9-10:40 a.m. and noon to 2:30 p.m., Terrace Tower, 5619 DTC Parkway, Suite 150, Greenwood Village Free Nutrition, Cooking Class Free Heart Health nutrition classes and cooking demonstrations are offered from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 13 (Sugar, Fat & Salt); Wednesday, April 20 (Heart Math for Heart Health); Wednesday, April 27 (After Winter Detox) at the South Denver Heart Center, 1000 Southpark Drive, Littleton.

Join Richard Collins, M.D., “The Cooking Cardiologist,” along with Susan Buckley, RD, CDE, as they share their expertise on Heart Healthy nutrition and cooking solutions. For more information or to register, call 303-744-1065, www.southdenver.com.

Tuesday Morning Women’s Golf League The Englewood Women’s Golf Association is accepting applications for the 2016 season.

The women play Tuesday mornings at Broken Tee Englewood golf course. Contact the membership chair for information, ewga18@ gmail.com.

Free Health Classes South Denver Cardiology presents free educational classes at its office, 1000 SouthPark Drive, Littleton. For information, or to register, call 303-744-1065 or www.southdenver.com.

Class schedule: Monday, April 18, Anticoagulation Basics: Through Thick & Thin, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Learn to live with Warfarin/ Coumadin; Monday, April 18, Diabetes, Prediabetes and Insulin Resistance, 11 a.m. to noon. Learn the ins and outs of diabetes and how to control blood sugar.

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Upcoming blood drives are: Saturday, April 9, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Walmart, 4400 Front St., Castle Rock; Friday, April 15, 9 a.m.

Spring Celebration, Auction Learn to Fly Fish Learn the fly fishing basics including fly casting, outfit rigging, knot tying and fly selection at the free FF101 class offered Saturdays from April 9 to July 30 at Orvis Park Meadows. Class is a sport the whole family can participate in. Class culminates with the hooking and landing of the Velcro

trout. Class for all ages; those younger than 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Once you’ve completed FF101, you can sign up for the free FF201 class, during which you will practice hooking, playing and landing a fish at a local stocked pond. Sign up at http://www. orvis.com/s/park-meadows-colorado-orvisretail-store/620 or call Orvis Park Meadows at 303-768-9600.

Renewable Energy Energy from renewable sources (solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, etc.) is an important part of the future of energy in the United States and the world. The issues involved are complex, involving technical challenges, economic issues, and environmental, political and social factors. Join Active Minds from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, as we survey the state of renewable energy and look at the various forces that will influence how these resources will evolve in the future.

Program takes place Tattered Cover, Aspen Grove Shopping Center, 7301 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Call 303-470-7050.

China’s Economic Evolution Last summer the Shanghai stock market lost more than one-third of its value, creating financial ripples throughout the world and sparking broad criticism of how the Chinese government is managing its economy. Join Active Minds from 3-4 p.m. Wednesday, April 13, for a look at China’s complex journey from a sleepy Communist economy to one of the most important financial forces in the world. Program takes place at RiverPointe, 5225 S. Prince St., Littleton. Call 303-797-0600 to RSVP. Castle Rock Coders Forming Castle Rock Coders is a group for all ages and all skill levels that will meet every other Saturday, beginning April 16, at the Philip S. Miller Library in Castle Rock. Bring your laptop and spend some time collaborating with other amateur programmers during this informal drop-in program. The facilitator has 20-plus years of experience in software development. Contact Jane Smith at jsmith@ dclibraries.org or call Jane at 303-791-7323 if you have questions.

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ALL-SOUTH METRO GIRLS AND BOYS BASKETBALL TEAMS

The Best and Brightest I

t was a high school basketball season to remember in the south metro Denver area.

For starters, consider that in 2015-16, four girls teams from the area played in state championship games.

ThunderRidge beat Highlands Ranch for the Class 5A state title in March, and those two schools have combined to win 11 championships since 2000. Highlands

Ranch won seven and ThunderRidge four.

Valor Christian won its second straight Class 4A girls crown, while Lutheran captured the 3A title for the second time in three years.

On the boys side, Valor Christian lost in the Class 4A state championship game, and Lutheran’s boys lost in the 3A semifinals but captured third place in the tournament.

The girls and boys brackets each had 11 teams from the south metro area qualify for the state tournaments across 3A, 4A and 5A. Local boys teams were 17-13 in the tourney, while the girls were even better: 24-10.

In short, players from the area displayed tall talent in 2015-16. And, as we do following each basketball season, we are recognizing the best and bright-

est on the Colorado Community Media All-South Metro Girls and Boys Basketball Teams.

The 10 players on each team were selected by the CCM sports staff, with input from area coaches. Eligible players attended schools in Douglas County and the Littleton Public Schools district, along with Englewood and Cherry Creek high schools.

ALL-SOUTH METRO GIRLS FIRST TEAM LEILAH VIGIL

JAZ’MYNE SNIPES

KRISTEN VIGIL

MADISON McCOY

TAYLOR RUSK

Class: Sophomore Height: 5-10 Key stats: She led the Continental League in scoring with 18.7 points per game average and also was dominant as a rebounder.

Class: Senior Height: 5-10 Key stats: Grizzlies won the Class 5A state championship in part because of the play of the Regis Universitybound Snipes, who averaged 17.3 points and 8.2 rebounds and had seven double doubles.

Class: Senior Height: 5-8 Key stats: Vigil helped the Lions win the 3A state title. The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs recruit set school single-season and career scoring records and averaged 16.3 points, 5.2 rebounds, and 3.3 steals a game this season.

Class: Senior Height: 5-10 Key stats: She was the leader of the Eagles’ 4A state championship team and averaged 14.3 points, 5.2 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 3.1 steals per game.

Class: Senior Height: 5-11 Key stats: Bound for the University of Wyoming, she was the leader on the floor for the state champions. She has the ability to score off the dribble, averaging 15.9 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.3 assists a game.

HEIDI HAMMOND

SYMONE STARKS

MACY ZIEGLER

KATIE DiDONNA

Class: Senior Height: 5-11 Key stats: She was the scoring leader for the Eagles with a 14.7 scoring average and also contributed 5.6 rebounds a game. She was the Jeffco 4A MVP and will play next season at Colorado School of Mines.

Class: Senior Height: 5-4 Key stats: The Falcons’ floor general scored 9.5 points per game. She has committed to play next season at Eastern Washington.

Class: Junior Height: 5-4 Key stats: She dished out 3.1 assists per game to lead the Centennial League but also scored 11.4 points a game and averaged 2.6 steals.

Class: Senior Height: 5-7 Key stats: The gritty forward was the leading rebounder in the Continental League with an average 11.8 a game.

She scored 6.5 points per game.

JACK PECK

SAM MASTEN

JAKE BELKNAPP

JALEN SANDERS

Class: Sophomore Height: 6-1 Key stats: This left-hander averaged 18 points per game, 2.1 assists per game and 1.5 steals per game and he finished with a 51 percent field-goal shooting mark.

Class: Junior Height: 6-7 Key stats: He was a big-time player for the Golden Eagles as he averaged 17.3 points, 10.6 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game and finished with 15 double doubles.

Class: Junior Height: 6-5 Key stats: He averaged 17.1 points, 6.6 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 2.7 steals per game and impacted games in multiple areas for the Eagles, who advanced to the Class 4A state finals.

DOMINIC COLEMAN

MONROE PORTER

JACK FIDDLER

Class: Senior Height: 6-4 Key stats: Porter, who is bound for Western State in Gunnison, was the floor general for the Titans, averaging 12.3 points, 6.9 rebounds per game, 3.5 assists and 2.4 steals per game while hitting 50 3-point shots.

Class: Senior Height: 6-4 Key stats: He led the Continental League in rebounds with 11 per game, using his instincts and hard work to outrebound taller players.

He also scored 11.6 points per game and had 12 double doubles.

Highlands Ranch

ThunderRidge

Lutheran

Valor Christian

ThunderRidge

SECOND TEAM CHELSEA PEARSON

Valor Christian

Highlands Ranch

Arapahoe

Rock Canyon

Mountain Vista Class: Senior Height: 5-9 Key stats: The Colorado-Colorado Springs signee averaged 16.7 points a game, 5.2 rebounds and 3.3 steals. She hit 61 3-point baskets and converted 72 percent of her free throw attempts.

ALL-SOUTH METRO BOYS FIRST TEAM WILL HALFON Cherry Creek

Class: Senior Height: 6-1 Key stats: The Centennial League’s leading scorer averaged 20.2 points per game. He scored 80 points in three state playoff games and hit 46 percent of his 3-point shots during the season.

Heritage

Class: Senior Height: 6-2 Key stats: Averaged 18.4 points a game to lead the Continental League and pulled down 5.7 rebounds a game

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Mountain Vista

Valor Christian

SECOND TEAM CLAY VERK ThunderRidge

Class: Senior Height: 6-7 Key stats: The Grizzlies’ big man, who will play next season at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, averaged 17.3 points per game, 7.8 rebounds and connected on 51 percent of his field goal attempts.

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Warriors race to track meet titles Arapahoe takes first in boys, girls divisions at Littleton event

Amelia Cavazos hands the baton to Arapahoe teammate Jessica Girard in the 800-meter sprint medley relay at the April 1 Littleton City Track Meet. The Warriors won the event in a time of 1:57.53 and the Arapahoe girls finished first in the meet team standings. Photo by Tom Munds

By Tom Munds tmunds@coloradocommunitymedia.com Depth, speed and skills added up to first-place finishes for Arapahoe High School in both the boys and girls division team standings at the April 1 Littleton City Track Meet, which included teams from Littleton, Heritage, Columbine, Chatfield and Dakota Ridge.

The Warriors took top honors in the boys division with 189.5 points, Littleton finished second with 113 points and Heritage was sixth. Arapahoe’s girls won the team title with 250.25 points, Chatfield was second, Littleton was third with 87 points, and Heritage finished fifth.

“I am pleased that we have a lot of kids out for our team this season,” Warriors coach Stuart Lienemann said. “We have about 185 on our team this year with about an equal number of boys and girls.”

He said he has good senior leadership for both teams.

“We always try to chase the league championship,” he said. “Today’s meet is fun as it is a rivalry. We get after it in the competition, so it is a lot of fun for everyone.”

The Warriors boys scored points in almost every event. Event winners include Steve Goldy in the 3,200-meter run, David Merker in the 400-meter dash, and the Warriors teams in the 4x400 and the 4x800 relays. Luke McDaniels won the long jump, and Mack Yang-Aaron won the pole vault.

The Lions boys finished second in the team standings, and the girls were third.

Bill Knipmeyer, who has coached track for a long time at Littleton, said he had a good turnout for the teams this season.

“We have about 80 boys and girls out this year, and our kids are spread out as far as grade levels,” he said. “While we don’t have a ton of kids out, we do have some talented athletes, including a number of kids who placed at state last season. That

includes the state 100-meter champion, Noah McGhee.”

The Lions boys had a pair of dual-event champions. McGhee won the 100- and 200-meter dash events, and Colin Cannon won the 800- and 1,600-meter run events.

Lions teams also won the 4x200-meter relay. In field events, David Bieber won the shotput, and Littleton’s Tyler HatfieldWoodard won the discus.

Heritage has a new boys coach this season, and Brandt Gilbert comes to the Eagles after coaching track at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

“This is a little different coming to the high school team,” he said. “Basically I am

taking my college workouts and dial them down a little to fit the abilities of the kids here at Heritage.”

He said the Eagles are a developing team with a number of good athletes. He said his field events should be strong, and a team strength should be the middle distances, the 400- and 800-meter events.

“We are a bit hampered today because we only have about half our team,” he said.

“But I am urging the kids to use these early meets as competitive practice sessions as they work to peak toward the end of the season.”

Heritage junior Angelina Fischer is competing in pole vault and high jump

this year.

“I am a cheerleader, spring is my offseason, and I wanted to do more things this year. Since I used to do track, I decided to get back into the sport,” she said. “I was a gymnast, a fellow cheerleader pole vaults and suggested I try it, so I did. I was kind of afraid at first, but I really like it.”

She said the event is challenging and, since it is an individual event, the performance is solely up to her.

“I really enjoy pole vault, and I am having fun doing it,” she said. “I do high jump too, and that is something I am working on. So far, pole vault is my best event.”

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Snow much for that baseball tournament Mountain Vista’s baseball team didn’t get out of town soon enough.

Instead of playing games in the Rawlings Classic in Emerson, Georgia, the Golden Eagles spent spring break watching it snow Jim Benton in the Denver area and trying to remain OVERTIME sharp with battingpractice sessions.

The Golden Eagles were scheduled to leave March 23 for the March 24-26 tournament but the team couldn’t even get to Denver International Airport because of the heavy, wet snow that closed Pena Boulevard.

All flights were canceled and the first re-booked flight Mountain Vista could get was March 26 — which was too late. The team did get its money back.

Ralston Valley also was entered in the Georgia tournament and left the day before the storm. The Mustangs went 2-2 and had Tanner Hauptman, Reed Hutchin and Lane Kimbro make the Rawlings Select Classic all-tournament team.

Missing the four games left Vista with only 15 scheduled games, four less than the minimum of 19 contests. The Golden Eagles have added two games with Cherokee Trail, which was also stuck in the snow and couldn’t get out of town, and one with Broomfield.

Playing one less game will not damage Vista’s RPI standing — a computer ranking —which will be used to determine qualifying teams for the state tournament.

According to a statement from the Colorado High School Activities Association, “Because the RPI system works off of averages, it won’t make a difference in the final formula if a game cannot

be rescheduled. It would not penalize, nor benefit, any team involved in that scenario.”

Two no-hitters: same school, same day Faith Christian senior lefthander AJ Stephens threw a six-inning no-hitter in a 10-0 win over Machebeuf April 2, but what makes the day more amazing is freshman junior varsity pitcher Michael Thorne followed by not allowing a hit in a five-inning, 16-0 victory.

“AJ did a good job and we scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth, so he didn’t have to pitch the seventh,” said coach Ralph Nance. “Then the kid that pitched the JV game which followed right behind the varsity game threw a no-hitter as well. We’ve never had two (no-hitters) in a row.”

Stephens, who will pitch at Garden City Community College in Kansas next season, struck out 14 batters, walked three, threw 93 pitches and came up with big pitches as he often pitched from behind in the count during the game. He also helped his own cause by going 3-for3 at the plate, scored twice, had two runs batted in and stole two bases.

Thorne walked three batters and struck out 11 in his no-hit effort.

Following in his father’s footsteps Brent Gilbertson was a hurdler for Nevada-Las Vegas and Northern Colorado in the 1970s. He became a teacher and wanted to get his two children, son Max and daughter Zoe, involved in sports.

Gilbertson coached Max in little league football and Zoe played club soccer. Both have competed in track programs since they were young.

Max is now a senior at Mountain Range and Zoe is a junior. They are two of the top hurdlers and sprinters in the state. Brent, now a retired English teacher, is the Mustangs’ hurdles and sprints coach.

At the April 2 Mountain Range Invitational, Max won both hurdles events and Zoe was first in two girls hurdles events and the 100-meter dash.

“Max and Zoe have made steady progress over the years and it is starting to pay off,” said Brent. “Max’s progress has been hampered over the last few seasons due to football injuries but he seems to be back to his competitive self and Zoe just keeps improving each week.”

Max tied a (North) stadium record and set a new meet record with a 14:54 in the 110-meter hurdles. In the 300 hurdles, he tripped going over the fourth hurdle but had such a big lead that he got up and still won. He was fourth in the 100 but broke the school record with a time of 11.2 seconds.

School records every time Margaret Neuhardt has a chance to set a school record every time she competes this track season.

Neuhart goes to Golden View Classical Academy, which is a first- year charter school with 33 freshmen and sophomores enrolled. There are 11 athletes combined on the boys and girls track team.

And Neuhart is the only girl on the team — so every time she competes and betters her previous time, she establishes a school record.

Jim Benton is a sports writer for Colorado Community Media. He has been covering sports in the Denver area since 1968. He can be reached at jbenton@coloradocommunitymedia.com or at 303-566-4083.

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SPORTS ROUNDUP HERITAGE EAGLES BASEBALL Heritage 9, Desert Edge 7 The Eagles improved to 4-1 on the season with the March 25 tournament win.

Key performers: Ben Boldt had two hits and drove in two runs. Dalton Thorpe struck out six batters in six innings of work.

O’Conner 8, Heritage 6 The Eagles fell to 3-1on the season with the March 24 tournament loss.

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Heritage 8, Piedra Vista 0 The Eagles improved to 3-0 on the season with the March 24 tournament win.

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Heritage 3, Knight 0 The Eagles improved to 2-0 on the season with the March 23 tournament win.

Key performers: Bill Moreland had two hits and drove in two runs. James Kester struck out four batters in seven innings of work.

GIRLS SOCCER Doherty 3, Heritage 2 The Eagles fell to 2-3 on the season with the April 2 home loss.

Key performers: Jordan Allen and Samantha Manelis each scored a goal.

Arapahoe 2, Heritage 1 The Eagles fell to 2-3 on the season with the March 29 road loss.

Key performers: Madelyn Allen scored a goal.

BOYS LACROSSE Heritage 11, ThunderRidge 4 The Eagles improved to 4-2 on the season with the March 29 road win.

Key performers: Keaton Komatz scored three goals. Landon Baird scored two goals.

GIRLS LACROSSE Heritage/Littleton 10, Rampart 8 The Gryphons improved to 2-3 on the season with the April 1 home win.

Key performers: Kira Palazzo scored three goals. Eliza Pritchard scored two goals.

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Key performers: Kelsey Vogel scored three goals. Audrey Weiss scored two goals.

Arapahoe 2, Heritage 1 The Warriors improved to 4-1 on the season with the March 29 home win.

Key performers: Audrey Weiss and Isabel Benasso each scored a goal.

GIRLS LACROSSE Arapahoe 13, Chaparral 11 The Warriors improved to 3-1 on the season with the April 2 home win.

Key performers: No individual statistics were reported for this game.

CHERRY CREEK BRUINS BOY’S LACROSSE Cherry Creek 10, Mountain Lakes 8 The Bruins improved to 3-0 on the season with the March 30 road win.

Key performers: No individual statistics were reported for this game.

GIRLS LACROSSE Cherry Creek 11, La Costa Canyon 5 The Bruins improved to 5-0 on the season with the April 1 road win.

Key performers: No individual statistics were reported for this game.

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FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0061-2016

April 7, 2016

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

Public Notices COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0055-2016

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

Public Trustees COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0046-2016 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 20, 2016, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Gerald B Ryan and Stephanie A Ryan Original Beneficiary(ies) Ameriquest Mortgage Company Current Holder of Evidence of Debt LSF9 Master Participation Trust Date of Deed of Trust January 05, 2001 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 16, 2001 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B1006272 Original Principal Amount $151,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $147,529.18 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 38, FOUR LAKES SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 4B, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 2059 E Phillips Ln, Centennial, CO 80122.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/11/2016, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 3/17/2016 Last Publication: 4/14/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE

BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 01/20/2016 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lauren Tew #45041 Weldon Phillips #31827 Lisa Cancanon #42043 Monica Kadrmas #34904 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1199 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 3125.100127.F01 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.: 0046-2016 First Publication: 3/17/2016 Last Publication: 4/14/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0055-2016 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 26, 2016, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) HARVEY W. PRICE

On January 26, 2016, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Public Trustees

Original Grantor(s) HARVEY W. PRICE Original Beneficiary(ies) WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust February 26, 2007 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 19, 2007 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B7034442 Original Principal Amount $103,126.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $101,453.74 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 111, BLOCK 26, WILLOW CREEK FILING NO, 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 7617 S. ROSEMARY CIRCLE, CENTENNIAL, CO 80112.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/18/2016, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 3/24/2016 Last Publication: 4/21/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE

BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 01/26/2016 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Elizabeth S. Marcus #16092 Kelly Murdock #46915 David R. Doughty #40042 Alison L Berry #34531 Sheila J Finn #36637 Eve M. Grina #43658 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Janeway Law Firm PC 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 15-009553 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.: 0055-2016 First Publication: 3/24/2016 Last Publication: 4/21/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0061-2016 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On January 26, 2016, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Louis A. Oswald III and Crystal H. Oswald Original Beneficiary(ies) Washington Mutual Bank, FA Current Holder of Evidence of Debt JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Date of Deed of Trust February 25, 2008 County of Recording Arapahoe

On January 26, 2016, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Louis A. Oswald III and Crystal H. Oswald Original Beneficiary(ies) Washington Mutual Bank, FA Current Holder of Evidence of Debt JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association Date of Deed of Trust February 25, 2008 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 29, 2008 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B8023960 Original Principal Amount $5,000,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $4,955,763.00

Public Trustees

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. ATTACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT 'A' AND INCORPORATED HEREIN AS THOUGH FULLY SET FORTH. Also known by street and number as: 7100 S Platte Canyon Road, Littleton, CO 80128.

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 05/18/2016, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 3/24/2016 Last Publication: 4/21/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE

BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 01/26/2016 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Susan Hendrick #33196 Marcello G. Rojas #46396 Klatt, Augustine, Sayer, Treinen & Rastede, P.C. 9745 E. Hampden Ave., Suite 400, Denver, CO 80231 (303) 353-2965 Attorney File # CO160012 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 0061-2016 Exhibit A PARCEL A: A PARCEL OF LAND BEING A PORTION OF THE WEST ONE-HALF OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 68 WEST OF THE SIXTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS (THE FOLLOWING BEARINGS BASED ON TRUE MERIDIAN): BEGINNING AT A POINT 357.4 FEET NORTH OF AND 455 FEET WEST OF THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 30, SAID POINT BEING THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING OF A PARCEL OF LAND RECORDED IN BOOK 3485 AT PAGE 227 OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER’S OFFICE OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, THENCE SOUTH ALONG THE EAST BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID PARCEL OF LAND RECORDED IN BOOK 3485 AT PAGE 227 A DISTANCE OF 347.57 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE NORTH 88 DEGREES 06 MINUTES 39 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 502.01 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EASTERLY RIGHTOF-WAY LINE OF SOUTH PLATTE CANYON ROAD; THENCE SOUTH 20 DEGREES 29 MINUTES 30 SECONDS WEST AND ALONG SAID EASTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE A DISTANCE OF 184.82 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID PARCEL OF LAND RECORDED IN BOOK 3485 AT PAGE 227, THENCE SOUTH 68 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 00 SECONDS EAST AND ALONG SAID SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY LINE A DISTANCE OF 610.92 FEET TO THE SOUTHEASTERLY BOUNDARY CORNER OF SAID PARCEL OF LAND RECORDED IN BOOK 3485 AT PAGE 227, THENCE NORTH AND ALONG THE EASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID

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SAID PARCEL OF LAND RECORDED IN BOOK 3485 AT PAGE 227 A DISTANCE OF 347.57 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE NORTH 88 DEGREES 06 MINUTES 39 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 502.01 FEET TO A POINT ON THE EASTERLY RIGHTOF-WAY LINE OF SOUTH PLATTE CANYON ROAD; THENCE SOUTH 20 DEGREES 29 MINUTES 30 SECONDS WEST AND ALONG SAID EASTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE A DISTANCE OF 184.82 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID PARCEL OF LAND RECORDED IN BOOK 3485 AT PAGE 227, THENCE SOUTH 68 DEGREES 00 MINUTES 00 SECONDS EAST AND ALONG SAID SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY LINE A DISTANCE OF 610.92 FEET TO THE SOUTHEASTERLY BOUNDARY CORNER OF SAID PARCEL OF LAND RECORDED IN BOOK 3485 AT PAGE 227, THENCE NORTH AND ALONG THE EASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID PARCEL OF LAND RECORDED IN BOOK 3485 AT PAGE 227 A DISTANCE OF 385.43 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING. EXCEPT ANY PORTION OF SUBJECT PROPERTY LYING WITHIN CALEY LANE AS DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT RECORDED APRIL 8, 1988 IN BOOK 5405 AT PAGE 249 AND EXCEPT ANY PORTION THEREOF LYING WITHIN THE ESTABLISHED BOUNDARY LINE AS DESCRIBED IN INSTRUMENT RECORDED APRIL 8, 1988 IN BOOK 5405 AT PAGE 274, ARAPAHOE COUNTY RECORDS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

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PARCEL B: A PARCEL OF LAND IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 5 SOUTH, RANGE 68 WEST OF THE 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SOUTHWEST ONEQUARTER, WHENCE THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SAID SOUTHWEST ONEQUARTER BEARS S 00 DEGREES 07 MINUTES 24 SECONDS E, A DISTANCE OF 2627.77 FEET WITH ALL BEARINGS CONTAINED HEREIN RELATIVE THERETO; THENCE S 89 DEGREES 42 MINUTES 05 SECONDS W ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF OF SAID SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER, A DISTANCE OF 469.00 FEET TO THE WESTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF THE POLO RESERVE-POLO RIDGE FARMS AS RECORDED IN BOOK 118 AT PAGE 40 OF SAID RECORDS OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER; THENCE S 00 DEGREES 58 MINUTES 46 SECONDS WEST ALONG SAID BOUNDARY LINE, A DISTANCE OF 361.43 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE DEPARTING SAID BOUNDARY LINE N 77 DEGREES 11 MINUTES 36 SECONDS W, A DISTANCE 121.30 FEET;THENCE N 67 DEGREES 42 MINUTES 28 SECONDS W, A DISTANCE OF 185.79 FEET; THENCE S 00 DEGREES 07 MINUTES 24 SECONDS E, A DISTANCE OF 6.00 FEET; THENCE N 66 DEGREES 51 MINUTES 48 SECONDS W, A DISTANCE OF 278.81 FEET TO THE EASTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF SOUTH PLATTE CANYON ROAD (S.H. 75); THENCE N 20 DEGREES 13 MINUTES 30 SECONDS E ALONG SAID EASTERLY RIGHT-OF-LINE, DISTANCE OF 30.04 FEET; THENCE DEPARTING SAID EASTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE S 66 DEGREES 51 MINUTES 48 SECONDS E, A DISTANCE OF 583.07 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. Legal Notice NO.: 0061-2016 First Publication: 3/24/2016 Last Publication: 4/21/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0100-2016 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 10, 2016, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) LAURA STEENBOCK Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS, INC. ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS OF CWABS INC., ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 20077 Date of Deed of Trust March 27, 2007 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 17, 2007 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B7048113 Original Principal Amount $137,619.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $144,667.14 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.

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 Hereby Given The Independent TheIsHerald 29 that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M.

on Wednesday, 06/01/2016, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. highest and best bidder for cash, the said on Wednesday, 06/01/2016, at the East real property and all interest of the said Hearing Room, County Administration Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns Building, 5334 South Prince Street, therein, for the purpose of paying the inLittleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the debtedness provided in said Evidence of highest and best bidder for cash, the said Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus real property and all interest of the said attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns Topurpose advertise your notices 303-566-4100 other items call allowed by law, and will issue therein, for the of paying thepublic into the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, debtedness provided in said Evidence of all as provided by law.

Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and First Publication: 4/7/2016 other items allowed by law, and will issue Last Publication: 5/5/2016 to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, Name of Publication: Littleton Independent all as provided by law.

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Public Trustees

First Publication: 4/7/2016 Last Publication: 5/5/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE

BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED;

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; IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 02/10/2016 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Elizabeth S. Marcus #16092 Kelly Murdock #46915 David R. Doughty #40042 Alison L Berry #34531 Sheila J Finn #36637 Eve M. Grina #43658 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Janeway Law Firm PC 9800 S. Meridian Blvd., Suite 400, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 16-010500 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.: 0100-2016 First Publication: 4/7/2016 Last Publication: 5/5/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent COMBINED NOTICE - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0109-2016 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On February 12, 2016, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) DENNIS LEMIEUX AND ANNE LEMIEUX Original Beneficiary(ies) NEW CENTURY MORTGAGE CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, IN TRUST FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF MORGAN STANLEY ABS CAPITAL I TRUST 2006-HE8, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006 HE8 Date of Deed of Trust July 19, 2006 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust July 28, 2006 Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B6108551 Original Principal Amount $320,625.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $332,436.13 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 4, BLOCK 5, RIDGEWOOD PARK, SECOND FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

LOT 113, BLOCK 2, SOUTHCREEK SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.

Also known by street and number as: 7034 S COSTILLA ST, LITTLETON, CO 80120.

Also known by street and number as: 7874 S KITTREDGE CIR, ENGLEWOOD, CO 80112.

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

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/01/2016, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 4/7/2016 Last Publication: 5/5/2016

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

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 06/01/2016, at the East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)' heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys' fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication: 4/7/2016 Last Publication: 5/5/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO

IF THE BORROWER BELIEVES THAT A LENDER OR SERVICER HAS VIOLATED THE REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN SECTION 38-38-103.1 OR THE PROHIBITION ON DUAL TRACKING IN SECTION 38-38-103.2, THE BORROWER MAY FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE FEDERAL CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU (CFPB), OR BOTH. THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT WILL NOT STOP THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. Colorado Attorney General 1300 Broadway, 10th Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (800) 222-4444 www.coloradoattorneygeneral.gov Federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau P.O. Box 4503 Iowa City, Iowa 52244 (855) 411-2372 www.consumerfinance.gov DATE: 02/12/2016 Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: Cynthia D Mares, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Holly L. Decker #32647 Toni M. Owan #30580 Jolene Guignet #46144

Medved Dale Decker & Deere, LLC 355 Union Blvd., Suite 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # 16-922-28951

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.: 0109-2016 First Publication: 4/7/2016 Last Publication: 5/5/2016 Name of Publication: Littleton Independent

Name Changes PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 22, 2016 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Nichole Marie Bobbitt be changed to Nichole Marie Smith Case No.: 2016 C 100232 Tammera Herivel By: Clerk of Court Legal Notice No: 57340 First Publication: April 7, 2015 Last Publication: April 21, 2015 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 11, 2016 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Djoba Gbansoga be changed to Justine Yindaya Case No.: 16 C 100205 Tammera Herivel By: Clerk of Court Legal Notice No: 57405 First Publication: March 24, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 11, 2016 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Monica Garcia be changed to Monica Gomez Case No.: 16 C 100204 Tammera Herivel By: Laura Larson, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 57420 First Publication: March 24, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on March 1, 2016 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Amy Li Carter Huth be changed to Amy Li Carter Case No.: 2016 C 100182 Tammera Herivel By: J. Kaufmann, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 57434 First Publication: March 31, 2016 Last Publication: April 14, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name

Public notice is given on March 18, 2016 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

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All persons having claims against the 30 ThePUBLIC Independent • The Herald above-named estate are required to NOTICE Public Notice of Petition

for Change of Name Name Changes

Public notice is given on March 18, 2016 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Kelsey Elizabeth Jensen be changed to Kelsey Elizabeth Hazegh Case No.: 2016 C 100226 Tammera Herivel By: Trisha Scott, Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 57435 First Publication: March 31, 2016 Last Publication: April 14, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE Public Notice of Petition for Change of Name Public notice is given on March 25, 2016 that a Petition for a Change of Name of an adult has been filed with the Arapahoe County Court.

The petition requests that the name of Delores Mylisha Jewell Jones be changed to Delores Mylisha Jewell Bowdry Case No.: 16 C 100239 Tammera Herivel By: Deputy Clerk Legal Notice No: 57457 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 21, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Notice To Creditors PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mavis L. Brisse, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 3015

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 25, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Janan Denhof, Personal Representative c/o Scobie & Morland, LLC 1660 S. Albion Street, Suite 918 Denver, CO 80222 Legal Notice No: 57404 First Publication: March 24, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Audrey V. Mesch, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 30103 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 24, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Klaralee R. Charlton, Esq., Personal Representative 1120 Lincoln Street, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80203 Legal Notice No: 57406 First Publication: March 24, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Mary Elizabeth Thompson, aka Betty W. Thompson, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 31188 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 25, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Julie E. Ramsett, Personal Representative 10932 Main Range Trail Littleton, Colorado 80127 Legal Notice No.: 57409 First Publication: March 24, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Thomas J. Slack, aka Thomas Jermiah Slack, aka Thomas Slack, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 30222 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 15, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Jennifer Leslie, Personal Representative P.O. Box 641 Indian Hills, CO 80454 Legal Notice No: 57432 First Publication: March 31, 2016 Last Publication: April 14, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Kenneth E. Cheever, Deceased Case Number: 2016PR030253 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before August 1, 2016, or the claims may be forever barred. /s/ Mark R. Davis Mark R. Davis Attorney for the Personal Representative Jachimiak Peterson, LLC 1819 Denver West Drive, Suite 265 Golden, CO 80401 Legal Notice No.: 57437 First Publication: March 31, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of JOSEPHINE ALICE REPKO, a/k/a JOSEPHINE K. REPKO, Deceased Case Number: 2016PR30185 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 1, 2016, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jennifer Repko Steffy, Personal Representative c/o John J. Vierthaler, Attorney for Estate

present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 1, 2016, or the claims may be forever barred.

Notice To Creditors

Jennifer Repko Steffy, Personal Representative c/o John J. Vierthaler, Attorney for Estate 8441 W. Bowles Ave., Suite 240 Littleton, CO 80123 Legal Notice No.: 57442 First Publication: March 31, 2016 Last Publication: April 14, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Carol Kihlstrom McCoy, aka Carol K. McCoy, and Carol McCoy, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 30190 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 1, 2016, or the claims may be forever barred.

Amy M. Mastin, Personal Representative 1537 Soda Springs Rd. Leadville, CO 80461 Legal Notice No.: 57446 First Publication: March 31, 2016 Last Publication: April 14, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Betty Pearl Nelson, a/k/a Betty P. Nelson, a/k/a Betty Nelson, Deceased Case Number: 2016PR30205 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 1, 2016, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sheila J. Sanders, Personal Representative 1792 West Kettle Drive Littleton, CO 80120 Legal Notice No.: 57450 First Publication: March 31, 2016 Last Publication: April 14, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Marjorie Jane Tweed, a/k/a Marjorie J. Tweed, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 30104 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 31, 2016, or the claims may be forever barred.

John W. Tweed Personal Representative via Brandon J. Campbell, Attorney The Vaughn Law Offices, PLLC 6312 South Fiddlers Green Circle, Suite 310E Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111 Legal Notice No.: 57451 First Publication: March 31, 2016 Last Publication: April 14, 2016 Publisher:Englewood Herald Littleton Independent Public Notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Nancy Shandrick, Deceased Case Number 16PR30168 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe, County, Colorado on or before July 25, 2016, or the claims may be forever barred.

Sandra Brunmeier, Personal Representative 3317 S. Halifax Way Aurora, CO 80013 Legal Notice No: 57408 First Publication: March 24, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Jerry D. Armstrong, aka Jerry Dean Armstrong, and aka Jerry Armstrong, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 30194 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 25, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Bonnie Marshall Armstrong Personal Representative 1513 Cottonwood Lane Greenwood Village, Colorado 80121 Legal Notice No: 57413 First Publication: March 24, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Marguerite A. Moore, aka Marguerite Moore, and Marguerite Anastasia Moore, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 30171 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 25, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Stephen F. Moore Personal Representative 4795 E. Pinewood Circle Centennial, Colorado 80121 Legal Notice No: 57416 First Publication: March 24, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Edward Luther Freund, aka Edward L. Freund, aka Edward Freund, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 30179 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 25, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Susan K. Ward Personal Representative 514 Stiles Drive, Belton, Texas 76513 Legal Notice No: 57417 First Publication: March 24, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016

present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before July 25, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Notice To Creditors

Susan K. Ward Personal Representative 514 Stiles Drive, Belton, Texas 76513 Legal Notice No: 57417 First Publication: March 24, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Betty Baird Yampolsky, aka Betty Baird Yompolsky, aka Betty B. Yampolsky, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 30182 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 1, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Melinda Stewart Personal Representative 5320 E. 17th Avenue Parkway Denver, Colorado 80220 Legal Notice No: 57433 First Publication: March 31, 2016 Last Publication: April 14, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of France Christiane Bennett, aka France C. Bennett, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 30228 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 1, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Caroline Lelia Lomme Personal Representative 1698 E. Geddes Circle N. Centennial, Colorado 80122 Legal Notice No: 57443 First Publication: March 31, 2016 Last Publication: April 14, 2016 Publisher:Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Henry Joseph Ellison Schneider, aka Henry Joseph Schneider, aka Henry Schneider, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 30147 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before September 1, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Sherry Carter Personal Representative 10447 Garland Lane Westminster, Colorado 80021 Legal Notice No: 57445 First Publication: March 31, 2016 Last Publication: April 14, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Russell C. Bloom, aka Russell Christopher Bloom, Deceased Case Number: 2015 PR 31151 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 7, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Genevieve Bloom Personal Representative c/o Debra Piazza, Montgomery Little & Soran, PC 5445 DTC Parkway, Suite 800 Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111 Legal Notice No: 57454 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 21, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Esther Roth, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 30238 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 8, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Denise Ellen Wehrer Personal Representative 2711 South Acoma Street Englewood, Colorado 80110 Legal Notice No: 57455 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 21, 2016 Publisher: Englewood Herald And the Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Joan B. Baxter, aka Joan Bennett Baxter, and aka Joan Baxter, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 30255 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 8, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Ann Baxter Stailey Personal Representative 5723 S. Kearney Street Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111 Legal Notice No: 57459 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 21, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Elmer L. Herbaly, Deceased Case Number: 2016 PR 030265 All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado on or before August 7, 2016 or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeffrey J. Peterson Attorney to the Personal Representative 1125 17th Street Suite 2200 Denver, Colorado 80202 Legal Notice No: 57461 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 21, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent

April 7, 2016

David C. Walcher, Sheriff Arapahoe County, Colorado

Misc. Private Legals Public Notice NOTICE IS GIVEN HAMPDEN PARK N’ STORE Notice is given that pursuant to the statute C.R.S. 38-21.5-103, of the Colorado Revised Statute HAMPDEN PARK N’ STORE at 3411 S. Irving St., Englewood, CO 80110. 303-781-4911, is taking possession on April 16, 2016 of all property listed below for back rent owed. This miscellaneous household and personal property will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on April 16, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. sharp, at the address listed above. Addresses of tenants listed below are last given last known.

By: Sgt. James Osborn Deputy Sheriff

Misc. Private Legals

Legal Notice No.: 57339 First publication: April 7, 2016 Last publication: May 5, 2016 Published in: Littleton Independent, 2550 W. Main St., Littleton, CO 80120

Government Legals Public Notice

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CASH OR CREDIT CARD ONLY! Space #106: Donald Ferrel, 960 S. Jason St., Space #30, Denver, CO 80223 Space #107: Ricardo Ostuni, 1385 Kipling, Lakewood, CO 80215 Space#295: Joseph Raymond Sierra, 2809 W. Vassar Ave., Denver, CO 80219 Space#401: Larry Callahan, 3317 S. Clarkson St., #102, Englewood, CO 80113 Space#407: Ronnie Minor, 7130 Constitution Square Hts., Apt. #208, Colorado Springs, CO 80915 Space#438: Chad Bardon, 8738 Lake Shore Rd., Lakeport, MI 48059 Space#526 : Larry Bollig, 14244 W. Dartmouth Ave., Lakewood, CO 80228 and/or 2444 E. Del Mar, Apt., #310 Pasadena, CA 91107 Space#614: Deborah Maez, 3613 Lafayette St., Denver, CO 80205 Space#711: Albert Mondragon, P.O. Box 40716, Denver, CO 80204 Space#950: Winnier William, 8201 S. Santa Fe., #205, Littleton, CO 80120 Space#958: Eric Sanchez, 3421 S. Downing #206, Englewood, CO 80113 Space#966: Erika English, 2121 W. 91st Place, Federal Heights, CO 80260 Space#1019: John Minger, 5306 S. Bannock #212, Littleton, CO 80120

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Legal Notice No.: 57471 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

Legal Notice No.: 57475 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

Public Notice Public Notice

Legal Notice No.: 57449 First Publication March 31, 2016 Final Publication April 7, 2016 Publisher: Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

PUBLIC NOTICE

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GILLIT

DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, COLORADO Court Address: 7325 S. Potomac Street Centennial, CO 80112 Civil Action No. 2014CV32230 Plaintiff: WELLS FARGO BANK, NA vs.

Defendants: MELANIE K. BUCHANAN aka MELANIE BUCHANAN-HAW; KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; CHRISTOPHER HAW aka CHRIS HAW; THE WINDSONG CONDOMINIUMS ASSOCIATION, INC., a Colorado nonprofit corporation; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as nominee for TAYLOR, BEAN & WHITAKER MORTGAGE CORP.; and CYNTHIA MARES, or her successor, in her capacity as Public Trustee for Arapahoe County, Colorado.

Attorneys for Plaintiff: Holly Shilliday, Attorney Reg. No. 24423 Joan Olson, Attorney Reg. No. 28078 Courtney Wright, Attorney Reg. No. 45482 Erin Robson, Attorney Reg. No. 46557 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP 7700 E. Arapahoe Road, Suite 230 Centennial, CO 80112 Telephone: 877-369-6122 Facsimile: 866-894-7369

Legal Notice No.: 57472 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

Legal Notice No.: 57476 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

Public Notice Public Notice

SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to advise you the above-captioned action is pending. An Order Granting Motion for entry of Default Judgment and Entry of Decree (the “Decree”) has been entered in this action concerning a judgment in favor of Plaintiff.

The real property which is the subject matter of this litigation, which is the property subject to the Decree, is situated in Arapahoe County, Colorado, and is described as follows, to-wit: CONDOMINIUM UNIT #5, BUILDING 17, WINDSONG CONDOMINIUMS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND SUBJECT TO THE DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF THE WINDSONG CONDOMINIUMS RECORDED JULY 12, 1983 IN BOOK 3912 AT PAGE 441 AND MAP RECORDED JULY 12, 1983 IN BOOK 65 AT PAGE 47, IN THE RECORDS OF THE COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO, TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF PARKING SPACE NO. 159, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known as 7474 E. Arkansas Ave. #1705, Denver, CO 80231.

The Plaintiff named above is the judgment creditor in this action. As of November 18, 2015, Plaintiff was owed the total amount of $119,571.71, attorneys’ fees and costs in the total amount of $2,513.00, plus unpaid interest from the date of default until the judgment has been paid in full or the foreclosure sale has been completed. Further, additional fees and costs (including legal fees) have also been incurred and are due and owing.

I shall offer for sale to the highest bidder, for cash, at public auction, all the right, title and interest of the Defendants in said property on June 2, 2016, at 10:00 a.m., at the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, 13101 E. Broncos Pkwy, Centennial, CO 80112-4558.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to § 1-13.5-513(6), C.R.S., that, at the close of business on February 29, 2016 there were not more candidates for director than offices to be filled, including candidates filing affidavits of intent to be write-in candidates. Therefore, the regular election to be held on May 3, 2016 is hereby cancelled.

The following candidates are declared elected by acclamation: Eric A. Chekal: Until May 2020 Daniel J. Murphy: Until May 2020 Snowden Leftwich: Until May 2018 Jennifer L. Walker: Until May 2018

**BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE CASH OR CERTIFIED FUNDS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THEIR HIGHEST BID AT TIME OF SALE.**

/s/George M. Rowley Designated Election Official

Questions regarding this sale must be directed to the Civil Unit of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, telephone number 720-874-3851.

Contact Person for Districts: Kristin Tompkins, Esq. WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON Attorneys at Law 2154 E. Commons Avenue, Suite 2000 Centennial, Colorado 80122 (303) 858-1800

Dated this 2nd day of March, 2016.

David C. Walcher, Sheriff Arapahoe County, Colorado

Legal Notice No.: 57339 First publication: April 7, 2016 Last publication: May 5, 2016 Published in: Littleton Independent, 2550 W. Main St., Littleton, CO 80120

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF ELECTION BY THE DESIGNATED ELECTION OFFICIAL KENT PLACE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 & 2

NOTE: THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED MY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN.

By: Sgt. James Osborn Deputy Sheriff

Legal Notice No.: 57477 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

Legal Notice No.: 57474 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

Legal Notice No.: 57460 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

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April 7, 2016

SPORTS ROUNDUP ENGLEWOOD PIRATES

LITTLETON LIONS Girls Soccer Wheat Ridge 3, Littleton 1 The Lions fell to 3-1 on the season with the April 1 road loss.

Key performers: Sarah Gray scored a goal.

BASEBALL Fort Morgan 10, Englewood 0 The Pirates fell to 3-2 on the season with the April 1 home loss.

Key performers: Nate Andrews struck out two batters

performance by Kyle Daniels who struck out seven batters.

Key performers: Cecil Ondack stole a base.

in four innings.

Fort Morgan 23, Englewood 0 The Pirates fell to 2-2 on the season with the March 30 road loss.

Fort Morgan was bolstered by a no-hit pitching

GIRLS SOCCER Englewood 3, Thornton 0

The Pirates improved to 2-2 on the season with the March 29 home win.

Key performers: Jenna Korienk, Tina Selimagic and Courtney Schauer each scored a goal in the game.

Salomess Stars Salome FOR RELEASE WEEK OF APRIL 4, 2016 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Regarding your upcoming challenges, the Aries Lamb should very quickly size things up and allow you to make the best possible use of whatever resources you have on hand. Good luck.

TAURUS (April 30 to May 20) You rarely blame others for missteps that worked against you.

But this time you need to lay out all the facts and insist that everyone acknowledge his or her share of the mistakes. Then start again.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) You might want to start making vacation plans. And don’t be surprised by unexpected family demands.

Maintain control. Be open to suggestions, but don’t get bogged down by them.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Work with both your Moon Child and Crab aspects this week to keep both your creative and your practical sides balanced. Your intuition sharpens, giving you greater insight by the middle of the week.

PUBLIC NOTICE

LEO (July 23 to August 22) The Big Cat finally should haveINVITATION all the information TO BID needed MEADOWS BUSINESS to move on PARK with a project.

If not, maybe you’ll IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT want to give everything a new and more thorough check before move on.

Sealed bids trying will beto received from bidders

on April 22nd, 2016 by 3:00 p.m. for the

PUBLIC NOTICE

VIRGOPark (August 23 toBusiness September 22) Too Meadows Improvement much emotional pain caused by someone District (“District”) at the office of you Park Meadows Shopping Center, located can’t win over as a friend? Then stop trying toat 8401 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone do so. You have other things you need to work Tree, CO 80124. Bid award, if any, will be on thismade week.on Goor to about it, andApril good27, luck.2016. There will not be a public bid opening.

LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) It’s a good time to reassess where and will how The successful bidder, if any, beyour awardedcan a contract “Pond Maintenstrengths help youentitled build, and where your ance” to provide the following services: weaknesses can hinder you.

Remember to Interior and Exterior Pond build on your strongest foundation.

Sealed bids will be received from bidders Maintenance.

INVITATION TO BID PARK MEADOWS BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT

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Government Legals PUBLIC NOTICE INVITATION TO BID PARK MEADOWS BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT Sealed bids will be received from bidders on April 22nd, 2016 by 3:00 p.m. for the Park Meadows Business Improvement District (“District”) at the office of Park Meadows Shopping Center, located at 8401 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree, CO 80124. Bid award, if any, will be made on or about April 27, 2016. There will not be a public bid opening.

The successful bidder, if any, will be awarded a contract entitled “Pond Maintenance” to provide the following services: Interior and Exterior Pond Maintenance.

Government Legals

NOTICE The service PUBLIC area is located within the City of Lone Tree, Douglas County, Colorado.

CITY OFdate SHERIDAN The approximate that the services NOTICE ADOPTION are to begin is theOF week of May 1, 2016.

OF ORDINANCE Bids must be completed and submitted to On the 28th at day of above March,address 2016, the City the District, the during Council business of the City of Sheridan, Colorado, normal hours no later than 3:00 approved on first reading followingbidp.m. on April 22nd, 2016.thePotential Ordinance: ders are advised that demonstrated past performance on work similar in type to that ORDINANCE NO.documents, 5-2016 defined in the bid bid responsSERIES OF iveness, and2016 financial capability to perform will be among the factors in bidder AN ORDINANCE CITY qualifications andOF theTHE award of the conCOUNCIL OF THE payment CITY OFand SHERIDAN, tract. If applicable, performCOLORADO, ENACTING ance bonds, each in the fullSECTION amount of62-1 the OF THE price, SHERIDAN CODE contract will beMUNICIPAL required upon the REGARDING A FINaward of any THE bid. ADOPTION Retainages,OF if applicANCIAL PROCEDURES able, will POLICIES be held as AND required

by Colorado MANUAL law.

Copies aforesaid On and of after April 5,Ordinance 2016, bonaare fideavailbidable inspection in the office of ders for maypublic obtain the contract documents the Clerk, of Sheridan, 4101 and City pertinent bid City information regarding the South Federal Blvd., Sheridan, bidder Colorado. work, together with attendant information, from the above offices (contact Legal Notice No.: Whitney Miller by 57458 phone at 303-792-2999 First Publication: April 7, A 2016 to request documents). mandatory preLastmeeting Publication: April 7, 2016 bid will be held on April 15, 2016 Publisher: Theat Englewood at 10:00 a.m. the officeHerald of Park MeadLittleton Independent ows, located at 8401 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree, CO 80124. The bidders are asked to hold all questions until the pre-bid meeting.

Sealed bids will be received from bidders on April 22nd, 2016 by 3:00 p.m. for the Park Meadows Business Improvement District (“District”) at the office of Park Meadows Shopping Center, located at 8401 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree, CO 80124. Bid award, if any, will be made on or about April 27, 2016. There will not be a public bid opening.

Government Legals

The successful bidder, if any, will be awarded a contract entitled “Pond Maintenance” to provide the following services: Interior and Exterior Pond Maintenance.

The service area is located within the City of Lone Tree, Douglas County, Colorado.

The approximate date that the services are to begin is the week of May 1, 2016.

Bids must be completed and submitted to the District, at the above address during normal business hours no later than 3:00 p.m. on April 22nd, 2016. Potential bidders are advised that demonstrated past performance on work similar in type to that defined in the bid documents, bid responsiveness, and financial capability to perform will be among the factors in bidder qualifications and the award of the conPUBLIC NOTICE tract. If applicable, payment and performance bonds, each in the amount of the NOTICE OF FINALfull PAYMENT contract price, will be required upon the award of any bid.

Retainages, applicNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ifthe able, will be Metropolitan held as required by of Colorado Dove Valley District law.

Arapahoe County, Colorado, will make final payment at the office of the District, On and afterMetropolitan April 5, 2016, bona 141 fide bidDove Valley District, ders may obtain the documents Union Boulevard, Suitecontract 150, Lakewood, and pertinent bid information Colorado, at 10:00 am, on or regarding after Mon-the work, together withto:attendant bidder inday, April 25, 2016, formation, from the above offices (contact Whitney Miller by phone Concrete Express, Inc. at 303-792-2999 to request documents).

A mandatory pre2027 W. Colfax Ave. bid meeting will be held on April 15, 2016 Denver, CO 80204 at 10:00 a.m. at the office of Park Meadows, located at 8401 Park Meadowsfor Cenfor all work done by said Contractor the ter Drive,Avenue/Eagle Lone Tree, CO 80124.

The bidFremont Street Intersection ders are asked to hold all questions Improvements Project, all of said work until the pre-bid being within meeting. or near the boundaries of the Dove Valley Metropolitan District, in The District reserves theof right to reject any Arapahoe County, State Colorado. bidder as not qualified, reject any and all bids, waive irregularity in the bidding, or Any person, co-partnership, association accept responsive and responsiblethat bids of persons, company, or corporation as the best interests of the District may be has furnished labor, materials, provisions, served, said determination to be or made team hire, sustenance provender otherin the sole discretion of the District.

Bidders supplies used or consumed by such Conshall right to hear ororreview comtractorhave or itsnoSubcontractors Suppliers peting bids or the documentation or anain or about the performance of the work lysis thereof.

Government Legals

No partial bids, or bids which are received after the date and time mentioned, will be considered. Any bids received after the

Sealed bids will be received from bidders on April 22nd, 2016 by 3:00 p.m. for the Park Meadows Business Improvement District (“District”) at the office of Park Meadows Shopping Center, located at 8401 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree, CO 80124. Bid award, if any, will be made on or about April 27, 2016. There will not be a public bid opening.

The successful bidder, if any, will be awarded a contract entitled “Pond Maintenance” to provide the following services: Interior and Exterior Pond Maintenance.

The service area is located within the City of Lone Tree, Douglas County, Colorado.

The approximate date that the services are to begin is the week of May 1, 2016.

Government Legals

Bids must be completed and submitted to the District, at the above address during normal business hours no later than 3:00 p.m. on April 22nd, 2016. Potential bidders are advised that demonstrated past performance on work similar in type to that defined in the bid documents, bid responsiveness, and financial capability to perform will be among the factors in bidder qualifications and the award of the contract. If applicable, payment and performance bonds, each in the full amount of the contract price, will be required upon the award of any bid. Retainages, if applicable, will be held as required by Colorado law.

On and after April 5, 2016, bona fide bidders may obtain the contract documents and pertinent bid information regarding the work, together with attendant bidder information, from the above offices (contact Whitney Miller by phone at 303-792-2999 to request documents).

A whose mandatory contracted to be done and claimprebid meeting heldpaid on April 2016 therefore haswill notbe been by the15, Conat 10:00 a.m. at the office of Park Meadtractor or its Subcontractors or Suppliers ows, Meadows Cenat anylocated time upatto8401 and Park including the time of ter Lone Tree, 80124.

The bidfinalDrive, settlement for theCO work contracted to ders are is asked to hold allaquestions until be done, required to file written verithe pre-bid meeting. fied statement of the amount due and unpaid on account of such claim with Dove The District reservesDistrict, the right to rejectLisa any Valley Metropolitan Attention: bidder as not reject any and all A. Jacoby, 141qualified, Union Boulevard, Suite bids,Lakewood, waive irregularity in 80228-1898 the bidding, or 150, Colorado, accept responsive and Becher responsible with a copy to McGeady P.C., bids as the bestElisabeth interestsA.ofCortese, the District Attention: 450may E. be served, said determination to be made in 17th Avenue, Suite 400, Denver, Colorado the sole discretion of the the District.

Bidders 80208-1254, at or before time and shall have no rightshown. to hearFailure or review comdate hereinabove on the peting bidsclaimant or the documentation or anapart of any to file such written lysis thereof. verified statement of claim prior to such final settlement will release Dove Valley No partial bids, or bids received Metropolitan District, itswhich Board,are officers, after theand date and time mentioned, will be agents, employees of and from any considered. bids claim. received after the and all liabilityAny for such scheduled closing time will be returned to the ORDER bidder unopened.

BY OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS PARK VALLEY MEADOWS BUSINESS DOVE METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT DISTRICT

Government Legals

By: /s/ John By: LisaM. A.Mullins, Jacoby District Manager Secretary Legal Notice No.: 57456 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent

Sealed bids will be received from bidders on April 22nd, 2016 by 3:00 p.m. for the Park Meadows Business Improvement District (“District”) at the office of Park Meadows Shopping Center, located at 8401 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree, CO 80124. Bid award, if any, will be made on or about April 27, 2016. There will not be a public bid opening.

The successful bidder, if any, will be awarded a contract entitled “Pond Maintenance” to provide the following services: Interior and Exterior Pond Maintenance.

The service area is located within the City of Lone Tree, Douglas County, Colorado.

The approximate date that the services are to begin is the week of May 1, 2016.

Bids must be completed and submitted to the District, at the above address during normal business hours no later than 3:00 p.m. on April 22nd, 2016. Potential bidders are advised that demonstrated past performance on work similar in type to that defined in the bid documents, bid responsiveness, and financial capability to perform will be among the factors in bidder qualifications and the award of the contract. If applicable, payment and performance bonds, each in the full amount of the contract price, will be required upon the award of any bid. Retainages, if applicable, will be held as required by Colorado law.

Government Legals

On and after April 5, 2016, bona fide bidders may obtain the contract documents and pertinent bid information regarding the work, together with attendant bidder information, from the above offices (contact Whitney Miller by phone at 303-792-2999 to request documents). A mandatory prebid meeting will be held on April 15, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. at the office of Park Meadows, located at 8401 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone Tree, CO 80124. The bidders are asked to hold all questions until the pre-bid meeting.

The District reserves the right to reject any bidder as not qualified, reject any and all bids, waive irregularity in the bidding, or accept responsive and responsible bids as the best interests of the District may be served, said determination to be made in the sole discretion of the District. Bidders Legal Notice No.: 57483 shall have no right to hear or review comFirst Publication: April 7, 2016 peting bids or the documentation or anaLast Publication: April 14, 2016 lysis thereof.

Publisher: Littleton Independent

Government Legals

No partial bids, or bids which are received after the date and time mentioned, will be ------------------------------------------------------considered. Any bids received after the scheduled closing time will be returned to the bidder unopened.

PUBLIC NOTICE

on April 22nd, 2016 by 3:00 p.m. for the SCORPIO (October 23 istolocated November 21)the That Park Meadows Business Improvement The service area within City personal matter thatDouglas seemedCounty, so hardColorado. to deal District (“District”) at the office of Park of Lone Tree, Meadows Shopping Center, located with at should The approximate date now. that Don’t the services be less confusing rush.

8401 Park Meadows Center Drive, Lone are tohappen begin is the week of May 1, 2016.

Let things easily, without the risk of Tree, CO 80124. Bid award, if any, will be creating even more made on or about April 27, 2016. There Bids must be puzzlement. completed and submitted to will not be a public bid opening. the District, at the above address during SAGITTARIUS (November December normal business hours22 noto later than 3:00 21) Change continues to be2016. a strong factor bidin The successful bidder, if any, will be awarp.m. on April 22nd, Potential ded a contract entitled “Pond Maintenare advised that demonstrated past many ders important areas. Keep on top of them, ance” to provide the following services: performance on work similar in type to that and you won’t have to worry about losing conInterior and Exterior Pond defined in the bid documents, bid responstrol. A personal takes capability on a new look.

Maintenance. iveness, situation and financial to perform will be among the factors in bidder CAPRICORN (December 22 to January The service area is located within the City qualifications and the award of the 19) conA business sounds intriguing.

Butperformif you of Lone Tree, Douglas County, Colorado. tract. offer If applicable, payment and The approximate date that the services ance bonds, each in the you full amount of the don’t check it out thoroughly, could have are to begin is the week of May 1, 2016. contract requiredwith upon the problems.

Takeprice, a setwill of be questions you award of any bid. Retainages, if applicyou attend your next Bids must be completed and submitted when to able, will be held as meeting. required by Colorado the District, at the above address during law.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) Your normal business hours no later than 3:00 self-confidence should be5,coming back. fide That’s p.m. on April 22nd, 2016. Potential bidOn and after April 2016, bona bidders are advised that demonstrated past ders may good news.

But itobtain mightthe becontract a bit overdocuments the top performance on work similar in type to that and pertinent bid information regarding right now, so best to let it settle down beforethe defined in the bid documents, bid responswork, together with attendant bidder inyou start making from expensive decisions. iveness, and financial capability to performation, the above offices (contact form will be among the factors in bidder Whitney Miller by phone at 303-792-2999 PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Your life, qualifications and the award of the conto request documents).

A mandatory preyour decisions.

Good be sure tract. If applicable, payment and performbid meeting willenough. be held But on April 15, you 2016 ance bonds, each in the full amount of the at 10:00 a.m. at the office of Park Meadhave all the facts you need to put into the decicontract price, will be required upon the ows, located at 8401 Cension-maker mixing bowl andPark hopeMeadows it will come award of any bid. Retainages, if applicter Drive, Lone Tree, CO 80124. The bidout as ders it should. able, will be held as required by Colorado are asked to hold all questions until law. the pre-bid meeting.

BORN THIS WEEK: You find much of your

creativity newreserves people who give to you much On and after April 5, 2016, bona fide bidThewith District the right reject any ders may obtain the contract documents to thinkbidder about.as not qualified, reject any and all and pertinent bid information regarding the bids, waive irregularity in the bidding, or work, together with attendant bidder inaccept responsive and responsible bids (c) 2016 formation, from the above offices (contact as the best interests of King the Features DistrictSynd., mayInc.be Whitney Miller by phone at 303-792-2999 served, said determination to be made in to request documents). A mandatory prethe sole discretion of the District. Bidders bid meeting will be held on April 15, 2016 shall have no right to hear or review comat 10:00 a.m. at the office of Park Meadpeting bids or the documentation or anaows, located at 8401 Park Meadows Cenlysis thereof. ter Drive, Lone Tree, CO 80124. The bidders are asked to hold all questions until No partial bids, or bids which are received the pre-bid meeting. after the date and time mentioned, will be considered. Any bids received after the The District reserves the right to reject any scheduled closing time will be returned to bidder as not qualified, reject any and all the bidder unopened. bids, waive irregularity in the bidding, or accept responsive and responsible bids PARK MEADOWS BUSINESS as the best interests of the District may be IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT served, said determination to be made in the sole discretion of the District. Bidders By: John M. Mullins, District Manager shall have no right to hear or review competing bids or the documentation or anaLegal Notice No.: 57456 lysis thereof.

First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 No partial bids, or bids which are received Publisher: Littleton Independent after the date and time mentioned, will be considered. Any bids received after the scheduled closing time will be returned to the bidder unopened.

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PARK MEADOWS BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT

By: John M. Public Mullins,Notice District Manager Legal Notice No.: 57456 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent

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Public notices are a community’s window into the government. From zoning regulations to local budgets, governments have used local newspapers to inform citizens of its actions as an essential part of your right to know. You know where to look, when to look and what to look for to be involved as a citizen. Local newspapers provide you with the information you need to get involved.

PARK MEADOWS BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT An ordinance of the City of Littleton, Colorado, amending Ordinance No. 95 seBy: of John M.known Mullins, Manager ries 2015 as District the “annual appropriation bill” for all municipal purposes of Legal Notice No.: 57456 the City of Littleton, counties of Arapahoe, First Publication: April 7,state 2016of Colorado, Jefferson and Douglas, Lastthe Publication: 7, 2016 for fiscal yearApril beginning January 1, Publisher: Littleton Independent 2016 and ending December 31, 2016, with a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. on April 19, 2016, at the Littleton Center, 2255 West Berry Avenue in the Council Chamber.

Legal Notice No.: 57479 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: Littleton Independent

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Legal Notice No.: 57478 First Publication: April 7, 2016 Last Publication: April 7, 2016 Publisher: The Englewood Herald and the Littleton Independent

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Platte Canyon Sertoma Club meets on the second and fourth Thursdays of each month at Bistro Aspen Grove, 7301 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. We are a community service group with particular interest in serving those in need of hearing and speech assistance. We also promote our national heritage through a Freedom Week Essay Contest for numerous middle schools in the Denver metro area. New members and guests are welcome. Contact Norman at 303794-3086 or normid2@msn.com.

Preceptor Gamma Lambda Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi meets every first Tuesday from September to May at members’ houses in Sedalia, Highlands Ranch, Littleton or Castle Rock. Call 303-688-6576 or 303-688-3255.

Ranch Raconteurs Toastmasters. Learn to improve your personal and public speaking skills, listen effectively, develop leadership abilities

April 7, 2016 and build your confidence in a fun, supportive environment. Group meets at 6:55 p.m. every Thursday at the Eastridge Recreation Center, 9568 S. University Blvd., Highlands Ranch.

Visitors welcome. Contact Debbie Fuller at vpm873616@toastmastersclub.org.

Rotary Club of Littleton meets at noon every Tuesday for a lunch meeting at Columbine Country Club. Contact Dave Partheymuller 303949-9632 or dave@littletonrotary.org. Littleton Rotary Evening Club meets the first and third Tuesdays of the month at the Alamo Draft House, Tap Room. Contact Dee Leh 303-949-9625.

Royal Rangers, a scouting group with a Bible lesson, is for boys in kindergarten through 12th grade and meets at 7 p.m. Wednesdays at Parker Christian Center. At the same time, the girls group, Missionettes Club, meets for girls in kindergarten through fifth grade. Air Rangers meets Monday nights at Southwest First Assembly of God, 7350 W. Eastman Place in Lakewood. This program is open to young men all over the south metro Denver area.

Senior Book Group meets at 2 p.m. the first

Monday of each month at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. Call Anthony LaCombe, teen/senior librarian, at 303-795-3961.

Fridays at Fox Hollow Golf Course, 13410 W. Morrison Road, Lakewood. Contact Bruce at 303-919-3741.

Singles’ Book Lovers Group, for all singles 18 and older, invites people to meet others who love books and discussion. The group meets from 10-11:30 p.m. the third Saturday of each month in Sophie’s Place at Bemis Public Library, 6014 S. Datura St., Littleton. Extra copies of the book selections are available at the library’s check-out desk three weeks in advance of the discussion date. Call 303-795-3961.

South Metro Newcomers Club We welcome women who are new to the area as well as women looking to meet new friends. We are a social organization with many interesting and fun activities. For information, email our new member chairperson at southmetronewcomers@ gmail.com or visit southmetronewcomersclub. com.

A Social Club for Widows and Widowers, an active social group, meets at various locations in Littleton, Englewood and Southwest Jefferson County. Activities include dining out, game nights, picnics, hiking, dancing and more.

Participants must have their own transportation.

Call 303-697-4709.

Southglenn Leads Club meets at 7:30 a.m.

Thursdays at Marie Callender’s Restaurant at Dry Creek Road and Broadway. Call Steve Heifetz at 303-744-8899.

South Jeffco Rotary Club meets at 7:15 a.m.

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Nonprofit Wildlife Group Works to protect native wildlife in Greenwood Village Need: Volunteers help protect wildlife Requirements: Must work two hours per week, schedule flexible Contact: BarbJAdams13@aim. com PeopleFirst Hospice Denver hospice Need: Volunteers to provide companionship to hospice patients and their families.

Contact: Rachel Wang at 303546-7921 Red Cross Supports the elderly, internation-

South Suburban Division National Model Railroad Association meets once a month to share the hobby of model railroading. Meets are at 7:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of the month, except for July and August, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, lower level, 6322 S. Lakeview, Littleton.

Contact Harry Lindsay at 303-347-1711.

South Suburban Toastmasters is a high energy, fun, supportive learning place to practice speaking and leadership skills. Group meets from 7-8:30 a.m. Thursdays at Toast Restaurant, 2700 W. Bowles Ave. in Littleton. Contact Leigh Miller at 720-272-2853.

al causes and social services Need: Volunteers to provide support Contact: 303-607-4768 or 303266-7855 SMARTS! South Metro Arts Center Need: Help with public relations, marketing to public officials, fundraising, and special projects Contact: 303-790-8264 or gdnguy@comcast.net Spellbinder Storytellers Connects the generations through storytelling Need: Adults to tell stories to children in Douglas County Schools Age requirement: Must be 50 and older Contact: Jaime Gotlieb, 303688-7626 or jgotlieb@dclibraries.org

South Platte Park Need: Help with programs ranging from hikes, overnights, gold panning, sunset canoeing or HawkQuest events Contact: 303-730-1022 Sunset Hospice Provides end-of-life support Need: Volunteer training is from 6-10 p.m. every second and fourth Tuesdays; they also meet from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every first and third Saturday Contact: Jami Martin at 303693-2105 Volunteer Connection Arapahoe County volunteer program Need: Workshop leaders of Arapahoe/Douglas Works, a full-service workforce center for job seekers Contact: Val Purser, 303-7387938 or www.co.arapahoe.co.us.